Japanese Films to see

2015 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.

2014 film directed by Momoko Andō

As a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched regions, an old man and his granddaughter Haruna's humble lifestyle begins to influence the outlook of a man from Tokyo.

What happens when two men playing imaginary ping-pong meet someone who isn’t?

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

2013 film by Shūichi Okita

15年前，位于乡下的下田市迎来了一个美丽的女孩子——足立惠美理（木村叶月 饰），她家境显赫，容貌甜美，因此赢得了同学们的喜爱。可就在某天，天使般的惠美理被人残忍杀害，其4名好朋友因惊吓过度，而对有过一面之缘的凶手的容貌完全没有记忆。惠美理的妈妈麻子（小泉今日子 饰）伤心过度，迁怒于4名女孩，责令她们找出凶手，否则在接下来的日子里就要不断赎罪。此去经年，当年的4名女孩纱英（苍井优 饰）、真纪（小池荣子 饰）、晶子（安藤樱 饰）和由佳（池胁千鹤 饰）各自经历不同的人生。但是童年的阴影仍时刻萦绕心头，而阴森的麻子则如幽灵一般，提醒着女孩们始终不曾完成的赎罪之旅……
本片根据凑佳苗的同名原著改编。

Suffering from double vision, a single mother tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifying hallucinations. Experiencing a nervous breakdown, she is deemed unfit to take care of her child and has it taken away from her. The only respite the mother has from her visions is when she sings. An award-winning novelist overhears her singing whilst riding the bus and the pair subsequently develop a volatile relationship.

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

故事以主角的第一人称进行，“我”（浅沼晋太郎 配音）是京都大学的一名三年级生，原本期待着有一个玫瑰色多姿多彩的大学生活，希望自己能交上飘逸黑长发的漂亮女朋友。然而事与愿违，主人公经历了一场失败的恋爱，身边的朋友也少得可怜。主人公唯一的朋友小津（吉野裕行 配音），长相像一只妖怪，以捉弄情侣为乐。主人公常常唾弃小津，却离不开他。随后主人公认识了师妹明石（坂本真绫 配音），她是个性格冷淡的黑发少女。
正是因为自己当初选择了网球部，才导致大学两年如此失败，于是“我”假想如果自己入学时选择了另外一个社团，会不会经历另外一种截然不同的大学生活呢？本作从平行时空的角度，围绕着主人公重新从大一新生选择社团开始，选择了各种各样不同社团，发展出不一样的青春故事。

《完全和平手册》是2011年在日本上映的纪录片，导演是想田和弘。 什么是和平？什么是共存？他们的基础是什么？和平是一部观察性纪录片，通过观察冈山市里日本人和猫的日常生活，生活和死亡，接受和拒绝都混合在一起。

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

2008 Japanese animated short subject film directed by Kunio Katō

制作·发行 Madhouse Studios
原作 汤浅政明 マッドハウス
监督·系列构成 汤浅政明
角色设计 伊东伸高
音响监督 百濑庆一
音乐 吉田洁
角色 - 声优表
カイバ 桑岛法子
ネイロ 能登麻美子
ポポ 朴璐美
在2004年以剧场版动画《MIND GAME》夺得过日本文化厅MEDIA艺术大奖，开创国际知名度的他，继2006年推出首部个人身兼原作与监督的电视动画《兽爪》之后，今年4月确定将继续开播这部迥异于前作的“科幻爱情故事”——《カイバ》！

A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers, who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.

An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter eccentric local inhabitants.

Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into despotism, and the URA's leaders begin to arbitrarily persecute their followers, a harrowing ordeal that culminates in violence and murder.

2006 film by Yōji Yamada