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- DirectorAyumu WatanabeKôzô KusubaStarsWasabi MizutaMegumi ÔharaYumi KakazuNobita finds a small plant still in a container at an abandoned area and decides to take it home. His mother asks him not to put it on their garden because it won't have space to properly grow. Therefore he asks Doraemon for help. The robot cat then uses a special plant converter from the future that will allow the plant to move freely without the need to form roots attached to the ground. Named "Kibou" (Hope), the small green creature gleefully plays with Nobita and his friends. The group is taken by surprise when they are suddenly transported to another planet governed by a society of plant beings. Doraemon and his friends then discover that due to mankind's mistreatment of nature, the green population is planning to remove all plants from Earth. They must now return home and find a way to save the world.
- DirectorShûsuke KanekoStarsRumi HanaiNoboru KanekoHayate MasaoFour samurai girls disguise themselves as j-pop idols in order to stop an invasion from a parallel universe.
- DirectorKurando MitsutakeStarsDavid SakuraiKatarina SeverenTomm VossWhen a mysterious loner and Karate master Kenji's little sister goes missing in Los Angeles, whoever stands in his way of finding her will face the wrath of a lethal KARATE KILL!
- DirectorTomoo HaraguchiStarsDaniel AguilarMatt AltHideaki AnnoScientists create amphibious supersoldiers and detonate a nuclear bomb. In the midst of the fallout, a monster arrives, leaving Japan defenseless. Mankind's only hope is an irradiated water goblin with death on its mind.
- DirectorJunji SakamotoStarsShingo KatoriTakashi SorimachiSatomi IshiharaA blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.
- DirectorShinsuke SatoStarsHaruka AyaseTôri MatsuzakaEriko HatsuneA store owner and a magazine editor were hired as a temporary employee by The Louvre for a Mona Lisa exhibition to be held in Japan. The two soon discover a hidden puzzle of the Mona Lisa that will change their lives.
- DirectorShô TsukikawaStarsYurina HirateMizuki ItagakiKeiko KitagawaHibiki is a precocious 15-year-old with a penchant for writing. She enters her novel to literary magazine Mokuren for nomination, but it does not satisfy conditions for their Rookie of the Year award, so it is tossed, until Editor Fumi Hanai discovers it.
- DirectorMika NinagawaStarsYûki AshidaKatsuki BettôTatsuya FujiwaraWhen a job seeker finds one through a job board she soon finds a whole lot more than for which she bargained. In fact, this job could be hazardous to her health and life. Is it a high risk position? No. She is a waitress at a restaurant. The chef and owner is a mysterious character and the clientele is comprised of outlaws who do not take kindly to unkindness.
- DirectorYoshitaka MoriStarsShun OguriBuzz AldrinKumiko AsôAs children, two Japanese brothers promise to one day be astronauts and meet each other in space. Years later, the older one has recently lost his job when he remembers that childhood's dream his younger brother is so close to fulfilling.
- DirectorTomoyuki TakimotoStarsTakanori IwataMizuki YamamotoTakumi SaitôThis film, "Last Winter We Parted" is based on a novel, "Thanks for your wishes, Kimi and Watarase", published in 2013. The main character, Kyosuke Yakumo, is an investigation researcher and writer. He has a fiancee' and they plan to get marry very soon. When he begins his research on a burned death murder case involving a beautiful blind woman for his next book, he finds out that the suspect in the case is a photographer..
- DirectorYoshihiro FukagawaStarsKengo KôraMaki HorikitaKeiko TodaBased on a novel with the same name, years pass and the unsolved mystery of the case of the death of a man puzzles the police detective. With more death, suicide and murder within the circle of the family and friends over the years the case remains alive, but unresolved.
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsSayuri YoshinagaKazunari NinomiyaHaru KurokiA midwife in Nagasaki is stunned when she is suddenly visited by her son, whom she thought had died when an atomic bomb fell on the city.
- DirectorMasato HaradaStarsKoji YakushoKaho MinamiAoi MiyazakiBased on an autobiographical novel by Inoue Yasushi, the film chronicles the passage of fifteen years within a family struggling with abandonment, resentment and decline with old age. As the world turns, a son who has issues with his mother has to deal with his own children and role as a father as well.
