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Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo
Koto Nagata · 2013
At a high school entrance ceremony, high school student Kotoko Aihara, who isn''t that smart, notices pretty boy Naoki Irie. She falls in love with him immediately. Kotoko initially doesn''t express her feelings to him, but finally has a chance to tell him how she feels. Unfortunately, Naoki turns Kotoko down, saying "I don''t like dumb women." One day, Kotoko Aihara''s house is severely damaged by an earthquake. Until the house is rebuilt, Kotoko Aihara and her father decide to live with her father''s friend. When Kotoko Aihara moves to her new temporary house, she is surprised to learn that Naoki Irie lives there as well.
Mio on the Shore
Ryutaro Nakagawa · 2019
Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.
Sky of Love: Someone I love is there
· 2008
An ordinary senior high school girl named Mika meets Hiro, a showy boy with dyed hair and pierced ears. It is a "pure love" story of the two going through many unimaginably sad incidents while nurturing their love single-mindedly. It not only depicts the first love of the senior high school couple but also weaves "a story of Mika and Hiro" through episodes probably familiar to anybody, such as warmth and affection of their family members supporting the two, importance of living, interactions with friends, and so on.
Even if This Love Disappears from the World Tonight
Takahiro Miki · 2022
Maori agrees to date smitten classmate Toru on the condition that they don''t fall in love. After all, she can only hold on to memories for 24 hours.
My Teacher
Takahiro Miki · 2017
Hibiki Shimada, a normal 17-year-old high-school student, still does not know how to fall in love—although surrounded by love "experts"—until one day she realizes she''s fallen in love with her hot and nice 26-year-old teacher, Itō. She then takes a path to make her teacher understand how she feels for him.
Policeman and Me
Ryuichi Hiroki · 2017
Kako, a 16-year-old high school girl, goes to a mixer pretending to be 22. While there, she meets Kouta who at first has a very intimidating aura. But once he saves her from an awkward situation, she wants to know more about him as does he. That is until he finds out she isn''t 22. The next day Kako runs into him again, but this time he''s working as a police officer. Kako still wants to get closer to Kouta, but he isn''t interested or is he?
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.
Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy
Yuki Yamato · 2019
A quiet teen''s life is shaken up when she''s forced to be her arrogant neighbor''s slave. He loves her, but they both have a lot to learn about trust.
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.
Yell for the Blue Sky
Takahiro Miki · 2016
As a child, Ono Tsubasa saw a Shirato baseball game on TV and was amazed at the Trumpet player in the band playing. Now, in order to play the Trumpet, she enters Shirato High School. There, she meets Yamada Daisuke, a catcher for the baseball team. With each others support, they go towards their dream of playing at Koushien.
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.
NO CALL NO LIFE
Aya Igashi · 2021
Adapted from Kabei Yukako''s novel of the same name. After being guided by a mysterious message from the past on a cellphone''s answering machine, Umi encounters Mahiro, a delinquent at her school. They gradually come closer, but more messages appearing on the answering machine will unveil past secrets...
Labyrinth of Dreams
Gakuryu Ishii · 1997
Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.
Moonlight Whispers
Akihiko Shiota · 1999
Satsuki and Takuya are high school students who meet at kendo practice, where they bash one another with wooden swords. They begin an awkward romance, but Takuya soon reveals a masochistic side to his desires. He has been stealing Satsuki''s soiled clothing and secretly surveilling her while imagining her subjugation of him. Disgusted, Satsuki rejects him but he persists, and she discovers her own pleasure in manipulating and humiliating him.
Looking for an Angel
Akihiro Suzuki · 1999
Takachi, a young porno star from a small town in Japan is found dead. His death provides the opportunity to show us his true emotions, and how his two best friends in Tokyo remember him. These two travel back to Takachi''s town, Kochi, which Takachi himself had visited just prior to dying. In Kochi, all boys seem to be angels.
Falling High School Girl and Irresponsible Teacher
sora · 2023
Following a failed confession to her first love, female high school student Mikoto Ochiai contemplates jumping off the roof of the school building. However, her thoughts are interrupted by the arrival of Jin Haiba, the physics teacher known for being a slacker and the butt of students'' jokes. Calmly, he lights a cigarette and asks for an explanation of the events that led her to this precipice. Rather than dissuade her from killing herself, he makes a request—will she enter into a romance with him before she dies? Together, the two gradually ponder why they should keep living and why they should not love each other in earnest.
