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 ...



Kokuhaku(2010)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.



Shigatsu monogatari(1998)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she's very lonely and finds out people aren't anywhere near as friendly like she'd hoped.



K-20: Kaijin nijû mensô den(2008)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Set in a fictional Japanese city in 1949, a master criminal hones in on his latest victim.



Brave Story(2006)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When eleven-year-old Wataru is told he can change his destiny by entering a magic gateway into another world, he jumps at the chance. But on his quest to find the Tower of Fortune and be granted any wish, he must conjure up all his bravery to battle a world of demons, his own friends and ultimately himself.



Uchôten hoteru(2006)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is ...



Hero(2007)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Kohei (Takuya Kimura) returns to Tokyo and reunites with his former colleagues. He will be up against one of the famous lawyers in Tokyo to solve a car accident which killed a soon to be ... See full synopsis »



Tôkyô tawâ: Okan to boku to, tokidoki, oton(2007)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Leaving her alcoholic husband, Eiko takes their son Masaya away from Tokyo and back to her hometown in a Kyushu rural mining community. She toils to support him though many years of ...



Chiisai ouchi(2014)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A woman looks back on her family's life in Tokyo before and during WWII. A maid arrives from the countryside to work for an upper middle class family. She fits in well, but everyone's emotions are stirred up with the arrival of a student.



Viyon no tsuma(2009)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 ...



Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miru ka? Yoko kara miru ka?(2017)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

School children Norimichi, Yûsuke and Jun'ichi want to know if fireworks look round or flat from the side. They make a plan to find the answer at a fireworks display, while Nazuna schemes ...



Yume uru futari(2012)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them.



Hero(2015)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When district prosecutor Kohei Kuryu is given the file of a murdered woman whose body is discovered next to a consular building he encounters more than the average number of challenges in ...