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After closing the small factory he inherited from his father, Teru finds himself abandoned by his wife and child. Having lost his purpose in life, he scrapes by doing day labor when he reunites with Hiroshi, who remains as innocent as ever. Hiroshi, who runs a “trouble-shooting service” traveling from place to place, invites Teru to become his partner.

Tōko works as a shrine maiden. Her days are full of joy, as she would be called out by the village people to play or sometimes simply savor time with nothing spectacular to do. One day, Tōko finds out that the village festival which she has been waiting for with great anticipation will be cancelled due to an old superstition. Tōko, who wants to make the festival happen, starts preparations against the advice of the villagers. Events unfold in an unexpected direction when she meets a strange little girl by the lake.

The 2022 (Reiwa 4) edition of NHK's New Year's Eve TV special Kōhaku Uta Gassen

This is a human drama written by Keralino Sandorovich showcasing people fascinated with and obsessed with laughter in Shinjuku in the mid-1950s.

Rino Sashihara's idol group =LOVE and its sister group ≠ME (Not Equal Me) held day and night joint concert "IkoNoi Fes 2021" at Fuji-Q Highland Conifer Forest on Saturday, October 9, 2021.

The year is 2072 in Japan. Wi is involved in top secret research to maintain consciousness in dead people and succeeds in capturing the consciousness of his girlfriend, Yoko, who is on the verge of death. His success makes him a wanted man by the authorities and scientists of the state. Information is being concealed by the authorities but rumors of a meteorite that has fallen in the region begin to spread. Since that explosion, Wi has been having difficulties communicating with Yoko. Wi gathers his former research colleagues to find out the truth to regain communication with Yoko. But those who gathered also have former relations with Yoko or want to steal Wi’s success. Yoko, on the other hand, laments to Wi about the discomfort of being conscious even though she is dead... The film expresses the desires, anguish, and bitterness of the men surrounding Yoko, and depicts the muddled history and the world of unknowns, while also asking what is human? What is life?

Saijo has an ability to see special glow around women who are in love. Kitashiro, his childhood friend, the only person that knows about his ability, has had a crush on him most of her life, but Saijo tells her that she doesn't emit light around him which leaves her at a loss. Meanwhile, their classmate Yadorigi, who has a habit of liking guys belonging to other women, mistakes Saijo as Kitashiro' s boyfriend and makes a move on him. One day, Saijo accidentally sees a notebook that belongs to Shinonome, a girl who is trying to explore the meaning of love. They start an exchange diary to discuss the topic, but Kitashiro feels uncomfortable watching them deepen their relationship. And when Yadorigi sees this, she decides that she too wants to start an exchange diary with them.

A Japanese/English crime drama set in a near-future Japan where diversity is already a norm. It is made to advocate diversity in the Japanese film/TV industries where minority actors have virtually no representation. Starring openly transgender actress Kota Ishijima, openly lesbian actress Ami Ide, and Afro-Japanese actress Ema Grace.

Chicchi, an ordinary office lady who works in Commercial Sector II of the solar system, heads to a space camp for a vacation. However, she crash-lands on a planet that is a "graveyard" for scrapped ships.

The tenth 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film.

Tomoya is a 21-year-old a university student in Tokyo and a chance encounter with Shoichi, a gay bar owner who operates in Shinjuku 2-chome, allows Tomoya the chance to begin articulating his homosexuality. He will have many men to learn from as he is drawn into a house party hosted by Akito and his partner Yasushi, Naoki, a gay club owner, and his friend Masashi, and Kenichi, a photographer. As the alcohol flows and the party gets exciting, Tomoya works out all is not well with the other guests as their worries and feelings that have been locked away are gradually revealed.

A year later, Mouri was demoted, and Saiga was expelled from the gang. Engetsu suddenly fell ill, and in Yokohama, where Engetsu's influence waned, drugs began to spread. Amid the unrest, Mouri and Saiga begin to confront each other.

The ninth 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film.

The Kisaragi clan has been fighting against the demons known as the Seven Demons for 1000 years. Raika, who inherits her family’s power, puts on a demon defeat suit that causes extreme pain when worn, and throws herself into the battle to defeat the seven demons! Raika accepts as her destiny， even the intense pain caused by having her soul taken into her body to prevent the resurrection of the seven demons she has defeated.

