Film

Fact and fiction blur but justice remains elusive in Kazuya Murayama’s debut feature, centering on an unsolved murder and the real-life detective who worked the case.

Slovakian filmmaker Juraj Mravec Jr. presents firsthand accounts from a war zone in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region in his 2016 documentary “Peace to You All.”

Takashi Yamazaki’s supernatural adventure film will cast a spell on younger viewers, but parents should find it entertaining, too.

Candice Mana Ono’s LGBTQ-friendly debut features Akane Sakanoue as a teenage girl who goes from a lonely wallflower to a confident fashionista with the help of a friend and confidante.

A new documentary examines the work and lives of the French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, helped mightily by their own magnificent footage.

Kenji Yamauchi’s drama about a family on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the wake of the pandemic hits a few snags but also offers wry observations.

Takashi Komatsu’s somewhat autobiographical drama about an idle young man who lives at home with his dysfunctional family provides some insight into unconventional lifestyles.

Kana Osawa gives a fearless and natural performance as an isolated preteen finding her way in an idyllic seaside town in Yusuke Morii’s first feature.

The “Thor: Love and Thunder” director can’t say no — to starring in “Our Flag Means Death,” making a soccer movie, writing a “Star Wars” idea, adapting Roald Dahl. For starters.

Hideo Jojo’s cult caper is a kinky, flimsy throwback to the turn of the millennium when the Japanese public was still reeling from attacks by the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

Kazuo Maeda’s film about a man grappling with his identity as a member of the burakumin minority group in the late Meiji Era faces questions of equality that still exist in Japanese society.