Sasaki (Sadao Abe) has had a difficult period, going through a divorce and losing his job. To take a break and start anew, Sasaki decides to visit Iriomote Island. While there, Sasaki's belongings are stolen by four homeless men. Sasaki then lives wi...
An old married couple Shukichi Hirayama (Isao Hashizume) and Tomiko ( Kazuko Yoshiyuki) live on a small island in the Inland Sea. They go to Tokyo. The couple have 3 children. The eldest son Koichi (Masahiko Nishimura) runs a hospital. The first...
A newspaper reporter (Masahiro Motoki) uncovers a secret "Okinawa pact" between the Japanese and U.S. government. A woman who is the deputy director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs becomes a key figure in the story.A newspaper reporter (Masahiro M...
Katsuya Maruyama (Hiraoka Takuma) is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimoi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi), a single father who moves into the same apartment complex. Tatsuo Shimoi is a bit of an enigma, not getting al...
On Ishigaki Island, conflict brews over a large-scale bridge construction project.
One day, Yajima (Sho Aoyagi), a public official from the Ministry of Environment, is sent to Ishigaki Island. Yajima announces to his colleagues that he is absolutely...
Kazuhiko Kogure, who is a 2nd grade student in middle school, falls off from one of the school's rooftop. There were other male students on the roof when Kazuhiko Kogure fell off. According to the other students there, Kazuhiko Kogure tried to j...
Over a 21 month period, Makoto (Satomi Ishihara) works in Brazil. For one week, she travels back to Japan. Makoto doesn't have a place to stay, so she stays at Toru's (Shun Oguri) house. As they live together, conflicts arise from their different lif...
Haruka (Manami Higa) and Kosuke (Seiji Fukushi) are lovers and plan to marry. Haruka works as a nurse and Kosuke is a champion ski jumper. Kosuke is then selected as a member Olympic national team, but Kosuke is involved in a devastating accident whi...
Ouran Academy is a prestigious school with most students coming from wealthy families. One of the few students who comes from a modest background is Haruhi Fujioka (Haruna Kawaguchi). Through unexpected circumstances, Haruhi Fujioka ends up joining t...
Haruna Nagashima (Ito Ono) devoted herself to softball while in middle school. Now that she is in high school, Haruna believes its time find a boyfriend. Unfortunately for Haruna, she didn't pay attention to trends and is now clueless on how to attra...
Arimura Kotoko (Tokiwa Takako), the eldest daughter of the Arimura family, has been nursing her beloved mother, Rinko (Baisho Mitsuko), who is suffering from end-stage cancer and does not have much time left. On the last day before Rinko dies, Kotoko...
Kageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko happens to be a novice detective but lacks certain deductive skills needed by detectives. Because of this Reiko relies on Kageyamaa to help her solve case...
This melodramatic Japanese tearjerker concerns a young woman who receives the most devastating news of her life: not only has she developed breast cancer, it is quickly metastasizing throughout her body and she has only a short time to live. Aware th...
Subaru and her twin brother Kazuma share a dream in becoming ballet dancers, but their father descourages their passion. After Kazuma's death from a hereditary illness, dancing became Subaru's only happiness and she yearns to lose herself in dance. H...
Sakaki Ryo is a young man in the outskirts of Tokyo and has experienced a series of setbacks in life - such as giving up his childhood dreams of playing soccer and being unable to settle in a job. One day, his best friend Eitaro tells, the number-one...
Morioka Takashi (Sato Takeru), a youth who was born in a foster care facility, loses his job as a temporary worker. In order to buy back the foster care facility which is saddled with a heavy debt and about to be shut down, he lends a hand to Yuki (T...
Tokyo Story is widely regarded as being the crown jewel of Yasujiro Ozu's career, as its consistent placing on all-time top ten film lists around the world along with Citizen Kane, Rules Of The Game and Vertigo will attest. An elderly couple visits t...
ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka re2009ceives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before.His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood, and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other va...
This series revolves around a group of peculiar detectives in a new division created to fight against an increase in atrocious crimes. Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "bo...
Asato (Teppei Koike) who resembles an ordinary youth actually has an unknown ability, which is to transfer wounds of others to his own body. Asato(Teppei Koike) who resembles an ordinary youth, actually has an unknown ability, he can take others&rsqu...
The father who abruptly loses his job cinceals the truth frim his family; the eldest son in college hardly returns home; the youngest son furtively takes piano lessons without telling his parents; and the mother, who knows deep down that her role is ...
Tomoki Sakai (Kento Hayashi) is your average junior-high student. Fascinated by the diving skills of Yoichi Fujitani (Sosuke Ikemaytsu), an elite athlete born into a family of former Olympic divers, Tomoki joins the Mizuki Diving Club (MDC) where Yoi...
Stars Hiroshi Abe and Kanata Hongo (also stars in the film "The Prince of Tennis"). Whole Higashigaoka middle school are upset about attempted suicide of a boy student Noguchi, who was tormented because of bullying he experienced during the previous ...
Hideo Kurasawa (Ninomiya Kazunari) a disable man of the age 22. He wants to be a salesman just like his father was. His father died when he was little and was a car salesman. Hideo lives with his mother. Hideo's mother finds him a job a salesman for ...
Yuji Shinohara (Ito) is downtown buying a birthday present for his 7-year-old, hearing impaired daughter, Shiori (Ayane Omori), when the typhoon strikes. Worried, he hurries to meet Shiori and his wife, Yumi (Sachiko Sakurai). In the ensuing panic, h...
Following "Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu" (adapted into movie of same title) and Satoshi Toyama (Takayuki Yamada) owns an aquatic plants shop named "Trash" and lives a normal life in a quiet small town. One snowy night a girl by the name of Suzune Morikawa (Ma...
"252..... 252....." - "We have survivors!"
:252" is the rescue code that means "There are survivors." Someone who knows the rescue protocol is trapped underground! The rescuers, the survivors, the families all prey for their loved ones' safe retur...
Motorcross racer, Hiroto lost his father in stunt man's accident when he was young. His friend, Takashi Mishima suffering from debt and when he knows Hiroto's talent he wants him to join ...
Taro a 12-year-old boy hospitalized in a small seaside town, brings a bit of levity into the lives of the other patients by acting as resident DJ. Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, "Little DJ" is a compelling drama with great music from the 70's. 午夜三点,...
Set in a rural village in southern japan in the late 1950s, the film tells the story of "gabai“ (or "super“) Granny and her grandson Akihiro, who ends up living with her for eight years. Granny is full of power and an expert at Yamamoto Taro, Suzuk...
The movie revolves around an elementary school, where a girl called Mika disappears mysteriously after following the sound of laughter into the bathroom. The rumors of the school being haunted, strange things happening around 4:44 AM and the missing ...