Childhood friends Sota, and Rakuto are on a journey to find the Phoenix, which shouldn't exist. As adults, there remains a dark shadow over each of them as their lives have progressed, thus they seek a bit of escapism in their travels. Parallel to their own story, is the mysterious bride. Not to mention a deserted youkai snack bar in the underworld, a gang from an SM Castle, an agricultural rapper, a young man on a bike trip, a monk peaching about enlightenment, the owner and operator of an empty movie theater, and more that the duo meet on their aimless journey. The hints of the true colors of life are within the journey, so what kind of Phoenix are they looking for?

A surprising and humanistic drama that questions the meaning of happiness through the strange fate of one man who caused an accident. One night, a taciturn and clumsy man working at a scrap iron factory in the suburbs of Tokyo, causes an irreparable accident with his colleague. The two try to hide the incident but the man’s fate takes a turn for the worse and his colleague and family are faced with threats to their survival. A psychologial thriller that reveals the ills of Japanese society along with the darknesses of the human heart based on a script full of surprises written by the director Dai Sakō. Tomomitsu Adachi, who plays the lead role, exudes an eerie charm, and is flanked by many of Japan's best supporting actors such as Yutaka Matsushige and Shohei Uno.

Asai Takuma is a fourth year college student who is having a hard time finding a job and is desperate for the sake of his future with girlfriend, Shintani Risa. One day, he was asked out by his childhood friends Eiichi and Mamiko to dig out a time capsule that was buried 10 years ago. The time capsule contains a letter from Takuma himself in the past. However, Takuma also receives a letter from himself 10 years later with a "shocking future". He decides to collaborate with the future him to change his life.

Three months after the operation of the "Emergency Case Response Investigation Team" (commonly known as "Kintori") was suspended, under Kajiyama Katsutoshi (Tanaka Tetsushi), the director of the Special Investigation Headquarters for the 800 million yen robbery. , Kazuhisa Iwaki (Koji Okura), deputy director general of the Metropolitan Police Department, gave a top-secret order. Surprisingly, the fingerprints of a man found on the premises of a private house the other day match the fingerprints left on the cash truck that was robbed of 800 million yen! In other words, there is a high possibility that the person who died was the suspect in the 800 million yen robbery. Aiming to solve the case as soon as possible, Iwaki decides to "temporarily operate Kintori and call in the necessary personnel" as a special measure! Kajiyama is ordered to gather personnel immediately and carry out the interrogation of the residents of the private house.

A washed up horror film director named Kôji Kuroishi and his assistant director named Miho Ichikawa visit a house deep in wooded mountains to film a movie. Once arrived, they meet a mentally deranged woman named Maria Miyoshi who proclaims she's a fan of Kuroishi's works. The woman pleads that she's experienced the same things as documented in Kuroishi's works. Unexplainable phenomena quickly begin to happen, so Kuroishi sets out to document these experiences and turn them into a film, together with the help of a 'super volunteer' named Shôhei Uno and a handsome psychic medium named Nanashi.

Confronting half of her mother’s life—her mother who had survived the Jeju April 3 Incident—the director tries to scoop out disappearing memories. A tale of family, which carries on from Dear Pyongyang, carving out the cruelty of history, and questioning the precarious existence of the nation-state.

Special short film about the collaboration of the fictional group Aqours and the virtual Idol Hatsune Miku.

The World of Tsudaman

In the year 2045, where the Internet and AI are commonplace even in space, and centers on a group of children stranded in space after a large-scale accident occurs in a space station. By using narrowband, social networking, and a drone that they can manipulate through smartphones and low-intelligence AI, they overcome many crises.

The story follows a high school girl who is a young caregiver. She ends up helping the drama club as a lighting assistant, leading to a conflict between her own circumstances of having to manage household chores and caregiving, and the new transfer student who is determined to take the club activities seriously. It's a fresh and heartwarming tale of a girl coming to terms with her true feelings that she has kept buried deep inside.

Set in a small town drive-in, the story revolves around Akio, who harbors complex feelings for his sister Marié, who returns home after her husband’s suicide with her son. The narrative intertwines with the lives of Akio’s half-brother Keisuke, part-time worker Emiko, their father Shōzō, high school teacher Ōtsuji, Akio’s lover Maria, Wakamatsu’s wife Kuriko, and Kuriko’s affair partner Yamaguchi, creating a web of intricate relationships.

This story follows the journey of an ill-fated young man whose ambition is to be a professional antiques dealer. A hard-up young man, who makes his living by selling old items in flea markets, meets a nurse and he falls in love with her. He decides to become a successful antique dealer. So he participates in a huge auction in the mountains but he makes a fool of himself. At the same time he ends up being in the netherworld, and hovers between life and death.

The stage of this work is Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo in the early Heisei period. Immediately after the bubble burst gangster countermeasures law, there were gangsters who defended the last territory and young people who freely controlled the city. The youth conflict escalated day by day and became a force that surpassed the yakuza, and the runaways were sent to juvenile prisons one after another, where exclusive rules awaited.

Kasumi, a child welfare officer who has entered the child guidance center as a new graduate and has been in her second year, struggles to fulfill her duties, even though she sometimes has doubts about how to proceed with her work. One day, she takes care of Hina, a 9-year-old girl who was temporarily taken into custody due to suspicion of neglect. It seemed that Hina would be able to go home soon after seeing her parents deeply reflecting on her...

An untidy room. Empty beer tins, empty wine bottles, a half-empty glass of whisky... A girl is getting up absent-mindedly and starts preparing herself. YOUR morning starts. Lazy and hard-to-wake-up YOU. The emoticon is ME watching over YOU. I play tricks on YOU, while YOU are playing the guitar and drinking. One day, in town, YOU walk past THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND who is buying an Anemone I liked, and remembering that I liked them, YOU rush out to buy them. THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND displays the Anemone with care. One day, years after I died, YOU hear noise from the closet. Opened, YOU see MY garden right in front of YOU. Overflowing emotions of ME and YOU. When exiting from the room with memories, a picture of the Anemone that YOU painted is displayed in YOUR new room.

Nana Mizuki's LIVE HOME 2022 features the final performance held on August 21, 2022 at the Nippon Gaishi Hall in Aichi, Japan . "NANA MIZUKI LIVE HOME 2022" was the band's first summer live tour in about three years and included tracks from the album "DELIGHTED REVIVER". This concert film includes Nana's performance that makes HOME (a place where you and your fans live) and gives you the passion and excitement that only Nana Mizuki can give you!

Highschool graduate Natsumi lives in a provincial town with her estranged mother, working an unfulfilled job at a supermarket among gossips of conservative townspeople. The latest gossip revolves around Keiko, an attractive young woman recently relocated from Tokyo. Natsumi is drawn to Keiko and the two strikes up a friendship, finding relief in each other from the repressive community. Through Keiko, Natsumi discovers her own voice and agency, eventually fighting back against the prejudices and injustices society heaps upon women.

A sweet and bitter story about Koichi, who tries to help troubled boys with homemade sweets, until he finds his first love in 8.2 seconds.

Real estate tycoon Kagami Yusuke is approaching old age, but he lives a flawless, smooth-sailing life. However, he harbors a perverse urge to spy on other people having sex, finding the ultimate pleasure. His object of desire is his son's wife, Saori, a kimono dresser. However, Saori also harbors a twisted sexual urge, secretly seducing men every day, without her husband's knowledge... What will the man and woman discover beneath the draped kimonos as their hidden desires intersect in the afternoon?

A member of the high school art club called Sakuko falls into the sea while sketching a boat. Witnessing the incident, Saibara creates a painting titled "Drowning Sakuko" and wins an award at a contest, leading the painting to be displayed at school. Moreover, Saibara takes the liberty of announcing that she will paint Sakuko for her next piece during a newspaper interview. Frustrated by the situation, Sakuko gives up on her artistic path and attempts to create a new work with the motif of a "boat" in her home, which is scheduled for demolition.

Shuhei passes the telephone booth installed on the side of the railway and goes home. It was a family reunion once a week, but an odd couple who moved in close to me visited me and started saying and acting as if to stir up the family.

