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- Trapped in an unhappy marriage, the wife of a high ranking Fascist official starts a dangerous, self-destructive relationship with a duplicitous S.S. Officer.
- An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.
- In a space colony, a young boy discovers a cadre of terrorists and innocently decides to help them.
- In the year 2045, cybernetic mercenary Motoko Kusanagi returns to Section 9 to face a dangerous new threat: the posthumans. A feature-length recut of the first season of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045.
- Akihabara is the center of the universe for the coolest hobbies and quirkiest amusements. In the spring of 1999, bright-eyed Nagomi Wahira moves there with dreams of joining a maid café. She quickly dons an apron at café Ton Tokoton, AKA the Pig Hut. But adjusting to life in bustling Akihabara isn't as easy as serving tea and delighting customers. Paired with the dour Ranko who never seems to smile, Nagomi must do her best to elevate the Pig Hut over all other maid cafés vying for top ranking. Along the way she'll slice out a place for herself amid the frills and thrills of life at the Pig Hut. Just when Nagomi's dreams are within her grasp, she discovers not everything is as it seems amid the maid cafés of Akihabara.
- Amidst a Chinese and Japanese mafia war, a lawyer for the Chinese mob finds a rift forming between him and his corrupt police office brother.
- On a hot day right before the summer vacation, all first-year male students of the second class from a junior high school disappear. Was it an accident? A group abduction? In fact, they were hiding in an abandoned factory near the river, and used it as a liberation area to rebel against the adults. The adults are in great confusion by the huge and unexpected operations cooperated by the female students; entangled with real abduction cases, a corrupted mayor election, and even involving parents and television reporters who are thrilled by the liberation broadcast and barricade. The comedy mystery progresses in a light tempo that doesn't give the audience a chance to breathe until the brilliant end that is full of satire.
- Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.
- A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
- Weeks before the end of World War II, a boy finds an American girl hidden in the barn of his grandmother's house. The girl turns out to be his cousin, and they become friends, but the Japanese police is informed of the girl's presence.
- Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate.
- It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the Red Army members and PFLP, they produced this newsreel film depicting the everyday activities of Arab guerrillas as a cinematic narrative on the world revolution.
- The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy.
- Set in Okinawa 1971, one year before the return of power to the mainland, this film highlights the bloody battle of Okinawa Yakuza gangsters versus mainland system.
- Set in the year 2019 in Japan. In order to crack down on free expression, a new law is passed, which allows for the government to create an armed force to find and destroy objectionable printed material. Meanwhile, to oppose this oppressive crackdown, the Library Defense is created. The Library Defense, including instructor Atsushi Dojo (Junichi Okada) and Iku Kasahara (Nana Eikura), work to protect the libraries. A fierce battle then ensues between these two groups.
- A young drifter and a precocious girl of sixteen slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past.
- Set 18 months after movie Library Wars (2013). After the government's enactment of the Media Betterment Act, battles wage between the Betterment Squads and the Library Defense. The Library Defense resists censorship and advocates freedom of expression. The biggest battle awaits for the Library Defense.
- Nagase Ren takes on the role of "I," a university student who moved to Tokyo and is living alone for the first time. I has no friends. I has no girlfriend. The lectures at the university were horribly boring, and I was always looking at Tokyo Tower on the way back from his laborious job. While being attracted to the ruthless, dignified and intelligent "Senior," played by Ikeda Elaiza, whom he meets in the "Hide and Seek Circle" that he secretly falls in love with. Meanwhile, I meets a man called "Black Suit," played by Emoto Tasuku, who is an extremely charismatic and mysterious person. Little did "I" know that the two people he met would bring excitement to his mundane, humdrum existence.
- A prostitute, an author and a returning soldier face the immanent despair and nihilism in their war-struck nation. For them, sex has become meaningless and at the same time the only way to feel anything at all. In his first feature film, INOUE explicitly and pitilessly pursues the roles of victims and perpetrators and the question of guilt in Japan.
