Casting Blossoms to the Sky
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the...
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After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is...
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The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese...
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Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation...
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Remake of a hit film from 1990, "The Cherry Orchard" which Nakahara himself directed, based on a popular comic book from Akimi Yoshida. The story...
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Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her...
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Minako is at the age where her father is more like an alien to her than a person. The situation is exacerbated when he comes home drunk one night...
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The University of Tokyo is the most prestigious national and public university in Japan. A charismatic teacher who suffers cancer meets the...
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Drama about a young doctor.
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Twilight Syndrome: Dead Cruise
In this J-horror flick based on a popular videogame series, honor students on a senior cruise get trapped in an alternate reality game brought on...
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A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie...
See moreBlue Song - Proud of My Voice
Story concerns teen amateurs trying to make their musical marks, set in Mutsu, Aomori, Japan.
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37 year old sales manager Iwatsu is so caught up in work, he's unable to truly live his life. One night while looking at his graduation album on...
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Kataoka Junko (Jun), whose emotional identity have been at odds with her biological identity, shares a room with her friend since high school...
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