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- A former assassin who has resolved to never kill again has his vow sorely tested.
- The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
- Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer Junnosuke strive alongside them in postwar Tokyo's evolution.
- A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.
- A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
- A documentary following Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old WW2 veteran notorious for his protests against Emperor Hirohito, as he tries to expose the needless executions of two Japanese soldiers during the war.
- A newspaper reporter is working on an investigative piece regarding an unsolved mystery dating back thirty years. there was gangsterism and extortion at play. As part of his work the man comes across a riddle of a cassette tape. Alsmost at the same time a man in Kyoto comes across a cassette among his father's belongings. He hears himself.
- The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.
- Separated mother Kaoruko awaits the graduation of their daughter for the divorce proceedings to begin and subsequently be finalized. Tragedy strikes when the daughter will never graduate. She is comatose and brain dead due to an accident.
- During the 1930s, a teenager yearns for a Catholic girl, whose only desire is to reform his sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, the young man channels his unsatisfied lust into the only outlet available: savage, crazed violence.
- Takumi Harada and his family moves to Okayama during spring break before his entry to Junior High School. On the baseball field, Takumi has enormous confidence in his ability as a pitcher, but socially he is a loner.
- Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
- Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo's girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.
- This is a beautiful story, allegory, metaphor full of surprises. The main protagonist is a young woman named Haruna Soma who has moved to a bigger city to start a new chapter.. Her character is gumption filled and cheery learning along the way about her life, the lives of others and what it means to "listen". There is much more to a story about starting a new career and how she develops, inspires others and grows into a new person.
- The story of finding a place to put down roots when life's obstacles have discouraged you. Centered on the lives of Changsu and Yamabuki.
- The history and lore of America's most iconic symbol and global export, the blue jean.
- In the Japanese town of Ushimado, the shortage of labor is a serious problem due to its population's rapid decline. Traditionally, oyster shucking has been a job for local men and women, but for a few years now, some of the factories have had to use foreigners in order to keep functioning. Hirano oyster factory has never employed any outsiders but finally decides to bring in two workers from China. Will all the employees get along?
- MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema-verite style. The film breaks a major taboo against discussing mental illness prevalent in Japanese society, and captures the candid lives of people coping with suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame, apprehension, and fear of society.
- It's business as usual for detective Aoshima as he tries to solve three peculiar crime cases at the same time in this third feature length episode of popular Japanese drama.
- A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for the 1991 new year holidays. He decides that they will go by car to save on expenses. Unfortunately, the long drive from Tokyo to his hometown becomes a much longer journey than expected due to traffic, sickness and other misfortunes and by the time they arrive three days later, they only have time for a short but happy visit.
- Psychiatrist Masatomo Yamamoto has dedicated his whole life to his patients. Now over 80 years of age, he tries to bid a farewell to them and his work. Soda's sequel to Seishin (2008) is a loving look at care and aging.
- The Indonesian younger generation in the country are being urged to prepare for the so-called demographic bonus. Follows Genta, a young creator working as a creativepreneur by day, and a lifelong nightmare sufferer by night.