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Avec pour toile de fond le Japon épique de l'après-guerre, un ancien G.I. américain rejoint les yakuzas.

Tireur d'élite et éternel séducteur, le détective privé Nicky Larson fait équipe à contrecœur avec la sœur de son ancien partenaire pour enquêter sur la mort de ce dernier.

An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.

Yumiko Haruno works as a waitress at a cafe that has been around for a long time. She spends her days aimlessly and without a dream for her future. On an ordinary day at her job, Yumiko notices middle aged man Ichirou Haga looking intently at shunga (Japanese erotic paintings that were popular during the Edo period). He suddenly talks to her and asks her what shunga is to her. Yumiko becomes interested in the eccentric shunga researcher and he invites her to visit his home to learn more. After his wife passed away, Ichirou has lived a reclusive life and concentrated solely on his study of shunga. Yumiko visits his home and begins to take shunga lessons from him.

À la fin du 19ème siècle pendant l'ère Meiji, la nuit tombe au temple de Tenryuji à Kyoto. 292 guerriers se rassemblent, attirés par la promesse d'un grand prix de 100 milliards de yens.

Le mari de Mizuki, Yusuke, s'est noyé en mer il y a trois ans. Quand il rentre à la maison sans préavis, elle n'est pas si surprise. Au lieu de cela, Mizuki se demande ce qui lui a pris si longtemps. Elle accepte de l'accompagner au long d'un voyage.

Two scholars exchange letters about chance and risk. As the philosopher falls ill, their academic correspondence evolves into intimate discussions about mortality and a deeper connection forms between them.

Yoko lives a reclusive life until news of her father's passing compels her to travel home. Stranded at a rest stop without means, she must hitch rides to make it to his funeral.

Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system, CANARY tells the moving story of two children, each abandoned by their families, who come together in the wake of the scarring event. Twelve-year-old Koichi has grown up within the confines of a religious cult whose violently instilled dogma has all but destroyed his sense of identity. After a murderous attack, the cult disbands and Koichi finds himself abandoned by his mother and forcibly separated from his sister. To reunite his broken family, Koichi breaks out of the child welfare system and sets off to Tokyo. While on the run, he meets Yuki, a girl desperate to flee from her abusive father. Koichi and Yuki travel together in search of his sister, facing the inevitable troubles of children making their way in the world without the guidance or protection of adults. The separate scars of their pasts cause friction between the two, but their struggles develop a familial bond that allows them to confront both their pasts and the future ahead. Beautiful and poignant, Akihiko Shiota's film illustrates the resiliency of forgotten youth in forging their own destiny from a tragic past. For more information, please visit www.canarythemovie.com

When Val is released from prison, she's determined to make a new life for herself. But the criminal underworld won't let her go that easily, and her former boss won't stop until she's paid her debt - with blood.

Rookie movie director Koichi and his crew travels to the mountain village of Yamamura to film his next movie. The villagers are eventually enlisted to help film the movie and, in particular, 60-year-old lumberjack Katsuhiko helps against his will.

Two different high school children - a swimmer and an academic - set off on a quest together one summer.

After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them.

The story of a person who is looking for her own daughter. She is married and has an affair with her husband's business partner. Her family and her lover's family were close and travelled to Hokkaido together. She felt she wants to leave her family and be in the arms of the man she loves. She engages in the affair even wile on the trip. Yet, her daughter disappears in the morning. She is nowhere to be found. She drifts apart from her lover.

A young student believes spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time.

Hoteru haibisukasu depicts a summer at a small run down hotel in Okinawa through the eyes of Mieko, the youngest daughter of the hotels extraordinarily international family.

There comes a time in the life of a prostitute where clients start gravitating away. It is the inevitable result of being past one's prime, aging and of course becoming used up. Okino opts to pack it up and return to her village in retirement. She needs a plan to escape her life however. She recruits a poor toy-maker and an actor and they set out for her hometown. The three companions experience adventure, hardship and fun en route.

Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.

The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work out at the beginning but as time goes by the newly formed relationship between the tramp and the Drive-In worker starts to show the workers harmful will of possession, which finally leads to the somehow sad but also optimistically interpretable ending.

The film tells the story of a small community on a small island in Okinawa, Japan. Especially it focusses on the story of a grandma named Nabbie, but although it's her story told in the film's centre there are some young people, the grand-daughter of Nabbie and a young Japanese who just came to visit the little island. As the film evolves with the more or less ordinary events of the little island's inhabitant's more or less ordinary life, the story behind Nabbie's life gets more and more obvious. It's a surprise to most everyone involved in one or the other way.

Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna."

The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky, then cross paths again months later.

Young Japanese architect Tsubame has to face his family history: His Taiwanese mother took his brother Ryushin back to her home country during their childhood. In order to follow the last wish of his father, Tsubame hesitantly travels to Taiwan for the first time to see Ryushin again after more than 20 years.

Haruko meets Kenichi, who has just dropped out of high school, when she finds him collapsed on a bridge after he was beaten up. She's instantly smitten and thinks he's her destiny, but he is far more interested in Mayumi, the reason for the beating. Not your typical teenage romance, this perky, playful film will keep you guessing.

Sexuality blooms early when an elementary school student boy falls in love with a junior high school girl in tandem with the onset of his puberty. It is barely younger man and older woman relationship, but all concerned are proud and on a high including the students' adoring parents.