Kâbê (AKA: Kabei: Our Mother)

IMDB: 7.6/10

Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.

Kazoku wa tsuraiyo 2

IMDB: 7.0/10

In this sequel to the first It's A Wonderful Family, the characters who are still based on those in Tokyo Family (which itself was based on Tokyo Story), are a couple of years older with the father, grandfather and husband has tak...

Nagai iiwake

IMDB: 7.1/10

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief, or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1980)

IMDB: 8.5/10

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced out of semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.

Rippu Van Winkuru no hanayome

IMDB: 7.2/10

Nanami is an apathetic, part-time junior high school teacher, whose only solace comes from connecting with others on "Planet".

Fushigi na misaki no monogatari

IMDB: 6.1/10

A story set in a café situated along a small cape and run by an elderly woman named Etsuko and aided her nephew Koji.

Ikari

IMDB: 7.0/10

A grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities.

Mushishi Tokubetsu-hen: Hihamukage

IMDB: 8.5/10

A strange shadow forms blocking the sun from a village following a solar eclipse. Ginko enlists the help of the villagers to solve the mystery of the shadow before it destroys their crops.