Arata Iura
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1974-09-15
Locus Natus: Hino, Tokyo, Giappone
Et ut: ARATA, いうらあらた
The World of You
High school student Yuki suffers from a chronic disease and has lost hope for living. One day she has a life-changing encounter with Aki, her...
release : 2022.01.29popularis : 0.734
Distance
On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at...
release : 2001.05.26popularis : 4.177
Air Doll
A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with...
release : 2009.09.26popularis : 9.866
Ping Pong
As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then...
release : 2002.07.20popularis : 4.819
Bare Essence of Life
Youjin is a quirky young man living in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Yojin has a difficult time sitting still and can't focus on extended conversations....
release : 2009.06.06popularis : 2.092
HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky
Members of SWORD win against Wangan Rengogun, which is led by Kohaku. The city becomes peaceful again. Nevertheless, the most brutal gangs, Doubt...
release : 2017.08.19popularis : 7.277
Undercurrent
Kanae's husband disappeared without a trace while on a union trip. Though usually headstrong and independent, the woman becomes plagued with worry...
release : 2023.10.06popularis : 8.198
Snakes and Earrings
While alone in a nightclub, straight-laced Lui meets sensitive but troubled punk kid Ama. Mesmerized by his split tongue, she becomes obsessed with...
release : 2008.09.20popularis : 15.564
Solanin
Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Taneda is permanently crashing at her apartment...
release : 2010.04.03popularis : 4.539
United Red Army
Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into...
release : 2007.08.26popularis : 3.323
20th Century Boys 3: Redemption
The final showdown, and the final reveal. who is Friend? How can he be stopped?
release : 2009.08.19popularis : 7.981
After Life
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently...
release : 1998.09.11popularis : 12.264
From Me to You
Sawako Kuronuma looks miserable on the outside, but is actually a positive-minded girl, who looks up to Shota Kazehaya, a sociable and friendly boy....
release : 2010.09.25popularis : 7.429
The Ex-idol, Stuck in Life, Decided to Live with a Complete Stranger
Akiko (Mai Fukagawa) is a former idol, but now lives an ordinary life. She works at a company and keeps reminding herself that she is happy and to...
release : 2023.11.03popularis : 6.388
Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art
In 2018 Japan’s NHK television network was given unprecedented access to the Freer Gallery of Art’s collection of works by Katsushika...
release : 2023.05.28popularis : 2.025
11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate
On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of...
release : 2012.05.20popularis : 2.964
Murderous Intent's Journey the Movie
Takaki runs a small cardboard processing company. One day, he killed himself. He did this because of Yoshiyuki. Yoshiyuki is the CEO of a company...
release : 2021.02.05popularis : 0.717
Our Homeland
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them...
release : 2012.07.01popularis : 5.362
September 1923
Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
release : 2023.09.01popularis : 4.586
Prisoner/Terrorist
During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leaving him captured. Exposed to maltreatment...
release : 2007.02.02popularis : 2.479
Half & Half
A lonely young girl who has lost her mother wears a blindfold all day and believes she has only half the world. Until one day she meets a middle-aged...
release : 2015.11.07popularis : 2.851
The Ravine of Goodbye
In a valley, with a dense growth of trees, a baby is killed. The baby's mother Satomi is arrested as the prime suspect. The police also learn that...
release : 2013.06.22popularis : 2.578
Rich Man, Poor Woman in New York
Makoto who is working in Brazil is back in Japan for a short stay. However, not having a place for the week she stays over at Toru's house. Their...
release : 2013.04.01popularis : 1.796
Chicken Phoenix
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...
release : 2022.04.15popularis : 2.205
Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
In 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the author came across diplomatic documents relating...
release : 2018.06.30popularis : 1.047
最後の晩餐 〜刑事・遠野一行と七人の容疑者〜
On the first day of opening, a small Italian restaurant is set on fire, killing three customers, and the unidentified survivor, who was injured and...
release : 2011.05.14popularis : 2.053
20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope
Set 15 years after "Twentieth Century Boys," Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an attempt to stop...
release : 2009.01.30popularis : 6.709
20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End
In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight...
release : 2008.08.19popularis : 9.335
Shady Grove
Rika, a bright, attractive, and driven young woman, is intent on marrying her dreamy boyfriend Seiichi Ono who is not only tall and handsome but also...
