What a Wonderful Family!

2016

Japanese

6.8

♡ 10

Yôji Yamada Director

Yuriko Hirooka as

Takashi Sasano as Custodian

Jun Fubuki as Kayo Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Noriko Mamiya

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos.

What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life

2018

Japanese

6.8

♡ 8

96%

friends vs. family interment

Yôji Yamada Director

Takashi Sasano as

Jun Fubuki as

Masahiko Nishimura as Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as

At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.

Tokyo Family

2013

Japanese

7.5

♡ 4

91%

Yôji Yamada Director

Taiki Matsuno as

Teiyû Ichiryûsai as (as Mie Suzuki) Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Noriko Mamiya

Jun Fubuki as Woman at the bar

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Matinee

2019

Japanese

5.8

♡ 4

Action

based on novel or book

Romance

Hiroshi Nishitani Director

Jun Fubuki as

Yuki Sakurai as

Yûsuke Iseya as Lichard

Yuriko Ishida as Yoko-chan

Satoshi Makino is a genius classical guitarist. One day, he meets journalist Yoko Komine. They become attracted to each other, but Yoko Komine has a fiancé.

Ikigami

2008

Japanese

7.0

♡ 19

Action

Drama

Tomoyuki Takimoto Director

Noriko Eguchi as

Takashi Sasano as Director Ishii

Takashi Tsukamoto as Hidekazu Morio

Jun Fubuki as Kazuko Takazawa

In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or "ikigami", informing them that they have only 24 hours left to live. The film follows a young man tasked with delivering these messages, as well as the victims.

The Fighter Pilot

2013

Japanese

7.3

♡ 9

Takashi Yamazaki Director

Tarô Suruga as

Takehiro Hira as

Kazue Fukiishi as Keiko

Jun Fubuki as Kiyoko

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflicting accounts from his former comrades about his character and how he joined his squadron.

The Asadas

2020

Japanese

7.3

♡ 9

93%

great east japan earthquake

japan

photographer

Ryôta Nakano Director

Jun Fubuki as

Maho Nonami as

Masaki Suda as

Kazunari Ninomiya as

Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.

Charisma

1999

Japanese

6.8

♡ 11

75%

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Director

Kagetora Miura as

Jun Yoshida as

Jun Fubuki as Mitsuko Jinbo

Yutaka Matsushige as Nekoshima

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.

658km, Yôko no tabi

2023

Japanese

6.6

♡ 6

Drama

Kazuyoshi Kumakiri Director

Jun Fubuki as

Ai Mikami as

Ken Yoshizawa as

Rinko Kikuchi as Yoko

A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death.