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Tale on Tokai Chivalry

The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between tw

Kikujiro

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined

Somebody's Flowers

A neighbor dies when potted flowers fall from a balcony of an apartment complex. A man whose father

Taboo

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar

Codename: Tomoko

An action in which a former CIA female operative captures a revenge drama that unfolds against a hug

Ponyo

When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish na

Nemuremitsu

Omnibus about three actresses from different generations

あとかたの街〜12歳の少女が見た戦争〜

Yuki Ozawa is approaching her 50's and she has now began working on her first serialized manga. The

Bewitched in Tokyo SP

Christmas Special following the series.

Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special

Wool 100%

A drama of two aging women who live a solitary life collecting discarded items from a nearby town. O

Baby, Baby, Baby!

30 year old Yoko Sasaki (Arisa Mizuki) works diligently at a publishing company. She then receives t

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi - Special 1

The first special of the Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi drama series.

Departures

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown

Empire of Passion

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much

Love Story

TBS Wednesday Drama Special about a young assistant in love with an older man who works as a photogr

Foundry Town

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and on

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the

何もかも狂ってやがる

1962 Japanese movie

Wakai senpū

1962 Japanese movie

Kids

A girl whose younger brother as well as her lover were killed is drawn with a pistol in her hand.

Looking for Anne

A Japanese teenager embarks on a quest to find the Canadian lover of her grandmother.

Kamataki

Twenty-three-year-old Ken has difficulty coping with the death of his father. His mother send him to

The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's

The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club

A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pi

Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers

After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure

In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense

A drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic creation

Crossroads

Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.

Double Bed

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend

Leonie

In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true life story of Leon

Kidnapping Blues

A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch

Remembrance

The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao

The Cricket Girl

Granny Gabai

Gabai Granny is based on the bestseller Saga No Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga), which is pen

The Love and Death of Kaoru Mitarai

After she drives drunk and hits an old woman, a famous novelist is threatened with a law suit by the

Chizuko's Younger Sister

The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak

僕が笑うと

Golden Partners

A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth

Gun Demon Without Form

A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pu

The Last Three Times We'll Meet

A love story woven by a loveless mistrust girl, Kaede Tamaki who works for a small video production

Eigo ni yowai otoko azuma wa azuma, nishi wa nishi

1962 Japanese movie

Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko

1962 Japanese movie

Yukiko

Teenage Wolf

In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a y

A Sparkle of Life

Lonely after the death of her husband, whom she nursed for years, Tae decides to find a new life par

Juvenile Wife

A newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at his

Valley of Dreams

A laid-off designer returns to her home town after five years away.

A World Without Cherry Blossoms

Saki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser.

Yudo: The Way of the Bath

Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage

Riding the Metro

Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.

A Heartful of Love

Hiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. He encounters Kazumi, a youn

Free and Easy 15

Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces

O-higara mo yoku, go-shusho sama

While Kazuo Tanaka eagerly practices his greetings for the big wedding the next day, his first as a

Tokyo Family

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and

Glory to the Filmmaker!

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a numb

Black Strait

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new lif

Diamonds in the Sand

Divorced salaryman Yoji has just buried his mother in Tokyo. With few meaningful relationships left,

When Marnie Was There

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant

Time Never Stops

A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and

The Sleeping Beast Within

A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the crimina

The Age of Our Own

Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named

Maiko's Visit to Tokyo

A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her li

Oriume

About a family shouldering an unexpected responsibility when Alzheimer's disease strikes their grand

CF Guretai

Soutaro Nagare is an assistant at a commercial film production company. However, one day at the stud

Cyborg She

A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to

Emergency Special! I saw a Paranormal Phenomenon!!

Horror TV-Special broadcast at the 27th September, 1991.

How Sorrowful

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to

Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. P

Premonition

While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the univer

The Little House

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discover

Hold Me and Kiss Me

Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she st

The Book Peddler

Suzume Akamatsu works at a library in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. She delivers books by riding a bicy

The Seven Chefs

Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the he

What a Wonderful Family! 2

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Fa

Amagi Pass

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-gir

The Song of Love

Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician

I Hear the Whistle

Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They

Going Home

Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first l

The Days of No Return

The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano u

It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori

A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical cr

Chase That Man

The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.

What a Wonderful Family!

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what

What a Wonderful Family! 3

At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one aftern

MacArthur's Children—Part II

A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed

The Forest of Wool and Steel

High school student Naoki Tomura grew up in a remote area in Hokkaido. He meets piano tuner Soichiro

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jea

Eien no 1/2

An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race.

Lily Festival

Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to

In the Cellar

The mysterious relationship between a breast-sick sister who lives in a warehouse and the younger br

The Armed Organization

Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat

A Killer Without a Grave

Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in hi

House of Sleeping Beauties

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and h

Snowland Revisited

Kunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets Geisha M

Sosuke Loses His Lover

Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of

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The Street of Desire

A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.

A Japanese Demon

Talented Woman

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a

Journey

One Who Died in Vain

After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.

The Rite of Loss

Jungle Block

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon

Shutsugeki

An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by To

Gold Woman

A female career banker shatters the glass ceiling of a mega bank by disclosing its shady business to

Yoshiko & Yuriko

Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who

Immoral Affairs

Immoral Affairs (Fukigen na kajitsu) is a Japanese film made in 1997 and directed by Katsuo Naruse.I

Heaven Sent

Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objec

The Landlady

Looks back 20 years into the past of an elderly woman who died of heatstroke and paints a picture of

Oración

Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given th

The Hidden Trail of the Beasts

A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.

That Guy and I

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, sh

Translucent Tree

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of h

Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 3

The third work of the popular series depicting the famous detective Kyosuke Kozu. Blind musician Ry

Cinematic Liars of Asahi-za

Movie theater Asahiza has existed for almost a 100 years in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture. Unlike

Witness Chair

Murder case and trial.

Kokoro no sanmyaku

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War

Photograph of Memories

A frustrated young woman returns from Tokyo to her hometown in Toyama where she meets an old woman w

Kiri ni Kieta Hito

The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than

Sea of Wonders

A photographer is lost in a storm and washes up on an isolated island, where he meets a vampire woma

Abare chōhan

Making of "Departures"

A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)

Brighter Days

Saho Takahashi, capable but a disillusioned nurse, has lost all motivation for her job working at Su

Long Wedding Road! Tokyo vs. Osaka Wakeari Kon Monogatari

Season of Affairs

Shozo, a personnel manager nearing retirement, had three daughters around their age. The eldest daug

The Bride is Fifteen

Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken

Go and Get It

Matsuki, a former war photojournalist, returns home and starts a modest life with his wife, Komiko.

機動捜査班

Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey

The night in Ginza was shimmering with neon lights. A grand celebration was being held for the seven

Kaneko Fumiko

Why did she die? The Supreme Court first sentenced her to death, but then commuted her sentence to l

That Young May Be Eternal

A forbidden love between a young teacher and her student. As a fragile boy’s heart and body are swep

Himeyuri no To

The Girls' Division of Okinawa Normal School and the First Okinawa Prefectural High School for Girls