Released Date:
1989-08-25
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
76 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (8045 Reviews)
Director:
Masanori HataMasanori Hata (story)
Mark Saltzman (screenplay)
The story of two animals and their adventures. Milo, the cat, and Otis, the dog, are two animals who grew up together on the same farm. One day, the two are separated and begin a journey to find each other. The adventurous, and often perilous quest finds the two animals traveling across mountains, plains, and snow-covered lands searching for one another.
Released Date:
2005-04-19
Languages:
Japanese, English
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (7617 Reviews)
Director:
Gen SekiguchiA man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead; a self-absorbed ad agency creative director who comes up with one unworkable inane idea after another; a British hitman who only wants to know everyone's function in life; and an unfortunate office worker and father whose brain is left scrambled after a stage hypnotist is murdered in mid-performance. Starting off as unrelated plot lines, they intertwine with each other as they continue on their respective ways.
Released Date:
2010-07-06
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
114 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (546 Reviews)
Director:
Toshiaki ToyodaGenres:
DramaMitsuyo Kakuta (novel)
Toshiaki Toyoda (screenplay)
Released Date:
2008-09-27
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (6576 Reviews)
Director:
Kiyoshi KurosawaGenres:
DramaKiyoshi Kurosawa (screenplay)
Max Mannix
Sachiko Tanaka (screenplay)
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.
Released Date:
2007-11-10
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (1555 Reviews)
Director:
Satoshi MikiGenres:
ComedyYoshinaga Fujita (novel)
Satoshi Miki (screenplay)
Takemura has no friends and no family. He's a student but he doesn't have any particular ambitions. In other words, he isn't going anywhere fast. Were all this not enough, the sorry sad sack has a debt of 800,000 yen. Fukuhara, a surly debt collector with a glorious mullet, is on his case. After roughing Takemura up, he gives him an ultimatum-72 hours to pay up, or else. Takemura barely has his wits about him again when he runs across Fukuhara a second time, and this time the thug has a different proposal-a walk. That's right, in exchange for a million yen, Takemura must accompany Fukuhara on a walk across the city of Tokyo. Starting in a distant corner of the city, they begin their trek towards downtown, striking up a conversation. It's at this point that Fukuhara admits that he's recently killed his wife, and intends to turn himself in at Kasumagaseki police station-because, he says, it's the finest in town. The pair's itinerary, however, is hardly a quick and direct one. The disparate duo drift here and there, hanging out and coming across a host of eccentric personalities, creatures of the urban jungle's various habitats. As their walking, talking and trading truths continues, the arrangement between Takemura and Fukuhara starts to transform into friendship.
Released Date:
2012-01-08
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
270 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (570 Reviews)
Genres:
MysteryThe murder of Emili, a young girl, leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emily is found by the four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother Asako (Kyoko Koizumi) is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim that they don't remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do their penance for their silence. Deeply struck by the words of Asako and burdened with her curse, the four girls are forced into adulthood which eventually triggers a tragic chain of events.
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