The Class of the Sewage Canal 1972

The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.

The Heart of Hiroshima 1966

One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking all the records that she was carrying. The two connect instantly and begin seeing each other every day. However, Iwai, Yukio’s foster parent, is concerned - Yukio had been exposed to the atomic bomb when he was four years old and had been showing symptoms of atomic radiation, hospitalizing him in the Genbaku Atomic Bomb Survivor’s Hospital. Unfortunately, nobody knows when the symptoms may return. When Yukio passes out from anemia during work, he decides to part with Kazue. A couple of days later, Yukio tells her of his destiny at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, but Kazue passionately encourages him.

The Men Who My Father Loved 2018 ( 5)

A man returned to his home in Kyoto after being away for a year. As he works as a part-timer in Tokyo, his sister decides to sell their childhood home since both of their parents have passed away. One night, he recalls his father’s favorite watch and looks for it, and he stumbles across a notebook titled “My Memories.” He starts to read it and sees the words written on the first page saying “The men I loved, and who passed me by…” and is followed by a record of his father’s love life.

Sakari sō: Maid-chan goyōshin 2018 ( 4)

Often daydreaming, Mei Liu, who was immersed in strange fantasy, was once a member of a well-known girl idol group. Unfortunately, the boss of the brokerage company even fled the money, and she was deceived and forced to carry huge debts. In order to pay off the arrears, Meiliu applied to become a maid service staff in the country hotel, helping the service blame the tenants for their lives.

Chikan densha: Kuikomi yume (dream) match 2019 ( 2)

OL's heart is easy to be perverted. This morning, a middle-aged man touches the butt in the commuter rush car. The taste of the heart that puts up by killing the voice and put up with it, the molester's hand extends to the crotch and the breath becomes rough. Hope appears there, and twists the hand of the molester and makes a shot. It was a reunion of heart and hope after graduating from high school. Kokoro handed over his business card and headed for the company to have lunch next time. However, he gazes at the butt of the leaving heart and swallows. Nozomi was no longer getting erected in sex with her lover Tomomi...

Maiko monogatari 1987

Japanese drama film.

The H-Man 1958 ( 5.9)

Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

Beast Man Snow Man 1955 ( 4.5)

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

G.I.S.M. - +R: Regicide Reverberation N/A

G.I.S.M.「Rushing Waves of Sound 911」 2018

On September 11, 2018, the movie "Retsunami Kakuon Gunrushi 911” - a collection of unreleased footage of G.I.S.M. - screened for just one day at Tachikawa Cinema City, Tokyo, selling out over 700 seats in hours. Released physically on September 11, 2024 worldwide, the film is a one-hour piece of shocking footage carefully selected from the band’s legendary visual archive, shot and directed by Junji Yasuda.

New Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning 1996 ( 5.3)

The Kimagure Orange Road series centers on a teenage romantic triangle: Hikaru and Madoka were best friends until they fell for Kyosuke, an understated hero with psychic powers. In 1991, the 19-year-old Kyosuke is struck by car and propelled three years into the future, where he tries to understand the changes that have taken place in his world. Madoka and Hikaru have grown up to become a promising songwriter and a student of drama and dance, respectively; the older Kyosuke is a student-photographer on assignment in Bosnia. The problem of two Kyosukes coexisting is played for laughs, including a sequence where the 22-year-old Kyosuke counsels his younger self. The filmmakers expect the viewer to know the characters from the OAVs, although designs have been changed. The result is a Pax-style romantic fantasy, rather than a sci-fi adventure.

I Don't Have a License! 1994 ( 4)

A popular movie star named Hiroshi Nanjo faces a huge problem in filming his new action flick when they find out he hasn't got a license to drive. He is sent to a driving school and...

Shanghai Landing Party 1939 ( 5)

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.

Yotsuya Kaidan 1927

Latitude Zero 1969 ( 5.8)

A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Alpha under the command of Captain McKenzie. The group is quickly taken to a vast underwater city known as Latitude Zero, a fantastic, Atlantean type utopia, a world beneath the ocean with its own sun. It is soon discovered that Captain McKenzie is at war with the evil Dr. Malic, a cruel scientist who wishes to rule mankind all the while conducting genetic experiments on humans and animals. Malic sends his agents to kidnap Dr. Okada, a human scientist who has created a serum that can immunize exposure to radiation.

Dead Rising: Watchtower 2015 ( 5.122)

A group of people fight to survive in a zombie infested town.

Tony Takitani 2004 ( 6.759)

A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.

Twilight of the Cockroaches 1987 ( 6)

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.

こわれもの 1993

I'm telling you to be a great person like my dad. Tokuichi was at one time a prominent figure in an amateur band. Now he's unemployed, behind on his rent and alimony for his divorced wife and children. One day, his old bandmate, Kiichi, invites him to be the singer of his new band. When he goes to his shop to ask her about it, he finds the woman he had met before waiting for him with a message from Kiichi. The two hit it off and go to Kiichi's training camp, but when they arrive, the band has already broken up. A man who is clumsy and always misses his luck, a man who eats up other people's dreams and is always on the move, and a woman who stands dangerously between the two. The more the story progresses, the more we see the many facets of each of them, and the more the story lingers. From the noisy dialogues and cuts, music can be heard.

YADO: Tsukiyono-mura Yamanba Densetsu 2002

A sensual drama depicting the world of lust that unfolds in an inn deep in the mountains.

ROUTINE 2021

A young man appears at the workplace of Mito, a lame cleaner. He is a strange man who juggles all the time in silence, but he finds that he can use his talents for cleaning work as well. A new rhythm is born in the daily labour of routine.

The Yen Family 1988 ( 5.9)

Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together to accumulate a small amount of money, while mixing irony and satire.

Good Luck My Road 2023

Good Luck My Road

Yaji Kita manzai dochu-Bakehime sodo no maki 1955

Beer, those were the days 1956 ( 4)

In 1955 Tadahito Mochinaga was asked to create commercials for Asahi beer, which he created using stop-motion, followed by the 1956 short film "Beer Mukashi Mukashi" (Beer, those were the days...), created specifically for theatres. With the help of Kikachiro Kawamoto and Noburo Ofuji, this is the first animated short/commercial in stop-motion made for Japanese cinemas!

Shashin no Ma 2020 ( 6)

The scratched and faded – and at times almost abstracted – home movies that pass through the projector in Tetsuya Maruyama's "Shashin no Ma" simultaneously welcome and resist nostalgia, in what is both a meditation on the physical nature of the analogue film strip and the ghosts that reside within it as well as a poignant tribute by an artist-filmmaker son to his amateur-filmmaker father.

JET STREAM 1999

Film by Masaki Hanami, 1999. The days of youth that can never be repeated. It's an orthodox story, but the pain and catharsis are depicted in this work by entrusting it to the act of "running."

Tell The World 1999

A university student named World. She thinks about things in her head more than anyone else, but her actions often run on empty, and from the outside, she leads a dull life. His girlfriend is cold, his friend, with whom he has had a rivalry since primary school, is steadily shaping his future dreams, and the girl he fell in love with at first sight is his girlfriend. When he starts to feel tired and doubtful about himself, he ends up reading a diary dropped by his girlfriend. It contains a story that drives the world further into chaos and spinning out of control.