My Girlfriend is a Cyborg
Ken''ichi Fujiwara · 2010
The love story that is the Sex of the popular Sexy actress, Suo Yukiko lead. The Ryou which keeps on yielding to Jinsei from an unexpected coincidence to master of the Robo Waifu Erika. The Ryou is attracted by her who understands oneself although I decided to sell her body, and to earn Kin.
Ally of Justice
· 2008
15-year-old Yoko, a young girl who is constantly tormented by her self-centered and devilish older sister Makiko, who works for a government office after having graduated from a famous university. But despite her ill nature, Makiko's actions tend to somehow make things better for those around her, causing others to praise her as an "ally of justice."
Voice Girl!
· 2018
Five girls aiming to become voice actresses, all live together in the same dormitory. The series follows their journey as they take voice lessons and learn to become voice actresses.
The Millionaire Detective
· 2005
What do you get when you mix a granddaughter from an extremely rich family with crime, murder, and a passion for law and justice? Kanbe Miwako, a granddaughter of a super rich millionaire becomes a detective and starts working at a male dominant police station. Her fancy fashion, elegant manners, and upper-class attitudes constantly gets on the nerves of the old-fashioned coworkers. However, to everyone’s surprise, Miwako’s unique investigation lead by an ultra rich sense of value becomes the key to solve mysterious cases, one by one!
Mei's Butler
Hiroyuki Gotō · 2009
The story revolves around a young woman named Mei, who was rescued as a young girl by someone calling himself her "butler." With only a vague memory, though, the experience seems like just a dream. But one day, after her parents' accidental death, he appears: Rihito comes from a line of outstanding butlers, and he has been appointed to serve her! Now her ordinary life has completely flipped, as she discovers that she's actually the heiress to a fortune, and is forced to transfer to St. Lucia Girls' Academy, where all the students have butlers! As a result, her childhood friend Kento decides to enroll in a butler school so that he can stay close to her.
Coffee & Vanilla
· 2019
A love story between Risa Shiroki and Hiroto Fukami. Twenty year old Risa Shiroki comes to Tokyo from her hometown in the countryside to attend university. Pretty and popular with male students, she has never had a boyfriend and dreams of having a sweet love. One day, thirty year old Hiroto Fukami appears in front of her. He is business man who appears to be gentle and looks perfect. As romance blossoms between them, Risa discovers Hiroto''s dark past.
Good Morning Call
Yue Takasuka · 2016
A high school girl finally gets her own apartment, but she has to share it with the most popular boy in school. No one can know they''re living together.
Tokyo Tower
Takashi Minamoto · 2005
Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to date older women. Koji is a playboy with several women, young and older, whereas Toru is a romantic with his heart set on on certain lady.
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
· 2000
Living in an area known for its juvenile crime, 21-year-old Makoto has become a member of a youth gang called the G-Boys. Known for his cool head and ability to get things done, Makoto becomes a key troubleshooter for the gang by diffusing tense situations and keeping his friends out of harm's way. However, the death of his girlfriend and an escalating turf war with a rival gang threaten to be more than Makoto can handle.
As the Gods Will
Takashi Miike · 2014
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.
Hana Yori Dango: Final
Yasuharu Ishii · 2008
Four years have passed since that emotional marriage proposal at Tsukushi Makino's high-school prom, and Tsukasa Dōmyōji announced his engagement to Tsukushi to the entire world. At an engagement dinner between their families, Dōmyōji's mother, who has been strongly against their relationship before, presents Tsukushi a tiara, which is estimated to be worth roughly 10 billion yen, as a token of their engagement. But that night, the tiara is stolen by somebody! Then, Dōmyōji and Tsukushi travel around the globe to Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and even a deserted island to get the tiara back—the legendary tiara that has been believed to "bring eternal love." In the meantime, where and what are the "F4" fellows, who have just gone separate ways, doing now?
Producing Nobuta
Shiraiwa Gen · 2005
A popular high schooler and his oddball friend help a shy girl get rid of her bullies by attempting to make her the most popular girl in school.
Hotaru no Hikari: It's Only A Little Light In My Life
Satoru Hiura · 2007
Hotaru no Hikari is a Japanese josei manga series by Satoru Hiura. It has been adapted into 2 television drama series and a live action film that was released on 7 July 2012.
Orange Days
· 2004
A psychology major meets a prickly violinist on campus. As they communicate through sign language, their new relationship helps them face their fears.
