Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.

Sawako Kuronuma looks miserable on the outside, but is actually a positive-minded girl, who looks up...

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite thei...

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when on...

Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to ...

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a w...

The story of a strange living situation in a 2LDK apartment in suburban Tokyo. There are five reside...

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact...

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man ...

Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, ins...

The timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea...

Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified...

A group of eccentric students decide to make a movie. But, when their star suddenly quits, this witt...

A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.

Detective Kenichi Itami from the The National Police Agency and Akira Iwatsuki from the cyber invest...

An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life ther...

Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutor...

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their men...

Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika ...

Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that h...

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his...