Miyuki Matsuda

Time Limit Investigator

Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute...

Tokyo Vice

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who...

The Private Detective Mike

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

Heaven

An incident is talked about all over Japan. The case involves the Doizaki couple that killed their 15-year-old...

Love That Makes You Cry

Follows the story of love, friendship and growth of six young men and women who move from countryside to the bi...

Steel Frame

Sharply revealing the issue of Japanese construction industry where bid-rigging was a common practice among the...

Audition

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a collea...

Keizoku: Unsolved Cases

Keizoku is a Japanese mystery thriller created first as a TV drama and later as a film. It is about Detective J...

Kita no kuni kara

Narrated by the son, Jun, the tale follows the lives of two children torn between their parents and their paren...

Forbidden Love

Michi, a 26 year old high school math teacher, tentatively accepts her boyfriend’s proposal of marriage, uncert...

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...

Sell My Hand

Ookuwa Kitaro is a jack-of-all-trades who travels nationwide across the country working part-time jobs in order...

The Lion Era

It depicts how the winner, the Satsuma Clan, and the loser, the Aizu Clan, survive through the Edo period and t...

月の輝く夜だから

彼女の恋文

Yukemuri Sniper

"Yukemuri Sniper" ("The Sniper in the Vapor") stars Kenichi Endo as an assassin who has decided to leave the bu...

Forest

Kaede Ikushima and Jun Ichinose, a couple living together for nearly a year, appear happy but hide lies from ea...

セカンド．チャンス

The Witness

Natsume Hamanaka was a police rookie with a promising future until she was in a car crash that killed her broth...

Love & Peace

A man, who once dreamed of becoming a punk rocker, is working as a low salaryman at a musical instrument parts...

Zoo

Five different directors adapt the works of Japanese author Otsuichi in this collection of unconventional live-...

Still the Water

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find...

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptio...

Chihayafuru: Part II

After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationa...

The Motive

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be f...

Chihayafuru: Part I

When Chihaya Ayase was in the 6th grade of elementary school, she met Arata Wataya. Arata Wataya transferred fr...

One Summer's Day

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi w...

Chihayafuru: Part III

Story takes place 2 years after "Chihayafuru Part 2" and Chihaya is now a high school senior.

Bakayarō! 4 You!

Hot Road

Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Bec...

Ghost Story: Flower House

An eerie statue of the Kannon shedding tears in an old Western-style house. Fifty years of the strange lives of...

Pakodate-jin

One morning Hikaru Hino, a high school student living in Hakodate, wakes up to find she has grown a tail. She q...

Broken Hearts for Sale

An omnibus recorded in a short film by five film directors with the motif of the song "Kai Band".

Amateur Singing Contest

Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers alon...

I am a Monk

After the death of his grandfather, Koen Shirakawa (Atsushi Ito) quits his job at a bookstore and goes to a tem...

Valley of Dreams

A laid-off designer returns to her home town after five years away.