Takehiro Murata

Kawai Joji, an aspiring screenwriter who has won a screenplay competition but has yet to make his professional debut, meets a beautiful woman, ...

The day before his exhibition, world-renowned painter Tamura discovers that his own work contains a forgery. Meanwhile, the body of a woman with ...

Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in ...

19-year-old freeter (a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding ...

Yoko and Hanayo fell in love while working together as manga artist at their university newspaper. The intensity of their affair was such that ...

Miki, a nursing care robot, is popular among some medical staff and patients for her dainty and efficient work, but others are more skeptical. ...

Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which ...

It is the second work of the Oita trilogy of Obayashi . Following ” Nigori Snow “, Ise Masazo draws a song written by composers and ...

Misaki visits her boyfriend Koichi in Okinawa, the southern island of Japan. To welcome the arrival of Misaki, Koichi’s friend Jinsei holds ...

Biopic of painter Tanaka Isson

Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage have all met with failure. Through a friend, ...

Kitahara Kazunori was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma in the fall of his second year in high school, and thereafter spent a year and 10 ...

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation ...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small ...

In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as ...

Hama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but Su-san remains in low spirits over business matters.

An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters ...

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his ...

A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.

Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo as a family man who fought ...

Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murder she witnessed. Under the watch ...

The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to ...

A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. Though his family, friends, and ...

Mothra’s dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their ...

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so ...

A thrilling and entertaining piece in which Jirokichi, portrayed by Morio Kazama, tackles a major event involving an attempt to assassinate the ...