Sinopsis: Middle school teacher Moriguchi Yoko’s life comes crashing down after the murder of her 4-year-old daughter. Eventually, Yoko suspects some of her own students to have been responsible for her daughter’s death. S…
Category: Japan
Another (2012) • Movie
Sinopsis: Sakakibara Koichi a 15-year-old boy who’s forced to move to a suburban town in the mountains to live with his grandparents in the spring of 1998. One day he suffers a seizure brought on by a chronic lung condit…
Asako I & II (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Asako is a 21-year-old woman living in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, who has a free spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo, and she meets Ryouhei. He looks jus…
Hula Girls (2006) • Movie
Sinopsis: Hula Girl is a true story set in the 60s. Stricken by the recession due to the adoption of oil as a primary energy resource, the charcoal mine of Joban, in Iwaki city, decides to relay on tourism and to use the h…
Beyond the Memories (2013) • Movie
Sinopsis: Kanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a car accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Kanna …
Solomon’s Perjury 2: Judgment (2015) • Movie
Solomon’s Perjury 1: Suspicion (2015) • Movie
Sinopsis: On Christmas morning, a 14-year-old boy falls from the top of a school building. The police announce the boy’s death as a suicide and his parents are in agreement with the report. Rumors though quickly spread abo…
Audition (1999) • Movie
Sinopsis: TV producer Aoyama Shigeharu is a middle-class man. Shigehiko is his teenage son. His friend, movie producer Yoshikawa, has the perfect palliative for Aoyoma’s loneliness: test out a number of possible new wives …
A Girl Missing (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Ichiko works as a home health nurse. She visits a family where she has become almost a part of their family. Ichiko helps Motoko from that family study to become a nurse. Ichiko is the only person to whom Motoko …
Madam (1957) • Movie
009-1: The End of the Beginning (2013) • Movie
Sinopsis: In the near future, the world becomes divided between the Western and Eastern blocks. Mylene is a spy from the Western block. She sneaks into J country, which is a border area between the two areas and carries ou…
It Stopped Raining (2020) • Movie
Sinopsis: Yukisuke, a young, leggy bio-archeologist, gets to know Koyomi, a young land, selling Taiyaki on the street, similar to Korean fish-shaped bun. He is fascinated by her and visits her stall often. The two talk tog…
The Twilight Samurai (2002) • Movie
Sinopsis: At the start of the film, the main character, Iguchi Seibei, becomes a widower when his wife succumbs to tuberculosis. His wife receives a grand funeral, more than what a low-ranking samurai such as Seibei could …
Bow Then Kiss (2017) • Movie
Sinopsis: Since middle school, An has been devoted to archery for six years. However, the last tournament of high school is ending without those results being preserved. Despite having mixed feelings, An has decided to ret…
Suspect X (2008) • Movie
Sinopsis: A male body is discovered. He is strangled to death where his face pulverized beyond recognition and fingers burned to a crisp. Utsumi Kaoru is assigned to the case. The police face great difficulty in cracking t…
Rainbow Days (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Natchan, Mattsun, Tsuyopon, and Keichan are inseparable high school buddies despite having completely different personalities and interests. Their good times at school undergo a change when Natchan, a latecomer t…
Today’s Kira-kun (2017) • Movie
Sinopsis: A love story nurtured by a high school girl named Okamura Ninon who fell in love with the handsome boy, Kira Yuiji. Having been bullied in the past, Ninon finds it difficult to engage with other people, therefor…
Close Range Love (2014) • Movie
Sinopsis: Kururugi Yuni is a smart high school student. She excels in all subjects except for English. A new English teacher begins work at Yuni’s high school. His name is Sakurai Haruka and he is very handsome. Yuni begin…
The Great War of Archimedes (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Set in the 1930’s, the headquarters of the Imperial Japanese Navy sets out to build the world’s biggest battleship Yamato. Rear Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is opposed to that plan. Isoroku Yamamoto attracts Tadashi …
The Sleeping Insect (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Kanako Seri is on a packed bus heading to band practice. She becomes fascinated by a melody being hummed by a fellow passenger, an old man, a stranger. When the bus reaches Kanako’s stop, she doesn’t get off,…
Dancing Mary (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Timid civil servant, Kenji, takes charge of demolishing a dance hall located in a big shopping mall. No one wants to take the work because the ghost of Mary, a former dancer in the dance hall, interrupts whenever…
Kingdom (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Set during the warring period in ancient China. Shin is a war orphan who dreams of becoming the greatest general under the Heavens. One day, he has a fateful encounter with a young man named Eisei, the true heir …
It’s Difficult to Love an Otaku (2020) • Movie
Sinopsis: Momose Narumi is a 26-year-old OL. She begins work at a new company. There, Narumi meets her old childhood friend Nifuji Hirotaka. Hirotaka is handsome and good at his job, but he is an otaku (obsessed with speci…
A Rose and a Tulip (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: The film centers around Nero, a famous modern artist and Daewon, a Korean student studying in Japan. The two look exactly alike. While Nero is in Japan for his exhibition, he visits a Japanese Inn. While there he…
Their Distance (2016) • Movie
Sinopsis: Reon is a young Korean man. He avoids contact with other people and works as an apprentice shoemaker. One after, he sees a woman Sona passed out and sleeping on a bench in the park. Reon doesn’t know why, but he …
30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii (2020) • TVSeries
Sinopsis: While still a virgin at 30, Adachi Kiyoshi gains a magical power – the ability to read other people’s minds by touching them. At first, he’s overwhelmed by his new ability, and it’s not proving to be helpfu…
Yuri Dano Kan Dano (2019) • TVSeries
Sinopsis: The story follows university student Sugawara Yuri suffering from stalkers. Due to the harassment she receives, Yuri decides to move out of her place. While looking for a new place to live, she reunites with her …