release : 1999.07.03popularis : 0.514
Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship
Su-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings...
release : 2013.03.02popularis : 2.12
The Extreme Sukiyaki
Former college buddies Horaguchi and Okawa suddenly reunite on a whim after 15 years apart and try to resume their friendship by planning a trip...
release : 2013.11.23popularis : 0.902
John Rabe
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
release : 2009.04.02popularis : 9.485
Like Father, Like Son
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must...
release : 2013.09.28popularis : 16.755
Blazing Famiglia
"Blazing Famiglia" centers around a family of former teenage gangsters. Tetsu Hino (Yoshimi Tokui) was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle...
release : 2012.09.08popularis : 1.812
Strangers in the City
Former high school teacher Kazuo Hatano (Toru Nakamura) reunites 12 years later with Masako Tezuka (Manami Konishi). Masako Tezuka was his former...
release : 2010.11.20popularis : 1.603
Miroku
Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage years to adult life.
release : 2013.10.26popularis : 1.543
The Millennial Rapture
Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in...
release : 2012.09.04popularis : 1.646
A Blue Automobile
Richio, a young DJ, is as emotionally non-existent as no other man on the planet. He uses his tough exterior to avoid attachments to people and...
release : 2004.11.20popularis : 2.549
Caterpillar
The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese...
release : 2010.08.14popularis : 4.284
Gina K
"Gina K" tells the story of the daughter of a famous stripper, who reveals her family history so she can stand proud as a vocalist. On stage she's...
release : 2005.08.27popularis : 2.372
The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Korean-Japanese director Gu Su Yeon makes his directorial debut with the mouthwateringly delicious The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi. As the title clearly...
release : 2007.05.05popularis : 1.35
Petrel Hotel Blue
Seeking to exact revenge upon Yoji, Yukio travels to an area surrounded by the sea, desert and lava topped mountains. There, Yukio meets mysterious...
release : 2012.03.24popularis : 1.58
Shibuya
Go Ayano plays Kazunari Mizusawa, a young photographer gathering pictures of girls in Shibuya for a documentary. Suddenly the constant noise of the...
release : 2010.01.09popularis : 1.576
Tokyo Cowboy
Brash businessman Hideki (Arata Iura) convinces his Tokyo bosses he can turn a profitless Montana cattle ranch into a premiere-performing asset....
release : 2024.06.07popularis : 7.182
Torso
A seemingly "normal" office worker Hiroko has a secret. At home she lives with a prosthetic torso - no head, arms or feet, just body and penis....
release : 2009.11.13popularis : 3.75
Golden Kamuy
On the Hokkaido frontier, a war veteran and Ainu girl race against misfits and military renegades to find treasure mapped out on tattooed outlaws.
release : 2024.01.19popularis : 93.31
Asleep
Terako is a young woman without a job. She has an affair with Iwanaga who is married. His wife is in a coma. One day, Terako's friend kills herself....
release : 2015.04.25popularis : 0.729
The Mourner
Shizuto Sakatsuki (Kengo Kora) is a mourner. He goes to scenes of accidents and mourns for the victims. Yukiyo Nagi (Yuriko Ishida), who killed her...
release : 2015.02.14popularis : 3.584
Adabana
In a not so distant future where lifespan extension has become a priority following the spread of a mysterious virus, a privileged man looks back...
release : 2024.10.18popularis : 1.551
CRANK
MARU runs around Tokyo.MARU hears from his fellow messenger HIDE that he might be leaving Tokyo.
release : 2023.02.11popularis : 1.135
Last Mile
On the night before ‘Black Friday,’ which is the one of the busiest commerce days, a cardboard box, that is delivered from the world's...
release : 2024.08.23popularis : 8.564
Cape Nostalgia
Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are...
release : 2014.08.29popularis : 2.079
Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.
release : 2005.04.02popularis : 1.746
A Story of Yonosuke
The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki....
release : 2013.02.23popularis : 5.076
Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker
In the previous film, the genius hacker and murderer Urano successfully escaped from prison. Now, he has come to Korea at the request of the...