Absolute Boyfriend
Takuya Kanai · 2008
Robot maker, Kronos Heaven, finally develops "Night Tenjō", the perfect male humanoid programmed to be devoted and completely loyal to his lover. The company chooses temp worker Riko Izawa to take part in a five-day free trial. At first, Riko only sees Night as a household appliance. But when she finds out how deep Night's devotion to herself is, Riko finds herself falling in love with him. Joining the love triangle is Sōshi Asamoto, a distinguished young executive at her company who has feelings for her.
A Touch of Fever
Ryosuke Hashiguchi · 1993
Tatsuru and Shinichiro’s relationship shifts from casual to complicated as love and emotions blur the lines between their work and personal lives.
GO
Isao Yukisada · 2001
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
Noriko's Dinner Table
Sion Sono · 2005
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
Solanin
Takahiro Miki · 2010
Meiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have his band become professional.
Nana
Kentaro Otani · 2005
Two girls named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo. Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O. hopes to make it big in the music business. Despite their differences, the pair hit it off and become roommates.
Initial D
Andrew Lau Wai-Keung · 2005
After winning his first competition, Takumi focuses his attention on drift racing, a sport he has unknowingly perfected while delivering tofu in his father's Toyota AE86.
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.
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.
A Blue Automobile
Hiroshi Okuhara · 2004
Richio, a young DJ, is as emotionally non-existent as no other man on the planet. He uses his tough exterior to avoid attachments to people and society.
Bounce Ko Gals
Masato Harada · 1997
Filmed somewhat in documentary style, it follows three girls over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Jonko runs a group of high school girls involved in paid dating, Raku is a street dancer, and Togo was brought up in the US and back in Japan for one year wants to escape to New York. Their contact with the world of talent scouts and yakuza places them in danger.
Death Note
Shusuke Kaneko · 2006
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.
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.
Su-ki-da
Hiroshi Ishikawa · 2006
Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains.
Suicide Club
Sion Sono · 2001
When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer, which isn''t as simple as he had hoped.
Battle Royale
Kinji Fukasaku · 2000
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Tears for You
Nobuhiro Doi · 2006
A love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota's mother married Kaoru's jazz-playing father, effectively merging the two families. Unfortunately, Kaoru's father skipped town, and Yota's mother passed away, but not before imparting a dying wish to her young son to take care of Kaoru.
Voices in the Wind
Nobuhiro Suwa · 2020
Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out on a long, eventful journey to her home town, where she lost her family in the flood.
12 Suicidal Teens
Yukihiko Tsutsumi · 2019
A group of boys and girls, twelve in total, gather at an abandoned hospital to die for various different reasons. There, they find the body of a dead boy. The group of twelve attempt to find the person who killed the boy. During their search, the reasons why they want to die are revealed.
Cube
Yasuhiko Shimizu · 2021
Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze of interlocking cube-shaped rooms containing deadly traps.
Aristocrats
Yukiko Sode · 2021
Hanako Haibara was born and raised in the city of Tokyo. After she gets dumped by her boyfriend, while in her late 20's, she goes on blind dates to find a man to marry. Miki Tokioka was born in a province. She studied very hard and entered a prestigious university in Tokyo. She experienced difficult financial times, but she now works at an IT company. Due to a man, Hanako Haibara and Miki Tokioka meet each other.
Asakusa Kid
Gekidan Hitori · 2021
Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa. But as his star rises, his mentor's declines.
Homunculus
Takashi Shimizu · 2021
A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.
Blue, Painful, Fragile
Shunsuke Kariyama · 2020
Two outsider college students set up a secret society circle, "Moai," which aims to change the world. But one day, one of them disappears.
Summer Blooms
Ryutaro Nakagawa · 2018
k27-year-old Hatsumi Takimoto is a former teacher and now waitress. She holds a secret. Three years after her boyfriend died, she receives a letter from him. After meeting a former student, Hatsumi Takimoto confesses about her past.
Our Departures
Yasuhiro Yoshida · 2018
Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.
Destruction Babies
Tetsuya Mariko · 2016
Taira is a disaffected youth from a seaside town reveling in violence. Enamored by his strength, Yuya joins his crusade in attacking strangers. Meanwhile, Taira's brother looks for him.
Over Drive
Eiichiro Hasumi · 2018
At the SCRS (Seiko Cup Rally Series), talented young drivers hope to advance to the WRC (World Rally Championship). Atsuhiro Hiyama is the chief mechanic and an engineer at Supika Racing Factory. He is well regarded by his peers. His younger brother is Naozumi. He is an extremely gifted driver for Supika Racing Factory, but he is also a troublemaker. They continually argue because of Naozumi's reckless racing style. One day, Hikaru Endo becomes his manager.
