Pour sa toute dernière nuit avant de fermer ses portes, le seul cinéma d’Onomichi propose un marathon de films de guerre japonais. Lorsque la foudre touche l’établissement, trois spectateurs sont projetés dans le passé qui se cache derrière l’écran.
Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author's real name.
Hazel suffers from a crippling case of agoraphobia - so much so that it causes a rift between her and her mother, Dee. They agree that Hazel will go to a treatment facility to help her deal with her fear, transported by a driver and specialty van from the facility. But when two masked gunmen attack them on the desert road, Hazel has to battle her fears so she and her mother can survive.
En 1941, un jeune garçon vivant avec une riche tante passe son temps à s'amuser avec ses amis. La réalité de la guerre qui s'annonce va venir bousculer leurs vies.
Deux sœurs, l'une maladroite et ignorée, l'autre une enfant parfaite. Après la mort de cette dernière dans un accident, elle revient en fantôme pour guider sa petite sœur.
Nous sommes en 1965. Le lycéen Takeyoshi Fujiwara entend les Pipeline" par les Ventures et est fasciné par leur son unique.
Avec trois amis, il forme un groupe appelé "The Rocking Horsemen". Un aperçu chaleureux et comique de la vie au lycée, dans les petites villes du Japon dans les années 60.
Le film est basé sur de vrais événements. Il se concentre sur Shunzo, un marchand de légumes populaire qui vit dans une ville près de Tokyo. Sa vie, et celle de sa femme, Michi et de leurs deux enfants, subit un changement dramatique lorsqu'il rencontre Li, un pauvre étudiant chinois.
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitants and stumbles upon a stage play written by an enigmatic student of her ex-boyfriend.
Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance gradually exposes wartime secrets and Mitsuo's unknown past.
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city child looking forward to a summer of reading comic books and playing video games. Instead, he is bundled off to his grandparent's house on the Inland Sea. His grandfather, Yuta's parents explain, has been acting strangely as of late -- he eats the offerings in the family altar and once tried to lead attendants at a funeral in a rousing round of calisthenics. Since his mother and father are swamped with work, and his elder sister (Nana Sano) is studying for college entrance exams, Yuta has been asked to look after Grandpa. The old man takes Yuta on a tour of Onomichi, regaling him with 70 years of its history. Along the way, Grandpa slips in and out of the past, increasingly unable to discern between the two.
Un cinéaste francophile en pleine ornière créative tente de faire passer une jeune actrice à l'esprit libre pour sa femme star de cinéma afin de tromper un chef des mers du Sud.
A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in the Triathlon. The story is told in flashbacks as Namiko awaits childbirth.
Après avoir remarqué aux informations qu'il y avait un incendie dans une vieille ville fluviale, Eguchi se souvient de s'y être rendu il y a dix ans alors qu'il était étudiant à l'université.
Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing a lot of commotion.
Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she has so much nostalgia and admiration. With her husband on her side she remains can-do and keeps her chin up, but can only lament the passing of time and what will happen next to everyone and everything she loves.
Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening.
A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.
Concert held on December 26, 2010 at Tokyo Dome.