A hit man is hired to kill a mob boss. After the deed is done, he and his driver are wanted dead by rival gangs who joined forces.

Koruto wa ore no pasupôto

Koruto wa ore no pasupôto (1967)

In this high school romance Hiro is dismayed to learn her new love Shu will be going away to college in Tokyo. She asks him not to go.

Harufuwei

Harufuwei (2009)

A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.

Himiko

Himiko (1974)

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband's approval, and this complicates the trial.

Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru

Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru (1961)

The conclusion to Yûzô Kawashima's Hungry Soul.

Zoku ueru tamashii

Zoku ueru tamashii (1956)

In this sequel to The Blue Mountains: Part I (1949) the focus is not on the students', but the teachers' life. When one day a love letter is discovered it escalates into case over which teacher and students clash. The incident blows up and there is a dispute about the truth leading to a parent-teacher association meeting. There is a vote on who is correct, which in turn leads to the teacher's version winning out. A thief is soon caught at the headmaster's office with the perpetrator being none other than one of the students trying to steal the love letter. This leads to a confession and an apology.

Zoku aoi sanmyaku

Zoku aoi sanmyaku (1949)

A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination, after which she starts nourishing a strong desire for the child's biological father.

Honô to onna

Honô to onna (1967)

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.

Kayako no tame ni

Kayako no tame ni (1984)

Sugihara, born in Japan but with North Korean parents, falls in love with a Japanese girl after changing from a North Korean school to a Japanese school. His boxer dad teaches him boxing - skills used a lot.

Go (2001)

A group of disgraced samurai plan a decade long revenge against a corrupt lord.

Shijûshichinin no shikaku

Shijûshichinin no shikaku (1994)

Miz Cracker: Here I Stand

Miz Cracker: Here I Stand (2022)

Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system, CANARY tells the moving story of two children, each abandoned by their families, who come together in the wake of the scarring event. 

Twelve-year-old Koichi has grown up within the confines of a religious cult whose violently instilled dogma has all but destroyed his sense of identity. After a murderous attack, the cult disbands and Koichi finds himself abandoned by his mother and forcibly separated from his sister. To reunite his broken family, Koichi breaks out of the child welfare system and sets off to Tokyo. While on the run, he meets Yuki, a girl desperate to flee from her abusive father. 

Koichi and Yuki travel together in search of his sister, facing the inevitable troubles of children making their way in the world without the guidance or protection of adults. The separate scars of their pasts cause friction between the two, but their struggles develop a familial bond that allows them to confront both their pasts and the future ahead. 

Beautiful and poignant, Akihiko Shiota's film illustrates the resiliency of forgotten youth in forging their own destiny from a tragic past. 

For more information, please visit www.canarythemovie.com

Kanaria

Kanaria (2004)

The journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. It is based on a book of the same name by Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue.

O-Roshiya-koku suimu-tan

O-Roshiya-koku suimu-tan (1992)

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Muhômatsu no isshô

Muhômatsu no isshô (1958)

Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble.

Yabanjin no youni

Yabanjin no youni (1985)

When it rains, it pours in Nxai Pan in northern Botswana. Lush plains scattered with vast herds of antelope stretch to the horizon. It is a veritable paradise. But Nxai Pan is a place of harsh contradictions. For when the rainy season is over, the lake dries up, leaving behind only cracked, desiccated salt pans as the desert, and its devastating heat returns. The biggest contradiction of all, then, is to call a place of such struggle "hell on earth" - because for some - this is still paradise. The lions of Nxai Pan have perfected the art of survival in some of the harshest conditions in Africa. A coalition of two mighty male lions rules this empire, their tenure spanning almost a decade. Their territory is vast, their females are loyal, and their hold on their land is ironclad. But they're getting old, and the looming dry season holds the promise of being one of the deadliest yet. Can these desert kings and their megapride dominate another dry season, or will this be their last?

Desert Lions

Desert Lions (2017)

6 characters--contemporary archetypes of urban solitude--in an old Barcelona building: an old husband and wife, her sister, and 3 tenants: a teacher of French, a young ex-footballer, now security guard, and a pregnant Latin American girl.

Barcelona (un mapa)

Barcelona (un mapa) (2007)

Roots music icon Chris Strachwitz is a detective of deep American music - music that's the antithesis of the corporate "mouse music" dominating pop culture. Since 1960, he has been the guiding force behind legendary Arhoolie Records, bringing Cajun music out of Louisiana, Tex-Mex out of Texas, blues out of the country - and into the living rooms of Middle America. American music has never been the same. Born a German count, Strachwitz fled his homeland after WWII at 16. In the US, he discovered, and shared, a musical landscape that most Americans missed. He takes us on a hip-shaking stomp from Texas to New Orleans, Cajun country to Appalachia, as he continues his passionate quest for the musical soul of America.

This Ain't No Mouse Music

This Ain't No Mouse Music (2013)

Boris and Dimitri are brothers. They are both doctors in the 13th district of Paris and always work together. They devote all their time to their patients. One day, they start looking after a diabetic child raised by her single mother, Judith. They both fall passionately in love with Judith. This sudden attraction will create turmoil in their strong relationship.

Tirez la langue, mademoiselle

Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (2013)

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.

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Koruto wa ore no pasupôto

7.4/10

Action

Crime

Harufuwei

6.4/10

Action

Drama

Himiko

7.1/10

Drama

Fantasy

Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru

7.4/10

Drama

Mystery

Zoku ueru tamashii

6.9/10

Action

Drama

Zoku aoi sanmyaku

6.4/10

Action

Drama

Honô to onna

6.8/10

Drama

Kayako no tame ni

6.7/10

Action

Drama

Go

7.4/10

Action

Drama

Shijûshichinin no shikaku

6.4/10

Action

Drama

Miz Cracker: Here I Stand

5.3/10

Action

Comedy

Kanaria

6.9/10

Action

Drama

O-Roshiya-koku suimu-tan

7/10

Action

Biography

Muhômatsu no isshô

7.5/10

Comedy

Drama

Yabanjin no youni

5.6/10

Action

Adventure

Desert Lions

7.6/10

Action

Documentary

Barcelona (un mapa)

5.9/10

Action

Drama

This Ain't No Mouse Music

7.5/10

Action

Documentary

Tirez la langue, mademoiselle

5.9/10