Kirin Kiki

Grumpy Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki, pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen, he reluctantly accepts. She will soon prove to have magic in her hands. Thanks to her secret recipe, the little business flourishes.

Dwelling on his past as an acclaimed author, Ryota wastes his money on gambling and can barely pay child support. After the death of his father, his family seem to be moving on with their lives. Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting place in the life of his son.

When a series of murders targets the city’s peddlers and monks, a samurai investigates the killings with the help of a unique clue.

An ex-soldier turned detective investigates the murder of three vagrants with the help of his friends, discovering a link to a timber seller’s grudge.

When six exiles return to Edo, four are mysteriously killed. The two survivors and a samurai try to uncover the hidden motive behind the murders.

A wave of murders hits Edo during autumn targeting people linked to an old case. A samurai investigates and learns that someone he loves is involved.

When two thugs are killed, a samurai investigates the murders and begins to suspect that a hidden mastermind is influencing the magistrate.

An Edo samurai’s daily routine of getting drunk is disrupted when he is tasked with investigating a string of murders targeting nobles in Kyoto.

Twelve-year-old Rinko is looking forward to her summer vacation. But when her mother asks her to spend months helping Mrs. Hata, a recently widowed friend, Rinko is sure her summer will be ruined.

In a secret world hidden beneath the floorboards, little people called Borrowers live out of sight of humans. But when brave and tiny Arrietty is out gathering supplies, she is discovered by Shawn, a human boy, and they begin to form a friendship that blossoms into an extraordinary adventure.

Japanese maestro Hirokazu Koreeda took the Palme d’Or at Cannes for this heart-wrenching drama about a family living on the margins of society. Told with peerless humanity and compassion, Koreeda’s intimate and engrossing masterwork is a quietly devastating indictment of Japan’s class divide.

Inspired by real-life instances in the late 1960s of Japanese babies being switched at birth, this heartrending meditation on parenthood took the Jury Prize at Cannes. One of Hirokazu Koreeda’s most personal films, Like Father, Like Son is a sublime study in redemption and familial responsibility.