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Amazon Prime Video
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7.8
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4.3
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90
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Look Back (2024)
Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant recluse whose beautiful artwork sparks a competitive fervor in Fujino. What starts as jealousy transforms when Fujino realizes their shared passion for drawing.
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Kanopy
74
6.6
/2965/
63
/157/
66
/119/
3.5
/11115/
95
/55/
80
/11/
70
/15/

Plan 75 (2022)
In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
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71
6.5
/493/
69
/11/
73
/12/
3.3
/3327/
85
/13/
66
/6/

Desert of Namibia (2024)
A young and beautiful woman from Tokyo navigates multiple love stories while being haunted by her unexpressed thoughts.
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51
6.9
/1948/
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/99/
70
/73/
3.6
/9716/
100
/7/
53
/3/

A Man (2022)
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
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78
49
6.8
/1427/
68
/70/
72
/57/
3.7
/10123/
100
/7/
86
/2/

It's a Summer Film! (2021)
Barefoot and her friends decide to make a samurai movie, gather a unique cast and staff for the production, and try to screen it at their school festival.
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70
44
6.4
/503/
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69
/12/
3.4
/5576/
87
/31/
73
/8/

Renoir (2025)
In 1987 Tokyo, a quirky and sensitive 11-year-old girl copes with a terminally ill father and stressed-out working mother while encountering various adults dealing with their own struggles.
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70
39
6.9
/701/
72
/37/
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/39/
3.6
/3070/

Just Remembering (2022)
A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love story inspired by a Jim Jarmusch masterpiece, set in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Netflix
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35
6.6
/428/
60
/12/
70
/14/
3.5
/1425/
80
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A Hundred Flowers (2022)
Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them. One in particular, when he believed she had disappeared, haunts him terribly.
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7.2
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73
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3.6
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A Girl Named Ann (2024)
A drug-addicted girl from an abusive family finds hope through kind people but her grim reality strikes back just as she sees a glimmer of light.
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7.0
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71
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75
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3.6
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89
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A Balance (2021)
While documenting a controversial tragedy that shook her community, a filmmaker must put her morals to the test when a perverse secret in her own life is revealed.
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22
7.1
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3.6
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Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025)
In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet by the sea. Their vacant gazes reflect each other as they exchange awkward words and wade into the rain-drenched ocean. In winter, Li, a screenwriter, travels to a snow-covered village. There, she finds a guesthouse run by Benzo.
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7.1
/273/
63
/6/
84
/13/
3.7
/1140/

Teki Cometh (2025)
Retired university professor Gisuke Watanabe lives a comfortable but secluded life of affluence in the traditional Japanese house built by his grandfather. One day, an anonymous email threatens his peaceful lifestyle.
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67
18
6.6
/295/
60
/15/
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/11/
3.4
/999/

The Lines That Define Me (2022)
Sousuke Aoyama is a college student who suffers painfully from the loss of his parents in a traffic accident. He meets Kozan Shinoda, a suibokuga (India-ink painting) artist, at an exhibition. Kozan becomes interested in Sousuke and surprisingly accepts him as his disciple. However, Kozan's niece is dismissive of Sousuke and declares to compete with Sousuke for the "Kozan Award." Although Sousuke seemed uninterested in painting at first, he gradually becomes drawn to it by each stroke he draws...
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67
14
6.7
/150/
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/5/
81
/14/
3.3
/475/

A Bad Summer (2025)
Sasaki is a sincere civil servant, working at city hall. Due to his timid personality, he can't properly deal with nasty people, including a single mother on the verge of giving up her own child, another civil servant pressing him to have a physical relationship, and a person who receives welfare benefits unfairly. His passivity leads him to get caught up in a terrible crime.
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66
11
6.5
/135/
63
/6/
70
/7/
3.4
/612/

She Taught Me Serendipity (2025)
The romance between a lonely college student and who seems to be the girl of his dreams is burdened by the sudden arrival of cruel fate.
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68
11
6.6
/138/
72
/8/
64
/11/
3.5
/444/

Sasaki in My Mind (2020)
The story of a would-be actor, his larger-than-life classmate and their friends. Unfolding their past and present, Sasaki in My Mind looks head-on at adolescent sparkle and the pathos of bygone days.
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Plex
60
7
5.2
/120/
70
/2/
56
/11/
3.1
/225/

To Be Killed by a High School Girl (2022)
Higashiyama Haruto is a 34-year-old Japanese history teacher who combines good looks with an honest and friendly personality. When he has been assigned to Nitaka High School, a school for advanced students, Haruto immediately attracts the attention of his female students. But he has a secret that he cannot tell anyone; he wants to be killed by a beautiful high school girl. Obsessed with such a bizarre desire, Haruto approaches four beautiful girls of different types, Maho, Aoi, Kyoko, and Aika, according to the perfect crime scenario he has devised. Who among the four is the high school girl that Haruto has been longing to be killed by for nine years?
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70
/2/

