A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he hook up with someone? Borrowing the form of a diary-movie, the director unfurls an unpredictable and imaginative look into his own persona. 8mm experimental film by Murakami Kenji, the film that made his name.

A vent in the form of an experimental short film, Lip Balm is about finding ways to cope with what c...

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

In the frigid valleys of Japan's Shiga Highlands, a troop of snow monkeys make their way and raise t...

On February 27, 2009, pupil Benjamin Feller commits a crime which he has meticulously described befo...

Ooshima Shino is a 1st-grade high school student. She has difficulties pronouncing words that start ...

A walk in the woods become a metaphoric journey in Chloé Leriche's short film. As a solitary figure ...

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live...

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. O...
Two friends resort to playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, flipping a coin, and detailed, yet petty analyz...
A glimpse into a visual representation of memory; A Christmas-time series of meals, coffees, and mov...

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

Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general T...

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from...

Bonobono: Kumomo no Ki no Koto was the second theatrical Bonobono movie, released by Amuse Pictures ...

A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.

East meets West as the Japanese Yakuza battle drug lords and the LAPD in the streets of Los Angeles....

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...

During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.

"If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat" is an intimate meditation on the subversive na...