Wakaba Irie

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

Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki’s sixth decade behind the camera, “A Boy’s Summer in 1945” ...

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, ...

Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he ...

A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating ...

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears “Pipeline” by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With ...

A human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter over her marriage and humorous depictions of the ...

Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. ...

A young woman moves in with her estranged father after her mother passes away.

Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named ...

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from ...

Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and ...

The son of wandering actors, also a budding actor, little Akira is forced to change school often and, after having attended thirty-two different ...

Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his ...

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled “island closest to heaven” that her late father had told her about.

Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is “a nice man like a doll.” On top of that, he is a ...

After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.

A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, ...

Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she ...

9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and ...

Second live action “Barefoot Gen” sequel.