Japan Movies

A film depicting the story of Yokota Megumi who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977.

Thirty years ago, idol Okada Yukiko jumped off the Sun Music agency building in a desperate attempt to take her own life. Unfortunately, she was...

Started in 2013, Magical Mirai is an annual musical event showcasing the songs from Crypton Future Media's Vocaloids (synthesized vocalists). The...

While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many...

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it flourished not through conquest and exploration,...

A high school teacher, struggling to keep up with today's youth and estranged from his only son, receives the news about a terrible accident that...

The story of a lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.

Uchida Mayu is a high school student in a peaceful town near Tokyo. She suffers from violence from her stepfather and plans to run away to her...

Torii 鳥居 is a short film in the form of an audiovisual composition about the traditional Shinto gates of the same name in Japan. The...

At the turn of the 19th and 20th century Finnish philologist G. J. Ramstedt travelled around Mongolia and Central-Asia. In this documentary...

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...

Seeking revenge after a brutal attack that left him disfigured, a former assassin gets drawn into a high-stakes conflict over a valuable treasure.

In this Traveltalk short, the symbolic role of cherry blossoms in Japanese culture is explored as well as the traditional Japanese religions of...

A single bullet cuts through Kyoto in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate right before the restoration of imperial rule. Who plotted to...

Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru....

In the world of the Ninja, fighting skills play a small role in one's rank in the Shinobi order. Kageru is the best in his class, but his birth...

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The...

Concert film featuring milet's 1st live "eye" on November 11, 2019 at LIQUIDROOM

Barely scraping by making an honest living as a rural yakuza, Hachiya (Yasukaze Motomiya) dreams of the City of Flowers. Unable to conceal their...