The Discarnates
Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve.
The Rocking Horsemen
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
Shimaizaka
Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and encouragement to each other, even sacrifice oneself to help others.
Chizuko's Younger Sister
The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter Mika is suddenly in a dangerous situation, Chizuko returns as a ghost to save her; reunited with her sister, Mika begins spending time with Chizuko again.
Lonely Heart
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, or is she real?
Haruka, Nostalgia
Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author's real name.
Labyrinth of Cinema
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.
Seven Weeks
Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance gradually exposes wartime secrets and Mitsuo's unknown past.
Emotion
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with…a vampire?
School in the Crosshairs
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that will put Yuka's powers to the ultimate test!
The Island Closest to Heaven
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.
His Motorbike, Her Island
After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy Ko begins to fear that she is destined to crash.
Beijing Watermelon
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters Li, a poor college student from China.
Hanagatami
Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war's gravitational pull.
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitants and stumbles upon a stage play written by an enigmatic student of her ex-boyfriend.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has the power to travel through time.
House
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Director
Tôru Minegishi
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Yôji Matsuda
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Takashi Sasano
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Dentist
Kumiko Akiyoshi
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Fusako Harada, Mother
Hiroshi Katsuno
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Bridegroom
Shirô Sano
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Noritane Itoh
Tadanobu Asano
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Seiichi Shirai
Yuriko Ishida
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Woman in White Dress
Hideko Yoshida
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Fumie Akechi
Toshirô Mifune
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Kindaichi from Future
Akiko Kitamura
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Mayo Yuzuki
Jûkichi Uno
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Old Man
Ichirôta Miyakawa
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Togo Yuzuki
Kôen Okumura
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Teacher
Toshinori Omi
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Tomoya Kaminaga
Ittoku Kishibe
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Yuichi Kitao
Keiko Masuda
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Yuko Uchida
Toshie Negishi
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Makoto's mother
Tokio Emoto
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Gorô Inagaki
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Donald Richie
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Eigo no narêtâ
Shingo Yanagisawa
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Miyoko Akaza
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Keiko Mitamura
Hiroko Yakushimaru
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Yuka Mitamura
Tomoyo Harada
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Mari Katsuragi
Nobuko Otowa
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Tei Ishikawa
Tomokazu Miura
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Hidemasa Sawada
Takahiro Tamura
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Kouichiroh Shiraishi
Kiwako Harada
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Miyoko Shiraishi
Yasufumi Hayashi
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Toru Horikoshi
Masahiro Takashima
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Akine's Father
Takako Tokiwa
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Keiko Ema
Yasuko Matsuyuki
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Reiko endo
Takako Irie
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Tatsu Fukamachi
Kimiko Ikegami
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Oshare
Fumi Dan
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Teacher
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