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- A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
- A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
- A young man gets off the train in the morning and wanders the business districts aimlessly. He runs across some yakuza gangsters, whom he despises, and goes on a killing spree, but soon becomes involved with a subordinate gang.
- Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murderers. They commandeer a van from a strip club.
- A family struggling to live together even with the outrageous behaviors from each family members.
- In this story of a dysfunctional family all the stereotypes of a Japanese unit come to the fore when the wife works the kitchen, the husband is focused on his work and the son does not have a full-time position and all do not really interact. When a family does not communicate the family does not understand each other and the slippery slope rolls downward.
- Masaya is going through a period of intensely rebellious behavior. He then learned that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.
- Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, 'The Great Passage.' In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is overwhelmed with problems. Will 'The Great Passage' ever be completed?
- An earth-quake causes a nuclear crisis in a fictive Japanese prefecture. In wake of the disaster, the members of the Ono family who reside just outside the border of the mandatory evacuation zone face uncertainty.
- Newcomer Shizuka Ishibashi throws herself into the role of Mika, a nurse by day, a 'girlie bar' hostess by night, subject to feelings of anxiety and isolation, and unable to reach through a hard outer shell that stops her from expressing tenderness to anyone else. Sosuke Ikematsu, one of Japan's most important young actors, stars as Shinji, who struggles as a day-hire construction worker with a sense of impending doom, but who still tries to find the source of an unnamable hope he feels inside. The setting is Tokyo in 2017, where empty words, a sense of doom, and feelings of isolation co-exist with hope, trust, and love. In the sense of real life conjured up in these two people is a new kind of film: the densest kind of love story.
- A woman forced to spend time with her youngest (adult) daughter with whom she has not had a close relationship.
- In the fictional Tokyo suburb of Mahoro, Tada Keisuke works as a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. One day in January, former classmate Gyoten Haruhiko appears unannounced. Back in their schooldays Haruhiko was a quiet person who rarely talked. Now, Haruhiko is talkative. Both men are over 30 years old and divorced. Without giving an explanation, Haruhiko suddenly asks to spend the night at Keisuke's home. Keisuke turns down Haruhiko, but Haruhiko is persistent and finally Keisuke allows him to sleep over for one night. What Keisuke is unaware of is that Haruhiko plans to stay for more than one night. Eventually, Keisuke accepts Haruhiko as his assistant and they become involved in various cases involving an assortment of people from different walks of life.
- Fu and Suzu are two pretty anarchist girls, who take to the road. They are off to visit the tomb of a small pig named PUPU. On the way, they meet Suzu's ex-lover, a gay couple, and a golf player; always getting in trouble. But whenever trouble comes, 'TrunkMan' the hero appears to save them. All changes, though, when one of the girls falls in love with TrunkMan.
- A story about a hitman named Hayamada who carries a distinctive red gun and his reason for his work, and how he came to be alone. His aim right now is to reach a destination, but he's late. Along the way, having injured himself in a vehicular accident, he runs into Miyuki, who as also become alone due to tragic events within her family. As Hayamada collapses from his injuries Miyuki takes him to a hospital.
- Follows the life of relationship between Shigeru Mizuki and Mura Nunoe, who encountered many difficulties before Shigeru Mizuki became a successful manga artist.
- Yojin, an eccentric young farmer living in the countryside, falls in love for the first time in his life. Her name is Machiko, she teaches in a kindergarten and is from Tokyo.
- Documentary on the Japanese boxer Unchain Kaji, who retired from the ring at the age of 30 with an eye injury and a losing record. He then tries to start a new life as a civilian.
- One of the handyman duo finds himself in a jam when he ends up being the caretaker of the other's daughter, and gets caught up in the dealings of a mysterious cult.
- Trendy and self-centered Aya partners with shy Sachiko to co-write a radio play. Aya's condescending attitude towards her colleague complicates the cooperation between the two women.
- This documentary compiles a series of Noam Chomsky's interviews and lectures that address the events of 9/11.
- Kenta and Jun are like brothers. Having grown up together in an orphanage, they now work in a demolition squad, bullied and blackmailed by their boss. One night, they pick up a simple-minded girl called Kayo and go on a road trip.
- When a schoolgirl is hit in the head with infatuation for an attractive school baseball player she has to figure out a way to get into his world. Unfortunately, she is bad at baseball. She can join the cheering squad, however, and support the team and, of course, be close to the man. She takes her new role quite seriously.
- Mika, who lives in Tokyo, spends her summer vacations in a small, sleepy town. She waits there for her boyfriend, who however does not show up. Then there is Yuka, who is plagued by lovesickness, and Ken, who works as a night porter in a hotel. Ken ends up in bed with Yuka, while he also tries to revive his former affair with Mika. The delicate love triangle is disturbed by Tatsu. Ken's sandbox buddy is on the run from debt collectors. In his desperation, he plans to rob an armored car.
- Is the story of a 16 year old girl named Yoshiko, who lives all alone since her mother died and father entered the hospital.