Kumiko Aso

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo’s ...

Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can’t swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between ...

An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at ...

The story follows Akane, a girl with no self-confidence. On the day before her birthday, she meets a mysterious alchemist, Hippocrates, and his ...

Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family’s history in their unique ...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

“Good Morning Everyone!” revolves around a family involved in the punk music scene. Aki is a former guitarist for a punk band. She ...

When Mutta was 12-years-old and Hibito was 9-years-old the two brothers saw what they thought was an UFO flying towards the moon. They made a ...

A boy, Shin, and his family are forced to evacuate the island of Miyakejima, when it erupts in 2000. Shin’s dog, Rock, is mistakenly left behind.

Yojin, an eccentric young farmer living in the countryside, falls in love for the first time in his life. Her name is Machiko, she teaches in a ...

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His ...

A thug offers to pay a law student’s gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

A love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota’s mother married Kaoru’s jazz-playing father, effectively ...

New Year’s Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment ...

A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.

An anthology of short films inspired by the events of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks.

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and ...

A government employee meets a hostess of a “pink club,” and together they set out on a journey.

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a ...

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family ...

Shy outcast Kokoro has been avoiding school for weeks when she discovers a portal in her bedroom mirror. She reaches through and finds herself ...

Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the ...

A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet ...

Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa – now merged as Eurasia – have taken their toll on planet Earth. ...