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Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiang Wu

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Fujitani

College student Asako falls in love at first sight with Baku after meeting at a photography exhibit. Romance sparks between the two but doesn't last...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erika Karata

Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emmanuelle Béart

Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bae Doona

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Zhao Tao

“Ars longa, vita brevis” – art is long, life is short. This is one of Japanese music icon Ryuichi Sakamoto’s favorite quotes,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ryuichi Sakamoto

Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Goro Inagaki

An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaki Suda

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Chen

Set in Kyoto, Japan, a love story takes place between Hajime and Reika. Hajime is a handsome young man, who is usually a second quicker than everyone...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masaki Okada

On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai, is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yûrei Yanagi

An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tahar Rahim

Junior high school student Yuna lives with her father Toshiharu. Her mother Akemi moved to Naha when her older sister entered high school, and Yuna...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayaka Miyoshi

Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lily Franky

Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûko Tanaka