- DirectorRyô TanakaStarsMasami NagasawaFumiyo KohinataMasahiro HigashideDako, Boku-chan, and Richard commit their next con on Malta Island.
- DirectorHisashi KimuraStarsFuka KoshibaKazuma KawamuraMario KurobaPeople who watch a cursed video suddenly die. These deaths take place all over Japan. Ayaka Ichijo is an extremely smart graduate student with an IQ of 200. Her younger sister happens to watch the cursed video for fun.
- DirectorSatoshi IsakaStarsNaohito FujikiYukie NakamaRyûdô UzakiKidnapping and deceit abound in this thriller. From romance to mild-action, this movie has it all.
- DirectorKazuaki UeStarsMao InoueJonathan SherrRyôko KuninakaSet in the Tokyo area, an aspiring Japanese manga writer has a relationship with an American. They live together and they are happy but there is a problem with the relationship. The heroine must do something to heal the rift.
- DirectorIzuru NarushimaStarsRyôko FujinoMizuki ItagakiAnna IshiiA group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death; if he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
- DirectorKazuhito NakaeStarsHidetoshi NishijimaSeiyô UchinoKôji YamamotoShiro Kakei lives with his boyfriend Kenji Yabuki. Shiro works as an attorney and cooks well. He is meticulous and also thrifty. Kenji is a hairdresser with a good personality.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsMinami HamabeTakumi KitamuraEiji AkasoThe love affairs of four schoolkids: a romantic, a pragmatist, an airhead and a lothario.
- DirectorTakeshi KobayashiStarsJin AkanishiKie KitanoKengo KôraFour boys have their friendship and musical talents tested in the ever changing worlds of the music industry and real life in 1990s Japan.
- DirectorTôya SatôStarsTatsuya FujiwaraSôta FukushiHirooki GotoKaiji experiences the biggest adventure of his life. He encounters four different games: "Babel no Tou", "Saigo no Shinpan", "Dream Jump", and "Gold Janken".
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsRyunosuke KamikiKasumi ArimuraYukiya KitamuraShinichiro is lonely for two reasons. He lost his family in an accident when he was younger. He also has an unusual and morbid ability to see through and beyond the corporal bodies of those who are about to die. His life looks to be on the upswing when he meets the cute Aoi at a shop one day. They are well on the way to happiness together when the man begins seeing through the woman.
- DirectorAkira NagaiStarsSatoshi TsumabukiKeiko KitagawaEtsushi ToyokawaAfter taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a judge at the world's biggest advertising competition in Los Angeles.
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsIsao HashizumeKazuko YoshiyukiMasahiko NishimuraNot everyone values the housewife enough. When the local friendly neighbourhood burglar hits their house, the husband and wife descend into a quarrel that ends up with the woman departing the house for her hometown. A series of household mishaps, missteps and mistakes follow. Will she and her pet bird return or is this the end of a twenty-year-old marriage? Whatever the case, the household has already ordered delivery eel and rice for dinner.
- DirectorShinji HiguchiStarsJun MatsumotoDaisuke MiyagawaKippei ShînaA princess, along with a general and two commoners evade pursuit of an enemy and his samurai cohorts. The princess and general are caught but are rescued and then destroy the enemy's fort.
- DirectorJun'ichi MoriStarsRyô KaseMasaki OkadaFumiyo KohinataA haunting mystery about a Japanese family where a current series of crime paves the way to unraveling an unexpected family truth.
- DirectorKankurô KudôStarsTomoya NagaseShichinosuke NakamuraSadao AbeYaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.
- DirectorHayato KawaiStarsShô HiranoKanna HashimotoHayato SanoA high school girl and boy are part of the student council at a pricey school. They have a crush on one another, but have kept it under wraps so far. With awareness and an inkling of what the other one feels for each the challenge becomes to make the opposite side profess his or her love first.
