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.

As her Parkinson's disease intensifies, a National Parks Ranger struggles to accept her new limitati...

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

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...

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...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the begi...

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person ...

At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant experiences a black out due ...

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outla...

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.