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Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhao Tao

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiang Wu

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Fujitani

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erika Karata

It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yu Aoi

"Ars longa, vita brevis" – art is long, life is short. This is one of Japanese music icon Ryuichi Sakamoto's favorite quotes, and the message...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ryuichi Sakamoto

Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bae Doona

Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Goro Inagaki

At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhao Tao

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Chen

Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wei Wei Zhao

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Zhao Tao

Miyamatsu, who works as a cable-car operator, is also a film extra. Through his different characters he has been living the life of a stranger, only...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa

On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai, is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yûrei Yanagi

Yuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the jungle, stand at the head of a massive pirated goods...

Genre: Action

Cast: Joe Odagiri

An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

The story follows a scriptwriter named Lee who is processing what is happening in her life. She meets an innkeeper, who goes by the name Ben-zō,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shim Eun-kyung

This work is a 12-year story of Mana, a woman who cannot accept the death of her best friend, staring at her as she tries to step forward while...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukino Kishii

Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emmanuelle Béart