- DirectorHiroki KazamaStarsEiji AkasoKeita MachidaKôdai AsakaThis heartwarming romantic film depicts a gay couple and one has a magical power that enables him to read the minds of those he touches. Adachi is a dull office worker who turned 30 as a virgin and has obtained the "magic". Kurosawa is Adachi's lover at work and is popular and successful. They are secretly lovers. One day, Adachi is offered a job transfer. Adachi is happy to have the chance to do the work he wants, but his new job place is in Nagasaki, 1,200 km away. Through difficulties and challenges, their long-distance relationship leads them to rethink about their relationship and their future. Where will the magic lead them?
- DirectorKatsuyuki MotohiroStarsYûsuke SantamariaManami KonishiTortoise MatsumotoA dramedy about the relationship between an aspiring comic and his stubborn noodlemaker father.
- DirectorHiroaki MatsuyamaStarsShun OguriKô ShibasakiTakayuki YamadaThis adaptation to a popular manga is the story of a contemporary teenager travelling back in time to the Sengoku period of the sixteenth century. There he meets with the historical figure Oda Nobunaga who instills in him the mission to deliver peace to Japan. Being aware that Oda may soon die, and the plot that accompanies the occurrence, the protagonist debates altering the outcome of what may yet come to be.
- DirectorKei IshikawaStarsMayu MatsuokaTôri MatsuzakaWin MorisakiFour pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is a former child prodigy who stopped playing when her mother died. One is a Julliard student. One works at a music store. One is a new face and yet comes recommended.
- DirectorMasato HaradaStarsYô ÔizumiErika TodaHikari MitsushimaThe lives of women saved by the historical Tokei-ji Buddhist Temple.
- DirectorKazuya ShiraishiStarsSadao AbeShimako IwaiTakanori IwataMasaya Kakei is a university student, but he attends a school that's not his ideal school. His days are generally gloomy. One day, he receives a letter from serial killer Yamato Haimura, who was convicted for eight murders and received the death penalty. Back when Yamato was committing his murders, he ran a bakery store. At that time, Masaya was a middle school student and a customer at his bakery store. According to the letter, Yamato confessed to committing the murders, but he insists that he did not commit the last murder. Masaya begins to investigate the last murder case involving Yamato.
- DirectorTakeshi FurusawaStarsKeiko KitagawaKyôko FukadaKengo KôraHarumi Hagiwara lands in the hospital after being involved in an accident. She hits it off with her nurse, Reiko Nishimura, and the two decide to move in together after she's discharged. However, Harumi begins to witness a series of mysterious events soon after noticing Reiko's strange behavior. Additionally, she fears for her own safety when Reiko starts referring to herself as 'Mari' as if she's become an entirely different person. Before long, the situation develops into a case of murder.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsShidô NakamuraRenji IshibashiNaoto TakenakaAbout the adventures of Rantaro and other ninja apprentices at an elite ninjutsu academy.
- DirectorFuminori KanekoStarsKô ShibasakiKazunari NinomiyaHiroshi TamakiIn an alternate history of the Edo period, disease greatly reduces the male population. Women rise to positions of authority, while men are prized for their ability to provide children. At the castle, Lady Shogun keeps a harem of men.
- DirectorEiichirô HasumiStarsMasahiro HigashideMackenyuAoi MorikawaThe Hiyama brothers work for a racing team. Naozumi's reckless driving causes friction with his brother Atsuhiro. An amnesiac man named Endo suddenly believes he is Naozumi, leading to more friction.
- DirectorHideyuki HirayamaStarsYôsuke KubozukaKumiko AsôTetta Sugimoto37,000 Peasants perished in the Shimbara Revolt: among them, the leader of that uprising, Shiro Amakusa. Amakusa is resurrected from hell bent on revenging the death of his fellow comrades by over throwing the Shoganate. Shiro resurrects an army of living dead swordsmen by "Makai Tensho" (Demonic transmigration). Only the Legendary Samurai Jubei Yagyu, stands in his way!
