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- An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
- An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
- A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.
- A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.
- Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.
- As the threat of giant unidentified lifeforms known as "S-Class Species" worsens in Japan, a silver giant appears from beyond Earth's atmosphere.
- A reporter, notorious for working on pseudo-documentaries, must uncover the legend of the three guardian monsters who must rise to defend Japan from the vengeful spirits within Godzilla.
- Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.
- A detective is assigned to protect a princess who prophecies the Earth's end with the arrival of a powerful space monster. Mothra and her fairies must persuade Godzilla and Rodan to set aside their differences or face the invader alone.
- A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
- An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
- In Tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days.
- A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Soon he finds an unlikely protector in a crotchety man and the two have a series of unexpected adventures along the way.
- A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.
- A Japanese James Bond -esque spy flick reused and redubbed into the plot of a secret agent searching to uncover a recipe for the world's greatest egg salad in Woody Allen's directorial debut.
- A teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
- Planted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
- A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.
- Two very different people - an academically successful schoolgirl and a quiet loser schoolboy - meet and develop a friendship.
- An ornithologist investigates reports of a monstrous new species of bird just as a teenage girl is gifted an amulet found on mysterious atoll. As the creatures begin to attack, an ancient guardian with a bond to the girl emerges.
- It's another battle of the wits for the brilliant but eccentric physicist, Yukawa, and detective, Kaoru.
- A Chinese man (Liu) marries a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her Japanese martial arts family by issuing a challenge to her that is misinterpreted by the others. He must then prove how good Chinese Kung Fu really is through a series of duels with the seven Japanese martial artists who come to meet the challenge.
- Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.
- A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
- A tragic accident lead to Akari's blindness, but she clings to life and the smaller pleasures it can still afford her. Akari has also lost her family. She meets Rui a former kick boxer, misplaces him and the two begin speaking. He too has a past and is disassociated with most of society. One things leads to another and they develop feelings for one another. However, the too are connected in more than one way. Rui attempts to do what is right.
- A high school girl and boy are part of the student council at a pricey school. They have a crush on one another, but have kept it under wraps so far. With awareness and an inkling of what the other one feels for each the challenge becomes to make the opposite side profess his or her love first.
- Three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies.
- Suzume Yosano's parents have decided to move to Bangladesh when her father's job gets transferred there. However, they're not taking her with them. So, Suzume moves to Tokyo to live with her uncle, Yukichi. On her way to moving into her uncle's house, she runs into a strange man who helps her since she is initially lost. When she starts school, it turns out that he is none other than her homeroom teacher, Satsuki Shishio. Between him and making new friends, Suzume's first year of high school in Tokyo will be full of fun and adventure.
- Kae, a fan of gay romance novels, loses weight after the death of her favorite character. She becomes popular and attracts several cute boys at school.
- A photography student's life takes a turn for the worse when her dead sister is welcomed back into the family home.
- Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.
- Mike Hama is a private investigator who has been reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle.
- When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.
- Ninako confesses her love to Ren. But get rejected because he is already have a girlfriend. They promise to stay as a friend. Some other guy confess their love to her but she rejects them. Is it because she still wants to be with Ren?
- Michael Palin attempts to copy the exploits of fictional character Phileas Fogg, by trying to travel around the world (without flying) in 80 days.
- A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.
- Two sets of parents divorce and marry each other, while their children Miki and Yuu are caught in the middle and start falling for each other.
- Tatsu (Hiroshi Tamaki) is 38 years old. He was once a legendary yakuza and was known as "Immortal Dragon" because he was so feared. He quit the yakuza and married Miku. Tatsu then became a househusband. He buries himself in housework.
- Japan's favorite hard-boiled detective Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) returns for the third time in this crime drama. A crazed killer has been poisoning women around the city and planting Hama's fingerprints on the bodies. Hama must leave his cozy office behind the movie theater projection booth to clear his name.
- A group of friends from high school reunite before one of them dies from cancer.
- At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".
- A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin.
- Be-hwan is a famous Korean fashion photographer visiting Japan at the request of his friend Gil-su to take pictures of his wedding. On the day of Gil-su's wedding, however, the bride disappears, and Bae-hwan ends up filling in for her at Gil-su's studio. Ryu is a male escort who is neither male not female in his physiappearance and he visits Gil-su's studio to take new image shots for upload to a website featuring male prostitutes. While working with Bae-hwan, Ryu realizes his beauty for the first time. Bae-hwan attempts to take Ryu with him to Korea to help with with his modeling career, but in the end, they both realize that existing in each other's worlds is something they are simply, sadly, unable to do.
- The main character, Kentaro Hagiwara, is a 25-year-old man working at a small factory in a small town. Although he is very poor with a large amount of debt left by his late parents, he lives a happy life surrounded by his two younger brothers and warm friends. One day, Kentaro promised his younger brothers, "Let's go out for Yakiniku dinner on my next payday!" However, on a long-awaited day, the local factory went bankrupt. In the end, he did not receive his salary and was forced to collect on his debts, and to top it all off, he was evicted by his landlord from the house he was living in due to rent arrears. Kentaro was looking for a new job, and through the introduction of Michiko, a childhood friend, he found a new job at a building maintenance company of "Universal Insurance," a huge foreign-affiliated insurance company. One day, Kentaro presses Kashiwagi for a new job using an important file he happened to find as a shield, but Kentaro is fired from his job at the building maintenance company. However, Kentaro pretends to be an employee of Universal Insurance and seduces Osawa, the owner of the file, into cooperating with him, and succeeds in winning back a large contract. Luckily, he catches the eye of the company president, Himuro, and Kentaro is officially hired as an employee.
- The film traces the growth and friendship of two very different high-school ping-pong players. "Peco" Hoshino is a brash, arrogant player, determined to turn pro. He taught his quiet, nerdy childhood friend "Smile" Tsukimoto. Smile frustrates his coach and rivals, who recognize his talent for the game since it is just a game to him. To teach him, his high-school coach learns that coaching is more than just training the students to be good ping-pong players. Ironically, as Smile begins to develop his game, Peco undergoes a severe crisis after his defeat by rival players and is unable to play well until he rediscovers the original reasons why he plays ping-pong.
- 100 competitors test their skills against physically and mentally demanding four-stage obstacle course.
- A home-care nurse's relationship with the family she has spent years working for is threatened when her nephew is arrested for kidnapping their daughter.
- 20-year-old Mio has lost her parents early and runs a traditional Japanese inn in Nagano with her grandmother. As her grandmother gets sick and hospitalized, Mio is forced to leave the inn and reluctantly comes to Tokyo to live with her father's old friend Kyosuke. Helping him at the bathhouse he runs, she begins to find her way in everyday life. One day, however, she learns the bathhouse is on the verge of demolition for the redevelopment in the district.
- I want to be loved, as a person, and as a woman. - Misaki Nakamichi (35) is a teacher who has been married for 5 years to her attractive husband. She appears to have a life that many would be envious of. However, the truth is that she has been concerned about her marriage due to the lack of intimacy - Her husband only sleeps with her once a year, on the day of their wedding anniversary. As she continues to question her husband's sexual desire for her, their next anniversary arrives... and she receives a shocking confession from him.
- Hibino, a geek girl fall in love for the first time with Kyouta, the playboy. What will happen when a zero experience girl coupled with a lot of experienced boy? Love for beginner begin.