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Wise and deliciously witty, Ryosuke Hashiguchi's film chronicles eight years of a marriage: the easy-going husband becomes a courtroom artist, while his high-strung wife nearly has a breakdown. (sensasian.com)

Twisted and macabre, Japanese cult film director Teruo Ishii's final oeuvre follows a dime-novel writer on a bizarre journey that involves a misshapen dwarf and bodiless limbs. After a night out, novelist Kobayashi is returning home when he sees a dwarf carrying a severed arm. What ensues is a strange and convoluted mystery that has Kobayashi aiding his detective friend Akechi in a kidnapping investigation. (Netflix)

The G8 summit has gathered the world's leaders at Lake Toya, which resides near a volcano in Hokkaido. Meanwhile, a Chinese rocket lands in Japan, causing a giant monster to be born from a spore. The leaders each attempt their own strategies to defeat the monster and show their respective nation's might.

Moteki is the story of a 31 year-old virgin Yukiyo Fujimoto, a young fellow with no money, no aspirations and no girlfriend. Leaving his temp job, he decides to finally get a life and lands a job as a writer for an Internet news site. But love continues to elude him. At the nadir of his loneliness and social isolation, comes the arrival of his "Moteki" - a period of sexual magnetism and romantic irreversibility.

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own. (imdb)

Journalist Fujii receives a letter from convicted killer Sudo. Writing from death row, Sudo wants to confess to crimes unknown to the police. Visiting Sudo in prison, Fujii learns about a real estate broker called "Doc" who masterminded murders in which Sudo worked muscle for. Set up by Doc, Sudo seeks revenge and implores Fujii to find the evidence needed to arrest his former boss. Working off Sudo's sketchy memories, Fujii begins to piece together a grizzly tale of torture, rape, and arson. (Nikkatsu Corporation)

A group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how. (imdb)

Yakuza vampires battle it out to avenge the death of their boss at the hands of an international syndicate.

A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their 13-year-old half sister. (imdb)

A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2. (imdb)

Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After the death of his father, his aging mother and beautiful ex-wife seem to be moving on with their lives. Renewing contact with his initially distrusting family, Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting place in the life of his young son until a stormy summer night offers them a chance to truly bond again. (imdb)

A blind man works as a conchology scholar. One day, a female painter, Izumi, appears in front of the blind scholar. The woman suffers from a rare disease. The scholar is able to treat the woman's disease by using poisons from certain shells. Word of the miraculous treatment spreads and more people gather on Koto Island to receive treatment. The scholar's peaceful days are thrown into chaos. (asianwiki.com)

Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai appears. Hiroshi becomes attracted to her. (asianwiki.com)

34-year-old Aya leads a humble and carefree life working part-time in a bookstore and living with a divorcee 20 years her senior, Ito-san, who works part-time in a supply center for school meals. The couple reside in a cramped old apartment tending to a small vegetable garden out back and generally leading a quiet but happy existence... until Aya's father suddenly appears at their door one day, having just been kicked out of his son's home. He moves in to turn all of their lives upside down. (cinando.com)

Based on the true story "Aka Medaka" (Red Medaka) by Danshun Tatekawa (published April, 2008 by Fusosha Publishing). (asianwiki)

A young Japanese man works to raise money and then build an elementary school in Cambodia. (imdb)

Shizuoka Miyakonojo is a middle-aged paparazzi photographer. His skills as a cameraman are good, but he gambles and is in debt. When he worked in the editorial department for weekly picture magazine 'Scoop!,' he landed numerous scoops. He now works as a freelance photographer and chases after celebrity scandals. Shizuoka Miyakonojo works with Nobi Namekawa. She is a rookie reporter for 'Scoop!' and they land a scoop. (letterboxd)

Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by lectures about French writer Sophie Calle and begins to follow her neighbor Ishizaka. Tama soon discovers that her neighbor Ishizaka is having an affair. She becomes excited about discovering his secret. Her relationship with her boyfriend Takuya and her professor Shinohara changes. (The Movie Database)

A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find on the street. (imdb)

An environmental analyst is asked by the police to determine if two deaths by hydrogen sulfide poisoning are an accident - or a murder. But when he meets a young woman at both sites, a scientific mystery begins. (imdb)

A son discovers the unknown life of his deserted father's after his death. -IMDB

A man is broken after the murder of his wife; a gay lawyer experiences unrequited love; and a housewife deals with an indifferent husband. (google.com)

A group of friends from high school days reunite for once more time before one of them are going to die from cancer. (imdb)

Akari Fujii is a middle school teacher. On her 24th birthday, she is kidnapped by two men. These two men call themselves "The Most Lovely Murderers in Criminal History" and they admire the girl Sunny who is idolized on the internet. (themoviedb)

Toru Nishikawa is a university student. One day, he picks up a gun on the riverside and takes the gun home. He is excited and thrilled by having the gun. Toru is attracted to Yuko Yoshikawa who attends the same the university. A detective suddenly visits Toru and he is driven into a corner. He makes a decision. (imdb)

Akatsuka Detective Agency stands inconspicuously at Shimo Akatsuka in Tokyo's Itabashi ward, right above a small snack shop run by their landlord. Akatsuka's eccentric chief Kaze Kaoru founded it with her two investigators Goro and Gure in order to take on odd cases that others are reluctant to do anything about. Their motto is "to be compassionate and meddlesome", which leads them to get involved in strange situations with their clients. (imdb)

A coming of age tale about Kanto, a 14 year old boy, and a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, who struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of his father. One day, he learns about the small hole in the cliff in nearby forest that Ainu people considered a path to the other side of the world - where dead people live. Kanto decides to visit the hole, hoping to see his deceased father. (imdb)

A pharmaceutical CEO is pondering thefts and irregularities at his company. He drinks a drug that temporarily suppresses his signs and gives him a deathlike state for a couple of days. Something goes wrong. His daughter and he have had a rocky relationship, but she attempts to rescue him with help from a company employee.

A young woman learns she only has ten years left to live due to an incurable disease. She then faces the issue of what to do with her remaining time left, and whether or not she should avoid relationships.

Follows Kiyo, who becomes a Makanai (person who cooks meals) at a house where Maiko (apprentice geishas) live together. (imdb)

Chihiro used to work as a prostitute. She happened to stop by a seaside town and have a bento meal there. She loved the meal so much, she decided to settled down in the seaside town and work at the bento shop. She now greets customers with a smile at the bento shop and makes small talk with them. She doesn't even hide her past. Chihiro talks with customers about various problems and, through their conversations, they are comforted by her. Chihiro herself suffers from loneliness, which started wi

Satoshi become blind at his age of 9 and become deaf at the age of 18. Support from his family, Support from his friends. Satoshi's struggle of his meaning of "being alive" " His reason of existence" The story has a strong message of being a "HUMAN" and the deep relationship of "WHAT FAMILY IS" Based upon a true story.

After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo (60s) and his son Toshi (30s) receive an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. Akiko, their wife and mother, asks them to scatter her ashes at the place she loved most as a child – Lake Windermere in England. Surprised by this unexpected request, father and son are initially at loggerheads over their next steps.

In 1987 Tokyo, a quirky and sensitive 11-year-old girl copes with a terminally ill father and stressed-out working mother while encountering various adults dealing with their own struggles.

After her father is murdered, Komugi Yamashita finds a letter naming a suspect as innocent. The suspect is the son of a criminal executed 22 years ago. Seeking help from lawyer, she uncovers shocking truths about her father's past. (imdb)