- DirectorTatsushi ÔmoriStarsEita NagayamaRyûhei MatsudaTasuku EmotoIn the fictional Tokyo suburb of Mahoro, Tada Keisuke works as a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. One day in January, former classmate Gyoten Haruhiko appears unannounced. Back in their schooldays Haruhiko was a quiet person who rarely talked. Now, Haruhiko is talkative. Both men are over 30 years old and divorced. Without giving an explanation, Haruhiko suddenly asks to spend the night at Keisuke's home. Keisuke turns down Haruhiko, but Haruhiko is persistent and finally Keisuke allows him to sleep over for one night. What Keisuke is unaware of is that Haruhiko plans to stay for more than one night. Eventually, Keisuke accepts Haruhiko as his assistant and they become involved in various cases involving an assortment of people from different walks of life.
- DirectorNobuo MizutaStarsSadao AbeMao InoueYutaka TakenouchiWhy merely say 'sorry' when you could truly make amends by hiring the expert to do the right thing? The Apology King, one Mr. Kuroshima, is advertising his service to an audience at a theatre. You can use him to apologize for your past mistakes. What proceeds is six of the specialist's more prominent cases and how they end up leading into one prominent theme.
- DirectorYasuo BabaStarsHiroshi AbeRyôko HirosueHiroko YakushimaruWhen a brilliant researcher accidentally turns an ordinary washing machine into a time-machine, the Japanese government convinces her to travel back to 1990 and prevent the announcement of landmark fiscal policy that triggered the nation's economic demise. But the mission hits a snag when the researcher disappears, forcing the government to send her estranged daughter, Mayumi - a debt-ridden bar hostess and the only other person the time machine will accept - back in time to find out what happened. Mayumi arrives at the peak of Japan's "bubble" economy and finds a society obsessed with wealth and profligate spending. With her warnings of impending doom falling on deaf ears, Mayumi's frustrated efforts to find her mother suggest some kind of conspiracy at work at the highest levels of government. Her own future and that of Japan's economy itself begins to hinge on her ability to recruit the help of one man: the same finance bureaucrat who sent her through time. The problem is, he's seventeen years younger and completely unreliable.
- DirectorKazuya ShiraishiStarsGô AyanoYoung DaisHaruna YabukiIn this story of a good cop going rogue, we travel with Yoichi Moroboshi from his university student days to his becoming an ambitious detective on the beat who is using his brawn rather than brain to get what he wants and to where he wants to go. The lines between good and illegitimate are blurred as the detective gets closer to his assignments.
- DirectorKichitarô NegishiStarsTakako MatsuTadanobu AsanoShigeru MuroiThis enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him.
- DirectorJirô ShônoStarsTakayuki YamadaTetsuji TamayamaErika SawajiriHow have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime that he had committed to save his brother. But the crime's aftereffect extends to Naoki, and, branded as a "murderer's brother," Naoki is deprived of his love, career and dream. His desperate situation gradually changes when he finds true love with Yumiko, who always stands by him. To protect the love that he has finally found, Naoki begins writing a letter to Takeshi - The touching story of a man who was powerless against his irreversible fate, but still tried to overcome it in the quest for his dream.
- DirectorHiroshi NishitaniStarsMasaharu FukuyamaKô ShibasakiKazuki KitamuraA man suspected of murdering a young girl is released due to a lack of evidence. He begins taunting his victim's family but is soon found murdered. However, that young girl might not have been his only victim.
- DirectorSeiji ChibaStarsRina TakedaMickey KogaMasanori MimotoRina Takeda plays the role of a female ninja named Kisaragi who attempts to rescue a group of women being held captive to become toys for men. The film is set sometime in the Sengoku period, during a time of fierce fighting between the Koga and Iga ninja clans.
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsGôki MaedaAiri MatsuyamaRin AsukaEarly summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that Rena, Mion and the others that Keiichi trusted may be deeply involved in successive murders that occur every summer, the situation around Keiichi gradually starts to turn. As if the girls' characters had completely changed, a sewing needle is found in his food, he is chased by mysterious men, and is involved in an accident which could have killed him. He could no longer trust anyone, and then one mystery leads to another, bringing out a shockingly bloody ending.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsKôji IshizakaNanako MatsushimaKikunosuke OnoeA web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawa's remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret.
- DirectorTakashi MinamotoStarsHitomi KurokiJun'ichi OkadaJun MatsumotoToru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to date older women. Koji is a playboy with several women, young and older, whereas Toru is a romantic with his heart set on on certain lady.
