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Sensei's Pious Lie (2024)

Misuzu Hara (Nao) works as a high school teacher and prefers to keep a distance from her students. In her past, she was raped by her best friend's boyfriend Hayafuji after he found out she liked him. She didn't report the crime to the police and she didn't ...

Abudeka Is Back (2024)

Toshiki Takayama (Taka) and Oshita Yuji, who had retired as detectives and opened a private detective agency in New Zealand, returned to Yokohama for the first time in 8 years. One day, a Japanese lawyer living in Hong Kong is murdered. Taka, who felt susp ...

Tsuyukusa (2022)

Middle-aged Fumi lives a quiet seaside life, she spends her days working at a small local factory, spending time with her neighbor's son, and attending her sober-lifestyle group. One night while driving home her car is struck by a small meteorite, the odds ...

99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie (2021)

Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases for Madarame Law Firm. Atsuhiro Sada has become the director of the law firm. One day, the law firm receives a request about a case that took place 15 years a ...

Love Mooning (2021)

Hiroshi, who runs a mental clinic, has never recovered from the shock of his wife's suicide. One day, Ayako, a mysterious patient comes to his clinic…. ...

First Love (2019)

One night in Tokyo, Leo, a young boxer, meets his first love, Monica, an imprisoned sex worker. Caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, they find themselves pursued by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin. ...

Life in Overtime (2018)

After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a subsidiary company, where he finds himself at a loos as he reaches retirement age. ...

The Band from Nowhere (2018)

Construction worker Kumada used to be a member of the popular band Uma no Hone 30 years ago. In a sudden turn of events, he moves into a low rent shared apartment. His roommate Yuka is an idol, but begins being friendly with when he says his job is related ...

The Dog Bridegroom (2017)

Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and in her personal life. One day, she suddenly hears a voice saying "If you go to Imore Island, you will get what you want.", so she decides to give it a try. ...

Tomato No Shizuku (2017)

With their hair salon business now on track, longtime couple Sakura and Makoto mull over inviting Sakura's estranged father to their upcoming wedding. ...

Saraba Abunai Deka (2016)

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Mountain Days with Tom (2015)

Hana, Toki and Toki's daughter Toshi begin to live in the countryside. Hana's nephew Akira, who just graduated from middle school, also lives with them. Doing farm work everyday, Hana and Toki get used to life in the countryside with help from couple Gen ...

0.5 mm (2014)

Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him, which led her to lose her job. Now, she has nowhere to go. Sawa finds elderly people in trouble and gets involved in their lives. Meeting them, Sawa's o ...

Delivery of Death (2014)

Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an ex-bureaucrat and was recently released from prison. 7 years ago, Shohei was arrested for embezzling 1 billion yen. T ...

Fly, Dakota, Fly! (2013)

In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an emergency landing on Sado Island. The residents on the island have heard stereotypes of the British soldiers and have m ...

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2013)

Arrangement instructor Makiko Norita (Yukie Nakama) displays a dignified smile, but she also makes bitting remarks. Nevertheless, with her magic arrangement skills, arrangement instructor Makiko Norita makes people happy. Based on the book "Jinsei ga Toki ...

See You Tomorrow, Everyone (2013)

After Satoru Watarai graduated from elementary school, he dropped out of school and decided to live within his apartment complex, never to venture outside. Satoru Watari then meets his old friends as they are coming back from their middle school classes. S ...

The Little Girl in Me (2012)

After Kensuke graduated from college, he began to work at a company. He didn't get along with his co-workers and six months later quit his job. Since that time he has stayed in his home for 5 years. One day, Kensuke learns about men who enjoy dressing up a ...

By Rule of Crow's Thumb (2012)

Constantly on the run from a vicious loan shark, two small-time con artists, Take and Tetsu, plan their biggest and most complex con yet in order to get revenge and retire from a life of crime. However, things get complicated when they cross paths with Mah ...

39 settoudan (2012)

Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)

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 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitant ...

