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…
Category: Japan
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…
Rebirth (2011) • Movie
Sinopsis: A woman named Kiwako abducts a baby from a man with whom she has had an affair. For 4 years, Kiwako raises the child as her own until she is arrested. The child named Erina is then returned to her birth parents, …
Shiroi Dakuryu (2021) • TVSeries
Sinopsis: Kazuki Yoshinami is a pharmaceutical researcher at a university. His friend Wataru Kashiwagi is also a pharmaceutical researcher at the same university. They are rivals, but talk to each other about their dreams….
Yan (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: In the sensitive directorial debut of cinematographer Imamura Keisuke, young Japanese architect Tsubame has to face his family history: His Taiwanese mother took his brother Ryushin back to her home country duri…
Not Quite Dead Yet (2020) • Movie
Sinopsis: Nanase Nobata is in her final year of University. She lives with her father Kei despite their strained relationship. Her father is the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. One day, her father takes a drug which is su…
River’s Edge (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Haruna Wakagusa is a high school student who lives with her mother. Ichiro Yamada is gay and Haruna’s classmate. He is bullied at school, but Haruna sticks up for Ichiro. They become close friends and Ichiro te…
Being Natural (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Off-beat dramedy in which slapstick and social tensions go hand-in-hand, revolving around a middle-aged man whose rural life is turned upside down when two urbanites move to his quiet village. (Source: kriterion…
Konin Todoke ni Han wo Oshita dake desu ga (2021) • TVSeries
Sinopsis: 27-year-old Ookado Akiha who vows to stay single, gets a proposal to enter into a fake marriage from 30-year-old Momose Shuu who wants to get the status of a married man for some reason. Through living together a…
The Promised Neverland (2020) • Movie
Sinopsis: At Grace Field House, life couldn’t be better for the orphans! Though they have no parents, together with the other kids and a kind “Mama” who cares for them, they form one big, happy family. No child is ever ove…
Cube (2021) • Movie
Sinopsis: In the remake of the Canadian film, six males and females of varying ages and backgrounds find themselves locked and confined in a mysterious cube shaped room. They do not have any ideas where they are and decide to escape. They need to work with one another and decipher the code needed to exit the cube. —aghaemi
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) • Movie
Sinopsis: The film is a triptych of shorts about coincidences. The three stories, which each revolve around a woman, are in turn divided into three movements, like a piece of music. They tell stories of an unexpected love …
Summer Blooms (2017) • Movie
Sinopsis: Hatsumi Takimoto has found some solidarity within her life, having given up on her job as a teacher and working part-time at a small family-run cafe. However, the past she fled from begins to creep up on her when…
Love Like the Falling Petals (2022) • Movie
Sinopsis: Haruto Asakura falls in love with hairdresser Misaki Ariake and asks her out. Watching Misaki Ariake work hard to achieve what she wants, Haruto Asakura, who almost gave up his dream to become a photographer, beg…
Haru ga Kita (2018) • TVSeries
Sinopsis: Kishikawa Naoko, a 31-year-old single woman, works at a department store. She lives with her family but has a boring life. However, one day she meets Lee Ji Won, a cameraman from South Korea, who inspire her to c…
My Dad is a Heel Wrestler (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Takashi used to wrestle and take himself seriously, but that he was a comic figure is now apparent to all including himself with his mask and get-up since he officially wrestles as a joke. He has not told his son…
Fish Story (2009) • Movie
Sinopsis: “Fish Story” centres around a rock band from 1975 who decide to break up having had no success, they record one last song before the band splits up. Decades later that song will have a profound effect on peoples …
Adrift in Tokyo (2007) • Movie
Sinopsis: Takemura begins the film as an 8th-year college student who has somehow managed to accumulate ¥840,000 in debt. Abandoned by his parents in childhood, he has no one to turn to for the cash. One night a stranger…
One Million Yen Girl (2008) • Movie
Sinopsis: Suzuko Sato is an unremarkable young teen that has trouble fitting in. While her younger brother is often praised for his smarts, her family & neighbors have nothing to say about Suzuko. One day at work, Suzuko’s…
Shoplifters (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Somewhere in Tokyo, Osamu Shibata and his wife Nobuyo live in poverty. While Osamu receives occasional employment and Nobuyo has a low-paying job, the family relies in large part on the grandmother’s pension. As …
Chihayafuru: Musubi (2018) • Movie
Sinopsis: Story takes place 2 years after “Chihayafuru Part 2” and Chihaya is now a high school senior. ~~ Adapted from the manga “Chihayafuru” (ちはやふる) by Suetsugu Yuki (末次由紀). Edit Translation…
Chihayafuru: Shimo no Ku (2016) • Movie
Sinopsis: The second part of the “Chihayafuru” trilogy following the Karuta tournament in Tokyo. Chihaya’s team is ready for the national championship. However, she is disappointed to hear that her childhood best friend ha…
Chihayafuru: Kami no Ku (2016) • Movie
Sinopsis: Ayase Chihaya is obsessed with a Japanese poem card game called Karuta. After entering high school, she decided to form a Karuta club to meet her previous Karuta childhood friends. However, people refuse to join …
The Brightest Roof in the Universe (2020) • Movie
Sinopsis: Oishi Tsubame is a 14-year-old girl. She has a crush on university student Toru, who is her neighbor. Tsubame lives in a warm environment with her father Toshio and stepmother Asako, but, one day, she learns that…
Kotodamasou (2021) • TVSeries
Sinopsis: Utagawa Kotoha is a bright 25-year-old woman. She is sometimes timid, but she is also a curious person. Through her friend’s introduction, Kotoha Utagawa moves to apartment #7 in an apartment building exclusively…