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.

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

As a noted filmmaker’s infidelity becomes a media firestorm, his fractured family privately navigate...

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

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

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...

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

A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around t...

Vera and Juan have made the decision to divorce and want Alonso to act as a Good Man, a kind of medi...

In a single afternoon a man comes to grips with the power of his past when his estranged family beco...

Stefan reunites with his family to celebrate his grandmother's birthday for the first time after his...

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...

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

Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tok...

After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering...

Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring lit...

Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
Debbie was already pregnant in Indonesia before she was married to Taiwan. Her useless husband has n...
Writes Ando, "Oh! My Mother was the first work I made using a newly bought 16mm camera I had purchas...

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at ...

A young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its me...