Doraibu mai kâ (AKA: Drive My Car)

IMDB: 7.5/10

A renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.

Tenki no ko (AKA: Weathering with You)

IMDB: 7.5/10

Set during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, high-school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather.

Uchôten hoteru (AKA: Suite Dreams)

IMDB: 7.0/10

New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is trouble everywhere. An Animal is on the loose...

Rajio no jikan (AKA: Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald)

IMDB: 7.7/10

Just before the live airing of a radio play, an actress decides to change the name of her character. This cascades into a battle of egos by all involved that causes continual script changes while the play is on-air live.

Inuyashiki (2018)

IMDB: 6.6/10

An middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.

Ani ni aisaresugite komattemasu (2017) (AKA: My Brother Loves Me Too Much)

IMDB: 5.7/10

She is a high school girl, but not any school girl. She is cute, attractive and popular. Many boys and men want her and go to great lengths to grab her. They will do whatever it takes. One of those things, however, is going throug...

Kinema no tenchi (AKA: Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies)

IMDB: 6.9/10

This is Japanese melo-dramatist director Yoji Yamada's ode to 1930s film production during the transition from silent film to talkies. With many loose associations we can see the rise of a young star Koharu Tanaka for the big New ...

Gakuen mokushiroku: HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD (AKA: Highschool of the Dead)

IMDB: 7.1/10

High school students are overwhelmed with the start of the zombie apocalypse.