A Gentle Breeze in the Village
Nobuhiro Yamashita · 2007
When eighth-grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.
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.
Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
Georg Riha · 2002
Schönbrunn is a world of marvels and mystery, of public glamour and curious secrets. The wealth of its building and landscape architecture, the grand views and hidden details, the wildlife, tamed nature as well as its past and present human population supply more stories and images than even the most insatiable camera can record.Schönbrunn in the protean succession of the seasons, of light and shadow, day and night is presented by Sir Peter Ustinov and was broadcasted in the “ORF-UNIVERSUM”-series for the 250th anniversary of the Schönbrunn Zoo.
Gokusen
Kozueko Morimoto · 2002
Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she''ll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn''t like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she''ll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain''t an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it.
Flying Colors
Nobuhiro Doi · 2015
A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.
Our 30-Minute Sessions
Kentaro Hagiwara · 2020
College student Sota picks up a cassette tape left behind by musician Aki when he died a year ago. When the tape is played back, Aki takes over Sota''s body for just 30 minutes. They share the same body and rush to reunite a band that split up and bring a smile to Aki''s girlfriend Kana''s face.
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.
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.
Whale Bones
Takamasa Oe · 2023
Recently dumped by his fiancée, Mamiya meets a girl on a dating app. However, when he comes out of the shower, the girl is dead on his bed. Upset Mamiya decides to bury the body in the woods, however it mysteriously disappears from his car trunk... When he finds out that she is a popular influencer of the SNS called “Mimi”, he follows her footsteps which she left on Mimi, and slowly becomes attracted to the girl who turns out to be just as lonely as he is.
Ice Cream Fever
Tetsuya Chihara · 2023
Four women of different ages work at or frequent an ice cream shop, each dealing with dreams, timidity, inexperience with love, and personal pain, their lives intersecting at the shop.
On Your Wedding Day
Lee Seok-geun · 2018
Through the course of their lives, a man and his first love are repeatedly separated from each other because of circumstances out of their control.
Sky of Love
Natsuki Imai · 2007
Mika is a fresh high school student who starts texting a mysterious boy. She is shocked when he reveals who he is - Hiro, a delinquent attending her school. What she doesn't know is that Hiro isn't as bad as he seems.
Hanalei Bay
Daishi Matsunaga · 2018
A single mother receives a phone call saying her son had died from a shark attack in Hanalei Bay, Hawaii, where she now visits annually on her son’s death anniversary. One day, she meets two young Japanese surfers who tell her about a young Japanese surfer with one leg.
A Girl, She Is 100%
Naoto Yamakawa · 1983
A man ran into a woman on a street. She was not attractive, but was a perfect girl for him. After missing the chance to talk to her, he contemplates on how he should have approached her.
Fallen Angels
Wong Kar-wai · 1995
An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.
Labyrinth of Cinema
Nobuhiko Obayashi · 2020
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.
Tag
Sion Sono · 2015
Mitsuko, a young student, encounters a series of horrifying incidents set in alternate realities where people wind up dead in the most horrendous fashion.
Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy.
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit · 2013
Mary is in her last course of school. She'll confront sudden changes in her life, loving relations and friendship. Based on some tweets of an anonymous girl.
Mirrored Mind
Gakuryu Ishii · 2005
An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise.
Love Exposure
Sion Sono · 2008
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Princess Hours
Park So-hee · 2006
Love, tradition, and politics collide when a spirited young art student is betrothed to the crown prince of South Korea.
Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life
Bae Yoo-mi · 2019
Follow four people as they seek love and happiness: Kim Seol-A who once worked as an announcer and is now married to CEO Do Jin-Woo; Moon Tae-Rang, a chef and the oldest brother from a family of adoptees; and Moon Hae-Rang, Moon Tae-Rang's younger sister, who works as a secretary for Do Jin-Woo.
Confessions
Tetsuya Nakashima · 2010
Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.
Love 911
Jeong Gi-hoon · 2012
A doctor tries to woo a grieving, widowed firefighter in her attempt to get him to testify on her behalf in a medical malpractice case.
A Love to Kill
· 2005
A good-for-nothing K1 fighter begins working as a top celebrity's private bodyguard, with the intent of seducing her and then leaving her to ruins, as an act of avenging his older brother who was left in a coma. Soon, he finds himself falling in love with her, their romance a tragedy in the making.
