Japanese

Five poor musicians make up the worst traveling brass band in Japan. For a few days they hook up with an awful circus whose male performers are on strike.Read More »

Eight love stories starts and ends in an amusement park.Read More »

Based on a novel by Mishima Yukio, The School of Flesh (1965) tells the story of a beautiful designer descended from nobility (Kishida Kyōko), who breaks away from an unhappy marriage after the war to greedily pursue a wild and pure love. Kinoshita Ryō directs this sophisticated tale of romantic intrigue in high style.Read More »

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.Read More »

A widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out of wedlock. Hearing that two criminals had attempted to take over the restaurant from her late husband, she hires her late husband’s best friend, a private detective, to investigate.Read More »

Early days of the Japanese television broadcasting, through the eyes of an ingenue who is trained as a contract actress.Read More »

Tokyo Fujimi Zoo (based on the real-life Ueno Zoo) is home to two beloved Indian elephants. Sakura, the zoo’s female elephant, gives birth to a daughter. Elephant caretaker Shota Tanabe (Tetsuya Takeda) names her Hanako. Shortly afterwards, Shota’s wife Setsuko (Midori Hagio) gives birth to a son. As Hanako grows, she quickly becomes a favorite of the local schoolchildren, including Shota’s son. But their happiness does not last, as the arrival of the Pacific War brings hardship and rationing in its wake. The situation reaches a breaking point when the military orders the euthanasia of animals in zoos across Japan, including Fujimi’s prized elephants. Shota is devastated by this news. Determined to save what he can, Shota convinces Major Keiji Okamoto (Toshiyuki Nagashima), a former classmate, to commence an operation to secretly evacuate Hanako by train.Read More »

After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.Read More »

Synopsis
In 1987 Tokyo, a quirky and sensitive 11-year-old girl copes with a terminally ill father and stressed-out working mother while encountering various adults dealing with their own struggles.Read More »