Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of stomach cancer. At his funeral, a motley crew of fellow mahjong players, pachinko parlor employees and former drinking buddies gather to pay their respects and tell stories, revealing aspects of Masato’s life that complicate his sons’ resentment towards him.
Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puer...
Four years have passed since that emotional marriage proposal at Tsukushi Makino's high-school prom,...
A school romantic comedy about the cohabitation life of a popular high school girl in a class and a ...
Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters fro...
A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...
Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takiz...
Three tales that center around sex and citizens of Tokyo: A repressed woman embraces her sexuality, ...
An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the ...
Set 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different p...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...
Four high school students deal with their issues while travelling to Tokyo during their summer vacat...
Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwa...
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in ...
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled y...
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in th...