After her husband kills himself, future prospects for the demure and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji look incredibly bleak. Fortunately, her dead husband's largest creditor, Mr. Kito, is there to offer a shoulder to cry on as he offers to settle all her debts. But, sure enough, Kito's charity comes with certain strings attached; namely that Mitsuko becomes his personal sex slave. Things become even more complicated when Kito's son Kazuhiko falls for the helpless widow, throwing into jeopardy his own marriage plans.

In this tale of star-crossed love, two troubled young lovers - a gambler and a stripper - run off to the tranquil Japanese countryside to marry and start a new life. But their dark past follows them in the form of a veteran loan shark.

At an all female high school, a senior of the broadcast club becomes fascinated with the club's newest member. As graduation approaches and the summer heat rises, so does the sexual tension between the girls. Inspired by the photo book of photographer Yuki Aoyama.

In the aftermath of the great earthquake and nuclear meltdown that devastated the Northeast coast of Japan, two families whose homes fall on opposite sides of the evacuation border must confront hard choices about whether to leave, and whose orders to follow. The elderly Onos have deep reasons for not wanting to abandon their dairy farm, while their son Yoichi and his wife Izumi fear the insidious effects of radiation on Izumi's pregnancy. Meanwhile, the Suzukis' son helps his girlfriend search for her parents in a devastated landscape.

Yuka is a troubled young woman who suddenly begins working part-time as a high-class call girl. During her trysts with various clients she finds unexpected romance while on the job.

Screened at Sundance, this serene coming-of-age story follows a cynical Japanese high-school girl as she learns the joy of lending an helping hand in the quieter parts of life.

Acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Nobody Knows, Still Walking) won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for this touching drama. The life of go-getting workaholic architect Ryota -- one of comfort and quietly ordered affluence with his wife Midori and son Keita -- is violently overturned when hospital administrators reveal the unthinkable: Keita is not his biological son. Switched at birth by the maternity ward nurse, his "true" son has been raised in the disheveled but warm-hearted home of working-class shopkeeper Yudai and his wife. The different approaches of both couples to their excruciating dilemma and the gradual emotional awakening of the all-too-rational Ryota are at the core of this sensitive drama of family feeling, which showcases Kore-eda's rich sense of humanity.

A vivid adaptation of the grotesque and erotic short stories of Edogawa Rampo, often referred to as the Japanese Edgar Allen Poe, starring an ensemble cast lead by the versatile Asano Tadanobu and Ryuhei Matsuda. Four auteurs provide a shocking compilation of short films each stylistically different and based on the masterpieces of the great Japanese mystery writer. These dark narratives are mysterious forays into the twisted mind of a true visionary.

After a sex education in school, Haruna begins to wonder if she is pregnant. When she feels "The baby needs me like I need my mother", she decides to give birth to the baby. Her classmates happen to know her pregnancy and they join hands with her.
(c)2008 "CHILD by CHILDREN" Film Partners

From cyberpunk master Shinya Tsukamoto comes a cerebral detective story taking place in dreams. Nightmare Detective Kyoichi helps out a schoolgirl to solve a new string of dream-related deaths.

TSUBOI and KINOSHITA have just arrived at a desolate town because FUNAKI tempted them to come there. But he hasn't arrived yet. They happen to meet with Atsuko and make a journey. But one day, Atsuko suddenly disappears...
(c)2003 Bitters End, Vap

UTA used to be a child prodigy and still taking lessons but doesn't show interest to play piano anymore. She teaches playing piano to WAO, a 19 years-old boy, who wants to enter Conservatoire and let him use the grand piano in the residence where she used to live with her parents.
(c)2007 "GENIUS" Film Partners

Trained to be the perfect assassin by the mob, Ryo Hanaki is cold-blooded, ruthless and relentless in eliminating his targets. But after saving a mysterious high school girl, they go on the run with the entire mob force in Tokyo on their trail.

When Katsutoshi finds trouble at work and hides out at his friend's titular nightclub, lives intersect and strange situations arise in this dark comedy set in the seedy underbelly of Tokyo nightlife.

Master Director Kon Ichikawa's 1963 classic is considered by many to be one of the finest films ever made in Japan. Kasuo Hasegawa stars as Yukinojo, a talented kabuki actor who specializes in playing female roles (women were not allowed on the stage during the period of the film). But his success on the stage is but a means to an end; his true goal is to visit vengeance upon the three ruthless and powerful men who destroyed his family's business and drove his parents to commit suicide. Yukinojo's vengeance will be carefully scripted, and skillfully acted. But the price of admission will be high indeed.