Recent Japanese Movies To See

Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.

A widower has his film producer friend organize a fake audition as a means of helping him find a new girlfriend, but the woman he selects is not who she appears to be.

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.

When an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and mouse with a naive college student. As they venture into more and more unpredictable territory in the bedroom, he begins to think she might be using him as a test subject for her fiction more than anything else.

A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival.

When Matsuko is murdered, her nephew, Sho, gets to progressively unveil the many details of her mysterious past, discovering she wasn't just a forgotten outcast and had led an intriguing yet bizarre life.

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how this affects every person in his school.

On a subtropical island, a teenage couple deal with the interwoven cycle of life, death and love.

Three sisters live together in Kamakura. When their father - absent for 15 years - dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral and meet their half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them.

After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.