Sinopsis: Shin’ya shokudou: Tokyo Stories is a TV mini-series starring Kaoru Kobayashi, Joe Odagiri, and Mansaku Fuwa. An anthology of human relationship stories connected by the only open in the wee hours diner the characters frequent….
Category: Japan
A Long Goodbye (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: The Long Good-Bye is a movie starring Yû Aoi, Yuito Kamata, and Chieko Matsubara. A seventy-year-old retired school headmaster informs his wife and daughters that he has Alzheimer’s disease. They are all concerned, but react…
Farewell Song (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Sayonara kuchibiru is a movie starring Mugi Kadowaki, Nana Komatsu, and Ryô Narita. Haru and Reo perform as musical duo Haru-Reo. With their indie music, they suddenly get popular. Even with their newfound success, they decide to…
You Shine in the Moonlight (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Kimi wa Tsukiyo ni Hikarikagayaku is a movie starring Takumi Kitamura, Mei Nagano, and Kyoko Hasegawa. Takuya Okada is a high school student. He visits his classmate Mamizu Watarase in the hospital. Mamizu suffers from the…
Bento Harassment (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Kyô mo iyagarase bentô is a movie starring Ryôko Shinohara, Kyôko Yoshine, and Rena Matsui. Single mother Kaori’s daughter is in high school. The woman does her best, but the daughter is being as rebellious and cliched as she can…
Hoshi wo ou kodomo (2011) • Movie
Sinopsis: Hoshi o ou kodomo is a movie starring Hilary Haag, Corey Hartzog, and Leraldo Anzaldua. A coming of age story involving young love and a mysterious music, coming from a crystal radio left as a memento by an absent father, that leads…
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Seishun Buta Yaro wa Yumemiru Shoujo no Yume wo Minai is a movie starring Kaito Ishikawa, Asami Seto, and Inori Minase. In Fujisawa, where the skies are bright and the seas glisten, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high…
Forget Me Not (2015) • Movie
Sinopsis: Wasurenai to chikatta boku ga ita is a movie starring Nijirô Murakami, Akari Hayami, and Chiharu. This film tells the story of a high school student named Takashi (Murakami Nijiro) who falls in love at first sight with a girl along…
Dance With Me (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Dansu wizu mî is a movie starring Ayaka Miyoshi, Yû Yashiro, and Chay. Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is treated by a hypnotist and left under the spell. Thereafter she cannot but sing and dance whenever she…
Promare (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Promare: Puromea is a movie starring John Eric Bentley, Steve Blum, and Johnny Yong Bosch. A futuristic firefighting mecha service is created to protect the world.
Sword of The Stranger (2007) • Movie
Sinopsis: Stranger: Mukô hadan is a movie starring Tomoya Nagase, Yuri Chinen, and Kôichi Yamadera. A swordsman from a strange land is caught in a struggle between morality, righteousness, and devotion as he reluctantly agrees to take a…
0.5mm (2014) • Movie
Sinopsis: 0.5 miri is a movie starring Sakura Andô, Miyoko Asada, and Bengal. Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family of an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him, which led her to eventually lose her job and house. Now, she…
Spirited Away (2001) • Movie
Sinopsis: Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi is a movie starring Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, and Miyu Irino. During her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and…
Paranormal Activity 2 Tokyo Night (2010) • Movie
Sinopsis: Paranômaru akutibiti: Dai-2-shô – Tokyo Night is a movie starring Aoi Nakamura, Noriko Aoyama, and Kousuke Kujirai. A young woman returns to Tokyo, following a car accident that fractured both of her legs. While her brother Koichi…
Modest Heroes (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Chiisana eiyû: Kani to tamago to tômei ningen is a movie starring Henry Kaufman, Fumino Kimura, and Liam O’Brien. An anthology of three original shorts written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiyuki Momose and Akihiko…
Boku no Hero Academia The Two Heroes (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Boku no Hero Academia the Movie is a movie starring Justin Briner, Christopher Sabat, and Ray Chase. All Might and Deku accept an invitation to visit a floating man-made city called I Island where they meet a girl and battle against…
Doraemon: Nobita and Tin Labyrinth (1993) • Movie
Sinopsis: Doraemon: Nobita to Buriki no rabirinsu is a movie starring Nobuyo Ôyama, Noriko Ohara, and Michiko Nomura. A mysterious gate rushed out of the trunk that was delivered to Nobita’s house. Nobita and his friends pass through the…
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Doragon bôru chô: Burorî – Dragon Ball Super: Broly is a movie starring Sean Schemmel, Christopher Sabat, and Vic Mignogna. Goku and Vegeta encounter Broly, a Saiyan warrior unlike any fighter they’ve faced before.
Ten Tenhodori No Kaidanji (2018) • TVSeries
Sinopsis: Ten: Tenhodori no Kaidanji is a TV mini-series starring Kazuyuki Aijima, Denden, and Yûki Furukawa. Takashi Ten is called to a mahjong club one night to play against Hiroyuki Igawa, a young mahjong player. Having just robbed his…
Hello World (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Hello World: Harô wârudo is a movie starring Haruka Fukuhara, Minami Hamabe, and Takumi Kitamura. A man travels in time from the year 2027 to relive his school years and to correct a bad decision.
Ramen Shop (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Ramen Teh is a movie starring IHARA, Seiko Matsuda, and Takumi Saitoh. A young man who is curious about his deceased parents’ past takes a food journey to Singapore where he uncovers more than just delicious meals.
School Live! (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Gakkô-gurashi! is a movie starring Nanami Abe, Daichi Kaneko, and Rio Kiyohara. Ebisuzawa, Yuki, Mike and Yuri attend the same high school in Japan, but they also know one another because they reside in the school’s dormitory. The…
A Banana At This Time of Night (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Konna Yofuke Ni Banana Kayo: Kanashiki Jitsuwa is a movie starring Chie Ayado, Masato Hagiwara, and Hanae Kan. A man is immobile and incapacitated. He is home-bound, but lucky to have multiple professional and nonprofessional…
Million Dollar Man (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Okuotoko is a movie starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Elaiza Ikeda, and Asaya Kimijima. Kazuo is down on his luck. He has had to work two jobs, pay his missing younger brother’s debts and contend with a departed wife and child. His luck…
Masquerade Hotel (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Masukarêdo hoteru is a movie starring Takuya Kimura, Masami Nagasawa, and Nozomi de Lencquesaing. When three murders occur in Tokyo, aside from the corpse and the crime, the commonality is the placement of numbers next to scene of…
My Dad Is a Heel Wrestler (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Papa wa Warumono Champion is a movie starring Hiroshi Tanahashi, Yoshino Kimura, and Kokoro Terada. Takashi used to wrestle and take himself seriously, but that he was a comic figure is now apparent to all including himself with his…
Punk Samurai Slash Down (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Panku-zamurai, kirarete sôrô is a movie starring Gô Ayano, Keiko Kitagawa, and Shôta Sometani. In search of employment and a permanent position and having committed murder the ronin Kake Junoshin tells the Kurokaze (‘black wave’)…