BÚSQUEDA
A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
Returner
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
Still Walking
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo...
Kamikaze Girls
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film...
The Taste of Tea
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and...
Villain
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released...
The Four Roughnecks
A drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake.
Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow
Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a...
Taro the Dragon Boy
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up,...
War and Youth
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's...
The Secret World of Arrietty
Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie
Dynamite Doctor Returns
A comedy farce depicting the noise that occurs when two unemployed circus participants discover a debt bond in a basket with parrots, which they...
Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange...
Rainbow Kids
Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will...
I Wish
Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage and...
The Triple Cross
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...
Zigeunerweisen
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies...
I Are You, You Am Me
Nanami Hoshino, a wealthy entrepreneur, marries potter Kim Jun-ho, and they both live a seemingly happy life until Nanami is killed by a biker on her...
Ghost
The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.
Remembrance
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Ballad of Orin
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must...
Like Father, Like Son
Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from...
Tokyo Marigold
An adventurous young boy named Jack climbs a giant beanstalk to a magical kingdom governed by a greedy, tyrannical giant.
Jack and the Beanstalk
This documentary follows the last days of actress KIKI Kirin, who passed away on September 15, 2018. The documentary is the first long-term, in-depth...
Kiki Kirin's Life
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
Pistol Opera
ママ母戦争
High school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a "tsunagu," an intermediary for people who want to reach the dead.
Until the Break of Dawn
Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every...
Song of the Spring Pony
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family...
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater...
The Whispered City
The story of a bus conductor who dedicates his life to the cherished Japanese symbol.
Sakura
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the...
Chronicle of My Mother
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its...
Half a Confession
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret....
Sweet Bean
The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor of...
Dog in a Sidecar
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be...
The Mystery of Rampo
Yu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka,...
Inochi
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however,...
Keiho
Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this...
Yearning
Three sisters live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father – absent from the family home for the last 15 years...
Our Little Sister
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen...
Koto—The Lake of Tears
Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.
Kakekomi
After her husband's death, Mrs. Hata desperately needs help on her cucumber farm. Rinko' mother wants her to spend the summer helping Mrs. Hata, her...
The Best Bad Thing
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
On her way to Chikura to live with her son, Yasue Amami gets off at the Tateyama train station. She wants to see her old house. The a new owner,...
Red Whale, White Snake
Dobu (Kunie Tanaka) used to be a soldier but now is a private detective. Three vagrants were killed in a shrine, and Dobu found out that those three...
Private Detective DOBU 1
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.
Capone Cries a Lot
At school, Fumio is good in everything. His cheerful, out-going personality makes him a great favorite with teachers and classmates alike. He is in...
Live My Share, Mother
A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omnibus work composed of five short films has been...
The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife...
After the Storm
Kashiopea no Endo Roru A murder takes place on a luxury overnight train which runs from Sapporo to Ueno, Tokyo. The victim is a film director. The...
This Mystery is Excellent! ~ Challenge from Bestseller Writer
This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
Mystery Trilogy Special
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through...
Fireflies: River of Light
Dobu, an Edo samurai, is tasked with investigating a string of noble murders in Kyoto, disrupting his routine in Shimotani.
Private Detective DOBU 2: The Kyoto Murder Case
After six exiles return to Edo, four are mysteriously killed. Two survivors, Kosuke and Kingo, lead a search to uncover a hidden motive behind the...
Private Detective DOBU 3: The Exile Island Murder Case
In Edo's autumn, a wave of murders hits, targeting those linked to an old case. A young man, Utaro, takes charge, but Dobu's love interest is...
Private Detective DOBU 4: The Mysterious Kite Murders Case
After two thugs are killed, Dobu and his crew have three days to catch the murderers. Dobu suspects a hidden mastermind influencing the magistrate.
Private Detective DOBU 5: The Pinwheel Murder Case
A spree of murders in the city targets peddlers and komuso monks, all killed in the same method. Dobu investigates after a ronin's death with a...
Private Detective DOBU 6: The Origami Murder Case
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh....
Nurse's Husband
A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind numerous debts and his illegitimate child. Desperate...
The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left....
Yume-Chiyo
Winner of the 1992 Galaxy Award Encouragement Prize and the 1992 Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association Award Excellence Prize. Winner of the 10th...
Ritsuko: Her Love, Her Death
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche,...
Miss Lonely
Morihara was left a widower 8 years ago when his wife passed away. He attends his first mixer party under the guidance of his daughter. There he...
Fireworks, Ferris Wheels and Love
Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts...
Tomorrow Evening
A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.
Female Teacher
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.
Red Paper Lantern
Saito Masao reminisces on the days of his youth more than 50 years ago and his forbidden love of his older cousin Tamiko. When he was 15, Tamiko...
The Wild Daisy
Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning the favors of a hostess and ends up feeling the...
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
Although Nobuyoshi and Saki just got married and moved into a new apartment, their relationship still lacks spark. Things start to change as they...
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes and lives a peaceful existence with nature. Takumi...
Hanezu
After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the...
Kim's War
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A...
Amagi Pass
Yuka came to work as an intern nurse at a hospital and she met Shunichi again. They were school friends, and she liked him. But, she found out that...
Toki no kagayaki
A former assassin is drawn into a conspiracy which leads him to return to his old ways, endangering his brother who suspects that something is...
Hissatsu shimatsunin
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by...
Oishinbo
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
Down with The Big Boss
Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation...
The Sea of Eden
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl,...
Shoplifters
In 1974, Morikazu is 94 years old and his wife Hideko is 76 years old. They live at a house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The garden at their home is full of...
Mori, The Artist's Habitat
90-year-old architect Shuichi Tsubata and his 87-year-old wife Hideko live in Aichi Prefecture. Their garden is bursting with 70 types of vegetables...
Life is Fruity
A documentary filmed behind the scenes during the making of Hirokasu Kore-eda's 2008 film "Still Walking."
Making 'Still Walking'
Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.
Nunnery Confidential
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
The First Catch
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Without Complaint
A university student attends a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin. There she has the Japanese tea ceremony in her life and it's...
Every Day a Good Day
Highschool Scramble
When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out...
Through the Night
Journey
A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.
Karate Cop
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified....
Izo
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
"Our War" is a special drama produced by Japanese TBS TV. This is the third bomb of the war-themed TV series after the "Song of Sugarcane Field" and...
Our War
Satoko Watabe, who calls herself Erica was organizing business support meetings, and collecting a fortune with a fictional investment story, under...
Erica 38
Part documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu Inoue who wandered Ina Valley for about 30 years from...
Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu
Karin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her father died. Her worried grandfather advises her to send...
Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to date older women. Koji is a playboy with several...
Tokyo Tower
Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.
Sachiko no sachi
The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.
The Games Teachers Play
Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).
Statue in Fire
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a...
Heaven Sent
Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will...
Crane
Comedy about two employees who work against their boss.
Angel's Lover
A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
Crazy Big Explosion
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
My Voiceless Friends
Mitabi no kaikyô
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends...
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
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...
Teacher's suitcase
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute,...
Two Portraits of MIYAGINO
Dianas of the Campus
The story of a woman who lost everything.
Cardboard House Girl
Story about the adventures and the friendship of two Japanese-Malaysian boys.
リトルシンドバッド 小さな冒険者たち
Jutaro Torikai is a senior detective set to uncover the truth behind an apparent double suicide.
Dots and Lines
Masaru Okunishi is a prisoner who has been on death-row for over 40 years. In 1961, 5 women died from drinking poisoned wine in a small village...
Promise: The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, The Life of a Death-row Inmate