Min Tanaka

Akio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make matters worse, he’s on the brink of divorce with his wife, and his relationship with his college-student daughter isn’t exactly smooth sailing. One day, he decides to drop in to Tokyo’s old-timey district to visit his mother Fukue. However, things seem a little off. His mother used to be always working with an apron on, but now she’s covered in stylish clothes, looking livelier than ever, and even in love! Akio becomes perplexed, feeling out of place in his own mother’s home, but after encountering kind, warm—and almost nosey—neighbors and a side of his mother he’d never seen before, Akio gradually starts to discover something he had lost sight of.

Festival de Cannes – Prémio de Melhor Actor (Kōji Yakusho) e Prémio do Júri Ecuménico. Neste delicado drama do quotidiano, Wim Wenders narra a história de Hirayama, um japonês que aparenta encontrar a felicidade numa vida simples enquanto empregado de limpeza de casas de banho em Tóquio. Para além da sua rotina meticulosa, Hirayama nutre uma paixão pela música, pelos livros e pela fotografia de árvores. Através de uma série de encontros inesperados, são revelados detalhes do seu passado que desencadeiam uma reflexão profundamente poética e comovente sobre a capacidade de encontrar beleza no mundo que nos rodeia.

This story follows the journey of an ill-fated young man whose ambition is to be a professional antiques dealer. A hard-up young man, who makes his living by selling old items in flea markets, meets a nurse and he falls in love with her. He decides to become a successful antique dealer. So he participates in a huge auction in the mountains but he makes a fool of himself. At the same time he ends up being in the netherworld, and hovers between life and death.

The forbidden book that will make any wish come true "The Ghostly Book of Books". However, in order to make your wish come true you have to go through a life-threatening trial. What is that trial...?

The last year of Ryotaro Shiba's life, as he tried to achieve peace and independence without joining the armies of East and West.

The Unnameable Dance shows the life and dance of Tanaka Min, an elderly dancer in his 70s, in a multifaceted and dynamic manner.

The unknown life of Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in the Edo period, who is said to have painted more than 30,000 works throughout his life, such as "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"

Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns to her father Tatsuro's home in Ishikawa Prefecture. She then begins to work at the local Mahoroba Clinic. She works with the clinic director Toru, Nurse Mayo and staff Seiji. Seiji, who worked with Sawako at the university hospital, followed her and works with her again. Mahoroba Clinic provides home healthcare to patients. Sawako visits the patients' homes and provides treatment there. At first, she has a hard time due to the different system. She becomes acclimated to the different system and finds a way to deal with the patients, their lives, and their families. --asianwiki

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.

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.

Ruka é uma jovem garota cujos pais são separados e cujo pai trabalha em um aquário. Quando dois meninos, Umi e Sora, que foram criados no mar por dugongos, são levados ao aquário, Ruka se sente atraída por eles e começa a perceber que ela tem o mesmo tipo de conexão sobrenatural com o oceano que eles. O poder especial de Umi e Sora parece estar conectado a eventos estranhos que ocorrem cada vez mais frequentemente, como o aparecimento de criaturas marinhas longe de seu território e o desaparecimento de animais de aquário em todo o mundo. No entanto, a natureza exata do poder dos meninos e dos eventos anormais é desconhecida, e Ruka é atraída para investigar o mistério que cerca seus novos amigos.

Ninomiya Kinjirou is a biopic follows the life of the eponymous character, an 18th century peasant boy who worked to rescue over 600 poor villages and hamlets from financial ruin by developing new economic policies.

Um pastor que pesquisa seitas religiosas pede a ajuda de seu amigo, um monge budista, para investigar um grupo novo com origens misteriosas.

Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One day, they receive devastating news of their daughter falling into a coma after a near-drowning accident at a pool. The doctors declare her brain dead with no prospect of recovery and the couple must decide if they should donate her organs to others in need or to wait until her heart stops beating.

Uma antologia de três curtas originais escrita e dirigida por Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiyuki Momose e Akihiko Yamashita.

Jeanne, uma jornalista francesa, vai ao Japão em busca de Vision, uma erva medicinal rara que nasce a cada 997 anos em circunstâncias especiais e promete curar toda a angústia e fraqueza espiritual da humanidade. Um evento milenar está prestes a ocorrer nas montanhas Yoshino de Nara, abrindo uma porta para o verdadeiro potencial da existência humana.

No Japão pós-guerra, um soldado norte-americano capturado mergulha no sombrio mundo da Yakuza e adota seu estilo de vida em retribuição por sua liberdade.

Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by the government, with the intention of re-socialising them. Aside from the few who know about the project, the general townsfolk has no idea of the former convicts' identities. Tsukisue is the pleasant and efficient municipal official put in charge of the programme. As he slowly learns about their past, a body is discovered.

Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical creatures live alongside humans. Akiko is a cheerful publishing assistant who moves into town after marrying Masakazu, a popular mystery writer. Akiko is surprised by the unusual town but enjoys the new curiosities surrounding her. However, just as she was beginning to settle in, a trifling incident sweeps her spirit to the underworld too soon. Convinced that destiny has something else in store for his wife, Masakazu journeys into the underworld to bring back Akiko’s spirit.

