Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light
A father and son rekindle their bond through the online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV in this live-action series based on a true story.
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the…
Passion
A man who tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.
Back Street Girls: Gokudols
Three male gangsters are forced by their boss into becoming a trio of female pop singers.
Eyes of the Spider
Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter’s murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his innocence, before killing and burying him. He returns…
License to Live
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family…
Dangan Runner
An unemployed man trying to steal from a convenience store, and the store clerk catches him in the act… the thief runs away with the store-clerk right after him. All…
April Bride
On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been…
Dead Run
The story concerns a boy called Shuji, growing up in a rural area of Japan where the community is divided into “Shore” and “Offshore” – the latter so-named because it…
My SO Has Got Depression
Mikio (Masato Sakai) is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio’s wife is Haruko (Aoi…
L’amant
When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year’s-worth of sexual services — her motivation, aside from money, is never explained — the relationships among the…
Outrage Coda
Ôtomo gets involved with new Yakuza battles after he comes back the Yakuza society.
Abnormal Family
The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband’s, in particular her husband’s younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other…
Sonatine
Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang…
Maborosi
A young woman’s husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues…
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island…
Dolls
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a…
Takeshis’
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an…
Achilles and the Tortoise
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting…
Bitter Honey
Akago is a red goldfish able to change into a girl. She possesses a pure and sensuous side. She lives with an old male writer whom she calls “Ojisama.” One…
School Days with a Pig
A sixth grade teacher raises a pig with his class.
Fireworks
Spiral
Samulife
The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale
In 1925 Korea, Japanese rulers require the last remaining fighter be murdered. The tiger readily defeats his pursuers before a mythical hunter chooses him .