Maki Sakai

A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

Michiko is a free-willed "sexy diva" who escaped from prison, while Hatchin is a run away girl fleeing from her strict catholic foster family. The two join forces and set off on an unpredictable road trip seeking their own freedom.

The film outlines Japanese students movements in the 60s, then shows the formation of the Japanese United Red Army, a communist armed resistance group.

Supernatural comedy about an unlucky high school student who dies in a bus crash during a school trip only to be press-ganged into a demonic rock band in Hell. Daisuke (Ryunosuke Kamiki) wants to confess his crush to his would-be ...

After one of their group is caught for speeding a group of trouble-making teenagers decide to prank the local police officer. It starts with simple speeding pranks but gradually moves to more elaborate and bizarre pranks.

A high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes and gets caught, which sets off a chain of events that sends his life and the lives of others around him out of control.

Satomi Oka is worried about his final choir competition but is accosted by a shadowy gangster, Kyouji Narita, who demands karaoke sessions with him.

After dropping out of private school, Hiroshi enrolls at a public school and falls in with a pack of unruly thugs. He loves the reckless partying, smoking and boozing - but can he hang when a rivalry with a biker gang leads to cou...

A community is shocked when the bodies of an elderly man and the manager of a home-visit nursing centre are found. The passing of 42 elderly patients is connected to Shiba, a caretaker recognised for his affection and dedication.

Satoru, a traditionalist designer, meets enigmatic Miyuki who shares his values. They agree to weekly cafe meetups, where their romance blossoms. When Satoru intends to propose, Miyuki doesn't appear, leaving her fate uncertain.

Shinichi Tsuda is a genius novelist, he is a winner of the prestigious Naoki Prize for literature. One day, he lets his editor Nahomi Torikai read his latest novel. The novel is supposed to be based on a case Shinichi experienced ...

On a gloomy Monday morning, my week begins. Although I am sleepy, I put on my make-up and I leave home for work at a bank. I take the subway crowded with passengers and get off at the nearest station.

Fourteen-year-old schoolgirl Tsubame is into university student Toru. She seems him in her area and really wants to be his. She struggles with how to inform him of her love. Then her stepmother becomes pregnant and she is distract...

A clumsy romantic, an aloof teacher and a troubled teen cross paths, forming an unlikely household in this offbeat comedy about love and belonging.

Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo, but wasn't popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out...

A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by Ijuin Shizu.

In the time before World War II, a bloody conflict that erupts between villagers and Japan's Special Higher Police forces.

It is a remote and idyllic island and many amenities and comforts afforded and offered to most are missing, but fear not. The island does have its own brothel. Tetsuo is the boss and runs the place. He is harsh and rather imposing...

The intricacies of intense emotional states experienced during profound love.

Sora is a high school student, but feels virtually invisible at school. His friend, Chuya, does unpredictable and surprising things and has a completely different personality than Sora, but they both like the same girl, Kio. In th...

Masajiro Miyazawa, a pawn shop owner, has two sons, Kenji and Toshi. Kenji refuses to take over, while Toshi is wise and gives advice.

High school student Naotatsu travels to live at his uncle's house. In the pouring rain, he is picked up at the nearest station by a strange adult woman named Sakaki who guides him to an unexpected share house where a life together...

Set in an apartment building where many people are rumored to disappear one after another, the story begins when Maruko, a young delivery worker, accidentally discovers the secret of a suspicious resident.

Shuhei is a vice principal at a high school in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. After a health check, he is faced with a reality of being diagnosed with Dementia.