The Night the Angel Turned Away

ICHI

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa

World's End / Girl Friend

Shinnosuke and Misawa are joint managers of a Bonsai shop. Suddenly Shinnosuke's childhood friend Ha

Twinkle

Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at whic

Karaoke Terror

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him

Sunflower

Reunited by the death of a friend, a group of former schoolmates reassess themselves and their earli

Swimming Upstream

One day after school, Kaoru glances at Sonoko at the pool side. He falls in love with her at first s

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age dra

Ashura

Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between de

Off-Balance

13-year old Chiaki Matsumoto enters middle school with two rules for herself: 1. Always stay cool an

The Sea Is Watching

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Aga

Nurse Call

Igarashi Kozue, a nurse at a Tokyo university hospital, feels bored with her job despite her experie

Bonds

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape

Shooting Stars in the Twilight

Hiromi works in a posh French restaurant. One day, he meets an ordinary-looking old man who has a di

Keiho

The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be

Sharaku

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publi

Leave It to the Nurses

Flighty young nurse Izumi Asakura longs to have her honeymoon in a far off tropical paradise but her

Semi matsuri no shima

2000 Japanese movie

Last Dance: Divorce Ceremony

Where have all the wives gone who were once driven to tears by their husbands' infidelity? With each

Phantom of the Toilet

Set in an elementary school and centered on a boy named Takuya and a new transfer student named Saek