After Life / Wandafuru raifu (1998)
Drama | Fantasy
After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
Starring: Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô, Kyôko Kagawa
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Maborosi / Maboroshi no hikari (1995)
Drama
A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.
Starring: Makiko Esumi, Takashi Naitô, Tadanobu Asano, Akira Emoto, Mutsuko Sakura, Minori Terada, Ren Osugi
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Spirited Away / Sen and the Mysterious Disappearance of Chihiro / Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
From one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animated cinema comes the most acclaimed film of 2002 and Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature. Hayao Miyazaki's latest triumph, filled with astonishing animation and epic adventure, is a dazzling masterpiece for the ages. It's a "wonderfully welcoming work of art that's as funny and entertaining as it is brilliant, beautiful and deep" (Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal). SPIRITED AWAY is a wondrous fantasy about a young girl, Chihiro, trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and return her family to the outside world.
Starring: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Tatsuya Gashûin
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Ôoku: Tanjô – Arikoto · Iemitsu-hen / Ooku: The Inner Chamber / Shogun's Harem: Birth (TV Series 2012- )
Drama | Sci-Fi
During the reign of the shogun, Iemitsu, an epidemic causes the population of men to sharply drop, leading to an ooku where the role of men and women are reversed and so "the women become the shogun, served by 3000 handsome men"…and so with that, the unimaginable and grand scale story begins.
Starring: Masato Sakai, Mikako Tabe, Koki Tanaka, Yumi Asô, Takashi Naitô, Yasunori Danda, Toshinori Omi, Hiroyuki Hirayama, Nao Minamisawa
Creator: Yumiko Kamiyama, Fumi Yoshinaga
