Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Music
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Starring: 50 Cent, Terrence Howard, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joy Bryant, Viola Davis, Bill Duke
Director: Jim Sheridan
Bayside Shakedown the Last TV: Salaryman Cop and the Last Tough Case / Odoru Daisôsasen: Tha Last TV – Sararîman deka to saigo no nanjiken (2012)
Crime | Drama
Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is now promoted to a section chief at Wangan Police Station. Meanwhile, Masayoshi Mashita, who is now the police chief announces that Detective Ou will have a large scale wedding. Government official Shinji Muroi and high ranking public officers from China will attend the wedding. Everyone at the police station soon gets nervous about the wedding and the police station becomes chaotic. The police officers then learn that an international marriage swindler, who is on the international most wanted list, has arrived in Japan.
Starring: Yûji Oda, Toshirô Yanagiba, Eri Fukatsu, Yûsuke Santamaria, Sôichirô Kitamura
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro
Hanasaku Iroha: Home Sweet Home / Hanasaku Iroha the Movie: Home Sweet Home (2013)
Animation | Comedy | Drama
The story about a girl whom her mother ran away with a lover so she went to live with her grandma whom she never knew in her hotel, then she found herself responsibile for all the work and to started a new life.
Starring: Kanae Itô, Chiaki Omigawa, Aki Toyosaki, Haruka Tomatsu, Mamiko Noto
Director: Masahiro Andô
Liz and the Blue Bird / Rizu to aoi tori / Gekijouban Hibike! Euphonium 1 (2018)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Music
Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are a pair of best friends in their final year of high school. They're both obsessed with the school's brass band club. With Mizore on the oboe and Nozomi on the flute, they spend their days in happiness, until the club begins to practice songs inspired by the fairy tale Liz und ein Blauer Vogel – "Liz and the Blue Bird". Immersed in this story, Mizore and Nozomi begin to realize that there may be no such thing as being together forever.
Starring: Atsumi Tanezaki, Nao Tôyama, Miyu Honda, Konomi Fujimura, Yuri Yamaoka
Director: Naoko Yamada
Blue Miracle (2021)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | Family
To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Raymond Cruz, Anthony Gonzalez, Jimmy Gonzales, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Fernanda Urrejola, Bruce McGill
Director: Julio Quintana
Tamako Love Story / Tamako rabu sutôrî (2014)
Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Tamako's life changes when her best childhood friend, Mochizou suddenly confessed his love.
Starring: Aya Suzaki, Atsushi Tamaru, Yûki Kaneko, Juri Nagatsuma, Yurie Yamashita
Director: Naoko Yamada
The Promised Neverland / Yakusoku no Neverland (2020)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A group of the smartest kids at a seemingly perfect orphanage uncover its dark secret, and set in motion a dangerous and desperate escape plan.
Starring: Minami Hamabe, Jyo Kairi, Rihito Itagaki, Naomi Watanabe, Keiko Kitagawa, Miyu Andô
Director: Yûichirô Hirakawa
Beginning (2020)
Drama
In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah's Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the community leader, slowly crumbles. Yana's inner discontent grows as she struggles to make sense of her desires.
Starring: Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Rati Oneli, Saba Gogichaishvili
Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili
To the Forest of Firefly Lights / Hotarubi no mori e (2011)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Hotaru is rescued by a spirit when she gets lost in a forest as a child. The two become friends, despite the spirit revealing that he will disappear if he is ever touched by a human.
Starring: Ayane Sakura, Koki Uchiyama, Shinpachi Tsuji, Kanehira Yamamoto, Hiroki Gotô, Asami Imai
Director: Takahiro Ômori
Sound of Metal (2019)
Drama | Music
A heavy-metal drummer's life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing.
