Hiroshi Kanbe

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his gra...

The Next Generation: Patlabor

In a world where giant robots are built and used for labor, a special police force of robots is created to hand...

Love Letter

Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Alth...

On a Starry Night

Suzu Yukimiya, an obstetrician and gynaecologist who works at a hospital in a tranquil sea town, meets Issei Hi...

The Last Train Bound for Nagoya

This mini series follows the life of the people on the last train bound for Nagoya. Every new season is a snap...

Even Though I Don't Like It

Mixed-up model and bar hostess Kotoko sleeps with her coworker Genki, but can't seem to let herself sleep with...

The Twilight Samurai

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower...

Until the End of the World

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her...

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical creatures liv...

Always - Sunset on Third Street

In 1958 postwar Tokyo, the residents of a humble Third Street neighbourhood struggle, dream, and grow together...

Thermae Romae

The story follows a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One day, he disco...

Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

A year has passed in postwar Tokyo, and struggling writer Chagawa enters the Akutagawa Prize competition in hop...

Samurai Hustle Returns

Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he h...

Ura Aka: L'Aventure

Machiko can't shake the feeling of emptiness in her day-to-day life as a manager of a clothing store in Aoyama,...

Samurai Fiction

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

The Hidden Blade

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a...

Always: Sunset on Third Street '64

As the Tokyo Olympics usher in a wave of rapid modernisation, the residents of Third Street face new beginnings...

Mom, Is That You?!

Akio, an HR worker, visits his transformed mother Fukue in Tokyo. Baffled by her new lively self, he encounters...

The Rainbow Seeker

A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose o...

Birdcage of Horrors

A murder mystery told in one-minute clips — one for each day of the year — filmed specifically for the SEGA Dre...

Nowhere Man

Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river...

Give It All

Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored wi...

Kagerô 2

An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.

Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War

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Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never return...

Nebagiba New World

A former boxing gym owner and his younger brother rise up to help a boy and his teacher's daughter from a vicio...

A Class to Remember

A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult student...

The Rainbow Seeker 2

Sequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan. There, he falls in...

Fly, Daddy, Fly

Suzuki’s world is shattered when his teenage daughter is brutally attacked. The assailant, Ishihara, son of a p...

A Class to Remember II

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.

Hoshi Meguri no Machi

An old widower who lives with his two daughter runs a tofu store,one day a distant relative comes to his home l...

Tora-san's Matchmaker

After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurs...

As the River Flows

2000 live-action Japanese film.

Aiki

When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and depression....

Our Stardust Dance

A drab middle-aged man with thoughts of committing suicide and an extraordinary child prodigy plan a fake kidna...

ANOHITO -THE ONE-

Four young soldiers raise the orphaned son of their commanding officer. As they each decide to go working in mu...