Yes, I Can't Swim / Hai, Oyogemasen (2022)
Drama
A mid-life university professor who reluctantly decides to face up to his fear of water and his inability to swim.
Starring: Hiroki Hasegawa, Haruka Ayase, Kumiko Asô, Junko Abe, Kaoru Kobayashi
Director: Kensaku Watanabe
Samurai's Promise / Chiri tsubaki (2018)
Drama
Uryu Shinbei appeals his boss's corruption and his appeal is denied. He is kicked out from the han. Shortly afterwards, his wife Shino collapses from a disease and dies. Right before her death, she tells Shinbei, "I hope you go back to the han and help Uneme Sakakibara." Shinbei and Uneme were friends, but they became rivals to gain Shino's affection. Uneme is also related to Shinbei's exile.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Haru Kuroki, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Kumiko Asô
Director: Daisaku Kimura
LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp! / Onryô o agero tako! Nani utatten no ka zenzen wakannê n da yo!! (2018)
Comedy | Music | Romance
Shing is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of vocal cord doping. His voice is now teetering on the edge, due to side effects from the vocal cord doping. Around this time, Shing meets Fuuka who is a street musician. When Fuuka sings, her voice is so small. Due to Fuuka, Shing looks back upon his past.
Starring: Sadao Abe, Riho Yoshioka, Yûdai Chiba, Kumiko Asô, Eiji Kotôge, Yuki Katayama, Yûko Nakamura, Shoko Ikezu
Director: Satoshi Miki
Mirai / Mirai no Mirai (2018)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy
A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.
Starring: Haru Kuroki, Moka Kamishiraishi, Gen Hoshino, Kumiko Asô, Kôji Yakusho, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Masaharu Fukuyama
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Moriyamachu Driving School / Moriyama chû kyôshûjo (2016)
Comedy
Kiyotaka Sato is a university student. He is sociable, but he looks like he doesn't have interest in those around him. During his summer vacation, Kiyotaka Sato plans to get his driver's license to impress schoolmate Matsuda. At this time, a yakuza boss orders Todoroki to get his driver's license. Todoroki doesn't show his feelings outwardly. Later, Todoroki drives a car without a driver's license and he hits Kiyotaka Sato. To cover up the accident, Kiyotaka Sato is placed in a car and taken to away. He arrives at an unofficial driving school. The driving school is run by the Uehara family. There, Kiyotaka Sato and Todoroki learn that they graduated from the same high school. They spend their summer at the driving school.
Starring: Shûhei Nomura, Kento Kaku, Yukino Kishii, Takuma Otoo, Toshie Negishi, Duncan, Kumiko Asô, Ken Mitsuishi
Director: Keisuke Toyoshima
The Actor / Haiyû Kameoka Takuji (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Takuji Kameoka is a 37-year-old actor. He usually plays supporting roles and is referred to as the "best supporting actor." He is also performs in big budget commercial films to indie films. Takuji Kameoka then falls in love with the female owner of a bar. He reaches a turning point in his life.
Starring: Ken Yasuda, Kumiko Asô, Shôhei Uno, Hirofumi Arai, Shôta Sometani
Director: Satoko Yokohama
Grasshopper / Gurasuhoppâ (2015)
Drama
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses a knife to take out his targets.
Starring: Tôma Ikuta, Tadanobu Asano, Ryôsuke Yamada, Kumiko Asô, Nanao, Renji Ishibashi, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Jun Murakami
Director: Tomoyuki Takimoto
Miss Hokusai / Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai (2015)
Animation | Biography | Drama
An adaptation of Hinako Sugiura’s cult manga, a beautiful story revolving around O-Ei, daughter of master painter Hokusai. The director of the exquisite "Colorful" created this portrayal of a family and an age, the era of the city of Edo during the early 19th century. And it also fulfills a major challenge with flying colors: to turn the pictures by the author of "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" into animated images.
Starring: Kumiko Asô, Gaku Hamada, Kengo Kôra, Yutaka Matsushige
Director: Keiichi Hara
Love & Peace / Rabu ＆ Pisu (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
In the summer of 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. Ryoichi dreamed of becoming a punk rocker when he was younger, but became a timid salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He has feelings for Yuko, but he can't tell her how he feels. One day, he has a fateful meeting with a turtle on the rooftop of a department store. He names the turtle Pikadon and he adores it, but his co-workers laugh at him. Ryoichi throws Pikadon into the toilet. He regrets what he did. The turtle though goes through sewerage and meets an old man who lives in the underground. Something then happens.
