Hajime Inoue

A human drama based on the true story of Satoshi Fukushima, a professor at the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, who became the world's first deafblind university professor, and his mother, Reiko. Reiko lives with her teacher husband and three sons in a town in the Kansai region. The youngest son, Satoshi, who lost his sight when he was a child, grew up with a naivete surrounded by the love of his family and went to high school at a school for the blind in Tokyo, but at the age of 18 he also lost his hearing. Wracked by loneliness in a world of darkness and silence, Satoshi was given hope by Reiko's new means of communication, "finger Braille," which she devised based on her daily life with him. Mother and son courageously overcome difficulties one by one and open up new possibilities in their lives.

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.

A mother, daughter and two of their friends live in an old Western-style house in Suginami. As secrets are revealed, they face challenges together.

A woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the freight company which owns the truck becomes the target of the public and the media’s wrath, Tokuro Akamatsu, the president of the freight company, realizes that a structural defect within the truck itself may have been to blame. A conspiracy of the wheel manufacturer's attempts to cover up a defective product is uncovered.

Depois de uma de suas sessões de furtos, Osamu e seu filho se deparam com uma garotinha escondida. A princípio relutam em ajudar a menina, mas a esposa de Osamu concorda em abrigar e cuidar dela depois de descobrir as dificuldades que ela enfrenta. Embora a família seja pobre e mal ganhem dinheiro com os pequenos crimes que cometem, eles parecem viver felizes juntos até que um incidente revela segredos escondidos, testando os laços que os unem.

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.

Toko Amano worked as a detective, but to take care of her sick husband she quit her job. After her husband passed away, Toko Amano now works as a crisis management expert. 3 days ago, Toko Amano's former mother-in-law rode on an express train with beds. She witnessed a man strangling a woman and told the train conductor, but he thought she imagined it. The police later searched for the woman's body, but could not find her. Toko Amano boards the same express train that her former mother-in-law rode. She looks for the dead body.

Shigemori é advogado renomado assume a defesa de Misumi, um suspeito de roubo e assassinato, que já cumpriu pena há 30 anos por outro assassinato. As chances de ganhar o caso parecem extremamente baixas – ele assumiu livremente a culpa, sabendo que terá de enfrentar a pena de morte se for condenado. À medida que o advogado se aprofunda no caso, e escuta os testemunhos da família da vítima e do próprio Misumi, ele começa a duvidar se o seu cliente é realmente o assassino. Seleção Oficial – Festival de Veneza 2017 – Em competição.

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.

Uma mulher solitária de Tóquio (Shinobu Terajima) se apaixona por seu professor (Josh Hartnett) quando decide fazer aulas de inglês. Quando seu professor desaparece, ela parte em uma viagem para encontrá-lo que a leva para o sul da Califórnia. Adaptação do curta-metragem homônimo de Atsuko Hirayanagi, de 2014. Atsuko Hirayanagi também dirigirá o filme, fazendo sua estreia em longas-metragens.

O estudante colegial Daisuke (Ryunosuke Kamiki) está apaixonado por sua colega de classe Hiromi. Numa viagem de escola o onibus em que estão sofre um acidente e quando Daisuke acorda ele descobre que morreu e esta sozinho no inferno.

A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.

A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.

In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu (Hiroshi Tamaki) wants to avoid useless bloodshed and sends a peace envoy to Takamori Saigō, but Katsu Kaishu is unable to get a response from Takamori Saigō. One day, Katsu Kaishu meets high school teacher Mikako (Satomi Ishihara) and her student Masaya who is captivated by the shogunate. Mikako and her student Masaya tells Katsu Kaishu that they are from the future. Katsu Kaishu takes care of Mikako and her student Masaya, while Mikako hopes to go back to the future where she came from.

A história gira em torno de uma menina chamada Mitsuki Kanzaki, que vive com seu irmão Yūya depois que sua mãe se casou novamente. Um dia, Mitsuki é possuído pelo auto-proclamado espírito de uma menina, Hiyori Kotobuki. Hiyori (no corpo de Mitsuki) deve se apaixonar por Yūya para se mover em direção às "Portas do Céu".

Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio, "A Boy Called H" follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh, nicknamed "H". His father, Morio runs a tailor shop. With the onset of World War II, their family must endure difficult times. Nevertheless, H is filled with curiosity and a sense of justice. Based on the autobiographical novel "Shonen H" by Kappa Senoh (published by Kodansha, July 9, 1999).

Three female idols appear on a television show to investigate an exorcism. An exorcist with psychic powers named Unsui claims that the show’s subjects, the Kaneda family, are cursed by a demon that’s too powerful for him to banish on his own, so he calls in a fellow exorcist to help. Soon, a reckless ghost hunter enters the fray as the three idols witness a series of terrifying events.

An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents must evacuate, but the family lives on a farm, with only half of the area designated as an evacuation area.

