篠原哲雄

Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites K...

05 de jun. de 2004

The story of a Japanese sub's last mission during WWII.

13 de jun. de 2009

At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".

03 de nov. de 1990

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age of war is about to end, but Hideyoshi Toyotomi's...

03 de jun. de 2017

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male...

31 de jul. de 1993

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down ...

08 de nov. de 2003

After her parents divorced, Shima Sumitomo lived with her mother. She felt uncomfortable living with her stepfather and she was unable to hang out ...

03 de mar. de 2018

This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a ...

01 de abr. de 2000

Sakura is a 20-year-old college student who has sex for money to fund her shopping addiction. After her customers leave her apartment, she spends h...

16 de fev. de 2008

Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.

28 de dez. de 2002

Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.

21 de out. de 2006

Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and ...

19 de nov. de 2005

The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a motion picture. A lawyer burdened with an inex...

07 de nov. de 2015

'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, Ryuichi Hirok...

14 de mai. de 2005

Breathe In, Breathe Out centers on six, later seven, individuals who have gotten jobs harvesting sugarcane on a small Okinawa island. Each worker h...

29 de mai. de 2004

Some students decide to set up a play written by one of their classmates, who has commited suicide. The play is based on a tragic and mysterious le...

05 de ago. de 2000

Yu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka, d...

14 de set. de 2002

A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he ...

02 de ago. de 2011

Typically thieves enter a house, steal things and get out. This time an unsuspecting thief enters a home to steal as much as he can and instead is ...

15 de nov. de 2019

30 de mai. de 2015

Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works...

24 de abr. de 1999

The fourth chapter in the Love Cinema series, is a story of a cloistered and obsessive character who is confining and closed. When many suicides oc...

20 de jan. de 2001

A tragic love story involving three main characters and spanning two decades. Yue Lin is an exchange student from Shanghai who meets a ski patrol m...

25 de out. de 2012

A romance that takes place one summer in the countryside between an out-of-job musician, Hanabi, and a girl, Hibana.

21 de dez. de 1996

Hanai Sota is 22-years-old and a university student in the veterinary department. Since he was little, he has always loved animals. His apartment i...

22 de jul. de 2021

Natsumi is proposed to by Yamato, a man who aims to become a fisherman to succeed his father. Her grandmother Kiyo, who raised her since a young ag...

14 de abr. de 2018

Yukio Kunikida and Yuma Yamagishi are high school students and they are dating with each other. On an ordinary day, Yuma tells Yukio that "I'm goin...

17 de mai. de 2024

29 de mar. de 2020

Original Video film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara

11 de jul. de 1995

Genichiro, a lonely retired man living with his son’s family who mostly ignores him, feels closest to his granddaughter who is in highschool. Throu...

14 de jul. de 2001

Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy ...

31 de mai. de 2008

A closed-room mystery where five women gathered in memory of a mysteriously dead female writer to unravel the mystery behind her death. Based on th...

12 de out. de 2002

Takase, a fledgling recording engineer, visits Miyakojima Island in Okinawa for a documentary program. There he meets violinist Yohko and is attrac...

01 de jan. de 1999

Two boys are starting their work day together. Their job is to cut the grass of a large field. One is a seasoned professional who has been doing th...

20 de nov. de 1993

Rina Ichinose starts a busy work life at an advertising agency right after graduation. But the job doesn't go well and she has to work overtime eve...

03 de jul. de 2020

15 de fev. de 2003

A man on his way home from a wedding. When he wakes up drunk, he finds himself in a park in the early morning. As he wanders the city in the early ...

01 de jan. de 1989

Alice returns to her hometown after ten years to live in a farmhouse with an irori hearth, where shared meals and moments help rekindle a bond with...

Six riveting short episodes that have been adapted from original literary short novel classics from famed authors.