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- An exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy, private eye Ryo Saeba reluctantly forms an alliance with his late partner's sister to investigate his death.
- An epic set in post-WWII Japan and centered on an American former G.I. who joins the yakuza.
- Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Villain) has decided to reinterpret Eastwood's Oscar®-winning Unforgiven as a Japanese period film.
- Mizuki's husband Yusuke drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly comes back home, she is not that surprised. Instead, Mizuki is wondering what took him so long. She agrees to let Yusuke take her on a journey.
- Given up her dream and life long ago, Yoko has been socially isolated for years and barely leaves her tiny apartment. When she receives the news of her estranged father's death, she is forced to leave the room and ride with her cousin to return home for the first time in 20 years. However, Yoko ends up left alone in the highway rest stop... Now, without a cell phone nor enough money for public transportation, Yoko has no choice but to hitch some rides in order to make it to her father's funeral.
- When Val is released from prison, she's determined to make a new life for herself. But the criminal underworld won't let her go that easily, and her former boss won't stop until she's paid her debt - with blood.
- A young student believes spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time.
- Rookie movie director Koichi and his crew travels to the mountain village of Yamamura to film his next movie. The villagers are eventually enlisted to help film the movie and, in particular, 60-year-old lumberjack Katsuhiko helps against his will.
- Satoshi is only in the fifth grade at elementary school. He is unhappy with his father, his perfidy and the company he keeps. Enter transfer student Kozue who is different and exciting. She is not just any different though. She truly is from far away and has a gift for Satsohi and the townspeople. The town grow close.
- Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system, CANARY tells the moving story of two children, each abandoned by their families, who come together in the wake of the scarring event. Twelve-year-old Koichi has grown up within the confines of a religious cult whose violently instilled dogma has all but destroyed his sense of identity. After a murderous attack, the cult disbands and Koichi finds himself abandoned by his mother and forcibly separated from his sister. To reunite his broken family, Koichi breaks out of the child welfare system and sets off to Tokyo. While on the run, he meets Yuki, a girl desperate to flee from her abusive father. Koichi and Yuki travel together in search of his sister, facing the inevitable troubles of children making their way in the world without the guidance or protection of adults. The separate scars of their pasts cause friction between the two, but their struggles develop a familial bond that allows them to confront both their pasts and the future ahead. Beautiful and poignant, Akihiko Shiota's film illustrates the resiliency of forgotten youth in forging their own destiny from a tragic past. For more information, please visit www.canarythemovie.com
- The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work out at the beginning but as time goes by the newly formed relationship between the tramp and the Drive-In worker starts to show the workers harmful will of possession, which finally leads to the somehow sad but also optimistically interpretable ending.
- Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna."
- The film tells the story of a small community on a small island in Okinawa, Japan. Especially it focusses on the story of a grandma named Nabbie, but although it's her story told in the film's centre there are some young people, the grand-daughter of Nabbie and a young Japanese who just came to visit the little island. As the film evolves with the more or less ordinary events of the little island's inhabitant's more or less ordinary life, the story behind Nabbie's life gets more and more obvious. It's a surprise to most everyone involved in one or the other way.
- After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them.
- Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.
- Haruko meets Kenichi, who has just dropped out of high school, when she finds him collapsed on a bridge after he was beaten up. She's instantly smitten and thinks he's her destiny, but he is far more interested in Mayumi, the reason for the beating. Not your typical teenage romance, this perky, playful film will keep you guessing.
- In national broadcaster NHK's 'ghost story,' four episodes have been compiled into two films. Each story is taken from, or at least inspired by a well-known and familiar classic Japanese macabre tale involving spirits or other horror, set in various era and often updated.
- Sexuality blooms early when an elementary school student boy falls in love with a junior high school girl in tandem with the onset of his puberty. It is barely younger man and older woman relationship, but all concerned are proud and on a high including the students' adoring parents.
- University student Jun has a lot of free time on her hands. She encounters Haru who is in high school and looks a woman she knew in her past. They meet Tokio, who is the grandson of the woman she knew, and learn that the person is dead. They come across media of the woman's work.
- The story of a person who is looking for her own daughter. She is married and has an affair with her husband's business partner. Her family and her lover's family were close and travelled to Hokkaido together. She felt she wants to leave her family and be in the arms of the man she loves. She engages in the affair even wile on the trip. Yet, her daughter disappears in the morning. She is nowhere to be found. She drifts apart from her lover.
- In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are sketchy at best, yet no one has any answers. When she starts having hallucinations involving his ghost, however, she seeks some psychological help, eventually uncovering some things that she may have wished she'd left covered.
- Two different high school children - a swimmer and an academic - set off on a quest together one summer.
- Hoteru haibisukasu depicts a summer at a small run down hotel in Okinawa through the eyes of Mieko, the youngest daughter of the hotels extraordinarily international family.
- A punk comes back to his family home on a small island when his girlfriend becomes pregnant.
- The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky, then cross paths again months later.
- On the run, Ippei seeks shelter at his wife Ryoko's place. She agrees to hide him for a week in return for his signing of the divorce agreement. Through a peephole, Ippei witnesses the family's in-fighting and the movements of his wife's lover. Soon his passion for Ryoko is revived.
- The last work starring Ren Ohsugi, the actor who also appeared in Takeshi Kitano's HANA-BI crowned with the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion award and who passed away suddenly on February 21st this year, and the only work produced by him.
- Former punk rocker Jonen, now a Buddhist priest, seems to have lost the meaning of his life. His manic depression handicaps him further. Music seems to be the only solution for him to exorcise his demons, against all obstacles and sound volume controllers.
- At midnight, in a residential area of Osaka, a middle aged man is murdered. The person who killed the man is a high school student. En (Honoka Matsumoto) is a 2nd grade high school student. She spends her boring days with her friend Kotoko, who tends to change boyfriends frequently. Kotoko falls in love with Narihira-kun at first sight. Narihira-kun is a soccer player at their high school. Since then, the relationship between En and Kotoko changes.
- 10-year-old children Midori and Futa live separate lives. Both feel alone and isolated from their parents. They struggle to be kids under the stress and weight of their fractured family lives.
- Young Japanese architect Tsubame has to face his family history: His Taiwanese mother took his brother Ryushin back to her home country during their childhood. In order to follow the last wish of his father, Tsubame hesitantly travels to Taiwan for the first time to see Ryushin again after more than 20 years.
- Two brothers: multiple problems. The older one has down syndrome. The younger one is developmentally challenged, and has brushes with the law and has debts because of his actions and his friends, but also needs to take care of his older sibling. When the boys' grandmother dies the brothers lose their home and are destitute and stay with a friend's friend and while the younger man is looking for a job things are bad enough that they still use the older brother to conduct some of their dirty work reckoning his illness shields him from the police, jail and the legal system.
- There comes a time in the life of a prostitute where clients start gravitating away. It is the inevitable result of being past one's prime, aging and of course becoming used up. Okino opts to pack it up and return to her village in retirement. She needs a plan to escape her life however. She recruits a poor toy-maker and an actor and they set out for her hometown. The three companions experience adventure, hardship and fun en route.
- Shirayuri Club is an amateur band started in 1947. They still are playing wonderful music in various occasions. The documentary captures their first tour to Tokyo - in other words, this is "Buena Vista Social Club", Okinawa version.