Star Sands Movies

Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times.

Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile...

A girl vanishes while walking, leaving her family devastated. As months pass without clues, rumors about her mother's actions intensify online,...

In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break free from a cruel fate tying him to the very...

Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving...

A teenage girl's accidental death incites a media frenzy and causes her harsh father to turn his rage against those he believes are responsible.

Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced...

It is the job of the press to cover corporate crime, government plots and society. It is in this context that young female reporter on the beat Erika...

Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.

From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them...

Iwao Shishido has found a wife. After paying three million yen for a bridal tour to the Philippines, he comes home with Irene, who is promptly...

Set in 1945 at the end of World War II. Saku arrives on Kakeromajima as the head of navy special forces. He is admired by the children on the island...

A documentary about workers facing the coronavirus pandemic.

"Yoyochu" is the nick name for Tadashi Yoyogi. He is the father of Japanese adult video. Before becoming a pornographer, he was a flower arranger and...

In Japan, there is an informal agreement between mainstream media and the government that is hardly ever questioned: Journalists are not too...

The late Shinzo Abe was the longest-serving prime minister of all time, holding office for 2,822 consecutive days. While his hawkish foreign policy...