Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes
Junta Yamaguchi, 2020
Kato lives above a cafe, which he also owns. One evening, while relaxing in his apartment after finishing work, Kato hears a voice calling him, a voice which seems to be coming from his own computer screen. In fact the voice is Kato’s own, reaching
book paper scissors
Nanako Hirose, 2020
Nobuyoshi Kikuchi is a man contentedly out of step with the times. Forgoing modern technology, the 77-year-old master book designer (soutei-ka) has utilized the traditional tools of scissors, rulers, and pencils to design over 15,000 extraordinary bo
Company Retreat
Atsushi Funahashi, 2021
A group of workers from a hotel chain gather for what they hope will be a relaxing retreat in a seaside town. A recent scandal - where a female receptionist Saki (Saki Hirai) was sexually harassed by a senior manager - has cast a dark shadow over bot
Complicity
Kei Chikaura, 2018
Chen Liang is a Chinese immigrant living illegally in Japan. Struggling to make ends meet after buying an expensive fake ID and phone, a lucky break sees Liang offered a job in a soba noodle restaurant - a job that was meant to be for someone else en
Dance With Me
Shinobu Yaguchi, 2019
After trading company employee Shizuka (Ayaka Miyoshi) encounters a shady hypnotist (played by Akira Takarada, of Godzilla fame) at a rundown amusement park, every time she hears music she is compelled to sing and dance! Desperate to break the curse,
Drive My Car
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021
Two years after the death of his wife, theatre actor and director Yusuke is still struggling to come to terms with the loss. He accepts an offer to direct Uncle Vanya at a theatre festival in Hiroshima and decides to drive there in his cherished red
EVANGELION:DEATH(TRUE)2
Hideaki Anno, 1997
Experiments conducted in Antarctica in 2000 have destroyed humankind. People call that catastrophe the Second Impact. The Earth’s axis was thrown off kilter, and the world population decreased dramatically. Fifteen years later, humanity is again fa
Every Day A Good Day
Tatsushi Omori, 2018
University student Noriko is about to graduate but isn’t really sure what she wants to do with her life. When she and her cousin Michiko start attending a Japanese tea ceremony class, Noriko unexpectedly develops a passion for the practice. The rit
Fly Me To Saitama
Hideki Takeuchi, 2019
Imagine a world where anyone from outside the kingdom of Tokyo needs a visa to enter the capital, especially if you come from the prefecture of Saitama! In this world Momomi is the privileged son of Tokyo’s governor and also chair of the student co
Hausu
Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977
As the school year draws to a close, young teenager Gorgeous (Kimiko Ikegami) invites a group of her school friends to stay at her aunt’s house in the country. When they arrive, they settle in for a relaxing break in the country house. It isn’t l
It's A Summer Film
Soushi Matsumoto, 2021
Teenager Barefoot is obsessed with samurai films. She spends her days watching and re-watching chanbara classics with her two best friends - Blue Hawaii, who is a kendo enthusiast, and sci-fi geek Kickboard. Bored with the school film club and their
Melancholic
Seiji Tanaka, 2018
Kazuhiko is an unemployed university graduate, still living at home with his parents. Despite being overqualified for the job, he is eventually hired by the owner of a local bathhouse as a cleaner and attendant. One night after work, Kazuhiko acciden
Office Royale
Seki Kazuaki , 2021
26-year-old Naoko is an OL – “office lady” – at a large firm. Happy with their mundane but comfortable work routines, she and her close clerk friends avoid the internal wars that take place between the yankis – the all-female office worker
On-Gaku: Our Sound
Kenji Iwaisawa, 2019
High school student Kenji and his two friends Asakura and Ota spend their afternoons getting into fights or lazily wasting time. One day, Kenji gets the sudden urge to start a band. His two friends decide to go along with it, despite none of them hav
Tampopo
Juzo Itami, 1985
Tampopo is the widowed owner of a roadside ramen shop, spending her days looking after her son and keeping the struggling restaurant afloat. When two truck drivers - Goro and Gun - stop to taste the ramen, they urge Tampopo to transform her run-down
THE END OF EVANGELION
Hideaki Anno, 1997
This final movie version was created as an alternative ending to the NEON GENESIS EVANGELION TV series, remaking the final two episodes from the series. SEELE plans an attack on NERV after failing to create a man-made Third Impact. After reaffirmin
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