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Satoru has been living with her girlfriend Misa for a while, and is considering proposing to her. One day he shows her photo to two of his old friends, and they both say they were also dating four years ago – at the same time, but in completely different cities. She looked the same, hummed the same song, and had the exact same name, but then suddenly disappeared one day. Satoru starts to suspect that Misa is hiding something from him.

Ami, haunted by recurring apparitions, embarks on a journey from Singapore to Japan in search of her missing mother. Amidst the transforming landscapes, Ami's dreams, hauntings and lost mother unveil their true form.

Ahead of No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger's premiere, in a conference room somewhere, Gokai Red, Zenkaizer, Kamen Rider Decade, Kamen Rider Legend, and Gozyu Wolf are sitting in a discussion table. They are engaged in a heated debate about whether Gozyuger should be recognized as an anniversary. What will be the outcome?!

Struggling with life in Tokyo after a run-in with the law, Seita attempts to settle down in rural and snowy Ikeda.

Set in the sun-drenched landscapes of Okinawa, this heartfelt coming-of-age story follows Teruya Yō, a teenager living with his cheerful single mother, Akane, and younger sister, Mai. Despite their modest life, the family is close-knit and full of warmth. When Yō falls for Lisa, a student at a local dance school, he joins her class—discovering not only his passion for dance but a talent that quickly blossoms. Encouraged by his mother, a former dancer, Yō begins to dream big. The arrival of Hiroki, a music producer and Yō’s estranged uncle, brings news that shatters Yō's hopes of reconnecting with his absent father. As emotions erupt, long-buried truths between mother and son come to light.

A woman descends into a surreal odyssey of fragmented memories after waking with excruciating neck pain.

Shimada, a former Self-Defense Force member, suffers from severe PTSD following the loss of a comrade in a firefight in war-torn South Sudan, a tragedy covered up by the government. Shining a light into Shimada's solitary life in illegal arms manufacturing is a job as an apprentice at a traditional Japanese fireworks factory. There he begins crafting fireworks alongside the master artisan and fellow craftsmen who embrace fireworks that illuminate people's peaceful lives. Yet, parallel to Shimada's journey, his comrades-in-arms with unresolved feelings team up on radical acts to expose the government's cover-up, escalating tensions and pulling Shimada back into the darkness he thought he'd left behind.

Creepy Nuts’ first solo performance at Tokyo Dome as recorded on February 11, 2025.

Within the school swimming club, teenagers question their sexuality and gender identity.

New Year Dream 2025 was a professional wrestling event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom. The event took place on January, 3, 2025 at Tokyo Garden Theater in Tokyo, Japan.

Buliang Zhao is a Chinese man living with his Japanese partner Rin Takahashi, an office worker. He works at a warehouse that sponsors his visa while he pursues his passion for art in the face of family demands for him to return home while Rin patiently weathers overbearing colleagues and her own family’s expectations over her settling down. Through these two characters, on the verge of parting due to the demands of others, the film explores the limits of personal freedom and desire. (Text by Jason Maher)

High schooler Kayama Ito is friendless when it comes to his class so it is kind of ironic when, for a school trip to Hiroshima, he is assigned as the leader of five other students who couldn’t partner up with anyone else. The members of his group are the self-centred Sumire, diligent student Koto, the boastful Daisuke, the timid Chie, and truant Yutaro. A camaraderie forms amongst the six despite their different personalities but an unexpected situation occurs… (Source: genkinahito.wordpress.com), currently no official English title and referred to in English press releases as a romanization of its Japanese title, 6 Nin Bocchi

Experimental sci-fi anime.

Stage Adaptation of the Ensemble Stars! story, Human Comedy.

A shadow reveals its form from the darkness underground. It communicates with a woman's consciousness, and she begins to see fragmentary memories that transcend time and place, as if daydreaming. The shadow takes on the woman's form and travels. Situating itself in places invisible from above ground, it traces what once happened there, listening to the human memories buried in the flow of time.

Meet Me at Angie’s Bar

A 7-day road trip following a seeker of meaning.

SAKANAQUARIUM 2024 "turn" arena tour held by sakanaction from April 20 (Sat) to July 10 (Wed), 2024, and the tour final, the Pia Arena MM performance, has been made into a video work. The arena tour was the first tour by SAKANAQUARIUM in about two years, after a hiatus due to Ichiro Yamaguchi's (Vo/G) health problems, with a total of 15 performances in 8 cities across Japan. Each venue was filled with the audience who had been eagerly awaiting the band's return. The tour was a crossover of the band's impressive performance, a variety of songs, and elaborate stage production, and truly marked the "complete revival" of sakanaction. Yusuke Tanaka, who served as the overall director of the tour, was in charge of everything from video direction to product design for this video production. The concept of the live performance is literally projected onto the product.

Didi, a French traveler, visits a rural town and explores the mountains by bicycle. At a remote shrine, she meets a suspicious young man named Chance, dressed as a farmer, but her bicycle gets a flat tire and she ends up spending the night in an old house. She then meets Emi, a woman who works at a bakery in town, and they hit it off, and the two of them ride through the mountains together. Before long, the end of summer arrives.

Telepathy feat. Hatsune Miku by DECO*27

To mark the opening of a new Cartier boutique in Tokyo's Ginza district, the French fashion house presented a seven-minute animated short film produced by Production I.G with creative input from Naoki Urasawa.