- Andrea, a photographer with great skills, believes that this experience is exhausted and directs his interests on the cinema. In search of funding for the film he is planning, he is, however, sucked into the world of compromises and servility that he intends to abandon. But Andrea's sentimental and professional relationships, instead of shattering, are consolidated..
- In this anime/tokusatsu hybrid TV series, evil intelligent dinosaurs are on the rampage and rising to the challenge is the D Task Force led by siblings Ai and Zen Tachibana who combine to control a super ship and, later, a giant robot.
- A tiny alien president takes refuge in Nobitas home due to an interstellar war. Doraemon and gang help him by thwarting the enemies.
- After one of their group is caught for speeding a group of trouble-making teenagers decide to prank the local police officer. It starts with simple speeding pranks but gradually moves to more elaborate and bizarre pranks.
- An exploration of the link between science and beauty through the work of scientists at CERN, in Geneva.
- Junior-high students are restrained by their teachers and parents... One day, they plan a rebellion.
- In a world where information is heavily censored, Kasahara Iku joins the Library Force to protect the freedom of literature and follow in the footsteps of a man who once saved her favorite book from being destroyed.
- Film mixing live action with the famous animated Italian rubber mouse, Topo Gigio.
- A supposedly true-to-life story of one of the biggest rightists - yakuza bosses in 1950s - '60s Japan.
- Iku joined the Library Defense Force after a member from that team retrieved an important book that was targeted for censorship. She endures team leader Atsushi's harsh treatment but also finds herself becoming attracted to him.
- A Yakuza group from Osaka with dreams of national dominance moves into the snowy Hokuriku region, sparking a bloody turf war with local gangs.
- Following Zeni no Senso and Uso no Senso, Wana no Senso is the third work of the "war" series. The drama centers around Washizu Toru, a parliamentary secretary who is betrayed by a member of the Parliament, to whom he has devoted 20 years of his life, and decides to take revenge on the politicians who wield power over him.
- Two generals portrays World War II through the rock-scissors-bag, but also by some absurd torture techniques.
- Two British brothers who are making money for their homeland are meeting buyers for opium in China. There is a police force to counter the dealers, but is not only ineffectual, but also corrupt and dealing in narcotics itself. Confronting the situation the government assigns an incognito bureaucrat to the issue. He confronts and arrests the police, but the bulk of the drugs is with the Britons.
- Cyborg 009 and his team are re-united to fight the latest menace from the Black Ghost. Before they can tackle their foe the team must overcome an army of monsters sent to stop them, including giant jellyfish, and treacherous cyborgs.
- Giacomo is a former football player in a small town with a big lake, reader of detective stories. His meeting with Sara, suspect in the murder of her husband, a wealthy property owner, suddenly changes his life to commit murder, to madness.
- Francesco (Bluteau) makes a living as a cartoonist and fixing stolen bikes in a Sicilian town; where manic director, Harry, comes to shoot his film with beautiful but unhappy actress Yasmin (Rouass). She befriends Francesco who falls for her whilst believing himself unworthy, but she too finds happiness for the 1st time, sparking reprisal from the director - whilst the local mafia chases Francesco
- After World War II when Okinawa was under control of the US, the local Yakuza prospered. But when the island was returned to Japan, the mainland Yakuza tries to take over and the locals tries to compete.
- A game whose objective is simple: a group of high school girls murder each other until one of them achieves seven kills.
- Kasahara Iku and Dojo Atsushi receive an emergency recall in the middle of their date as Japan is rocked by a terror attack. Their new duty is a protection detail assigned to Touma Kurato, an author. Meanwhile, the relationship between Librarians and the Media Purity Committee is also worsening. During yet another hostile confrontation, Dojo is seriously wounded. Although Kasahara is badly flustered by this turn of events, Dojo still sees fit to entrust her with Touma's protection.
- In a melancholic seaside town, the bodies of two lovers who committed double suicide are found on the shore. A local reporter and the dead woman's pimp begin to investigate and find out that something very suspicious is going on.
- The story of a heretic square religated to the lost pages of history