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The Nara-born actress got an early start in the much praised and oft discussed The Taste of Tea before staying with the profession and graduating to adult roles. Before that, however, the youngest of four sisters had debuted in Suzaku after, legend has it, director Naomi Kawase spotted her cleaning shoe boxes at her junior high school. She has won several awards since.
Total trailers found: 87
23 April 2025
When panic erupts on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph, authorities race against time to save everyone on board.
09 October 2026
Kai Aono is a high school student. He transfers to a scenic island in the Seto Inland Sea from Kyoto.
27 March 2026
In a Japan where humans and demons co-exist peacefully, Yuzu is an ordinary high school girl who lives in the shadow of her older sister, who is the bride of a demon.
24 September 2013
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth.
29 January 2021
Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times.
24 August 2018
Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs, and an invisible salaryman tries to become a hero.
03 September 2012
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West.
01 November 1997
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru.
17 July 2004
A spell of time in the life of the five-piece Haruno family in rural Tochigi Prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project.
28 September 2013
Ryoro Kurojima is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize.
24 August 2013
The bobbed-head Ryoko is a shy middle school student. She has been living with her dad, just the 2 of them ever since her mother died of an illness.
15 May 2022
"There are many things that I don't like. The traffic jam on the way to Naha, my debt-ridden father, my best friend's boyfriend, milk, and my hometown, Shioya-wan.
12 November 2016
In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own family is connected to the crimes.
15 November 2019
Typically thieves enter a house, steal things and get out. This time an unsuspecting thief enters a home to steal as much as he can and instead is faced with an occupant inside the house.
26 March 2024
Winner of the 47th Creative TV Drama Award. Through the story of a high school girl with "sensory sensitivity" who tries to create a place for herself with her friends, this tv special gives courage to all those who feel "difficult to live".
21 May 2021
7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her husband's death.
23 September 2017
In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning.
07 November 2025
Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo.
08 April 2017
Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song.
20 January 2001
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
01 January 1999
A photographer and a filmmaker challenge each other to shoot—one to photograph the other to film—two young actresses, one from Tokyo, the other from the countryside.
27 August 2016
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her.
08 May 2004
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
07 November 2015
The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a motion picture.
25 April 2024
Professional boxer Eiji Kamiyama had been attempting a comeback in the Philippines but hit 40 without a fight.
01 March 2014
A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends and family.
11 April 2015
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
01 January 2018
The studio of potter Seisho Kuniyoshi is deep in the mountains, surrounded by greenery, where he devotes every day to making pottery.
07 March 2015
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
10 September 2003
Two young men arrive at a deserted countryside train station. They are Tsuboi and Kinoshita, amateur filmmakers on their way to a meeting with a genuine film star who might be interested in appearing in their next production.
21 July 2023
After his shot at a record deal falls through, Jun transfers to sleepy Nagoya and begins busking songs by his favourite 1970s glam rock band, Exne Kedy.
04 December 2002
Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.
04 April 2025
Bound by shared loneliness, Shinya and his classmate Yuka grow close while working on their school newspaper.
02 November 2012
In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes across unexpected resistance in the form of a floating fortress known as Oshi Castle.
08 July 2022
Amiko isn't like other children. Her endless energy makes her an outcast at school and gets her in trouble at home.
01 March 2020
Based on a novel of by Nukui Tokuro, Hohoemu Hito tells the story of Nito Toshimi who, after graduating from Japan’s most difficult university and founding a job at a major city bank, marries Shoko and have a daughter, Amina.
02 June 2023
The story takes place during a summer of continuous sunshine when water supply restrictions are issued in the city.
01 May 2010
A woman and her child get trapped underground while investigators look for them.
20 May 2022
Hitomi Saito has been climbing the ranks for years and is set to direct an anime series for the first time, while brilliant director Chiharu Oji is about to make his big comeback after nearly a decade.
28 May 2021
3 women are happy and busy raising their boys named Yu. Due to some little thing, their lives fall apart.
11 May 2013
A friend of the detective has been is murdered. During the investigation, he comes across a source which tells him that his friend was murdered for involvement with the dark side of the political world.
19 August 2022
Nagasaki in 1986. Young friends Hisada and Takemoto decide to go to Boomerang Island to "see the dolphins".
27 May 2022
A young music lover named Asano Daiyoshi died at the young age of 20. In that fact, there is a feeling that a miracle that cannot be imagined overflows the bonds of many people.
02 August 2011
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister.
09 January 2010
Poet Okachimachi Kaito makes his directing debut. Featuring lead actress Ono Machiko, who starred in The Mourning Forest (Mogari no Mori) and is also a regular in director Kawase Naomi's other works, this film portrays the pure love between a prisoner sentenced to death and the fiance of the man he killed, and was nominated to be in the section "Japanese Eyes" in the Tokyo International Film Festival.
22 May 2010
A tale of two islands and growing up as a stranger in a strange land, told with an artistry that recalls Hou Hsiao-Hsien at his best.
29 May 2007
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.
22 February 2025
An ex-cop suffering from dementia is marked by detectives pursuing a murder case. It is a case that he does not remember at all, but he has a strong motive for committing the crime.
01 January 2001
Youth fantasy love story starring idol Kazue Fukiishi.
24 October 2015
Chieri is a sixth grade girl whose only friend is a stuffed toy named Cherry, which she found while hiding in the cellar during her father's funeral.
20 October 2023
The story tells of the granddaughter of the political family Uta, who is kidnapped. The kidnappers' demand is not money, but for the politician to hold a press conference and confess to the crime.
06 December 2014
Rieko Sugita, a young and beautiful hairdresser who happens to visit a bedding shop owned by Yoshitaro (Emoto) and the latter becomes so besotted with her that they begin an affair without his wife's knowledge.
05 July 2008
On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world.
05 February 2011
Three strangers get a strange feeling that something is "calling them." Minor things about their daily lives begin to have significance to them.
02 July 2003
Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro is a collection of 10 short horror films, each 5 minutes long (broadcast on BSi in February 2003).
30 August 2025
In 1946, one year after World War II, Tetsuko leaves her mother in Aomori and moves to Tokyo alone to discover her purpose.
