2023

Shun Miyata, an introverted young man, moves to Tokyo to become a writer. He finds a job at a take-away shop, where he meets Yuriko and Yuka. Shun and Yuka discover that Yuriko is leading an insurance fraud by murdering elders in the neighborhood. Despite their disgust, Shun and Yuka’s relationship deepens as they share the secret.

A high school senior, Tsubaki, is struggling with her father’s murder of an elementary school boy 4 years ago. She fears that she may be as damaged as her father. Two years later, her younger brother goes missing, and a report of Hideaki’s sighting comes in.

Shogo Manna runs a restaurant in Yanbaru, the northern part of Okinawa’s main island. He is told by a shamanist to make a sandwich as a offering for the god. In search of hints for a sandwich worthy of offering to the gods, Manna visits various people involved in food. Through the experience, the passion for food and the way of life of food producers and chefs in the island, Manna begins to think deeply about food and the way of life.

In the middle of the night, before they are to be sent to a Japanese American Internment Camp, one family buries a secret in their backyard garden. 80 years later, a clue is discovered and what begins as a mystery soon turns criminal as a family of different minds try to come together to discover the truth of their past.

Dr. Bala, who has been doing volunteer work seven days a year for twelve years, brings expertise to the underdeveloped medical field in Southeast Asia. His strong build and dependable nature earned him the nickname Dr. Bala, meaning “powerful” in Burmese. His work empowers many and offers a message of hope in communities plagued with grief.

This movie will document the history and the hardships of Japanese women who immigrated to Hawaii and Japanese American women who were born in Hawaii. It will feature valuable testimonies of Japanese Americans, especially the elderly Nisei second generation. The movie aims to highlight the role of Nikkei women in Hawaiian history, which is often overlooked.

Planet of Love is a documentary film that explores the power of sound to heal and awaken. The film is the brainchild of director Miki, who was inspired to make the film after a whale appeared to her in a meditation and told her to record its voice. This film combines these interviews and messages with footage of whales and dolphins in their natural habitat. The film also explores the meaning of sound, including why sound was created on Earth.

Sampaguita, a love story based on a true story, follows Emilia, a Filipino model in Japan, and Miki, a Japanese photographer, as they fall in love. Despite their cultural differences, they are drawn to each other, but their happiness is short-lived when Emilia is forced to leave Japan. The story then shifts to the Philippines, where the two must find a way to overcome the distance and be together.

Hayato, a high school student in Tokyo, falls into a coma after a quarrel with his girlfriend Ami. While reading to him in the hospital, Ami discovers a book about the legendary hunter Pécopin. As she learns of Pécopin’s adventures and triumphs, Ami begins to find hope for Hayato’s recovery.

In the spring of 1945, three women in a village protect the Shimada family home while the men are away at war. When the eldest sister-in-law is suspected of pretending to be crazy, a demon appears and turns their world upside down.

Cheerful college girl Minami joins a research camp to learn about bluefin tuna aquaculture. Reality bites, but she regains her passion with the help of her classmates and mentors. One day, she makes a serious mistake during a live video stream…

After her three-year absence, Masami returns to her family’s ramen shop, now run by her sister and father. Without her father’s help due to illness, the sisters must work together to create the best ramen that tastes just like their mother’s memories.

In a post-apocalyptic world where spider-like creatures have overwhelmed humanity, four high school boys find themselves trapped in a cabin, where they descend into savagery and target Alan, an outsider. Despite the dangers outside, Alan must contend with the claustrophobia, the dangers within, and the darkest of all thoughts.

Enemy Alien is a poetic retelling of the experiences of Joseph Murakami, a fourteen-year-old boy from Darwin, who is summarily rounded up and interned by his government on the basis of his ethnicity. Enemy Alien explores his memory and the loss this traumatic event imprinted upon him.

The ex-Syrian refugee and a food deliverer, Yasser meets Eita, a solitary Japanese boy in the city park, and they grow a family-like bond as they play soccer and cook together after Yasser’s bike gets stolen.

Photographer Kelsey Akioka finds solace capturing the beauty and chaos of the Kalapana lava fields, but his passion is challenged when his friend moves away and his own home life suffers. Kelsey must confront his inner turmoil to find balance between his art and his responsibilities.

Haunted by grief, the loss of his father and the mounting pressure of becoming a father himself, Adam finds a mysterious baseball glove on the beach. In attempting to track down the owner, he learns of his unlikely connection to a stranger across the world in Japan, a stranger he has more in common with than he ever realized.

Nicole and Sam is a happy couple. But it still requires some effort to keep their relationship happy and glorious.

Mei, a teenage girl, is disappointed to learn that her trip to Japan has been cancelled. Despite her disappointment, she tries to understand her father’s work responsibilities. A traditional Japanese custom, Okuribi, helps Mei to reconcile with her father.

After Jin meets not only his father but also unknown family members for the first time, everything becomes confused and chaotic.

A short documentary about Japanese American World War II soldiers and their resilience and determination. After 15 years, a grassroots movement led by three elderly Nisei women successfully campaigned for a Go For Broke stamp.

Mystery writer Akutagawa is struggling to write his next novel. His young assistant, Naoki, offers to help him ghostwrite it, but Akutagawa soon realizes that Naoki has his own dark secrets.

An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

In the mountains of the Edo Period Japan, when a blind woman’s samurai father is killed by a young samurai avenging his own father’s death, she agrees to be escorted to the nearest village, but she’s not as helpless as she appears.