O tema deste filme é o amor entre pais e filhos. A história cobre 13 anos e começa com Hana, uma estudante de faculdade de 19 anos, que se encontra e se apaixona, daquela forma intensa vista nos contos de fadas, por um “lobisomem”. Depois de se casar com ele, Hana dá a luz e cria duas crianças lobo: A mais velha, Yuki (neve), nasceu em um dia em que nevava e Ame (chuva), o mais novo, nasceu em um dia chuvoso. Os quatro viviam tranquilamente em um canto da cidade, para esconder a existência de “crianças lobo”, mas, quando o lobisomem morre de repente, Hana decide se mudar para uma cidade rural, distante da modernidade.

A comet crashes into a Japanese forest and a group of mighty ninjas must fight a group of killer Aliens before they reach their village and kill everyone.

Higashigaoka Junior High School is in turmoil as one of the pupils, Noguchi, who had been bullied, attempted suicide last term. On the first day of the new term, a substitute teacher arrives to take the second year class. When the teacher, Murauchi (Hiroshi Abe), introduces himself, the pupils are surprised by his stutter. He has a speech impediment. Unable to speak eloquently, Murauchi faces his pupils with ‘words of truth’. His first instruction to the pupils is to return Noguchi’s desk and chair to the original place in the classroom. Every morning Murauchi greets the empty desk, “Good morning, Noguchi.” This causes a ripple beyond the classroom and among other teachers and parents, but Murauchi will not stop doing it. Eventually the day comes when Murauchi must leave.

Tokyo Sonata é o retrato de uma família japonesa aparentemente normal. O pai que bruscamente perde seu trabalho esconde a verdade de toda família; o filho mais velho que quase não pára em casa quer se alistar no exército de outro país; o mais novo, começa a fazer aulas de piano escondido dos pais, e a mãe, que sabe que seu papel é manter a família unida, não encontra suficiente vontade para isso. De alguma maneira, um profundo abismo aparece dentro da família, e se estende rápido e silenciosamente para desintegrá-los.

Tired of life, Morita climbs up to a roof with a suicide note. But there he meets the drifter Tommy, who convinces Morita to climb Mt. Fuji with him. Morita begins to learn about Tommy’s past, where he was betrayed by his best friend. The two men, with secrets they cannot tell, decide to face their pasts. -- Nippon Connection

A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met for years, to write farewell letters to his family, relatives and friends...

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.

A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins to question his identity. His realization of what seems to have really happened results in something much more sinister and larger in scope, and it leaves his psyche scarred.

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a prodigious ability to play any piece of music after one hearing. Keisuke Kisaragi whose career was abruptly cut short when he jumped in front of a bullet fired by a crazed gunman. The nerves in one hand were severed but he saved the life of Chiori. The tragic incident takes the lives of Chiori's parents, however, and Keisuke becomes her guardian. Not long after their return to Japan, Keisuke discovers Chiori's musical gift.

A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.

Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division of his company. His doppelgänger appears to help him out of the rut he has created for himself.

A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working with the police as a psychic consultant to "find" the girl. And then, things start to go terribly wrong.

Numa manhã quente de verão, um ônibus é sequestrado. Apenas três pessoas sobrevivem à carnificina: o motorista Makoto, a estudante Kozue e seu irmão Naoki. Dois anos depois, enquanto lutam para retomar a vida, Makoto compra um ônibus velho e convida Kozue, Naoki e o primo deles para uma viagem.

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.

Takayuki Iwabuchi (Koji Yakusho), a former yakuza member with a tattoo of Kisshoten on his back. Although he has a criminal record, he is currently working as a driver at a hearse transportation company. One day, a young man visits the company and asks Takayuki to transport the body of his fiancé, Sawa (Shinobu Terajima), who had unexpectedly passed away, to her hometown in a rural area of Takamatsu, Shikoku. Takayuki decides to go to Shikoku with the young man, However, the man disappears when leaving to take a call while they are stopped at a rest area near Setoo Bridge. Left alone, Takayuki arrives at Sawa's home village after much searching. He then tells Sawa's bereaved family about the situation at her parents' house. There, he learns of the tradition of posthumous marriage, or 'Yukon', from the village elder...

After an indiscretion with a younger man, her jealous husband disciplines poor Miki. He teaches her how to become the pig that she really is.

A moonlight skinny-dipping session between two carefree high schoolers leads to a young boy being accused of a violent assault on his female classmate. After throwing a teacher to the ground, he stomps out of the school gates and spends his summer break roaming a beachside town. Falling down a rabbit hole into a dark, oppressive world of sex and violence, he is taken in by a bar-owner and his libidinous mistress. Meanwhile, the teacher he assaulted hunkers down in a rented villa in the same coastal resort, awaiting a secret tryst with her married lover. What will happen when the student and teacher meet again?