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OUR 30-MINUTE SESSIONS
2020 | ROMANCE
Teen music romance featuring singing and instrumental scenes with a fresh cast of young actors. College student Sota picks up a cassette tape left behind by musician Aki when he died a year ago. …Read more
PROJECT DREAMS – HOW TO BUILD MAZINGER Z’S HANGAR
2020 | DRAMA
Company employees are depicted earnestly grappling with meaningless things in this drama. Doi of the Maeda Construction Company’s Advertising group has little passion for his work. …Read more
LITTLE NIGHTS, LITTLE LOVE
2019 | ROMANCE, DRAMA
Sato is an employee conducting a survey in front of Sendai Station. Saki takes the survey and the two ultimately become a couple. 10 years later, Sato proposes to Saki on the occasion …Read more
DANCE WITH ME
2019 | MUSICAL COMEDY
Shizuka works at a big Tokyo trading company and harbors a secret crush on her dashing boss. One weekend she takes her niece to visit a carnival hypnotist to inspire her for an upcoming school musical. …Read more
ONE NIGHT
2019 | DRAMA
A mother and her three children find their fate thrown into chaos by an incident that happened one night. The family members each go their separate ways but reunite after 15 years …Read more
CAFÉ FUNICULI FUNICULA
2018 | DRAMA, FANTASY
Urban legend has it that you can return to your chosen point in the past at Funiculi Funicula, the coffee shop where Tokita Kazu works. Kiyokawa Fumiko hears the rumor and shows …Read more
STOLEN IDENTITY
2018 | MYSTERY, THRILLER
Surreal terror of the heroine is depicted throughout the film, after personal information from a smartphone is stolen, which later leads to a murder case. …Read more
TREMBLE ALL YOU WANT
2017 | DRAMA, COMEDY
24-year-old office employee Yoshika has a secret crush on her former junior high school classmate Ichi, but then her colleague Ni asks her to be his girlfriend. She’s excited but ambivalent …Read more
0.5MM
2014 | DRAMA
Sawa works as a caretaker. One day she gets involved into unexpected events which have her lose her job and money. Not having a house to live and money to spend, she begins …Read more
LADY MAIKO
2014 | MUSICAL, COMEDY
Haruko aspires to become a maiko, and makes her way to Shimohachiken, a geisha quarter in Kyoto. She is accepted for an apprenticeship through the auspices of Kyono, a linguistic scholar …Read more
ECOTHERAPY GETAWAY HOLIDAY
2014 | DRAMA
Comedy about the struggles of seven aging women on a tour to view fall foliage who get lost in the mountains. Seven aging women get together for a tour of fall foliage that includes hot springs …Read more
THE GREAT PASSAGE
2013 | DRAMA, ROMANCE
Drama about the passion of an editor who struggles to create a dictionary, as depicted over a fifteen-year period. Publishing house salesman Majime has an earnestness about him …Read more
A STORY OF YONOSUKE
2013 | DRAMA
It nostalgically depicts the interactions between a good-natured young man and his friends, while interweaving the past and present. In 1987, a youth named Yonosuke who is unable to decline …Read more
RAILWAYS
2010 | DRAMA
Hajime is in line to be the next head of a prominent electronics company. He toils day and night over his work and has no time for his family. But one day, his mother in Shimane falls ill …Read more
PEACE
2010 | DOCUMENTARY
In Okayama City in Okayama Prefecture, Soda’s father-in-law Kashiwagi Toshio is a driver for the elderly and disabled, and his mother-in-law Hiroko runs an non-profit organization. …Read more
TORA-SAN IN GOTO
2016 | DOCUMENTARY
A documentary shot from 1993 and over 22 years chronicled a large family who make their living as udon noodle makers on the Goto Archipelago in Nagasaki Prefecture. …Read more
TSUKIJI WONDERLAND
2016 | DOCUMENTARY
Through the lives of professionals working at Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, the film portralies how Tsukiji has been the center of fish culinary culture and helped Japanese food culture to flourish …Read more
SUMIKKOGURASHI: GOOD TO BE IN THE CORNER
2019 | ANIMATION
Sumikko and friends discover a pop-out picture book in the basement of Cafe Sumikko, their favorite coffeeshop. As they look at the book, the pop-ups suddenly start moving …Read more
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TOKYO MARBLE CHOCOLATE
2007 | ANIMATION
Serious and generous, but a bit shy, Yudai has been unsuccessful with the opposite sex. Chizuru is an energetic and cheerful girl, but when it comes to boyfriends, she’s been unlucky and clumsy, …Read more
Takeshi Yashiro Stop Motion Animation:
GON, THE LITTLE FOX
2019 | ANIMATION
When Gon, a playful orphaned fox, finds that young Hyoju has lost his mother, he tries to comfort him and make amends for his own earlier mischiefs by secretly bringing small gifts to the boy …Read more
Takeshi Yashiro Stop Motion Animation:
MOON OF A SLEEPLESS NIGHT
2015 | ANIMATION
A squirrel and a boy set out on a journey together to restore daylight. They must find and release the moon stuck high up on a tree somewhere far, far away. … Read more
Takeshi Yashiro Stop Motion Animation:
NORMAN THE SNOWMAN -THE NORTHERN LIGHT-
2013 | ANIMATION
As the first snow falls on a town in the northern country, a boy sneaks out of his house to board a northbound train with his friend “Norman the Snowman.” They are off to witness the beautiful …Read more
Takeshi Yashiro Stop Motion Animation:
NORMAN THE SNOWMAN -ON A NIGHT OF SHOOTING STARS-
2016 | ANIMATION
Tomorrow is the night of the shooting stars! A new chapter of “Norman the Snowman” begins as Norman and the Boy embark on another venture to see the star-filled sky. …Read more
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PIGTAILS
2015 | ANIMATION
The earth shook. The sea roared. And then… There is a small house solitary standing by the seaside. A pigtail-braided girl has been living there alone since that fateful day. …Read more
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KICK-HEART
2013 | ANIMATION
Kick-Heart is a love story between Romeo, a successful pro-wrestler, and Juliet, a nun who lives a secret double-life as a female pro-wrestler. …Read more
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LI’L SPIDER GIRL
2012 | ANIMATION
Everything started from an old book telling the story of an expert magician who defeated a giant spider monster in ancient times. Antique book dealer Amane Suzuri, who is trying to sell the book …Read more
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DRAWER HOBS
2011 | ANIMATION
Unfulfilled call-center employee Noeru lives alone in a cheap apartment in a big city. One day, without notice, her mother sends her an old and bulky chest of drawers. …Read more
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THE GIRL FROM THE OTHER SIDE
2019 | ANIMATION
Touch not the Outsiders, lest ye become an Outsider. But when two creatures belonging to opposite kinds -a lost little girl from the Inside and a demonic beast-looking Outsider- …Read more
