Movies

The music of iconic Studio Ghibli films featuring Joe Hisaishi’s celebrated scores will be performed live by the Paris-based symphony orchestra...

The NHK team that captured the world's first footage of a live giant squid in its natural habitat is setting out for another deep-sea adventure. They...

First major English-language documentary profile of the cult Japanese actor/director, Takeshi Kitano. Featuring interviews with many of his regular...

A brother and sister leave the big city to live with their veterinarian father when their mother is hospitalized. As they are adjusting to their new...

A tragic love story involving three main characters and spanning two decades. Yue Lin is an exchange student from Shanghai who meets a ski patrol...

Set in the nineteenth century and features two wooden "giant robots", directed from within by a human crew. In the style of a movie serial of the...

Boxing drama

"Quartet" tells the story of four young musicians as they form a string quartet and pursue fame.

It is the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics but in one small town in southern China ZHANG Dachuan, a veteran of the 1950s Korean war, is either...

Acclaimed Japanese pianist and composer Joe Hisaishi conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg. (Philharmonie de Paris, May 2022.)

An alien invasion of robot foot soldiers attacks a city and kidnaps people, including a young girl. Her companion, an android, is damaged, but...

Nippon TV's NEWS ZERO program produced an hour long documentary on the making of Ponyo, known in Japan by it's full title "Ponyo on the Cliff." A...

The story of a man who has an obsession with an automata he has been secretly constructing in an attempt to compensate for the lack of any close...

A young boy, living in a village on a giant tree, falls into the depths of the forest where he meets two indigenous beings who will help him return...

Joe Hisaishi in Budokan - Making of the Concert: The Big Screen

Set in a high school in Nishi-Izu slated to close next spring, the story follows members of the school’s broadcasting club as they face their...

A mad scientist tries to give life to his robot with lightning, just like Victor Frankenstein did.

A bishōjo story featuring two friends – teenage girls – at a robot-themed amusement park. One of the girls finds that her boyfriend...