Starring: Hiroki Hasegawa, Kumiko Asô, Toshiyuki Nishida
Director: Shion Sono
Colorful / Karafuru (2010)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
A sinful spirit is granted the opportunity to prove worthy for rebirth, inhabiting the body of a student who killed himself.
Starring: Kumiko Asô, Keiji Fujiwara, Aoi Miyazaki, Kazato Tomizawa, Akina Minami, Katsumi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Nakao, Jingi Irie
Director: Keiichi Hara
700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police/ Boku tachi to chûzai san no 700 nichi sensô (2008)
Comedy
After one of their group is caught for speeding a group of trouble-making teenagers decide to prank the local police officer. It starts with simple speeding pranks but gradually moves to more elaborate and bizarre pranks.
Starring: Hayato Ichihara, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Kumiko Asô
Director: Renpei Tsukamoto
The Tale of Nishino / Yukihiko Nishino's Love and Adventure / Nishino Yukihiko no koi to bouken (2014)
Drama
Yukihiko Nishino (Yutaka Takenouchi) is very popular with women, but, in the end, he is always dumped by a woman. Yukihiko seeks out his true love.
Starring: Yutaka Takenouchi, Machiko Ono, Riko Narumi, Fumino Kimura, Tsubasa Honda, Kumiko Asô, Sawako Agawa, Yurika Nakagawa
Director: Nami Iguchi
Ring 0: Birthday / The Ring 0 / Ringu 0: Bâsudei (2000)
Horror
The film takes place 30 years prior to the events of Ring, and depicts the life of 19-year-old Sadako Yamamura, the antagonist of previous films. In this film, her role shifts to that of a protagonist.
Starring: Yukie Nakama, Seiichi Tanabe, Kumiko Asô, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Ryûshi Mizukami
Director: Norio Tsuruta
Pulse / Kairo (2001)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Japanese university students investigate a series of suicides linked to an Internet Web cam that promises visitors the chance to interact with the dead.
Starring: Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki, Kôji Yakusho
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki / Wolf Children / Okami kodomo no ame to yuki (2012)
Animation | Fantasy
Older sister Yuki and younger brother Ame have a secret. They are "wolf children," half human and half wolf. Their mother Hana met and fell in love with a wolf man. The family lives discreetly in a quiet corner of the city, keeping their secret to themselves. But one day, their father passes away. Their mother Hana then decides to take Yuki and Ame out from the city and live in the countryside surrounded by nature.
Starring: Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Osawa, Haru Kuroki, Yukito Nishii, Momoka Ohno, Amon Kabe, Hiraoka Takuma, Shôta Sometani, Mitsuki Tanimura, Kumiko Asô, Megumi Hayashibara
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Love Strikes! / Moteki (2011)
Comedy
"Moteki" is…a period in one’s life when a person is most attractive to the opposite sex. Fujimoto, 31, has no money, no aspirations and no girlfriend. Leaving his temp job, he decides to finally get a life and lands a job as a writer for an Internet news site. But love eludes him. At the height of his loneliness and social isolation, out of nowhere springs his season of irresistibility – the arrival of "moteki". Miyuki, a fun and gregarious magazine editor, who shares a lot of Yukiyo’s interests but has a boyfriend. Rumiko, Miyuki’s close friend, a pretty but obsessive office worker. Ai, a gaudy young bar hostess. Motoko, Yukiyo’s senior colleague, a cool beauty with an acid tongue. Between these four very different women, Yukiyo gets pushed and pulled in all directions. But will Yukiyo reach the elusive promised land of true love?
Starring: Mirai Moriyama, Masami Nagasawa, Kumiko Asô, Riisa Naka, Yôko Maki
Director: Hitoshi Ohne
Casshern (2004)
Action | Sci-Fi
It is late in the 21st century. After 50 years of devastating war between Europa and the Eastern Federation, the latter has emerged victorious, and the new federation of Eurasia is formed. There can be no glorious peace, however, as the planet has been ravaged by chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons and the entire human race is dispirited and exhausted by half a century of war. The only hope for long term survival lies with geneticist Dr. Azuma and his breakthrough 'neo-cell' treatment that can rejuvenate the body and could regenerate humankind. But when his experiments go wrong, a race of mutant androids is unleashed and only Azuma's dead son, reincarnated as the legendary hero CASSHERN, has the power to lead the war against the super robots.
Starring: Yûsuke Iseya, Kumiko Asô, Akira Terao, Kanako Higuchi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Mayumi Sada, Jun Kaname
Director: Kazuaki Kiriya
