Haruka Ayase

One day, a beautiful cyborg girl appears in front of a dull university student. Even though the cyborg starts to like him, she can't truly feel emotions, so the boy has no choice but to say goodbye. (AsianMediaWiki)

Ayase plays a blind woman who roams about town with her shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese guitar), but she has exceptional sword skills with which she fights off yakuza and other villains. (imdb)

A collection of short films, each by a different Japanese director.

Haruka lost her mother at a young age. While her mother was still alive, she received a treasured hand mirror from her. After her mother's death, forgot about the mirror, and eventually lost it. One day, she decides to go to a local shrine and pray for the return of her lost mirror. It is there that she accidentally encounters a small masked creature which she secretly follows to the land of forgotten items. (Wikipedia)

A young gangster caught having an affair with the wife of his boss tries to atone by promising to recruit a notorious and feared hitman. Unfortunately he doesn't know the hitman and is forced to hire an actor to play the role instead, convincing the actor that the job is for an an actual feature film shoot rather than a dangerous underworld contract.

Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative "job" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days (imdb)

A great variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew all support a single flight. They have only one mission: to secure the safety of the passengers! Today was supposed to be any other day on the job, departing on schedule and heading safely to Honolulu, but... (imdb)

An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present, opening up widening time-space 'holes' all over Japan. (imdb)

Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Tokyo Sonata) returns with this story of a man who uses an advanced neurological technology to enter the frightening mindscape of his comatose lover. (tiff.net)

A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. (imdb)

The movie stars Haruka Ayase as a 23-year-old teacher named Mikako who loses her confidence in her ability to deal with students. For a fresh start, she signs up to be the advisor of the boys' volleyball team. She soon discovers the team only has five players who've barely even touched a volleyball and would much rather spend their time obsessing over girls than practicing. (nipponcinema.com)

Young Atsuko Kagami comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Atsuko Kagami then attempts to save a company which is about to be sold by using her transformation abilities. She also falls in love as a 22-year-old college student. (imdb)

A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their 13-year-old half sister. (imdb)

Set 2 years after the events in the drama series, Hotaru Amemiya learns that her boss and now husband Seichi Takano has dreamed of vacationing in Rome, Italy like in the movie "Roman Holiday". Hotaru then makes plans to go to Rome for their honeymoon.

In a small town of southern Japan, Sakutaro "Saku" Matsumoto and Aki Hirose, classmates since junior high, become high school students. During this time they begin to date and their conversations circle around the idea of what love really is, beginning after Saku's grandfather shares his own past love story with Saku. (wikipedia)

A woman decides to stay in a quaint hotel in Kyoto's historic quarter, but soon finds herself in the middle of 16th Century Japan, playing a major role in one of the country's most important historical events. (imdb)

2017. An old man being treated in a hospital is always clinging to what appears to be a screenplay for a film. When a young nurse, Amane, asks him, "What's it about?" he bashfully begins to tell the story. "It's a magical tale of a young man..." 1960. Makino Kenji is an Assistant Director at a film studio. He dreams of one day becoming a director, but all he does now is run errands.

Kuramatsu Hitoshi, the supervisor of Kumagai Group's Kuramatsu Team, and Takiyama Kunpei, the assistant manager of Kansai Electric's Kuroyon Building Office, were the two greatest contributors to the completion of Omachi tunnel, the most challenging undertaking in the journey to finish the Kurobe Dam. (imdb)

A brain surgeon named Minakata Jin faints at the hospital and awakens to find himself transported back in time to the Edo period. (imdb)

Ishibumi is a film about the Hiroshima bombing. It's Hirokazu Koreeda's rework of a classic 1969 TV program produced by Hiroshima Television. (imdb)

The story of a man and a woman that extends over 30 years in the Warring State period. (imdb)

8-year old boy, Shinpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, on her own. Shinpei's childhood sweetheart, Sayuri, is deaf, but somehow they can understand each other and they always spend time together. One day, big news comes to their town. (imdb)

When she's not at her fancy job, Hotaru just wants to relax at home - until her landlord's son shows up, and it's none other than her fastidious boss. (imdb)

A Japanese crime scene investigation team recruits a neuroscientist to aid them as they try to solve cases. With his intelligence, he uses logic to deduce who commits the crime and how. (imdb)

Ayako Mochizuki investigates a murder case. From the evidence she collects, she targets Haruto Hidaka as the murder suspect. (imdb)

Akiko Iwaki is a career woman who works very hard at her job. She gets married to Ryoichi Miyamoto who has a daughter. Akiko must now deal with housework and raising her stepdaughter. (imdb)

A poor man falls in love with a rich woman in the 20s. Her outlook on life is like a middle school girl and his outlook on life is like an old man. She shows him that not all rich girls are stuck up, that some are humble and sweet and good to disabled children. (imdb)

In 1956, a determined group of explorers from Japan - along with 22 trusty Sakhalin huskies - departs on a mission to explore Antarctica. (imdb)

A love triangle develops between a shy office worker, a part-time worker and a CEO. (imdb)

Isayama Nami, in order to start over her life and to find happiness, married the man she fell in love with at first sight during a blind date and moved to a quiet high-end residential area. Nami isn't really good with domestic chores in general, including cooking or cleaning, but she has a very strong sense of justice and it would be very ill-advised to make her angry. (imdb)

Yuki, the matriarch of the Mashiba family, is hospitalized, testing the family's ability to cooperate and sacrifice to keep their household well-oiled.

Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can’t swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and people, he still decides on the spur of the moment to enroll in a swimming class. There, he encounters the teacher Shizuka Usuhara, who ignores his last-minute hesitation and enrolls him.

A mysterious spear-wielding woman named Balsa arrives in the New Yogo Kingdom. After saving Prince Chagum from a thinly veiled assassination attempt, ordered by his own father, Balsa is tasked to protect him from his father. (imdb)

This historical biopic follows the life of Japanese heroine Yae Niijima. As Yae dedicates her life to helping others, she becomes a role model for modern women everywhere. (imdb)

Teenager Kathy suddenly realizes that she must learn to come to terms with her love, friendships and morality as she finds out the haunting truth that awaits her. (imdb)