Mellow (2020)
Drama | Romance
An owner of an upscale flower shop enjoys his single life and one day, a married customer approaches the shop owner to confess her feelings for him.
Starring: Kei Tanaka, Sae Okazaki, Sara Shida, Tamaki Shiratori, Sumire, Kenjirô Yamashita, Rie Tomosaka, Mantarô Koichi
Director: Rikiya Imaizumi
Kakegurui 2: Ultimate Russian Roulette / Kakegurui the Movie: Zettai Zetsumei Russian Roulette / Kakegurui: The Movie 2 / Eiga Kakegurui Zettai Zetsumei Russian Roulette (2021)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A school appears peaceful from a distance, but a fierce gambling battle takes place once again. Yumeko Jabami is involved in the battle.
Starring: Minami Hamabe, Mahiro Takasugi, Aoi Morikawa, Ryusei Fujii, Ruka Matsuda, Natsumi Okamoto
Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa
Hokusai (2020)
Biography
There are several iconic paintings in Japan depicting scenes of nature and the times. Several of these have become famous world-wide. Several of these are the works of Hokusai. However, the artist was not always famous or in-demand. In fact, he was struggling. He has the urge to throw in the towel, but persists. Once older he is still trying to improve and reach the pinnacle for his profession.
Starring: Yûya Yagira, Min Tanaka, Hiroshi Abe, Eita Nagayama, Hiroshi Tamaki, Miori Takimoto, Munetaka Aoki
Director: Hajime Hashimoto
Aristocrats / That Kid Is Noble / Anoko wa kizoku (2020)
Drama
Hanako is in her late twenties and is looking for stability with her man. She gets dumped instead. She begins dating. Miki studied and worked hard to get to where she is and is holding down a job. They are introduced through an intermediary man.
Starring: Mugi Kadowaki, Kiko Mizuhara, Kengo Kora, Shizuka Ishibashi, Rio Yamashita
Director: Yukiko Sode
Escape from Mogadishu / Mogadisyu (2021)
Action | Drama | Thriller
In 1991 war-torn Somalia the personnel and the families of both the South Korean and the North Korean embassies have the same goal: to escape from Mogadishu.
Starring: Kim Yoon-seok, In-Sung Jo, Joon-ho Huh, Man-sik Jeong, Jae-hwa Kim, Kyung-hye Park, Kyo-hwan Koo
Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
Days of Being Wild / Ah Fei's Story / Ah Fei jing juen (1990)
Crime | Drama | Romance
A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Yellow Tears / Kiiroi namida (2007)
Drama
They famously say that all the hippies of the '60s ended up becoming nothing more than bankers. Amidst a resurgent Japan of the 1960s four young men aspire to respectively become a singer, a painter, a writer and a comic book author. They vow not to compromise until their dreams are realized. This is their story.
Starring: Shô Sakurai, Masaki Aiba, Kazunari Ninomiya, Satoshi Ohno, Jun Matsumoto, Yû Kashii
Director: Isshin Inudô
Hello World / Harô wârudo (2019)
Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi
A man travels in time from the year 2027 to relive his school years and to correct a bad decision.
Starring: Takumi Kitamura, Tôri Matsuzaka, Minami Hamabe, Takehito Koyasu, Minako Kotobuki, Haruka Fukuhara, Rie Kugimiya
Director: Tomohiko Itô
Story of Ricky / Riki Ô / Lik wong (1991)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Riki-Oh, a young man who has superhuman strength, is incarcerated at a private prison, where inmates are treated like slaves, and is forced to use his unstoppable form of martial arts to destroy the corrupt officials and their lackeys.
Starring: Siu-Wong Fan, Gloria Yip, Ka-Kui Ho, Yukari Ôshima, Tetsurô Tanba, Frankie Chan
Director: Ngai Choi Lam
Midnight Swan (2020)
Drama
Nagisa is transgender. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle school student Ichika, who is a distant relative. Ichika has been neglected by her mother Saori. From living in solitude by herself, to now living with Ichika, Nagisa develops maternal instincts for the first time.
Starring: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Misaki Hattori, Asami Mizukawa, Tomorô Taguchi, Sei Matobu
Director: Eiji Uchida
Ladies Market / Neoi jan gaai, zoi gin liu (2021)
Drama
A story where four people's paths cross, and the fate of their lives intertwine.
Starring: Kai Chi Liu, Annie Liu, Ron Ng, Arrommy Leung, Suet-Ching Ma
Director: Wing-chung Kwan
Hold Me Back / Watashi wo kuitomete (2020)
Drama
Love on the edge, which can't get any closer than 10cm: Mitsuko, 31, who is getting used to a solo life and has a counselor named "A" in her brain, falls in love with a young man.
Starring: Non, Kento Hayashi, Asami Usuda, Takuya Wakabayashi, Tomoya Maeno, Maho Yamada, Hairi Katagiri
Director: Akiko Ôku
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final / Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part I – The Final / Rurôni Kenshin: Sai shûshô – The Final (2021)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Kenshin's past catches up to him causing the destruction of Akabeko Restaurant, which was Kenshin's favorite place to eat. There, he finds a note with the word "Junchu" on it.
Starring: Takeru Satoh, Mackenyu, Emi Takei, Yôsuke Eguchi, Munetaka Aoki, Yû Aoi
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
Subarashiki sekai / Under the Open Sky (2020)
Crime | Drama
A middle-aged former yakuza is released from prison after thirteen years where he was placed for murder. He is struggling to adapt to society and freedom, find a job and communicate normally, but he is also preoccupied by the quest for his mother from whom he was separated as a child. He finds allies in his search for his parent and a place in mainstream society, but the process is not seamless or smooth.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Taiga Nakano, Isao Hashizume, Meiko Kaji, Seiji Rokkaku, Yukiya Kitamura
Director: Miwa Nishikawa
Running Out of Time / Am zin (1999)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime Syndicates.
Starring: Andy Lau, Ching Wan Lau, YoYo Mung, Waise Lee, Shiu Hung Hui, Suet Lam
Director: Johnnie To
Bright: Samurai Soul (2021)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Thriller
Izo, a Ronin, and Raiden, an orc, work to bring a young elf girl and the wand she carries to the land of the elves in the north.
Starring: Yûki Nomura, Daisuke Hirakawa, Shion Wakayama, Miyavi, Maaya Sakamoto
Director: Kyohei Ishiguro
Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle / Pokémon the Movie: Coco / Pokémon 23 / Gekijouban Poketto monsutâ: koko (2020)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
The story of Koko, a young boy raised by Pokémon, and the creation of a new bond between humans and Pokémon.
Starring: Rica Matsumoto, Ikue Ôtani, Megumi Hayashibara, Shin'ichirô Miki, Inuko Inuyama, Yûji Ueda
Director: Tetsuo Yajima
Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution / Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution / Pokémon 22 / Gekijô-ban poketto monsutâ – Myûtsû no gyakushû Evolution (2019)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
After a scientific experiment leads to the creation of a clone of Mewtwo, he sets out to destroy the world. Ash and his friends then decide to thwart Mewtwo's evil plans.
Starring: Rica Matsumoto, Mayumi Izuka, Yûji Ueda, Ikue Ôtani, Satomi Kôrogi, Megumi Hayashibara
Director: Motonori Sakakibara, Tetsuo Yajima, Kunihiko Yuyama
Legend of Lv Bu / God of War II / Lu bu zhuan / Dou po luan shi qing (2020)
Action | Fantasy | History | Romance | War
Years after escaping, Lv Bu has no memory of his hellish early life as a test subject for a ruthless imperial sorceress. Now, he is feared across the land as the conquering general under warlord Dong Zhuo, for whom he has blazed a trail of victories on the battlefield. But when a woman arrives at the palace claiming to be his long-lost love, the facade begins to fade, and he begins to realize that his closest allies may yet be his most dangerous foes.
Starring: Charles Lin, David Wu, Yinghao Sheng, Lu Liu
Director: Cong Cai
The Black Cannon Incident / Hei pao shi jian (1985)
Comedy | Drama
Engineer Zhao Shuxin likes playing chess a lot. Once during his business trip, he loses a black cannon chessman which leads to unexpected consequences for him.
Starring: Zifeng Liu, Fengliang Yang, Yi Wang, Gerhard Olschewski, Ming Gao, Yazhou Yang
Director: Jianxin Huang
