An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...

A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.

Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and...

Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents...

Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He...

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...

“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh....

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...

The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

A civic music group, created by Tsukasa Nitta, a high school teacher in Koriyama City, and Akiko Watanabe, the daughter of a record shop and teacher...

Un banal transport de fonds vire au drame lorsque Russell et Travis, deux convoyeurs de fonds, tombent dans une embuscade tendue par des criminels...

Une nouvelle ère voit le jour. Une équipe visite le lieu le plus risqué sur terre, une île sur laquelle vivent des...

Lorsque tous les enfants d’une même classe, à l’exception d’un, disparaissent mystérieusement la même...

Sur l'île accidentée de Berk, où Vikings et dragons se vouent une haine viscérale depuis des générations,...

Cela fait près de trente ans que le Virus de la Fureur s’est échappé d’un laboratoire d’armement biologique....

Alors que les troupes du roi Shang s’apprêtent à fondre sur les Terres de l’Ouest dont il est désormais le seigneur,...

Après la catastrophe, bien que les âmes de Nezha et d'Aobing aient été sauvées, leurs corps allaient être...

Dans le contexte vibrant d’un monde rétro-futuriste inspiré des années 60, le film présente la première...