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Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shunsuke Kubozuka

The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese...

Genre: History

Cast: Takuro Atsuki

Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tōru Shinagawa

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yasufumi Hayashi

Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Yasuko Matsuyuki

The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hikari Ishida

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takehiro Murata

Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bengal

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiyotaka Nanbara

Hazel suffers from a crippling case of agoraphobia - so much so that it causes a rift between her and her mother, Dee. They agree that Hazel will go...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bella Thorne

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Takahashi

After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yukihiro Takahashi

A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Anamiya

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Takuro Atsuki

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takanori Jinnai

A comprehensive document of the six-month production of "Casting Blossoms to the Sky," mixing truth and fiction.

Genre: Documentary

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