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- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsMasaharu FukuyamaMachiko OnoYôko MakiRyota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi NezuIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko TsushimaFarmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
- DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoTadanobu AsanoYui NatsukawaThe blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsTatsuya FujiwaraAki MaedaTarô YamamotoIn the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKoji YakushoTakayuki YamadaYûsuke IseyaA group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsShun OguriKyôsuke YabeMeisa KurokiA transfer student attempts to take over the most violent high school in the country, whose students form factions and battle each other for power.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsShun OguriKyôsuke YabeMeisa KurokiTension escalates and violence ensues when a young student unwittingly breaks a non-aggression pact between two rival high schools.
- DirectorToshiaki ToyodaStarsEllyMotoki FukamiMasahiro HigashideA new transfer student comes once again to a high school where violent fights among students is a way of life.
- DirectorRyûhei KitamuraStarsShun OguriJerry YanTetsuji TamayamaThe grandson of a legendary gentleman burglar assembles a team of thieves to steal a Cleopatran necklace from two parties - an ally-turned-rival, and an underworld tycoon.
- DirectorKeishi OtomoStarsTakeru SatohEmi TakeiYû AoiA former assassin who has resolved to never kill again has his vow sorely tested.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsDaveigh ChaseSuzanne PleshetteMiyu IrinoDuring her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsFumi NikaidôTakehiro HiraHideaki ItôA popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsCatherine DeneuveJuliette BinocheEthan HawkeA stormy reunion between scriptwriter Lumir with her famous mother and actress, Fabienne, against the backdrop of Fabienne's autobiographic book and her latest role in a Sci-Fi picture as a daughter of a mother who never grows old.
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsKirin KikiMasatoshi NagaseKyara UchidaBurdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
- DirectorShin AdachiStarsGaku HamadaAsami MizukawaChise NiitsuA comedic portrait of an unhappy marriage between an unemployed screenwriter and his wife who's supported him for 10 years, based on the writer/director's own autobiography.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsTadanobu AsanoTakuro AtsukiMickey CurtisThe story centers on a group of young people who travel back in time when they are in a movie theater just before closing time. They witness deaths during the closing days of Japan's feudal times and on the battlefront in China before they are sent to Hiroshima just before the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city.
- DirectorKei IshikawaStarsSatoshi TsumabukiHikari MitsushimaKeisuke KoideAn investigations on murder didn't reach to any results, until a journalist discover new information that get on the trail of the criminal.
- DirectorYûki YamatoStarsMiona HoriMizuki ItagakiKaisei KamimuraHatsumi and her family live normal lives until she is used by Ryoki who begins to bully and intimidate her. Azusa is a friend in the area and also good looking. He has the hots for Hatsumi too. They begin to go steady, but soon it transpires that not everything as easy or straightforward. Time to unravel the mystery.
- DirectorGenta MatsugamiStarsRyôhei AbeHaruka ImôHiroki InoA high-school girl who lives in a rural town in Japan struggles to define her own way in life. To help her impoverished family she works as a video fetish performer which leads to problems for her and her family with a criminal underworld.
- DirectorAkiko ÔkuStarsAtsuko HirataShinpei IchikawaMei KurokawaTakako is a beautiful designer in her thirties and has been in love before only to get burned. She is intent on marriage and registers herself on a site for marriage. Keiko takes an interest in Takako's aspiration and intent, but is having relationship problems too. Takako and Keiko end up quarreling. The film is inspired by the comic series.
- CreatorHaro AsoStarsKento YamazakiTao TsuchiyaNijirô MurakamiObsessed gamer Arisu suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games in order to survive.
- DirectorHendrik WillemynsStarsKazuhiko KanayamaNatsuko KobayashiAkaji MaroTokyo. Asuka, a young cleaning lady working the night shift, is ready to pay a high price to achieve her dream of becoming a music star. She manages to perform on a TV-talent show, but all her sacrifices backfire when she is accused of murder and is forced to reveal all the details of the dark path she has followed until then.
