River / Ribâ, nagarenaide yo (2023)
Comedy | Sci-Fi
On a calm winter's day, a mountain inn becomes trapped in a time loop
Starring: Riko Fujitani, Yûki Torigoe, Manami Honjô, Yoshimasa Kondô, Saori, Shiori Kubo
Director: Junta Yamaguchi
Pumpkin Girl / Misoji onna wa romanchikku na yume o miru ka? (2018)
Comedy | Crime
Nana is doing some soul searching as she is about to reach the age of Thirty. Her job is the same old, same old and there is not a man in her life. Returning to her apartment one evening, she is confronted by a hand over her mouth and three bestial masked robbers. Instead of giving up or doing herself in she does fate one better and joins the gang.
Starring: Rina Takeda, Yûki Kubota, Yuki Sasô, Michi Yamamura, Orie Akiyoshi, Haruka, Yoshimasa Kondô, Miki Sakai
Director: Kentarô Yamagishi
Murder on D Street / D zaka no satsujin jiken (2015)
Mystery
An owner of a soba noodle shop is found dead at the D. Hill. The police concluded the death was an apparent suicide. However, a brilliant but eccentric private detective Kogoro Akechi and his wife Fumiyo sees that it is a murder case, not a suicide, and start their own investigation. They notice something weird is going on in the secondhand bookshop and gradually, hideous love-hate relationships and immeasurable passion and lust surrounding the wife of the bookshop is revealed. What is the truth of the murder case? This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ranpo Edogawa's death and his masterpiece is adapted to the screen for the first time in 16 years.
Starring: Ryûnosuke Kawai, Hôka Kinoshita, Yoshimasa Kondô, Kôta Kusano, Takashi Nishina, Eiko Ohtani, Shoko
Director: Shoji Kubota
Pale Moon / Kami no tsuki (2014)
Drama
A mellow drama following the moral decline of a housewife turned bank employee who embezzles a fortune from her customers and indulges in an affair with a younger man. Set in 1994, shortly after the burst of Japan's economic bubble.
Starring: Rie Miyazawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Yûko Ohshima, Seiichi Tanabe, Satomi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Kondô, Renji Ishibashi
Director: Daihachi Yoshida
Unforgiven / Yurusarezaru mono (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Set in Hokkaido, Japan in the 1880's. Jubei Kamata (Ken Watanabe), who is on the side of the Edo shogunate government, kills many people. His name is infamous in Kyoto. When the battle at Goryoukaku is about to be finished, Jubei disappears. 10 years later, Jubei lives with his kid in relative peace. He is barely able to make a living. Protecting his dead wife's grave, Jubei has decided to never pick up a sword again, but due to poverty he has no choice but to pick the sword again. Jubei becomes a bounty hunter.
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kôichi Satô, Akira Emoto, Yûya Yagira, Shiori Kutsuna, Eiko Koike, Jun Kunimura, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Takahiro Miura, Ken'ichi Takitô, Yoshimasa Kondô
Director: Sang-il Lee
