Kirin Kiki

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Female Teacher

A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, black...

Kimi no na wa

A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.

The Secret World of Arrietty

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home fr...

Shoplifters

In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shopli...

Hanekonma

Rin Tachibana, nicknamed Hanekonma, grew up in Soma, Fukushima. Together with her parents, her sister and broth...

Kagerou no Tsuji

Sakazaki Iwane is a ronin who spends idle days in Edo. Until a few months ago, he was a promising son and succe...

Ōedo Sōsamō

Set against the backdrop of the reign of the 11th Tokugawa Shogun, Ienari Tokugawa, this drama is a masterpiece...

Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations

The 39th NHK Taiga Drama is Aoi Tokugawa Sandai. It is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of three generati...

Yumechiyo Nikki

Yumechiyo is the madam of a geisha house in a remote hot spring in the San'in region. When Yumechiyo learns tha...

Like Father, Like Son

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with...

Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka

A maverick man arrives at Yūhigaoka School. The drama incorporates educational issues as well as family problem...

Our Little Sister

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

The Taste of Tea

A spell of time in the life of the five-piece Haruno family in rural Tochigi Prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordi...

As If In Flight

Historical drama about the life of Saigō Takamori and his involvement with the Meiji Restoration.

Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi

Through the lives of people aging in a seaside retirement home, the drama depicts the aging process that comes...

Kamikaze Girls

Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and...

An Early Autumn

A former couple, separated for over 20 years, were reunited after being told their son had only 3 months to liv...

Natsumeke no Shokutaku

A Meiji era home drama about the great writer Soseki Natsume and his wife Kyōko. A story of love and tears of a...

Still Walking

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

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns...

Izo

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's m...

Sweet Bean

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over....

Kimagure Honkakuha

Shinobu, who works in the advertising department of the female underwear maker Princess Underwear, has a dream...

After the Storm

Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detec...

Zigeunerweisen

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose roma...

Villain

Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with gi...

Ballad of Orin

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change a...

I Wish

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a...

Terauchi Kantarō Ikka

Taro the Dragon Boy

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mytho...

Every Day a Good Day

A university student attends a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin. There she has the Japanese...

Private Detective Dobu

Dobu, an unconventional detective, teams up with Yoriki Samon to solve crimes in Yaoyacho, Edo, showcasing thei...

Pistol Opera

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the...

The Whispered City

Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian cor...

Chronicle of My Mother

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to...