Japanese Cinema

A portrait of a young girl preparing to grieve, navigating between dream and reality.

In a desolate world, a young girl devoutly guards an egg of unknown origin.

A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realizes he is trapped in a subway station.

A mysterious woman teams up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge. Together they kidnap members of an organization and torture ...

While seeking to cure himself of a curse, young warrior Ashitaka stumbles into a conflict between the people of Iron Town and Princess Mononoke.

Hirayama works maintaining public toilets in Tokyo. His life is structured around routines and passions that lead him to simply appreciate life.

A documentary that focuses on Hayao Miyazaki’s deep connection to nature.

Sano returns to the sleepy coastal village where he fell in love with his wife, Nagi, five years earlier.

Two young skaters, polar opposites in personality, team up to train for a figure skating duo.

Keiko is deaf and lives on the outskirts of Tokyo, where she trains relentlessly in boxing.

After her father is involved in a serious accident, 11-year-old Yuna’s life is turned upside down. Reunited with her mother, Yuna faces the possibility ...

Preteen Akira Fukushima (Yûya Yagira) and his young siblings have been abandoned by their mother, Keiko (You). Keiko, who has moved in with a new lover, ...

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s ...

Love, grief, isolation: a quiet film about what connects us—and what drives us apart. Sign language gives shape to the unspeakable.

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site ...

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When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms ...

A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.

Amami-Oshima Island in Japan. A 14-year-old boy finds a body floating in the sea. He asks his girlfriend for help.

After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, convinced by the discourse of an adoption association, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a ...

Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers ...

In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An ...

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hirō Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever ...

A cafe owner discovers that the TV in his cafe suddenly shows images from the future, but only two minutes into the future.

Boxes that are left out for people to anonymously drop off their unwanted babies.

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters ...

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a ...

College student Asako falls in love at first sight with Baku after meeting at a photography exhibit. Romance sparks between the two but doesn't last long ...

A home care nurse is suspected of being an accomplice after the youngest daughter in the family she works for was abused.

With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns ...

Also known as Phantom Love, the French/Japanese co-production L'Empire de la Passion follows famed Japanese director Nagisa Oshima's multinational production, ...

Three aliens come to Earth and take over human bodies in preparation for a massive invasion .

A passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight. At a firm specializing in ...

Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”).

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to a sexual obsession which then came to a violent end. Based ...

A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale of young ...