Director

UCHIYAMA Takuya

Cast

ISOMURA Hayato, KISHII Yukino, FUKUYAMA Shodai

Japan-France-Korea-Hong Kong co-production helmed by Uchiyama Takuya, who grabbed the spotlight with Sasaki in My Mind. Ayato (Isomura Hayato) works at a construction site during the day and at his parents' karaoke bar at night, while paying off his...

Release Date

Oct, 11th, 2024

Director

KASAI Chiaki

Cast

HAKAMADA Iwao, HAKAMADA Hideko

This documentary, completed 10 years after his release, chronicles the struggle of Hakamada Iwao, who spent 47 years and seven months in prison having been accused of robbery, arson and murder. Death row inmate Hakamada Iwao is suddenly released fro...

Release Date

Oct, 19th, 2024

Director

ISHII Yuya

Cast

IKEMATSU Sosuke, MIYOSHI Ayaka, MIZUKAMI Koshi

Director Ishii Yuya adapted Hirano Keiichiro's novel of the same title for his screenplay. An innovative human mystery that sharply pursues the merits and demerits of a digital society. Sakuya (Ikematsu Sosuke) learns that his mother, Akiko (Tanaka ...

Release Date

Nov, 8th, 2024

Director

TATSUWA Naoyuki

Cast

KATO Emiri, SAITO Chiwa, HIDAKA Rina

An anime film adaptation of "Omuro Family," a spin-off of the manga "YuruYuri" by Namori. This is the second of a two-part film depicting the fast-paced daily lives of the three Omuro sisters: the cool eldest daughter, the playful second daughter, an...

Release Date

Jun, 21st, 2024

Director

OMORI Tatsushi

Cast

FUKUSHI Sota, MATSUMOTO Marika, ASANO Tadanobu

After a break of about 10 years following the highly acclaimed The Ravine of Goodbyes, director Omori Tatsushi returns to the mystery genre with another adaptation of author Shuichi Yoshida's work. A 100-year-old bedridden elderly man is murdered at...

Release Date

May, 17th, 2024

Director

FUKUNAGA Takeshi

Cast

Documentary by Fukunaga Takeshi, who directed an episode of "SHOGUN," following an Ainu family he met while making his second feature film Ainu Mosir. Amanai Shigeki (Shige) lives in Shiranuka, Hokkaido. While living a modern life, he practices the ...

Release Date

Dec, 14th, 2024

Director

NARUSE Kiyoto

Cast

ITO Kentaro

Second film in the new two-part live-action adaptation of Nitta Tatsuo's popular yakuza manga "The Quiet Don," comprehensively produced by Motomiya Yasukaze of the "Japan Unification" series. Shizuya (Ito Kentaro) becomes a wanted man after putting ...

Release Date

Sep, 27th, 2024

Director

TOMINAGA Masanori

Cast

FUKAGAWA Mai

Madoka Shibusawa, a Tokyo manga writer, goes to Kyoto to visit her husband's family's long-established fan shop in Kyoto. She interviews them and many proprietress and wants to write a comic essay. However, she struggles to protect Kyoto's historic ...

Release Date

Jun, 6th, 2025

Director

MATSUO Akinori

Cast

TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, INOUE Akifumi

In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves...

Release Date

Jul, 14th, 1963

Director

IMAMURA Shohei

Cast

AKAZA Tami, AKAZA Etsuko, AKAZA Akemi

Etsuko, the hostess of a Yokosuka drinking establishment catering to foreigners, reflects on her past for the camera. Encouraged by the results of his experimental pseudo-documentary A Man Vanishes (Ningen johatsu, 1967), Imamura was only too happy t...

Release Date

Jun, 3rd, 1970

Director

FUKASAKU Kinji

Cast

MARUYAMA Akihiro, KIMURA Isao, MATSUOKA Kikko

The Black Lizard (Akihiro Maruyama) is the name given a very skillful and dangerous female jewel thief, about whom everyone knows, but none can capture. She meets her equal, however, when famed detective Akechi (Isao Kimura) gets on her trail. A dia...

Release Date

Aug, 14th, 1968

Director

TAKIZAWA Eisuke

Cast

ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, HAYAMA Ryoji

Starring the screen idol Yujiro Ishihara, "Love and Death" based on the famous novel by Mushanokoji Saneatsu is the first Japanese film to be made on location in Europe. Muraoka Yuji, an assistant professor, falls in love with beautiful Nonomura Hat...

Release Date

Jul, 12th, 1959