japanese

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He agrees to fight him in a year's time.

Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel.

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

After a botched assignment, a rice-fetishizing hitman finds himself in conflict with his organization, and one mysterious, dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

Spending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for.

Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.

Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a rogue gang of drug traffickers in line, a job that gets passed on to his long-suffering subordinate.

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Depicts the early life of the legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto; his years as an aspiring warrior, an outlaw and finally a true samurai.

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.