Manji é um samurai altamente qualificado que foi torna-se amaldiçoado com a imortalidade após uma lendária batalha. Assombrado pelo brutal assassinato de sua irmã, o guerreiro sabe que só o combate ao mal recuperará sua alma. Por isso, ele decide ajudar uma jovem ousada que está movida pelo ódio e pela sede de vingança depois da morte de seus pais em um crime brutal.

Those who want to die seek refuge in a mysterious café in this feverishly strange Japanese debut.

A young man, involved with a gang of hoodlum exploiting vulnerable elderly men to steal their retirement money, experiences social disenchantment, alienation and confusion mostly due to a lack of dreams and fulfillment of ambition.

Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.

O fanático revolucionário Shishio Makoto zarpa em seu navio couraçado em sua tentativa de iniciar uma guerra civil no Japão para derrubar o Governo Meiji, levando Kaoru com ele. Para impedí-lo a tempo, Kenshin treina com seu antigo mestre para aprender a sua técnica definitiva.

Kenshin vive tranquilamente com Kaoru e seus amigos, mas é chamado pelo Imperador do Governo Meiji. Dez anos atrás, Shishio Makoto, um ex-assassino tal como Kenshin, havia sido traído, incendiado e deixado para morrer na Batalha de Toba-Fushimi. Ele sobreviveu e vai para Kyoto e se reúne com seus guerreiros numa conspiração para derrubar o novo governo. Contra a vontade de Kaoru, Kenshin aceita relutantemente ir até Kyoto para ajudar a evitar que o país entre em uma guerra civil.

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflicting accounts from his former comrades about his character and how he joined his squadron.

Um grupo de samurais banidos deseja reaver sua honra a partir de uma vingança contra o traiçoeiro Lorde Kira, responsável pela morte do mestre deles. O mais incomodado do grupo é Kai, que passa a ser questionado ao se apaixonar pela filha do mestre.

É verão quando Kudo, chega em Iya, local onde as riquezas da natureza ainda abundam. Exausto da vida em Tóquio, o rapaz acredita que a bela terra lhe trará um pouco de tranquilidade. Mas, a realidade não será tão fácil como ele espera, uma vez que um projeto de construção de túneis, ameaça a ordem natural de uma das últimas regiões intocadas do Japão. Já os agricultores estão tentando salvar suas colheitas de animais nocivos, como veados e macacos. As pessoas estão lutando por seus próprios objetivos: conseguir um emprego, salvar o meio ambiente ou sobreviver. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)

In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, leaked information comes in about enriched uranium from the Korean peninsula. Sumimoto of the external affairs fourth division suspects that a conspiracy has been hatched to rock Japan-Korean relations.

After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own, it is four years before the authorities catch up with her and the young child.

Part documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu Inoue who wandered Ina Valley for about 30 years from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji era.

Ryu, garota que trabalha no mercado de peixes de Tóquio e que nada fala de sua vida é contratada para matar um espanhol, dono de uma loja de vinhos. Ele namorava outra moça que se suicidou por falta de amor e o pai dela não suporta que o homem esteja vivo e sorridente. O problema é que Ryu também se deixará envolver.

A young man Tomoya Nagase and a girl Mayuko Fukuda both learn that they have an untreatable illness and are nearing death. When one reveals that they have never been to the ocean, they embark on a comical adventure to see the sea.

Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.

Na cidade do Tesouro a vida pode ser doce ou brutal. Isto é a pura verdade para nossos heróis Black e White, dois meninos rebeldes de rua que tomam conta da cidade, lutando constantemente contra o vilão do velho mundo Yakuza e criaturas alienígenas assassinas que pretendem destruir a metrópole.

Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry with her father but in need of money, Saori travels to the House of Himiko, a nursing home established by her father for gay men. Over time, a tenuous relationship begins to develop between Saori, her father, and Haruhiko.

No Japão do século 19, um jovem samurai que se apaixona por uma garota de fazenda deixa sua casa para começar uma nova vida. Ele tem que fazer um balanço de sua nova vida quando é posto à prova e ordenado a matar um traidor que por acaso é seu amigo mais querido.

Seibei Iguchi é um samurai de 2º escalão que presta serviços ao clã Unasaka. Sua esposa morreu de tuberculose e suas duas filhas, Kayana e Ito, dependem dele para sobreviver. O divórcio de Tomoe, seu amor de infância, faz com que entre em confronto com seu ex-marido, um samurai de grande reputação. Após vencer o duelo empunhando apenas uma espada de madeira, Seibei ganha respeito e é convocado a eliminar um poderoso inimigo.

"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh choreographers and their companies. Although Butoh is often viewed as Japan's equivalent of modern dance, in actuality it has little to do with the rational principles of modernism. Butoh is a theater of improvisation which places the personal experiences of the dancer on center-stage. By reestablishing the ancient Japanese connection of dance, music, and masks, and by recalling the Buddhist death dances of rural Japan, Butoh incorporates much traditional theater. At the same time, it is a movement of resistance against the abandonment of traditional culture to a highly organized consumer-oriented society.