A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding love and a job as ama, a pearl diver.

A small rural hospital in Japan battles an international cybercriminal gang that is holding them ran...

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young ...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

A documentary exploring what it means to be Japanese.

A school romantic comedy about the cohabitation life of a popular high school girl in a class and a ...

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed...

Made in Japan, Last Room is both fiction and documentary. The occupants of the love-hotels and capsu...

Teacher Akira Suzuki breaks away from long-held customs and norms at his school. He tries hard to ha...

To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain...

The film focuses on the relationship between Gırgır Ali and a singer he has kidnapped. Gırgır Ali is...

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. Th...

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They...

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goe...

Somewhere on the coast of the Bering Sea, a father and son make a living fishing in a community that...


The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...