Yu Aoi

Arisugawa Tetsuko has just moved to a new house with her recently divorced mother. She becomes a transfer student at a school where a strange rumor lingers among the students. When she starts to investigate into it, she ends meeting Hana Arai, her young strange neighbor who rarely leaves the house.

Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku (Issey Takahashi, Kill Bill) senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there, and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko (Japan Society’s 2021 Honoree Yû Aoi) receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He warns her about Yusaku’s seditious ways and reveals that a woman her husband brought back from his trip has died. Satoko confronts Yusaku, but when she discovers his true intentions, she is torn between loyalty to her husband, the life they have built, and the country they call home.

Go on a springtime journey through fields of wild flowers and perfectly manicured gardens of gorgeous roses set to calming and euphoric music.

Tetsuo is keeping a secret from his wife, Sonoko. The secret? He makes sex dolls. Meanwhile, his relationship with Sonoko becomes sexless.

Unable to let go of an unhealthy past relationship, a young woman settles for a similarly unsuitable but devoted partner.

In this animated high-speed thrill, a daredevil driver and his secret love face off in the most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe.

Set during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan Killing is the story of a masterless samurai or ronin named Ikematsu Sosuke. As the prevalent peace and tranquility are sure to be replaced by war and conflict across the land the swordsman feels restlessness creep upon him.

Master of suspense Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s eerie tale follows four grieving schoolgirls, called upon to identify the killer of their murdered playmate.

Sparks fly when an inexperienced young salesman meets a woman through work. But the couple faces a bumpy road ahead in this drama based on a manga.

[With ENG Subtitles] Kyomeikan Private High School faces low student performance and minimal enrollment. Ryosuke Narumi, a young corporate employee with no educational experience, is unexpectedly assigned as principal. Confronted by skeptical teachers, can he transform the school?

The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou's dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.

Mankind is dying. Only one man can do anything about it, Space Captain Harlock, but the Gaia Coalition will stop at nothing to end him.

A fourth grader, amazed by the penguins who have suddenly come to his village, decides to see why they’ve come and discovers a local’s secret powers.

In 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father's affair, causing their happy facades and bottled-up emotions to slowly unravel.

In this poignant story about love and loss, two college students meet and fall for each other while working on a short film project.

A vampire hiding in plain sight disguised as a devoted schoolteacher feeds on the blood of suicidal women to stay alive another day.

After an art student is seduced by a professor who is 20 years his senior, he falls into a head-spinning, unconventional romantic adventure.

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.