Extremely Inappropriate! New Years Special (2026)
Snarky 1980s PE teacher, Ogawa Ichiro, is back — crashing through the wall of Café Scandal! This time, he's brought along the café "master" and 83-year-old inventor, Inoue, embarking on a new, time warping adventure. After sending Kiyoshi into the past to prevent Yuzuru's fated encounter with daughter, Junko, Ichiro travels to the night of the Great Hanshin Earthquake (1995) and greets a surprise visitor, while learning of an incident coming in 2036.
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63
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5.7
/131/
60
/2/
74
/7/

Hakkenden (2024)
Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story is about eight warriors who, each carrying a jewel, gather together as if guided by fate and embark on a harsh journey to fight the curse of the Satomi family. Hokusai is drawn into the story that Bakin is telling, and visits Bakin on various occasions to hear the rest of the story, and a strange relationship between the two begins. The serialization becomes Bakin's life's work, with the idea of ​​"rewarding good and punishing evil in a world where evil is rampant," but after 28 years, as the story finally approaches its climax, Bakin begins to lose his sight. With the completion of the story in doubt, he receives an unexpected proposal from his daughter-in-law. Will the story ever be completed?
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70
/2/

Kami no Ko wa Tsubuyaku (2023)
One family changes as they join a religious group. Kinoshita Haruka is forced to engage in her religious activities by her mother, Aiko, who is an avid believer and forbids her from making friends or participating in events at her school. Her father Shinji distances himself from religion and tells his daughters, Haruka and her younger sister, Inori, the importance of "believing in yourself." When Shinji suddenly falls ill, their "belief" begins to waver.
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76
/3/

Modern or Anarchy (2023)
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4.6
/59/
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77
/6/

In Her Room (2023)
Susume is a young dentist who can’t communicate well with people since childhood. One day, he meets and falls in love with a woman named Miyako. She invites him into her lush, forest-like apartment, and he, though awkwardly, gradually becomes closer to her.
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73
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6.5
/67/
70
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90
/8/
3.4
/219/

Sayonara, Girls. (2023)
2 days until the “Last Graduation Ceremony” of high school, the building was to be demolished. Each student accepted their “farewell to youth” and moved forward with regret and hope in mind. One student visits the library to meet her secret admirer who is also her teacher, one calls her boyfriend with a strained relationship due to the distance of their colleges, one is trying to expose a secret that she hid for the last 3 years, and the last student, Manami, has to give a speech during the graduation ceremony but couldn’t overcome her pain.
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6.0
/27/
50
/2/

Winter Rose (2022)
Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted delinquents, and begging money from his friends. His parents, who run a shipping business transporting earth and sand for reclamation by boat, manage to get by, despite the dwindling number of jobs and lack of successors over time. Jun showed no interest in his parents' business, and the father and son hardly ever spoke to each other. One day, one of Jun's friends is attacked by someone and an unexpected person emerges as the culprit.
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60
/2/
70
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Unfeigned Happy Ending (2021)
Eimi, who came to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school, invites her sister Yu, who lives in her hometown of Shiga, to move to Tokyo with her. She is reluctant at first, but suddenly accepts and soon after goes missing. One day Eimi meets Hiyori, whose sister is also missing. Everything changes when the police contact her to inform her that they have found the body of a young woman in Lake Biwa, but the body is that of Hiyori's sister, not Yu. Together Eimi and Hiyori search for the murderer, but things take an unexpected turn.
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56
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6.5
/168/
41
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53
/9/
3.3
/413/

Love Nonetheless (2022)
Koji runs a second-hand bookstore. He likes female drummer Ichihana, but, suddenly, female high school student Misaki appears in front of him and keeps confesses her feelings for him.
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6.7
/62/
50
/3/
70
/6/

Underdog: Part One (2020)
Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira fell off the path to greatness but still tries to crawl his way to the top. Omura Ryuta is a youngster who grew up in foster care. Miyagi Shun, a TV celebrity with famous parents, takes a shot at boxing as part of a TV show. Three underdogs with very different back stories put their pride on the line as they exchange blows.
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5.1
/21/
60
/1/
77
/3/

Rolling Marbles (2020)
Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of Shibuya, Ai dreaming of a model, Mizuho working for the editorial department of a magazine, and musician Erika live together. This story is about the modest cohabitation of the three.
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66
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6.4
/188/
70
/9/
65
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3.3
/230/

A Beloved Wife (2019)
A comedic portrait of an unhappy marriage between an unemployed screenwriter and his wife who's supported him for 10 years, based on the writer/director's own autobiography.
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Luka and the Flower of the Sun (2025)
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Tōmei no kuni (2020)
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AREA (2021)
A short film by Tsubasa Seki.
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Luka and the Flower of the Sun (2024)
The story, set in a village covered in clouds, depicts the bond between a boy, Luka, and his childhood friend, Rosa. One day, Rosa, who has the power of the sun, hears from a mysterious duo that there is a way to clear the clouds. Luka, on the other hand, is attracted to a traveling band that visits the village and decides to leave...
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見つめ (2021)
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Drive In California (2022)
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.


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