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Rohan at the Louvre (2023)
- Director
- WATANABE Kazutaka
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Issey, IITOYO Marie, KIMURA Fumino
Following a live-action TV drama adaptation on NHK in 2020, "Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe", a spin-off of Araki Hirohiko's hugely popular comic "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure", has been made into a theatrical film. Kishibe Rohan (Takahashi Issey), a manga ar...
- Release Date
- May, 26th, 2023
SAND LAND (2023)
- Director
- YOKOSHIMA Toshihisa
- Cast
- TAMURA Mutsumi, YAMAJI Kazuhiro, Cho
Animated film adaptation of the short manga of the same name published by Toriyama Akira of ‘Dragon Ball' fame in 2000. Renowned production studios Sunrise, Kamikaze Douga and ANIMA joined forces for this production. SAND LAND is a desert world wher...
- Release Date
- Aug, 18th, 2023
Mountain Woman (2022)
- Director
- FUKUNAGA Takeshi
- Cast
- YAMADA Anna, MORIYAMA Mirai, NAGASE Masatoshi
Drama inspired by folklorist Yanagida Kunio's famous book ‘Tales of Tono'. Directed and scripted by Fukunaga Takeshi, whose Ainu Moshir was highly acclaimed abroad. Tohoku in the late 18th century. Rin (Yamada Anna) lives in a village suffering from...
- Release Date
- Jun, 30th, 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
Kadono Eiko's Colorful Life: Finding the Magic Within (2024)
- Director
- MIYAGAWA Marina
- Cast
- KADONO Eiko
A documentary that closely follows the daily life of Kadono Eiko, best known as the author of "Kiki's Delivery Service". Based on the NHK program of the same name that was broadcast from 2020 to 2022, directed by Miyagawa Marina, who also worked on t...
- Release Date
- Jan, 26th, 2024
PERFECT DAYS (2023)
- Director
- Wim WENDERS
- Cast
- YAKUSHO Koji
Maestro Wim Wenders directs Yakusho Koji in this story about a toilet cleaner. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Best Actor Award. Hirayama (Yakusho) cleans toilets in Shibuya, Tokyo. He lives in an old ...
- Release Date
- Dec, 22nd, 2023
A Girl Named Ann (2024)
- Director
- IRIE Yu
- Cast
- KAWAI Yuumi
Ann was beaten by her mother since childhood, dropped out of school in her third year, and was forced into prostitution by her mother in her mid-teens. One day, Ann is interrogated by the police on a charge of using drug and meets Tatara, a detective...
- Release Date
- Jun, 7th, 2024
THE FARTHEST (Tentative Title) (2023)
- Director
- KOSHIKAWA Michio
- Cast
- KITAZAWA Hibiki, NAKAJIMA Ayumu
One day, a young woman, Momo, and a 40-year-old man, Toudou, meet at an izakaya. They hold their hands and sing a song while walking the streets at night. Eventually, they seek each other and make love. The next morning, Toudou says, "It's like a ...
- Release Date
- May, 6th, 2023
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The Gun Like Lightning (1960)
- Director
- NOGUCHI Hiroshi
- Cast
- AKAGI Keiichiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, NITANI Hideaki
Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a new leaf. He has returned, however, because of Keiko, his sweetheart, who he now finds is engaged to...
- Release Date
- May, 14th, 1960
The Night of the Honeymoon (1964)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, TAKAHASHI Masaya, KAWAZU Yusuke
A young couple start on their honeymoon. There is nothing to mar the girl's happiness as she sits beside the man she loves and respects. As night falls her heart is divided between expectation and fear, for tomorrow she will really be a wife. Yet, de...
- Release Date
- Oct, 3rd, 1964
Naked Island (1958)
- Director
- NOMURA Hiromasa
- Cast
- NAKAYAMA Shoji, KUBOTA Nahoko, NUMATA Yoichi
On board the ship in which Goro lnada a pro-boxer is returning to Japan he falls in love with Ayame, a popular singer. But their happiness is of short durations as the vessel is wrecked. When lnada awakens from the nightmare of shipwreck, he finds h...
- Release Date
- Jun, 8th, 1958
THE EYES, THE SEA AND A BALL (1967)
- Director
- KINOSHITA Keisuke
- Cast
- NATSUKI Yosuke, OZORA Mayumi, URABE Kumeko
- Release Date
- Sep, 30th, 1967