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.

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

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

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

Romain, a tormented young man, deals with his alcohol addiction as he tries his best to hide it from...

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

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 ...

One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act ...

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...

An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to lo...

Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the ...

In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives thr...

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

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...