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Winner of the Best Film at the Ottawa Animation Festival, Masaaki Yuasa’s (Lu Over the Wall, Mind…
Director Fushihara’s delicate, charming documentary won the Kinema Jumpo Best Film of the Year (…
Suffering from population decline, the small seaside town decides to welcome six strangers into the…
It is the 11th year of the Meiji era and times are uncertain.
Feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira holds a run across mountain roads to get his samurai warriors into…
Shiwasu works as a Miko (shrine maiden) at the shrine where her father is chief priest. Her mother…
A dark and surreal comedy based loosely on a 1962 novel by Yukio Mishima.
Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defence of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail…
Based on Risa Wataya’s best-selling novel and winner of the Tokyo international Film Festival’s…
The third installment in the hit Chihayafuru trilogy takes place two years after the showdown…
Laughter, love and ping-pong combine in the tale of Tamako, 28 and single and a one-time prodigy…
Widely considered superior to the original, this companion piece to Kurosawa’s Before We Vanish…
In this fast-paced and whimsical comedy from the great Yoji Yamada (Twilight Samurai, The Little…
Archive & Collections
The Archive and Collections at the JCCC house over 50 years of donated…
In 2017 veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi (Casting Blossoms to the Sky, House) learned he had…
Masato Harada returns with this samurai battle epic based on Ryotaro Shiba’s literary account.
This deeply moving fantasy-drama, based on Keigo Higashino’s best-selling novel, was nominated for…
Based on Children of the Atom Bomb, a book of testimonies by children who experienced the bombing…
Winner of the Best Film of the Year in the Takasaki Film Festival, this powerful Japan-Cuba co-…
Miyuki lost her mother in the 2011 tsunami disaster in Fukushima.
When diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, Oscar-winning composer, pianist, writer, and actor…
The JCCC has various spaces available to promote promotes excellence in primarily contemporary art…
It is the 1960s and film was losing its status as “the king of entertainment” to TV, a change…
Superstar Takumi Saitoh’s feature-length directorial debut is set at the funeral of a man who…