Step Up Love Story: Love Forever (2012)

Yura and Makoto married without ever being intimate. The couple have a happy life together and they move to Makoto's hometown. There, Makoto meets Shiori, who graduated from the same school as Makoto. It turns out, Shiori, who is about to get married, has ...

Peak: The Rescuers (2011)

Shimazaki Sanpo is an experienced mountain climber and rescue team volunteer. Sanpo loves the mountains and wants as many people as possible to experience everything they have to offer so much so that he never holds a grudge against anyone for causing an a ...

Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)

In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the mountai ...

Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial (2010)

Ultraman Zero, the rookie Ultraman from Tsuburaya Productions' 2009 theatrical movie returns, and getting full-fledged. However, he is confronted with the empowered Kaiser Belial, back from the evil Ultraman Belial whom he and other Ultraman warriors battl ...

The Lightning Tree (2010)

Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouting out cherry blossoms). The young woman lived freely in ...

Flarella (2010)

The experiences of a woman as she passes through several life stages. ...

Golden Slumber (2010)

When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he' ...

Kazura (2010)

Bald Moriyama wants a new image and buys a wig. It works: suddenly he has a career and a girlfriend. But, as Moriyama will soon learn, life gets complicated when you have to keep a secret. ...

Where Are You? (2009)

A sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and then dying. The boy turns to crime, but doesn't find success. He then seeks out his remarried father, but the pain still exists. ...

The Code (2009)

For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a group of stellar detectives lead by the genius code breaker Detective 507. When an unknown client enlists 507 ...

Happy Flight (2008)

A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew all support a single flight. They have only one mission: to secure the safety of the passengers. ...

Where The Legend Lives (2008)

Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted from a day when he discovered ancient ceramics while repairing railroad tracks. Now completely blind, Kohei ...

Rakugo musume (2008)

When a gal named Kasumi decides to become a traditional Japanese 'Rakugo' storyteller due to her uncle's invalidity, she is soon on her way to a career with college-level and amateur success. She becomes a student to one of the master's of the genre and is ...

The Glorious Team Batista (2008)

Toho university hospital has established an outstanding coronary surgery team under the leadership of a up and coming, star, U.S. trained surgeon that specializes in the highly risky "Batista" procedure to shrink the size of enlarged hearts. Normally this ...

Shabake (2007)

Ichitaro is a young man with weak health who has the power to see ghosts. Since the age of five, he has become friends with them, and works with them to solve mysterious incidents. ...

Tokyo Rhapsody (2007)

"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the music that defined two generations of post-war Japan. Although the term survives, it has a strong connotatio ...

HERO SP (2006)

Five years have passed since Kuryu Kohei's transfer from Tokyo to Ishigaki, and then to Sapporo. He ends up in a small town of Nijigaura in Yamaguchi Prefecture. There, he investigates a murder case involving a local enterprise, Kamoi Group, and the people ...

Star Reformer (2006)

Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel exchange training between public and private businesses. This personnel exchange training is part of some big pr ...

Paradise: Carried Away (2006)

Set in a rural fishing village in southern Japan, this is the story of Erika, a celebrated former anchorwoman now back in her hometown campaigning for a seat in the national party, and Yohei, an insecure fisherman-in-training. The two are worlds apart. ...

Peanuts (2006)

A hero called the legendary third baseman in the former prestigious grass baseball team "Peanuts", will start to rebuild the peanuts that have now turned into weak teams from the outset. Peanuts are going to fight against the team of strong teams, taking a ...

Madamada Abunai Deka (2005)

The Motive (2004)

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family. ...

Nejirin bou (2004)

A rookie taxi driver, who happened to walk into a barbershop in the downtown area, ends up telling a special boast story. It was a story about a driver who got caught up in a lovers' quarrel between a young woman he picked up on the job... ...

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 (" ...

Damned Files 4 (2004)

This is the fourth volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various areas of Japan, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV from July 20 ...

Alive (2003)

Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous exper ...

Cop Festival: New Beginning (2003)

Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films. ...

Teacher's suitcase (2003)

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair ...

