Miyuki Matsuda

Natsume Hamanaka was a police rookie with a promising future until she was in a car crash that killed her brother and took her eyesight. Three years later, she gets around with her seeing-eye dog Pal, but she’s unable to get over her regret and devastation.

Story takes place 2 years after "Chihayafuru Part 2" and Chihaya is now a high school senior.

After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationals. As they prepare, Chihaya is faced with new personal issues as her childhood friend and inspiration, Arata, has announced that he has quit competitive karuta. Not only that, but a new rival emerges in the reigning female champion karuta player, Shinobu Wakamiya, a karuta prodigy who became the nation's and the world's greatest female karuta player as a 9th grader. All of this forces Chihaya to reexamine her love of the game in the midst of preparing for one of the biggest tournaments of the year.

When Chihaya Ayase was in the 6th grade of elementary school, she met Arata Wataya. Arata Wataya transferred from Fukui Prefecture. Taichi Mashima was Chihaya Ayase's friend since they were little. Arata got close to Chihaya and Taichi from the card game karuta. Four years later, Chihaya is a high school student. Chihaya learns that Arata, who went back to Fukui Prefecture, doesn't play karuta anymore. Believing they will meet Arata again, Chihaya and Taichi starts a karuta club at their high school.

After the death of his grandfather, Koen Shirakawa (Atsushi Ito) quits his job at a bookstore and goes to a temple to become a monk.

Ryoichi es un oficinista que sueña con ser una estrella de la música y que adora a su tortuga Pikadon. Cuando sus compañeros comiencen a mofarse de él, se verá forzado a tirar a su querida mascota por el váter. La tortuga, por su parte, emprenderá su propia aventura. (FILMAFFINITY)

An omnibus recorded in a short film by five film directors with the motif of the song "Kai Band".

Kazuki de 14 años de edad, tiene una vida solitaria y antisocial. Vive con su madre, aunque siente que no tiene el amor necesario por parte de esta. Hiroshi Haruyama es un chico problemático que hace trabajos de medio tiempo para ganarse la vida en vez de ir a la escuela. Es miembro de las pandillas de motocicletas "Nights".

Los habitantes de la isla de Amami, viven en armonía con la naturaleza, para ellos en cada árbol, cada piedra y cada planta vive un dios. Una tarde de verano, Kaito descubre el cuerpo de un hombre flotando en el mar. Su amiga Kyoko le ayudará a descifrar el misterio. Crecerán juntos, aprendiendo a ser adultos, descubriendo los ciclos de la vida, la muerte, el amor...

Ushibuka in Amakusa City prospered a century ago with its fishing industry and red-light district, but has become Japan's fastest declining city. Homemaker Yumie wants to revive the town she loves, and invites her friends to realize an unusual plan at a former brothel built a century ago.

On the night of Mikihiko's 18th birthday, Mikihiko thinks of childhood friend Morio. Morio has been in vegetative state since the age of 6 after being involved in an accident.One day, Moria awakens from his vegetative state. Morio still has the mind of a 6-year-old.

Having abandoned modern civilization, Ryoichi lives an isolated, self-sufficient life on a snow-covered mountain and sends mail bombs to the CEOs of corporations and TV networks. One day, he encounters a mysterious creature in the forest. That night, his older brother, who had committed suicide, appears before him at his cabin. The apparition takes Ryoichi beyond a door, where Ryoichi learns the truth about his family.

In March 2011, Japan was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, with the devastating tsunami that followed causing a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power station that sent ripples of discontent throughout the country. Director Iwai Shunji's Friends after 3.11 (2011) is a deeply personal documentary which uses the statements of some of his closest friends to express the views of a society in a state of political despondency.

The story of an ordinary family where upon the grandmother's death Kanji becomes an alcoholic homebody, Hinako begins acting up and smiling leaves the lip of Haruko. Those are not the only problems either.

In a remote area of Hokkaido, two lonely high school students meet and connect through a shared love of music.

Go Ayano plays Kazunari Mizusawa, a young photographer gathering pictures of girls in Shibuya for a documentary. Suddenly the constant noise of the bustling crowd is drowned out by a high school girl (Aimi Satsukawa) shrieking in anger. Mizusawa is startled, but also confused by the fact that nobody in the area but him seemed to care or even notice. His fascination with figuring out exactly what makes young girls want to come to Shibuya in the first place makes him determined to find out more about her.

Akagi Kaede regresa a su pueblo natal, Yamaguchi, de donde se marchó hace cinco años tras la muerte de su abuela. Kaede ha vuelto convertido en cura para trabajar en la iglesia con el Padre Kitano, que ayudaba a su abuela a cuidar de Kaede cuando este era un niño, después de que su madre lo abandonara. Debido a unos problemas logísticos Kaede no puede pasar la noche en la residencia de la iglesia y tiene que quedarse en el hotel del pueblo, allí descubre que pese a haberse cambiado el nombre de Kaede por Shuu la gente lo recuerda y recuerda también a sus padres la prematura muerte de su padre en un accidente de tráfico y el trabajo de su madre en ese mismo hotel. El regreso a su pueblo y la relación de Kaede con Tomoya un niño pequeño que vive con su abuela debido a la enfermedad de su madre que está hospitalizada, hacen que poco a poco vuelvan los recuerdos del momento en el que su madre lo abandonó y cuando se rindió con ella.

Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.

Cinco directores diferentes adaptan las obras del autor japonés Otsuichi en esta colección de cortos de animación en vivo y no convencionales. Una mujer es asesinada bajo extrañas circunstancias en la película del título, "Zoo"; Las hermanas gemelas son tratadas de manera diferente en "Kazari y Yoko"; Dos hermanos se encuentran atrapados en "Siete Habitaciones"; un sobreviviente aprende sobre la vida y la muerte en "When the Sun Shines"; y los padres pierden la capacidad de verse unos a otros en "Hasta ahora".

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.

Anthology of five low-budget short films: "Nao and I", "MILD7", "LOVERS", "Strawberry Fields", "Label"

A story of a group of high school boys who play the Japanese game "Bo taoshi"

One morning Hikaru Hino, a high school student living in Hakodate, wakes up to find she has grown a tail. She quickly cancels her first date with classmate Hayato, complicating their relationship. Hikaru's sister makes a fake tail to cheer her up and takes her out around town together, but a reporter captures their photo which leads to a huge commotion in Hakodate. As the tale commotion reaches a fever pitch, another person with a tail, Mr. Yoshida, shows up. As a result, the commotion grows into a full-blown incident that involves the whole of Hakodate.

Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls ill.

Un cuarentón viudo, a propuesta de un amigo, convoca un casting para una inexistente película con la intención de encontrar una nueva esposa, pero se embarcará en una relación donde las torturas y el dolor físico formarán parte de su vida.

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city child looking forward to a summer of reading comic books and playing video games. Instead, he is bundled off to his grandparent's house on the Inland Sea. His grandfather, Yuta's parents explain, has been acting strangely as of late -- he eats the offerings in the family altar and once tried to lead attendants at a funeral in a rousing round of calisthenics. Since his mother and father are swamped with work, and his elder sister (Nana Sano) is studying for college entrance exams, Yuta has been asked to look after Grandpa. The old man takes Yuta on a tour of Onomichi, regaling him with 70 years of its history. Along the way, Grandpa slips in and out of the past, increasingly unable to discern between the two.

Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager (Ôtomo) and a 40-year-old father of four (Bito).

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.

The detective with the highest arrest rate. In fact, he was a vicious detective who communicated with the gangsters!

Obayashi’s take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.