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

genus: Drama

cast: Reiko Kataoka

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

genus: Drama

cast: Lily Franky

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...

genus: Comedy

cast: Hirofumi Arai

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...

genus: Comedy

cast: Bunta Sugawara

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...

genus: Family

cast: Mieko Harada

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...

genus: Drama

cast: Miho Nakayama

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...

genus: 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...

genus: Drama

cast: AFRO

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...

genus: Drama

cast: Muneo Uema

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

genus: 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,...

genus: Documentary

cast: Edward Said

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...

genus: Documentary

cast: Mieko Harada

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...

genus: Drama

cast: Hanae Kan

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...

genus: Documentary

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A documentary about Menda Sakae, a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 34 years.

genus: Documentary

cast: Sakae Menda

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...

genus: Documentary

cast: Keiji Nakazawa

genus: Documentary

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Noriaki Tsuchimoto

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...

genus: Documentary

cast: Soichi Ito

This documentary follows the daily lives of blind and deaf people: deaf-blind people living alone on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture; a man in...

genus: Documentary

cast: Satoshi Fukushima