Bun Kimura

Tokyo Vice

Koji

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

Rental Family

Kota Nakano

An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.

The Black Swindler

Enoki

In a time where fraud is an imminent threat, societal issues give rise to a slew of elaborate scams. Kurosaki is a man who lost his family to a "white swindler", which is a professional swindler who scams people out of their money. In order to exact revenge, Kurosaki becomes a "black swindler", a swindler who tricks other swindlers. He swears to scam every white swindler in the world and takes on foe after foe, but can he find his ultimate enemy who robbed him of his family? This riveting revenge drama exposes the very emotions that scams exploit.

Good News

Hijacker

When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul.

Bicycling Mellow Love

Teruyuki Miwa

It is a love story between Takahashi Ryohei, a caring, young yankee who runs a bicycle shop, and Hanno Tomoko, a shy 30-year-old office worker.

Aoi Uso ~Kokuhaku no Houkago~

Daichi Fujishima

A 6-people high school friend group Masaomi, Sho, Runa, Daichi, Hiyori, and Haruto gathered in a luxurious Western-style building after receiving an invitation from the alumni association. They were greeted by a man who seemed to be a butler in the mansion and were pleased to see him again, but no other attendees were found. When they were wondering, a flashy man who seemed to be the owner of the hall appeared, calling himself as a Game Master and told them: "I'm going to ask everyone to play the game. Can I call it "Murder Mystery"? Find out the criminal who killed Inoue Honoka."

Sugar Glass Bottle

Kou

Near-future Tokyo. Kou, through the help of his high school best friend, finds a surprising way to express his mounting frustration at the insidious forces of commercialism that are forcing out the neighbors he cares most about. Initially inspired by a prank that the writer-director Neo Sora (The Chicken, 2020) had pulled on him in his childhood, a sense of warm nostalgia and cold, material reality intermingle to tell a tale set in the not-so-distant future about disappearing spaces and the forces of policing and gentrification that drills this process forward.

Almost People

Four dramas about brothers and sisters, each of whom lacks a certain emotion.

Akashi

Young Grandpa

Akashi is a multigenerational love story told across parallel timelines. Kana, a struggling artist in Vancouver, returns to Tokyo for her grandmother’s funeral, feeling out of place after ten years abroad. As she reflects on a secret only she and her grandmother shared—that her grandfather had another lover—she unexpectedly reconnects with an old love, Hiro. Intercut with the past, which traces her grandfather’s decades-long affair, Kana confronts hidden family truths and begins to navigate the complexities of love, sacrifice, and the choices that shape a life between desire and duty.

Fictional

In Fictional, an unexpected reunion sparks between a young man and his admired senior, leading to an unforeseen cohabitation. As they navigate daily life together, the protagonist discovers that his senior is concealing a surprising secret.

Shirley Temple Japon

A social suspense comedy by the directory of “The Pavillion Salamandre”.