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MIRRORLIAR FILMS Season7 (2025)
- Director
- KATO Shigeaki, SAKAMOTO Sean, TAKEDA Narushi
- Cast
The seventh omnibus film from "MIRRORLIAR FILMS," a short film production project by a diverse range of creators that transcends the boundaries between the major and indie scenes. The collection is comprised of five films: "SUNA", which is directe...
- Release Date
- May, 9th, 2025
Whoever Steals This Book (2025)
- Director
- FUKUOKA Daiki
- Cast
Mifuyu is a high school student living with a large collection of books left by her great-grandfather—the vast library known as Mikura Hall. Although her father is the current caretaker, Mifuyu herself doesn't share her family's passion for literatur...
- Release Date
- Dec, 26th, 2025
The Real You (2024)
- Director
- ISHII Yuya
- Cast
- IKEMATSU Sosuke, MIYOSHI Ayaka, MIZUKAMI Koshi
Director Ishii Yuya adapted Hirano Keiichiro's novel of the same title for his screenplay. An innovative human mystery that sharply pursues the merits and demerits of a digital society. Sakuya (Ikematsu Sosuke) learns that his mother, Akiko (Tanaka ...
- Release Date
- Nov, 8th, 2024
What Should We Have Done? (2024)
- Director
- FUJINO Tomoaki
- Cast
Fujino Tomoaki directed, shot and edited this film over a 20-year period, documenting his sister who developed symptoms of schizophrenia and their socially isolated family. The filmmaker's sister is 8 years his senior, and she excelled academically ...
- Release Date
- Dec, 7th, 2024
How to Forget You (2024)
- Director
- SAKUDO Yu
- Cast
- BANDO Ryota, NISHINO Nanase
Drama about grief care for people suffering from loss. Directed and written by the emerging talent Sakudo Yu, who garnered international acclaim with his VR animation "Thank you for sharing your world." Morishita Subaru (Bando Ryota) loses his fianc...
- Release Date
- Jan, 17th, 2025
LOVE SONG (2025)
- Director
- Champ Weerachit Thongjila
- Cast
- MORISAKI Win, MUKAI Koji
Sota travels to Bangkok on business and unexpectedly reunites with his close friend from university, Kai. Back then, Sota secretly harbored feelings for Kai, but Kai was interested in Yuki. Soon after, strange rumors spread, and Kai vanished. Six yea...
- Release Date
- Oct, 31st, 2025
NOT ME THAT WENT VIRAL (2025)
- Director
- YAMADA Atsuhiro
- Cast
- ABE Hiroshi, ASHIDA Mana, FUJIWARA Taiyu
One day, a man is suddenly exposed on social media as the ‘murderer of a university student'. In no time, he is forced to face a social media backlash, with his real name and his photo revealed. He insists that it is not him and someone else is impe...
- Release Date
- Sep, 26th, 2025
PETALS AND MEMORIES (2025)
- Director
- MAEDA Tetsu
- Cast
Having lost their parents at a young age, siblings Toshiki and Fumiko have lived together ever since. With Fumiko's upcoming marriage, Toshiki, who has been like a parent to her, should finally feel a sense of relief. However, Fumiko has a secret she...
- Release Date
- Apr, 25th, 2025
JFDB Classics
Love Under the Crucifix (1962)
- Director
- TANAKA Kinuyo
- Cast
- ARIMA Ineko, NAKADAI Tatsuya, TAKAMINE Mieko
Rikyu Sen is a renowned 16th Century tea master in the service of the powerful warlord Hideyoshi Toyotomi. Rikyu's stepdaughter Gin loves Ukon Takayama, a Christian lord, who is already married. When her father Rikyu returns from Kyushu, Gin hears t...
- Release Date
- Jun, 3rd, 1962
Hot-Bed of Crime (1961)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- NITANI Hideaki, SASAMORI Reiko, KAWACHI Tamio
Jiro Takabe had spent 5 years in prison in taking the blame for his elder brother. Six months before Jiro's release his brother was killed and now he is bent on revenge. Jiro suspects his brother's former henchmen, Omura and Sakazaki, but he has no ...
- Release Date
- Mar, 26th, 1961
Lost Sex (1966)
- Director
- SHINDO Kaneto
- Cast
- KANZE Hideo, OTOWA Nobuko, TONO Eijiro
A new picture by the director of Naked Island and Onibaba, is the story of a man (played by Noh actor, Hideo Kanze) who is impotent due to being exposed to the atom-bomb explosion at Nagasaki. He lives alone with his house-keeper (Nobuko Otowa, star ...
- Release Date
- Aug, 27th, 1966
Professional Killers: Assassin’s Quarry (1973)
- Director
- WATANABE Yusuke
- Cast
- OGATA Ken, HAYASHI Yoichi, YAMAMURA So
Baian is outwardly an acupuncturist but really one of the professional assassins of Edo. He is a hired killer but kills only those people who are better off dead, doing good but poisoning the world around them. One day, Otowaya, the leader of the ass...
- Release Date
- Sep, 29th, 1973