Moju Tsukai no Shojois a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film
01 Jan 1936
Inada plays Betty Yoshida, a singer and dancer from America who arrives in Japan to go on tour, only to be swindled by scheming managers. Penniless and cast to the streets, Betty is taken in by Oki (Nakagawa), a talented tap dancer who introduces her to a group of struggling musicians living and working together.
15 Oct 1974
A boy rescues a girl who has collapsed in a river, from their exchanges and memories a tale of loneliness and meaningful connection gradually unfolds.
12 Jul 2014
Mei Tachibana is a high school student. Due to a traumatic incident when she was a kid, Mei has been unable to make friends or have boyfriends. By mistake, Mei then injures the most popular male student named Yamato Kurosawa. Somehow, Yamato Kurosawa likes Mei Tachibana and tells everyone unilaterally that Mei is his friend. One day, Yamato Kurosawa saves Mei Tachibana from a stalker by kissing her. From that kiss, their love story begins.
16 Dec 2000
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
04 Sep 2014
Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori, who has come back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology.
01 Nov 2014
Three parallel love stories set in three different cities are set against some of the major international events of the last five years, in this ambitious.
A distant son rejects reuniting with his father only to cerebrate their relationship and lack of memories shared.
01 Mar 1944
About Kenpuren Training Hall: The story is set in the Bakumatsu period. Katsura Kogoro and his passionate Choshu comrades raise the banner of "Shinto Munen-ryu" and join the dojo of Saito Yakuro, a renowned Edo swordsman leading 3,000 disciples. While some senior students have commendable qualities, certain undesirable habits disappoint Katsura. Nevertheless, he remains dedicated to mastering martial arts, practicing swordsmanship day and night while studying how to construct defenses against the Black Ships threatening the Shimonoseki Strait. Saito observes all this, and Katsura gradually stands out among the students...
21 Sep 1954
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
02 Jul 2021
Aoki is a failing novelist, and Sol is a failing pop singer. Encountering each other in South Korea, speaking different languages, they and their families somehow end up in a truck heading off into the Korean countryside.
28 Apr 1997
Taro Shiraga (played by Ninomi Kobayashi), nicknamed “Shigarami Taro”, works in the insurance company’s contract management division. Officially, his role is to entertain insurance saleswomen and encourage them to improve their sales performance. Behind the scenes, however, he is a shrewd investigator of insurance pay-outs. Whenever an incident occurs, his “eyes” at the scene are sharp and discerning. Yet this hidden side of him remains unknown to his colleagues and family. One day, Taro is instructed to go to Matsue under the pretence of entertaining saleswomen from the Matsue branch. In reality, it is an assignment to investigate an insurance claim.
30 Jan 1981
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.
08 Apr 1960
Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try to put aside their differences in order to evade the Japanese and survive.
14 Mar 2024
Having lost his job and the company he built, a 36-year-old man at rock bottom goes on a wistful solo trip to Japan in search of the love he left behind.
02 Oct 2004
Yuri is an ordinary teenage girl. But one day, everything changes when she learns that she's apparently dead. Even though she's technically not alive, she tries to keep her humanity and life. Her family, however, wants her out of the picture.
27 Nov 2017
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31 May 2013
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.
02 Jan 2017
A 'Glamour' film showing 3 cute Japanese girls slowly revealing and caressing their bodies behind their 'cutesy' little outfits.
26 Jul 2019
The Quartzers, calling themselves the Wardens of Time, appear after Sougo Tokiwa has collected all of the Heisei Era Ride Watches. A grand conspiracy behind the birth of the King of Time becomes ever clearer...
29 May 2010
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.