Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried...

Toshiaki Nagashima is a biologist who is doing major research on mitochondria. When his beautiful young wife is tragically involved in a car accident...

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film...

Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the...

The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter...

Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a...

According to an ancient Japanese legend, mermaid flesh may grant immortality if eaten. However, there is a much greater chance that consumption will...

In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of...

14-year-old Takuya lives in a rural town near mountains and rivers. His 29-year-old uncle Koji works as a graphic designer in urban Tokyo. Koji's...

Towa lives in a peculiar sanatorium after committing suicide. Convalescing in sanatorium, she is informed that she has only 7 days to live. Isolated...

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.

A family believes they are aliens from other planets and tries to save Earth from impending calamity.

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new...

At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to...

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies...

Masato and his wife Keiko are a happy couple, with their children Eiji and Erina. He, she and Eiji are plunged into despair, after Eiji and Erina are...

An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then...

A young girl falls in love with a boy who died 100 years ago, and who wants to be reborn as a new born baby.

A film about a pregnancy

There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He...

This work is a 12-year story of Mana, a woman who cannot accept the death of her best friend, staring at her as she tries to step forward while...

Ayumi Ishida won the Blue Ribbon for the Best Actress.

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...

A reworking of MPD Psycho by the author of the original manga Eiji Otsuka edited from the TV show and newly-filmed scenes.

Yuri is a high school student in the present day. She isn't happy with her life at home or school. One day, she has an argument with her mother and...