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

The vocalist of a broken up band tries to get the group back together.

Having failed to get into graduate school, with no girlfriend, no money, and no prospects of success with his band, Tsurugi's life has reached rock...

The purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku...

Rinka Umezawa is a housewife who pursues things that will bring her small happiness in life. Her husband Masabumi holds a stern belief that he will...

A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and give...

A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what...

Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.

A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.

The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble...

A small, lone Kappa miraculously survives over 200 years into modern day Japan, when he is found by young Koichi. Coo, who is secretly adopted by...

A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramedy that twists traditional roles by...

One day, an angel materializes before Kato's eyes. While the angel seems like an average girl with a passion for gin and lime, she sports a pair of...

Set in the 1960's, Joe Yabuki lives in a run-down low income area. There, alcoholic ex-boxer Danpei Tange notices Joe Yabuki's talents as a boxer....

Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they...

A Japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name.

Miyata lost his wife early on and single-handedly raised their two children. One day he notices a change in his physical condition, and decides that...

Ishino Teiichiro (Tanihara Shosuke) married his wife Sachiko (Nishida Naomi) and took over her family’s clinic in Kanazawa. Although he is a...

Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash...

Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is...

Mikuri and Hiramasa both work and share housework duties. They have peaceful days together. One day, Mikuri learns that she is pregnant. They decide...

Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence...

Sayaka Miyamoto (Nao Matsushita) and Keita Fukushima (Terunosuke Takezai) attend the same university and believe their love for each other will never...

Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in...

Ayaka Ichijo is a graduate student with an IQ of 200 who tries to investigate the strange deaths happening nationwide after people supposedly watched...

A new salesman named Kosuke Okuda happens to meet Mao Watarai, a friend from his middle school days. Back then, Mao was called stupid and bullied,...

Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako's ferry arrives, it is also carrying...

Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company...

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his...

Minato studies piano at a music academy. One day, he falls head over heels in love with fellow student Yukino, who harbors a tragic secret that will...

Chigusa and Yuuto always spent time together as children. They enter high school at the same time and happen to be put into the same class. Yuuto's...

The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or the...

During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.

Six high schoolers stuck in a murderous time loop must find the scattered remains of an unknown victim to break the curse and finally see another day.

Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.

When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.

Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her internatioanl family who live in Okinawa. They live in a run down...

Miyuki is a single mother with a 10-year old boy Keiji. She is eager to make him a child model. Eventually, Keiji begins to get jobs rather...

Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows and the mushrooms he picks in the hills. His...

In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break free from a cruel fate tying him to the very...

Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an...

When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the...

A film about love and winter sports.

High schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him, a model and the girl who loves him unreasonably.

Set in the year 2019 in Japan. In order to crack down on free expression, a new law is passed, which allows for the government to create an armed...

Set 18 months after movie "Library Wars." After the government's enactment of the Media Betterment Act, battles wage between the Betterment Squads...

Third installment of the "Gakko No Kaidan" series follows the trek of several elementary school students as they wander into an alternate world that...

Azusa and Kanami have been best friends since high school. After Kanami dies in an unexpected accident, Azusa despairs yet finds comfort in sending...

Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by lectures about French writer Sophie Calle and begins to...

Iku (Nana Eikura) joined the Library Defense Force after a member from that team retrieved an important book that was targeted for censorship. She is...

A mysterious world of images of an old, almost forgotten barbershop in the middle of the city, with its owner who is just “waiting” for...

The mayor of Oita wants to improve the image of his city, so he instructs Chiaki - a young woman working for the city's PR department - to form a...

A detective in Toyama is forced to confront his painful past when he takes on a murder case involving his two estranged childhood friends.

Sequel to the 1995 film Haunted School aka Gakkou no Kaidan. Similar to the first, in that it's about a group of youngsters that get stuck in a...

Fifteen-year-old country girl Suzume Yosano has to move to Tokyo to live with her uncle due to her father's transfer. She bumps into a mysterious man...

A man’s body is found in the suburbs of Tokyo. The dead man was hit by a car and his head beaten by the reckless driver after the accident. The...

One day, five kindergarten children suddenly disappear from a kindergarten in Tokyo, sending their teachers and parents into a panic. The five of...

A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the...

Three friends who will soon graduate from high school decide to take one last trip together.

For Yasuko every day is a challenge. Due to her mental illness and hypersomnia, simple things like household chores and holding a job seem...

LOVERS' KISS (ラヴァーズ・キス?) is a 2003 Japanese romance movie based on a manga by Akimi Yoshida. This is a youth movie of six teenagers...

Masaru and Yukiko have been married 44 years. They have three children who live independently from them. Masaru and Yukiko enjoy their peaceful days,...

