Japanese movie / series

Silent Love

Eiji Uchida · 2024

A silent love story of a young man who wishes to make the dream come true of a young woman who lost her light.

Exit 8

Genki Kawamura · 2025

A man gets lost in an underground passage. He follows the "guide" through the passage, but one after another, strange things happen to him. Is this space real? Or an illusion? Will the man be able to escape the passage?

Hold My Hand at Twilight

2023

Having spent her entire life in the remote Japanese countryside, Asagi Soramame takes a giant leap of faith when she decides to follow her childhood friend and fiancé to Tokyo. But life in the big city quickly proves to be nothing as she imagined. Struggling to find her place in this big new world, Asagi’s life takes an interesting detour when she meets an aspiring musician, Oto Umino.

All About Lily Chou-Chou

Shunji Iwai · 2001

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

Golden Kamuy

Shigeaki Kubo · 2024

On the Hokkaido frontier, a war veteran and Ainu girl race against misfits and military renegades to find treasure mapped out on tattooed outlaws.

Parasite in Love

Kensaku Kakimoto · 2021

A man named Kengo Kosaka is germaphobe, Due to his disorder, he is also a lonely young man. Meanwhile, high school student Hijiri Sanagi has Ommatophobia. Both Kengo Kosaka and Hijiri Sanagi do not expect to find love with another person.

Drowning Love

Yuki Yamato · 2016

Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father''s hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can''t do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa. He is the successor of the Hasegawa family. His family is wealthy and is respected in the area. Natsume Mochizuki and Koichiro Hasegawa become attracted to each other, but something changes their fate.

Our Secret Diary

Kentarō Takemura · 2023

Nozomi Kuroda is in the 2nd grade of high school. One day, she finds a letter in a classroom desk. The letter has only the word "like" written on it. The person who wrote the letter is Jun Setoyama. He happens to be the most popular boy at the high school. Nozomi Kuroda feels embarrassed, but she eventually leaves a reply in a shoe closet at school. This is how their secret exchange diary begins. Nozomi Kuroda soon learns that the intended recipient for the first letter was her best friend. Nevertheless, Nozomi Kuroda is attracted to Jun Setoyama, who expresses his thoughts and feelings unlike her. She's unable to tell him the truth that the person exchanging messages is her and not her best friend.

My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday

Takahiro Miki · 2016

Takatoshi Minamiyama majors in art at an university in Kyoto. On the train to the school, he sees Emi Fukuju and falls in love with her at first sight. Gathering up all his courage, he speaks to her. They begin to date and enjoy happy days together, but Emi reveals her secret to him.

Call Me Chihiro

Rikiya Imaizumi · 2023

An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.

Liverleaf

Eisuke Naito · 2018

The story follows Nozaki Haruka, a middle school student who transfers to a new school in a small town because of her father's work. Unfortunately, she becomes a victim of horrific bullying, but since the school will be closing in 2 months after graduation, no one is willing to help her.

Alice in Borderland

· 2020

Un gamer paumé et ses deux amis se retrouvent dans un Tokyo parallèle, où ils sont contraints de participer à une série de jeux sadiques pour survivre.

Nevertheless: The Shapes of Love

Ryutaro Nakagawa · 2024

After a painful breakup, Miu vows to focus on art and avoid love — until an encounter with an aloof, charming artist stirs her deepest instincts.

SEE HEAR LOVE

John H. Lee · 2023

Manga artist "Shinji Izumoto" has secured a movie deal. He should be celebrating, but he's going blind, his manga series has been canceled, and he can no longer care for his grandmother. All alone, Shinji makes the devastating decision to jump off a balcony. When "Hibiki Aida", a deaf fan of his, saves Shinji, they begin an unusual life together.

Nobody Knows

Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2004

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

You Made My Dawn

Mai Sakai · 2023

Fukagawa Seiji is a high school student with silver color hair. He is free-spirited and fond of painting. He tells people exactly what he thinks, but he also has a mysterious side. His classmate is Niwa Akane. Akane is a model student who always wears a face mask. At first, she doesn’t like Seiji, but she is attracted by Seiji's paintings and his blunt personality. They get close with each other, and they both have their own secret they can’t tell anyone. Adapted from the novel "Yoru ga Aketara, Ichiban ni Kimi ni Ai ni Iku" (When the Dawn Breaks, I’ll Be the First to See You)

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

Nobuhiro Doi · 2021

Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years.

