The Hidden Blade(2004)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 57

During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends Munezo and Samon as he leaves their clan's fiefdom on the northwest coast of Japan ...



Umi wa miteita(2002)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 29

19th century. Oshin is a prostitute in a brothel of a red-light district. A disgraced samurai, Fusanosuke, rushes in the brothel seeking for a refuge, because he had wounded a powerful ...



Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho(2004)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In an alternate postwar timeline, Japan is divided into the Union-controlled North and the US-controlled South.



Fukushima 50(2020)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake an tsunami in 2011.



Always san-chôme no yûhi(2005)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Leaving her provincial home, teenage Mutsuko arrives in Tokyo by train to take a job in a major automotive company but finds that she is employed by a small auto repair shop owned by ...



Hakase no aishita sûshiki(2006)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This is the story between a single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor, who has a brain damage.



Poppoya(1999)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A solitary middle-aged station manager is haunted by troubling memories of his past when he learns the line his station is on will be decommissioned for lack of profitability. He is visited...



Always san chôme no yûhi '64(2012)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on ...



Han-ochi(2004)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Soichiro Kaji killed his wife who suffers from Parkinson's disease, he surrenders to police two days later. Tops of the police wish an early settlement of the affair by fair means or foul ...



Tezuka Osamu no budda: Akai sabaku yo! Utsukushiku(2011)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

2005 years ago in India, a boy named Siddhartha Gautama of the kingdom Shakya is born. When Siddhartha was born there was a prophecy that the boy would become a king of all the kingdoms. At...



Haruka naru yama no yobigoe(1980)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A mysterious stranger appears at the door of a farmhouse on a stormy night and asks for shelter. The young widow who owns the farm puts him up in the barn. At dawn, he helps to deliver a ...



Otoko wa tsurai yo: Boku no ojisan(1989)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The well-intentioned, kind-hearted, and somewhat awkward but always lovable Tora-san makes one of his periodic visits to his sister and her family in Tokyo. His nephew, Mitsu, is depressed ...



Last Song(1993)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Short film. Soo-Yun, a 19 year old Korean girl works at a U.S. Karaoke bar. A customer refuses to leave. A night without closure.



Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro kurenai no hana(1995)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo's girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.



Niji o tsukamu otoko(1996)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A timid movie theater owner is secretly in love with one of his patrons but struggles to express his feelings. Meanwhile, he must deal with the financial hardships of his ailing business.