Stars: Kirin Kiki, Nenji Kobayashi, Saito Yuki
Tachibana Rin, nicknamed Hankunma (in Fukushima dialect, older son), grew up in Soma, Fukushima. Rin and her mother, Yae, worked hard to earn money so that she could enter a prestigious school in Miyagi, where she would study English and learn special sciences. After marriage, Rin moves to Tokyo with his wife and family and eventually joins a newspaper and becomes one of the first Japanese newspaper reporters.
Stars: You, Haruko Katô, Susumu Terajima, Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki
The drama film is about children who visit their old parents on a summer day. Their parents have been living in their family home for decades. Their son and daughter bring their families with them to visit them...
Stars: Kengo Kôra, Lily Franky, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Mami Hashimoto
Osamu is an ordinary construction worker, but he actually earns his living by selling the goods he steals from stores with his son Shota. His wife, Nobuyo, works in a laundry and steals things left in customers' pockets. She is a very emotional woman who is very interested in their life together. Their teenage daughter, Aki, does her part to support the family by working in odd shows in the city. Their grandmother, Hatsu, is addicted to playing pachinko betting machines. On a cold day, when Osamu and Shota are returning home after robbing a store, they see a little girl shivering from the cold. Osamu decides to bring the homeless girl home for a few days. There are signs of violence on the child's body and he wets his bed at night. Old and evil Osamu's heart softens for this child and despite seeing the news of his disappearance on TV, he decides to keep Yuri forever and teach him the ways of thieving...
Stars: Yôko Maki, Jun Fubuki, Isao Natsuyagi, Jun Kunimura, Lily Franky
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman who only thinks about money. When he finds out that his son was switched with another child at birth, he has to make a big decision that will affect his life and that of his child and...
Stars: Ryohei Suzuki, Jun Fubuki, Masami Nagasawa, Lily Franky, Yûko Nakamura
The story is about three sisters who live in their grandmother's house when their 13-year-old half-sister arrives.
Stars: Mark Strong, Moises Arias, Luke Allen-Gale, Frank Marshall, Saoirse Ronan
A teenager named Shu, who is suffering from heart disease and is going to undergo surgery soon, is brought to their family bungalow to rest and strengthen his body and soul. In the very first moments of his arrival, he meets a little person who is a 14-year-old girl named Eriti. But people should not see the little people and...
Stars: Isao Hashizume, Masami Nagasawa, Hiroshi Abe, Yuri Nakamura, Ôshirô Maeda
The movie is about 12-year-old Koichi, who is separated from his brother Ryonsuke because of his parents' separation.
Stars: Mansaku Fuwa, Yoshi Katô, Teruo Matsuyama, Saburô Date, Kaoru Kobayashi
A traveling blind musician is abused while touring the country, even as the modern world claims that people's behavior has changed...
Stars: Yôko Maki, Isao Hashizume, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Satomi Kobayashi, Lily Franky
Ryota, who was a successful writer in the past, still lives in those days and squanders the income he earns from being a private detective on gambling to the extent that he can hardly even support his child...
Stars: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Etsuko Ichihara, Miki Mizuno, Kyara Uchida
The manager of the bakery stall finds himself with a strange old lady who is looking for work and...
Stars: Tôru Minegishi, Satomi Kobayashi, Toshie Negishi, Yumiko Fujita, Kumeko Urabe
Hiroki is a lonely high school student chasing a lovely girl, but a mysterious girl appears in his life. Does he make sacrifices and give up his love...
Stars: Tamae Andô, Noriko Sengoku, Kaoru Kobayashi, Ayumi Ito, Susumu Terajima
After leaving her alcoholic husband, Iko takes her son Masaya away from Tokyo and takes him to his hometown in a rural mining community in Kyushu. He entrusts him to sponsors to support him for a few years...
Stars: Kyôko Fukada, Yôko Maki, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Mayuko Fukuda, Anna Tsuchiya
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl with a passion for 18th century France, befriends a motorcyclist. The two have experienced the ups and downs of life in the rural areas of Japan and...
Stars: Rie Mimura, Takahiro Miura, Toshihiro Yashiba, Akio Nakadai, Aoi Miyazaki
Based on a biographical novel written by Inoue Yasushi, this film tells the story of fifteen years in a family that struggles with aging with abandonment, resentment, and decay. When the world turns, a boy who has problems with himself...
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Kirin Kiki, Toshinori Omi, Jô Shishido, Koji Yamanaka
9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.
Stars: Ken Watanabe, Takahiro Miura, Gô Ayano, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Mitsuki Takahata
A gruesome unsolved murder case connects three seemingly unrelated stories from three different Japanese cities.
Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Mansaku Ikeuchi, Suzuki Matsuo, Akira Emoto, Hikari Mitsushima
The murder of a young woman provokes reactions about the ugliness and degradation of modern society.
Stars: Akaji Maro, Isao Tamagawa, Kirin Kiki, Hatsuo Yamaya, Naoko Ôtani
Avchi, a German professor who is on vacation in a coastal village, meets his former colleague Nakazaku, who is wanted by the mafia. The police intervene, but Avchi prevents his friend from being arrested and...
Stars: Akaji Maro, Yô Ôizumi, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Hikari Mitsushima, Midoriko Kimura
The story of this movie is about Japanese women who seek refuge in other cities to escape the war and wait for their husbands...
Stars: Jun Kunimura, Ayako Yoshitani, Naoki Sugiura, Tomonori Yoshida, Takashi Sasano
Masaki Shibata Sinichi is a theater actor who murders a man and his wife. Masaki confesses the crime and alleges that the reason for it was that the woman, five months pregnant, had ...
