Masahiro Motoki

A salaryman and yakuza are each sent by their bosses to a remote Chinese village but discover more then they expected. (imdb)

Yukio is living a charmed life: he is a respected young doctor with a successful practice and a beautiful wife. His only problem is that his wife is suffering from amnesia, and her past is unknown. Things begin to fall apart, however, when both his parents die suddenly, killed by a mysterious stranger with Yukio's face. Only when Yukio confronts this stranger will the mystery of his identity, and his wife's past, be revealed. (imdb)

In Treasure Town, life can be both peaceful and violent. This is never truer than for our heroes, Black and White - two street kids who claim to traverse the urban city as if it were their own. But in this town, an undercurrent of evil exists and has its sights set on the pair of brothers, forcing them to engage in battle with an array of old-world Yakuza as well as dangerous assassins vying to rule the decaying metropolis, Treasure Town. (imdb)

Yet another tradition in the tradition of "ragtag misfits" in Japanese comedy...Sumo Do, Sumo Don't tells the story of a university sumo club in Japan. In today's Japan, the younger generation is more interested in "Western" sports like baseball and basketball. Professor Anayama, a former university sumo champion, blackmails graduating (and slim) student Shuhei into joining the decimated university team, or he doesn't graduate. (imdb)

A Japanese cosmetologist, one Shanghai lady taxi driver, both respectively with doubts towards their own emotions and future, meet one particular night in a beautiful dazzling Shanghai. The.. movie is about..surpassing the boundaries of language, about searching for their own identity, about a tender love. Besides having the hesitations with love among modern people as in the previous [Lost in Tokyo], the language barrier initiating humorous scenes will let audience have a good laugh. (asianfanatics.net)

A failed cellist connects with his inner undertaker and his rural hometown in this tonally eccentric, lushly scored, movingly funny drama. Crushed at the breakup of his Tokyo orchestra, Daigo retreats to his picturesque northern Japan hometown, with adoring wife Mika in tow, to find his true calling. (psfilmfest.org)

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers. (imdb)

Rin is a traveling gambler who goes by the name of "Luminesent Rin". She is apparently a well known and respected but not considered to be among the elite gamblers. Heading to a job for "Boss Masa", she unexpectedly runs into her younger brother in the train station on the run from thugs. She rescues him and pays off his gambling debts. Finding out that her brother has lost the family restaurant due to gambling debts, she decides to return to her home town to do something about it... (imdb)

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. (imdb)

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.

An actress searches for her former lover in Singapore.

The story of the apartment where many influential manga writers worked in the 1950s.

Japanese film about the Soviet spy Richard Sorge.

The War ended on August 15th, 1945. What took place in Japan on the previous night? The unknown destiny of the day is unveiled. (imdb)

Based on a book by writer - director Miwa Nishikawa, a recently widowed writer ( Masahiro Motoki,Departures)whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief,or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident. (imdb)

A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo. (The Movie Database)

A detective from Tokyo scours London for his missing brother, who's been involved with the Yakuza and accused of murder.

Yohei, a punk rocker, has to become a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Yohei though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots. (imdb)

Aru Islands in resort development. Was a succession happening the abandoned corpses there are holes in the body. Ligia Exotica appeared on an isolated island of mutants, which caused panic and horror.

A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; Touch follows one man's emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out. (imdb)

The 19th Century was a turbulent one for Japan. Enduring the throes of change brought about by the Meiji era, it still struggled to join the world and be considered a "civilized, modern nation." Saka no Ue no Kumo covers the later years of the Meiji, when Japan-still wrestling with its identity-fought the Russo-Japanese War. We join the story with brothers Akiyama Yoshifuru and Akiyama Saneyuki, and their friend, the poet Masaoka Shiki, as they face these travails with decided Japanese spirit.

At the vernissage of an exhibition of his works painter Tamura notices a forgery, meanwhile, the dead body of a woman is found at sea. As news of both incidents travels, an unexpected connection transpires. A deeply felt drama on authenticity, ageing and love. In the strictly codified world of high-society Japan, the forgery found amongst Tamura’s works triggers a range of sentiments: anger at imposture, shame of scandal, questions about ownership and quiet appreciation for the superior aesth

A former law professor turned amateur detective searches for a runaway daughter and stumbles upon a murder case in Kobe.