Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience of homelessness when this father suddenly decides to abandon his family. Hiroshi and his older siblings do all what they can to withstand the trouble they encounter along their way.

The Flowers of Evil

2019

Japanese

5.8

♡ 7

japanese junior high schooler

junior high school

Romance

Thriller

Noboru Iguchi Director

Marie Iitoyo as Aya Tokiwa

Shingo Tsurumi as Kasuga's father

Shiori Akita as Nanako Saeki

Tina Tamashiro as Sawa Nakamura

A high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes but is witnessed, which sets off a chain of events that send his life and the lives of others around him out of control.

A Girl on the Shore

2021

Japanese

5.4

♡ 3

Atsushi Ueda Director

Seina Nakata as Keiko Kobayashi

Yuzu Aoki as Keisuke Isobe

Jun Murakami as Keisuke's father

Ruka Ishikawa as Koume Sato

Keisuke Isobe and Koume Satou live a rather dull life. But when Koume's crush breaks her heart, their situation becomes quite unordinary. She starts a "no-strings-attached" relationship with Keisuke, whom she had previously rejected, both finding solace in the other in order to fill the emotional voids in their lives.

Hana no asuka gumi!

1988

Japanese

5.4

♡ 2

live action adaptation of manga

Yôichi Sai Director

Yoshihiro Katô as Cop

Yôji Matsuda as Kasuga

Tamotsu Ishibashi as Toki

Kumiko Takeda as Yoko

In the year 199X, on the dark, shady streets of New Kabuki Town, the free-for-all between gangs of young delinquents and a corrupt police force is further complicated by the appearance of a mysterious girl named Asuka.

The Other Me

2000

English

5.9

♡ 9

46%

based on novel or book

Manny Coto Director

Alison Pill as Allana Browning

Joe Grifasi as Conrad

Sarah Gadon as Heather

Andrew Lawrence as Will Browning / Twoie

When Will Browning is threatened with military summer school if he doesn't get better grades, he decides to do a science project that will definitely get an A. So he buys some Ocean Pups, unhatched sea creatures that will look spectacular, but he hasn't bargained for the cloning agent that the unscrupulous manufacturers have put in the kit. Next thing he knows there's another him.

Typhoon Club

1985

Japanese

6.9

♡ 5

83%

Shinji Sômai Director

Kôichi Satô as

Shingo Tsurumi as Keiji Mikami

Yuriko Fuchizaki as Midori

Tomokazu Miura as Teacher Umemiya

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.