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Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masami Nagasawa

Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Go Ayano

In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break free from a cruel fate tying him to the very...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryusei Yokohama

Set in 1945 at the end of World War II. Saku arrives on Kakeromajima as the head of navy special forces. He is admired by the children on the island...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hikari Mitsushima

"Yoyochu" is the nick name for Tadashi Yoyogi. He is the father of Japanese adult video. Before becoming a pornographer, he was a flower arranger and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kyōko Aizome

A teenager girl's accidental death incites a media frenzy and causes her harsh father to turn his rage against those he believes are responsible.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arata Furuta

Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sosuke Ikematsu

It is the job of the press to cover corporate crime, government plots and society. It is in this context that young female reporter on the beat Erika...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shim Eun-kyung

Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sakura Ando

Iwao Shishido has found a wife. After paying three million yen for a bridal tour to the Philippines, he comes home with Irene, who is promptly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yasuda

Journalist Shiori Itō embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shiori Itō

A documentary about workers facing the coronavirus pandemic.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kasumi Arimura

In Japan, there is an informal agreement between mainstream media and the government that is hardly ever questioned: Journalists are not too...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Isoko Mochizuki

The late Shinzo Abe was the longest-serving prime minister of all time, holding office for 2,822 consecutive days. While his hawkish foreign policy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shinzo Abe