Kaoru Kobayashi

An elderly inmate serving a life sentence awaits a lonely death in solitary—until a voice calls out…

When a young student shows signs of trauma, his parents act swiftly against his middle school teach…

An ex-cop suffering from dementia is marked by detectives pursuing a murder case. It is a case that…

Matagi is a group of hunters who lives in the mountains and targets wild animals including bears, b…

During the Heian period, Abe no Seimei trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration wi…

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several…

Keiko Tsuruoka’s film is at once traditional and contemporary: it gently mixes present-day gender a…

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relo…

The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist…

A woman who has not seen her father for several years and does not have a good relationship with hi…

In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more th…

Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications t…