"Gakeppuchi no Eri" describes the turbulent life of Eriko (Yamada), who has been extremely poor since childhood, due to the debt left by her parents. Despite constant misfortune, she aims… [More]

The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, the wife of Gegege no Kitaro mangaka Mizuki Shigeru. The story… [More]

At the Metropolitan Police Department First Investigation Scientific Criminal Unit lead investigator Satoshi Itomura (Takaya Kamikawa) leaves no stones unturned at crime scenes to apprehend the perpetrators. Rookie investigator Miyuki… [More]

Haru Hoshino (Saki Fukuda) was born with common traits from both male and female sexes. Haru did not have a sexual reassignment surgery as a child. Since an early age… [More]

A young Afro-American man has died, leaving behind a book of poems and a mysterious word. The story develops on a grand scale that spans the distance between different parts… [More]

TV producer Aoyama Shigeharu (Ryo Ishibashi) is a middle-class man, Shigehiko (Tetsu Sawaki) his teenage son. His friend, movie producer Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura), has the perfect palliative for Aoyoma?s loneliness:… [More]

Takeshi Kitano's 'Dolls crosses between dream like and highly stylized realism, the film opens in the traditional bunraku doll theater and then cross-cuts between three modern love-tragedies - a daring… [More]

The supposedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku who intervenes when a drunk man is harassing several women on a train. The otaku ultimately begins dating one of the women,… [More]

Kyoichi Kagenum (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a dream analyzer with the very unwanted ?gift? of being able to hear the thoughts of those around him, as well as the ability to… [More]

The Twilight Samurai or Tasogare Seibei (たそがれ清兵衛?, literally "Twilight Seibei") is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. Set in mid-19th century Japan, a few years before the Meiji… [More]

Directed by Hideo Nakata, Don’t Look Up is about a film director and his crew who slowly go insane when the film set is haunted by the ghost of an… [More]

Mio, a girl without any relatives, who crosses over from Osaka to Edo, and grows to adulthood as a cook and as a person while overcoming various difficulties. - Kitagawa… [More]