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- A former assassin who has resolved to never kill again has his vow sorely tested.
- The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
- Leaving her provincial home, teenage Mutsuko arrives in Tokyo by train to take a job in a major automotive company but finds that she is employed by a small auto repair shop owned by Norifumi Suzuki. Suzuki's hair-trigger temper is held somewhat in check by the motherly instincts of his wife, Tomoe, and his young son Ippei immediately bonds with Mutsuko as if she were his older sister. The Suzuki shop lies almost in the shadow of the Tokyo Tower as it rises steadily above the skyline during construction in 1958. Others in the neighborhood also are striving to better themselves as Japan continues to emerge from the shadow of war. Hiromi has just abandoned her shady life as a dancer to start a sake bar. Abandoned by his single mother, young Junnosuke is first handed off to Hiromi but she passes him off to Ryunosuke Chagawa, a struggling writer who runs a candy shop and only manages to sell adventure stories for boys as his serious novels continue to be rejected. Junnosuke is an avid reader of Chagawa's stories and begins to idolize him upon learning about his authorship. Junnosuke also writes stories, and makes friends with Ippei and others when they discover his tales that show Japan in the hi-tech future of the 21st century.
- A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.
- A documentary following Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old WW2 veteran notorious for his protests against Emperor Hirohito, as he tries to expose the needless executions of two Japanese soldiers during the war.
- A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
- The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.
- During the 1930s, a teenager yearns for a Catholic girl, whose only desire is to reform his sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, the young man channels his unsatisfied lust into the only outlet available: savage, crazed violence.
- A newspaper reporter is working on an investigative piece regarding an unsolved mystery dating back thirty years. there was gangsterism and extortion at play. As part of his work the man comes across a riddle of a cassette tape. Alsmost at the same time a man in Kyoto comes across a cassette among his father's belongings. He hears himself.
- Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
- This is a beautiful story, allegory, metaphor full of surprises. The main protagonist is a young woman named Haruna Soma who has moved to a bigger city to start a new chapter.. Her character is gumption filled and cheery learning along the way about her life, the lives of others and what it means to "listen". There is much more to a story about starting a new career and how she develops, inspires others and grows into a new person.
- Separated mother Kaoruko awaits the graduation of their daughter for the divorce proceedings to begin and subsequently be finalized. Tragedy strikes when the daughter will never graduate. She is comatose and brain dead due to an accident.
- Takumi Harada and his family moves to Okayama during spring break before his entry to Junior High School. On the baseball field, Takumi has enormous confidence in his ability as a pitcher, but socially he is a loner.
- The story of finding a place to put down roots when life's obstacles have discouraged you. Centered on the lives of Changsu and Yamabuki.
- Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo's girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.
- It's business as usual for detective Aoshima as he tries to solve three peculiar crime cases at the same time in this third feature length episode of popular Japanese drama.
- The history and lore of America's most iconic symbol and global export, the blue jean.
- The Indonesian younger generation in the country are being urged to prepare for the so-called demographic bonus. Follows Genta, a young creator working as a creativepreneur by day, and a lifelong nightmare sufferer by night.
- Two teenagers' memories of 1980. A girl moves from Tokyo to Okayama. She is new to the area and her school. She cannot make friends in her class. She likes illustrating and drawing and works on a manga in which she is the romantic and main protagonist. When a popular class-mate notices her talent she encourages the new girl to continue and complete the manga. The two girls draw closer until one day an event separates them. It is thirty years later and the girl has become a professional manga artist. She receives a letter inviting her to a class reunion. She is going to meet her old classmate.
- Psychiatrist Masatomo Yamamoto has dedicated his whole life to his patients. Now over 80 years of age, he tries to bid a farewell to them and his work. Soda's sequel to Seishin (2008) is a loving look at care and aging.
- In the Japanese town of Ushimado, the shortage of labor is a serious problem due to its population's rapid decline. Traditionally, oyster shucking has been a job for local men and women, but for a few years now, some of the factories have had to use foreigners in order to keep functioning. Hirano oyster factory has never employed any outsiders but finally decides to bring in two workers from China. Will all the employees get along?
- An ambitious clerk Satoru Nomura is sent to Mantendo, an unsuccessful supermarket where he needs to cooperate with a Ninomiya Aki, a hardworking employee. Due to his arrogant attitude he gets disliked by the staff, including Ninomiya.
- Four friends set off on a journey to what they believe is "Heaven on Earth", the Hunza Valley in Pakistan, to find new meanings to life.
- MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema-verite style. The film breaks a major taboo against discussing mental illness prevalent in Japanese society, and captures the candid lives of people coping with suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame, apprehension, and fear of society.
