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Egoist (2022)

Summary: Kosuke, gay male who lost his mother at 14, suppressed feelings in rural village. Now adult fashion editor in Tokyo, meets Ryuta. Film explores his journey from repressed adolescence to embracing identity.

Release Date: February 10, 2023

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Daishi Matsunaga

Writers: Makoto Takayama

, Daishi Matsunaga

, Kyôko Inukai

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

Production: Nikkatsu, Rights Cube, Robot Communications, Tokyo Theatres

Distributor: Stand Releasing

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

They Say Nothing Stays the Same (2019)

Summary: Why does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body of water and a bridge does not exist. The village high in the hills has a ferryman, but a bridge is in the works. The poor peasant is about to become even mo...

Release Date: November 12, 2021

Genre: Drama

Director: Joe Odagiri

Writer: Joe Odagiri

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

Production: Kinoshita Group

Distributor: Kino Films International Sales

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Shoplifters (2018)

Summary: 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 exist...

Release Date: November 23, 2018

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: AOI Promotion, Fuji Television Network, Gaga

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures, Wild Bunch

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 3,313,513

International: $ 64,685,822

Recall (2018)

Summary: Tokuro Akamatsu (Tomoya Nagase) runs a transport company. One day, a truck owned by Tokuro Akamatsu is involved in an accident. A tire came off the truck and killed a pedestrian - a mother walking with her young son. The initial a...

Release Date: June 15, 2018

Genre: Drama

Director: Katsuhide Motoki

Writers: Jun Ikeido

, Tamio Hayashi

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

Production: Shochiku Studio Co., Shochiku

Distributor: Nikkatsu

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Lu Over the Wall (2017)

Summary: The story centers on Kai, a gloomy middle school student whose life changes after meeting Lu, a mermaid.

Release Date: May 19, 2017

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Anime

Director: Masaaki Yuasa

Writers: Reiko Yoshida

, Masaaki Yuasa

, Stephanie Sheh

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Twin Engine, Fuji Television Network, Toho, Toho Company

Distributor: GKIDS, Netflix, Shout! Factory

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 109,857

International: $ 51,396

Shin Godzilla (2016)

Summary: Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.

Release Date: July 29, 2016

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Directors: Hideaki Anno

, Shinji Higuchi

Writers: Hideaki Anno

, Sean Whitley

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Cine Bazar, Khara Corporation, Toho Company

Distributor: Crunchyroll, FUNimation Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Franchise: Godzilla

Domestic: $ 1,918,403

International: $ 76,134,742

Wood Job! Kamusari nânâ nichijô (2014)

Summary: After failing to get into university, a soft city boy randomly picks a job in forestry.

Release Date: May 10, 2014

Genres: Adventure, Comedy

Director: Shinobu Yaguchi

Writers: Shion Miura

, Shinobu Yaguchi

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

Production: Asahi Shimbun, Chubu-nippon Broadcasting Company (CBC), Chugoku Broadcasting (RCC), Django Film, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Ace Attorney (2012)

Summary: Following the murder of his mentor, rookie Defense Attorney Phoenix Wright must find the truth behind not only her death, but that of an unsolved case from 15 years prior.

Release Date: February 11, 2012

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Takashi Miike

Writers: Takeharu Sakurai

, Sachiko Ôguchi

, Shu Takumi

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

Production: Nippon Television Network (NTV), Toho Company, Capcom Company, Toho, D.N. Dream Partners, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (YTV)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

John Rabe (2009)

Summary: A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Release Date: April 02, 2009

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Florian Gallenberger

Writers: Florian Gallenberger

, John Rabe

, Erwin Wickert

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

Production: Odeon Fiction, EOS Entertainment, Majestic Filmproduktion, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), France 2 Cinéma, Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film Investment, Lunaris Film, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Pampa Production, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rai Cinema, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Countries: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 67,519

International: $ 1,417,146

Ikigami (2008)

Summary: Ikigami takes place in a dystopian society where the government has implemented the "Prosperity Law". This law dictates 1 in 1000 random citizens ages 18~24 will die for the state in a mandatory lottery. Death occurs at a preset d...

