Film

Comedian Bakarhythm brings his nameless female bank clerk character to the big screen and lovingly documents the trivial goings-on in the life of a Japanese office worker.

Yukiko Mishima addresses the dangers of traditional gender roles with her latest film, "Shape of Red," adapted from a Rio Shimamoto novel.

In Hikari's debut feature, first-time actor Mei Kayama plays a woman determined to become a manga artist, but who must overcome her lack of life experience, her physical disability and her contolling mother.

Keishi Otomo's latest film looks at two colleagues whose blossoming bromance threatens to turn into something more mysterious.

This film adaptation of a web comic by single-named artist Fujita has the central couple dancing and singing their way to love.

In Yu Irie's sci-fi film set in 2030, Takao Osawa stars as a scientist who must save Japan from an artificial intelligence system he created.

Kiichi Nakai and Kuranosuke Sasaki reprise their roles as scammers in Masaharu Take's sequel to 2018's 'We Make Antiques!'

Kaori Sakagami's feature-length documentary offers an intimate view of inmates going through the process of therapy in a Japanese prison.

The Annie Awards bestows a posthumous honor on anime director Satoshi Kon, who died in 2010 at the age of 46.

Actor Hio Miyazawa gives a voice to sexual minorities in his latest role in Rikiya Imaizumi's latest film, "his."

The premise for Yuki Tanada's film about a sex doll designer gets laughs, but also offers sharp insights into human issues.