Swallowtail Butterfly
Shunji Iwai · 1996
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
Mars: Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru
Saiji Yakumo · 2016
Kira is a sweet young girl with a traumatic past. She meets Rei who made her overcome her inner struggles. However, as much as they wanted to live as close to perfect as a couple can be, Kirishima tries to shake their relationship. Kirishima is a disturbed being who was bullied when he was young, and his outlook on life is what makes him do dark things.
Duelist
Lee Myung-se · 2005
Detective Nam-soon goes undercover with her partner Detective Ahn to investigate the counterfeit money. She discovers that one loyal henchman, Sad Eyes, a beautiful swordsman with a pale, blank face, is related to the truth. Nam-soon and Sad Eyes confront each other in a series of duels and become confused between love and obligation to duty.
The World of Kanako
Tetsuya Nakashima · 2014
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.
Hibiki
Sho Tsukikawa · 2018
A high school girl with overwhelming literary talent shakes up the lives of those around her with her brilliant spontaneity.
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.
Little Forest: Summer/Autumn
Junichi Mori · 2014
Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.
Rent a Friend
Mayu Akiyama · 2018
Web magazine editor Mochizuki Nasa meets Yanase Sota who claims to be endowed with a "non-sexual relationship switch". Working as a "rent-a-friend", Sota is hired by Nasa who wants to test out a theory.
Honey and Clover
Masahiro Takata · 2006
Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.
First Love: The Litter on the Breeze
Eric Kot Man-Fai · 1997
Faced with the task of creating a film about first love for his producer Wong Kar-wai, Kot ruminates on his creative process, his rejected ideas, and finally his two chosen tales, about a sleepwalker guided through the night by a lonely admirer, and a married convenience store owner faced with the vengeful first love that he once rejected.
Swing Girls
Shinobu Yaguchi · 2004
Tomoko mène un groupe de filles qui s'ennuient et qui sont bloquées dans une classe estivale de rattrapage de maths. Le groupe décide de sécher les cours de leur ennuyeux professeur pour livrer des déjeuners à la fanfare de l'école. Mais la paresse extrême des filles fait que les repas sont avariés, et bientôt la fanfare entière tombe malade. Le membre restant, Takuo, décide de recruter toutes ces filles, qui ne savent pas jouer d'un instrument, pour monter une formation de jazz et participer à un concours de musique local.
Linda Linda Linda
Nobuhiro Yamashita · 2005
Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three songs for the festival's rock concert—including a classic '80s song by the Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda".
The Girl Who Picks Flowers and the Girl Who Kills Insects
Hitoshi Yazaki · 2000
Two girls, one from Germany, the other from Japan meet and become friends in London, but soon discover things aren't what they seem.
Judge
Yo Kohatsu · 2013
Seven people who committed the seven deadly sins : lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride are locked up in a sealed space by someone. These seven people must play a game which is a matter of life or death.
One Million Yen Girl
Yuki Tanada · 2008
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
Cold Fish
Sion Sono · 2011
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.
Second Summer, Never See You Again
Kenji Nakanishi · 2017
Satoshi, who is a high school junior, is doing something against the rules. He is forming a band. Joining him is Rin. They nonetheless perform at the school's cultural festival live in front of their fellow students. There is a mishap and Satoshi travels back in time to the moment when he met Rin.
Candy Rain
Chen Hung-i · 2008
Four separate vignettes about lesbian relationships and dating, ending with a summation about relationships.
Love Ghost
Kazuyuki Shibuya · 2001
Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about an anonymous fortune-teller have anything to do with the tragedies plaguing her high school?
Chiwawa
Ken Ninomiya · 2019
Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her background or even her real name.
Dear Friends
Kazuyuki Morosawa · 2007
Rina is the it girl. She is thin, has long hair, is flaunting and dresses attractively. Every man wants to be with her and every woman wants to be like her. She also happens to be self-absorbed, mean and nasty.
Hana & Alice
Shunji Iwai · 2004
My Rainy Days
Yuri Kanchiku · 2009
Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money—until one day, she meets a university professor named Kouki and falls in love.
Death Bell 2
You Sun-dong · 2010
A class of students stays at school for a camp in an elite study group to finesse theirs and the school's grades. Upon the first night, the swimming coach is found murdered. As the students try to figure out what happens, a voice informs them that if they don't figure the murder out, students will begin dying in quick succession.
Death Bell
Chang · 2008
In a prep-class for year-end exams, a sadistic killer puts the students through mind-games in order to save each other.
