Movies: Lily

A detective in Toyama is forced to confront his painful past when he takes on a murder case involving his two estranged childhood friends....

Two brothers work at a small winery in Hokkaido in northern Japan. The older brother is picky and strives for the highest quality to make the best wine possible....

Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the school and becomes a special friend to everyone....

Japanese history explodes across the screen in the life story of Hitokiri Nakamura Hanjiro, one of the great heroes of the Meiji Restoration. From his earliest beginnings as a country samurai raising sweet potatoes whose exceptional sword skills impr...

There is an old love hotel in Tokyo's Shinjuku district where couples can rent a room by the hour for romantic assignations. However, few of its regular customers seem to come there for sexual encounters; the hotel has become a hangout for rootless t...

Those who want to die seek refuge in a mysterious café in this feverishly strange Japanese debut....

Set in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture in 1954, movie tells the tale of 14 year old boys: their friendships, fights among friends, and rebellions against the school. It also tells the story of the adults who live around the boys. This is a nostalgic, bitter...

A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become involved in by chance. Shosuke Ikashima and Ryuji Kabaya, who repeatedly screw things up, encounter a real robbery during a bank robbery simulation tr...

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A reworking of MPD Psycho by the author of the original manga Eiji Otsuka edited from the TV show and newly-filmed scenes....

Ayaka and Echika are asked to locate a woman who makes harassing phone calls to a popular DJ, but......

LiLou is a 5th grade school girl who is half Japanese and half Guinean. She is the odd one out in her class, and her classmate, Kokoro is her only friend as they both share the same sense of loneliness. Kokoro never smiles since she became unable to ...

Shogo (Kenichi Endo) and Yasuko (Yuka Hanabusa) are happily married. Until one evening when he slaps her in the face for reconsidering the promise she made before their wedding: to quit her job and devote herself to domestic chores once the knot was ...

Neco-Ban Cats In Your Life is a short and quiet story about a grumpy old man, his sleepy granddaughter, and the many, many cats that show up in their country home. Ibu Masato frowns away as a proud, retired man with a bad back and a chip on his shoul...

Ayaka Miyazono and Aizawa Echika both live in Roppongi, Tokyo.They investigate a woman's death....