Japan Movies

An independently produced documentary about growing up as a blind youth in 1960's Japan. It focuses on a group of elementary level students being taug...

After the disaster of March 2011, the Japanese authorities decided to build a gigantic 15 meter high, 500 kilometer long, anti-tsunami wall, separatin...

A faux-documentary about a group of young people who have disappeared.

Director Miho Niikura examines the modern practice of tee (Okinawan karate),and its attractiveness to Westerners—some of whom travel thousands of mil...

Writes Ando, "Oh! My Mother was the first work I made using a newly bought 16mm camera I had purchased with the writer Shuji Terayama in Paris. This p...

A portrait of the German electronic band "Der Plan". Büld follows the band on their tour through Japan.

This is the story of colorful Japanese customs and manners of the past, and their contrast with present-day Japan. We see ancient farming customs, agr...

A 10 day trip to Japan captured in 8 minutes.

A man suddenly disappears after entering a university. The detective who began an investigation at the request of his parents falls ill by an unknown...

A springtime Traveltalk visit to Japan.

Tatsuya Ishii won the JFF Special Award at the Pia Film Festival Award 2018 for Subarashiki Sekai. Here, he chases the concept of true love through th...

Before World War II, Ikego village was an idyllic agriculture community. The Imperial Navy took over the village and the hills to build the largest am...

Documentary about two boys and a girl who travel to surfing spots around the world.

On March 11 2011, after a magnitude 9 earthquake, a giant tsunami destroyed most of the north eastern japanese coast, killing almost 20,000 people.

BL live adaptation of the manga 'Ame to Kiss'

The Pearl Jam Movie!! That’s right. Made in 1995 by the band when Jack Irons was drummer and filmed over the course of their 1995 Far-East tour in Jap...

A documentary film telling the story of true friendship and commitment to Japan’s recovery by the international community following the Great East Ja...

"The Pine's Branches" is the latest work in Murata Tomoyasu’s series “Sei toshi ni matsuwaru kioku no tabi (Journey through memories of life and death...