- DirectorIsao YukisadaStarsErika SawajiriYûsuke IseyaYûko TakeuchiKae Horii (Erika Sawajiri) moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a inconspicuous mirror. In that compartment, Kae finds a notebook, that turns out to be a diary belonging to the previous tenant. Later that evening Kae starts to read the diary. The writer of the diary is Ibuki Mano (Yuko Takeuchi), a young lady about to embark on her first year as an elementary school teacher. Ibuki is also in love with a man named Takashi, who may or may not hold similar feelings for Ibuki. The diary immediately resonates with Kae, as she plans to become an elementary school teacher herself. Ibuki's experiences also works as an inspirational instructional guide for Kae's own personal life. Kae is also in love with an aloof illustrator/artist (Yusuke Iseya), who may or may not hold similar feelings for Kae.
- DirectorTakanori TsujimotoStarsMickey KogaYoshiyuki YamaguchiMasanori MimotoToramaru, lord of integrated martial arts Mugen-ga-ryu, ends his training journey and visits his master, Gensai. "You have to duel with every martial arts master and win, in order to obtain their esoteric books of martial secrets." Receiving such an order from Gensai, Toramaru makes a pilgrimage around Japan and spends a year fighting. Through his fights with genuine masters in every martial arts such as kung-fu, stick fighting, sword fighting, and nunchaku, this film passionately tells what "Budo" is and what Bushido is. Full of fierce and diverse action! The original fighting movie is finally born here!
- DirectorJoe MaStarsMiki MizunoDylan KuoEmme WongA ruthless pack of thugs force mild-mannered, caught-in-the-middle-of-something-bigger Nami to murder her fiance's sister, decidedly ruining her pending marriage and landing the poor girl in the most brutal women's prison ever seen. Inside the hellblocks, she decides to stop being a victim at all costs, and ends up becoming stronger and even more vicious than the craziest inmates in the pen. She eventually escapes in a most unusual way, gets valuable fight training from a mysterious mountain man and returns to the streets in order to make the thugs who ruined her life pay. By this time, Nami prefers to go by the name of Sasori (translation: Scorpion).
- DirectorHajime HashimotoStarsYô ÔizumiRyûhei MatsudaKoyukiIn the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his favorite bar. There he receives a phone call from a woman who identifies herself as Kyoko Kondo. The woman asks the detective to complete a simple task. The detective, having an excellent sense for danger, thinks the work is easy and accepts the case. The next day he begins the investigation.
- DirectorShô TsukikawaStarsRiko FukumotoMinami HamabeRina KawaeiAyuha Samaru is a high school student. She is honest and works hard at everything, no matter what. One day, she has trouble at a gyudon restaurant due to money. A man at the restaurant, Yoshitaka Hiromitsu, helps her out. The next day, she finds that Yoshitaka has come to her school as a substitute teacher for her ill homeroom teacher. Ayuha now believes that Yoshitaka is her fate in love. She keeps expressing her feelings to him.
- DirectorYûdai YamaguchiStarsTakahiroHiroomi TosakaTakumi SaitôThe Amamiya Brothers, Masaki (Takahiro) and Hiroto (Hiroomi Tosaka), keep looking for their older brother Takeru (Takumi Saito) who disappeared one year ago. The three Amamiya brothers lost their parents when they were young. Since then, they relied only on each other. On the anniversary of their parents' death, Masaki and Hiroto expect Takeru to appear. Instead, they meet a person who has a clue on Takeru's whereabouts
- DirectorShigemichi SugitaStarsKoji YakushoKôichi SatôNanami SakurabaAn army of loyal samurai plot to revenge their unjustly executed lord.
- DirectorKenji UchidaStarsYô ÔizumiKuranosuke SasakiMasato SakaiA middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura, disappears. Then, a hired private detective appears and ask Jinno's help to find Kimura.
- DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiStarsHiroshi AbeKazuyuki AijimaBengalDisaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing as a god. When a series of bizarre incidents occur, Naoko is cornered with a genius physicist (Hiroshi Abe) and Detective Yabe (Katsuhisa Namase). Do deities actually exist, or are they charlatans?
