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- Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.
- Yusuke travels to Balka to recover a $90M overpayment but money has been spread to subcontractors. Betrayed by a taxi driver and stranded in the desert gets caught in a worldwide vortex and the adventure begins.
- Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.
- A documentary following Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old WW2 veteran notorious for his protests against Emperor Hirohito, as he tries to expose the needless executions of two Japanese soldiers during the war.
- When eighth grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.
- Hajime is in line to be the next head of a prominent electronics company. He toils day and night over his work and has no time for his family. But one day, his mother in Shimane falls ill, and his best friend dies in an accident. Grief-stricken, Hajime returns home, where memories of his childhood dream come back to him. He had always wanted to be a train conductor and drive the local "bataden" Ichibata Electric Railway.
- Lafcadio HEARN visited Japan as a newspaper reporter in 1890. Within the same year, he found a job as an English language teacher at a local town, Matsue. Having experienced many things in the traditional Japanese society, which impressed and attracted him so much, he got married with Fumi, a woman of a poor former samurai class family. With her help, he collects many folklore later fruited in his piece known as "Kwaidan". But harsh and rapid changes of the society deprived the magic of his beloved Japanese life, would have made his late years alienated again even surrounded by his family.
- After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.
- Kazuya Hirai (Kaku Kento) is a young man that delivers newspapers in a small village in Tottori Prefecture. He lost his father at an early age and lives with his mom. One day, something happens that causes Hirai to run away from home. He spends the night in Yonago and meets by chance a girl named Gikue (Maeda Aki) who worked for his mother a long time ago. Hirai spends the night at Gikue's apartment. The next day, Gikue brings home another man named Iwai Shoji (Nakamura Shido). Shoji was injured by gang members and this is how the three young people start to live together. At first Kazuya was unhappy with the arrival of Shoji, but after learning that Shoji was an ex-Japanese boxing champion became an admirer of him. Kazuya's father was also a boxer and there is a surprising relationship between Kazuya's father and Shoji.
- Maki Iizuka (Nozomi Sasaki) works as an editor for a wedding magazine in Tokyo. She is set to marry Kazunori Nakamura (Yuta Hiraoka) next month, when her grandmother dies. Her grandmother was like a mom to Maki. While Maki arranges items left by her grandmother, she discovers a box made from empress tree. The box contains a white bridal Kimono and marriage registration forms. The marriage registration forms are mostly empty, except for the name "Soichi Akiguni" filled into a blank. Maki becomes curious about Soichi Akiguni and decides to go to her hometown Izumo in Shimane Prefecture. There, she meets a young fisherman.
- In a unique project, a limited number of inmates can participate in a therapeutic circle in order to understand the mental and social conditions of their behavior. Even after being released from prison, former inmates are supported by psychologists and social workers. What is remarkable in the process: the inmates learn to support each other and to open up toward the experiences of others. This film is a touching plea to consider the significance of social reintegration.
- Set at the end of the Taisho era (1920s) at Ishiuchi Jinjo Higher Elementary School in the mountains of Hiroshima prefecture, there was a fervent teacher called Mr. Ichikawa. He always placed his pupils first and took any issues to heart.
- Percussionist Marcos Fernandes stages music performance events throughout Japan at some of the grand buildings designed in the early 1900s by his grandfather, the renowned architect Uheiji Nagano.
- Homes that vanish, are perched on skyscrapers and more.
- Monty Don returns to Japan in Autumn to continue his journey through Japanese gardens. This time he explores both stroll gardens and how the Japanese bring nature into their modern lives.