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MIRRORLIAR FILMS Season7

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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