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Immigration Under the Rim (2023)

The World Laughs (2022)

This is a human drama written by Keralino Sandorovich showcasing people fascinated with and obsessed with laughter in Shinjuku in the mid-1950s. ...

We Couldn't Become Adults (2021)

Prodded by a friend request, a feckless forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams. ...

The Devil Wears Ju-Ni Hitoe Kimono (2020)

Rai, a frustrated student and part-time labourer, is wandering home after setting up a museum exhibition on the classic novel "The Tale of Genji". There is a blinding flash of light and he finds himself mysteriously time-slipped into the Heian period, the ...

Stardust over the Town (2020)

Story of the struggling chorus group "Yamada Osamu and the Hello Nights", who gain an unexpected new member in the young Ai, who pursues her dream of becoming a singer. ...

The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers (2018)

A sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical comedy, it also borrows elements from other genres such as road movies, westerns, and meta fiction. ...

Kaeshi 2 (2017)

After ten years in prison for a high school classmate's murder, Koji gets out and joins the yakuza. But his victim's father has him on his radar. Yamai is released thanks to Akiko but the search for Miyake's killer begins. Security camera footage reveals ...

Kaeshi (2017)

After ten years in prison for a high school classmate's murder, Koji gets out and joins the yakuza. But his victim's father has him on his radar. Seiji tries to get on with his life after losing his daughter and wife. Ten years later he learns that his da ...

KochiKame Final: Kankichi Ryotsu's Last Day (2016)

Kankichi Ryotsu is sulking after his bonus was snatched away by the members of the shopping district. On TV, they hear that Princess Sabrina of the Attakaino Kingdom is coming to Japan. While making a delivery, Ryotsu encounters a kidnapping incident. The ...

Desperate Sunflowers (2016)

Natsuko Kotani was born to be a swindler. Meanwhile, Tetsuko Ishida is Natsuko's distant relative. Unlike Natsuko, Tetsuko is an attorney with an upright disposition. Whenever Natsuko makes trouble, Tetsuko is called to solve her troubles. Believing that N ...

Spring Has Come (2015)

Riko, who will begin university in Tokyo in spring, journeys there from Hiroshima in February with her father to find a place for her to live. On their travels, they meet various colorful characters. The father remembers his late wife, and raising his daug ...

The Little House (2014)

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a house ...

KochiKame - The Movie: Save the Kachidoki Bridge! (2011)

Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than not he ends up causing all kinds of trouble. Like on his way to work he away when he is asked to pay up by a ...

Mistaken (2011)

Kawashima senses a strange presence inside his apartment, and sets up security cameras in an attempt to find out what that is. Then the doorbell rings, and a succession of other bizarre phenomena send him into a state of panic. ...

About Her Brother (2010)

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro's impending death marks ...

Ikiru (2007)

In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the constr ...

Three for the Road (2007)

KochiKame the Movie 2: UFO Attack! The Great Tornado Strategy!! (2003)

The movie starts off with Ryotsu (with Honda as his patsy) hatching another crackpot scam with a fake UFO sighting (via fake crop circles and a wire-hanging UFO). But the plan fails per usual, with the Kameari Park Police Box which results in Ohara punishe ...

Get Up! (2003)

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. ...

Currency and Blonde (2000)

A university professor's secret passion: a fetish for "blonde hair." His fantasies gradually escalate into reality. ...

KochiKame: The Movie (1999)

Officer Ryotsu is ordered to team up with FBI agent Lisa Hoshino to find a terrorist who is currently in Tokyo. For an unknown reason, only buildings from the Shinatora corporation seem to be targeted by the mysterious Benten. ...

The King of Minami: System Finance (1999)

#28 in the series, following "Permanent Scar. ...

Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)

A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. When the military fails to control the situation, Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary. However the battle may ...

Some Kinda Love (1996)

The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a beauty obsessed by UFOs. ...

The Reason Why I Became Ill (1990)

An omnibus comedy movie consisting of three short stories. The themes are "My Sweet Little Cancer," "Langerhans Connection" and "Hypertension Road," respectively. ...

Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso (1989)

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee. ...

The Girl in Glass (1988)

A girl from a wealthy family falls in love with a working-class boy. ...

Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth (1986)

In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up wh ...

Nezumi Kozō kaitō den (1984)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Kigeki kazoku dōmei (1983)

Burst City (1982)

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living. ...