Masatoshi Nagase

A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, the residents of a Tokyo apartment block.

On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean remains on a solid state of matter as the ...

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she’s hiding a troubling ...

A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many ...

Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has ...

Three siblings share a home with their parents living a happy life. The oldest one is good-looking guy, which is something of a contrast from his ...

In the time after Naomi’s parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular actor Morinori Tokito who lives in the same ...

Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.

Ryoko Matsumura is a popular writer in her 50’s. She also knows that she has Alzheimer’s. Ryoko Matsumura begins to teach at a university. ...

Tsuchiya Anna blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics ...

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of ...

Three short films with the theme of death in common.

Mike Yokohama is a private investigator who comes across a job where he must retrieve a girl from a get away.

Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, ...

Maeda decides to have an operation to cure his color-blindness, but he becomes afraid that after the operation, his world is not going to be the same.

This small scale character drama follows two young women and a sex date. What follows is a classic love triangle.

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken ...

When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the ...

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who’s stolen a suitcase of ...

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he ...

A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love story inspired by a Jim Jarmusch masterpiece, set ...