Ittoku Kishibe

いちご同盟

Tsutomu Kashima

Yasuhito Ochi, 冈本绫

The story of a love triangle between two high school best friends and their cancer-stricken female classmate.

風のかたみ

Yukiko Takayama

Shima Iwashita, Shinobu Sakagami

火火

Banmei Takahashi

Yūko Tanaka, Shunsuke Kubozuka

Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.

病院で死ぬということ

Jun Ichikawa

Ittoku Kishibe, Masayuki Shionoya

Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.

ゴルフ夜明け前

Shûe Matsubayashi

Tsunehiko Watase, Keiko Takahashi

Comedy film.

真夜中まで

Makoto Wada

Хироюки Санада, Michelle Reis

Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. For the next two hours, Koji and Linda are running from both the hitmen and the police. Mistakenly identified as prime suspects, they have to solve the crime but time is running out: Koji has to be back to perform in his club by midnight, as a very special guest will be attending.

13 Assassins

Takashi Miike

Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

Zatoichi

Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

長崎ぶらぶら節

Yukio Fukamachi

Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tetsuya Watari

Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever

Survive Style 5+

Gen Sekiguchi

Tadanobu Asano, Reika Hashimoto

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

青春デンデケデケデケ

Nobuhiko Ōbayashi

Yasufumi Hayashi, Tadanobu Asano

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.

さびしんぼう

Nobuhiko Ōbayashi

Yasuko Tomita, Toshinori Omi

Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his lonely psyche, or real?

坊ちゃん

Masayuki Suzuki

Kazunari Ninomiya, Nao Matsushita

Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher. The assistant principle there wields absolute power. Botchan has a hard time dealing with his fellow teachers and the students.

彼のオートバイ、彼女の島

Nobuhiko Ōbayashi

Kiwako Harada, Noriko Watanabe

After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy Ko begins to fear that she is destined to crash.

空がこんなに青いわけがない

Akira Emoto

Tomokazu Miura, Yui Natsukawa

Kantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been having an affair with a woman working in the same company, but she does lots of eccentric things. His wife has no interrest in anything but her plan to build a new apartment where their old house is. His son suffers skin eruptions. His mother appears to have senile dementia.

The Funeral

Juzo Itami

Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.