Yutaka Yamazaki

Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly for her husband. One day she meets Nami, whose husband has also disappeared.

The Japanese volleyball players called the “Oriental Witches” are now in their 70s. From the formation of the team at the factory until their victory at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, memories and legends rise to the surface and blend inextricably.

Hana, a high school girl, has been grown up in a foster home because of a crime her mother is said to have committed. As the oldest sister in the home, Hana takes care of a newly sheltered girl abused by her mother.

Há 100 anos os lobos não são vistos nas montanhas japonesas de Higashi-Yoshino. Entretanto, Akira, um velho caçador, acredita no contrário. Para investigar o caso e provar que eles ainda existem, ele utiliza todos os recursos da Associação de Caçadores local, a qual é presidente, mas tal ação acaba causando sua demissão. Um ano após sua luta, um lobo é encontrado por membros da associação que decidem caçá-lo. Agora, Akira deve convencê-los a não matá-lo.

A Chinese man who is living illegally in Japan bluffs his way into a job preparing traditional Japanese soba noodles.

Benjamin visits Tokyo to see Miko. At her place, he finds a photo that caught his attention. It was taken at the winery 40 years ago. There are Benjamin, his deceased wife, and Miko's parents in it. Miko starts to tell a story behind it.

The acting family, the Emotos, are the subject of this documentary following Emoto Akira and his sons.

Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down. He runs a small restaurant named Yakiniku Dragon. He is married and has three daughters: oldest daughter Jung-Hwa, middle daughter Yi-Hwa and youngest daughter Mi-Hwa. Oldest daughter Jung-Hwa is dating Tetsuo, but they break up. Middle daughter Yi-Hwa loves Tetsuo and marries him, but Tetsuo still loves her older sister and they divorce. Youngest daughter Mi-Hwa wants to become a singer, but she is in love with a married man.

Masao Adachi, the author and director of experimental works and pinku-eiga in the 1960s, was a member of the Japanese New Left that shifted from being a filmmaker to a guerrilla fighter. In 1974, he joined the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon, which worked closely with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck met Adachi in Tokyo in 2018 and talked with him about a wide range of topics, including art, revolution, the influence of western avant-garde art and American underground; the Japanese Red Army; collaboration with secret services; the role of the Left after 1968; and the reasons for failures of leftist ideas and strategies.

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.

Born to atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima, Mamoru Samuragochi, a self-taught classical composer with a degenerative condition causing deafness, was celebrated as a "Japanese Beethoven" for the digital age. However, just prior to the 2014 Winter Olympics, where Samuragochi's "Sonatina for Violin" was to accompany figure skater Daisuke Takahashi, part-time university lecturer Takashi Niigaki revealed that he had served as the composer's ghostwriter for 18 years, that Samuragochi couldn't notate music and, in fact, could hear perfectly. As Samuragochi's recordings were pulled and performances cancelled, Niigaki enjoyed success on TV talk shows. Filmmaker Tatsuya Mori finds Samuragochi in his small Yokohama apartment with his wife and cat, ready to tell his side of the story. A mesmerizing character study skewering media duplicity and constructions of ability/disability, in which Samuragochi's career has collapsed, taking fact and fiction with it.

O Japão está prestes a receber o 23º tufão do ano. A matriarca Yoshiko, uma mulher idosa que mora sozinha, recebe a visita de dois filhos que não costumam ir à sua casa: Ryota, um escritor fracassado que ainda sofre com o divórcio e se arrisca fazendo bicos de detetive, e a filha mais velha, que tenta passar por exemplo da família, mas também tem seus problemas. Juntos, eles aguardam a chegada do tufão e relembram a morte recente do pai e marido.

A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause...

