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.

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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...

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...

Embarrassed about his identity and culture, a meek Indian high-schooler decides to attend an America...

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...

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...

In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break fr...

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

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

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

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