Depicts the “bonds” that connect through “food” under the theme of school lunch in Ashiya City. Nonomura Nana is a new nutritionist who works at an elementary school in Ashiya. Struggle every day for the smiles of children who eat delicious lunch. The lunch menu that appears is packed with the ingenuity and love of nutritionists and cooks. While drawing efforts to keep costs down, cooperation with suppliers, and the backside of difficult cooking sites, the importance of school lunches that protect the growth of children is drawn.

Ichi and Hachi, former high school baseball players, drag out their broken dream of competing in Koshien and lead junk filled days. After getting into a car accident involving yakuza, they get pulled into the middle of a bloody conflict.

Dangerous Giants of Darkness try to defeat Ultraman Trigger once more! In order to do that, they visit Moon and use their forbidden power. The power of darkness even summons Absolutians. Will our hero be able to stop his archenemies?

The Yamazaki Ichimon, gathered as usual at Himuro’s (Yasukaze Motomiya) office, pushes to expand the Kenyukai office for more comfort. Ishizawa (Hiroto Honda) finally decides to buy a building, but Yamamura (Kenta Kawasaki), tasked with securing funds, hesitates. Just then, Ishizawa receives a call from one of his twin sisters, Arisa, showing an unexpectedly gentle side—until his expression suddenly hardens. Claiming it’s an emergency, Ishizawa reveals the truth: his other twin sister Marisa (Marina Mizushima) is simply crying after a fight with her boyfriend. Brushed off by his doted-on sister, Ishizawa asks Yamamura to check on her instead. Meeting Marisa in secret, Yamamura learns about her relationship with Tommy (Ken Mizorogi)—only for Ishizawa to erupt, insisting Tommy is a dangerous killer, sending the situation spiraling fast…

Hinata is in charge of the script at a theater company. He is busy rehearsing for the next performance with his friends Kazumasa, who is the leader and director of the troupe, and Eri (Hayamina), who plays the heroine. Hinata and Eri are in a secret relationship between a man and a woman. One day, while rehearsing for a play at Kazumasa's house, Kazumasa's beautiful mother Madoka (Yuko Shiraki) welcomes the members of the theater company by cooking dinner for them. Madoka once aspired to be an actress, and she supports young people's dreams. Hinata can't write the love scene for his girlfriend's next play well, so he decides to ask Madoka, an adult woman, to read her unfinished scenario for advice...

A high school girl living in Aomori Prefecture who loves subcultures struggles to choose between the path of being the successor of "Itako" and the path of living in Tokyo, which she longs for. Then, she develops a friendship with the spirit of the fox who possessed her by chance, and while getting involved in her surroundings, she overcomes various difficulties and grows as a slapstick coming-of-age comedy.

A short film collection featuring the winning works of the "1st Japan Horror Film Awards".

This musical is based on the memoir "The World I Saw When I Lost My Memory".

Virtual singers Kaf, Rim, Harusaruhi, Isekaijoucho, and Koko. The five witches of Kamitsubaki, who have defied fate with their "songs," will take to the stage for a talk.

Akiko quit being a piano teacher and has been spending her days aimlessly without setting any goals for herself. One night on New Year’s Eve, she and her younger reclusive brother Yukio are summoned by their older sister Haruko to an urgent meeting because their father is dying. Haruko proposes that they join hands and fight against his mistress Midori in order to protect his assets from her. Despite Akiko’s reluctance, she gets dragged into it by Haruko and has to scurry about. However, she gradually comes to know a different side to her two siblings that she had never realised. They eventually end up sneaking into the family home in the middle of the night to steal the safe.

Shizuka, a college student, is recruited by a group named the "Japan Salvation Conference" for a mission. She and her pals leave their astral bodies and head for the spirit world to face the Great Demon of Hades that aims to destroy Japan.

A short film by Kazuaki Kiriya.

A musical adaptation of Kenji Mizoguchi's 1948 film.

Tsuneo Shoji has finally reached retirement age, but his wife feels sick when she sits in the passenger seat of the car due to her husband's illness, and his daughter says, "Husband's disease!"

MyGO!!!!!'s second solo live concert.

The tenth night of the tournament took place on August 2, 2022, at Hamamatsu Arena in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka.