Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

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...

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

When a young man drops out of school to care for his agoraphobic mother he too finds himself increas...

Yumi Fukuzawa is an ordinary first year student at Lillian Girls' Academy. By chance Yumi meets seco...

Legendary singer Claire Emery flies to Japan for a final sold-out concert. But when the show ends, s...

As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a l...
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

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

Goro is an archeologist, fascinated with the national treasure Gassho clay figure and remains from t...

This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series

The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.

The first theatrical release, titled Bonobono, opened in theaters on 1993-11-13. The film has since ...