List of the best Kirin Kiki movies: Sweet Bean(2015), Tsunagu(2012), After the Storm(2016), Returner(2002), Shoplifters(2018), The Best Bad Thing(1998), Like Father, Like Son(2013), Waga Haha no Ki(2011), Little Sister(2015), Still Walking(2008), Kakekomi(2015), Kamikaze Girls(2004) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
Japan|France|Germany
2015
113 Minutes
Tokue
Kirin Kiki Masatoshi Nagase Kyara Uchida Miyoko Asada Etsuko Ichihara Miki Mizuno Taiga Miu Takeuchi Wakato Kanematsu
business owner old woman friend customer dreamy calm engaging charming heartwarming uplifting japan kitchen business cooking success friendship rise underdog 2010s
Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
Drama
Japan
2012
129 Minutes
Tôri Matsuzaka Kirin Kiki Miyoko Asada Tetsuya Bessho Kenichi Endo Ai Hashimoto Manami Honjô Mirei Kiritani
High school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a "tsunagu," an intermediary for people who want to reach the dead.
Drama
Japan
2016
117 Minutes
Shinoda Yoshiko
Hiroshi Abe Yôko Maki Kirin Kiki Taiyô Yoshizawa
private detective family estranged father son mother mourner brooding charming emotional inspiring moving rousing japan town detective agency home family relationships second chance determination
After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
Sci-Fi, Action
Japan
2002
116 Minutes
Xie
Takeshi Kaneshiro Gorô Kishitani Kirin Kiki Anne Suzuki Kisuke Iida Kazuya Shimizu Chiharu Kawai Dean Harrington
A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
Adventure, Crime, Drama
Japan
2018
121 Minutes
Shibata Hatsue
Lily Franky Sakura Andô Mayu Matsuoka Kirin Kiki Jyo Kairi Miyu Sasaki Sôsuke Ikematsu
shoplifter man outsider child orphan abusive father engaging playful charming amusing emotional melodramatic japan house prison family happiness shoplifting child abuse crime
A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.
Drama
UK|USA
1998
90 Minutes
Aunt Hata
Lana McKissack Michel Perron Robert Ito Kirin Kiki George Takei Kitao Sakurai Bryan Matsuura Alexandra Clermont Yuki Tokuhiro Dino Tavarone Tedd Dillon
A secret family of four-inch people living inside the walls of a house must save their home from an evil real estate developer.
Drama
Japan
2013
120 Minutes
Riko Ishizeki
Machiko Ono Yôko Maki Masaharu Fukuyama Lily Franky Kirin Kiki Jun Fubuki Jun Kunimura Shôgen Hwang
father son biological father mother emotional gripping incredible powerful rousing tender japan home hospital outdoors small town city switched identities birth family relationships
Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
Drama
Japan
2011
Minutes
Yae
Koji Yakusho Aoi Miyazaki Kaho Minami Rentarô Mikuni Kirin Kiki Takahiro Miura Erina Mano Mimura
Based on an autobiographical novel by Inoue Yasushi, the film chronicles the passage of fifteen years within a family struggling with abandonment, resentment and decline with old age. As ... See full summary »
Drama
2015
126 Minutes
Fumiyo Kikuchi
Haruka Ayase Masami Nagasawa Kaho Suzu Hirose Kirin Kiki Shinobu Ohtake Ryô Kase Jun Fubuki
sister mother figure estranged father sibling half sister friend caregiver grandmother love interest romantic interest mother lighthearted emotional engaging endearing positive japan home family home family
After the death of their estranged father, three siblings (Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho) invite their half sister (Suzu Hirose) to live with them.
Drama
Japan
2008
114 Minutes
Toshiko Yokoyama
Hiroshi Abe You Yoshio Harada Ryôga Hayashi Haruko Kato Kirin Kiki Yui Natsukawa Hotaru Nomoto Kazuya Takahashi Shohei Tanaka
mother father son wife daughter stranger emotional dark family home japan family dysfunction grief death discovery transformation 2000s
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
Comedy, Drama
Japan
2015
143 Minutes
Jun Hashimoto Hana Hizuki Hyunri Misuzu Kanno Katsumi Kiba Kirin Kiki Midoriko Kimura Yukiya Kitamura Hikari Mitsushima Shinji Takeda Erika Toda
The lives of women saved by the historical Tokei-ji Buddhist Temple.
Comedy, Adventure
2004
100 Minutes
Momoko's Grandmother
Kyôko Fukada Anna Tsuchiya Hiroyuki Miyasako Nobara Takemoto Ryôko Shinohara Eiko Koike Kirin Kiki
A yakuza's (Hiroyuki Miyasako) daughter (Kyôko Fukada) and a biker (Anna Tsuchiya) form an unlikely friendship while embarking on a series of adventures.
Mystery & Thriller
Japan
1994
100 Minutes
Masahiro Motoki Naoto Takenaka Michiko Hada Teruyuki Kagawa Mikijir? Hira Shiro Sano Ittoku Kishibe Nekohachi Edoya Jyunichi Takagi Charlie Yutani Kirin Kiki
writer government official femme fatale murderer alter ego marquis eerie dreamy intricate profound spectacular japan library street imaginary world castle creative process fiction writing censorship murder investigation
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts... See full summary »