Mirai Takatsuki is a seemingly normal teenager, but when he was a child his life was saved from a terrible illness thanks to magnanimous donations...

After a man gets fired from his work at a printing plant, he moves with his couple to her hometown in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. There, the woman...

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's...

Three engineers cannot make a robot work in time for a science show, and hire a man to inhabit the robot's shell to save their jobs. The robot's...

It is the job of the press to cover corporate crime, government plots and society. It is in this context that young female reporter on the beat Erika...

In this contemporary documentary, the cast and the crew share their experiences of making the film.

Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda.

A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A...

Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of...

Taishi lives with his father Kazushi. His mother left home when Taishi was very young and he barely has any memories of her. He believes that his...

Shuta (Sota Fukushi), Saku (Shuhei Nomura) and Michiru (Tsubasa Honda) have been best friends since they were kids. Tragedy strikes the friends when...

It's the year 2023. The development of artificial intelligence has come a long way in recent years. When a policeman gets seriously injured and won't...

A closed-room mystery where five women gathered in memory of a mysteriously dead female writer to unravel the mystery behind her death. Based on the...

Haruko is a single mother. She has an unusual living arrangement. She lives with her son Riku, her friend Aiko and Aiko's boyfriend Sorao. One day,...

On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press...

One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.

A 7 years girl is found dead in the local park’s toilet. Kaga Kyouichiro, who was asked to find the girl, and his cousin Matsumiya Shuhei...

High school student, Yo, lived with her father, Nao, after her mother, Sachiyo, left the family when she was very young. However, their life together...

Made under the restrictions of "no zoom, pan, editing or post-sound", directors Shinobu Yaguchi and Takuji Suzuki skewer Japanese social conventions...

The story centers on Kakeru Nishizawa and Mami Sakaniwa, two people who find each other through a dating app, and decide soon after to get engaged....

A story about an ordinary family accidentally getting involved in the art world！

Short film by Takuji Suzuki.

Kaburagi was arrested as a suspect in a brutal murder case, but he escapes. He continues to hide and move all around Japan. During this time, he...

Stand Up!! is a Japanese television drama which ran weekly for three months in 2003. The drama, which stars Kazunari Ninomiya of Arashi and Tomohisa...

About a lady and her cat. The lady's cat dies and she loses all inspiration to continue living, and doing her work from home job. One day when forced...

Michi, a 26 year old high school math teacher, tentatively accepts her boyfriend’s proposal of marriage, uncertain of her love for him but...

Nishimura Toshiro works at a production company as a drama director. He has been having a hectic time, discussing the script for an ongoing drama...

Water Boys is a Japanese television drama series aired in Japan on Fuji Television in 2003. There is a fairly large cast due to the amount of members...

Ruri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless abandonment. When Nakama Yuzo, a kind man but for a...

Kiyomi Koike is a 16-year-old girl. She has all these different emotions intertwined in her mind. One day, she suddenly blurts out "What is a woman?"...

The "Lion's House" is the name of a hospice located on a beautiful island. The people who live there are people with a short life expectancy....

Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are...

29-year-old Natsuki bumps into 25-year-old Sôichirô while on vacation in Hokkaido. Back in Tokyo, Natsuki discovers Sôichirô...

Mr. (Tamura) and Mrs. (Kuroki) Yamaguchi are an old-fashioned middle-aged couple with two children about to become independent. As they prepare for...

The protagonist is a 41-year-old divorced lawyer. 13 years ago, his wife's infidelity led him to abandon his then 5-year-old daughter and leave home....

Kaede is good at heart and finds it difficult to refuse favors asked of her. And then she's got no sense of direction. On her travels, due to the...

Someone has been stealing money within the company and the fingers are pointing to seven beautiful secretaries. Each who look so pure (well some of...

When their mother falls ill, two sisters are faced not only with her extended care, but with the romances that spring from this change in situation....

Yukiko (Wakui Emi) has been living in Tokyo for three years. Inside her heart, she believes that this beautiful city will certainly bring her...

Akemi's marriage was the kind that no one could complain about. Akemi had perfect kids and a great husband. Everyone was happy. Until her husband,...

An incident in the past causes Ogata Kouhei (Tanabe Seiichi) to resign his position and leave the country in shame. Now, at the hotel's 30th...

A striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Zaizen Goro, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary physician Satomi...

Due to her husband's work, Maiko moves with her husband to Tokyo from Hiroshima. They live in an apartment offered by her husband's company. Her...

On Christmas morning, Fujino Ryoko finds her classmate Kashiwagi Takuya’s dead body at their snow covered school. The police and the school...

