Kumiko Aso

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo’s ...

Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can’t swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between ...

An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at ...

The story follows Akane, a girl with no self-confidence. On the day before her birthday, she meets a mysterious alchemist, Hippocrates, and his ...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

“Good Morning Everyone!” revolves around a family involved in the punk music scene. Aki is a former guitarist for a punk band. She ...

When Mutta was 12-years-old and Hibito was 9-years-old the two brothers saw what they thought was an UFO flying towards the moon. They made a ...

A boy, Shin, and his family are forced to evacuate the island of Miyakejima, when it erupts in 2000. Shin’s dog, Rock, is mistakenly left behind.

Youjin is a quirky young man living in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Yojin has a difficult time sitting still and can’t focus on extended ...

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His ...

A thug offers to pay a law student’s gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

A love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota’s mother married Kaoru’s jazz-playing father, effectively ...

New Year’s Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment ...

A failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as the superhero “Zebraman”. Although ...

Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that ...

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and ...

An alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he’s impulsively made a suicide pact. ...

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a ...

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family ...

A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet ...

The movie follows a 4-year old boy who is struggling to cope with the arrival of a little sister in the family until things turn magical. A ...