Funky Forest: The First Contact
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair’s portly Caucasian brother.
Strawberry Shortcakes
Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.
About Her Brother
Ginko’s younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she…
Sketches of Kaitan City
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to…
Minamata
War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.
Tokyo Oasis
In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people by random chance: she gives a ride to a man named Nagano, whom…
Hill of Freedom
A Japanese man arrives in Korea to find his old lover. While he stays at a guest house, he encounters various people.
I Just Didn’t Do It
A young man fights for his freedom after he is accused of groping a girl on train.
Honey and Clover
Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada’s coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the…
It’s Me It’s Me
Hitoshi Nagano (Kazuya Kamenashi), who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person’s mother and…
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…
Outrage
The story begins with Sekiuchi, boss of the Sannokai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato and right-hand man…
When the Last Sword Is Drawn
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he…
Cutie Honey
When Honey’s uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as “Panther Claw,” she must use her magical powers of transformation (fueled by love) to save him. Meanwhile the…
Nobody Knows
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Su-ki-da
Yu is a shy 17 year old girl who sits down next to Yosuke as he plays his guitar. Yosuke only plays a few lines over and over, as he…
Like Someone in Love
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her…
March Comes in Like a Lion
Rei Kiriyama (Ryunosuke Kamiki) is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo,…
The Taste of Tea
A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not…
To the Ends of the Earth
A young Japanese girl called Yoko finds her attentive and insular character analyzed when she travels into Uzbekistan to take the newest incident of her traveling variety series.