The Journalist
A journalist known as the maverick of news media defiantly chases the truth in this series adaptation of the hit movie of the same name.
Nobody’s Perfect
“Daijobu 3 Kumi” depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without arms and legs, and the 28 students in his 5th grade class, told from the…
The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo
Hikari is a boy who is bullied and teased by the other boys at school because he has the odd distinction of having an electricity pole growing out of his…
How to Become Myself
The Door into Summer
A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.
The Drudgery Train
In this offbeat coming-of-age tale, a charming, rebellious high school dropout named Kanta befriends the kind, provincial Shoji. The two bring out the best in each other, each gaining confidence…
11’09”01 September 11
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives…
Piecing Me Back Together
A young woman named Izumi (Keiko Kitagawa) suffers the loss of her boyfriend Junichi (Masaki Okada), who died from a fatal motorcycle accident. The shock from her boyfriend’s sudden death…
Midnight Swan
Nagisa is transgender. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle…
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…
Life in Overtime
After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a subsidiary company, where he…
Sway
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…
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…
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
A “metal fetishist”, driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he’s made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down…
Gemini
A successful doctor, Yukio’s picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his…
Neko Atsume House
In Neko Atsume no Ie, Atsushi Ito stars as Masaru Sakamoto, a novelist who moves to the countryside to try to combat a bad case of writer’s block. While struggling…
Parallel World Love Story
“A world” – After graduating from a university, close friends Takashi Tsurug and Tomohiko Miwa begin work at a company which does brain research. One day, Tomohiko introduces Mayuko Tsuno…
Gamera the Brave
A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle that…
Sleepless Town
Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children’s organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent…
Ley Lines
A Snake of June
Place in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the narrative of timid career-woman, Rinko, along with Shigehiko, her hygiene-obsessed, husband. The couple explore their sexuality within several of manners,…
Gantz
After looking to save a guy on the metro tracks, two adolescents awaken at an area dominated by a mysterious dark world that pushes them to look for and kill…