Come Come Everybody is a Japanese television drama series and the 105th NHK Asadora series, following Okaeri Mone.. It depicts the lives of three...

What happens with two children commit two different muders in order to protect each other? Does salvation exist for them? In order to walk beneath...

Massan is based on the lives of Masataka Taketsuru and his wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowan, a Scotswoman Taketsuru met while studying abroad.

Kureno Masora is a young doctor who was working happily at a large hospital in Tokyo. However, she found out that she has an illness and decided to...

With the progress made in forensic science, the number of cases of arrested criminals proven innocent because of new DNA tests have been increasing....

About two people who are aromantic and asexual and begin living together. Sakiko finds it difficult to live in a society which operates under the...

Through the introduction of his friend Danma Ryuji, Onizuka Eikichi, the former legendary bike gang member, visits Meishu Academy to tend to the...

An incident is talked about all over Japan. The case involves the Doizaki couple that killed their 15-year-old daughter and hid her body under their...

A short drama in which a slightly complicated family of four talks around the table.

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments...

The story features two people who experience their first love late in life. Maruya Kosuke is a 29-year-old employee in the sales department of his...

Three teenagers attempt to commit suicide and fail. When they wake up in the hospital, they learn they have acquired mysterious superpowers. These...

Yamamoto Ikuko, a full-time mother of two and housewife wants to divorce her husband but is unable to do so due to lack of finances and low...

Hiroshi Kataoka works at a bank. He receives a promotion to manager of the Kamata branch. He is also informed that the Kamata branch will be shut...

A popular manga about a corporate auditor of a major bank is adapted for the screen starring Yuji Oda, one of Japan's favorite actors. With a strong...

In the year 202X, Japan feels a deep sense of stagnation and has been branded by the world as a country on the decline. Wanting to break free of this...

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the...

Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during his lifetime, some of which are included in textbooks...

There are four episodes based on short stories by mystery novelist Yokoyama Hideo. Each episode depicts a stand-alone murder mystery.

Satake Junko is arrested as a suspect in a series of suspicious deaths. The murders of five men she allegedly killed are all over television talk...

Masashi is a 5th grade student in elementary school. His family consists of his father Masato , his mother Kiyoko, younger brother Shigeri, younger...

Labor Standards Inspectors... are you aware of their existence? For the sake of the 52 million actively employed people across the nation, the...

This drama follows the staff of an Italian restaurant and their everyday struggles. “Roccabianca” is a famous and popular Italian...

Hiyori Makino is a rookie detective who is passionate about her work. One day, a video clip depicting a person being burned alive, is posted on the...

The hosts explore different neighborhoods and izakayas, discussing various snacks and drinks. They share interesting trivia about the food and...

The story follows the extremely busy office worker Takuya and his childhood friend Manzu .One day, they meet a girl named Mae whose father owns an...

Miwa, Motoaki, Ritsu, Aoi, and Satoru have lived at the same apartment complex for years and they are childhood friends. When they were younger, they...

“IS” stands for “intersexual,” a term referring to people who cannot clearly be classified as male or female, and who may...

Nayuta is a young genius video game developer who works independently. His anonymity had gained him the moniker “the Banksy of video...

Shitara, a man who fell from his elite life overnight. His new "place of employment", which has lost his job, house, and wife, is a boarding house?!...

Hit hard by the Lehman shock, a well-meaning young man joins a phone scam operation and gets increasingly embroiled in the underworld.

Haruyuki Kuranaga, a city hall officer, is a man who lives a stressful life. He is irritated by being between his boss and subordinate, unreasonable...

Due to his hearing disability, Sugihara Kohei is often misunderstood and has trouble integrating into life on campus; as such, he keeps his distance....

Toko runs a small restaurant named Snack Kizutsuki, (Snack Bar of wounds). Her restaurant serves snacks, but doesn't sell alcohol. She welcomes her...

Miyata Ayaka (Renbutsu Misako), an office worker, sees her world collapse around her when her mother Miyata Harumi (Kikuchi Momoko) collapses due to...

Isao Komori is a college dropout who spends his days cooped up in his apartment playing video games. The highlight of his day is visiting a...

Hanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day, Hanzawa makes a loan contract for 500 million yen...

Masuda Suzu is a researcher at a health food company who has excellent observation skills and loves the 2D world (manga, anime, and video games). She...

A love story depicting the connection between parents and their children in various forms.

Ichinose Kei has just moved to Tokyo Head Office of Yayoi Beer. He was struggling at work, love, and also cuteness but have no choice other than to...

This heartwarming family drama centers around people at various crossroads of life, like reconsidering ambitions and professions, getting married, or...