Eternal Summer
Leste Chen · 2006
Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen’s sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.
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.
BU・SU
Jun Ichikawa · 1987
Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt. The daughter of a once great geisha, Mugiko is entitled by blood to train in the geishas ancient art of classical Japanese song and dance.
Unknown Pleasures
Jia Zhangke · 2002
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.
Himizu
園子温 · 2011
Cinta sobre un joven obsesionado con llevar una vida normal y corriente. Cuando el mundo a su alrededor comienza a desmoronarse intenta seguir adelante mirándolo de manera positiva, pero cuando las columnas que aguantaban su "normalidad" acaban por derrumbarse, y los malos pensamientos comienzan a aflorar, tiene que resistir las malas tentaciones.
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.
Beach Boys
· 1997
Hiromi and Kaito end up in a guesthouse run by an ageing surfer and his granddaughter Makoto. The summer passes amidst the comings and goings of guests, each one gradually discovering the others.
Blue Spring
Toshiaki Toyoda · 2001
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.
Picnic
Shunji Iwai · 1996
Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best vantage point to view the final event.
Tsugumi
Shiyu Cheryl Hu · 2022
Tsugumi has a murder plan, which lures her into the repetitive endless cycle of life.
Tsumugi
Hidekazu Takahara · 2004
Tsumugi, a girl with a crush on her teacher, discovers that the teacher is having an affair with another teacher. Complications ensue after Tsumugi manages to attract her teacher, but then begins falling for a fellow student.
Tsugumi
Jun Ichikawa · 1990
Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a few people are attracted by her beauty and unique character.
Blue Gate Crossing
Yee Chih-yen · 2002
Yueh-chen has an obsession with her classmate Shihao, but is too shy to confess to him directly. She sends in her best friend, Kerou, to act as a go-between, and Shihao ends up falling for Kerou, who is not sure what to think of him.
Love of the Princess
Kazuo Mori · 1957
A story of aristocratic star-crossed love.
Suzaku
Naomi Kawase · 1997
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Economic recession and failed development plans cause tragedy in the family.
The Hours of My Life
· 2014
Your whole outlook on life can change in an instant. Takuto Sawada (Haruma Miura) is your average college student. But one day, he finds out that he has ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and only has a short time to live. How will he choose to spend the remaining days of his precious life?
Tokyo Slaves
Sakichi Sato · 2014
Brother and sister are drawn into a thrilling game of survival, in which they use a bizarre device called SCM to turn others into their slaves.
Helter Skelter
Mika Ninagawa · 2012
Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to retain her perfect image, Lilico descends into a world of nightmares and makes those around her miserable.
Gothic & Lolita Psycho
Gô Ohara · 2010
Yuki lives at home in peace until one day a unit of assassins breaks in and kill her mother. In order to revenge herself Yuki becomes a demon of vengeance by donning gothic lolita clothing, using a parasol as a deadly weapon, and executing the guilty in God's name.
Close-Knit
Naoko Ogigami · 2017
After being neglected by her mother, a little girl is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girlfriend, who create a loving home for her.
Black Cinderella
2021
Abema original new story. Kamiya Manaha is a high school girl with little confidence in herself. Her dream since she was a child was to enter the Miss Seiran Contest, a beauty pageant that decides who is the most beautiful girl in school. Manaha calls herself a super ordinary girl but one day she gets a chance to enter the pageant. She then meets Tachibana Keigo, a narcissistic, perfect, national treasure-level handsome guy, and Shimamura Sora, a mysterious transfer student. On the day of the contest, Manaha is just a step away from her dream stage…
Kare wa, Imouto no Koibito
2011
Miyuki is a timid florist, frustrated with her non-existent love life. While down on her luck she runs into an old classmate (and crush) of her's on the street. Things are going great when her younger sister, Haruka, who has taken away every guy that she's ever liked, begins to weasel her way between them. Can Miyuki overcome her obstacles and fight for the man she's loved since high school?
Cinderella Again
2022
Shion Hagino is a 29-year-old beauty consultant. Although she has never had a boyfriend, Shion leads a happy and fulfilling life. However, one day, Shion participates in a blind date party and it triggers a flashback where she was rejected by her first love back in high school, who told her, "If you're going to confess, you should at least do something about your appearance". As if drawn back by her past trauma, Shion somehow goes back in time and becomes a 17-year-old high school student again. Using the makeup techniques she has honed, Shion decides to move towards a different timeline as compared to what happened 12 years ago.
