Movies

A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of...

The film depicts the anguish of an arsonist as he approaches the statute of limitations.

A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like...

Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a washed-up gumshoe who's hired by Naomi's father to bodygard...

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.

Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then...

Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.

Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much...

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89...

When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ gets the blame. He must start his own...

Flighty young nurse Izumi Asakura longs to have her honeymoon in a far off tropical paradise but her doctor husband feels that he cannot afford to...

A foreign university student tries to fit in in Kyoto by reading books to the blind and finds himself falling in love.

It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells...

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

A woman runs a “mistress service” and interviews young women for “dates” with men. Various couples get together but someone...