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- DirectorMasanori TominagaStarsAsami UsudaTaiga NakanoKôdai AsakaA struggling, unemployed musician living with his girlfriend looks to improve his life after he discovers how she's been paying the rent.
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsJuliette BinocheMasatoshi NagaseTakanori IwataFrenchwoman Joan is a world traveller and chronicler. She travels, sees, experience and writes. She lands in the forest and hills near Nara, Japan and meets Satoshi. Despite the mysterious aura and eccentric personality the woodsman finds a place in the visitor's heart.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsYûya YagiraAyu KitauraHiei KimuraIn a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsHiroshi AbeYui NatsukawaYouA family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsHiroshi AbeYôko MakiSatomi KobayashiAfter the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsMakiko EsumiTakashi NaitôTadanobu AsanoA young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTakashi ShimuraNobuo KanekoShin'ichi HimoriA bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
- DirectorMasatoshi KurakataStarsAtsushi ItôTae KimuraShioli KutsunaA novelist who is struggling with writer's block finds in a cat an unusual way of easing his anxieties and will challenge himself to make the cat visit him again
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsKinuyo TanakaTsukie MatsuuraIchirô SugaiFollows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHideko TakamineYûzô KayamaMitsuko KusabueAfter a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsKinuyo TanakaRanko HanaiYûji HoriA few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to other people's needs, she will end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Ginza.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsKeiju KobayashiMichiyo AratamaMitsuko KusabueTwo friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend's flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn't feel well. What's come over him?
- DirectorYukiko MishimaStarsTsubasa HondaGorô InagakiShizuka IshibashiBased on the novel Shojo by Kanae Minato, watch for the story of high school student Yuki who plans to see a dead body. She is more than just a little jealous of another student who has seen the corpse of a person. The morbidity has its origin in the life of young girls growing up, high school bullying, teenage rivalry and adult tyranny.
- DirectorMasato HaradaStarsTakuya KimuraKazunari NinomiyaYuriko YoshitakaMogami Takeshi works at the Tokyo prosecutor's office focusing on violent criminal cases. Okino Keiichiro admires him and is happy to be assigned to work with Mogami. When a money lender is killed for his dealings with the deceased one Matsukura Shigeo is considered a suspect. He has a past involving a schoolgirl and the prosecutors strive to make the case.
- DirectorAkiyoshi KimataStarsAi HashimotoRenji IshibashiTatsuomi HamadaA family in ruins recovers through their encounter with a "Zasikiwarashi", the japanese spirit.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsAyaka MiyoshiRyôta BandôTsuyoshi FurukawaAfter her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as 'Howling Village' to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family's dark history.
- DirectorRyô TanakaStarsMasami NagasawaMasahiro HigashideShinya KoteThe con artists: Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) attempt to steal the diamond from a member of the triad in Hong Kong, who is cold-blooded and appropriately called "Ice Princess."
- DirectorIzuru NarushimaStarsHiroshi AbeYûko TakeuchiRenji IshibashiA story set in a café situated along a small cape and run by an elderly woman named Etsuko and aided her nephew Koji.
- DirectorMasaharu TakeStarsMire AikaTakaaki EnokiKyotaro GanGrowing tired of covering competitions, Takako, an announcer from Tokyo, travels to Minami-Osumi-cho, Kagoshima Prefecture, to cover the Misaki Festival.
- DirectorMasaharu TakeStarsKiichi NakaiKuranosuke SasakiKogan AshiyaSakai is a city near Osaka by the bay famous for its swords in the old days and kitchen knives today. Norio is an antique dealer in the city. Sasuke is a potter in the city. Seventeenth century tea master Sen No Rikyu appears before them one day.
- DirectorMiwa NishikawaStarsTsurube ShôfukuteiEita NagayamaTeruyuki KagawaA young medical intern student is dismayed when he is assigned to work in a remote countryside village.
- DirectorHideo GoshaStarsTatsuya NakadaiMasako NatsumeAkiko NakamuraA yakuza melodrama, covering decades in the lives of Boss Onimasa, his adopted daughter Matsue, and his biological daughter Hanako.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûShima IwashitaKeiji SadaAn aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsKen TakakuraChieko BaishôKaori MomoiThree complete strangers embark on a road-trip to Hokkaido.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsTakao KataokaKeiko MatsuzakaJunko MiyashitaA selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsHiroki MatsukataYumiko NogawaShin'ichi ChibaA Yakuza group from Osaka with dreams of national dominance moves into the snowy Hokuriku region, sparking a bloody turf war with local gangs.
- DirectorMasayuki SuôStarsMone KamishiraishiHiroki HasegawaSumiko FujiCountry bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a geisha, like her now-deceased mother. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent intrigues a linguistics professor, who undertakes to coach her.
- DirectorSatoshi KanedaStarsMiku IwasakiKanna MoriyaNaoto Takenaka
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHideko TakamineKen UeharaDaisuke KatôA woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
- DirectorKenji KatagiriStarsTamae AndôShôgo HamaKenta HamanoSaki Tadokoro's father is an alcoholic and her mother is a follower of a new religion. She sees her father's strange behavior and her mother's loneliness. Her family is collapsing, but Saki struggles to look for her future.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsShô AikawaKôyô MaedaSatoshi KajiwaraHapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.
- DirectorMasaaki AkahoriStarsHirofumi AraiKaho MinamiTomokazu MiuraAn overbearing father, frightened mother, laid off elder bother, the family makes young brother to be an indiscriminate monster.
- DirectorDaihachi YoshidaStarsLily FrankyElaiza IkedaYoshino KimuraHayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the publisher and subordinates and runs the ship well. Chatting with his direct boss he picks up a certain vibe. Did he misunderstand that the magazine is doomed and will be terminated? If so, he is not going down without a fight. He will fight to make it through and keep his, and the others', jobs.
- DirectorIsshin InudôStarsHidetoshi NishijimaRyôko HirosueTakeshi KagaSpurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a murder mystery.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsYoshiko KugaHizuru TakachihoIneko ArimaTeiko's new husband disappears on a business trip. She discovers a pair of mysterious postcards hidden away in a book that may be clues to his fate.
- DirectorYôjirô TakitaStarsYûya UchidaYumi AsôTakeshi KitanoKinameri is a moderately successful television journalist itching for a big scoop. So when a corrupt local businessman barricades himself in his house, of course he's going to be excited with things picking up.