Kirin Kiki Movies

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute,...

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...

Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to date older women. Koji is a playboy with several...

Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for his paintings, including numerous bugs and cats....

The story of a bus conductor who dedicates his life to the cherished Japanese symbol.

The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a...

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...

A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind numerous debts and his illegitimate child. Desperate...

A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out...

Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.

Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

Born in affluent families among the Japanese mountains, two close cousins fall in love and have to suffer through the social constraints of their...

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.

The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor of...