Takatoshi Kaneko

Typical mother, Noguchi Satsuki, spends her days trying to balance her life as a wife to her hard-working husband Kazuhiko and mother to their only son Tomoya, a seemingly withdrawn fifth-grader with whom Satsuki struggles to communicate. Seiko and Ozawa Hideaki, living in the same neighborhood as the Noguchi family, are raising a rebellious junior high school daughter, Mihoko, and their first son, Kiyotaka, a second-grader who is showered with much love and affection by his mother.

The movie portrays the 26 years life story of Lee Soo-hyeon, who gave his life to save an inebriated Japanese man from the tracks of the Japanese subway in 2001. (imdb)

A cheerful, self-reliant young girl named Ai begins a new life in an idyllic woodland village, and learns valuable life lessons about dreams and friendship from its eccentric animal inhabitants. (imdb)

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is AZUMI, the ultimate assassin. (imdb)

In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the competition, in spite of the mockeries of the "real sportsmen". (imdb)