- When his travels bring him to Western Japan, Tora-san decides to pay his respects to the late Hyoichiro Suwa, his sister's father-in-law. He gets drunk with the priest at the temple, falling in love with the priest's daughter in the process. When the priest is too hung-over to deliver a eulogy the next morning, Tora-san takes his place, with great success. Tora-san's sister and his brother-in-law's family show up for Hyoichiro Suwa's memorial service, and an argument breaks out over his estate.
- A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for the 1991 new year holidays. He decides that they will go by car to save on expenses. Unfortunately, the long drive from Tokyo to his hometown becomes a much longer journey than expected due to traffic, sickness and other misfortunes and by the time they arrive three days later, they only have time for a short but happy visit.
- Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.
- A businessman who owns his own business becomes the guarantor for a friend who is borrowing money from a lender. Sadly, the friend disappears leaving the man on the hook for the loan. This comes at a time when his own business is failing. When it rains it pours and as he concentrates on his problems and lack of funds, he finds out that his wife has contracted cancer. Despite immediate surgery the doctor's prognosis of the disease is negative. She will not live long. They begin to travel together by car and are on the road for nine months. Upon her death the police arrest and jail the widow believing their travel was negligent and accelerated the woman's death. He is sent to jail. Being imprisoned for over a year gives him time to remember, reminisce and ponder their travels and time on the road.
- Based on true events, director Juichiro YAMASAKI recounts the hardships surrounding an uprising of the people of Sanchu in the year 1726. With an unconventional stylistic approach, YAMASAKI creates an impressive hybrid of arthouse and period piece.
- Kurashiki City in Okayama Prefecture is famous worldwide for Okayama Denim. Harada Kenji works as a denim craftsman in the city. He distresses and dyes blue denim at a factory in Kojima district every day. Kenji gave up on his childhood dream of becoming a jazz pianist to bring up his niece Sayo after his sister, who was a single mother, died in an accident. He has lived without touching a piano keyboard in eight years. One day, Kenji happens to meet a painter Nonaka Miyuki who came as an artist-in-residence of Kurashiki city's famous art museum and stayed long term. As Kenji helps Miyuki with the composition of her paintings, she captivates his heart. He is drawn to her single-mindedness and charm like a foreigner. Miyuki also grows to like Kenji who tries to give her dedicated support. However, she has a past that is difficult to erase and tell anyone about. Kenji learns about this and is disturbed. But a letter sent to Kenji from Miyuki through Kurashiki's special post called "Anniversary Letter", begins to change the future for the two of them as they shed their pasts and start new lives.
- A young Ayane Kataoka (Rin Takanashi) works at the City Hall in Akaiwa, Okayama, but her main interest is growing and developing peaches in the orchard. She even plans to register a new type on which her dead brother worked. Enter Osamu Kimura (Takumi Saito) from the Ministry Of Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries who has come to the city. The film premiered at the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival.
- Percussionist Marcos Fernandes stages music performance events throughout Japan at some of the grand buildings designed in the early 1900s by his grandfather, the renowned architect Uheiji Nagano.
- Though the life of an old Buddhist priestess and her young heiress in rural Japan, a US-based filmmaker couple searches for the meaning of freedom and happiness.
- This Documentary is about a 34 Samurai (who were also known as The Last Samurais) delegation sent by the Japanese government to France at the end of Edo era. They were sent to help solve diplomatic problems between Japan and Europe on December 29th, 1863. At the time,Japan closed all of its ports. The Samurai were welcomed by every government they visited,including Napoleon III, in France. They were also photographed standing in front of Sphinx, in Egypt. The Samurai brought back lots of products from their trip including a book on producing wine. They ended their expedition earlier than expected due to the need to report home about the astonishing technology in modernizing countries.
- Historical drama set in the tumultuous Meiji period about Yamamuro Gunpei, who devoted his life to saving others, and his comrades. Directed by Tojo Masatoshi of 9/10. Born into a poor farming family in Okayama, Gunpei (Morioka Ryu) was adopted by pawnbroker's family at age nine and went off on his own at age fifteen. His dream of becoming a person who can help others leads him to Tokyo, where he encounters Christianity and becomes convinced that it is the best way to save others. He continues pursuing his own path, overcoming hardships and his own ambivalence along the way.
- In the near future, global warming is an earthly crisis. High temperatures have driven people insane and the rate of suicide has increased dramatically. But there's hope. 'Eroica' an invisible man, a hero, appears from nowhere forms a group called the 'Grateful dead', offering a sublime suicide where the victim can choose their death. A member of Grateful dead, Hasegawa and his colleague, Asai, are on their way to the ocean to assist with the suicide of an attractive lady, Mariko. Mariko is different, though. With the rumor of a spy in the 'Grateful dead' organization, Hasegawa grows suspicious of Mariko and her desire for a sublime suicide. Mixing every expectation each character has, their 'mad' drive has an epilogue with harmony for a beginning.
- Chichi Peralta delves into Japanese culture and experiences how, even in a country far from the Dominican Republic, percussion and music are a universal language that has the power to unite and drive the world forward.