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ICHIKO

ICHIKO (2023)

Director
TODA Akihiro
Cast
SUGISAKI Hana, WAKABA Ryuya, MORINAGA Yuki

Film adaptation of the play "Kawabe Ichiko no tameni", the flagship production for director Toda Akihiro's Cheese Theater. Kawabe Ichiko (Sugisaki Hana) vanishes the day after Hasegawa Yoshinori (Wakaba Ryuya), the boyfriend she's been living with ...

Release Date
Dec, 8th, 2023
Afterschool Anglers Club

Afterschool Anglers Club (2023)

Director
JOJO Hideo
Cast
Toomi, Marupi, MORI Futaba

Around the Edge of the Stand director Jojo Hideo scripts and helms this adaptation of Inoue Kaeru's teen novel "Afterschool Anglers Club for High School Girls." Oikawa Mezashi (Toomi) was the target of bullying, but she transfers to a girl's high sc...

Release Date
Apr, 29th, 2023
The Water Flows to the Sea

The Water Flows to the Sea (2023)

Director
MAEDA Tetsu
Cast
HIROSE Suzu, ONISHI Riku, KORA Kengo

Film adaptation of the same-named manga by Tajima Rettou that portrays good times in a shared house. Directed by Maeda Tetsu of And So The Baton Is Passed. High school student Naotatsu (Onishi Riku) moves in with his uncle Shigemichi (Kora Kengo). T...

Release Date
Jun, 9th, 2023
Dear Kaita Ablaze

Dear Kaita Ablaze (2023)

Director
SATO Hisayasu
Cast
YUYA Shintaro, SATO Riho, KUDO Kei

Murayama Kaita, a Japanese painter, novelist and poet died in 1919 at the age of 22, leaving behind an impressive and time-defying body of work. In his most recent film, Sato Hisayasu offers a surreal, time-crossing, meta-layered essay on the artist,...

Release Date
Dec, 23rd, 2023
December

December (2022)

Director
Anshul CHAUHAN
Cast
Shogen, MEGUMI, MATSUURA Ryo

Suspenseful social drama about juvenile crime. Directed by Chauhan Anshul, an Indian director living in Japan who gained international acclaim for his second feature film Kontora. Seven years after his daughter was murdered, Higuchi Katsu (Shogen) r...

Release Date
Mar, 18th, 2023
Girls Drive

Girls Drive (2023)

Director
MIYAOKA Taro
Cast
OGURI Yui, YAMAUCHI Mizuki, KURANOO Narumi

Koharu is a senior in high school who devoted her youth to athletics and worked hard in a small town. She is a sprinter who has been attracting attention, but her three years of training have been ruined unexpectedly. In the midst of grief, another m...

Release Date
Nov, 10th, 2023
Fly Me To The Saitama -FROM BIWA LAKE WITH LOVE-

Fly Me To The Saitama -FROM BIWA LAKE WITH LOVE- (2023)

Director
TAKEUCHI Hideki
Cast
GACKT, NIKAIDO Fumi

Sequel to Fly Me to the Saitama in the live-action series based on Maya Mineo's popular gag comedy. Director Takeuchi Hideki, screenplay writer Tokunaga Yuichi and editor Kawamura Shinji each won the top prize at the 43rd Japan Academy Awards and ret...

Release Date
Nov, 23rd, 2023
The Quiet Yakuza -Part 1-

The Quiet Yakuza -Part 1- (2023)

Director
YAMAGUCHI Kento
Cast
ITO Kentaro

A new live-action adaptation of the popular yakuza manga ‘The Quiet Don' by Nitta Tatsuo, comprehensively produced by Motomiya Yasukaze of the "Japan Unification" series. The first part of a two-part theatrical release whereby four chapters are divid...

Release Date
May, 12th, 2023

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Two In the Shadow

Two In the Shadow (1968)

Director
NARUSE Mikio
Cast
KAYAMA Yuzo, TSUKASA Yoko, MORI Mitsuko

Release Date
Nov, 18th, 1967
Manji

Manji (1964)

Director
MASUMURA Yasuzo
Cast
WAKAO Ayako, KISHIDA Kyoko, KAWAZU Yusuke

Sonoko, married and childless, decides to take drawing lessons. One day as her class is drawing a model, her instructor remarks that the face resembles Mitsuko, a beautiful girl they all know, in one of the other classes. Her drawing causes rumours ...

Release Date
Jul, 25th, 1964
Women of Whirpool Island

Women of Whirpool Island (1960)

Director
ISHII Teruo
Cast
MIHARA Yoko, YOSHIDA Teruo, AMACHI Shigeru

The cabaret "Doto" located in Tsushima Island between Japan and Korea is a veritable base for smugglers of opium. It is operated by Yuri, who is the mistress of the chief smuggler named Chin-Un-Ryu, and there are many waitresses who are forced to ser...

Release Date
Mar, 2nd, 1960
Incidental Murders

Incidental Murders (1961)

Director
INOUE Kazuo
Cast
TSUGAWA Masahiko, KUWANO Miyuki, SUGIURA Naoki

The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the heiress to a fortune. Two strong-arm brothers, Kosaka and Takeshi, learn of her identity and join the...

Release Date
Jan, 22nd, 1961