Suzu Hirose

A man gains the ability to transform into a gaseous state uses his powers for bank robberies. (imdb)

Four sisters face turbulence when their father's affair is exposed. Embodying the tumultuous "asura" demigods, they clash over differing outlooks on love yet find moments of connection amid conflict and growth. (imdb)

Etsuko, a Japanese woman living alone in England, is haunted by the recent suicide of her eldest daughter, Keiko. During a visit from her younger daughter, Niki, Etsuko reflects on her past life in post-war Nagasaki. She recalls her friendship with Sachiko, a enigmatic single mother attempting to rebuild her life alongside her young daughter, leading to unsettling parallels between past and present.

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)

With Yasuko, Songs of Days Past, veteran filmmaker Negishi Kichitarō crafts a simmering portrait of a love triangle, ambition and the complexities of creativity, taking as its subject one of Japan’s most beloved early 20th-century poets, Nakahara Chūya. Nakahara Chūya’s life was cut tragically short when, in 1937 aged just 30, he died from tuberculosis. He was an early pioneer of modernist poetry, whose work would grow in stature in the decades that followed his death. (It’s one of the reason

In the Great East Japan Earthquake, a young girl named Luca loses her family and is left with a disability that prevents her from speaking properly. She can, however, make her voice heard when she sings. (imdb)

Naotatsu Kumazawa is set to start high school. To commute to school, he will stay with his uncle, Shigemichi Utagawa's . On a heavily rainy day, Naotatsu arrives at the nearest stop from his uncle's house.

In a park on a rainy evening, a 19-year-old university student, Fumi, offers an umbrella to a soaking wet 10-year-old girl, Sarasa. Realizing her reluctance to go home, Fumi lets her stay in his place, where she spends the next few weeks in peace. They take each other's hands and seem to have finally found their place in the world. Fifteen years later, Sarasa has a chance encounter with Fumi who is now running a cafe... (imdb)

A Tokyo doctor moves back to her small hometown in the countryside where she works in a local clinic. Through her new job, she treats terminally ill patients at home who are unable or unwilling to travel to a hospital in a larger city.

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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.

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Lupin III goes on a grand adventure to uncover the secrets of the Bresson Diary, which is tied to the legacy of his famous grandfather.

One day, a woman named Anone is getting ready to leave her home for work when she accidentally drops her wedding ring. As she searches for it she finds quite a bit of cash under the floor. She is surprised. This is the beginning of several interrelated stories also involving money.

The third installment of the Chihayafuru trilogy. Story takes place 2 years after "Chihayafuru Part 2" and Chihaya is now a high school senior.

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

Schoolchildren Norimichi, Yuusuke, and Junichi want to know if fireworks look round or flat from the side. They make a plan to find the answer at a fireworks display, while Nazuna schemes to run away with Norimichi or Yuusuke, whoever wins at the pool. (The Movie Database)

Hikari Tomonaga (Suzu Hirose) enrolls at Fukui Chuo High School, and joins its cheer dance club for the sole reason of cheering on a boy she has known from their junior high days. However, the club's coach, female teacher Kaoru Saotome (Yuki Amami), is a harsh and no-nonsense task master who suddenly declares: "Our aim is to become U.S. champions! No fringes or boyfriends allowed!" ... (imdb)

Hibiki is an awkward, 17-year-old high school sophomore who hasn't known romance. But she's about to fall in love for the very first time. With whom? A man who isn't great with words, but compassionate about his students. It's her history teacher, Mr. Ito. A teacher's heart begins to turn by a student's pure love. (imdb)

A top defense lawyer is tasked with defending a man who has confessed to murder, despite his past. The client keeps changing his confession, leading the lawyer on a complex investigation where the pursuit of truth clashes with the strategy required to secure a non-death sentence.

When Chihaya Ayase was in the 6th grade of elementary school, she met Arata Wataya. Taichi Mashima was Chihaya Ayase's friend since they were little. Arata got close to Chihaya and Taichi from the card game 'karuta'. Four years later, Chihaya is a high school student. Chihaya learns that Arata, who went back to Fukui Prefecture, doesn't play karuta anymore. Believing they will meet Arata again, Chihaya and Taichi start a karuta club at their high school. (imdb)

After an incredible win at the Tokyo karuta tournament--an intense traditional snap card game based on classic Japanese poetry-- Chihaya's team qualifies for the national championship. However, Chihaya is soon devastated when she learns that long-lost childhood best friend Arata has quit karuta, crushing her dream of reuniting at the national tournament. (japanesefilmfestival.net)

A grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities. (imdb)

Kosei Arima won numerous piano competitions while under the strict watch of his mother. He was known as the human metronome during that time. Since the death of his mother, Kosei Arima has been unable to hear the sound of his piano. Kosei Arima then meets Kaori Miyazono through childhood friend Tsubaki Sawabe. Kaori Miyazono plays the violin and has a free sprit. Since meeting her, Kosei Arima is able to face the piano again. Meanwhile, Kaori holds a secret. (Asianwiki)

A lost boy in Tokyo, Kyuta, slips into an alternate universe, where he is raised by a bear-man, Kumatetsu, who fights for a living. Kumatetsu trains Kyuta in the art of fighting over the years, but eventually Kyuta is thrust into a cataclysmic adventure which spans both worlds. (imdb)

Three adult sisters living in Kamakura meet their teenage half-sister at their estranged father's funeral. They invite her to move in, and the four women navigate shared memories, grief, and the quiet, enduring beauty of sisterhood as they learn what it means to be a family.