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- Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.
- A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
- A teenager becomes a major competitor in the world of drift racing after moving in with his father in Tokyo to avoid a jail sentence in America.
- In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
- Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.
- Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.
- A young man with teleportation abilities suddenly finds himself in the middle of an ancient war between those like him and their sworn annihilators.
- While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.
- An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
- The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou's dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.
- Ryuichi Sakamoto's last performance, a concert film featuring just him and his piano playing for the last time before passing away.
- A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.
- Top star Lilico undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries to her entire body. As her surgeries show side effect.
- A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
- A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.
- Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.
- A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.
- Twenty-eight-year-old office lady Teruko is head over heels with Mamoru. The sting of love is so strong that she has all but ignored her friends, home and work. Her family and friends are indifferent when she loses her job. Yet, Mamoru may not be reciprocating the feelings, but Teruko's passion is unfazed.
- Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed as the Gyaos re-emerge. Nagamine and Asagi investigate as an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature. Named Iris, Ayana seeks revenge on Gamera for the death of her family.
- A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl.
- Prodded by a friend request, a forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.
- A high school science teacher builds an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but cannot decide what he wants. Meanwhile, a determined cop is catching up to him, as is radiation poisoning.
- Follows the struggles through life and relationships of Komatsu Nana and Osaki Nana.
- A cross-dressing rich heir meets a jellyfish geek in an incident that comes to turn the lives of her and her several roommates inside out.
- Years ago, the disappearance of a senior investigator goes unsolved and the file closed. Renewed interest in the case leads to rookie investigator Kinoshita Ichiro to suspect gang-leader Hanabusa Shiro, beginning their odd relationship.
- A Belgian woman looks back on her year at a Japanese corporation in Tokyo in 1990. She is Amélie, born in Japan, living there until age 5. After college graduation, she returns with a one-year contract as an interpreter. The vice president and section leader, both men, are boors, but her immediate supervisor, Ms. Mori, is beautiful and trustworthy. Amélie's downfall begins when she speaks perfect Japanese to clients. She compounds her failure by writing an excellent report for an enterprising colleague. The person she least expects to stab her in the back exposes her work. Thus begins her humiliations. What can become of her and of her relationship with Ms. Mori and with Japan?
- A young man gets off the train in the morning and wanders the business districts aimlessly. He runs across some yakuza gangsters, whom he despises, and goes on a killing spree, but soon becomes involved with a subordinate gang.
- Mr. Takano and Mr. Taoka are spies and work for an industrial espionage organization going by the name An Tsushin. Their current mission is obtainment of sensitive and cutting edge information on solar energy and its industrial application. Time is of the essence and they are not the only ones coveting the information. various public and private entities fight and play a game of chess over the possession of the information.
- Were people's lives changed by having known Yonosuke?
- 20-year-old Mio has lost her parents early and runs a traditional Japanese inn in Nagano with her grandmother. As her grandmother gets sick and hospitalized, Mio is forced to leave the inn and reluctantly comes to Tokyo to live with her father's old friend Kyosuke. Helping him at the bathhouse he runs, she begins to find her way in everyday life. One day, however, she learns the bathhouse is on the verge of demolition for the redevelopment in the district.
- Mogami 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.
- Hibino, a geek girl fall in love for the first time with Kyouta, the playboy. What will happen when a zero experience girl coupled with a lot of experienced boy? Love for beginner begin.
- Kazuki Suzumoto is divorced and he lives with his 15-year-old son Kouki. The father and son make a promise to each other. Kazuki promises that he will make a lunch box everyday for Kouki, who promises that he will never skip school.
- A pharmaceutical CEO who is pondering thefts and irregularities at his company drinks a drug that temporary suppresses his signs and gives him a deathlike state for a couple of days. Something goes wrong. His daughter, with whom he has had a rocky relationship, attempts to rescue him with help from a company employee.
- What happens, when an ordinary family in one of the arguably most advanced cities in the world starts living in two different worlds? What happens, when that fine line between reality and fantasy begins to blur, when a computer game controls the space you live in, re-defines your real life?
- Ryuichi Sakamoto's solo piano concert from the 509 studio of NHK. Directed by Neo Sora.
- After Asami's boyfriend lost his cellphone, she begins to receive unknown credit card payment notification, her social media information is leaked, and she is drawn into an unexpected turmoil. At the same time young women bodies appear in remote mountains and the investigation of serial murder case is about to start.
- Newcomer Shizuka Ishibashi throws herself into the role of Mika, a nurse by day, a 'girlie bar' hostess by night, subject to feelings of anxiety and isolation, and unable to reach through a hard outer shell that stops her from expressing tenderness to anyone else. Sosuke Ikematsu, one of Japan's most important young actors, stars as Shinji, who struggles as a day-hire construction worker with a sense of impending doom, but who still tries to find the source of an unnamable hope he feels inside. The setting is Tokyo in 2017, where empty words, a sense of doom, and feelings of isolation co-exist with hope, trust, and love. In the sense of real life conjured up in these two people is a new kind of film: the densest kind of love story.
- Poor, pathetic mother Ose has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men.
- Filmed for NHK TV, a young chorus girl from Allentown dreams of making it big in an up-coming musical extravaganza from the famed director Julian Marsh.
- The relationship between Bill and Maggie was broken 6 years ago as Maggie wanted to let Bill concentrate on his career. After 6 years, Bill is one of the richest men in the world and starts a relationship with the Japanese actress Joey.
- Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter raised in a wholesome family. Around Makoto and Ai are Iwashimizu , who has feelings for Ai and Gamuko , a gang member who eyes Makoto. Also Gamuko's leader, Yuki have eyes for Makoto too. Who will get Makoto?
- The Birth of Saké is a documentary that reveals the history of passionate sake makers, and what it takes to create a traditional sake at the Yoshida Brewery, a family distillery with more then 140 years of history, in northern Japan.
- Nagisa is transgender. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle school student Ichika, who is a distant relative. Ichika has been neglected by her mother Saori. From living in solitude by herself, to now living with Ichika, Nagisa develops maternal instincts for the first time.
- Two office workers, who are also fans of otaku culture, meet and develop a relationship.
- Aizawa Naoya is happily married to his colleague Kana but faces temptation to cheat on his wife when a new employee Tachibana Noa joins his branch and seduces him repeatedly with all sorts of antics.
- 26-year old Murasaki Wakako loves going out alone to eat and drink after work.
- Kiki Inoue could not fulfill her dream to become an idol and is currently working part-time at a convenience store. Takumi Asabais the president of a convenience store chain and enjoys criticizing sweets on social media. One day, Takumi found a similar criticism about sweets made by Kiki and invited her to be a staff to develop an original "best seller" sweets.