Trick: The Movie (2002)

Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing as a god. When a series of ...

The Last Snow (2002)

A story of two men, one recently bereaved, the other with a wife in a coma. From the popular song. ...

Ah, A Sharp Detective 2 (2001)

Fight fiercely with a duo of hitmen to protect the witnesses of the trial! ...

Ah, A Sharp Detective (2001)

Kuroki is crazy about gambling and Shirakawa loves unrivalled women. The pair are investigating a bank robbery. ...

The King of Minami: Yakuza Finance (2001)

#36 in the series, following "License for Cruelty." The CEO of a yakuza-backed finance company teams up with a shady consultant to convince debtors to sign away the deed to their property in order to declare bankruptcy and clear their debts. ...

Codename: Tomoko (2000)

An action in which a former CIA female operative captures a revenge drama that unfolds against a huge secret organization. ...

Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)

An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock begin ...

One Summer's Day (1999)

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city ch ...

Karaoke (1999)

Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior high school reunion. ...

Give It All (1998)

Etsuko – a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the view of a boat gliding gracefully in the sea inspires her to take up the oar. Since she's rejected by her sc ...

Abunai Deka Forever The Movie (1998)

Taka and Yuji are searching for a mercenary for the international terrorist organization "The Network" when the head of its branch arrives in Yokohama to carry out Operation Heat Storm. ...

The New Metropolitan Police Branch 82 (1998)

Two mismatched policewomen are assigned to guard and observe a released prisoner who has connections with a women-only gang who are suspected of counterfeiting. ...

I Want to Hear the Wind's Song (1998)

A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in the Triathlon. The story is told in flashbacks as Namiko awaits childbirth. ...

Bonds (1998)

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, ...

Sada (1998)

The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis. ...

School Ghost Story F (1997)

A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of three stories : Rei Video & Hoken-shitsu by Hideo Nakata and Haiko Kidan by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. ...

The King of Minami: Conspiracy (1996)

1996 TV Special, #17 in the series. ...

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 ...

Closing Time (1996)

A down-and-out scriptwriter spends his days and nights in the bars of Tokyo. When he is thrown out of a joint because it is closing time, there is always a willing lady to spend the rest of the night with. In the street he has countless semi-philosophical ...

Goodbye for Tomorrow (1995)

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening. ...

Teito Monogatari Gaiden (1995)

In 1995, a mental hospital is erected near the Japanese Ministry of Finance, located adjacent to the grave of Taira no Masakado. A young male nurse by the name of Jin'ya Yanase is obsessed with the legend of Taira no Masakado and more importantly, the spir ...

Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident (1995)

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II ...

Broken Heart (1995)

Eight love stories start and end in an amusement park. In the neon-lit amusement park, budding romances unfold, along with scenes of breakups. As the Ferris wheel slowly rotates, couples with varying moods sit inside: some on secret rendezvous, some hasti ...

Level (1994)

Japanese gangster movie by Tetsuya Matsushima ...

Turning Point (1994)

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials. ...

Gotoshi Co. Ltd. II (1994)

The second 'Gotoshi' film. ...

Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki” (1993)

A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend. ...

The Tomb & the Divorce (1993)

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male friend at her leather-working class, Yoshinori has a fit. This is on top of the myriad of odd clients that h ...

Samurai Kids (1993)

A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall. ...

Marriage (1993)

An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers. ...

We Are Not Alone (1993)

Businessmen competing for international building contracts in this globe-trotting comedy-adventure. ...

Haruka, Nostalgia (1993)

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 the author's real name. ...

Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2 (1992)

A comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer. ...

Suzume Iro Doki (1992)

The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her days in a state of despondency, but when her estranged husband and daughter disappear, she embarks on a sea ...

The Rocking Horsemen (1992)

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara 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 i ...

Shimanto River (1991)

A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emotional pain involved in the loss of innocence. The film is based on an autobiographical novel written by K ...

Dance till Tomorrow (1991)

Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series. ...

