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Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiang Wu

Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bae Doona

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhao Tao

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Fujitani

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erika Karata

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Zhao Tao

This work is a 12-year story of Mana, a woman who cannot accept the death of her best friend, staring at her as she tries to step forward while...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukino Kishii

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Takeuchi

“Ars longa, vita brevis” – art is long, life is short. This is one of Japanese music icon Ryuichi Sakamoto’s favorite quotes,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ryuichi Sakamoto

At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhao Tao

Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Goro Inagaki

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Chen

An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Set in Kyoto, Japan, a love story takes place between Hajime and Reika. Hajime is a handsome young man, who is usually a second quicker than everyone...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masaki Okada

When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hirofumi Arai

Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emmanuelle Béart

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lily Franky

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima