Kyrie no uta (2023)
Drama | Music
In the Great East Japan Earthquake, a young girl named Luca loses her family and is left with a disability that prevents her from speaking properly. She can, however, make her voice heard when she sings.
Starring: Aina the End, Hokuto Matsumura, Haru Kuroki, Suzu Hirose
Director: Shunji Iwai
The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 / Yoka de Shinda Kaiju no Juninichi no Monogatari (2020)
Dram | Sci-Fi
An actor who has lost his job due to the coronavirus buys capsule monsters online and begins to raise them.
Starring: Takumi Saitoh, Non, So Takei, Moeka Hoshi, Shinji Higuchi
Director: Shunji Iwai
Last Letter (2020)
Dram | Romance
It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's friends of the death while the daughter cannot bring herself to symbolically accept the demise of her mother. In the midst of all this an old flame messages the sister to say he is still in love with her, but is he messaging the living sister or the dead one?
Starring: Takako Matsu, Suzu Hirose, Hideaki Anno, Nana Mori, Etsushi Toyokawa, Miho Nakayama, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Masaharu Fukuyama, Hitoshi Komuro, Keiko Mizukoshi, Keiichi Suzuki, Midori Kiuchi
Director: Shunji Iwai
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle / Rippu van winkuru no hanayome (2016)
Drama | Mystery | Romance
Nanami is an apathetic, part-time junior high school teacher, whose only solace comes from connecting with others on "Planet", a new social network service. One day, a young man named Tetsuya messages her and asks to meet in person. The two begin dating and quickly become engaged. When Testuya begs Nanami to increase her guest list for the wedding, Nanami reaches out to online-friend, Amuro, a self-proclaimed jack-of-all-trades, who hires actors to play Nanami's guests on her big day. A few weeks following the ceremony, Tetsuya's mother confronts Nanami with allegations of lying and cheating. Heartbroken and despondent, Nanami checks herself into a hotel and manages to get hired there as a maid. One day, Amuro offers Nanami a housekeeping job in an old mansion, whose sole resident's infectious spirit helps Nanami to open her heart. However, Nanami soon realizes that Amuro, the mansion, and its occupant aren't what they seem – and even dreams have limits.
Starring: Haru Kuroki, Cocco, Gô Ayano, Sôkô Wada, Tomoko Mariya
Director: Shunji Iwai
The Murder Case of Hana & Alice / Hana to Alice Satsujin Jiken (2015)
Animation
Alice is a transfer student in the 3rd grade of middle school. She meets Hana (Anne Suzuki) who is her classmate and lives next door to her. Hana refuses to go to school.
Starring: Yû Aoi, Anne Suzuki, Ryô Katsuji, Haru Kuroki, Tae Kimura, Sei Hiraizumi, Shôko Aida, Ranran Suzuki, Tomohiro Kaku, Midoriko Kimura
Director: Shunji Iwai
All About Lily Chou-Chou / Riri Shushu no subete (2001)
Crime | Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan's pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.
Starring: Hayato Ichihara, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Ito, Takao Osawa, Miwako Ichikawa, Izumi Inamori, Yû Aoi, Kazusa Matsuda, Ryô Katsuji
Director: Shunji Iwai
Hana and Alice / Hana to Arisu (2004)
Comedy | Drama
When two best friends develop a crush on the same boy, they develop a plan to trick him into dating them.
Starring: Anne Suzuki, Yû Aoi, Tomohiro Kaku
Director: Shunji Iwai
Swallowtail Butterfly / Suwarôteiru (1996)
Crime | Drama
After a young girl's mother dies, she is cared for by Glico, a brassy hooker, who gives the girl the name "Ageha" (Butterfly). Ageha goes to work for a collection of oddballs who run a junkyard and salvage business.
Starring: Hiroshi Mikami, Chara, Ayumi Ito, Yôsuke Eguchi, Andy Hui Chi-On, Atsurô Watabe, Tomoko Yamaguchi
Director: Shunji Iwai
Picnic / Pikunikku (1996)
Drama | Fantasy
Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best vantage point to view the final event.
Starring: Chara, Tadanobu Asano, Koichi Hashizume, Naomasa Musaka, Fujiko Yamamoto, Shifumi Yamaguichi, Takaaki Kabuto, Kazue Itô, Keiichi Suzuki
Director: Shunji Iwai
April Story / Shigatsu monogatari (1998)
Romance
In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the first place.
Starring: Takako Matsu, Seiichi Tanabe, Kaori Fujii
Director: Shunji Iwai
Love Letter / Rabu retâ (1995)
Drama | Romance
Hiroko Watanabe's fiancé Itsuki died two years earlier in a mountain climbing accident. While looking through his high school yearbook, Hiroko in a fit of grief decides to write a letter to him using his old school address. Surprisingly she receives a reply, not from the dead Itsuki, but from a woman with the same name whom had known Hiroko's fiancé in school. A relationship develops between the two women as they continue to exchange letters and share memories of the dead Itsuki.
Starring: Miho Nakayama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Bunjaku Han, Katsuyuki Shinohara, Miki Sakai, Takashi Kashiwabara, Ken Mitsuishi
Director: Shunji Iwai
