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Perfect Blue poster
Movie

Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

Perfect Blue

Feb 1998

13 Assassins poster
Movie

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

13 Assassins

Sep 2010

Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage: Friends of the Future poster
Movie

In the city of Minato Mirai in Yokohama, the news of Fusion's defeat by the Pretty Cures is the hottest topic in town! Girls everywhere, were in love with the Pretty Cures, are dressing up and acting as their favourite Cures. Only Sakagami Ayumi, the new transfer student, is alone by herself. On her way home from school, Ayumi encounters a strange creature. After naming it Fuu-chan, Ayumi and the creature soon become good friends. However, Fuu-chan is actually a piece of Fusion, and holds the power of darkness. In an effort to make Ayumi happy, Fuu-chan swallows up everything that Ayumi dislikes, creating chaos in school and throughout the city! To help bring across Ayumi's true feelings to Fuu-chan, all 28 Pretty Cures were gathered once more. When everyone's power comes together, a miraculous light starts to shine.

Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage: Friends of the Future

Mar 2012

Tokyo! poster
Movie

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.

Tokyo!

Aug 2008

Stand by Me Doraemon 2 poster
Movie

Nobita travels to the future to show his beloved grandma his bride, but adult Nobita has fled his own wedding.

Stand by Me Doraemon 2

Nov 2020

M-1アナザーストーリー~“史上最高”大会の舞台ウラ完全密着~ poster
Movie

M-1アナザーストーリー~“史上最高”大会の舞台ウラ完全密着~

Dec 2019

The Last Shot in the Bar poster
Movie

In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner of a modeling agency.

The Last Shot in the Bar

Dec 2017

11 Rebels poster
Movie

When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fortress against the Imperial army.

11 Rebels

Nov 2024

Stand by Me Doraemon poster
Movie

Sewashi and Doraemon find themselves way back in time and meet Nobita. It is up to Doraemon to take care of Nobita or else he will not return to the present.

Stand by Me Doraemon

Aug 2014

Blood and Bones poster
Movie

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.

Blood and Bones

Nov 2004

Smuggler poster
Movie

To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.

Smuggler

Oct 2011

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die: The Movie poster
Movie

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die: The Movie

May 2023

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence poster
Movie

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

May 1983

The Last Recipe poster
Movie

A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.

The Last Recipe

Nov 2017

The Last Message poster
Movie

Police coroner Kuraishi Yoshio (Masaaki Uchino) and the crime lab team attempt to solve a serial murder case with a killer who seems to kill indiscriminately.

The Last Message

Jun 2012

Solanin poster
Movie

Meiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have his band become professional.

Solanin

Apr 2010

Kabei: Our Mother poster
Movie

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.

Kabei: Our Mother

Jan 2008

Birthday Wishes poster
Movie

Although her mother died when she was ten, Noriko still receives yearly birthday cards from her. Her life gets complicated as she grows older but she still finds comfort in her mother's messages.

Birthday Wishes

Oct 2016

Sakuran poster
Movie

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while trying to cling to the man she loves.

Sakuran

Dec 2006

The Great Passage poster
Movie

Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, The Great Passage. In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is overwhelmed with problems.

The Great Passage

Apr 2013

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