Oslo (2021)
Drama | History | Thriller
Recounts the true-life, previously secret, back-channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
Starring: Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Jeff Wilbusch, Salim Dau, Waleed Zuaiter
Director: Bartlett Sher
461 Days of Bento / 461 Lunch Boxes / 461ko no Obento (2020)
Drama
Kazuki Suzumoto is divorced and he lives with his 15-year-old son Kouki, who is in a susceptible time. The father feels guilty about his son. Kouki then fails his high school entrance exam. In the spring of the following year, Kouki barely passes his high school entrance exam. Kouki mentions to Kazuki that he likes his father's lunch box. The father and son make a promise to each other. Kazuki promises that he will make a lunch box everyday for Kouki, who promises that he will never skip school.
Starring: Yoshihiko Inohara, Shunsuke Michieda
Director: Atsushi Kaneshige
The Lady Shogun and Her Men / Ôoku (2010)
Drama | Sci-Fi
In the year 1716, a mysterious disease wipes out a majority of men. Gender roles have been reversed, with women taking traditional male roles and men becoming little more than reproduction tools. To save his family, Mizuno enters the Inner Chamber in the Edo Castle, leaving his girlfriend Onobu behind. Meanwhile, when the young shogun dies, Yoshimune is appointed to take over as the shogun and decides to name Mizuno her first bedmate. However, the job comes with potentially fatal consequences for everyone involved.
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Ko Shibasaki, Maki Horikita, Tadayoshi Ohkura, Aoi Nakamura, Hiroshi Tamaki
Director: Fuminori Kaneko
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
