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 ...

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed...

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

In the wake of a tragedy, a heartbroken man must face reality in order to accept life's most preciou...

An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the ...

The happy home life of a high school student who lives with her loving stepfather is put in jeopardy...

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it...

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...

Jorge is a musician, he gets fired trying to find a melody from the noise of the street, the same da...

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

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...

Marta comes home after her mother's funeral. Having devoted the last years of his life to take care ...

Haunted by bad luck, two friends learn to trust in the world again and take their destiny into their...

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

Nicolò, 24, returns home after 7 years. Through a path made of affections and memories his love stor...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction wit...