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Shimaneko (2024)

Shadow of Fire (2023)

In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII. ...

Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special (2023)

"Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special" (世にも奇妙な物語 '23秋の特別編) is a Japanese anthology drama that aired on Fuji TV on November 11, 2023. This special presents four unique, mysterious tales. Episode summaries: 1. "The Eternal Two" ...

Kamaishi Ramen Story (2023)

The eldest daughter, Masami, who ran away from home three years ago and hadn't heard from her father and sister who run the ramen shop "Kogawa Shokudo" in Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture, suddenly returns. ...

The Sound of Grass (2021)

Kudo Kazuo is a man diagnosed with psychataxia. As he cannot work and he only goes out for his follow-ups, Kazuo begins running every day as part of his psychiatric treatment and changes gradually thanks to the people he meets. ...

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood (2021)

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set. ...

True Mothers (2020)

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband ...

Love Dou Hua (2020)

Nao, who disagrees with her boyfriend often and tends to skip class, gets offered by her father, Hirokazu, to join Aya, who is about to be his third wife, on a trip to Taiwan for a week. In contrast to Nao who is reluctant, Aya wants to get to know her fut ...

We Are Little Zombies (2019)

Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions. ...

Lady in White (2018)

When a new employee from a well-off family begins working for the first she had understood that she is walking into a fabulous working environment. This is what they call a 'white company.' Instead, she is in for a rude shock when the employer turns out to ...

Ice Cream and the Sound of Raindrops (2018)

In March, 2017, at a small town, six boys and girls are selected through auditions. They work hard to prepare for a play, but the play is suddenly cancelled. These young people are disappointed at the news. One girl says "let's practice." The six boys and ...

Zen and Bones (2016)

The story of Henri Mitowa, a 93-year old Japanese monk, who wants to make a movie based on his own life. ...

Yuriko's Picture Book (2016)

Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War II. Called the "god of intelligence", Makoto is an intelligence officer of the Russian service of the Japan ...

Crime's Blank (2015)

Ando can't accept this his daughter Kana committed suicide. Kana fell from the ledge of a school building and died. Ando attempts to find out the truth behind his daughter's death. He becomes suspicious of his daughter's former classmate, Saki. Saki isn't ...

The Man of the Political Economy (2015)

Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called "Electricity Monster". The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve the breakup and privatisation of the electricity business. As a follower of Fukuzawa Yukichi, he inherited the ...

This Country's Sky (2015)

In suburban Tokyo in 1945, years of war and concentrated air raids by US forces have left the city in tatters and the population poor, tired, and hungry. The 19-year-old Satoko and her mother bide their time working nominal jobs and trying to stave off hun ...

Wonderful World End (2015)

Shiori's blog attracts the attention of Ayumi, a timid 13-year-old girl. Ayumi's growing infatuation takes an unforeseen turn when she runs away from home and infiltrates Shiori's life. ...

Hot Road (2014)

Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives herself as being worthless to others, she engages in acts of juvenile delinquency. One day, a transfer stu ...

Sweet Poolside (2014)

Two swim-team members, a hairless boy and a hirsute girl, discover the pangs and tangles of first love. ...

Team Batista the Movie: The Portrait of Kerberos (2014)

Physician Kohei Taguchi and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare investigator Shiratori soon become involved in major reforms to the death investigation system of the country and localities when a letter arrives threatening the destruction of Tojo Univers ...

Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill (2013)

Ataru, who suffers from "savant syndrome," has the power to discover, observe, see through, and deduct microscopic evidence of unsolved cases. Why does he always go to the criminal sites? What explains his strange behavior? Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds wit ...

The Intermission (2013)

A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fans with its retro appearance and unique lineup. Unique guests visiting the theater draw a human pattern dur ...

SPEC: Heaven (2012)

Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by postulating the "SPEC" of the unknown criminals and then deduce the criminal's unknown "SPEC" to make arrests. A m ...

Control Tower (2011)

In a remote area of Hokkaido, two lonely high school students meet and connect through a shared love of music. ...

Wandering Home (2010)

War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems Yas ...

Kanikôsen (2009)

On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variet ...

Peeping Tom (2008)

Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was his own death. ...

Tokyo Rendezvous (2008)

A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt. ...

The Sin (2007)

A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however, was not accused because he was too young. Ten years later, a series of murders occur, which target young gi ...

Kitaro (2007)

Kitaro is a half human, half creature who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the evil attacks from another world. He finds that a magical ball that controls all powers had been brought into the human world, and stops it from falling into t ...

Honey and Clover (2006)

Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery. ...

