Akira Emoto

Just as Clint Eastwood's star-making spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Villain) has decided to reinterpret Eastwood's Oscar®-winning Unforgiven as a Japanese period film. Set in the late 1800s, after the fall of Shogunate Japan, onetime assassin Jyubei Kamata (Oscar® nominee Ken Watanabe -- Inception, The Last Samurai) lives in seclusion on a small farm. But when the new government begins harassing the local populace, Jyubei is forced to break the promise he made to his dead wife and take up the sword once more...

Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto plans Japan's 1941 attack against the American naval base at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii.

From the visionary mind of Masaaki Yuasa comes a joyous twist on the classic fairy tale about a little mermaid who comes ashore to join a middle-school rock band and propel them to fame.

In Shinji Sômai’s bittersweet coming-of-age tale, matters of life and death are made at once whimsical and profound through the eyes of children. As a gentle bond grows between generations, simple acts of care carry a transformative effect, offering a healing balm to urban loneliness and isolation.

In 20XX, to prevent the rise of crimes, bench trials a new justice system where the defense and prosecutor go head-to-head in court is started. Within just 3 days, a verdict is decided.

Already running from a mess of problems, a desperate cop thinks he's gotten away with a hit-and-run. But there was a witness, and they've got his number.