Takashi Naitô

From the legendary director Hayao Miyazaki ("Princess Mononoke") (Studio Ghibli), this film follows the fanciful adventures of a ten-year-old girl named Chihiro, who discovers a secret world when she and her family get lost and venture through a hillside tunnel.

A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant... (imdb)

After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity... (imdb)

A young man named Teru, mentally altered by a childhood injury, runs a laundry and falls for Mizue, a lonely young woman with internal scars. (imdb)

Young boy Amon has mysterious powers. His dad is the chief scientist for the Empire of the Golden Snake. He's invented weapons for this country in the past, but does not want his boy's powers to be used for destruction, so he tries to escape the country with his family. The mom and dad die in the escape and only Amon is left. Amon then ends up in a fishermen's village and makes friends with Maria. After this village is attacked by the Golden Snake army, the two run away with a band of rebels. (animenewsnetwork.com.au/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2120)

A young couple confronts their past alone in their apartment.

A woman (Takako Tokiwa) risks her life to exact revenge for her murdered lover. (Asian Media Wiki)

Following in his father's footsteps, anime director Goro Miyazaki sets his story of young love and student protest against the period of Japanese modernization and revitalization ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. With charm and tragedy, Miyazaki takes a nostalgic look back at a time when the preservation of the past clashed with progress for the future. (tiff.net)

Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in the 19th Japan where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, an Kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not right as mysterious marks appear on her body as time progresses. At the same time, it is announced that Ashura, the queen of all demons, will be resurrected and bring destruction to the universe. (Written by Ploy P. (imdb)

Grandma is a nasty and maipulative thing most of the time, causing endless trouble for her son-in-law and daughter, her grandchildren, and her neighbours.

Ryo once rode with a biker gang; ever since his friend Tetsuji died riding in September, he's retired from biking, trying to forget the past. (The Movie Database)

Miyako, a working girl, checks into a psychiatric clinic, gradually revealing her rare situation to Kazuhiko. (The Movie Database)

The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a beauty obsessed by UFOs. (The Movie Database)

A story about a female detective that sacrifices her baby in order to solve the case. (ADC)

Koki Hirota was the only civilian hanged as a Class A war criminal by the Tokyo Tribunal after World War II. His execution remains controversial and this drama makes the case that he always worked for peace. He did not defend himself against the capital charge because he failed to stop the aggression of the Imperial Army.

At very end 1999, Atsushi Horigami, 22, has heart failure & dies. Instantly, he awakens in his own room - in 1995! He's 18 with all memories up until his "death" in 1999 intact. Trapped in a never-ending loop, Atsushi is forced to re-live the same four-year period over & over but things can & do vary, by his own actions and randomly. Meets two others in same fix, one of whom has decided to take advantage of his knowledge of the future without any scruple, worse he is a clever sod. (imdb)

Gritty softcore thriller about a female assassin brutally victimized in her past and her target, who turns out to be her long lost lover. Can they escape their world of violence before her handler, a sadistic yakuza, catches up with them?

Kono Takeshi has given up work as an electrician to run a gift shop business with his partner/mistress Rieko, who's a couple of years older than him. When the company faces bankruptcy Kono wants to quit, but Rieko strings him along with the promise of a large cash investment, the proceeds of a real-estate deal. Her actual plan to raise the money is to kidnap a young woman and demand a ransom for her release. The trouble is, that it never occurs to her to keep the victim alive before trying ...

Four young high school students who dream of being in a rock band must deal with the unexpected deaths of their friends while making concert decisions.

Late for a meeting, Kotoko was running along the corridor in school and bumped into Naoki, their lips meeting. Naoki showed his disgust, but Kotoko started to idolize him, who was good at everything from studies to sports. When Kotoko's house burned down, her father's good friend Machiko invited them to move in with her family. It was then that Kotoko realized Naoki w...

After serving time for bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a quiet life as a taxi driver working night shifts... but her peace is shattered by a relentless stalker in a Land Cruiser.

Osome is a geisha and spy in the Tokugawa period. When she was very young she lost her family to a terrible fire and continues to search for her surviving brother. Along her journey, she discovers much of her family history and gains new friends.

Maya Akutsu, a new teacher who strives for perfection and punishes students in unorthodox manners. A 12-year-old Kazumi has been able to withstand her strange punishments so far but the other 23 students begin to fold under the pressure. (imdb)

A gang of thieves plot to rob a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threaten to put the plan in jeopardy. (imdb)