Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Yuriko Ishida, Toshie Negishi, Hiroshi Katsuno, Hitoshi Ômae
1965. A high school student surrounded by the wonderful voice of his friend Yasfumi and together with his three friends form their own music group.
Stars: Riki Takeuchi, Tôru Minegishi, Toshie Negishi, Genki Yoshimura, Akira Ôizumi
Summer 1937 Japan begins a war with China. Militaristic moods are growing in the country. A group of Japanese schoolchildren do not understand the militaristic hysteria of adults.
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: Hiroyuki Nagato, Kaori Momoi, Daigo Kusano, Taiji Tonoyama, Moeko Ezawa
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film describes the daily life of people one day before that fateful event, their feelings of happiness and sadness. For them, tomorrow never comes...
Stars: Riki Takeuchi, Tôru Minegishi, Ishirô Honda, Yôji Matsuda, Kazue Tsunogae
Harada is known as a successful and famous screenwriter. The story becomes interesting because his best friend decides to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Harada has a hard time digesting such a matter, and because of his failure in life as a husband and father, he decides to...
Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Mitsuo Asano, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Kusuo Abe
The film begins when the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is still called Shinmen Takezu. After being on the losing side of the Battle of Sikigahara, Takezo and his friend manage to escape and encounter a young woman and her mother.
Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Yumiko Fujita, Hikari Ishida, Hitoshi Ômae
A story based on the life of two sisters, one is suppressed and ignored and the other is a perfect girl. After the death of Mamel's daughter, a spirit comes to her sister in awe and guides her on her way...
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: Tokio Emoto, Hirona Yamazaki, Toshie Negishi, Kayoko Shiraishi, Takako Tokiwa
Fulfilling his forty-year filmmaking dream, Nobuhiko Obayashi's brilliant new film Hanagatami presents a timeless tale of youthful purity surrounded by the chaos of war.
Stars: Seizaburô Kawazu, Isao Kimura, Kyôichi Satô, Keiko Awaji, Tetsurô Tanba
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while on a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking on a new identity as a gorge maker, he searches for a stolen jar that has hidden significance for his tribe. But the gorge builder has his own reasons for looking for the jar...
Stars: Tôru Minegishi, Satomi Kobayashi, Toshie Negishi, Takako Irie, Toshinori Omi
After reading a newspaper article about a town being destroyed in a fire, Eguchi begins to recall the summer he spent there writing his thesis. Its a beautiful canal town, the Venice of Japan. As he arrives, he is greeted by the daughter of the Kaibara household, Yasuko. The rest of her family seems mysteriously absent. On his first night, Eguchi hears the stifled ... Read all
Stars: Kyûsaku Shimada, Renji Ishibashi, Ayumi Ito, Hitomi Kuroki, Toshie Negishi
The film tells the story of Sada Abe, who became famous after strangling his lover and cutting off her penis in 1936.
Stars: Toshie Negishi, Takako Irie, Toshinori Omi, Ken Uehara, Ittoku Kishibe
A high school girl gains the ability to travel through time...
Stars: Tôru Minegishi, Hideo Murota, Nobuko Otowa, Kayo Matsuo, Yukihiro Takahashi
A high school girl travels to the island of New Caledonia and experiences magical adventures.
Stars: Tôru Minegishi, Muga Takewaki, Yumiko Fujita, Ichirôta Miyakawa, Jûkichi Uno
Four half-sisters bond closely in the murky times of post-war Japan.
Stars: Reiko Kataoka, Tarô Ishida, Kôta Kusano, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Kôji Satô
The story of two young men named Tatsuro and Shin and their two female friends.
