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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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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- (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- (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
JFDB Archives
Two In the Shadow (1968)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- KAYAMA Yuzo, TSUKASA Yoko, MORI Mitsuko
- Release Date
- Nov, 18th, 1967
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 (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 (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