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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

friends vs. family interment

6.8

♡ 8

96%

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.

Dear Etranger

7.0

♡ 9

Yukiko Mishima Director

Shinobu Terajima as

Tadanobu Asano as

Shingo Mizusawa as

Kankurô Kudô as

Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family. Nanae then becomes pregnant. Afterwards, things begin to change among the family members.

Where We Go from Here

2019

English

5.1

♡ 14

Anthony Meindl Director

Eugenia Kuzmina as Colette

Olivia Taylor Dudley as Elena

Lorenza Izzo as Iris

Beejan Land as Student #3

This anthology film explores three sudden acts of violence and examines the impact on the innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire: In Binghamton, New York, an ESL instructor faces domestic violence at home and even greater peril at school. Friends take a night out in Paris only to find themselves caught up in a horrifying situation. And two lovers at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando fight to survive a chaotic night of terror.

The Long Excuse

2016

7.1

♡ 7

100%

Miwa Nishikawa Director

Eri Fukatsu as Natsuko Kinugasa

Masahiro Motoki as Sachio Kinugasa

Yasushi Fuchikami as Taichi, Kai

Maho Yamada as Teacher

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.

The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

2012

6.5

♡ 4

50%

Yuki Tanada Director

Tomoko Tabata as Anzu

Takahiro Miura as Fukuda

Mieko Harada as Midwife / Takumi's mother

Kento Nagayama as Takumi

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself and his senile grandmother — whose intersecting lives yield both sorrow and a fragile, yet enduring, hope for a brighter future. (TIFF)

Summer Blooms

6.6

♡ 3

Ryûtarô Nakagawa Director

Yumiko Takahashi as Shinobu Toda

Keiko Takahashi as Takako Kazama

Aki Asakura as Takimoto Hatsumi

Takahiro Miura as Totaro Shibuma

k27-year-old Hatsumi Takimoto is a former teacher and now waitress. She holds a secret. Three years after her boyfriend died, she receives a letter from him. After meeting a former student, Hatsumi Takimoto confesses about her past.

Ashura no gotoku

2003

7.0

♡ 5

Yoshimitsu Morita Director

Hitomi Kuroki as Makiko Satomi - Second Daughter

Kyoko Fukada as Sakiko Kamiuchi - Fourth Daughter

Kaoru Kobayashi as Takao Satomi

Eri Fukatsu as Takiko Takezawa - Third Daughter

The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.

My Friend 'A'

2018

6.0

♡ 11

Takahisa Zeze Director

Kôichi Satô as

Naomi Nishida as Kaho

Kaho as

Mizuki Yamamoto as

Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda.

Beneath the Shadow

2019

6.1

♡ 8

Keishi Ohtomo Director

Ryûhei Matsuda as Hiasa

Ken Yasuda as Kaoru Hiasa

Tomoya Nakamura as Kazuya Soejima

Gô Ayano as Konno

From coworkers to close friends, Konno and Hiasa drift apart. When Hiasa goes missing, Konno must face what he didn’t say in time.

Mellow

2020

6.2

♡ 1

Rikiya Imaizumi Director

Sae Okazaki as Kiho Furukawa

Rie Tomosaka as Mariko Aoki

Kei Tanaka as Seiichi Natsume

Yôichirô Saitô as Shûji Aoki

Seiichi is the owner of a flower shop. He enjoys his peaceful single life. Kiho runs the ramen restaurant left to her by her father, but she's thinking of closing it.

What a Wonderful Family

7.0

♡ 10

Yôji Yamada Director

Takashi Sasano as Custodian

Gekidan Hitori as Detective

Jun Fubuki as Kayo Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Noriko Mamiya

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing. Soon, a new disturbance arises for the Hirata family. Veteran director Yamada Yoji continues his comedy about the “perfect“ Japanese family turned upside down in chaos, laughters and understanding. This time, with an additional taste of death.

Birds Without Names

6.5

♡ 4

100%

73%

affair

Kazuya Shiraishi Director

Eri Murakawa as Kayo Kunieda

Tôri Matsuzaka as Makoto Mizushima

Yutaka Takenouchi as Shunichi Kurosaki Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Towako Kitahara

An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has mysteriously disappeared.

Together

2021

English

6.2

♡ 46

71%

Stephen Daldry Director

Samuel Logan as Artie

James McAvoy as He

Sharon Horgan as She

A husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Blue, Painful and Brittle

2020

6.2

♡ 2

Adventure

based on light novel

Shunsuke Kariyama Director

Ryô Yoshizawa as Kaede Tabata

Nana Mori as Mizuki Nishiyama

Amane Okayama as Tosuke Maekawa

Tasuku Emoto as Wakisaka

Two outsider college students set up a secret society circle, "Moai," which aims to change the world. But one day, one of them disappears.

Sunny

2011

Korean

7.7

♡ 18

Hyeong-Cheol Kang Director

Shi-hoo Kim as

Kyeong-yeong Lee as Adult Joon-ho

Seok-yong Jeong as Na-mi's Brother

Woo-hee Chun as Sang-mi

Seven girls become good friends in high school, then events pull them apart for 25 years. When one of the friends lies dying in a hospital, she wishes to see each of them one last time.

Dragon

2025

Tamil

7.8

♡ 9

96%

Ashwath Marimuthu Director

Gopika Ramesh as Anjana

Kayadu Lohar as Pallavi

Pradeep Ranganathan as Ragavan 'Dragon'

Gautham Vasudev Menon as Vale Kumar

After a top student faces rejection and heartbreak, he cons his way into a finance career. But keeping up the facade proves tricky as the lies build.

My Blood & Bones in a Flowing Galaxy

2020

6.6

♡ 5

SABU Director

Tomoyo Harada as

Kaya Kiyohara as

Takumi Kitamura as Arashi

Kai Inowaki as Gengo Tamaru

Kiyosumi's affection for his schoolmate Hari grows after he saves her from bullying, but a dark secret she's unwilling to share threatens their bond.

Mato mo janai no wa kimi mo issho

2021