Japan

Coming of age film about rock musicians.Read More »

Set in the cosmopolitan city of Yokohama, this social drama depicts drug trafficking and its addictive effects, a serious social problem, with a documentary touch.Read More »

Plot: The leader of Yakuza clan Tatsumi dies and selects his heir to be his estranged son, who is a trans woman named Nana. Nana, a hostess is reluctant to join, but has little choice as the rival Hojo clan starts extorting the bar.Read More »

Based on a novel by actress Mieko Harada, screenwriter Hiroshi Saito won the “Best Screenplay” award at the Yokohama Film Festival for this film.
Sex isn’t something one plans. It just happens. Yoko is a 23 year old pink collared worker. After college she is kept close with Yokoyama and Ishida, two male college friends who both harbor feelings for her. Yokoyama is straight as an arrow, yet impulsive when it comes to love. Ishida is more the outspoken type. When Yokoyama proposes to her, Yoko wonders if the old marriage myth is true. Is settling down with an ‘ordinary’ guy the key to a happy marriage?Read More »

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Yuji decides to run away from home to become an actor. Along the way, he meets Yoshio, an aspiring rock musician and Ami, an idol who, despite her success, is slowly losing popularity. All three of them begin to support each other in fulfilling their dreams of having true fame.Read More »

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Original title: 青春の門　自立篇
This is the second film adaptation of Hiroyuki Itsuki’s epic novel of the same title, following the previous film “The Gate of Youth. Ibuki Shinsuke (Tanaka Ken) was born in the Chikuho coal mine in Kitakyushu and moved to Tokyo to enter university. Through his friendship and love with his drama club friends, a prostitute in Shinjuku, and his childhood friend Orie (Shinobu Otake), the film depicts the adolescent life of a dedicated young man.
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Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student named Masato Miki, who lives upstairs. However, when Masato becomes a part-time tutor for Akiko’s classmate, Natsuko Shigeno, and Akiko becomes close to Natsuko, Akiko feels lonely. These feelings also help her to lose her purity to Junichi Yoda, whom she met by chance through an accidental mistake.Read More »

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The disappearance of a TV news reporter leads his co-workers to go searching for him. Later, the co-workers discover that a mysterious woman in red and the sudden appearance of a giant monster might hold the key as to the whereabouts of their missing friend.Read More »

In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo’s underworld.Read More »