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1) Love Life
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
日本語
Description
Taeko and her husband Jiro are living a peaceful existence with her young son Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy's long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with her pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping Park, who is deaf and currently homeless. With nuanced performances and craftsmanship, this is a melodramatic and moving meditation on grief and acceptance.
2) Radiance
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
日本語
Description
Misako is a passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori, an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight. Misako soon discovers Nakamori’s photographs, which will strangely bring her back to her past. Together, they will learn to see the radiant world that was invisible to her eyes.
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
日本語
Description
On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami, traditions about nature remain eternal. During the full-moon night of traditional dances in August, sixteen-year-old Kaito discovers a dead body floating in the sea. His girlfriend Kyoko will attempt to help him understand this mysterious discovery. Together, Kaito and Kyoko will learn to become adults by experiencing the interwoven cycles of life, death, and love.
4) I Wish
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
日本語
Description
Koichi's wish is for his family to be reunited. He learns a new train line will open and starts to believe that a miracle will take place with the trains. Koichi sets out on a journey with a group of friends, each hoping to witness a miracle.
5) Nobody Knows
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
日本語
Description
Four young siblings are forced to rely solely on each other when they are left alone by their loving yet immature mother. This film was the official Japanese entry for the 2004 Academy Awards.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
日本語
Description
When you’re a bored teenager looking for thrills, sometimes the only thing you can turn to is rock ‘n roll. Having no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, a feared trio of high school delinquents nevertheless decide they are destined for musical glory in a quest to impress their only friend Aya, avoid a rival gang, and – most importantly – jam out. Animated almost entirely by director Kenji Iwaisawa, and featuring a lead performance...
Publisher
Buffalo 8 Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
日本語
Description
After running away from home to become a dancer in Tokyo, Yume (Bambi Naka) struggles against the harsh realities of what it takes to achieve success. She works as a hostess in the red-light district while taking dance lessons, and refuses to abandon her ambitions.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
日本語
Description
Known to everyone in their idyllic Japanese village as “the brats,” twin brothers Yukihiko and Seizo wrestle with catfish in the river, chase birds through the woods, and cause general mischief in the name of high adventure. Their tale is told from the perspective of their older selves, reflecting on their childhood right after World War II and reinspecting the lives of their mother, father, landlord, bully, and three mysterious elderly neighbors...
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
日本語
Description
An extended farming family faces the cultural tradition of abandoning their aged mother on a mountain as she reaches her seventieth year. Imamura's documentary-style filmmaking delves into the complex dynamics of Japanese society and its timeless traditions.
11) 13 Assassins
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
日本語
Description
A group of elite samurai are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord.
13) Kanzô sensei
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
日本語
Description
In a tense war-torn climate, on the eve of the Japanese surrender in 1945, Doctor Akagi, the local doctor of a seaside village on one of Japan's islands, takes a stand to save his professional integrity. He is concerned by the growing number of people coming down with hepatitis the main cause of death in an undernourished country. He bands together with his old buddies, a dissolute monk and a nihilistic morphine-addicted surgeon. They're all on the...
14) Tokyo!
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
日本語
Description
Three short films set in TOKYO chronicle the metamorphosis of a woman, the trial of a man who emerges from a manhole, and a reclusive man's first experience with human contact during an earthquake. Cannes Film Festival: Un Certain Regard Award - Nominee (Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry); Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival: Special Mention - Winner (Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry), Titra Fild Award - Winner (Bong Joon...
15) Tony Takitani
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
日本語
Description
Tony Takitani is an illustrator who has been alone all his life, until he meets a beautiful woman who transforms his world. The only problem is that she has a secret, she is a compulsive shopper with a penchant for high end couture fashion that leads to darkly satiric consequences. Based on the short story by Haruki Murakami.
16) Bean Cake
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
日本語
Description
The year is 1933 and a young boy in Tokyo named Uchido has recently moved from the country and attends his first day of school. The class is run in a traditional and strict manner that is designed to teach the children to conform to a strict code of social behavior that includes expressing loyalty to the Emperor. Uchido runs afoul of this intention when he answers the teacher’s question by expressing his love for bean cakes instead of the emperor....
17) Ghost Master
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
日本語
Description
While shooting the horror film GHOST MASTER, an untalented assistant director is sent into a rage that awakens an evil spirt. Now possessed, he wreaks revenge on set, killing the cast and crew one by one.
18) R100
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
日本語
Description
**WARNING**: This film contains disturbing content that may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. A mild-mannered family man with a secret taste for S&M finds himself pursued by a gang of ruthless dominatrices each with a unique talent in this hilarious and bizarre take on the sex comedy from Japanese comedy giant Hitoshi Matsumoto (Big Man Japan, Symbol, Scabbard Samurai).
19) A Matter of Size
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
日本語
Description
A MATTER OF SIZE is an Israeli comedy (yes, comedy!) like nothing you've seen before, a hilarious and heart-warming tale about about a coming out of a different kind: four overweight guys who learn to love themselves through the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling!
20) Napping Princess
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
日本語
Description
An action-packed sci-fi fantasy that shows that following your dreams is sometimes the best way to discover your past.The year is 2020, three days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. While she should be studying for her exams, Kokone Morikawa often dozes off, entering a dream-world called Heartland full of fantastic motorized contraptions. But when her father, a talented but mysterious mechanic, is kidnapped for stealing technology from a powerful...
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