Monster

Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2023

After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

18×2 Beyond Youthful Days

藤井道人 · 2024

始まりは18年前の台湾―― 高校生・ジミーのバイト先に現れた日本から来た4つ年上のバックパッカー・アミ。ひと夏を同じ店で働き過ごすことになった2人だったが、次第にジミーはアミに淡い恋心を抱いていく。夜道をバイクで2人乗りしたり、映画を観に行ったり、2人の距離は縮まっていったが、突然、アミが日本に帰ることに。気持ちの整理がつかないジミーに、アミは“ひとつの約束”を提案する。 時が経ち、あるきっかけで久々に実家を訪れたジミーは、日本に戻ったアミから18年前に届いたハガキを見つける。 初恋の記憶がよみがえったジミーは、過去と向き合い、今を見つめるため、初めての日本での一人旅へ。アミとの思い出の曲を聞きながら列車に乗り、ジミーが向かうのは彼女の故郷。 ジミーはアミとの再会を果たせるのか―。

Even if This Love Disappears from the World Tonight

三木孝浩 · 2022

Debido a sus compañeros de clase acosadores, Kamiya Toru le hace una confesión falsa a su compañera de clase Hino Maori. Sorprendentemente, ella acepta la confesión pero le pone tres extrañas reglas para salir con él: "No hablar con ella hasta después de clase", "Mantener una comunicación breve" y "No enamorarse el uno del otro". Poco a poco, la promesa de "No enamorarse" se desmorona, y Toru finalmente no puede contener sus sentimientos y confiesa su amor a Maori. Sin embargo, ella le confiesa que padece amnesia anterógrada, la cual le hace perder la memoria cada día, por lo que lleva un diario de lo sucedido el día anterior y lo lee por la mañana para poder rememorar sus recuerdos. Toru decide entonces traerle tantos días felices como sea posible.

Perfect Days

Perfect Days

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

The Last 10 Years

Michihito Fujii · 2022

Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love – until she meets a man named Kazuto Manabe at a school reunion.

Drawing Closer

Takahiro Miki · 2024

With only a year left to live, 17-year-old Akito finds new meaning in life by bringing joy to a terminally ill girl who has just six months remaining.

Goth

Gen Takahashi · 2008

Itsuki and Yoru share a passion for the dark and death, making them the perfect choice to track down a serial killer who is roaming the streets.

Threads - Our Tapestry of Love

Takahisa Zeze · 2020

Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda were both born in 1989. They met for the first time at the age of 13 and became each other's first love, but they separated. At the age of 21, they met again. They were unable to undo their past. Now, they are 31 years old.

Blue Spring Ride

Takahiro Miki · 2014

In middle school, Futaba Yoshioka was madly in love with Tanaka Kou but he moves away with his mother. She is reunited with him later in life but he is not the same person anymore.

Hana & Alice

Hana & Alice

Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

As the Gods Will

As the Gods Will

High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.

Haru

Yoshimitsu Morita · 1996

A young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its members through back and forth e-mails.

Forget Me Not

Kei Horie · 2015

Takashi Hayama is a third year high school student. He falls in love with Azusa Oribe at first sight and they begin to date. One day, Azusa tells Takashi "people who meet me, forget about me several hours later." Takashi doesn't believe Azusa, but by chance he realizes that he forgot about Azusa. So he won't forget Azusa, Takashi begins to leave a note for himself and Azusa.

Your Eyes Tell

Takahiro Miki · 2020

A tragic accident lead to Kaori's blindness, but she clings to life and the smaller pleasures it can still afford her. She meets Rui and begins to talk to him. Rui was once a promising kickboxer, but something happened in his past. Kaori's smile brings out a change in Rui. However, the two are connected in more than one way. Rui attempts to do what is right.

The Asadas!

Ryota Nakano · 2020

Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.

My Broken Mariko

Yuki Tanada · 2022

Shiino one day finds out that her best friend Mariko has committed suicide. After snatching Mariko's urn from her abusive father, Shiino heads to Marigaoka Cape, a place Mariko always wanted to go.

Love Letter

Shunji Iwai · 1995

Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to also be called Itsuki Fujii.

First Love

· 2022

Young, free and madly in love. As teenagers, the world was their oyster—but, as adults, their lives seem dimmer, like a very important piece is missing.

One Million Yen Girl

タナダユキ · 2008

20th Century Nostalgia

Masato Hara · 1997

A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time, taking over his body to infiltrate and study humanity in order to find the reasons why our civilization is doomed to future destruction. He replicates the spirit of another alien in a girl that he meets, and together they use their video cameras to document modern urban Japanese society.

Little Forest: Winter/Spring

Junichi Mori · 2015

Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.

Blue

Hiroshi Ando

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman''s experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.

Undo

Shunji Iwai · 1994

Moemi is not overly pleased when Yukio brings home a couple of turtles to keep her company. Although Yukio works at home as a writer, Moemi feels neglected and desired a dog or a cat, but neither is allowed in their apartment.

Orange

Kojiro Hashimoto · 2015

A girl mysteriously receives advice from her future self and as a result her group of friends, along with a newly arrived, troubled classmate, learn how to be better friends and a better community.