Ryota Bando

Childhood friends find a creature with mysterious powers that pushes them to discover the bonds that tie the three students together.

A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s northernmost main island—then called “Ezo” and ...

Three young men live and work in a nearly-deserted Japanese city. The three wander the streets, ruminating on the pointlessness of life in the ...

Hokkaido, Japan: An old woman — formerly a man — lives by a lake in the northern reaches of Japan, gazing at Nakajima Island in its ...

Keiko Tsuruoka’s film is at once traditional and contemporary: it gently mixes present-day gender and sexuality politics with the old-fashioned ...

Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing ...

Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted delinquents, and begging money from his friends. ...

The 10-year story of Shinya and her lover, Yui, who struggle as transgender.