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsKôkiRiku HagiwaraKeiko HoriuchiIn a so-called "spirit video", Kanon (Kôki) is astonished to see a high-school girl who looks exactly like her.
- DirectorTaku ShinjôStarsRyôhei AbeTôru EmoriKen'ichi EndôYoung Japanese pilots are trained to sink Allied warships by flying into them.
- DirectorTakahisa ZezeStarsKôichi SatôGô AyanoNana Eikura1989 is 64 Shouwa year in Japanese calendar, thus unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in Prefectural Police Department.
- DirectorHisashi KimuraStarsKentarô SakaguchiMei NaganoRio UchidaOn-call substitute doctor Shugo finds himself faced with a terrifying criminal in a clown mask. The assailant demands that Shugo treat injured high school student Hitomi. The perpetrator sets siege to the building.
- DirectorKôichi SakamotoStarsYuria HagaSanae HitomiRina KoikeFour girls take part in an underground fighting event.
- DirectorHiroshi NishitaniStarsYûji OdaYûki AmamiErika TodaA young Japanese woman goes missing in Rome during the Christmas season.
- DirectorEiichirô HasumiStarsEita NagayamaKippei ShînaKyôko FukadaWith crime rising, the police force created the motorcycle unit , 'The Wild 7', a group of ex criminals. Together, the Wild 7 are tasked with taking out the criminals that the police cannot touch.
- DirectorAkihiko ShiotaStarsKeiko KitagawaRyô NishikidoJun FubukiTsukasa got into a severe car accident when she was a high school student. She still suffers from the effects of that accident, with memory impairment and needing to use a wheelchair. Tsukasa falls in love with taxi driver Masaki. Even though they have difficulties, they try to make a happy family together, but they encounter another serious situation.
- DirectorKôichi SakamotoWilliam WincklerStarsShôta MinamiSusumu KurobeKôji MoritsuguUltraman and his comrades from M-78 (including a new Ultraman, Zero, the son of Ultra Seven) join forces with other allies to fight a massive army of giant monsters led by the evil Ultraman Belial.
- DirectorTomoyuki TakimotoStarsTadanobu AsanoKumiko AsôToyotaka HanazawaMovie 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.
- DirectorTetsuo ShinoharaStarsYûko TakeuchiTetsuji TamayamaKarinaKENTA (Tetsuji Tamayama), a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named YAMAKI (Yoshio Harada). He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books. Yamaki appears once again, and tells him that this is Heaven's Book Service and Kenta is going to start working a short-term part-time job here. In addition to selling books, this bookstore, owned by Yamaki, provides a service of reading aloud to customers. Although he is unsure of his new surroundings, Kenta follows their actions and starts to work in his new part-time job.
- DirectorTsutomu HanabusaStarsKeita AraiAya AsahinaYuya HirataA college student spends his year at the seaside town of Izu, having fun on the beach with his school friends.
- DirectorMasayuki SuzukiStarsHaruka AyaseShin'ichi TsutsumiHiroshi TamakiA trio of Tokyo-based auditors set out to review the accounts of the city of Osaka and its affiliated agencies. The audit is proceeding well the trio head out for lunch one day. When one of them notices that he has forgotten his mobile telephone he returns to the offices they just came from to retrieve it. The office is empty, there are neither any employees nor any furniture. What is going on?
- DirectorKeishi OtomoStarsRyunosuke KamikiKasumi ArimuraKaya Kiyohara17-year-old Kiriyama Rei is a promising professional shogi player. His family died in an accident when he was young, and he was adopted by his father's friend Koda, a professional shogi player, and started to be trained to play shogi with his foster brother and sister. He had to leave his foster family after conflicts with them, trying to live independently without family, friends or anyone care about him. Things started to change when he met the Kawamoto sisters, a family who decided to take care of him and protect him as one of their own. Meanwhile, Rei becomes acquaintances to many different kinds of professional shogi players as he plays with them, and his bond with those players starts to change his attitude toward shogi.
- DirectorHiroshi NishitaniStarsAya UetoTakumi SaitôAyumi ItoDivorcee Sasamoto Sawa lives quietly in a small town when her former love Kitano Yuichiro visits to give a lecture. Reuniting, their romance is rekindled.
