Mirai Moriyama

In 1980s Kyushu, two teenagers fell in love, and exchanged their secrets and thoughts by way of sending tape recordings to each other. More than a decade later, the boy (now grown-up and bittered) rediscovers the last recording of his long-dead lover's voice. Her words trigger a series of flashbacks illustrating the joyful beginning and tragic end of their relationship. (imdb)

After sustaining a career-ending injury, tap dancer, Shuhei Sano, arrives in...Hokkaido with hopes of marrying his longtime girlfriend, Shizuka. But his plan quickly runs afoul on Shizuka's father, a local...ice rink owner, who is not ready to relinquish his daughter. Shizuka's father then challenged Shuhei to coach a junior ice hockey team to their next victory. Despite having no knowledge of the game or any skating experience, Shuhei accepts...(moviexclusive.com)

A 21-year-old junior college graduate is involved in an incident which leads to her getting arrested and leaves her with a criminal record. She wanders from town to town, working part-time jobs to save up the 1,000,000 yen needed to get out of her predicament. (Eigapedia)

In 1975, the year before the Sex Pistols released their first album, a Japanese punk band called Gekirin recorded their single, "Fish Story" and then they broke up, never to record again. Thirty-seven years later, in 2012, their song saves the world. This is the tenth film from Yoshihiro Nakamura and we're not saying any more about it. (subwaycinema.com)

Moteki is the story of a 31 year-old virgin Yukiyo Fujimoto, a young fellow with no money, no aspirations and no girlfriend. Leaving his temp job, he decides to finally get a life and lands a job as a writer for an Internet news site. But love continues to elude him. At the nadir of his loneliness and social isolation, comes the arrival of his "Moteki" - a period of sexual magnetism and romantic irreversibility.

Kanta is a 19-year-old labor worker who only went far as middle school. He's now hooked on alcohol while playing around. Kanta develops feelings for Yasuko, who works in a used bookstore, but he has never had a girlfriend or, currently, any friends. Kanta also meets Shoji who he becomes friends with. Jealousy soon threatens their friendship. (iSugoi.com)

Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha vacation on Earth as roommates in a Tokyo apartment. (imdb)

20 years ago, an elementary school student falls on an island in the northern tip of Hokkaido. A teacher and 6 students makes contact through songs. What happened to the student who fell? The teacher returns 20 years later to meet with her former students. (imdb)

A grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities. (imdb)

A young man has graduated from college and already secured a job. With his free days fast dwindling he opts to put his available time to good use by bicycling around Japan. The trip is interrupted when he crashes his bicycle into a lorry only to be taken to a local establishment for on-site treatment. Told from the vantage point of an older man's memory, the journey recalls the meeting, the locals, their relationships and environment.

The adventures of the talented artist Rohan Kishibe, who investigates strange occurrences. (imdb)

A "cinematic" presentation of the 2011 version of the play. In 1590, seven spirits take on the threat growing in a shadowy castle. (Netflix).

Father of little Olzhas is killed by horse thieves on the day he goes to a market. Now, his mother decides to move back to her hometown with kids and take the horses the father has left behind. A strange man shows up on their door asking to meet Olzhas for once, and volunteers to help their move. (eastwind.kz)

A fictionalized depiction of the life of Inu-oh ("King Dog"), a 14th-century Japanese performer of music drama at the time of its transition from the folk art of sarugaku ("monkey music") into the formalized traditions of Noh and kyôgen.

In 1855, a daimyo sends his men on a gruelling marathon to discover if they're tough enough to face the newly arrived Americans. Misunderstanding his intent, the Shogun dispatches assassins. (IMDB).

A man and his female cohort attempt to annihilate the illegal organization responsible for his conversion into a mutant cyborg and stop their plans to conquer society. (Wikipedia)

Amidst robberies and other exploits, a young boy tries his best to survive in the black market area of a ravaged town in post-WWII Japan; his path intersects with other struggling characters, including a war widow and a man who recruits him for an unknown enterprise. (366weirdmovies.com)

Abandoned in the sleepy beach town of Iketeru, 11-year-old Karin finds herself in the care of Anzu: a 37-year-old, human-sized “ghost cat” with a penchant for pachinko and speedy scootering. (366weirdmovies.com)