8
Touch
IMDb: 8 2024 121 min
A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; Touch follows one man’s emotional journey to find his first love ...
7.2
The Long Excuse
IMDb: 7.2 2016 124 min
A recently widowed writer 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 ...
0
Ryuukou Kanbou
2021
The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paranoid about Saeko’s health, making her ...
6.8
Gonin
IMDb: 6.8 1995 109 min
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 ...
6.5
Four Days of Snow and Blood
IMDb: 6.5 1989 114 min
Based on the “2.26 Incident”, an attempted coup d’état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the ...
6.8
Gemini
IMDb: 6.8 1999 84 min
A successful doctor, Yukio’s picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his ...
6.6
Heat Wave
IMDb: 6.6 1991 106 min
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she’s grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling ...
8.2
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
IMDb: 8.2 2022 480 min
An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the ...
0
Headphone Lullaby
1983 100 min
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students. Release: Headphone Lullaby 1983 1080i HDTV AAC MPEG2 General: mkv | ...
5.4
Come On Girls!
IMDb: 5.4 1982 78 min
Three high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love. Release: Come on Girls 1982 1080i HDTV AAC MPEG2 General: mkv | ...
7
Dioxin from Fish!
IMDb: 7 1992 121 min
A black comedy about a former Rock’n’Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo. Release: Dioxin from Fish 1992 tt0310105 HDTV 1080i ...
6.9
Fancy Dance
IMDb: 6.9 1989 101 min
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic ...
7.2
Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t
IMDb: 7.2 1992 105 min
A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school’s sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must ...
7.0
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
IMDb: 7.0 1996 110 min
There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once ...
7.5
The Bird People in China
IMDb: 7.5 1998 118 min
Wada (Masahiro Motoki), a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada ...
6.3
Spy Sorge
IMDb: 6.3 2003 182 min
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the ...
6.9
The Longest Night In Shanghai
IMDb: 6.9 2007 110 min
A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramedy that twists traditional roles by ...
6.6
The Emperor in August
IMDb: 6.6 2015 136 min
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and ...
6.8
The Mystery of Rampo
IMDb: 6.8 1995 100 min
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 ...
8.1
Departures
IMDb: 8.1 2008 130 min
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking ...