Director

MIYAZAKI Goro

Cast

TERAJIMA Shinobu, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, HAMADA Gaku

Studio Ghibli's first full 3DCG animation adapts the same-named novel by Diana Wynne Jones, known for Howl's Moving Castle. Official selection for the 73rd Cannes International Film Festival and released in North America and beyond. Ten-year-old Ea...

Release Date

Aug, 27th, 2021

Director

Arthur HARARI

Cast

ENDO Yuya, TSUDA Kanji

Drama about Onoda Hiroo, who didn't know the war had ended and continued his mission as an intelligence officer. In 1944 with the war's end approaching, intelligence trainee Onoda Hiroo (Endo Yuya, Tsuda Kanji) is ordered to wage a guerrilla war on ...

Release Date

Oct, 8th, 2021

Director

SONE Takeshi

Cast

Michael KEIDA, Awich, MAIGUMA Katsuya

Tokyo, July 2019. Steve is a comedy film director from the US. As fate would have it, he is sent to Japan with the task of making a documentary about 3.11(The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami). After interviewing people on the streets of ...

Release Date

Mar, 4th, 2022

Director

NAKAMURA Yu

Cast

SETOUCHI Jakucho

Chronicle of the life of a Japanese Buddhist Jakucho Setouchi also known as award winning novelist, and activist, who passed away in 2021 with 99 years old. Full of touching moments with her treasured words shot and kept for 17 years by her closed TV...

Release Date

May, 27th, 2022

Director

MATSUMOTO Hana

Cast

KITAMURA Takumi, KUROSHIMA Yuina, INOUE Yuki

Tokyo, March 2012. a man about to graduate from university is invited to a dull gathering of "winners" who have received job offers from well-known corporations. There he meets a woman. She leaves the party early, and sends him a text: "Drinking with...

Release Date

Dec, 31st, 2021

Director

YOKOHAMA Satoko

Cast

KOMAI Ren, TOYOKAWA Etsushi

Drama about a girl who matures through her experiences playing the Tsugaru shamisen. Directed by Yokohama Satoko, known for Bare Essence of Life. High schooler Ito (Komai Ren) is a misfit with her Tsugaru dialect accent and shy disposition, but she ...

Release Date

Jun, 25th, 2021

Director

YOSHINO Ryohei

Cast

SAKUMA Yui, Nao

The story begins in ordinary days of Horigai, a 22-year-old virgin who is about to graduate and got a job as a social worker. She is spending boring days between her school and apartment with her college graduation coming soon. She meets Inogi at the...

Release Date

Sep, 17th, 2021

Director

YASUKAWA Yuka

Cast

MATSUI Rena, NAKAJIMA Ayumu

A graduate student Aiko always had a low self-esteem because of a birthmark on her face. She had been focusing on her research without much social life. But her life changed when she got interviewed for a book about people with birthmarks and scars o...

Release Date

Sep, 16th, 2022

Director

ISHII Teruo

Cast

KAJI Meiko, TOKUDA Hoki, SATO Makoto

Akemi (Meiko Kaji), maiden boss of Tokyo's Kanto Tachibana gangster family, is cele- brated for the image of an "ascending dragon" tattooed all over her back, swordsmanship, and valor. She is obligated to kill the boss of the Goda family. Gada's (Bu...

Release Date

Jun, 20th, 1970

Director

SHINODA Masahiro

Cast

KAGA Mariko, YAMAMURA So, YACHIGUSA Kaoru

This film by the director of Pale Flower and Assassin is the strange story of a young girl and her love affairs with two older people: a well-known married writer, and a famous lady-artist who'd had an affair with him twenty years before. Then the gi...

Release Date

Feb, 28th, 1965

Director

SAITO Buichi

Cast

YOSHINAGA Sayuri, IZUMI Masako, HAMADA Mitsuo

A girl gets a job as an airline stewardess and leaves her sweetheart. On the plane she helps a young man who becomes ill and his grandfather invites her and her friends to a house which turns out to be that of a rich industrialist. It is hoped that s...

Release Date

Feb, 25th, 1966

Director

NOMURA Takashi

Cast

TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, NARITA Mikio

Masayoshi (Hideki Takahashi), deputy boss of the Ushio gamblers is forced by circum- stances to kill a leading member of the Ezu, a gang. Masayoshi finds himself in the same jail as Eikichi (Mikio Narita), executive of the Sawada gambling group. But ...

Release Date

Jul, 31st, 1971