Chizuko's Younger Sister (1991)

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 daughter Mika is suddenly in a dangerous situation, Chizuko returns as a ghost to save her; reunited with her sister ...

Savage City: Angel Whisper (1991)

A corrupt cop teams up with an unlikely partner to protect the city from a gang of ruthless drug addicts. ...

Goodbye Mama (1991)

A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in her life. She is not connected to the boy, but his father has been in an accident. ...

Thriller CRT (1991)

A creepy anthology about a homicidal little girl, a woman being stalked, a dentist and a man struggling to keep his eyes open on the road. ...

Stranger (1991)

After serving time for bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a quiet life as a taxi driver working night shifts... but her peace is shattered by a relentless stalker in a Land Cruiser. ...

Boiling Point (1990)

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge. ...

Megumi no Sekai (1990)

A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is questioned. ...

Let's Go to the Hospital (1990)

When a hard-driving copywriter (Hiroyuki Sanada) discovers his comely wife (Keiko Saito) is involved in a scintillating game of strip rock-paper-scissors with some guy clad only in a pair of boxer shorts and Mickey Mouse ears, he is less than happy. When t ...

The Legend of Zipang (1990)

Jigoku Gokurakumaru is a samurai on the run. One bounty hunter hoping to collect the sizeable reward is Teppo Oyuri, a comely lass who is an ace shot with her pearl-laden pistol. Before she can set her sights on Gokurakumaru, he is attacked by a hoard of s ...

Beijing Watermelon (1989)

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 change when he encounters Li, a poor college student from China. ...

The Discarnates (1988)

A recently divorced writer is reunited with the ghosts of his parents who died when he was a boy. However, every time he sees them he loses more life energy. Now, he must choose between starting a new life or staying forever in the past. ...

Stay or go? (1988)

Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One day, he plans to use the cash borrowed from the gangsters and snatch to repay his debt . However, Sayoko Mukai, who said that she used the money of the comp ...

Dangerous Cops Again (1988)

Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved. ...

The Yen Family (1988)

Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together to accumulate a small amount of money, while mixing irony and satire. ...

Memories of You (1988)

A mother discovers that her 14-year-old daughter Yumi has leukemia and only six months to live. She decides to keep the information secret and pushes her past tutor Akira, now a university student, to reconnect with her. ...

Dangerous Cops (1987)

When a doctor is found dead and the company's exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective Takayama and Oshita are called to the Nakamitsu pharmaceutical laboratory. However, a bungled attempt to catch the murderer leave Takayama and Oshita reassi ...

A Taxing Woman (1987)

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets ...

The Shogunate's Harem (1986)

A new shogun is appointed to the throne when his brother dies. He find out that the former Shogun one of the women from his brothers harem became pregnant, but she escaped. The new Shogun would loose the throne if the child is a boy. Genshiro is doctor who ...

Kekkon Annai Mystery (1985)

A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine that she'll pose as his fiancée for a remarkable cash reward. Hiroko moves to Sekine's mansion and prepares to attend the family's meeting. However, this o ...

Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki (1985)

Koji Tadokoro, the manager of a hot bento shop, lives an ordinary life with his girlfriend Noriko Kinoshita, who works at a nearby supermarket and loves sex. Tonight they are having sex, as if they are going to try to break the Guinness World Record, when ...

Big Magnum Kuroiwa (1985)

Kuroiwa, a high school teacher who carries a "Big Magnum 44" gun is sent to a school that is full of violence. Can Kuroiwa reform the students with the gun? ...

Capone Cries a Lot (1985)

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune. ...

Ana (1984)

A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup exposes the truth. ...

Tora-san's Song of Love (1983)

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets ...

Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman (1979)

A meek salaryman who gets no respect at home and is belittled at work gets inspiration from Superman and somehow becomes a strangely suited, hugely endowed, masked sexual avenger. ...

Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie (1979)

Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again (1979)

Softcore porn collaboration between Nikkatsu director Shinya Yamamoto and gag manga artist Fujio Akatsuka, utilizing both creators' comedy techniques in an erotic setting. ...