Ryo Kase

From MAMORU OSHII, the world-acclaimed director of Ghost in the Shell comes an award-winning story of an exciting but endless war with heroes too young to understand the meaning of their battles. A group of eternally young fighter pilots known as Kildren experience the sudden loss of innocence as they battle the enemy in astonishing dogfights above the clouds. With his only childhood memory...

During a police crackdown on the yakuza underworld, an anti-gang detective plots a war between the crime families to ensure their mutual destruction.

Explore the lively city where anything is possible, which sets the unusual and imaginative tone for three short films from visionary directors.

An eccentric genius and a demoted special forces officer team up in Tokyo’s Unidentified Crimes Unit to tackle criminals with supernatural abilities.

Like Someone in Love, named after Ella Fitzgerald’s jazz standard, is a droll, elegant and playful film preoccupied with identities mistaken and assumed, laced with references to the films of Yasujirō Ozu. Akiko, a pretty and slightly distant sociology student works nights as a high-class escort. Instead of studying for her exams and meeting her grandmother, she reluctantly goes to the house of her latest client, the retired sociology professor Takashi. Next morning, she allows him to give her a ride to university where they cross paths with her volatile boyfriend, Noriaki who assumes that the kind old man is Akiko's grandfather. An odd role-playing routine begins, until the hoax is discovered.

The Japanese underworld’s rival clans rise through the ranks of power in the stock market, but their betrayals and blood vengeance are unending.

In this tale of unbreakable family bonds, a man looks after his aging mother, now ill with dementia. As her memory slips, the two bond over love and laughter, as one mom bravely takes on illness with the son she'll soon forget.

Based on documents and accounts from the few Japanese survivors at the battle of Iwo Jima, we see the fighting from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers. The Japanese had to defend this barren Pacific island against insurmountable odds with no air support or reinforcements.

From the prolific writer-director of the Palme d’Or-winning Shoplifters comes this tender family drama in the vein of Yasujirō Ozu or Mikio Naruse. Hirokazu Koreeda wisely assembles a series of vignettes of everyday moments to explore sisterly relationships and the deep bonds between families.

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan in 1971 where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

Siblings are left to fend for themselves.

The loss of a child puts a further strain on a Japanese couple's (Tae Kimura, Lily Franky) already troubled marriage.