Starring: Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Mathieu Amalric, Jamie Ghazarian, Paul Raci, Tom Kemp
Director: Darius Marder
All the Things We Never Said / Happened to live / Ikichatta (2020)
Drama
Atsuhisa is an ordinary man living with his wife Natsumi and a five-year-old daughter Suzu. Atsuhisa and Natsumi have been friends with Takeda since high school. Once dreamed of becoming singers, Takeda and Atsuhisa are now taking Chinese and English lessons, hoping to become businessmen one day. One day, Astuhisa discovers that Natsumi is having an affair, and Natsumi asks Atsuhisa for a divorce. All the Things We Never Said is the first of the six low-budget films from the Hong Kong International Film Festival's Back to Basics project. Director Ishii Yuya paints a portrait of disjointed and helpless yet unhateable youth who have bottled-up resentment that needs to be released. Director Park Jong-beom makes an appearance as Atsuhisa's older brother.
Starring: Taiga Nakano, Ryûya Wakaba
Director: Yûya Ishii
Paprika / Papurika (2006)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.
Starring: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tôru Emori, Akio Ôtsuka
Director: Satoshi Kon
Tokyo Godfathers / Tôkyô goddofâzâzu (2003)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
Starring: Tôru Emori, Aya Okamoto, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Shôzô Îzuka, Seizô Katô, Hiroya Ishimaru
Director: Satoshi Kon
The Outpost (2020)
Action | Drama | History | War
A small team of U.S. soldiers battle against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Scott Eastwood, Milo Gibson, Orlando Bloom, Will Attenborough, Jacob Scipio
Director: Rod Lurie
The Nest (2020)
Drama | Romance
Life for an entrepreneur and his American family begins to take a twisted turn after moving into an English country manor.
Starring: Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Anne Reid, Charlie Shotwell, Tattiawna Jones, Adeel Akhtar
Director: Sean Durkin
Gekijoban Hibike! Euphonium: Chikai no Finale / Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day / Gekijoban Hibike! Euphonium 2 / Sound! Euphonium Movie: The Finale of Oath (2019)
Animation | Drama | Music
The story of Oumae Kumiko and others as second-year students.
Starring: Tomoyo Kurosawa, Ayaka Asai, Moe Toyota, Chika Anzai, Haruki Ishiya, Konomi Fujimura, Yuri Yamaoka, Kenjirô Tsuda, Miyuki Kobori
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Sakura (2020)
Drama | Family
Three siblings share a home with their parents living a happy life. The oldest one is good-looking guy, which is something of a contrast from his younger brother who is at school. The youngest one is the girl and has two brothers to protect her. Unfortunately an accident knocks out the oldest sibling. It is not a happy time.
Starring: Takumi Kitamura, Nana Komatsu, Ryô Yoshizawa, Yui Kobayashi, Kaho Mizutani, Kasumi Yamaya, Masaya Katô, Tamiyasu Chô
Director: Hitoshi Yazaki
Every Breath You Take / You Belong to Me (2021)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A psychiatrist, whose client commits suicide, finds his family life disrupted after introducing her surviving brother to his wife and daughter.
Starring: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Claflin, Veronica Ferres, India Eisley
Director: Vaughn Stein
Suzhou River / Su zhou he (2000)
Drama | Romance
The river Suzhou that flows through Shanghai is a reservoir of filth, chaos and poverty, but also a meeting place for memories and secrets. Lou Ye, who spent his youth on the banks of the Suzhou, shows the river as a Chinese Styx, in which forgotten stories and mysteries come together. Mardar, a motorcycle courier in his mid-twenties, rides all over the city with all kinds of packages for his clients. He knows every inch and is successful thanks to the fact that he never asks questions. One day he is asked by a shady alcohol smuggler to deliver his sixteen-year-old daughter, Moudan, to her aunt. Mardar and Moudan grow fond of each other. But their tender happiness is disrupted when Moudan thinks that Mardar has kidnapped her for a ransom. She is so disappointed in him that she jumps off the bridge into the Suzhou River. Mardar is now suspected of murder. When a couple of years later he comes out of jail, he meets the dancer Meimei, an alter-ego of Moudan, and becomes fascinated by her.
Starring: Xun Zhou, Hongshen Jia, Zhongkai Hua, Anlian Yao, Nai An
Director: Ye Lou
The Father (2020)
Drama
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell, Olivia Williams
Director: Florian Zeller
