, 1h51 Directed byKōji Fukada OriginJapon GenresDrama ActorsMariko Tsutsui, Sōsuke Ikematsu, Mitsuru Fukikoshi Roles Ichiko Shirakawa Rating64% Une infirmière à domicile se retrouve suspectée de complicité après des violences commises sur la plus jeune fille de la famille où elle officie. En retraçant la chaîne des événements, une question émerge : est-elle vraiment coupable ?
, 1h58 Directed byKōji Fukada OriginJapon GenresDrama, Thriller ActorsTadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui Roles Akie Suzuoka Rating68% Toshio possède un petit atelier métallurgique. Lui et sa femme Akié ont une fille d'une dizaine d'années, Hotaru. Un jour, Yasaka qui est une ancienne connaissance de Toshio, se présente à l'atelier. Toshio lui donne un emploi et lui propose de le loger.
, 1h48 GenresDrama ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films ActorsKasumi Arimura, Yumiko Shaku, Keizō Kanie, Mariko Tsutsui, Taiko Katono Roles Youko Isaka Rating48% It is set in a small fishing village in Shikamachi, Ishikawa Prefecture, who depend on the local amateur orchestra as their favorite source of entertainment. When the conductor dies unexpectedly, the townspeople recruit the man’s granddaughter, a high school student with a talent for conducting.
, 1h46 Directed byHideo Nakata GenresDrama, Thriller, Horror ThemesGhost films ActorsAtsuko Maeda, Hiroki Narimiya, Naomi Nishida, Mariko Tsutsui, Tarō Suwa, Megumi Sato Roles Eiko Ninomiya Rating51% A young nursing student, Asuka Ninomiya (Atsuko Maeda) moves to a dilapidated apartment complex with her father, Isao (Masanobu Katsumura); mother, Sachiko (Naomi Nishida); and younger brother, Satoshi (Ruiki Sato). She tries to greet her elderly next door neighbor, Shinozaki (Masaya Takahashi), with little success, and befriends a local boy named Minoru Kinoshita (Kanau Tanaka), whose only guardian is Shinozaki.
, 2h13 Directed bySion Sono OriginJapon GenresDrama ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, Films about earthquakes ActorsJun Murakami, Isao Natsuyagi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Denden, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Mariko Tsutsui Roles Meiko Suzuki Rating64% Un séisme affecte le Japon entraînant l'explosion d'une centrale nucléaire. Dans un petit village appelé de façon fictive Nagashima, un couple de fermiers mène une existence des plus paisibles et s'accroche à sa propriété malgré les consignes des autorités qui définissent un périmètre de sécurité coupant en deux la localité. Fils et belle-fille partent, quant à eux, vers un autre village, où, Izumi, la jeune épouse, découvre qu'elle va mettre au monde un enfant. Un film évoquant la catastrophe du 11 mars 2011 à Fukushima.
, 1h59 Directed byTakeshi Kitano OriginJapon GenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama ThemesFilms about children, Peinture, L'enfance marginalisée ActorsTakeshi Kitano, Kanako Higuchi, Ren Osugi, Kumiko Asō, Akira Nakao, Nao Ōmori Roles Haru Kuramochi Rating72% Kitano plays Machisu, who is born into a wealthy family, but loses both his parents as a child. When his father (Akira Nakao) commits suicide after the collapse of his business, Machisu's stepmother (Mariko Tsutsui) sends him to live with an aunt and uncle who mistreat him and finally send him to an orphanage. As a young man, Machisu (Yurei Yanagi) attends art school and finds his style of painting challenged by the more experimental and conceptual work turned in by his classmates. Machisu takes a job in order to pay for art school, and strikes up a friendship with a fellow co-worker, Sachiko (Kumiko Aso), who seems to grasp his artistic vision. They get married and have a daughter. As he grows older, Mashisu's obsession with contemporary art controls his whole life, leaving him insensitive of everything around him, including the death of his own daughter (Eri Tokunaga) and his wife's desertion. He tries to please the art critics, remaining penniless. He is caught up in a fire and almost dies. Losing all his previous works, he is left with a single half-burnt soda can, which he assesses at 200,000 yen and tries to sell. This ends up kicked carelessly away when his wife picks him up from the street. They walk away together, seemingly finally rid of his artistic obsession.
