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Three sisters—Sachi, Yoshino and Chika—live together in a large house in Kamakura. When their father—absent from the family home for the last 15 years—dies, they travel to the countryside for his f...
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan Now
Kazoku wa Tsuraiyo (original title)
20 years since "Tora-san" series, Yoji Yamada has created a long-awaited comedy! Isao Hashizume and Kazuko Yoshiyuki of Tokyo Family play a mature couple on the brink of divorce in a perfect...
Director: Yoji Yamada
Japan Now
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Ryosuke Hashiguchi of All Around Us and Hush! sensitively portrays three dissatisfied people—a man who lost his wife in a random killing, an ordinary housewife and a gay lawyer—with s...
Director: Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Japan Now
The untold story of O-Ei, Master Hokusai's daughter: a lively portrayal of a free-spirited, utterly outspoken and hugely talented woman and artist, unfolding through the changing seasons. "We're fa...
Director: Keiichi Hara
Japan Now
The last diary of Osamu Tezuka, known as "God of Comics", has been crafted into an original movie. Yojiro Noda, the frontman for the popular talented rock band "RADWIMPS", is playing the lead in th...
Director: Daishi Matsunaga
Japan Now
An adaptation of Shohei Ooka’s novel that depicts itinerant Japanese soldiers in the Philippines during the final phase of World War II from the viewpoint of a single private, and stresses the horr...
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Japan Now
Latest work after three years by Mamoru Hosoda, one of the hottest animation directors with each of his works regarded as a masterpiece. Evolving around an unusual mentoring relationship between a ...
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Japan Now
Movie star Rengo commits suicide and it is his childhood friend Daiki who discovers the body. The grieving Daiki makes a copy of his suicide note and soon afterward announces that he will write a b...
Director: Isao Yukisada
Japan Now
Shigeo (29), an underdog who gets beaten into amnesia, goes through a desperate struggle to remember his own identity with the help of a lone teenager Kasumi (17) who lives with her demented grandf...
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita
Japan Now
Ryoichi Suzuki works for a company. A failed rock musician, his life is frustrating and miserable. He likes a colleague, Yuko, but he is too timid to talk to her. One day Ryoichi finds a little pet...
Director: Sion Sono
Japan Now
Since finding elderly men with some problems and meaning habits, Sawa, a helper does housework and care work for them, and enters into their life lightly. The elderly men who lost whereabouts in so...
Director: Momoko Ando
Japan Now
Since his lover was killed by yakuza, Tatsuo has feared his own life and being forced to live as a fugitive. He meets a taxi driver named Kazumasa, and their journey begins. Tatsuo, a victim of unj...
Director: Masato Harada
Japan Now
On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes and 520 passengers are killed. The local press reporters are tossed about by waves of facts and speculation. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accide...
Director: Masato Harada
Japan Now
Based on an autobiographical novel by a literary giant of the Showa era, Yasushi Inoue. This is Harada's first family drama, in the lineage of Yasujiro Ozu and Ingmar Bergman, two of the great mast...
Director: Masato Harada
Japan Now
KAKEKOMI
Set in 1841. Jogo, a blacksmith wanting a divorce, and O-Gin, a concubine of a wealthy merchant flee to Tokei-ji temple. Entwined in the story is a trainee doctor and wanna-be playwright Shinjiro, ...
Director: Masato Harada
Japan Now
Toward the end of the Pacific War, the Allies demand that Japan accept the Potsdam Declaration. The cabinet debates round-the-clock whether to keep fighting or to surrender. While the tactical situ...
Director: Masato Harada
Japan Now
