Starring

Anne Higashide (杏)
Yuina Kuroshima (黒島結菜)
Kentaro Sakaguchi (坂口健太郎)
Ken Mitsuishi (光石研)
Takashi Sasano (笹野高史)

Director

Toru Hosokawa (細川徹)

Japan release

November 11, 2016

Golden Orchestra is a movie about a classical music-loving female high school teacher and her adventures as leader of a local amateur orchestra whose members may have the highest average age in the world. The result is a load of laughs, tears, excitement and, yes, youthful spirit.

Starring

Juri Ueno (上野樹里)
Lily Franky (リリー・フランキー)
Tatsuya Fuji (藤竜也)

Director

Yuki Tanada (タナダユキ)

Japan release

October 8, 2016

34-year-old Aya leads a carefree life and living with a divorcee 20 years her senior, Mr. Ito, who works part-time in a supply center for school meals. One day Aya’s father suddenly appears at their door one day, and moves in to turn all of their lives upside down.

Starring

Shuhei Nomura (野村周平)
Kento Kaku (賀来賢人)
Kumiko Aso (麻生久美子)
Ken Mitsuishi (光石研)

Director

Keisuke Toyoshima (豊島圭介)

Japan release

July 9, 2016

Kiyotaka is a college student with a positive if not lackadaisical outlook on life. This summer, he resolves to get his driver’s license. And then while out one day, he gets hit by a car driven by a young yakuza, who turns out, to be a former high school classmate, Todoroki...

Starring

Tomokazu Miura (三浦友和)
Kaho Minami (南果歩)
Hirofumi Arai (新井浩文)
Ryuya Wakaba (若葉竜也)

Director

Masaaki Akahori (赤堀雅秋)

Japan release

June 18, 2016

An overbearing father. An eldest son, laid off and forsaken. A wife struggling with mental illness. A second son sentenced to death row after an indiscriminate murder. And a woman, opposed to capital punishment, who marries him in prison. One family in a shocking story.

Starring

Fumi Nikaido (二階堂ふみ)
Ren Osugi (大杉蓮)
Yoko Maki (真木よう子)
Kengo Kora (高良健吾)

Director

Gakuryu Ishii (石井岳龍)

Japan release

April 1, 2016

Although very far apart in age, a couple converse endlessly. At night, they sleep side by side like a contented married couple. But Akako is at times human and at other times a bright red goldfish, a shapeshifter whose true form is unknown to others. Disrupting the idyllic yet surreal relationship is the appearance of a ghost from the writer’s past, his former lover.

Starring

Tomoya Nakamura (中村倫也)
Hirofumi Arai (新井浩文)
Nozomi Sasaki (佐々木希)
Anne Higashide (杏)
Yoshino Kimura (木村佳乃)
Yutaka Matsushige (松重豊)

Director

Show Yanagisawa (柳沢翔)

Japan release

March 5, 2016

A young man, abandoned by his mother as a child, discovers with the news of her death repressed memories of the past. The intersecting emotions of “family” members left behind unfold in a heartrending drama about feelings lost and found.

Starring

Bryerly Long (ブライアリー・ロング)
Hirofumi Arai (新井浩文)
Geminoid F (ジェミノイドF)
Nijiro Murakami (村上虹郎)

Directed

Koji Fukada (深田晃司)

Japan release

November 21, 2015

As Japan falls to ruin, an android recites poetry... to a gravely ill woman. A story about life and death for robot and human.

Starring

Satomi Kobayashi (小林聡美)
Nobuko Shibuya (渋谷昶子)
Takaya Kamikawa (上川隆也)

Directed

Akane Yamada (山田あかね)

Japan release

October 31, 2015

When I saw what reality was for dogs, I turned on my camera. A moving docudrama about nameless dogs and the people who save them.

Starring

Akiko Kikuchi (菊池亜希子)
Azusa Mine (三根梓)
Yukichi Kobayashi (小林ユウキチ)
Orime Amagi (天衣織女)
Keiichi Suzuki (鈴木慶一)

Director

Keisuke Toyoshima (豊島圭介)

Japan release

July 18, 2015

“I’ve decided to open a shave ice shop by the beach.” Mari leaves the city to return to her hometown. There, she meets a troubled burn victim, Hajime.　Together, two girls find new life in a dying town.

Starring

Akiko Kikuchi (菊池亜希子)
Ayumu Nakajima (中島歩)

Director

Yukiko Sode (岨手由貴子)

Japan release

May 30, 2015

Midori and Mao have been together for four years and the relationship is growing dull. She is the free-spirited artsy type while he comes from a privileged family. Just as the two are thinking of breaking up, Midori discovers she is pregnant! Two naturally incompatible people traveling on parallel lines.

Starring

Shinichi Tsutsumi (堤真一)
Machiko Ono (尾野真千子)
Naoto Inti Raymi (ナオト・インティライミ)
Nanao (菜々緒)
Hiroshi Tamaki (玉木宏)

Director

Toshio Lee (李闘士男)

Japan release

January 17, 2015

Shoko, who has fled to Bali following the collapse of her marriage finder business meets “Big Brother”, who quit school at 15,once led an 1800-member motorcycle gang, and is now a billionaire in Bali, in a tale of life lessons and shared comedy.

Starring

Yui Ichikawa (市川由衣)
Sosuke Ikematsu （池松壮亮)

Director

Hiroshi Ando (安藤尋)

Japan release

September 13, 2014

A female student falls for a senior, but the senior not really for her. He is willing to go to bed with her, but doesn’t feel love. The couple embark on a painful yet passionate experiment. A 1970s story in 1970s images, based on the legendary book by the then very young writer Kei Nakazawa.