Mikio is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio's wife is Haruko. They have been married for 5 years. Haruko draws comics for work, but they do not sell well. She mainly relied on Mikio for support. Meanwhile, Haruko did not notice any changes in her husband. She begins to blame herself for not noticing any signs. Mikio's depression derived from his work. His company has been pressing him to quit the company. After Mikio quits his job his condition improves, but the dynamics of their relationship changes.

Amateur photographer Makoto and the homely but endearing Shizuru meet during their university entrance ceremony and become instant friends. Shy by nature, Makoto finds himself opening up around Shizuru, who is secretly in love with him.

A chronicle of the life of Yasui Santetsu, a 17th century master of go who turned his attention to astronomy and created a new calendar for Japan. Based on the life of Santetsu Yasui (December 27, 1639-November 1, 1715), appointed as the first official astronomer in the Edo Period and would go on to create the Jokyo calendar at the imperial request.

2013 film by Yōji Yamada

2012 film by Kenji Uchida

2013 film by Yuya Ishii

A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college to learn carpentry along with several other students who are in the same boat as he. When a couple of the guys go to a hostess club the man meets an unconventional girl who likes him and a relationship is born.

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.

影片讲述了政府试行某项机密企划：一个专门接收犯下凶杀罪的“凶手都市”。饰演公务员的月木一（锦户亮 饰），将要面对重新开始人生的六位前杀人犯......

It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then. Well, perhaps not. Each holds a secret that even the binds of matrimony cannot untie. Sonoko does not know that Tetsuo makes sex dolls or Dutch wives. Sonoko has a secret too. She is about to tell Tetsuo what she has been hiding. Their marriage is already sexless. Will they make it?

Set within an animal shelter, where if the owner of an animal doesn't claim their pet in 7 days, the animal is put to sleep. Himawari, is a female dog and a mother. She tries to desperately save her baby dogs.

梦想成为摄影师的年轻女孩河合夏美（有村架纯 饰）对迷茫的未来颇感不安，而男友相羽慎吾（工藤阿须加 饰）暧昧不明的态度更令她焦灼难平。在某个夏日，她跨上父亲留下的摩托车，驶往那个曾经和父亲一起观赏过萤火虫的森林。在森林附近，她邂逅了经营杂货铺的安女士（吉行和子 饰）及其被称为“地藏法师”的儿子惠三（光石研 饰），并受到母子的热情款待。未过多久，慎吾追随着夏美的脚步到来，与世隔绝的安逸所在，让年轻男女紧张的身心得到放松。
某天，地藏法师突然病倒住院。在这关键时刻，夏美无意中得知了地藏法师和分居的家人之间存在难以弥合的裂痕，他为此饱受痛苦折磨。不知不觉，夏美决定要为这个经常带着笑容的男人做一些什么……

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.

One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi. He had found his calling. After his resistant parents relented to their son’s pleas, Danshun at age 17 became an apprentice of Danshi, the man dubbed a “wunderkind” and “genius” of the rakugo world. He soon realized however how hard the training was, and embarked upon a rigorous existence in which he had to deliver newspapers to earn a living. Living with hardship and joys, Danshun and his fellow apprentices would eventually rise in the rakugo world. A resplendent cast comes together to depict the rough and tumble world of a man who loved rakugo above all else and was destined to fulfill a dream.

Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.

2006 film by Tetsuya Nakashima

To protect his family from a mysterious being, a man joins forces with a journalist and an exorcist - but they come to learn what they are dealing with is beyond their imagination.

川口春奈饰演的OL北村志织从房间墙壁听到“一年后的未来在这里的人”的搭话，于是开始跟踪住在隔壁的平野进（高桥一生）。某天神秘声音忽然消失，两人为探究谜底而共同行动，也开始被互相吸引……

In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.

作者将电影放在日本文化传统的延长线及世界思潮的历史大背景下加以分析。讲述了丰富多彩的日本电影百年历程。

中文版序言
日本电影评论的新视野
前言
关于日本电影的特征
日本电影的概念/ 电影作为边缘艺术/ 增村保造的批评/ 与相临领域的交流/
与传统戏剧的关系/ “辩士”的滥觞/ 文化杂种/ 几个高峰/ 记忆的发现
第一章 “活动写真” 1896~1918
电影来了/ 日本人拍摄的最早的电影/ 与大众戏剧的关联/ 民族主义问题/
最早的导演牧野省三/ 日活的创立/ “活动辩士”的意义
第二章 无声电影的成熟
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