Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in ...

Genre: Drama,Romance,War

Actors:Honoka Yahagi, Keishi Nagatsuka, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Tokio Emoto

Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Saki Terashima, Takako Tokiwa, Takao Itō, Tōru Shinagawa, Yumi Adachi

In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the ...

Genre: Drama,Fantasy,War

Actors:Masahiro Takashima, Minami Inomata, Natsuki Harada, Saki Terashima, Yasuko Matsuyuki

When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.

Genre: Fantasy,History,War

Actors:Rei Yoshida, Riko Narumi, Takahito Hosoyamada, Takuro Atsuki, Yoshihiko Hosoda

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she ...

Genre: Drama,Fantasy,Horror

Actors:Emi Tabata, Jinichi Isizaki, Kyôko Hanyû, Sakio Hirata, Sari Akasaka

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled “island closest to heaven” that her late father had told her about.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Kayo Matsuo, Miyoko Akaza, Nenji Kobayashi, Tomoyo Harada, Wakaba Irie

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears “Pipeline” by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With ...

Genre: Comedy

Actors:Shinichiroh Satoh, Tadanobu Asano, Tsumatoshi Nagahori, Yasufumi Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Omori

Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers ...

Genre: Comedy,Fantasy,Science Fiction

Actors:Hiroko Yakushimaru, Kôichi Yamamoto, Masami Hasegawa, Ryōichi Takayanagi

After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Kiwako Harada, Noriko Watanabe, Riki Takeuchi, Ryōichi Takayanagi, Takahiro Tamura

Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada’s ex-wife. Recovering from ...

Genre: Drama,Fantasy,Horror

Actors:Kumiko Akiyoshi, Morio Kazama, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Tsurutaro Kataoka, Yūko Natori

Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Bengal, Hikari Ishida, Hiroshi Katsuno, Toshinori Omi, Yoji Matsuda

The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other ...

Genre: Drama,Fantasy

Actors:Hikari Ishida, Ittoku Kishibe, Tomoka Shibayama, Tomoko Nakajima, Toshinori Omi

Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Bengal, Haruhiko Saitô, Masako Motai, Takashi Sasano, Yasufumi Hayashi

Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama,Romance

Actors:Makoto Satō, Nenji Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Yasuko Tomita, Yumiko Fujita

Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she ...

Genre: Romance,Science Fiction

Actors:Ittoku Kishibe, Ryōichi Takayanagi, Tomoyo Harada, Toshinori Omi, Yukari Tsuda

Obayashi’s take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most ...

Genre: Comedy,Mystery

Actors:Chiyonosuke Azuma, Hideko Yoshida, Ikko Furuya, Kunie Tanaka, Miyuki Matsuda

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She ...

Genre: Comedy,Fantasy,Horror

Actors:Ai Matsubara, Eriko Tanaka, Kimiko Ikegami, Kumiko Ohba, Miki Jinbo