Release Date: September 27, 2008

Genre: Drama

Director: Tomoyuki Takimoto

Writers: Motorô Mase

, Tomoyuki Takimoto

, Akimitsu Sasaki

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: (Banned)

Production: Chubu-nippon Broadcasting Company (CBC), IMJ Entertainment, Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS), RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation, Shogakukan

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Riaru onigokko (2008)

Summary: Teenager is transported to a parallel world where everyone who shares his family name is being hunted down by the dictatorial government.

Release Date: February 22, 2008

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Issei Shibata

Writers: Yûsuke Yamada

, Issei Shibata

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

Production: Geneon Entertainment

Distributor: Geneon Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

The Great Yokai War (2005)

Summary: A young boy is chosen as the defender of good and must team up with Japan's ancient spirits and creatures of lore to attempt to destroy the forces of evil.

Release Date: August 06, 2005

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Director: Takashi Miike

Writers: Hiroshi Aramata

, Takashi Miike

, Mitsuhiko Sawamura

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Kadokawa Eiga K.K., Nippon Television Network (NTV)

Distributor: Media Blasters, Tokyo Shock

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 1,300,000,000

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

Summary: The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.

Release Date: September 06, 2003

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writers: Takeshi Kitano

, Kan Shimozawa

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Asahi National Broadcasting Company, Bandai Visual Company, DENTSU Music And Entertainment, TV Asahi, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co.

Distributor: Miramax, Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 1,118,163

International: $ 33,078,759

Samurai Resurrection (2003)

Summary: 37,000 Peasants perished in the Shimbara Revolt: among them, the leader of that uprising, Shiro Amakusa. Amakusa is resurrected from hell bent on revenging the death of his fellow comrades by over throwing the Shoganate. Shiro res...

Release Date: April 26, 2003

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Hideyuki Hirayama

Writers: Satoko Okudera

, Fûtarô Yamada

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

Production: Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Nippon Television Network (NTV), Toei Company, Toei Video Company, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co., Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (YTV)

Distributor: Toei Company

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Dr. Akagi (1998)

Summary: At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Release Date: January 15, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Director: Shôhei Imamura

Writers: Shôhei Imamura

, Ango Sakaguchi

, Daisuke Tengan

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP), Comme des Cinémas, Imamura Productions, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Toei Company, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (TFC)

Distributor: Kino International, Kino Video

Countries: Japan, France

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 71,832

The Eel (1997)

Summary: A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.

Release Date: August 21, 1998

Genre: Drama

Director: Shôhei Imamura

Writers: Shôhei Imamura

, Daisuke Tengan

, Motofumi Tomikawa

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Eisei Gekijo, Groove Corporation, Imamura Productions, Satellite Cinema, Shochiku

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 418,480

Shall We Dance? (1996)

Summary: A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.

Release Date: July 11, 1997

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Masayuki Suô

Writer: Masayuki Suô

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Daiei Studios, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Hakuhodo, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Altamira Pictures Inc.

Distributor: Miramax, New Films International, Walt Disney Home Video

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 9,499,091

Maborosi (1995)

Summary: A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.

Release Date: December 09, 1995

Genre: Drama

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

Writers: Teru Miyamoto

, Yoshihisa Ogita

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: TV Man Union

Distributor: Milestone Film & Video, New Yorker Video

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Rasuto Furankenshutain (1991)

Summary: This 1992 Japanese film tells the story of a scientist who sets out to create the new "super Adam and Eve", humans who cannot be controlled by their emotions. Of course, the end result it not exactly what the good doctor expects.

Release Date: April 20, 1991

Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Takeshi Kawamura

Writer: Takeshi Kawamura

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Egoist (2022)

They Say Nothing Stays the Same (2019)

Shoplifters (2018)

Recall (2018)

Lu Over the Wall (2017)

Shin Godzilla (2016)

Wood Job! Kamusari nânâ nichijô (2014)

Ace Attorney (2012)

John Rabe (2009)

Ikigami (2008)

Riaru onigokko (2008)

The Great Yokai War (2005)

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

Samurai Resurrection (2003)

Dr. Akagi (1998)

The Eel (1997)

Shall We Dance? (1996)

Maborosi (1995)

Rasuto Furankenshutain (1991)

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