Climbers High / Kuraimâzu hai (2008)
Drama
A newspaper editor who deals with the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123.
Starring: Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Masato Sakai, Masahiro Takashima, Ken'ichi Endô, Masahiro Takashima, Tomorô Taguchi, Machiko Ono
Director: Masato Harada
A Day to Die (2022)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Connor Connolly has one day to pay reparations to Tyrone Pettis. He is forced to ask his old military ops crew, led by Brice Mason, to come together to get him two million dollars before he loses everyone he loves in the process.
Starring: Kevin Dillon, Bruce Willis, Frank Grillo, Gianni Capaldi, Vernon Davis, Leon
Director: Wes Miller
Summer Sway / Jane's Summer / Jeineui sseommeo (2020)
Drama
Although she's a skillful dancer, Jane is never casted in the principal role and flies out to Bangkok when she fails to land the lead role in the upcoming show. There she meets Ji-woo, an old friend who gave up dancing and became a flight attendant. The pair comes across 2 musicians from Korea and they are soon overwhelmed with desire and lust for each other.
Starring: Seo Na-young, Ha-rim Kim, Lee Hae Jun, Baek Seung-Heon
Director: Eun-ju Song
Zokki (2020)
Comedy | Drama
Three of Japan's most talented and prolific actor-directors have joined forces to adapt Hiroyuki Ohashi's cult manga series about characters in "an obscure corner" of the world. The film's five loosely connected storylines concern the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate their daily encounters.
Starring: Riho YoshiokaShinnosuke Mitsushima, Fuku Suzuki, Yurina Yanagi, Sara Minami, Masanobu Andô
Director: Takumi Saitoh, Naoto Takenaka, Takayuki Yamada
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment / Tokiwa-so no seishun (1996)
Drama
A look at the youthful beginnings of manga giants Motoo Abiko, aka Fujiko Fujio, Fujio Akatsuka and Hiroo Terada, when they all lived in the same, dingy apartment building — named Tokiwa-so — in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district.
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Sadao Abe, Arata Furuta, Kazuo Hara, Masahiro Kômoto
Director: Jun Ichikawa
Scarborough (2021)
Drama
Scarborough is the film adaptation of the award-winning novel by Catherine Hernandez. Over the course of a school year, 3 kids in a low-income neighbourhood find community and friendship at a drop-in reading program.
Starring: Liam Diaz, Mekiya Fox, Anna Claire Beitel, Felix Jedi Ingram Isaac, Ellie Posadas, Cherish Violet Blood, Conor Casey, Aliya Kanani
Director: Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson
Ismael's Ghosts / Les fantômes d'Ismaël (2017)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
The story follows a filmmaker whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Louis Garrel, Alba Rohrwacher, László Szabó
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
The Survivor / Harry Haft (2021)
Biography | Drama | Sport
After World War II, Harry Haft is a boxer who fought against his peers in concentration camps. Haunted by memories, he tries to use fighting legends as a way to find his love.
Starring: Ben Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Danny DeVito, John Leguizamo, Billy Magnussen, Vicky Krieps
Director: Barry Levinson
Zero Focus / Zero no shôten (2009)
Drama
Spurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a murder mystery.
Starring: Ryôko Hirosue, Miki Nakatani, Tae Kimura, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Takeshi Kaga, Tetta Sugimoto
Director: Isshin Inudô
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Starring: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Clean (2021)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Tormented by his past, a garbage man named Clean attempts a quiet life of redemption. But, soon finds himself forced to reconcile with the violence of his past.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Glenn Fleshler, Richie Merritt, John Bianco, Dinora Walcott, Michael Callahan
Director: Paul Solet
Bubble / バブル (2022)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sport | Thriller
After bubbles that broke the laws of gravity rained down upon the world. Cut off from the outside world, Tokyo has become a playground for a group of young people who have lost their families.
Starring: Jun Shison, riria., Mamoru Miyano, Yûki Kaji, Tasuku Hatanaka, Alice Hirose
Director: Tetsurô Araki
In the Wake / To Those Who Were Not Protected / Mamorarenakatta mono tachi e (2021)
Crime | Drama
Nine years after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, two murder cases take place in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. The two victims are assumed to have been murdered by the same person. Both of the victims were tied all over their body and starved to death. Yasuhisa Tone emerges as a suspect in the murders. Yasuhisa was just recently released from prison. In his past, he committed arson and injured someone to protect his acquaintance. Detective Seiichiro Tomashino discovers a common link between the two victims and chases after Yasuhisa.
Starring: Takeru Satoh, Hiroshi Abe, Kaya Kiyohara, Kento Hayashi, Eita Nagayama, Naoto Ogata
Director: Takahisa Zeze
The Outfit (2022)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An expert cutter must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.
Starring: Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O'Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Simon Russell Beale
Director: Graham Moore
High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama
A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers for two million dollars.
Starring: Minnie Driver, Mary McCormack, Kevin McNally, Mark Williams, Danny Dyer, Michael Gambon
Director: Mel Smith
American Flyers (1985)
Drama | Sport
Marcus takes his kid brother, David, with him for a physical test and a brain scan, suspecting cerebral aneurysm like their dad died of. They head off on bikes for the big Rockies bike race with Marcus' Sarah driving the van.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul, David Marshall Grant, Janice Rule, Jennifer Grey
Director: John Badham
Lan yu (2001)
Drama | Romance
A young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student
Starring: Ye Liu, Jun Hu
Director: Stanley Kwan
Mass (2021)
Drama
Aftermath of a violent tragedy that affects the lives of two couples in different ways.
Starring: Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton
Director: Fran Kranz
Round Midnight (1986)
Drama | Music
A troubled, but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris.
Starring: Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Lonette McKee, Herbie Hancock, Frédérique Meininger, Benoît Régent
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Baby's Day Out (1994)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Family
After three kidnappers lose the baby they have kidnapped, both the cops and kidnappers go looking for the baby.
Starring: Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Haley, Cynthia Nixon, Fred Dalton Thompson, John Neville
Director: Patrick Read Johnson
