Japanese Cinema

Hirayama works maintaining public toilets in Tokyo. His life is structured around routines and passions that lead him to simply appreciate life.

Keiko is deaf and lives on the outskirts of Tokyo, where she trains relentlessly in boxing.

After her father is involved in a serious accident, 11-year-old Yuna’s life is turned upside down. Reunited with her mother, Yuna faces the possibility ...

Preteen Akira Fukushima (Yûya Yagira) and his young siblings have been abandoned by their mother, Keiko (You). Keiko, who has moved in with a new lover, ...

Love, grief, isolation: a quiet film about what connects us—and what drives us apart. Sign language gives shape to the unspeakable.

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Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hirō Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever ...

A home care nurse is suspected of being an accomplice after the youngest daughter in the family she works for was abused.

Three aliens come to Earth and take over human bodies in preparation for a massive invasion .

Also known as Phantom Love, the French/Japanese co-production L'Empire de la Passion follows famed Japanese director Nagisa Oshima's multinational production, ...