Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Popular Movie

Encouraged by her managers, rising pop star Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly her handlers and collaborators begin...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Junko Iwao

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Bowie

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

Genre: Family

Cast: Mirai Shida

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Fujitani

One day, Mana Aida receives a wedding dress from her mother and grandmother that they had worn in the past. While thinking about who she would wear...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Hitomi Nabatame

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and give...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yui Ichikawa

A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics...

Genre: History

Cast: Anna Tsuchiya

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isao Hashizume

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama), a female magician, and Jiro Ueda (Hiroshi Abe), a genius physicist, are back again to solve the mystery of supernatural...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yukie Nakama

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Koji Namiki is a young pitcher who has shown great promise on the diamond by winning the National High School Basketball Championships. Shortly after...

Genre: War

Cast: Ichikawa Ebizo XI

Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan police Special Mission Task Force, Sugishita Ukyo...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yasufumi Terawaki

Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Taneda is permanently crashing at her apartment...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

The body of a young woman is discovered in a park in Tokyo with all her organs removed. The case is assigned to Detective Inukai, a usually cool and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ikki Sawamura