- DirectorKeishi OtomoStarsShun OguriSatoshi TsumabukiMachiko OnoDetective Hisashi Sawamura (Shun Oguri) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police is tired, behind and dealing with the departure of his ungrateful wife. Having lost his family, he now deals with both the serial murders or who is apparently punishing his victims. The horror comes courtesy of the manga, Museum: The Serial Killer Is Laughing In The Rain.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsKeiko KitagawaYûdai ChibaRyo NaritaAfter Asami's boyfriend lost his cellphone, she begins to receive unknown credit card payment notification, her social media information is leaked, and she is drawn into an unexpected turmoil. At the same time young women bodies appear in remote mountains and the investigation of serial murder case is about to start.
- DirectorShinobu YaguchiStarsAyaka MiyoshiYû YashiroChaySuzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is treated by a hypnotist and left under the spell. Thereafter she cannot but sing and dance whenever she hears any melody whatsoever. No matter the source, length or quality she is composed to dance along. Shizuka heads back to the hypnotist for relief, but he is nowhere to be found when he is needed the most.
- DirectorAyuko TsukaharaStarsKasumi ArimuraMotoki FukamiHaruIn a specific cafe and chair in Japan, one can travel back in time while drinking a cup of coffee. There are, however, 5 rules/restrictions. It opens for closure and changing one's future but not present.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsShin SaburiMichiyo KogureKôji TsurutaA childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.
- DirectorYoshinari NishikôriStarsKiichi NakaiReiko TakashimaYuika MotokariyaHajime is in line to be the next head of a prominent electronics company. He toils day and night over his work and has no time for his family. But one day, his mother in Shimane falls ill, and his best friend dies in an accident. Grief-stricken, Hajime returns home, where memories of his childhood dream come back to him. He had always wanted to be a train conductor and drive the local "bataden" Ichibata Electric Railway.
- DirectorKazuhiro SôdaStarsShiro HashimotoHiroko KashiwagiToshio KashiwagiThe daily lives of people and stray cats who live in the yard in front of their home in Okayama City, Japan, offers glimpses of the meaning of peace.
- DirectorMankyuStarsYoshihiko InoharaManami HonjôSumikko and friends discover a pop-out picture book in the basement of Cafe Sumikko, their favorite coffee shop. As they look at the book, the pop-ups suddenly start moving and Sumikko and friends get sucked into the book.
- DirectorMasaru Oh'uraStarsKen MatsudairaHanae InuzukaKokoro InuzukaThis documentary film follows for 22 years a nine-member family involved in the manufacturing of Udon in the Goto Islands, Nagasaki prefecture.
- StarsYûichi NakamuraTakahiro SakuraiMarina InoueSerious and generous, but a bit shy, Yuudai has been unsuccessful with the opposite gender. Chizuru is an energetic and cheerful girl, but when it comes to boyfriends, she's been unlucky and clumsy, and never had a steady relationship. This is the first Christmas the couple spends together. Chizuru loves animals and Yuudai plans to give her a rabbit in a box, but it turns out to be - a mini donkey?. As the funny creature escapes, Chizuru goes after it, and Yuudai loses sight of them both! The time that should have been spent together... The important feeling that should have been revealed... Small, but precious things that tend to be buried in every day life. What answer will the two youngsters find while separated from each other? Yuudai and Chizuru-their feelings and the time they spent far from each other are delicately unfolded in this double-sided pure love story told from two different perspectives.
- DirectorToshihisa KaiyaStarsMitsuaki HoshinoTomoko KanedaAsami ShimodaThis story involves the shopkeeper Suzuri of Kokumondou who sells historic books and Mizuki, granddaughter of the land owner. When Mizuki releases a somewhat cute young spider demon out of a sealed book, the pair investigate the origins behind it
- DirectorIsao YukisadaStarsNoriko KijimaRyo NaritaTadayoshi OhkuraKyoichi, a man with an indecisive personality, constantly cheats. That is, until his wife sends a P. I to investigate his affairs. But what will happen when the man she sent wants to fulfil his own desires?
- DirectorKana YamadaStarsDendenSairi ItôReiko KataokaFollows a group of female escorts who are living life as best they can.
- DirectorRyô KatayamaStarsRyô AnrakuRyô KatayamaMari KishiIn the wake of a horrendous crime committed by his older brother, Makoto (Ryo Anraku) runs away from home and follows around a mysterious, silent vagrant (played by Katayama) who gets hired to beat people up. At the same time, radio announcer Hiromi (Mie Ota) tries to ward off the increasingly aggressive attention of her boss, with whom she starts a half-hearted affair, while struggling to find genuine love and compassion. As the different kinds of violence in both Makoto and Hiromi's lives escalate, Roar builds to a boiling point that finds the two strangers confronting the violence within themselves and their individual desire for liberation.