The government launches a brutal campaign to eradicate the Kijo, half-human, half-demon hybrids. Their method: hunting and severing the horns of demons…

Starfish can regrow their lost limbs, but can we ever replace someone dear to us? Two people are confronted with the nature of their relationship at the tip of Honshu.

The Suwa Basin is a huge depression created when the earth was torn apart long ago. A deer sacrifice festival has been held here since ancient times, a ritual handed down from Suwa Taisha, the main shrine of the 10,000 Suwa shrines across the country. What do deer mean to the people of this region?

Okinawa, Japan. Momoko loved the piano and attended a school that had one. Then the war arrived and she was drafted to work in an army hospital. Could she survive the war through the power of music?

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NHK documentary about "Grave of the Fireflies" and 7 notebooks written by Isao Takahata that were found after his death. The film was based on a novel, but also on the director's personal experience, who fled the bombings with his sister.

Yoshito Hiruma (31) (played by Amane Okayama), a part-time university lecturer, is forced to take care of his 10-year-old nephew, Kota, after being left in charge by his pregnant sister. However, before long, Kota disappears. When Yoshito finally manages to find him, he discovers that Kota has become disillusioned with reality and cryptically expresses his desire to “go somewhere else, anywhere but here.” Yoshito resonates with his words, and as their bond deepens, they delve further into Yoshito’s field of expertise—pessimism. Together, they embark on an unusual cohabitation, finding a peculiar sense of enjoyment in their shared pessimism. But eventually, the worst tragedy imaginable befalls each of them.

Japanese stage play adaptation of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's danmei novel Mo Dao Zu Shi (Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation)

Stardom in Korakuen 2025 Oct. was a professional wrestling event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom, held on October 11, 2025, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. In the main event, BMI2000 (Natsuko Tora & Ruaka) defended the Goddesses of Stardom Championship against Reiwa Tokyo Towers (Ami Sourei & Lady C).

The thirteenth annual stage show and concert for both the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai series, featuring cast members from both shows and popular singers of recent seasons.

Aoi is a 17-year-old girl uncertain about her future, but one thing she’s sure of is her pride in being a junior to the legendary actor RYU Chishu, who graduated from her school a century ago. Unfortunately, she’s the only member of her high school’s film club, which now faces closure as her graduation approaches. One summer afternoon, she discovers an old, tattered script in the clubroom, sparking her imagination—who could have written it? As her thoughts run wild, Her strained relationship with her father, a homeroom teacher whose stance remains unclear—friend or foe— and navigates her interactions with a group of eccentric classmates.

Live event hosted by AiScReam, a special Unit from LoveLive Series! held on September 6 & 7, 2025, at Pacifico Yokohama in Yokohama, Japan.

On a street in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Yoshio, a musician bachelor, is drunk. Then he gets a phone call from his brother Satoshi, who tells him that his mother Michiko has attempted suicide and is in a coma. Yoshio decides to head for his hometown where he has not been back for years. He takes Maki, a woman he met that night at the Tama River. They get off at the unmanned station, Ranshima. Yoshio and Maki walk in silence to the hospital where Michiko is. Michiko, however, is unconscious and asleep. Yoshio introduces Maki to his brother, Satoshi, as his own wife. Unlike Satoshi, who works for a company, Yoshio has no money, so it is all he can do to show his face. Yoshio and Maki's fake married life begins.

Set in an all-girls Christian boarding school, Anna always feels like an outsider due to her ability to see ghosts. Her roommate, Rika, is the complete opposite: an effortlessly popular, well-liked honors student admired by everyone. But when Rika takes her own life, the entire school is shaken, none more so than her closest friend, Shiori, who struggles to make sense of the loss. After discovering Rika’s diary, Anna begins to feel her spirit manifest before her, slowly seeping into her body…

The film centres on Taro, an aimless indie filmmaker who gets convinced by Yuki, his girlfriend and financial sponsor, to attend a film festival in Beppu. There he meets the bubbly drifter actress Miki. Part travelogue, part self-reflexive comedy, the dynamic that follows this encounter delivers an ironic and realistic spin on Before Sunrise (1995), depicting two souls wandering around in search of life’s meaning.

There has existed a fierce god named "Otokogami" since the Old Stone Age. The god is called "Otokogami (literally translated as Male God)" because he takes young boys as sacrifices. However, no one actually knew what he really was. The story starts when Wada, a guy who works for a construction company, finds a buried cultural asset during construction in the newly developed residential area of Nissei City. A few days later, something strange happened. A deep hole appeared at the construction site, and Wada's son went missing. The hole leads to a mysterious forest where beautiful women in kimonos and shrine maidens perform a mysterious ritual to appease a male deity. When Wada learns that his son has wandered into the forest, he decides to jump into the hole to rescue his son.

In a story told straight and with restraint we watch Naoko Hanami. She quit her job to look after her dementia-stricken mother Kiyo while the health of her father, Eiji, worsens with age. Struggling alone, she presents a stoic face to the world, too quiet and maybe too scared to speak up for herself. Finally, she turns to the city office to apply for welfare which is where caseworker Munemura, a genuine and sympathetic person, starts to investigate Naoko to see if she qualifies for help.