Tokyo Family
In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō monogatari, a moving family portrait set after the…
Distance
On the eighth anniversary of a cult’s failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult’s former base on the…
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…
Hana
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn’t an accomplished…
A Gentle Breeze in the Village
Based on a popular manga, the film is a tender coming-of-age love story set deep in Japan’s countryside. When eighth grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small…
What a Wonderful Family!
A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants…
What a Wonderful Family! 2
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old…
What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life
At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen…
Still Walking
The Little House
Following the loss of life of the single and childless Taki, Takeshi, a younger relative of hers, discovers a number of pages of carefully written traces through which the outdated…
125 Years Memory
Two historic events which deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are linked within this Japanese-Turkish blockbuster: The sinking of this Turkish frigate Ertuğrul from the Western coast in 1890,…
Solomon’s Perjury 1: Suspicion
Solomon’s Perjury 2: Judgment
A bunch of high school has to figure out the facts of these class mate’s departure is he had been murdered by somebody or committed suicide.