- DirectorMacoto TezukaStarsShingo KubotaKan TakagiKyôko TogawaIn 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was still a film student with a few experimental shorts to his credit and who was entrusted with the mission to turn an album by Haruo Chikada into a musical film.
- DirectorToshiaki ToyodaStarsKiyohiko ShibukawaMahiToThePeopleIssei OgataSeven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread through the small town, and people experience an unexplainable mental illness.
- DirectorTaichi IshidateNaoko YamadaStarsMiyu IrinoSaori HayamiAoi YûkiA young man is ostracized by his classmates after he bullies a deaf girl to the point where she moves away. Years later, he sets off on a path for redemption.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsGô AyanoEdward BoscoAmber Lee ConnorsTruth and illusion blurs when a homeless amnesiac awakens from an experimental medical procedure with the ability to see people's innermost traumas.
- DirectorShinsuke SatoStarsYô ÔizumiKasumi ArimuraMasami NagasawaA manga artist assistant is surprised by a zombie apocalypse.
- DirectorShinsuke SatoStarsSôta FukushiHana SugisakiRyô YoshizawaA Japanese teenager with the ability to see ghosts gains a soul reaper's powers and begins his duties as a substitute soul reaper.
- DirectorRikiya ImaizumiStarsHaruma MiuraMikako TabeYûma YamotoSato is 27 years old, lives in the northern prefecture of Sendai and is single. He is searching for the spark and explosion that will change his life and give him love and romance.
- DirectorYûya IshiiStarsRyûhei MatsudaAoi MiyazakiJoe OdagiriMajime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, 'The Great Passage.' In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is overwhelmed with problems. Will 'The Great Passage' ever be completed?
- DirectorRikiya ImaizumiStarsHio MiyazawaKisetsu FujiwaraWakana MatsumotoShun and Nagisa first meet and fall in love during high school. However, despite strong feelings, they go their separate ways. Years later, Shun is now living alone in a rural area when Nagisa arrives with his six-year-old daughter, Sora.
- DirectorKôzô MorishitaStarsHidetaka YoshiokaSayuri YoshinagaTomo Adachi2005 years ago in India, a boy named Siddhartha Gautama of the kingdom Shakya is born. At that time various kingdoms were continuously raging wars with each other. When the boy attained puberty, he associated with people from the lower class like Migaila a girl who was known as a thief. Siddhartha began to have doubts about the strict class system even though he is raised in luxury as a future king. Later, the powerful kingdom of Kosala attacks the kingdom of Shakya. Both sides fight fiercely. The commander of Kosala's army is the general's son Chapra. He is thought of as the most brave soldier in the kingdom of Kosala. Chapra was actually born into slavery but hid his background. By the general's order he came all the way up into his current position. Chapra wants to make a successful career for himself and Siddhartha abondons his family's wealth to find Tao. These two opposite persons meet in the war and changes the fate of their respective kingdoms.
- DirectorTakashi InnamiStarsShôsuke TaniharaKazuo YamagishiDocumentary taken over 10 years, showing the life of a 70 year old ramen cook who had devoted his life to making the best ramen and teaching others to do the same. Every day, customers queued for 2 hours to eat his ramen. Age, osteoarthritis, varicose veins and weight gain impede his ability to continue to work. A heart-warming story of a man's devotion to his work and to his wife who died 20 years before and of the devotion of his apprentices to him.
- DirectorHisashi KimuraStarsKentarô SakaguchiMei NaganoRio UchidaOn-call substitute doctor Shugo finds himself faced with a terrifying criminal in a clown mask. The assailant demands that Shugo treat injured high school student Hitomi. The perpetrator sets siege to the building.
- DirectorAtsuhiro YamadaStarsFumika BabaJun'ya KawashimaKanna MoriyaAfter abandoning his dream of becoming a shogi pro, Eichi throws himself into creating an AI based shogi computer program and finds a whole new world.
