Takenori Sentô Movies

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera...

One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the...

Kaori, who can find nothing in her daily life but sex with her male friend Taro, suddenly meets a middle-aged man named Kosuke. She hopes that Kosuke...

It is 1980. Sadatomo is at a secondary school in a small town. His parents barely take any notice of him. The strict teacher Kobayashi has hung up a...

The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.

A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy,...

Three young Japanese drop-outs are comically adrift in New York

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

Renji grew up in a family that runs a pelagic fishing business and vaguely thinks about becoming a fisherman in the future. He is attracted to Kyoko,...

The encounter and parting of a man and woman in Hokkaido

Ami, a girl who works as a flower arranger, also works as a professional assassin

A photographer and a filmmaker challenge each other to shoot—one to photograph the other to film—two young actresses, one from Tokyo, the...

Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly...

Kawamoto works and lives in a dilapidated pool hall which also serves as a rehearsal space for him and his friend Chikako. They seem contented to...

Mogura, a shut-in former musician, falls in love with a young cellist after seeing her photo in a magazine.

Takashi and his wife Misako, who lost their beloved son in a trapeze accident, have never recovered from the shock, and have kept the urn in their...

A woman follows an inner journey from island to island in search of "Pai Pati Roma"

Those who want to die seek refuge in a mysterious café in this feverishly strange Japanese debut.

Tokyo Blood is an omnibus film of 4 short stories featuring various characters entrapped in Tokyo landscapes.

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin, originally aired 16 June 2015.