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Ryoko Matsumura is a popular writer in her 50's. She also knows that she has Alzheimer’s. Ryoko Matsumura begins to teach at a university. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miho Nakayama

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lily Franky

Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Kataoka

When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hirofumi Arai

Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their...

Genre: Family

Cast: Mieko Harada

Kenzo was behind bars for killing a gangster. Upon his release, he goes to live with his son, whose marriage is on the rocks. His 14-year-old...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

Set on a remote island in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, this human drama depicts the strange shared life and family rebirth of two fisherman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: AFRO

Former delinquent Hiroe leads a dreary existence. She meets a boy named Tatsutoshi whose younger sister was killed in a road accident and tries to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanae Kan

This documentary records the lives of people in a mountain village surrounding the kozo (paper mulberry) tree, a raw material used to make Tosa washi...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mieko Harada

Noriaki Tsuchimoto, a documentary filmmaker known for his series films on Minamata disease, travelled to Afghanistan in 1988 for the production of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Noriaki Tsuchimoto

On April 1, 1945, the United States military launched its invasion of the main island of Okinawa, the start of a battle that was to last 12 weeks and...

Genre: Documentary

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Seikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-old grandson Akira live in a small, tree-lined...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Muneo Uema

This documentary compiles a series of Noam Chomsky's interviews and lectures that address the events of 9/11.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Noam Chomsky

Documentary filmmaker Makoto Sato offers this reflection on the life and career of Edward Said, the deeply influential literary and cultural critic,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Said

With the passing of Nakazawa Keiji in December 2012, Barefoot Gen’s Hiroshima now stands as the manga artist’s last message of peace to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keiji Nakazawa

Genre: Documentary

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In 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, the conservative Japanese government is pressing ahead with plans to revise the nation's...

Genre: Documentary

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38 years after the Pacific War, 84 victims of a mass suicide ordered by the Japanese military were uncovered in a cave in Yomitan village. This film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Soichi Ito