Masatoshi Nagase

Tales of the Bizarre

Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple wor...

The Private Detective Mike

Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a s...

Detective Office 5: Another Story

This anthology-style mystery series is part of the D‑5 PROJECT, centered around Detective Office 5 - a long-run...

Graduation

Kinoshita Kaori (Nakayama Miho), a native of Nagano, was allowed to live alone in Tokyo for two years during he...

Worst by Chance

Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts around and me...

Kokuho

Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous...

Paterson

A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Pate...

Gekkan Matsuzaka Tori

In Yokosuka, detective Tatsuya handles mundane cases until a client arrives seeking to find a mysterious man, l...

Suicide Club

When the bizarre mass suicide of 54 high school girls throwing themselves in front of a subway train appears to...

Sakuran

Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light distric...

My Sons

Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jeal...

Sweet Bean

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

Mystery Train

In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and...

Our Time Will Come

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighter...

悪女

Mama Is an Idol

A junior high school teacher marries a much younger woman despite his teenaged daughter’s disapproval. Her step...

Jigen Daisuke

Feeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the world’s best gunsmith. He finally finds out that Chiharu...

64: Part 1

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64...

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat f...

The War and a Woman

Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman works in...

Just Remembering

A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love story inspired...

Pistol Opera

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

The Sea Is Watching

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the wa...

The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn

Tenmasou is a long-established inn atop a mountain overlooking the sea, in a town called Mitsuse that exists be...

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and...

64: Part 2

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64...

Smuggler

To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite as...

Noise

Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and d...

A Hundred Flowers

Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother f...

KANO

A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

Bitter Honey

Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively pl...

The Blue Hearts

Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspire...

Hokusai's Daughter

The life of Katsushika Oi, daughter of Hokusai and a trailblazing female artist in Japan.

Yakushima's Illusion

Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo....

Punk Samurai Slash Down

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is tr...

Radiance

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who...