Japan movies

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.

Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.

Takatoshi Minamiyama majors in art at a university in Kyoto. On the train to the school, he sees Emi Fukuju and falls in love with her at first sight. They begin to date and enjoy happy days together, but Emi reveals her secret to him.

Chieko Sanda has operated a dry goods store in Kyoto for the past 20 years. Her family has owned the store for generations. Chieko is conflicted on whether her daughter Mai will take over her position with the changing of times.

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

A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.

An assistant director and film fan gets his wish come true when his favourite heroine, a princess from an old film, appears in the real world.

Aoi and Riku, who have been friends since they were five years old, are part of a band with other students at university they attend.

A group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.

Based on the novel Shojo by Kanae Minato, watch for the story of high school student Yuki who plans to see a dead body. She is more than just a little jealous of another student who has seen the corpse of a person. The morbidity has its origin in the life of young girls growing up, high school bullying, teenage rivalry and adult tyranny.

A general store that gives advice turns magical one night. Accidentally, the time line switched which somehow makes the current present and the best present for the people who want to be advised.

Lucius, a Roman architect, is transported through time to modern-day Japan, where he learns about Japanese bathhouses and uses this to his gain back home.

Moriyama Mikuri had graduated from university and got no job offers. She became a temporary employee but was even laid off. Now, she works as a housekeeper for bachelor Tsuzaki Hiramasa by chance and he proposes a contract marriage to her.

Divorcee Sasamoto Sawa lives quietly in a small town when her former love Kitano Yuichiro visits to give a lecture. Reuniting, their romance is rekindled.

Tawako's boyfriend is not her kind, but she puts up with it in exchange for shelter. Her old boyfriend of almost a decade ago is long gone, and was also not nice, but like most girls she still reminisces about him and is attracted to his bad ways. Enter Mizushima who reminds Tawako of her old boyfriend, but soon more transpires to remind the girl of her old relationship.

A cook opens a restaurant that only serves from midnight till dawn. One day, he discovers an obituary urn. Follow the stories of his regulars tangled around this urn.

The timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending them a cursed phone message they can either pass on or die.

Sayaka, a ditzy high school girl, is unexpectedly encouraged by an optimistic and unconventional teacher to apply for admission to Keio University. Inspired to reach her goal and prove a point, Sayaka completely throws herself to the task.

About one gloomy girl named Mei who injures the most popular male student named Yamato. Somehow, Yamato likes Mei and one day, Yamato saves Mei from a stalker by kissing her. From that kiss, their love story begins.

A precarious loner sneaks into a blind woman's home and begins living there without her noticing. Meanwhile, the woman mourns her recently deceased father and struggles to remain connected to the world.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.

Rina is the it girl. She is thin, has long hair, is flaunting and dresses attractively. Every man wants to be with her and every woman wants to be like her. She also happens to be self-absorbed, mean and nasty. Then calamity hits and she is diagnosed with an illness. The meaning of friendship and true friends and love soon become apparent.