- DirectorKeisuke YoshidaStarsKento NakajimaAlice HiroseTomohiro IchikawaYuugo, who grew up in the city, finds himself in an unfamiliar environment at Ooejo Agricultural High School, surrounded by nature and animals. Yuugo is also the only one who doesn't know what type of career he wants to pursue. He goes through struggles everyday, but he begins to grow as a person.
- DirectorEriko KitagawaStarsMiho NakayamaOsamu MukaiMirei KiritaniFreelance writer Aoi Teshigahara lives in Paris, France; photographer Sen Yagami came to Paris at his younger sister Suzume's insistence. Over the next three days, Aoi Teshigahara and Sen Yagami fall in love. Meanwhile, Suzume finally meets Kango, with whom she has been in a long-distance relationship for some time.
- DirectorYasuo FuruhataStarsSakura AndôTasuku EmotoFumino KimuraThree childhood friends reunite over a murder case.
- DirectorEiichirô HasumiStarsHideaki ItôAi KatôKen KaitôDaisuke Senzaki has been selected to go through training to become a rescue diver within the Japan Coast Guard Special Rescue Team. At the side of the grueling training he finds love in the local girl Kanna.
- DirectorRyôichi KimizukaStarsKôichi SatôMirai ShidaRyûhei MatsudaRyoichi Kimizuka's riveting exploration of the Japanese media's feeding frenzy focuses on a15-year-old girl forced into police protection to escape from the journalistic hordes after her brother is arrested for murder. It plays out like a propulsive edge-of-your-seat thriller that's sure to leave you breathless.
- DirectorHiroyuki NakanoStarsShun OguriYuki ShibamotoKei TanakaTAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves, only to find a series of harrowing adventures along the way which lead him back to where he came from, and then disinheriting his past to become the bandit TAJOMARU.
- DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiStarsMiki NakataniHiroshi AbeMaki CarouselDespite all signs pointing toward potential heartbreak, a woman and man begin a romance.
- DirectorIsao YukisadaStarsSatoshi TsumabukiYûko TakeuchiSôsuke TakaokaEarly 20th century Japan. Kiyoaki Matsugae, a young aristocrat falls in love with a girl he grew up with; Satoko Ayakura, who is to be married to a prince of the royal family.
- DirectorYôjirô TakitaStarsYasunari TakeshimaShôta SometaniJun'ichi OkadaA chronicle of the life of Yasui Santetsu, a 17th century master of go who turned his attention to astronomy and created a new calendar for Japan.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsTetsushi TanakaYûna NatsuoJun MurakamiLow-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD.
- DirectorSatoshi MikiStarsKazuya KamenashiYuki UchidaRyô KaseThe world is full of me.
- DirectorTakahisa ZezeStarsSatoshi TsumabukiRei DanRyôko KuninakaTsuyoshi Matsuoka, a doctor at a Tokyo hospital, misdiagnoses a patient's disease as a common cold. But after the patient's sudden death, he realizes that it's very serious disease, which can make a population extinct, so he struggles to find out the cause of the disease with doctor Eiko Kobayashi.
- DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiStarsErika TodaRyô KaseAtsushi Itô
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsTôma IkutaEita NagayamaTsubasa HondaA young undercover cop tries to get back with his former love, while unraveling the mystery behind the head of the police force. Meanwhile he has to protect the boss' daughter.
- DirectorHiroshi ShinagawaStarsHiroki NarimiyaHiro MizushimaYuika MotokariyaAfter dropping out of private school, Hiroshi enrolls at a public school and falls in with a pack of unruly thugs. He loves the reckless partying, smoking and boozing - but can he hang when a rivalry with a biker gang leads to countless bloody brawls?
- DirectorAtsushi KaneshigeStarsTôri MatsuzakaMasaki SudaRyûsei YokohamaAgainst the protestation of his strict father, Jin leaves home to pursue his dream of becoming a musician. Meanwhile, his little brother Hide accepts his father's wishes and aims to become a dentist. But none of them can escape the attraction of music. When Jin's music career hits a snag, he discovers that it is his brother, Hide, and his fellow dental students who exhibit a great natural talent for music, and he pins his hopes on them. But Hide wants to become a dentist...and still sing while fear of his draconian father looms large. So they strike out on a bold plan? To make their CD debut without ever showing their faces to the public.
