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- Life in the village may seem monotonous to a junior high school student. Local bullies are trouble and parents are annoying. Then one exciting day in 1987 Takashi hears a rumour that a porn star called Kyoko is visiting the village to sign autographs at the local video store - and it happens to be the one he frequents. Takashi and his friends have something for which to be excited.
- In 2002, a new kidnapping case takes place. The kidnapper introduces himself as "Sato" (sugar) and demands twenty million yen for ransom.
- 1989 is 64 Shouwa year in Japanese calendar, thus unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in Prefectural Police Department.
- Diary of an 88 Temples Pilgrim
- Nanami is an apathetic, part-time junior high school teacher, whose only solace comes from connecting with others on "Planet".
- The movie is set in 1969, when Japanese students were enmeshed with campus riots, anti-war rallies, and the growth of subcultures in music, cinema, literature, and theater. Influenced by the atmosphere of the time, the protagonist, Kyôko, a senior at a high school for girls, forms an "Anti-Uniform Committee" and joins a rally at a university. However, Kyôko hates herself because she knows she is only copying others. One day, she is wounded at a rally, and realizes she has been taking campus riot for granted. Fleeing from the riot police, she runs into "A Cappella," the café where she meets and falls in love with a college student, named Wataru. She undergoes a sexual awakening and loses her virginity. Things seem to be going well with Wataru, but then she witnesses something she cannot believe... This film depicts the emotional rollercoaster of being a teenager. Love, hurt, betrayal and rebellion all play a role. "A Cappella" is a coming-of-age tale, where one finds something important and grows up by losing it
- After receiving news about the death of his estranged friend, a workaholic IT company executive heads to his hometown to fulfill a promise he made.
- After their twenty-something son moves out Yohei, a school teacher, and his wife Miyoko may begin a new phase in their lives. Yohei is taken aback, however, when he comes across divorce papers stashed in the house. rethinking his life he has to plat his next steps with his wife.
- In the aftermath of the 2011 Great Tohoku Disaster along the Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima coastline, a young boy with a dream and an old samurai leader in full armour discover a mysterious power in the ruins of a world full of ancient rituals, old traditions, social taboos and Japanese customs.
- A young man is ostracized by his classmates after he bullies a deaf girl to the point where she moves away. Years later, he sets off on a path for redemption.
- A young Ayane Kataoka (Rin Takanashi) works at the City Hall in Akaiwa, Okayama, but her main interest is growing and developing peaches in the orchard. She even plans to register a new type on which her dead brother worked. Enter Osamu Kimura (Takumi Saito) from the Ministry Of Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries who has come to the city. The film premiered at the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival.
- Kenichi Ichihara is absorbed in surfing, because he admires his father who is also a surfer. His father dies in an unexpected accident. Since then, Kenichi is estranged from surfing and the sea. One summer, by recommendation of Kenichi's friends Makoto Uehara and Daijiro Ohara, Kenichi decides to go to the sea. On the way to the sea, Kenichi meets two women Tsugumi and Emiko. He is pickpocketed by the women. When Kenichi gets to the sea, he happens to meet Tsugumi and Emiko again.
- The camera delves into the lives of local whalers, global activists and an American journalist in the "whale and dolphin killing town" of Taiji, Japan, revealing not everything is as black and white as it seems.
- A love story that depicts love with artificial intelligence, filmed with smartphones. Haruka Hoshino, a dreamer who wants to have her own store, continues to apply for recruitment at a well-established Western confectionary shop, but only notification of rejection is received. One day, a spam mail arrived, Haruka invited by the phrase "Your dreams come true" that was written there, installs AI (artificial intelligence) equipped call type application.
- This is a story about how Hiroshima remembers August 6th
- Nega Nebulus investigates a disturbance in the Accelerated World which is also having negative effects on the real world, and is forced to team up with the other Kings to combat the threat.
- After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
- Mai is a 2nd year high school student. She begins to communicate with inanimate things like dolls and earrings. Mai has not talked from her heart to others, but by talking to these objects she begins to change.
- The film "Ai-un" narrates the life story of the Jesuit and Zen teacher Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle (1898-1990) who became a pioneer of Buddhist-Christian dialogue.
- The film revolves around the students of the Yotsusei Gakuen traveling to a southern island in search for the "Legendary Dress."
- The second part in the Ajin trilogy on high schooler Kei, a demi-human with the power of immortality who in the eyes of both the general public and governments, is a rare specimen who needs to be hunted down and handed over to scientists to be experimented on for life.
- With Sato rendered powerless, Kei Nagai hatches a plan. However, before that plan can come to fruition, it already begins to come apart at the seams, as ajin extremists make their move, and Sato's frightful true form becomes known.
- If you like characters whose names begin with 'M' you would love this film. Literary editor Mamoru Miyamoto and author Masao Muraoka are friends. Masao Muraoka's last novel, Aki No Riyuu, was written a while ago as he has physiological and psychological problems. Communication is conducted through writing and the men stay close, ostensibly because the editor wants the writer's next work, but also because Masao's wife Misaki appeals to the editor. Miku, on the other hand, is a fan of the aforementioned novel and relates to Masao's work in another way.
- Yashima is a woman who works as a plumber also uncomfortable with her own sexuality. One day she visits a home for a job and meets Kyu. Yashima senses Kyu's eyes watching her. They become intimate, but a dark secret is soon revealed.
- An experimental docu-fiction about people with different ethnicities, sexualities, and religious/social/political backgrounds.
- The story of three men in search for meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives.
- A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these have been carried out in Japan for over 2000 years by the Ama-San.
- Four young soldiers raise the orphaned son of their commanding officer. As they each decide to go working in munitions factories, it is up to four women to take care of the boy as they wait for the men to return. Based on a script from 1944 and shot in long black-and-white takes, ANOHITO takes place in a strange present where the war still rages on.
- Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.