Hula Girls / Hura gâru (2006)
Comedy | Drama
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
Starring: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yû Aoi, Shizuyo Yamasaki, Ittoku Kishibe, Sumiko Fuji
Director: Sang-il Lee
Maiko wa redî (2014)
Comedy | Musical
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a geisha, like her now-deceased mother. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent intrigues a linguistics professor, who undertakes to coach her.
Starring: Mone Kamishiraishi, Hiroki Hasegawa, Sumiko Fuji, Eri Watanabe
Director: Masayuki Suo
Summer Wars / Samâ uôzu (2009)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi
Timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by his secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family's Nagano home for a summer job. Turns out Kenji discovers his "summer job" is to pretend to be Natsuki's fiance, for the celebration of Natsuki's spunky grandmother's 90th birthday. There, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can't resist solving it. As it turns out, his solution creates chaos within the virtual world of OZ, translating into anarchy in real-life.
Starring: Nanami Sakuraba, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Ayumu Saitô, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji, Riisa Naka
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
