Shinobu Ōtake

Young Mary follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest and discovers an old broomstick and a strange flower. Mary finds herself at Endor ...

Thrown together by chance during the robbery of a jewelry store by a Yakuza gang, five women take advantage of the situation to make off with the ...

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke’s infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate ...

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II ...

Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man. Release: ...

Sugihara, born in Japan but with North Korean parents, falls in love with a Japanese girl after changing from a North Korean school to a Japanese ...

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old ...

Kobayashi Hironoshin is a samurai in the fiefdom of Nagaoka. Unfortunately for him and the area’s fleas he displeases the local lord who ...

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims’ families. Release: Oh My Son 1979 JAPANESE ENSUBBED ...

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family. Release: Children of Nagasaki 1983 ...

Matsuoi (Hiroshi Abe) and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have ...

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a ...

The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga’s (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during ...

Asuka Sakura wakes up in the mental asylums quiet room, with no recollection of how she got there. Release: Quiet room ni yokoso 2007 tt0997174 ...

Hiroshi is an art school graduate who abandoned his dream as an artist to work as a window cleaner. When he realizes he has only three months ...

This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the ...

Junior high school student Yuna lives with her father Toshiharu. Her mother Akemi moved to Naha when her older sister entered high school, and ...

A predatory middle-aged woman and her partner prey upon aging older men of a certain wealth. The idea is as old as the history of mankind itself: ...

Adapted from the manga Hell Dogs by Fukamachi Akio.

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya ...