Balloon / Qi qiu (2019)
Drama
A family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will.
Starring: Sonam Wangmo, Jinpa, Yangshik Tso
Director: Pema Tseden
Suicide Forest Village / Jukai Village / Jukai Mura (2021)
Drama | Horror
One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
Starring: Anna Yamada, Mayu Yamaguchi, Fûju Kamio, Yuki Kura, Haruka Kudo, Rinka Ôtani
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Demon Slayer: Mugen Train / Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train / Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-Hen (2020)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy
After his family was brutally murdered and his sister turned into a demon, Tanjiro Kamado's journey as a demon slayer began. Tanjiro and his comrades embark on a new mission aboard the Mugen Train, on track to despair.
Starring: Natsuki Hanae, Akari Kitô, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Hiro Shimono, Satoshi Hino
Director: Haruo Sotozaki
The Tower / Ta-weo (2012)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A Christmas Eve party at a luxury residential building takes a horrific turn when a fire breaks out.
Starring: Kyung-gu Sol, Son Ye-jin, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim In-kwon, Ji-han Do
Director: Ji-hoon Kim
Wish Dragon / Xu yuan shen long (2021)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Determined teen Din is longing to reconnect with his childhood best friend when he meets a wish-granting dragon who shows him the magic of possibilities.
Starring: Jimmy Wong, John Cho, Constance Wu, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Jimmy O. Yang, Aaron Yoo, Will Yun Lee, Ronny Chieng
Director: Chris Appelhans
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight / Made in Abyss: Hôrô Suru Tasogare (2019)
Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
After departing from Ozen's camp, Riko and Reg continue their journey, encountering more dangers as they descend further into the Abyss.
Starring: Miyu Tomita, Mariya Ise, Shiori Izawa, Eri Kitamura, Toshiyuki Morikawa
Director: Masayuki Kojima
Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn / Made in Abyss: Tabidachi no Yoake (2019)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
A girl named, Riko and her robot friend, Reg, journey down into a deadly, otherworldly chasm, known as the Abyss, in search of her lost mother.
Starring: Miyu Tomita, Mariya Ise, Sayaka Ôhara, Aki Toyosaki, Mutsumi Tamura, Manami Numakura
Director: Masayuki Kojima
The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window / Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru (2021)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Two psychics team up to solve a string of murders, and along their investigations develop a romantic connection.
Starring: Masaki Okada, Jun Shison, Yurina Hirate, Makita Sports, Shinya Niiro, Yuki Sakurai, Emi Wakui, Michitaka Tsutsui, Ken'ichi Takitô
Director: Yukihiro Morigaki
Let's Make the Teacher Have a Miscarriage Club / Sensei wo ryûzan saseru-kai (2011)
Drama | Thriller
The film follows a group of five high school girls led by a psychopath who decide to make their teacher have a miscarriage after hearing the news of her pregnancy.
Starring: Aki Miyata, Kaori Kobayashi, Takara Hiromu, Takemori Nanase, Aiba Suzuno, Muroga Sawaki
Director: Eisuke Naitô
Seven Days War / 7 Days War / Bokura no nanoka-kan sensô (2019)
Action | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Thriller
On a hot day right before the summer vacation, all first-year male students of the second class from a junior high school disappear. Was it an accident? A group abduction? In fact, they were hiding in an abandoned factory near the river, and used it as a liberation area to rebel against the adults. The adults are in great confusion by the huge and unexpected operations cooperated by the female students; entangled with real abduction cases, a corrupted mayor election, and even involving parents and television reporters who are thrilled by the liberation broadcast and barricade. The comedy mystery progresses in a light tempo that doesn't give the audience a chance to breathe until the brilliant end that is full of satire.
Starring: Kyôko Yoshine, Takumi Kitamura, Rie Miyazawa, Megumi Han, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Takeo Otsuka, Haruka Michii
Director: Yuta Murano
I Shall Live by Myself / Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone / Ora Ora de Hitori Igumo (2020)
Family
Momoko is a woman who is seventy-five-years old and lives alone. She lives in Tokyo, but was not born there having arrived there over fifty years ago. She had met a nice man, been proposed to and accepted. She gave birth to two children before her husband had died. She was alone again until finding her way into a library one day. She soon found solace and companionship in the books and her life was changed. This is her journey.
Starring: Yûko Tanaka, Yû Aoi, Masahiro Higashide, Gaku Hamada, Munetaka Aoki, Kankurô Kudô
Director: Shûichi Okita
Tokyo Oasis / Tôkyô oashisu (2011)
Drama
Before she even realizes, Touko starts to run away from somewhere in the city. As an actress in a fantasy world, Touko seems to have lost her grip on reality. Along her journey, she makes acquaintance with people who carry similar issues.
Starring: Satomi Kobayashi, Ryô Kase, Haru Kuroki, Tomoyo Harada
Director: Kana Matsumoto, Kayo Nakamura
Shock Wave 2 / Chak daan juen ga 2 (2020)
Action | Crime | Thriller
When a bomb went off unexpectedly during a police operation to disarm it, Poon Shing-Fung, a bomb disposal officer, got caught in the blast and thus lost one of his legs. Poon decided to leave the police service. Three years later, the police suspect Poon, who was found in a coma at the spot of a terrorist bombing attack, of being involved in several bombing attacks in the past two years. Poon can hardly remember his past and even his own identity due to Post Traumatic Amnesia. He plans to escape to find out the truth. Meanwhile, knowing the terrorist organization's schemes of destroying Hong Kong landmarks, Poon, as the key person between the police and the terrorist organization, would possibly save or destroy lives of the innocent civilians in the city.
Starring: Andy Lau, Ching Wan Lau, Ni Ni, Kwan-Ho Tse, Philip Keung, Ron Ng
Director: Herman Yau
Happy Ghost III / Hoi sam gwai: Chong gwai (1986)
Comedy | Crime | Fantasy | Romance
A young, unsuccessful singer, after committing suicide, is to be reincarnated, this time into a musical family. Her spirit must get to the hospital where her future mother is currently ready to give birth to her, so that she can enter the womb and be born. Unfortunately, she misses her appointed birth time, twice, due to the accidental intervention of a young man, Mr. Hong. At first she is angry and makes life hard for him, but eventually they fall in love, although she can't stay around long as she has one last chance to be born.
Starring: Raymond Wong, Maggie Cheung, Fennie Yuen, Charine Chan, Sabrina Ho, Wing-Han Lam
Director: Johnnie To
Dead Sushi / Deddo sushi (2012)
Action | Comedy | Horror
Keiko, the daughter of a legendary sushi chef, runs away from home when his Karate-style regimen becomes too severe. Finding work at a rural hot springs inn, she is ridiculed by the eccentric staff and guests.
Starring: Rina Takeda, Shigeru Matsuzaki, Kentarô Shimazu, Tôru Tezuka, Kanji Tsuda, Takamasa Suga, Takashi Nishina, Asami, Yui Murata, Jiji Bû
Director: Noboru Iguchi
One in A Hundred Thousand / 10 Manbun no 1 (2020)
Drama | Romance
Rino Sakuragi is a high school student. She is good friends with Ren Kiritani who attends the same high school. They have been close since their middle school days. Rino holds special feelings for Ren, but she is unable to tell him how she feels because he is popular. One day, Ren confesses to Rino that he likes her. They begin to date and enjoy their time together, but Rino is diagnosed with ALS.
Starring: Alan Shirahama, Yûna Taira, Mio Yûki, Jin Shirasu, Eiji Okuda
Director: Kôichirô Miki
Silent Rain / It Stopped Raining / Shizukana Ame (2019)
Drama | Romance
Yukisuke, a young man with a bad leg that forces him to limp constantly, strikes a romance with Koyomi, a young woman who runs a Taiyaki stall. Then she is hit by a car and lose her memory after she awakes from a coma.
Starring: Taiga Nakano, Misa Etô
Director: Ryûtarô Nakagawa
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
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