- DirectorYukiko MishimaStarsTomoyo HaradaYô ÔizumiKanna MoriyaYoung married couple Rie and Sang move from Tokyo to Lake Toya in Hokkaido Prefecture to start a bakery restaurant named Mani. Sang bakes bread and Rie makes food. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, the customers leave in a happy state.
- DirectorRyôta NakanoStarsRie MiyazawaHana SugisakiAoi ItôA strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame.
- DirectorYukiko SodeStarsMugi KadowakiKiko MizuharaKei IshibashiHanako is looking for stability with her man. She gets dumped instead. She begins dating. Miki studied and worked hard to get to where she is and is holding down a job. They are introduced through an intermediary man
- DirectorHaruki KadokawaStarsHonoka MatsumotoNao HondaMayumi WakamuraWhen Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cooking and eventually became a cook. Meanwhile, Noe has become an oiran (high-ranking courtesan).
- DirectorYasuhiro YoshiuraStarsJun FukuyamaKenji NojimaRie TanakaIn a not too distant future, a young man's outlook on his home android begins to change after tracking the android's behavioral log to a mysterious cafe.
- DirectorYasuhiro YoshiuraStarsYukiyo FujiiNobuhiko OkamotoShintarô ÔhataA young girl, from a civilization that resides in deep underground tunnels, finds herself trapped in an inverted world and teams up with a resident to escape and return home.
- DirectorRyûichi HirokiStarsTatsuya FujiwaraKen'ichi MatsuyamaRyunosuke KamikiShishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi begins to produce black fig on Shishikari Island. Because of his well received product, the island is close to receiving a 5 billion yen grant from the government, which is part of the government's policy to reinvigorate rural economy. The residents of the island are excited, but their peaceful days changes by the appearance of Mutsuo Omisaka. Keita and his friends Jun Tanabe and rookie police officer Shinichiro Moriya are suspicious about him. One night, Keita's daughter goes missing. Due to that, Keita, Jun and Shinichiro happen to kill Mutsuo. They decide to hide Mutsuo's murder to protect the future of the island and their families. It turns out Mutsuo was a psycho killer. Police officers come to Shishikari Island to catch Mutsuo.
- DirectorShin'ichirô UedaStarsTakayuki HamatsuYuzuki AkiyamaHarumi ShuhamaThings go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.
- DirectorMamoru HosodaStarsRiisa NakaTakuya IshidaMitsutaka ItakuraA high-school girl named Makoto acquires the power to travel back in time, and decides to use it for her own personal benefits. Little does she know that she is affecting the lives of others just as much as she is her own.
- DirectorMasato HaradaStarsJun'ichi OkadaKentarô SakaguchiMayu MatsuokaA traumatized former officer hell-bent on revenge receives an order to go undercover within the Yakuza by befriending their most frenetic member.
- DirectorYûki MaedaStarsRen SudôAmane OkayamaKazutaka MimuraA comedy drama that depicts the conflict between students and their university over the continuation if a long-standing college dorm. Konoeryo, with a long history, is a university dormitory in Kyoto. Discussion on the reconstruction of the aging dormitory begins. Some want to rebuild the dormitory, but others want to keep the dormitory the same at it is now, starting a confrontation between the two sides.
- DirectorNao YoshigaiWhat is dance ? Not only people but the film itself danse here.
- DirectorDai SakôStarsTomomitsu AdachiYôta KawaseYutaka MatsushigeA forty something factory worker accidentally kills a woman while out on a date with her and tries to cover up her death. Over time, guilt begins to prick at the factory workers conscience and he begins to lose his mind.
- DirectorShingo TamagawaSomething is about to change drastically. We can only be witnesses to it.
- DirectorSaki CatoStarsKeita KamaguchiSaki CatoToyoshima HarukaTwo women live together. Ako is meticulous and cleans the house and San is sloppy. Ako is visited by a mysterious mother and daughter while San watches over a couple who are quarrelling. One day, Ako's jewel disappears.
- DirectorChie HayakawaStarsChieko BaishôHayato IsomuraStefanie ArianneGovernment program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
- DirectorHideo JôjôStarsRina OnoAmon HiraiShuri NakamuraA coming-of-age drama about young people who cheer for their high school baseball team playing in a stadium.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsYoshiko TanakaKazuo KitamuraEtsuko IchiharaThe story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.