Yûko Tanaka

Teruyuki Kagawa

Ittoku Kishibe

Tarô Suwa

A 50-year-old unmarried milkwoman Minako one day delivers milk to the house of her first love Takanashi, who is now married and whose wife is terminally ill. This meeting will bring unexpected changes into their lives.

Itsuka dokusho suruhi

Itsuka dokusho suruhi (2005)

Miki Nakatani

Takehiro Hira

Joe Odagiri

Japanese artist, Foujita, is Paris' darling in the roaring twenties, loved for his delicate nudes. After leaving his 1st wife, Fernande, he meets Lucie Badoud and names her Yuki (snow in Japanese) after her exquisitely pale skin. Together with their friends Van Dongen, Kisling, Picasso, Modigliani & Kiki, they go to all the parties! On the outbreak of WWII, Foujita returns to Japan with his new Japanese wife, Kimiyo. He exhibits his war paintings that are much darker than the delicate whites of his Paris period. As the battles intensify, Foujita retreats to the country with Kimiyo and discover a Japan he never knew. Foujita returns to France years later. Here, newly naturalised, he takes on the French name Léonard and builds the chapel "Notre Dame de la Paix" in Reims, his final work.

Foujita

Foujita (2015)

Akaji Maro

Kengo Kôra

Anne Suzuki

In the fictional Tokyo suburb of Mahoro, Tada Keisuke works as a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. One day in January, former classmate Gyoten Haruhiko appears unannounced. Back in their schooldays Haruhiko was a quiet person who rarely talked. Now, Haruhiko is talkative. Both men are over 30 years old and divorced. Without giving an explanation, Haruhiko suddenly asks to spend the night at Keisuke's home. Keisuke turns down Haruhiko, but Haruhiko is persistent and finally Keisuke allows him to sleep over for one night. What Keisuke is unaware of is that Haruhiko plans to stay for more than one night. Eventually, Keisuke accepts Haruhiko as his assistant and they become involved in various cases involving an assortment of people from different walks of life.

Tada's Do-It-All House

Tada's Do-It-All House (2011)

Riki Takeuchi

Tomokazu Miura

Tôru Minegishi

After a failed romance, a temperamental young biker meets a carefree rural girl while riding through her island hometown and gets her obsessed about riding a motorcycle.

His Motorbike, Her Island

His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)

Toshinori Omi

Mizu Arai

Taizoh Masumoto

A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983)

Minori Terada

Kirin Kiki

Kyûsaku Shimada

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place between captors and captive, to the difficulty and eventual astonishment of the prefecture's Chief of Police.—L.H. Wong

Dai yûkai

Dai yûkai (1991)

Keiko Matsuzaka

Midori Kiuchi

Miyoko Nakamura

Period drama set in the 1950's about a couple isolating themselves from the outside world as they attempt to salvage their faltering marriage, no matter what the costs, after the husband has an affair.

The Sting of Death

The Sting of Death (1990)

Etsushi Toyokawa

Kyôko Kishida

Renji Ishibashi

In a remake of a well-known Japanese mystery, a man in Kobe does not have a family. He receives a visitor who is a researcher one day who has noticed that the man has a well-off family in Okayama. This village is called Yatsuhakamura. This family has been there for four hundred years. The man decides to visit his new-found family only for a series of murders to coincide with his arrival. This family's lawyer hires a private investigator who begins working on the crimes.—aghaemi

The 8-Tomb Village

The 8-Tomb Village (1996)