- DirectorYoshihiro FukagawaStarsYôsuke EguchiYû AoiUrara AwataA film about mouthwatering desserts and the journey of a cake-maker's daughter from Kagoshima to Tokyo, as she finds herself in the company of a legendary former patissier.
- DirectorTakuji KitamuraStarsYôsuke AsariTerutaka HasegawaHayato IchiharaYosuke, a typical slacker kid dozing his way through school, showing nothing in the way of ambition as he quietly mulls over the death of a close friend the year before. He is clever enough and full of smart comments but just doesn't seem to see the point of much in life. That changes when he meets Eri by chance, late one night. She is a beautiful young girl, herself nursing a tragic loss, and for Yosuke it is love at first sight. So what to do when a giant falls from the sky, determined to do battle with Eri (the young girl armed with a brace of hidden knives, as this is obviously a regular occurrence)? Yosuke finds his purpose-he must help the girl he loves, never mind the fact that she is far stronger and better equipped for this battle than he.
- DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiStarsRyôko ShinoharaHidetoshi NishijimaKentarô SakaguchiSeparated mother Kaoruko awaits the graduation of their daughter for the divorce proceedings to begin and subsequently be finalized. Tragedy strikes when the daughter will never graduate. She is comatose and brain dead due to an accident.
- DirectorTakahisa ZezeStarsTakeru SatohHiroshi AbeMitsuko BaishôNine years after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, two murder cases take place in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. The two victims are assumed to have been murdered by the same person. Both of the victims were tied all over their body and starved to death. Yasuhisa Tone emerges as a suspect in the murders. Yasuhisa was just recently released from prison. In his past, he committed arson and injured someone to protect his acquaintance. Detective Seiichiro Tomashino discovers a common link between the two victims and chases after Yasuhisa.
- DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiStarsYukie NakamaHiroshi AbeYûta HiraokaUeda and Naoko accept to hear a proposal from a young man (Yuta Hiraoka) living in Fumo-mura village. The proposal is to bring back his childhood friend, Misako (Maki Horikita), who was taken away by a psychic, Hakogami Sawako (Nagisa Katahira), 10 years ago. Upon request, the pair head for Hakogami-jima where Hakogami lives. They succeed in bringing Misako back, however, it incurs the wrath of Hakogami and they are sucked into a situation that takes the pretense of a paranormal phenomenon. Naoko manages to see through the trick, and Sawako kills herself as a result. The incident reveals Sawako's sorrowful past as she was one of its victims as well.
- DirectorJunji SakamotoStarsAyako FujitaniMayu HaradaShion Iida20 years ago, an elementary school student falls on an island in the northern tip of Hokkaido. A teacher and 6 students makes contact through songs. What happened to the student who fell? The teacher returns 20 years later to meet with her former students.
- DirectorNorihiro KoizumiStarsYû AoiKyôka SuzukiYûko TakeuchiA story of six women from three different generations, each living their own journeys in their respective periods, spanning decades of dramatic changes in Japan from the 1930s to the present.
- DirectorShô TsukikawaStarsTakumi KitamuraMei NaganoKyoko HasegawaTakuya Okada is a high school student. He visits his classmate Mamizu Watarase in the hospital. Mamizu suffers from the mysterious ailment "Luminescence disease." People who have the disease show a faint sparkle under the moonlight and the sparkle gets brighter as their death gets closer. Mamizu is not allowed out of the hospital and she will not live long enough to become an adult. Takuya offers to help her carry out her wishes before she passes away. He also tells her how he feels about her, but Mamizu's death is approaching.
- DirectorHayato KawaiStarsTao TsuchiyaRyôta KatayoseYûdai ChibaShe is a high school girl, but not any school girl. She is cute, attractive and popular. Many boys and men want her and go to great lengths to grab her. They will do whatever it takes. One of those things, however, is going through her half-brother. It is not just that the brother is protective. It is that he too is in love.