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.

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 ...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Described as an intimate family drama that exponentially develops into a vast science fiction odysse...

After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to B...

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

Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He ...

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...

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

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

Ramprasad's entire family gathers under one roof for 13 days after his death, to perform and observe...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...