Lowlife Love

2015

Japanese

6.4

♡ 10

80%

Eiji Uchida Director

Kanji Furutachi as Kano

Riko Matsui as Keiko

Shûgo Oshinari as Ken

Kanji Tsuda as Shinjo

Tetsuo is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against his 'artistic integrity'.

Blue Spring

2001

Japanese

7.2

♡ 27

87%

Toshiaki Toyoda Director

Nobuo Kyô as

Takashi Tsukamoto as Freshman in Baseball Club

Akifumi Miura as Seven

Shûgo Oshinari as Yoshimura

Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.

My Long Awaited Love Story

2016

Japanese

6.5

♡ 6

Action

prince

Romance

Takafumi Hatano Director

Yûki Yamada as

Jun Shison as

Shûgo Oshinari as

Mikako Tabe as Rika Shirono

Riko is 27, working as a love simulation game designer, and she no longer has big expectations for a man in her life. One day app company TIMEIS, lead by Soichiro, hires her to work on their latest game.

Mio on the Shore

2019

Japanese

6.6

♡ 6

Ryûtarô Nakagawa Director

Sakurako Konishi as

Eri Tokunaga as Mikoto Shimamura

Kaito Yoshimura as Toshihito Arai

Shûgo Oshinari as Yu Iseki

Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.

The Real Thing

2020

Japanese

6.6

♡ 2

63%

Action

based on comic

based on manga

based on novel or book

Drama

edited from tv series

Romance

Kôji Fukada Director

Shôhei Uno as Hayama Tadashi

Shûgo Oshinari as Mineuchi Daisuke

Win Morisaki as Tsuji Kazumichi

Yukiya Kitamura as Wakita Shin'ichi

Kazumichi Tsuji is a bored office worker in questionable relationships with two women at work. One day he meets the intriguing Ukiyo Hayama at a convenience store. However, having her in his life brings nothing but trouble.

Around the Table

2021

Japanese

6.0

♡ 3

Action

Drama

Sôshi Masumoto Director

Haruka Kubo as Aiko

Naomi Nishida as Haruko Aoba

Shûgo Oshinari as Sorao

Miwako Ichikawa as Tomoyo Kunieda

Haruko is a single mother. She has an unusual living arrangement. She lives with her son Riku, her friend Aiko and Aiko's boyfriend Sorao. One day, Yuko stays at Haruko's house to attend an art institute for the summer. Yuko is the daughter of Haruko's old friend Tomoyo. They haven't spoken for many years prior to Tomoyo reaching out to Haruko to ask if her daughter could stay with her for the summer. Haruko and Tomoyo have an uncomfortable past.

Hito no sekkusu o warauna

2007

Japanese

6.2

♡ 4

Action

artist

based on novel or book

Comedy

infidelity

older woman younger man relationship

Romance

teacher student relationship

university

Nami Iguchi Director

Shûgo Oshinari as Domoto / Mirume's friend Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as En / Mirume's friend

Miwako Ichikawa as Student

Yôichi Nukumizu as Yamada / teacher

Mirume is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri, an almost 40 year old art teacher at his university. Yuri isn't your typical college professor, having a quirky sense of humor and unpredictable personality. When Yuri invites Murume to her studio, she playfully seduces the still naive 19 year old student. Things become more complicated when Mirume discovers that Yuri is married to a much older man....

The Lowlife

2017

Japanese

5.8

♡ 5

Action

adult video

av

based on novel or book

Takahisa Zeze Director

Noriko Eguchi as

Shûgo Oshinari as

Aina Yamada as Ayako

Saki Takaoka as Takako

Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.

The Master Samurai

2018

Japanese

6.2

♡ 8

Kazushi Watanabe Director

Yukijirô Hotaru as

Hayato Ichihara as

Shûgo Oshinari as

Toshiya Nagasawa as

Hanpeita Takeichi, a samurai, finds that he has travelled through time to modern-day Japan. He's taken in by an old man who runs a cram school, and begins to work as a teacher there.

Videophobia

2019

Japanese

5.6

♡ 3

100%

Thriller

Daisuke Miyazaki Director

Tomona Hirota as Ai

Shûgo Oshinari as Hashimoto

Sahel Rosa as Head of the facility

Sumire Ashina as Yu

A young woman discovers that a sex tape made without her knowledge is circulating online. Paranoia takes over, along with a sense of injustice. Her sudden terror of video triggers a downward spiral where she loses all social bearings.