Your Name. / Kimi no na wa. (2016)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Two strangers find themselves linked in a bizarre way. When a connection forms, will distance be the only thing to keep them apart?
Starring: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Masami Nagasawa, Etsuko Ichihara, Ryô Narita, Aoi Yûki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kaito Ishikawa, Kanon Tani
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Where I Belong / Soap Bubble / Shabondama (2017)
Drama
Izumi is an urchin who was set adrift by his parents. He is a thug, a thief and a predator. on the run from the cops he takes to the mountains of Miyazaki in southern Japan where he happens to come to the aid of an older local woman. Staying at the woman's house he is taken in not only by her, but also by the villagers. It can but only affect him.
Starring: Kento Hayashi, Mina Fujii, Kazuyuki Aijima, Katsuhiko Watabiki, Etsuko Ichihara
Director: Shinji Azuma
Sweet Red Bean Paste / Sweet Bean / An (2015)
Drama
The "manager" of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly lady looking for work. A taste of her home-made bean jelly convinces him, starting a relationship that is about much more than just street food.
Starring: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Etsuko Ichihara, Miyoko Asada, Miki Mizuno
Director: Naomi Kawase
Village of the Eight Tombs / Village of Eight Gravestones / Yatsuhaka-mura (1977)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.
Starring: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yôko Yamamoto, Etsuko Ichihara, Ninako Yamaguchi
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