Documentary on photojournalist Ryuichi Hirokawa

Em 2005, quando discursou na Universidade de Stanford, Steve Jobs pediu ajuda para escrever o discurso a Aaron Sorkin, mas acabou por o fazer sozinho, como conta Walter Isaacson na sua biografia do co-fundador da Apple. No início do discurso, Jobs dizia: “Hoje, quero contar-vos três histórias da minha vida. É só isso. Nada de especial. Só três histórias.” Nem por acaso, “Steve Jobs”, o filme de Danny Boyle com argumento de Aaron Sorkin, inspirado no citado livro de Isaacson, com Michael Fassbender no papel principal, é formado por três histórias da vida profissional de Jobs: o lançamento do Macintosh, em 1984; o do esquecido NeXT, em 1988; e o do iMac, em 1998.

Many people have forgotten what happened in Fukushima.

Em Amami-Oshima, uma ilha subtropical do Japão, tradições sobre a natureza permanecem eternas. Durante a noite de lua cheia das tradicionais danças de agosto, o jovem Kaito, de 16 anos, encontra um corpo flutuando no mar. Sua namorada Kyoko tentará ajudá-lo a desvendar o mistério. Juntos, Kaito e Kyoko aprenderão a ser adultos experimentando a tessitura dos ciclos da vida, da morte e do amor.

Two TV directors want to film people visiting a suicide forest.

Things Left Behind explores the transformative power of 'Hiroshima,' the first major international art exhibit devoted to the atomic bomb. The exhibition, at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, Canada, featured 48 large-format color photographic prints of clothing once worn by those who perished in the atomic bomb, taken by renowned Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako. Ishiuchi brought the garments--still colorful and fashionable nearly seven decades later--out of permanent storage at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial archive and photographed them in the light, to trace the spirits of those who once wore them. The photographs, exhibited without any identifying caption, mutely solicited viewers to imagine or divulge a narrative, and unlocked a wealth of secrets and memories from those who encountered them.

Documentary on photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima

Documentary on photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima

After the 11 March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, residents of Futaba, a town in Fukushima Prefecture, are relocated to an abandoned high school in a suburb of Tokyo, 150 miles south. With a clear and compassionate eye, filmmaker Atsushi Funahashi follows the displaced people as they struggle to adapt to their new environment. Among the vivid personalities who emerge are the town mayor, a Moses without a Promised Land; and a farmer who would rather defy the government than abandon his cows to certain starvation.

Dois irmãos se afastam após a separação dos pais. O mais velho vive com a mãe e o outro com o pai, mas enquanto o primeiro sonha que a família viva toda junta novamente, o outro não quer isso em hipótese nenhuma. A chegada do trem-bala na região é acompanhada de um mito entre as crianças de que no encontro de dois trens existe uma liberação de energia grande o suficiente para realizar um desejo, e o irmão mais velho planeja uma viagem secreta para encontrar-se com o mais novo em uma cidade onde o encontro dos trens é provável para pedir que a família fique junta novamente.

ANPO: Art X War tells the story of Japan's historic resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan through an electrifying array of artwork created by Japan's foremost artists. The film articulates the insidious, lasting impact that the U.S. military presence has had on Japanese lives, and the creative processes that artists have devised to transmit the spirit of resistance.

A seemingly "normal" office worker Hiroko has a secret. At home she lives with a prosthetic torso - no head, arms or feet, just body and penis. Hiroko bathes with the torso and she also makes love with the torso at night. Hiroko's secret life is interrupted when her outgoing sister Mina rings her doorbell. Mina is running away from her abusive boyfriend and wants to stay at Hiroko's home

A seemingly "normal" office worker Hiroko has a secret. At home she lives with a prosthetic torso - no head, arms or feet, just body and penis. Hiroko bathes with the torso and she also makes love with the torso at night. Hiroko's secret life is interrupted when her outgoing sister Mina rings her doorbell. Mina is running away from her abusive boyfriend and wants to stay at Hiroko's home

