Japanese movies to watch

A struggling, unemployed musician living with his girlfriend looks to improve his life after he discovers how she's been paying the rent.

Frenchwoman Joan is a world traveller and chronicler. She travels, sees, experience and writes. She lands in the forest and hills near Nara, Japan and meets Satoshi. Despite the mysterious aura and eccentric personality the woodsman finds a place in the visitor's heart.

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.

A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

A novelist who is struggling with writer's block finds in a cat an unusual way of easing his anxieties and will challenge himself to make the cat visit him again

Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to other people's needs, she will end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Ginza.

Two friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend's flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn't feel well. What's come over him?

Based on the novel Shojo by Kanae Minato, watch for the story of high school student Yuki who plans to see a dead body. She is more than just a little jealous of another student who has seen the corpse of a person. The morbidity has its origin in the life of young girls growing up, high school bullying, teenage rivalry and adult tyranny.

Mogami Takeshi works at the Tokyo prosecutor's office focusing on violent criminal cases. Okino Keiichiro admires him and is happy to be assigned to work with Mogami. When a money lender is killed for his dealings with the deceased one Matsukura Shigeo is considered a suspect. He has a past involving a schoolgirl and the prosecutors strive to make the case.

A family in ruins recovers through their encounter with a "Zasikiwarashi", the japanese spirit.

After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as 'Howling Village' to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family's dark history.

The con artists: Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) attempt to steal the diamond from a member of the triad in Hong Kong, who is cold-blooded and appropriately called "Ice Princess."

A story set in a café situated along a small cape and run by an elderly woman named Etsuko and aided her nephew Koji.

Growing tired of covering competitions, Takako, an announcer from Tokyo, travels to Minami-Osumi-cho, Kagoshima Prefecture, to cover the Misaki Festival.

Sakai is a city near Osaka by the bay famous for its swords in the old days and kitchen knives today. Norio is an antique dealer in the city. Sasuke is a potter in the city. Seventeenth century tea master Sen No Rikyu appears before them one day.

A young medical intern student is dismayed when he is assigned to work in a remote countryside village.

A yakuza melodrama, covering decades in the lives of Boss Onimasa, his adopted daughter Matsue, and his biological daughter Hanako.

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

Three complete strangers embark on a road-trip to Hokkaido.

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.