Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend’s death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The… [More]

Sugata Kentaro used to be one of the most hopeful trainee to be a professional Shogi (Japanese chess) player, but fails at the final test. Now he has become a… [More]

20 years ago a half-frozen boy was rescuded in the mountains after his parents apparent sucide. He gets released from a mental institution and his girlfriend notices him talking about… [More]

Prisoner was adapted from a true story, the account of a Japanese man arrested in Cambodia, protagonist of Sawai Kujira's Prisoner in Phnom Penh. The location changed to an imaginary… [More]

On Hatoma, a small island in Okinawa state part of Japan's southern sea frontier, the social environment is suffering. With the last student of the elementary school leaving the place,… [More]

TV producer Aoyama Shigeharu (Ryo Ishibashi) is a middle-class man, Shigehiko (Tetsu Sawaki) his teenage son. His friend, movie producer Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura), has the perfect palliative for Aoyoma?s loneliness:… [More]

When two souls find one anoter , nothing can tear them apart. Widower Takumi (Shidou Nakamura) lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son Yuji (Akashi Takei) after the loss… [More]

Casshern is based on a Japanese TV-series. In it, the viewer is transported into the future where they world has just seen a big war between an army from the… [More]

Goemon" is based on the life of Ishikawa Goemon a legendary 16th century ninja warrior and bandit who stole valuables and gave them to the poor. There is little historical… [More]

GRAVITY?S CLOWNS (Jyuryoku Pierrot, 2009)? a haunting mystery about a Japanese family where a current series of graffiti and arson events paves the way to unraveling an unexpected family truth.… [More]

The setting of the film is an air-port and air-planes. A great variety of "aviative professors" such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground-crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol… [More]

Quiet, earnest, and a bit nerdy, Toyama Satoshi runs a marine plants store where he can indulge in his love for aquatic vegetation. Though he barely makes enough money, Satoshi… [More]

Bingo (Satoshi Tsumabuki) has stolen away the girlfriend (Eri Fukatsu) of his crime syndicate boss (Toshiyuki Nishida), and now he faces an ultimatum: find him a legendary assassin named Della… [More]

Live action adaptation of the popular baseball manga and anime series by Mitsuri Adachi. Twin brothers Tatsuya (Shota Saito) and Kazuya (Keita Saitou), together with childhood friend Minami (Masami Nagasawa)… [More]

Mitsuru and his girlfriend Maki are down on their luck with nothing left to lose. In a last ditch effort to scrape up some cash, they decide to kidnap a… [More]

The 51st NHK Taiga drama recounts the life of Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181), a general of the Heian period, who established the first samurai-based government in Japan. During the late… [More]

Temporary teacher Takenouchi Shinobu arrives as a Oji Elementary School in Osaka at the start of the new school term. When Shinobu makes her first roll call as the form… [More]

After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honno-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata (Koji Yakusho), Hideyoshi Toyotomi (Yo Oizumi), Nagahide Niwa (Fumiyo Kohinata) and Tsuneoki Ikeda (Koichi… [More]

Ichiki Kurumi (Gouriki Ayame) is a 25 years old part-timer at a Japanese traditional restaurant. Her gift as a chef is discovered by Prime Minister’s private secretary Koga Seiji (Takito… [More]

In 1802, 8-year-old Mio lost her parents in a river flood in Osaka and feels all alone after she is also separated from her childhood friend Noe. She is saved… [More]

A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki (Fumiyo Kohinata) decides to escape from Tokyo with his family. [More]