Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three

As Long as There's Tomorrow

Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attemp

Kiki's Delivery Service

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficu

Shinibana

After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shini

East China Sea

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of

Pistol Opera

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killi

Gonza the Spearman

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appear

An Inlet of Muddy Water

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about th

若い川の流れ

The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employe

Spy Sorge

A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outb

Awakening

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriag

Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement

A shy, nerdy man, Takeru finds a schoolgirl hooker Lily is unconscious in a Tokyo park, so he decide

About Her Brother

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud

Tasmania Story

Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an

Gray Sunset

Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he

Chameleon

Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-art

Secret Liaisons

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

Fūryū onsen bantō nikki

1962 Japanese movie

Seasonal Wind

Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiratio

Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori

Based on Shinichi Mori song

The Gambling Nun

A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. Wh

It's On Me

News comes out that several people found 1 kg of solid gold in their mail boxes. Maya Yamabuki moves

The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

Tokyo Blackout

Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electr

Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii

A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of

The Wild Daisy

Born in affluent families among the Japanese mountains, two close cousins fall in love and have to s

Someday, Someone Will Be Killed

While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya meets a group of outcasts that help her

A Brief Message from the Heart

A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

The Dancer

Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Be

Capone Cries a Lot

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achievin

Love in the Mud

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tok

Life Is Journey

LIFE IS JOURNEY is an anthology of four stories about people who live in solitude, but who yearn for

Sweet Revenge

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. Hi

Deaths in Tokimeki

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to ca

Lanterns on Blue Waters

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in or

Sword and Flower

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seekin

Beyond the Shining Sea

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a

Majutsu wa Sasayaku

A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of h

Green Fruit

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is fi

Bonds

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

Wedding Day

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accep

Howl's Moving Castle

Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses

Body and Soul

A group of four friends and lovers in their forties recall their past intimacies while trying to bui

A Taxing Woman's Return

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a

Something Like It

Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual

A Thousand and One Nights

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through

Caribe: Symphony of Love

Set in Mexico. The love story of an architect and a fashion designer. Both from Japan

The Girl I Abandoned

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president.

The Crying Wind

Seikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-ol

Life Begins at 61

Japanese war-era film

Sharaku

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

Onna no Naka no Kaze

Hobo General

Young Girls Are Everywhere

Kizu

Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of

Flower Picking Diary

Based on "Heaven and Maiko", a short story from the book "Chiisaki Hanabana" by Yoshiya Nobuko, it i

Enoken's Yaji and Kita

Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare,"

Kaze to Ki to Sora to

A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of wave

Kaze no Sumu Ie

A human drama that rethinks what it means to be a family through the images of a couple, parent and

Ghost Story: Flower House

An eerie statue of the Kannon shedding tears in an old Western-style house. Fifty years of the stran

The Scent of Honey between a Man and a Woman

The film depicts the counterattack by Haimis, who was swindled out of a large sum of money by a marr

First Love

A 1970s Toho coming-of-age film.

Umi e, See You

Team DANKAI are set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousan

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