A seemingly "normal" office worker Hiroko has a secret. At home she lives with a prosthetic torso - no head, arms or feet, just body and penis. Hiroko bathes with the torso and she also makes love with the torso at night. Hiroko's secret life is interrupted when her outgoing sister Mina rings her doorbell. Mina is running away from her abusive boyfriend and wants to stay at Hiroko's home

A seemingly "normal" office worker Hiroko has a secret. At home she lives with a prosthetic torso - no head, arms or feet, just body and penis. Hiroko bathes with the torso and she also makes love with the torso at night. Hiroko's secret life is interrupted when her outgoing sister Mina rings her doorbell. Mina is running away from her abusive boyfriend and wants to stay at Hiroko's home

A documentary about the J-pop / folk rock singer Cocco.

17 year-old Hiruma is desperate to get laid and takes out his sexual urges on Anpai, a fat boy who has "boobs." His classmate Tomono, a sickly loner, is in a serious relationship with their married teacher.

A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his son Tamio, are unable to mature, unable to break the parent-child roles, have no sense of responsibility, and keep holding on to the past. The pair is overwhelmed by all the colorful characters around them telling them what to do. They go to strenuous and humorous efforts to make Tamio’s wedding an event to remember.

Um drama familiar que decorre num dia de Verão quando dois filhos adultos vão visitar os pais idosos. Os pais, cada dia mais velhos, habitam na casa da família há décadas. O filho e a filha regressam para um raro encontro familiar, trazendo as respectivas famílias consigo. Juntaram-se para honrar a memória do filho mais velho, que morreu num acidente, há quinze anos. Esta é um típica família disfuncional unida pelo amor, por ressentimentos e segredos.

Em um bairro pobre de Edo vive um jovem samurai chamado Soza. Ele foi enviado por seu clã para vingar a morte de seu pai. No entanto, ele não é um samurai talentoso e prefere compartilhar a vida dos residentes e ensinar as crianças a escrever. Quando ele finalmente encontrar o homem que está procurando, terá que decidir se segue o caminho do samurai ou escolhe paz e reconciliação.

Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system.

O preço de um aluguel em Tóquio é alto demais, o que leva uma mãe a fingir que tem apenas um filho quando se muda para uma casa nova com espaço para apenas duas pessoas, trazendo outras duas crianças escondidas em malas e deixando a menina mais velha esperando do lado de fora até os proprietários dormirem. As crianças não podem ir à escola, nunca saem de casa e precisam ficar o tempo todo escondidas. A mãe parece ser uma pessoa imatura e irresponsável, e delega responsabilidades pesadas demais para o Akira, o filho mais velho que tem apenas 12 anos.O filme é baseado em uma história real, o caso das "Crianças abandonadas de Sugamo" ocorrido no Japão em 1988.

Numa simples brincadeira infantil, numa pequena aldeia japonesa, um menino simplesmente some. Desaparece, sem maiores explicações. O que parece apenas uma ação rotineira e sem consequências se torna o ponto focal de mudança da vida de todos nas famílias daquelas crianças. Anos depois, este sumiço continua não resolvido e a chaga aberta pela perda desta criança marca a vida e as relações entre todos os personagens. Como sempre acontece na vida, as mudanças acontecem de repente, e sem maiores explicações.

Mais de cem pessoas foram assassinadas pela seita religiosa Arcos da Verdade. Três anos após o massacre, quatro amigos que são também parentes de vítimas iniciam uma perenigração em direção ao lago em que tudo ocorreu. Ao chegarem os amigos cohecem um homem, que esteve presente com os assassinos quando o massacre teve início. Ao ouvir seus relatos, a busca dos colegas muda de rumo.

Rotineiramente, todas as segundas-feiras, um grupo de funcionários de um purgatório se reúne para definir o planejamento para a semana que se segue. Eles têm que recepcionar a vinda de um grupo de pessoas e guiá-las em suas atividades neste breve momento do pós-vida.

AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profiling a nineteen-year-old serial killer Norio Nagayama. An indictment of media sensationalism, the film humanizes the young man by situating his crimes in the larger context of his environment.