Four beautiful sisters are entrusted with taking care of Kinjiro, a giant salamander and national treasure. Rumors spread that Kinjiro is an impostor, so a genius x-ray technician is sent…

An airplane lands due to bad weather. A family, who rode on that airplane, goes through various troubles and it gets worse.

Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years.

Mushi are beings in touch with the essence of life, far more basic and pure than normal living things. Most humans are incapable of perceiving Mushi and are oblivious to…

Set in a five star Tokyo hotel on New Year’s Eve, the film follows the misadventures of various hotel staff and guests in the run-up to midnight. The plot involves…

When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of…

A murder investigation reveals a deep-rooted sibling rivalry in director Miwa Nishikawa’s brooding family drama. On the one-year anniversary of his mother’s death, Tokyo art and fashion photographer Takeru (Joe…

Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of…

Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a…

From director Hiromasa Yonebayashi: “Kanini & Kanino”; “Life Ain’t Gonna Lose” directed by Yoshiyuki Momose; and “Invisible” directed by Akihiko Yamashita. These leaders of animation draw tales of modest heroes…

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition–a fight to…

An “air doll” suddenly come to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Junichi. She starts to date…

Jun-shik, who works for Tatsuo’s grandfather’s farm while Korea is colonized by Japan, dreams about participating in the Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also aims to become a…

Poongsan has the unenviable – and death-defying – job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to…

A terminally ill single mother is determined to reconcile her splintered family.

A group of very different people set sail on an old warship. The passengers include a senator with his son, a newly-wed couple, a mysterious old man, a group of…

Tsuchida works at a host club in secret to support her live-in boyfriend Seiichi, in order to fulfill his dream of becoming a musician. Seiichi is unemployed and falls into…

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke as a result of his dad and mom’ divorce, hears a rumor that the brand new bullet trains will precipitate…

A 15-year old comedian ring master Weiwei is left on it’s own with gorilla lingling after toddler goes off. Due for her grandfather’s passion for baseball, ling ling has been…