In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into the night, Atsuya sees a letter in the mailbox. The letter is addressed to the Namiya General Store and the letter was written by someone to consult about worries. Incredibly, the letter was written 32 years ago. The mailbox is somehow connected to the year 1980. Atsuya and his friends decide to write a reply and place their letter in the mailbox.

The Mourning Forest

2007

Japanese

6.7

♡ 5

71%

Naomi Kawase Director

Machiko Ono as Machiko

Yôichirô Saitô as Machiko's husband

Shigeki Uda as Shigeki

Makiko Watanabe as Wakako

A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.

Typhoon Family

2019

Japanese

5.5

♡ 4

Action

Crime

Masahide Ichii Director

Tomoya Nakamura as Chihiro Suzuki

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as Kotetsu Suzuki

Machiko Ono as Miyoko Suzuki

Ryûya Wakaba as Toshio Sato

Ittetsu and Maitsuko are married, but they are not just any normal couple. They robbed a bank and took a cool million or two from the capitalists. Then they duly vanished. Years have passed and their children have congregated to divide their parents' money, but first there is the matter of arrangements and a funeral.

Akaneiro ni yakareru

2021

Japanese

6.5

♡ 2

Action

Family

Yûya Ishii Director

Tateto Serizawa as

Shingo Tsurumi as

Masatoshi Nagase as Nakamura

Machiko Ono as Ryoko Tanaka

7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her husband's death. She has since raised her son Junpei by herself. Junpei is now a middle school student. Ryoko also cares for her father-in-law, who lives in a nursing home and she also runs a cafe. Her care is in a difficult situation due to Covid-19, while Junpei experiences bullying at school.

Climbers High

2008

Japanese

6.6

♡ 3

Action

Drama

Masato Harada Director

Machiko Ono as Chizuko Tamaki

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Raizo Shirakawa

Masato Sakai as Tatsuya Sayama

Sarutoki Minagawa as Yasuo Ito

On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accident, Yuuki, in charge of this crash report at a local newspaper, faces a string of decision-making moments. What are news and a reporter? How should a man do his work and survive in a corporate hierarchy? What do family and friends mean to him? An intriguing story, which keeps the audience on the edge of tension and reality.

Too Young to Die! Wakakushite shinu

2016

Japanese

6.7

♡ 6

67%

Kankurô Kudô Director

Rie Miyazawa as Hiromi Tezuka

Nana Seino as Jako

Sarutoki Minagawa as Junko

Machiko Ono as Naomi

After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.

The Bastard and the Beautiful World

2018

Japanese

4.9

♡ 2

Action

Drama

japanese film

Sion Sono Director

Gorô Inagaki as

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as

Tadanobu Asano as Daimon

Machiko Ono as Yuko

The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. Fujiko is running as fast as she can, being chased after by a creepy masked man called Mad Dog. They meet a talented pianist on the way. A mysterious relationship develops between Utagui, a little girl who eats songs to live and an artist who can't sing anymore. A married couple sets off on a journey to find the right arm of their dead son. As they finally reach a beach in Okinawa, they find? Bastards come together on a night dancefloor for a show.

Confess to Your Crimes

2023

Japanese

5.9

♡ 5

Action

based on novel or book

Nobuo Mizuta Director

Machiko Ono as Hatsumi Teranaka

Elaiza Ikeda as Mayumi Ogata

Ikusaburô Yamazaki as Nobuki Hirao

Ayumu Nakajima as Youichiro Uda

The story tells of the granddaughter of the political family Uta, who is kidnapped. The kidnappers' demand is not money, but for the politician to hold a press conference and confess to the crime. Kentaro Nakashima plays the protagonist, Koji Uta, the second son of the Vice Minister of the Cabinet, Seijiro Uta (played by Shinichi Tsutsumi). Despite his reservations about his father's actions, he reluctantly takes on the role of his father's secretary, and the kidnapping incident plunges the Uta family into unprecedented predicaments.

Chieri and Cherry

2015

Japanese

6.2

♡ 4

Animation

anime

Makoto Nakamura Director

Natsumi Takamori as Chieri

Takeshi Tomizawa as Daikoku-sama

Machiko Ono as Marie

Ikuko Tani as Setsuko

Chieri is a sixth grade girl whose only friend is a stuffed toy named Cherry, which she found while hiding in the cellar during her father's funeral. Chieri and Cherry undertake a journey on the border between fantasy and reality.

Like Father, Like Son

2013

Japanese

7.8

♡ 23

86%

eating with chopsticks

family relationships

father son relationship

lost child

parent child relationship

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Pierre Taki as (as Piêru Taki)

Machiko Ono as Midori Nonomiya

Jun Fubuki as Nobuko Nonomiya

Masaharu Fukuyama as Ryota Nonomiya

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.

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Akaneiro ni yakareru

Climbers High

Too Young to Die! Wakakushite shinu

The Bastard and the Beautiful World

Confess to Your Crimes

Chieri and Cherry

Like Father, Like Son