No Longer Heroine
Tsutomu Hanabusa · 2015
Hatori Matsuzaki is a female high school student. She has a crush on her childhood friend Rita Terasaka and believes he will eventually choose her as her heroine, but Rita Terasaka begins dating Miho Adachi. Meanwhile, the most popular male student, Kosuke Hiromitsu takes an interest in Hatori Matsuzaki.
Lovesick Ellie
Koichiro Miki · 2024
Eriko Ichimura has an ordinary and unnoticed student life at her high school. Her only joy is to watch popular male student Akira Omi and imagine them being a couple. She writes down those thoughts on her social media account under the name of Lovesick Ellie. Akira Omi seems like a perfect guy, with good looks and gentle personality. One day, she witnesses Akira Omi spouting vulgar language and she realizes he is kind of like a two-faced person. Making things worse, her fantasy thoughts are discovered by him. He thinks that she is funny and he approaches her.
Lavender
Chun Chieh Liu · 2001
Since her birth, Ah Xun (Chen Yi Rong), as well as her sister Yicheng, have been suffering from a heart disease which makes them unable to run or do a lot of activities that other kids do. Because of this she is picked on by all her schoolmates. Her only friend is a boy named Qing Chuan. Always together, Ah Xun is saddened when Qing Chuan tells her that he and his family are moving to America. Unwilling to never see each other again, Qing Chuan gives her a glass bottle filled with a piece of lavender as a token that he will never forget her, and promises her that he will meet back up with her 10 years later on Ah Xun's 20th birthday.
Our Times
Frankie Chen · 2015
Office worker Truly Lin goes on a journey through her memories. 20 years ago, she had a crush on the most popular guy in school. Taiyu, a ruffian and a bully, is in love with the campus belle. Truly teams up with Taiyu to tear the golden couple apart and help each other to get the ones they love.
High School Debut
Tsutomu Hanabusa · 2011
Based on the best selling manga, Haruna Nagashima (Ito Ono) devoted herself to softball while in middle school. Now that she is in high school, Haruna believes its time find a boyfriend. Unfortunately for Haruna, she didn't pay attention to trends and is now clueless on how to attract a boy. Through a fortuitous event, Haruna encounters popular upperclassman You Komiyama (Junpei Mizobata) Haruna asks You to teach her how to become attractive to boys. You agrees but with one catch. She can't fall in love with him ...
A Story to Read When You First Fall in Love
2019
Character
Akira Nagai · 2021
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.
A Little Red Flower
Han Yan · 2020
The film tells a warm and realistic story, thinking and facing the ultimate problem that every ordinary person will face-imagining that death may come at any time, the only thing we have to do is love and cherish.
Teen Bride
Tsutomu Hanabusa · 2017
Karin Oriyama, 16 years old. She is in high school and... she's about to get married!
My Little Lover - Minami Kun no Koibito
2015
Shun'ichi Minami possesses good looks and does well academically in high school. Chiyomi Horikiri is a bright girl who likes dancing. They were childhood friends and also their first loves, but after Shun'ichi Minami's father disappeared they hardly talk. On a storming night, Chiyomi Horikiri has an argument with her parents over her future course and leaves home. While trying to avoid the rain, Chiyomi Horikiri wishes that she go back to her childhood. Suddenly, Chiyomi becomes 15 cm tall. Shun'ichi Minami happens to see tiny Chiyomi Horikiri. She tells him that she doesn't want anyone else to see her, and Shun'ichi Minami takes her his home.
Blade Runner 2049
Denis Villeneuve · 2017
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
And Yet, You Are So Sweet
Takehiko Shinjo · 2023
Kisaragi Maaya, 16 years old. The first love confession of her life ended in complete rejection. She vows to "never confess to someone again" in the presence of the stoic but popular Chigira-kun, while on library duty together one day.
The Wallflower
Yasuharu Ishii · 2010
Sunako is very happy living her life in the darkness of her room, with her skeleton friends and her horror movies to keep her company. The darkness she so loves is pierced brightly by four dazzling young men, who come to live in the same mansion as her, and she soon realizes that they have orders from her aunt to do anything to turn her into a prim and proper lady.
BOYS OVER FLOWERS
2005
Set at a famous high school for the super-wealthy, this is a puppy love story centered on Tsukushi Makino, a poor girl, and the F4 gang of rich kids headed by the rough and fearless Prince Charming, Tsukasa Domyoji.
