Kaho Minami – MRQE

Kazoku X

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story takes place in a new residential area in the outskirts of Tokyo. A family photograph adorns the living room of the Hashimoto family. It is a heartwarming shot of the three family members from when they first moved here, finally having bought their own home that they had wanted for so long. Wife Michiko hangs the laundry everyday. Husband Ken-ichi leaves for work without a word. Son Hiroaki has a part-time job, returns home early and disappears into his room. The Hashimoto Family no longer eats meal together at the dining table or spends time together in the living room. Michiko yearns for a different relationship with her family and is gradually overcome by loneliness. While feeling pressured from the trifling matters that occur within the residential community, Michiko tries to fill the emptiness that she hides in her heart.

Noten Paradise

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In consequence of his professional mistakes and declining career, Shuji and his family, the Sasayas, are forced to leave the wealthy suburb of Tokyo. The move is slow, long and heartbreaking, and the two Sasaya children, an old teenager and a young adult, unwittingly turn the grieving process into an exuberant and unpredictable farewell party!

Gensan Punch

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Nao Tsuyama, a disabled athlete, refuses to let his articifical leg hinder his dream to become a professional boxer. His remarkable journey takes him from Japan to the Philippines, and specifically the celebrated Gensan quarter which has spawned worldwide stars such as the legendary Manny Pacquiao.

Oh Lucy!

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out on a journey to find him.

Sayonara kabukichô

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious “love hotel” in Tokyo’s red-light district.

Waga haha no ki

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.

Kaitanshi jokei

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his family’s gas business, but things aren’t going well in his new endeavor and he becomes increasingly frustrated.

Shiroi inu to warutsu wo

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Gidorâ: Daikaijû sôkôgeki

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.

Omocha

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omacha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken family from their hand-to-mouth existence. Through her eyes, we see the protocols and complex financial relationships which dictate the running of the geisha house. Fukasaku’s film is a work of great delicacy with moments of hypnotic beauty, and his tender direction, often touched with a sense of wonder, fills the screen with lovingly constructed scenes. At its heart is the poignant situation of the women who must sacrifice their normal relationships to live an ambiguous life in which they are a key part of society while being kept, for the most part, on its periphery, like perpetual mistresses.