Japan Movies

An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the Kamakura period (1185-1333) in Japan. Nichiren...

Five years have passed since Japan's Great Zombie Panic. The confusion of those days is gone and people have finally regained their ordinary,...

Otaku Unite! is a feature-length documentary on the history of Japanese animation fandom in the United States: from the importation of anime in the...

In the second part of this manga adaptation, Tairaku Arihiko, who is a teacher at a local high school, lives with his student Shirakaba Aya and...

This documentary film follows for 22 years a nine-member family involved in the manufacturing of Udon in the Goto Islands, Nagasaki prefecture. Mr....

Fu and Suzu are two pretty anarchist girls who decide to take to the road. They set off on a journey to visit the tomb of a small pig by name Pupu....

A found footage anthology horror film by Kôji Shiraishi.

The Japanese volleyball players called the “Oriental Witches” are now in their 70s. From the formation of the team at the factory until...

A school that teaches young boys and girls how to become famous anchorpeople in the media. But there is something strange going in this school. The...

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew...

A shy country girl chooses a part-time job at a maid cafe where she serves customers while dressed up as a maid.

34th year of Meiji (1901). Japanese gangster Shuntaro Hibiki is forced to work for the police to find out who robbed a truck full of gold.

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon has fallen in love with Katsutoshi, a woman who...

Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his...

A film depicting the story of Yokota Megumi who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977.

Several otaku band together to save the baby of a Filipina mother.

Launched in 2011 as a sister group to girl band behemoth AKB48, the Osaka-based NMB48 has become a musical force itself. With a string of No.1 hit...

During her study in Japan, Viona falls in love with Yamada, a Japanese photographer. Their relationship is soon ruined when her long lost crush comes...

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a...