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- Obsessed gamer Arisu suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games in order to survive.
- The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
- A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.
- A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.
- In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
- Confined at home as a consequence of the COVID-19 outbreak, filmmakers created personal, moving stories that capture our shared experience of life in quarantine.
- A fresh new approach to the global lockdown and the uplifting stories that have come out of it. People all over the world have had the chance to engage with nature like never before.
- In 16th century Japan, two samurai engage in massive battles across the countryside, one attempting to conquer and the other attempting to defend his land while repressing his love for a woman after taking a vow of celibacy.
- In 1856, the first U.S. Consul General to Japan encounters the hostility of the local authorities and the love of a young geisha.
- Shinichiro is lonely for two reasons. He lost his family in an accident when he was younger. He also has an unusual and morbid ability to see through and beyond the corporal bodies of those who are about to die. His life looks to be on the upswing when he meets the cute Aoi at a shop one day. They are well on the way to happiness together when the man begins seeing through the woman.
- A woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother.
- A passionate writer of film versions for visually impaired people meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight.
- A plane on its way to Japan is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A small American boy survives the ditching, but is separated from the rest of the passengers and crew and is picked up by a Japanese fisherman, who takes the boy back to his village. The boy is befriended by the fisherman's son, but when they see Japanese Police swarming over the village, they are afraid that they've done something wrong and run away, although the Police are only searching for the missing boy. Together, the two boys travel through the Japanese countryside, trying to avoid the Police, who are searching for them and meeting up with many different kinds of people along the way.
- Depicts the dissolution of a small family in a remote Japanese timber village.
- A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.
- Three Japanese tourists - a soldier, a divorced woman, and a salaryman - make a pilgrimage to the Ganges River in India, each in hopes of finding some spiritual release or meaning in life.
- Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.
- Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate.
- The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.
- Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting.
- The oddest of friends... Mamoru is a book smart nerd and Koga is a street smart jock. Mamoru finds out that Koga is in trouble and will do everything in his power to save his best friend. The boys must make a decision - to stay back, be brave and deal with the problem or just run away. They chose to run away. At the risk of not making it out alive, the boys embark on an adventure and meet a summer they'll never forget.
- Meiji 44th year. Meiko is the daughter of Daigo, who owns a western restaurant in Tokyo. She loves to eat the omelette prepared by Daigo, and the nukaduke (pickles) prepared by her mother, Iku. Theirs is a warm, close knitted family, and Meiko's love for food grows with age. Even now, when she is in an all-girls' high school, her mind is filled with thoughts of food all the time. Due to that, Yutaro, the university student who is boarding at the Uno's home, scathingly calls Meiko, "a person with no charms whatsoever". However, as Meiko changes from someone who loves to eat, to a person who loves to prepare food for others to eat, she starts to display an inner strength as foretold by her mother and her grandmother. "To crave for food, is to have the will to live; the stronger the craving, the greater the will". Those are the words that help to encourage Meiko and her loved ones as they go through all the trials and tribulations in their lives. --by NHK
- Part of the Jeonju Digital Project, Visitors consists of three films from three different directors. "Lost in the Mountains," by Hong Sang Soo. "Koma" by Naomi Kawase, and "Butterflies have no Memories" by Lav Diaz.
- A Korean director visits a small village in Japan to find inspiration for his film.
- After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those two women apparently share no connection, until their lives start to interfere in one another, strangely linked through the sea. Hannah, the writer, plunges into a journey of self-discovery in Japan, while Ana, the swimmer in Rio de Janeiro, oddly has her body transformed into some kind of inner Ocean.
- A documentary with international implications about the importance of organ donation and transplantation, Cystic Fibrosis awareness and related health causes.
- "The Great Music Experience", produced by Tony Hollingsworth of Tribute and backed by UNESCO and the United Nations, was staged at Todai Ji, an eighth-century Buddhist temple, the world's largest wooden building containing the world's largest statue of Buddha. It challenged top international artists to immerse themselves in Japanese culture, explore their differences and perform a show that was rich in its influence.
- Narrated and viewed from perspective of a child in family, Shoonen H portrays daily trials and societal difficulties of a Christian family from just prior to commencement of World War II to its aftermath.
- The Japanese population's reaction to the catastrophe of March 2011 has been described as "stoic" by the Western media. The Japanese code of conduct is indeed deeply rooted in their Buddhist traditions.
- A photographer (Machiko Ono) and a filmmaker (Naomi Kawase) challenge each other to shoot--one to photograph the other to film--two young actresses, one from Tokyo, the other from the countryside. The photographer seeks naturalism in his compositions, and Kawase observes and comments on his work. The competition between the photographer, the filmmaker, and the actresses creates a charged atmosphere.
- Explore the mysterious, controversial world of the Japanese tattoo in this documentary. Notorious for its ties to the Yakuza, Japanese tattoo culture is deeply tied to the roots of Japanese culture in complex ways. Delve into how the tattoo has passed through generations, exploring the studios of master artists and their indelible work.
- After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1945, a large number of Japanese orphans were adopted by families in Northeast China. With the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries in the 1970s and 1980s, many orphans returned to China, including Lihua, the adopted daughter of Grandma Chen (played by Wu Yanshu). In 2005, Grandma Chen, who hadn't received a reply from her adopted daughter for a long time, couldn't help but miss her. She went to Nara, Japan. People journey. In a foreign country, they met many returned orphans. Their lives showed another side-section of war trauma. Under cultural differences and conflicts, the journey of tracing people became turbulent. Where did the adopted daughter become the biggest in everyone's hearts Mystery.
- The elderly people living in the forest areas of the Yoshino Mountains and the village of Nishi-Yoshino are resilient loners. Kawase records them in their daily activities, revealing their humorous and frank philosophies about hard work, isolation, loneliness, and growing old. One woman dryly says, "Turn your camera off, being old is not entertaining." Another adds philosophically, "The wind will blow, the future will come. Without suffering there is no happiness."
- Set at the end of the Taisho era (1920s) at Ishiuchi Jinjo Higher Elementary School in the mountains of Hiroshima prefecture, there was a fervent teacher called Mr. Ichikawa. He always placed his pupils first and took any issues to heart.
- Glimpses of flower arranging, a temple deer park, and Mount Fuji.
- Inori is a great Japanese / spiritual / scientific documentary. Uncovering deep Human Being truths. A must watch
- This in-depth and comprehensive documentary chronicles the events and history behind the legendary ninja warriors of medieval Japan, and the viewer is treated to rare interviews with world-renowned ninjutsu authorities and master practitioners.
- An Art Film, A Documentary, and the Answer To Bob Harris who is "Lost in Tokyo."
- Between rain and clearer spells, in the footsteps of Ozu in today's Japan, people met, wordless encounters - Also some seismic events, a trembling of the ground which does not interrupt the course of the film. And just for the sake of a story: a forgotten umbrella in a hotel room.
- A story of Western characters adrift in the heart of Japan. The three worlds of Mark, a famous novelist, Matthew, an English teacher, and John, a schizophrenic drifter, collide to produce The Olden Days Are Now, a bizarre art project with dimensions spilling over from fantasy into reality, stretching from the worlds of Japanese folklore and mythology to the modern streets of Kyoto and Osaka.