Masako Motai

The Pride of the Temp

Oomae Haruko is an A+ Temp worker who never cracks a smile or minces words, and leaves work on the dot. But her...

Quartet

Maki Maki, Sebuki Suzume, Beppu Tsukasa and Iemori Yutaka happen to meet and form a quartet. They even begin to...

One-Pound Gospel

Hatanaka Kosaku is a talented boxer who turned pro at the age of 19, winning his debut match with a first round...

Karin

A young woman Chiaki whose family runs an old miso company in Nagano Prefecture, the only daughter of old tradi...

Shining Brightly

The job of a medical jurisprudence involves a lot of complicated crimes such as murder and accidents. Hikaru (F...

Pension Metsä

Tenko runs a pension alone. The pension is located in a forest in Nagano, that is full of the Japanese larch tr...

The Golden Piggy

Shinko (Ryoko Shinohara) is an accounting auditor who chases after tax evaders and embezzlers that hard working...

Beginner

Bread and Soup and Cat Weather

Akiko lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then she quits her editing job and take...

Sakura Momoko Land: Taniguchi Rokuzo Shoten

Fukigen na Gene

Yoshiko Aoi is a budding researcher in ethology, the study of animal behavior. "Men=male" are born unfaithful....

Always - Sunset on Third Street

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

I Just Didn't Do It

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes...

Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

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

Four Days of Snow and Blood

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist par...

Round About Midnight

While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Lin...

Kamome Diner

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers...

Gemini

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targe...

The Exam

Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school en...

Mother Water

Set with three central figures, "Mother Water" describes the daily lives of people near the Kamo River in Kyoto...

Glasses

An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter eccentric local...

The Choice of Hercules

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Offic...

BECK

Yukio is your average high school student who spends his days going to class and avoiding bullies. That is unti...

Love Is Five Seven Five

A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.

Tokyo Oasis

In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people by random ch...

Pool

A story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in Thailand. 4 years ago,...

Last Friends

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they be...

The Mohican Comes Home

Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but failed. Sev...

Hello, Goodbye

Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent....

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...

Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel

Ichiro Hanada is a mischievous boy who gains the ability to see and talk to ghosts after a near-death experienc...

Beijing Watermelon

Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two...

NonNonBa

Mountain Days with Tom

Hana, Toki and Toki’s daughter Toshi begin to live in the countryside. Hana’s nephew Akira, who just graduated...

Teacher and Stray Cat

Following the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat called Mii, who...

Akko's Secret

5th-grader Atsuko Kagami, nicknamed Akko, comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform int...