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Currently featuring the official details of more than 7,100 Japanese films in both English and Japanese.

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Lives at Right Angles

Lives at Right Angles (2026)

Director
KOBAYASHI Syoutarou
Cast
YASUDA Shota, Non

Daiki has autism spectrum disorder. He works as a janitor and lives independently with some support. His younger sister Nozomi is a counselor and has lived supporting him since their mother passed young. When Nozomi's marriage plans came up, they wer...

Release Date
Aug, 28th, 2026
NEW GROUP

NEW GROUP (2025)

Director
SHIMOTSU Yuta
Cast
YAMADA Anna

The second feature by Yuta SHIMOTSU, swept major genre film festivals with his feature debut "Best Wishes to All". This shocking and controversial movie questions the state of modern Japanese society, triggered by a strange incident occurs at a high ...

Release Date
Jun, 12th, 2026
A Unique Country in Asia

A Unique Country in Asia (2025)

Director
YAMAUCHI Kenji
Cast
CHONG Ami, IWAMOTO Eri, KANEKO Takenori

Socially progressive comedy from Yamauchi Kenji, known for Her Father, My Lover and Dawning on Us. Yoko (Chong Ami) lives in Tokyo with her husband Mutsuo (Kaneko Takenori) and looks after her bedridden father-in-law. Sensitive to politics and soci...

Release Date
Jun, 28th, 2025
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)

Director
SOTOZAKI Haruo
Cast
HANAE Natsuki, KITO Akari, SHIMONO Hiro

The first chapter of the "Infinity Castle Trilogy" for the theatrical version of the "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba" films. Animation production is handled by ufotable, the studio behind the series. Tanjiro (Hanae Natsuki) joins the Demon Slayer Co...

Release Date
Jul, 18th, 2025
Three Gnossiennes

Three Gnossiennes (2025)

Director
UEDA Atsushi
Cast
MATSUDA Ryo, ANNO Yura, IWAO Kaishi

Tetsurou, an unsuccessful actor at a small theater, has a cold relationship with his wife, Haru, who works as a teacher. His meetings with his lover, Mari, failed to satisfy his desires. Hungry for excitement, Tetsurou progresses with his new stage s...

Release Date
Oct, 3rd, 2025
Dollhouse

Dollhouse (2025)

Director
YAGUCHI Shinobu
Cast
NAGASAWA Masami, SETO Koji

Mystery with original story, script and direction by Yaguchi Shinobu of Waterboys and Swing Girls. Nagasawa Masami stars in this horror story about a family distraught by a doll resembling their deceased daughter. Suzuki Yoshie's (Nagasawa) five-yea...

Release Date
Jun, 13th, 2025
I Am Kirishima

I Am Kirishima (2025)

Director
TAKAHASHI Banmei
Cast
MAIGUMA Katsuya, OKUNO Eita, KITA Kana

Kirishima Satoshi was a wanted man for his role in a series of corporate bombings in the 1970s, and ultimately his case was dismissed due to his death in 2024. The film depicts his life, including his years spent as a fugitive. Social unrest simmere...

Release Date
Jul, 4th, 2025
BAKA's Identity

BAKA's Identity (2025)

Director
NAGATA Koto
Cast
KITAMURA Takumi, HAYASHI Yuta, AYANO Go

A suspenseful escape film based on the novel of the same name by Nishio Jun is the first theatrical production by THE SEVEN, the producing group behind the Netflix series "Alice in Borderland". The screenplay was written by Mukai Kosuke of A Man fame...

Release Date
Oct, 24th, 2025

JFDB Classics

Black Cat Mansion

Black Cat Mansion (1958)

Director
NAKAGAWA Nobuo
Cast
WADA Keinosuke, KITAZAWA Noriko, SATSUKI Fujie

Six years before, when Dr. Kuzumi took his wife to the house of her parents to recuperate from an illness, mysterious events began to happen in the mansion. And from an old priest he learns of the legend of the "Ghost Mansion." 140 years ago, there...

Release Date
Jul, 13th, 1958
The School of Spies

The School of Spies (1966)

Director
MASUMURA Yasuzo
Cast
ICHIKAWA Raizo, OGAWA Mayumi, MACHIDA Kyosuke

In 1938 the Imperial Japanese Army opened the famous Nakano school, an organization devoted to the training of spies. The men were all hand picked including one (Raizo Ichikawa, star of Kon Ichikawa's "Conflagration"). Cut off from the world for a ye...

Release Date
Jun, 4th, 1966
The Flesh Market

The Flesh Market (1966)

Director
ISHII Teruo
Cast
TAKEWAKI Muga, YOSHIDA Teruo, KAYAMA Yoshiko

A girl approaches a young man offering him an evening he won't forget if in exchange he gives her his name-card. He does, has a fine time, and indeed does not forget it because he is in the grip of an ingenious call-girl racket which blackmails him t...

Release Date
Mar, 5th, 1966
The Sword-Cut

The Sword-Cut (1962)

Director
MISUMI Kenji
Cast
ICHIKAWA Raizo, FUJIMURA Shiho, NAGISA Mayumi

A showcase of Misumi's skills as a modernist director, and the first installment in the "Sword Trilogy," a collaboration between the director and Daiei star ICHIKAWA Raizo. Ichikawa plays Takakura Shingo, a samurai whose foster father and sister are ...

Release Date
Jul, 1st, 1962