release : 2024.11.01popularis : 4.204
Cafune
Maye Sora, a 19-year-old university student living in Tokyo, receives news of her grandfather's death. Busy with moving with the help of her friends,...
release : 2024.06.01popularis : 1.065
High & Low The Movie
Chiku is a devastated and dangerous town with 5 gangs fighting fiercely. Mugen and the Amamiya Brothers clashed, leading to Mugen disbanding.
release : 2016.07.16popularis : 6.422
And Then There Was Light
On Mihama, one of Tokyo's outlying islands, Shinji witnesses the rape of his girlfriend and middle-school classmate, Haruka, then commits an...
release : 2017.11.23popularis : 1.18
Koi
The story is set in the 70s where Ishihara plays Fumiko, an university student, who gets involved romantically with her assistant professor Katase...
release : 2013.12.16popularis : 2.396
Smokin' on the Moon
Two slackers work at a midnight bar while also selling marijuana; when they get dangerously close to some unhinged yakuza, they follow wildly...
release : 2018.03.17popularis : 1.889
Shadow of Sand
"Shadow of Sand" - Set in Tokyo in the 1980's. Yukie, a young woman lives with the vision of the lover she has murdered. After his death he continues...
release : 2008.02.02popularis : 0.737
Dare to Stop Us
In Spring 1969, 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film director Koji...
release : 2018.10.13popularis : 1.166
Amber Light
Hironaga Ryota was a child when he was separated from his father due to his parents' divorce. He takes over the glasswork factory his father almost...
release : 2019.06.21popularis : 0.932
Randen: The Comings and Goings on a Kyoto Tram
A writer from Kamakura named Hiraoka Eisei is researching supernatural stories but finds himself revisiting memories from a previous visit to his...
release : 2019.05.24popularis : 1.891
Les Misérables
This feature drama, produced to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fuji TV, is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic masterpiece Les Miserables set...
release : 2019.01.06popularis : 2.66
Red Snow
Thirty years after aboy's disappearance, a journalist revives interest in the case, which in turn compels the victim's brother to look for this...
release : 2019.02.01popularis : 1.288
Dragon Quest: Your Story
Luca follows in his father's footsteps to rescue his mother from evil Ladja. Finding the heavenly hero who wields the Zenithian sword is his only...
release : 2019.08.02popularis : 9.988
Miyamoto
Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced...
release : 2019.09.27popularis : 1.869
Waiting for the Moon
Yumi is a victim when the triple disaster of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown occur in Japan of 2011. She is a guest of her aunt now. She...
release : 2017.12.23popularis : 1.459
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called...
release : 2018.07.07popularis : 2.158
Zatoichi: The Last
A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.
release : 2010.05.29popularis : 4.356
True Mothers
After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child....
release : 2020.10.23popularis : 9.737
Stolen Identity 2
A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the...
release : 2020.02.21popularis : 2.525
Hanamizuki
A young girl tries to maintain a long-distance relationship with an aspiring fisherman.
release : 2010.08.21popularis : 5.107
Hakata Movie: Chinchiromai
A musical- style comedy movie set in Hakata.
release : 2000.10.21popularis : 0.946
Amiko
Amiko isn't like other children. Her endless energy makes her an outcast at school and gets her in trouble at home. When a painful family loss...
release : 2022.07.08popularis : 2.563
Parasite in Love
A man named Kengo Kosaka is germaphobe, Due to his disorder, he is also a lonely young man. Meanwhile, high school student Hijiri Sanagi has...
release : 2021.11.12popularis : 4.309
Skeleton Flowers
High school student, Yo, lived with her father, Nao, after her mother, Sachiyo, left the family when she was very young. However, their life together...
release : 2021.10.15popularis : 1.762
Child of Kamiari Month
A year after losing her mother, a young girl learns that she must journey across Japan to the annual gathering of gods in the sacred land of Izumo.
release : 2021.10.08popularis : 12.505
Ninja Girl
The story unfolds with the main character, 25-year-old Miu Komaru, who lives on the outskirts of Fukuya City. Miu, who is single and cares for her...
release : 2021.08.21popularis : 0.547
Photograph of Memories
A frustrated young woman returns from Tokyo to her hometown in Toyama where she meets an old woman who lives alone. There she slowly finds purpose in...
release : 2021.01.29popularis : 2.15