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...

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...

Masa hires rental actress and aspiring dancer, Kanako, to pose as his fiancée to impress his estrang...

Molly is a ten-year-old girl who believes that if she learns to play the fiddle like her dad and win...

In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A c...

In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past ...

Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his aut...

The story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of Japan....

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force ...