Japan Movies

Takeshi Kitano is an international icon. We know the actor, the multi-award-winning filmmaker, but many ignore his double personality: the crazy TV...

Akira, Takeshi, Yasu, and Shun are a gang of four close friends, all of whom were core members of their high-school ekiden team. Although they were...

One of Japan's most renowned baseball pros, Takenori Emoto of the Hanshin Tigers, relates humorous anecdotes from his own career and the game in...

Natsumi which has been moved to a deceased mother's family in Izu, to change schools to the same high school as the cousin, driven into lacrosse. But...

This documentary film follows for 22 years a nine-member family involved in the manufacturing of Udon in the Goto Islands, Nagasaki prefecture. Mr....

Okawa Family’s yakuza, Junji, is released from prison, and is told to take over a local radio station by his boss. Junji tries to explain that...

Tokyo is a fascinating city of extremes, blending the old traditions with visions of the future and an extraordinary pace of life. A shock of...

Pulitzer Prize -- winning journalist John Hersey caused a sensation when he published "Hiroshima", the first account for American readers of the...

ONE OK ROCK held a special live video with 53 full orchestras held in Tokyo and Osaka in October 2018!! The enclosed booklet reaches 100 pages, and...

The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might have killed Ryoma Sakamoto.

A documentary film telling the story of true friendship and commitment to Japan’s recovery by the international community following the Great...

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as...

Scored by Australian electronic music group The Avalanches and produced by Junk Food Dinner, SINCE I LEFT YOU is a visual essay about synchronicity,...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.

On 11 March 2011, an earthquake caused a tsunami to hit the Tōhoku (Northeast) region of Japan. In this film, survivors of the tsunami rebuild...

By following the lives of five Japanese individuals this documentary explores the problem of depression in Japan and how the marketing of...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Features the final of "DAICHI MIURA LIVE TOUR COLORLESS" held by Daichi Miura at Yoyogi National Gymnasium on November 5, 2019.

Features Jin Akanishi's concert film of his Yellow Gold Tour 2011 filmed from January to February of 2011 in Japan.