Movies: Japanese

Three parallel love stories set in three different cities are set against some of the major international events of the last five years, in this ambitious....

A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid....

An investigation in two neighboring houses with possible paranormal activity....

The culture of Japan is incredible, from bloom festivals to ultra-modern cities. But there are also more than 130 mammals and 600 bird species dwelling in Japan’s 6,852 islands. This island chain is long enough to span climate zones, providing a huge...

Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try to put aside their differences in order to evade the Japanese and survive....

This documentary follows the lives of four elderly Japanese men living in Manila's impoverished districts. Known as "distressed Japanese," they navigate their daily lives with minimal earnings and assistance from others. Despite once having jobs and ...

The Quartzers, calling themselves the Wardens of Time, appear after Sougo Tokiwa has collected all of the Heisei Era Ride Watches. A grand conspiracy behind the birth of the King of Time becomes ever clearer......

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

In April 2023, SU-METAL (vocal, dance), MOAMETAL (scream, dance), and MOMOMETAL (scream, dance) entered a new stage as the new BABYMETAL, and since then, they have embarked on their largest-ever world tour, "BABYMETAL WORLD TOUR 2023-2024," visiting ...

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappea...

Gangsters smuggle diamonds through customs by embedding them in The Spiders' tambourine, then go on a cross-country chase of the rock-and-roll band in order to get them back. Another gang is searching for something The Spiders have, too, and now the ...

In Japanese culture, the day before spring is known as Setsubun. For over a thousand years, it has been tradition to throw soybeans to summon good luck and cast out evil spirits. What if a young girl has different plans to those of her traditional pa...

A boy rescues a girl who has collapsed in a river and looks after her. The girl reminisces about her lonely days in Tokyo and her hometown by the sea where she lived with her grandmother, and the girl's presence becomes a source of emotional support ...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair....

For her 15th debut anniversary and birthday, Sakamoto Maaya made an amazing concert in Budokan (Tokyo) with a selection of all her best songs! In special guests are Kanno Yoko and Shoko Suzuki!...

Based on a manga titled Vampire Princess Miyu. A young girl by the name Miyuu wakes up in Tokyo 1991 but no memory of who she is nor her mother's whereabouts, until she see a vision of her president Zovrinka. He explains to her that she is not from t...

A 'Glamour' film showing 3 cute Japanese girls slowly revealing and caressing their bodies behind their 'cutesy' little outfits....

Yuko Mizushima encounters an alternate version of herself, and subsequently explores her sensuality in a series of connected vignettes....

After 15 years of knowing Chosun people in Japan I met on Mt. Geumgang in 2002, I face the history of colonization and division that I had not known before. They’ve been to North Korea many times, but never to South Korea. They tell us why they want ...

Yohji Yamamoto | Dressmaker is an intimate and delving portrait of one of fashion's most revered stalwarts. For a man who creates clothing as armour, Yamamoto opens up as never before to share the core values that shape his life and work. Interviews ...