Oto-na-ri

2009

Japanese

7.0

♡ 8

Action

Drama

Romance

Naoto Kumazawa Director

Mikako Ichikawa as

Mitsuki Tanimura as Akane

Yoshinori Okada as Himuro

Jun'ichi Okada as Satoshi

An aspiring floral designer and the photographer next door become drawn to each other through the everyday sounds they hear through their shared walls.

The Scythian Lamb

2017

Japanese

6.4

♡ 6

56%

Daihachi Yoshida Director

Fumino Kimura as Aya

Ryûhei Matsuda as Ichiro

Kazuki Kitamura as Katsushi sugiyama

Mikako Ichikawa as Kiyomi

Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by the government, with the intention of re-socialising them. Aside from the few who know about the project, the general townsfolk has no idea of the former convicts' identities. Tsukisue is the pleasant and efficient municipal official put in charge of the programme. As he slowly learns about their past, a body is discovered.

Tokyo Oasis

5.8

Kana Matsumoto Director

Mikako Ichikawa as

Tomoyo Harada as Kikuchi

Ryô Kase as Nagano

Haru Kuroki as Yasuko

In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people by random chance: she gives a ride to a man named Nagano, whom she has never met before; at a small theater, runs into Kikuchi, a former screenwriter; lastly, meets Yasuko at the zoo.

The Third Murder

2017

Japanese

6.7

♡ 38

87%

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Tsutomu Takahashi as

Suzu Hirose as Sakie

Mikako Ichikawa as Sasabara Itsuki

Masaharu Fukuyama as Shigemori

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

Blue

2002

Japanese

6.6

♡ 6

Hiroshi Ando Director

Mikako Ichikawa as Kayako Kirishima

Manami Konishi as Masami Endo

Jun Murakami as Older guy

Kenzô Kawarasaki as Teacher of world history

An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan.

Ten Nights of Dreams

2006

Japanese

6.3

♡ 2

80%

Takashi Shimizu Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as #8

Itsuji Itao as (segment - 'The 10th Night')

Mikako Ichikawa as segment - 'The 5th Night'

Pierre Taki as segment - 'The 9th Night'

Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.

Tang

2022

Japanese

5.5

♡ 3

Comedy

Drama

Sci-Fi

Takahiro Miki Director

Hikari Mitsushima as Emi

Kazunari Ninomiya as Ken Kasugai

Mikako Ichikawa as Sakurako

Taiga Kyômoto as Shinji Hayashibara

Ken Kasugai has been deserted by his wife, because he was absorbed in a game. One day, missing child robot Tang appears in front of him.

Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue

2017

Japanese

6.5

♡ 9

96%

Yûya Ishii Director

Hiroko Isayama as

Takahiro Miura as

Mikako Ichikawa as Mika's mother

Bokuzô Masana as Predident of bulder company

Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind in one eye and ekes out a living as a construction worker. Young and grown-up at the same time, they both lead a lonely existence, but somehow their paths keep miraculously crossing under the Tokyo sky.

Rent-a-Cat

2012

Japanese

6.9

♡ 18

65%

Naoko Ogigami Director

Maho Yamada as Megumi Yoshikawa

Mikako Ichikawa as Sayoko

Kei Tanaka as Shigaru Yoshizawa

Reiko Kusamura as Toshiko Yoshioka

A young woman who rents out cats to lonely old folks finds her life turned upside down when a young man from her past shows back up in her life.

Be with You

2004

Japanese

7.8

♡ 7

Nobuhiro Doi Director

Kei Tanaka as

Karen Miyama as Aya

Mikako Ichikawa as Midori Nagase You

You as Yuji's Teacher

Takumi and his six-year-old son, Yuji, haven't come to terms with their wife and mother's death. One day, they meet a woman with an uncanny resemblance to her sheltering from the rain near their home.

Museum

2016

Japanese

6.0

♡ 14

Action

co-worker relationship

Crime

family secrets

Horror

husband wife relationship

Keishi Ohtomo Director

Masatô Ibu as

Mikako Ichikawa as

Shun Oguri as

Yutaka Matsushige as Kozo Sekihata

In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own family is connected to the crimes.