Tokyo of the Dead - 3 days (2006)

Haru, Bânîzu de (2006)

Tsutsui, an office worker, marries Hitomi, who has a son from a previous marriage. However, one day, he realizes that something is missing in the life he chose. ...

Wolf Girl (2005)

When a new, smart and sweet Tokyo girl, Rumiko, starts at a rural elementary school, Akira finds himself smitten, like every other male pupil. Newcomer's popularity is contrasted with the less-tolerant treatment of scruffy Hideko, who, thanks to the arriva ...

Desire (2005)

Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic new fi ...

Goggles (2005)

One morning, Haruki comes to school wearing goggles. His classmates make fun of him as usual, but the goggles are meant to hide the bruises from the abuse he received from his father. ...

Vital (2004)

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to medical school. There he catches the eye of a fellow student, but it's another who becomes his obsession: ...

Black Kiss (2004)

Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art ...

Tokyo Noir (2004)

Three tales that center around sex and citizens of Tokyo: A repressed woman embraces her sexuality, ("Birthday"), an unexpected reunion disrupts a sex worker's routine ("Night Lovers"), and a sex blogger discovers connection in the depths of loneliness (" ...

Eureka (2000)

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose. ...

You Alone Can't See (1998)

During Muraishi's time in prison for fraud, he recalls his past and learns a power to penetrate and cure others. Upon release, he goes to Hakodate, where he can find his ex-wife, Kiriko. Though he cures a lot of people on the way and believes that he is th ...

Open House (1998)

A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo. ...

Tokyo Fair Weather (1997)

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki. ...

My Secret Cache (1997)

Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, resulting in a suitcase stuffed with cash falling into a nearby river. For the remainder of the ...

Atlanta Boogie (1996)

"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly. ...

The Trap (1996)

When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified. ...

The Files of Young Kindaichi: School's Seven Mysteries Murder Case (1995)

At Fudo High, the principal receives threatening letters from someone called the "Afterschool Magician," who warns them to stop the plans to tear down the old school building. Scary rumours of students who died in the "Seven Mysteries of Fudo High" began t ...

Natural Woman (1994)

Based on the book of the same name by Rieko Matsuura, the film depicts an ultimate love between two women. ...

The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994)

Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. ...

All Under the Moon (1993)

A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo. ...

Pineapple Tours (1992)

An anthology film consisting of three linked stories by different directors, all set on an Okinawan island. The first story, 'Aunt Reiko' concerns an opera singer who travels back to her home island to consult a spiritualist about the loss of her voice. Th ...

Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole (1988)

An artist dealing with the grief of his wife leaving him finds solace in painting the squalor of the sewer. He discovers a trapped mermaid, whom he brings home to heal. Her condition worsens, and she asks the artist to paint her before she dies. ...

Robinson's Garden (1987)

Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the ci ...

Jazz Daimyo (1986)

Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents. ...

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970. ...

Mienai (1985)

Deceptively real, and even described by Tony Rayns as a 'ciné-vérité essay'. Entirely in the tradition of the better mockumentary, the news crew making the film plays a decisive role. Before the grand hype of commercial reality television, Riju Go made ...

The Funeral (1984)

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home. ...

At This Late Date, the Charleston (1981)

A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation. ...

Good-bye Debussy (2013)

16-year-old Haruka lost the people she loved the most in a fire. Haruka is also physically and emotionally wounded from the fire, but she still dreams of becoming a pianist. She takes part in an upcoming competition. Inauspicious incidents then occur aroun ...

Detective Office 5 (2005)

In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522 embark on separate investigations that leads them both to the same beautifician. ...

Going Home (2004)

Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother's second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight years. Miyuki is back in town with her daughter Chiharu, after leaving a failed marriage. ...

Time Limit (2003)

Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective Kayama (Ogata Ken) is assigned to transport Mizusawa to Shizuoka for questioning. On the way, Kayama receive ...

Chloe (2001)

Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls ill. ...

BeRLiN (1995)

When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly, a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salary-man who saw the disappeared woman and wants to meet her again is fou ...

Elephant Song (1994)

Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dea ...

Zazie (1989)

Zazie, one time rock star on the move, has retired at a young age to Shibaura, the semiderelict "waterfront" area of Tokyo. Now he spends his time recording his own life on video. But he can't shake his "fans": members of his former band want a reunion con ...

Mienai (1985)

Deceptively real, and even described by Tony Rayns as a 'ciné-vérité essay'. Entirely in the tradition of the better mockumentary, the news crew making the film plays a decisive role. Before the grand hype of commercial reality television, Riju Go made ...

At This Late Date, the Charleston (1981)

A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation. ...