All About Lily Chou-Chou

All About Lily Chou-Chou 2001

7.30

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

2001

Hana and Alice

Hana and Alice 2004

6.94

Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

2004

April Story

April Story 1998

7.26

In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the first place.

1998

A Bride for Rip Van Winkle

A Bride for Rip Van Winkle 2016

7.00

A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.

2016

Vampire

Vampire 2011

6.00

An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.

2011

Bandage

Bandage 2010

6.00

Set in the 1990s during Japan's "band boom" era, the film tells the tale of a girl in high school, Asako, who goes to a concert and meets Natsu, vocalist of the new band LANDS. Asako ends up being the band manager, but as the band's popularity starts to soar, the band's friendship begins to suffer.

2010

Last Letter

Last Letter 2018

6.20

All Yuan Zhinan has left behind when she passed away is a letter and an invitation to a school reunion. Attending the reunion in lieu of her late elder sister, Zhihua accidentally runs into Yin Chuan, on whom she had a crush in her youth. As old memories are evoked, and correspondences travel through different contexts and times, Zhihua slowly uncovers the intricate story of the trio.

2018

Halfway

Halfway 2009

6.10

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.

2009

Kyrie

Kyrie 2023

8.00

Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However, her singing voice shakes the hearts of those who listen to her. It is a hymn of compassion played by Luca and the people.

2023

Baton

Baton 2009

4.00

Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel, human-like robot Apollo (Ichihara Hayato, Rookies) and robot-like human Mikaru (Ueto Aya, Azumi) come upon a stowaway robot with a mysterious "Cipher" chip. Not knowing Cipher's powers, Apollo takes the chip for fun, throwing both him and Mikaru headfirst into a mind-boggling mystery that affects the past, present, and future.

2009

A Summer Solstice Story

A Summer Solstice Story 2023

9.00

The film "Summer Solstice Story" was produced in 1992. Now, with Aina The End as the new heroine, director Shunji Iwai himself takes on the task of remaking it. Through his unique style, characterized by the heavy use of monologues, the story depicts a summer day filled with love and madness as a girl awaits the return of her beloved.

2023

Friends After 3.11 劇場版

Friends After 3.11 劇場版 2011

7.00

In March 2011, Japan was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, with the devastating tsunami that followed causing a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power station that sent ripples of discontent throughout the country. Director Iwai Shunji's Friends after 3.11 (2011) is a deeply personal documentary which uses the statements of some of his closest friends to express the views of a society in a state of political despondency.

2011

Filming H&A

Filming H&A 2005

1

Behind the scenes documentary about the filming of "Hana & Alice", which began as a series of shorts promoting Kit Kat

2005