Japanese Movies by Genre: Comedy
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April Fools (2015)
Director: Junichi Ishikawa
Plot: Ayumi Nitta is a member of a hospital cleaning staff and suffers from extreme social anxiety. After having a one-night stand with genius surgeon and sex addict Wataru Makino, Ayumi discovers she's pregnant. However, when she tells Wataru, he dismisses her claim as a bad April Fools joke. Refusing to believe he could possibly be the father of Ayumi's baby after just one night together, Wataru takes a woman named Reiko on a date to an Italian restaurant. However, Ayumi also shows up, leading to a major incident. -
Tamako-chan to Kokkubo (2015)
Director: Shoh Kataoka
Plot: After dreaming of a land of sweets, Hiyoko gets pulled into an animated world through the hole of a doughnut. While there, she meets a girl named Tamako-chan and a mysterious creature called Kokkubo. Hiyoko begins visiting the animated world on a daily basis and Tamako-chan visits the real world by taking up residence in her body. -
Biri Gyaru (2015)
Director: Nobuhiro Doi
Plot: Blonde-haired "gyaru" Sayaka has always been more interested in fashion than her studies. Because of this, she now has the scholastic aptitude of a 4th grader as a second-year high school student. However, when she visits a cram school, lecturer Mr. Tsubota recognizes her innate intelligence. After an informal discussion, and with the support of her family, Sayaka becomes determined not only to improve her grades, but to spend her final year of high school working hard toward getting accepted into prestigious Keio University. -
Oyaji Danyuu Z (2014)
Director: Yutaka Ikejima
Plot: After the failure of his snack bar, 52-year-old Mitsuo Mameda finds himself deep in debt and abandoned by his wife and children. However, through a freak coincidence, he winds up becoming involved in the world of adult videos. Mameda is hired as a "juice actor", the lowest rung of the male AV ladder. Meanwhile he becomes roommates with fellow juice actors Hachiya and Ohmae. One day, a popular young AV actress named Yuria shows up and suggests they all begin living together. -
Initiation Love (2015)
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Plot: In the late 1980s, a job-hunting college student in Shizuoka Prefecture named Suzuki begins an awkward romance with a dental hygienist named Mayu. However, when Suzuki finds a job he moves to Tokyo and the two are forced into a long-distance relationship. Over time, their relationship starts to fall apart as Suzuki begins spending time with another woman named Miyako. -
Kazoku wa Tsurai yo (2016)
Director: Yoji Yamada
Plot: On the eve of a married couple's 50th anniversary, the husband asks his wife what she wants as a gift. She answers, "A divorce." The news of the impending separation sends shockwaves through the previously ordinary family as their children are thrown into a state of panic. In the wake of this turmoil, each member of the family begins airing their respective grievances. -
Poison Berry in My Brain (2015)
Director: Yuichi Sato
Plot: 30-year-old Ichiko Sakurai has a chance encounter with a younger man named Ryochi Saotome whom she recently met at a party. In her mind, she considers her options: "Should I talk to him? Should I stay quiet? Should I be forward, or try to get him to notice me?"Meanwhile, Ichiko's inner turmoil is acted out by a cast of five characters, each with vastly different personalities, who exist only in her mind. They consist of the chairman Yoshida, an energetic young man named Ishibashi, a pessimistic woman named Ikeda, a young girl in gothic lolita clothing named Hatoko, and an older man named Kishi who acts as the group's record-keeper. -
No Yona mono no Yona mono (2015)
Director: Yasukazu Sugiyama
Plot: A rakugo performer named Shinden is sent on a mission by his master Shinkome to find one of his former students Shintoto. Meanwhile. Shinden is secretly in love with Shinkome's daughter Yumi. -
Assassination Classroom (2015)
Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
Plot: "Class E" of Kunugigaoka Junior High School consists of students determined to have no future. They're separated from their classmates and assigned to a bizarre tentacled alien homeroom teacher. The alien, whom the students refer to as "Kurosensei" (literally "unkillable teacher"), had previously destroyed most of the moon and threatened to destroy Earth. However, he decided to delay his plan for one year if he was given a class of junior high school students to teach on the terms that he wouldn't harm them.Kurosensei teachers his class various assassination techniques and the government promises a 10 billion yen reward to the student who finally manages to kill him. Unfortunately, Kurosensei is able to avoid all of their attacks due to his vastly superior alien reflexes. In spite of this, student Nagisa Shiota keeps track of any perceived weaknesses as he and his classmates try to come up with new ways to kill him. -
Clover (2014)
Director: Takeshi Furusawa
Plot: Saya Suzuki is a young office lady who's hopeless when it comes to relationships and still hasn't gotten over her first love. Every day, Saya is scolded by her extremely strict boss Susumu Tsuge, a handsome executive with a promising future. One day Tsuge surprises Saya by suddenly asking her out. However, even as the two begin dating, Tsuge's harsh personality doesn't seem to change and they experience various complications on their path toward romance.