Tanie Kitabayashi

My Neighbor Totoro

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and disco...

Mayuko hitori

Kano is known as a "cocoon child" whose father is an agriculturist. Her mother disappeared when she was little...

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Proof of the Man

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer...

White Snake Enchantment

Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangle between a...

The Insect Woman

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its m...

Intentions of Murder

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condit...

Station

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police office...

Scandal

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a f...

The Sun's Burial

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and t...

Odd Obsession

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become arouse...

The Burmese Harp

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Bud...

Foundry Town

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dr...

Rikyu

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and...

Yomigaeri

When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched t...

Stakeout

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to r...

Amagi Pass

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he...

A Japanese Tragedy

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful so...

Buddha

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search o...

Twilight of the Cockroaches

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed...

Never Give Up

Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko...

How Sorrowful

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about...

Gazing at Love and Death

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves h...

Nomugi Pass

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The...

Conflagration

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion,...

Call from Darkness

Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving th...

The Incident

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days...

Writhing Tongue

Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. Th...

Love: Starting on a Journey

A girl suffering from an incurable disease get in a coma, while her boyfriend visit her to the hospital, she vi...

My Second Brother

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling...

My Voiceless Friends

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the be...

Wrath of Daimajin

In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, produc...

The Wolves

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japa...

The Possessed

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Osh...

The Sands of Kurobe

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transport...

The Greatest Challenge of All

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just...