Yû Aoi

Susumu Terajima

In 1965 the planned closing of a coal mine in Iwaki (northeastern Japan) will put 2,000 people out of work with devastating effects on the community. The mining company plans to build the Hawaiian Center to promote tourism, but the idea meets with resistance by the community's union families who boycott the effort. However, a few of the young women in Joban see the call for dancers to possibly provide a more promising future. Norio Yoshimoto is put in charge of organizing the center, with Madoka Hirayama, a professional dancer fleeing creditors in Tokyo hired to train the dancers. Kimiko, her friend Sanae, and Sayuri are amongst the handful first showing up for lessons but soon others join them. When Kimiko's mother, Chiyo, discovers that she has skipped school classes to learn dancing the two argue and Kimiko leaves home. Her brother Yojiro, one of the newly out of work miners, comes to be supportive of her dancing as he becomes protective of Madoka. The girls start to tour neighboring communities and dance to promote the center, getting more proficient in the process. After secretly seeing Kimiko practice, and how good she has become, Chiyo helps gather heaters to save palm trees imported from Taiwan from dying from the cold. Her change of heart as head of the union's woman's organization shifts the sympathies of the community as the opening of the center nears. Madoka has molded coal miner's daughters into professional dancers, and Kimiko performs a standout solo dance at the opening.—Brian Greenhalgh

Hura gâru

Hura gâru (2006)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Chishû Ryû

Kamatari Fujiwara

At the beginning of the film the father-in-law of the protagonist dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. The remainder of the film is episodic, moving from one incident to another over the course of the three-day funeral, which is held (as is customary) in the home. These incidents contrast old ways and new ways, young and old, ritual ceremony and true feelings, often comically, but sometimes with real poignancy.—Doug Shafer

The Funeral

The Funeral (1984)

Kei Tanaka

Kimiko Yo

A zoologist and expert on birds is on a trip to an isolated locale to study the native species. He is expected to be in relative isolation given his destination. His wife is the leader of a political party in Japan. His wife asks him how he would feel should she become Prime Minister. Lo and behold she is the leader of the country upon his return.—aghaemi

The first Gentleman

The first Gentleman (2021)

Kanako Higuchi

Hisashi Igawa

Okichi is the bored wife of a rich oil dealer. Yohei is a young man who is the son of Okichi's former business partner. As a child, Okichi often cares the boy, but when his father dies, he moves away. Years later, he returns as a man, and Okichi becomes momentarily in love with him. But Kogiku, the beautiful daughter of a rival oil dealer is also in love with him. The problems escalate when Kogiku's father finds out the relationship.

Onna goroshi abura no jigoku

Onna goroshi abura no jigoku (1992)

Yôji Matsuda

Yuriko Ishida

"Haruka, Nostalgia" Ayase Shinsuke, a girl's novels writer, visits his hometown Otaru. In Otaru he meets a young man that mysteriously goes by his real name. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi

Haruka, nosutarujii

Haruka, nosutarujii (1993)

Akemi Negishi

Yûko Kotegawa

Keiko Kishi

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.—L.H. Wong

The Makioka Sisters

The Makioka Sisters (1983)

Shinobu Terajima

Takako Tokiwa

Toshiyuki Nishida

A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his underlings planned to kidnap James Brown to convince him to perform privately for their boss.

Get Up!

Get Up! (2003)

Haruka Igawa

Kôji Yakusho

Masatô Ibu

A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met for years, to write farewell letters to his family, relatives and friends...—Yamakomi

Zô no senaka

Zô no senaka (2007)

Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Naoto Takenaka

Yasufumi Hayashi

Follows two sisters, one clumsy and ignored, the other a perfect child. After the latter dies in an accident, she returns as a ghost to guide her little sister.

Chizuko's Younger Sister

Chizuko's Younger Sister (1991)

Tadanobu Asano

Yôko Minamino

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara Yasufumi Hayashi) hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.—Rob Richardson

The Rocking Horsemen

The Rocking Horsemen (1992)

Yûki Amami

Gorô Kishitani

Mari Hamada

Takumi Harada and his family moves to Okayama during spring break before his entry to Junior High School. On the baseball field, Takumi has enormous confidence in his ability as a pitcher, but socially he is a loner.

Batterî

Batterî (2007)

Nenji Kobayashi

Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his lonely psyche, or real? An intricate triangle develops, and the viewer can't quite be sure what is happening until the whole story is neatly resolved at the end.—Rob Richardson

Lonely Heart

Lonely Heart (1985)

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