Movies

The love and friendships of high school students

A serial rapist's violent daily routine is disrupted when a disaffected young woman who shares his primal lifestyle begins living with him.

Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's...

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...

Kanako returns from the USA to a troubled mother who witnessed a man leaving a murder scene and is consequently under persistent threat. For the time...

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...

Ryuuzaki (Ryudo Uzaki), a former ace pitcher for a Yokohama pro baseball team, was forced into retirement after a yakuza-linked game-fixing scandal...

14-year-old Takuya lives in a rural town near mountains and rivers. His 29-year-old uncle Koji works as a graphic designer in urban Tokyo. Koji's...

Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a...

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Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo keeper, young Yoshida (Yasuhi Nakamura), who has...

A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of...

Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara (Kuranosuke...

Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes...

In this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with his life after college while competing with Kyoko's...

Kazuto Tobe, a salaryman at a top trading company, has lost his daughter and his relationship with his wife, Yoshimi, is strained. It is at this time...

In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an emergency...