, 1h45 OriginJapon GenresThriller, Horror ThemesGhost films ActorsRenji Ishibashi, Mimura, Asaka Seto, Tara Platt, Kō Shibasaki, Shinichi Tsutsumi Roles Marie Mizunuma Rating53% Set a year after the original, One Missed Call 2 introduces Kyoko Okudera and her friend Madoka Uchiyama. Both women are teaching assistants at a kindergarten in the middle of Tokyo. Madoka persuades Kyoko to visit a restaurant where Kyoko's boyfriend Naoto Sakurai works part-time at. Mei-Feng is the daughter of the cook, and her cellphone rings with the "ringtone of death". However, she is out buying groceries and her father answers it. The call was meant to be for Mei-Feung, but since her father answered it, he hears his own death instead. Later, when the restaurant is closed, Mei-Feung gives Kyoko and Madoka her new phone number since she has gotten a new one along with a new cellphone. Seconds after exchanging numbers, Madoka gets a call with the ringtone of death.
, 1h52 Directed byTakashi Miike OriginJapon GenresThriller, Fantasy, Horror ThemesFilms about children, Ghost films, Films about child abuse ActorsKō Shibasaki, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Anna Nagata, Kazue Fukiishi, Renji Ishibashi, Yutaka Matsushige Roles Marie Mizunuma Rating62% College student Yoko Okazaki receives a phone call accompanied by an eerie, unusual ringtone, which goes to voicemail. The call is from Yoko's own number, dated two days to the future. Yoko and her friend Yumi Nakamura listen to the voicemail, hearing Yoko's voice chatting casually, followed by a horrendous scream and then dead silence. Two days later, Yoko calls Yumi that night to discuss shopping plans. Yumi realizes that Yoko is on the exact routine as the voicemail they'd heard before, but can only hear Yoko screaming after she is violently dragged off onto a speeding commuter train, which kills her. Her head then vomits a red candy upon death as her detached hand, still clutching her phone, calls a number. Several days later, Yoko's boyfriend, Kenji Kawai, reveals to Yumi that he had also received a voicemail accompanied by the same ringtone as Yoko's right after her death. Yumi then watches as Kenji is pulled into an empty elevator shaft to his death. He also spits out a red candy and calls a number, like Yoko.
, 1h39 Directed byJun Ichikawa GenresDrama, Romance ActorsHajime Hana, Kei Suma, Issei Ogata, Kimiko Yo, Hitoshi Ueki, Michiko Hada Roles Managing Secretary Rating65% The movie follows Hajime Hanaoaka as he struggles with his impending retirement from his administrative job at Tokyo Co. Ltd. He plans to retire on his birthday, December 25, after 34 years of service to the company. The film opens with Hanaoaka boarding a train to work. He goes through the motions of his daily schedule, looking troubled and sad. Hanaoaka is realizing, now that he is about to retire, exactly how much of his life was dedicated to his work, and how much he will lose when he has to leave it. When his coworker asks Hanaoaka to write a reflection on his 34 years of work at Tokyo Co., Hanaoaka writes, "It wasn't just my job. It was my life.... I spoke more with my staff than with my own son." To cope with his sadness, Hanaoaka turns to jazz music. He had played the drums in his past, but hadn't done so in a very long time. When some of his coworkers reveal that they, too, can play instruments, a group of them decide to form the Tokyo Co. Swing Band. This puts Hanaoaka in much better spirits, and he and his fellow musicians spend a lot of time together rehearsing and discussing jazz up until their final performance at Hanaoaka's retirement party.