Sinopsis: Eureka begins violently as a crazed businessman hijacks a bus and shoots anyone who tries to make a run for it. The bus driver survives, along with two young kids, an older brother Naoki and a younger sister Kozu…
Category: Japan
Villain (2010) • Movie
Sinopsis: Shimizu Yuichi is a young man who takes care of his grandparents in a decaying fishing village in Nagasaki. His grandparents raised Yuichi instead of his mother. Yuichi, a lonely man, works as a civil employee. O…
Traces of Sin (2017) • Movie
Sinopsis: A year has gone by without any progress on the Tako family’s murder, in which an elite businessman, his beautiful and perfect wife, and adorable daughter were brutally killed. Weekly magazine journalist Tanaka gi…
Ase to Sekken (2022) • TVSeries
Sinopsis: Despite her timid nature, Asako Yaeshima has a passion for her work. A member of the accounting department at Lilia Drop, a toiletry and cosmetics company, Asako absolutely loves the company she works for, as its…
Liar Game: The Final Stage (2010) • Movie
Sinopsis: Even though being able to withdraw from the Liar Game Tournament, Kanzaki Nao decides to join Akiyama Shinichi and nine other players for the final stage, ”The Garden of Eden game”, which offers a 5 billion y…
A Scene at the Sea (1991) • Movie
Sinopsis: Born with a hearing impairment, Shigeru is a part timer working for the sanitation service. His girlfriend Takako has the same condition as well. On his usual pickup route, Shigeru finds a broken surf-board in a …
Sonatine (1993) • Movie
Sinopsis: Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with some henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa supposedly to mediate a dispute between their allies, the Nakamatsu clan, and the Anan cl…
Hana-bi (1997) • Movie
Sinopsis: Kitano plays Nishi, a violent and unpredictable police detective who quits the force after a terrible incident results in his partner, Horibe, needing to use a wheelchair. After his retirement he spends much of h…
Cold Fish (2011) • Movie
Sinopsis: Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a …
Lady Maiko (2014) • Movie
Sinopsis: Haruko Saigo faces various hardships as she attempts to become a full-fledged maiko (apprentice geisha) in a geisha district of Kyoto. Haruko, who was born in Kagoshima and raised in Tsugaru, struggles to learn t…
The Top Secret: Murder in Mind (2016) • Movie
Sinopsis: Set in the late 21st century, an MRI scanner is introduced at the National Research Institute of Police Science’s 9th Forensics Laboratory. The machine is able to scan the memories from even the deceased. As ethi…
Paradise Kiss (2011) • Movie
Sinopsis: Yukari Hayasaka is a high school student who has become tired of her life of constant schooling. She then comes across a group of student fashion designers in need of a model for their “Paradise Kiss” clothing la…
Assassination Classroom: Graduation (2016) • Movie
Sinopsis: Story continues with the students’ own conflicts, Koro Sensei’s identity and the fate of the world. The time limit for assassination is approaching. Edit Translation…
After Life (1999) • Movie
Sinopsis: Set in a purgatory limbo that looks an awful lot like an old brick school on a perfect autumn day. Guides assist the newly dead in selecting their most treasured memory, the one they will take with them to eterni…
Mellow (2020) • Movie
Sinopsis: Natsume Seiichi runs a flower shop. He is single and has peaceful days working with flowers, which he enjoys. Meanwhile, Kiho runs a ramen restaurant near the flower shop. The ramen restaurant was left to her fro…
And so the Baton Is Passed (2021) • Movie
Sinopsis: Yuko is a high school student and she lives with her stepfather Morimiya. Morimiya is her third father. Her mother, Rika is a free spirited person and has remarried several times. She disappeared from Yuko’s life…
Masquerade Night (2021) • Movie
Sinopsis: An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at the countdown party Masquerade Night that will be held at Hotel Cort…
Zokki (2021) • Movie
Sinopsis: A comedy based on Hiroyuki Ohashi’s manga “ZOKKI A” and “ZOKKI B”, co-directed by Naoto Takenaka, Takayaki Yamada, and Takumi Saitoh, who are among Japan’s leading actors and creators. (Source: TIFF) Edit Tra…
It’s a Summer Film (2021) • Movie
Sinopsis: From Naoyuki Miura of the theater troup Lolo and visual director Soushi Matsumoto. A SF coming-of-age film about three highschool girls obsessed with Japanese period drama, a mysterious boy, and a group of friend…
Love Letter (1995) • Movie
Sinopsis: Watanabe Hiroko’s fiancé Itsuki died two years earlier in a mountain climbing accident. While looking through his high school yearbook, Hiroko in a fit of grief decides to write a letter to him using his old sch…
Brother’s Friend (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Nanase Mai is Yukihiro’s younger sister. She is a naive high school student who one day overhears her brother’s friend, Nishino Sota, saying “Your sister is cute.” They then start a relationship, however, Sota’s …
Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World (2004) • Movie
Sinopsis: Ritsuko discovers an old cassette tape, while packing her things to move into a new apartment. She listens to the tape and hears the voice of a frail girl saying “I’m so afraid of tomorrow that I can’t fall aslee…
3D Kanojo: Real Girl (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Hikari Tsutsui is a quiet, unassuming high school student who for sakes the company of his classmates to spend his time reading manga, playing video games, and watching anime. Hikari is perfectly content to dwell…
Norwegian Wood (2010) • Movie
Sinopsis: Set in the 1960’s, high school student Watanabe Toru loses his only friend Kizuki after he commits suicide. Toru, now looking for a new life, enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, Toru meets Kizuki’s ex-girlfr…
Call Boy (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Morinaka Ryo is a bored university student who tends to bar. His friend Tajima Shinya, introduces him to Mido Shizuka, the owner of a members-only host club, who soon recruits him. At first, Ryo dismisses the wo…
Rent-a-Cat (2012) • Movie
Sinopsis: An odd woman named Sayoko rents cats to lonely people. Some of the renters include an old woman who lost her husband and her cat, a middle-aged man who moved away from his family for work, a woman at a reception …
DTC Yukemuri Junjo-hen from HiGH&LOW (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Dan, Tettsu and Chiharu (DTC) were exhausted after all those exciting days. Yet what awaits them is an extremely boring life. In order to seek for excitement and youth (and girls), the trio goes on a motorcycle t…