Itazura na Kiss
Kaoru Tada · 1996
Late for a meeting, Kotoko was running along the corridor in school and bumped into Naoki, their lips meeting. Naoki showed his disgust, but Kotoko started to idolise him, who was good at everything from studies to sports. When Kotoko's house burned down, her father's good friend Machiko invited them to move in with her family. It was then that Kotoko realised Naoki was the elder son of Machiko, who took up the role of a fairy-godmother to bring the two together...despite the fact that Naoki was disgusted. Not discouraged, the clumsy and not-so-bright Kotoko started to do everything that would change her impression on him. Gradually, the icy-cold Naoki who disliked girls started to feel for Kotoko...
The Kidnapping Day
Kim Je-young, Park Yoo-young · 2023
A father turned clumsy kidnapper and a genius child get tangled in unexpected circumstances.
My Brother Loves Me Too Much
Hayato Kawai · 2017
Setoka Tachibana is a female high school student who has confessed her feelings to other boys 12 times, but has been rebuffed each time. Her older brother Haruka Tachibana cares for his younger sister deeply, but he keeps secret from her that they are not blood related. One day, Setoka's first love Takane Serikawa appears after many years and approaches her.
Before Sunrise
Richard Linklater · 1995
An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick · 2011
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola · 2003
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Upcoming Summer
Leste Chen · 2021
When a white lie leads to unexpected results, Chen Chen and Zheng Yuxing forge a deep friendship and must face the harsh realities of growing up.
More Than Blue
Won Tae-yeon · 2009
A terminally ill man tries to find a suitable husband for the friend he has loved since childhood.
A Moment to Remember
John H. Lee · 2004
A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.
In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar-Wai · 2000
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
My Sassy Girl
Kwak Jae-yong · 2001
A dweeby, mild-mannered man comes to the aid of a drunk young woman on a subway platform. Little does he know how much trouble he’s in for.
The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim
2021
18-year-old Ga Doo Shim who wishes to live as a typical high schooler but is born with the undesired fate of becoming a shaman. She is a brave and strong character who will fight evil spirits as she works on solving mysterious cases. Na Woo Soo, a nearly perfect high schooler with a wealthy background, handsome looks, and outstanding grades. When Ga Doo Shim suddenly appears in his life, he gains the ability to see evil spirits, and the two get entangled in mysterious cases together.
Black
2019
This Black drama revolves around supernatural beings from another dimension, namely elves. This elf character with the name Black is starring Kamal Adli. Black enters the human realm by using the body of a deceased policeman (Detective Malik) to find his friend.
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Tsai Ming-liang · 2003
On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn".
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Kim Ki-duk · 2003
An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
Daily Lives of High School Boys
Daigo Matsui · 2013
BOYS OVER FLOWERS
2005
Watching
HANA-KIMI
Hiroyuki Gotō · 2007
Japanese-American track star Mizuki Ashiya transfers from a school in California to Japan, but not to just any old school. The school is Osaka High School—an all male high school! Mizuki Ashiya must disguise herself as a boy, all to get closer to her hero, Izumi Sano, a high-jump athlete who attends Osaka High. Now with short hair, flattened chest, and deeper voice, Mizuki becomes roommates with Izumi Sano, but trouble soon starts to brew. Izumi Sano discovers by accident that Mizuki is a girl and falls in love with her, but Mizuki is unaware of the fact. Complicating things, fellow classmate Shuichi Nakatsu starts to develop feelings for Mizuki, unaware that she is a girl!
Watched
Angel
Mayumi Miyasaka · 2006
One day, an angel materializes before Kato's eyes. While the angel seems like an average girl with a passion for gin and lime, she sports a pair of big white wings. Only lonely-hearted people can see her. She may seem ordinary, but this angel touches hearts and transforms lives.
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.
Kisarazu Cat's Eye
· 2002
When 21-year-old Kohei learns he has six months to live, he recruits his friends to form a group of cat burglars who steal for the good of the community.
Kamikaze Girls
Tetsuya Nakashima · 2004
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...
Oresama
Kondo Hiroyuki · 2003
Japanese music legend Miyavi stars as himself in this time-traveling rock 'n' roll fantasy. On the last leg of a long concert tour that's kept him busy fending off adoring fans, Miyavi falls asleep and awakens to discover that the year is 1984. Miyavi wanders the streets before meeting a local musician named Shinni (Hassei Takano) and convinces him to form a new band. Ryôta Matsushima co-stars as Miyavi's younger self.
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.
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.
Love & Pop
Hideaki Anno · 1998
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
