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UNDEAD LOVERS (2024)
- Director
- MATSUI Daigo
- Cast
- MIKAMI Ai, SATO Kanta
Rino believes that "the man of her destiny" is Jun who always disappears from her whenever she feels their love for each other. In their lifetime, they meet many times and Rino is 100% focused on him every time. These encounters and separations are...
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18x2 Beyond Youthful Days (2024)
- Director
- FUJII Michihito
- Cast
- HSU Kuanghan, KIYOHARA Kaya, JOSEPH Chang
Jimmy goes back to his parents' house for the first time in a long time and finds a postcard from Ami. Ami, a backpacker from Japan, showed up at the his work place 18 years ago. Jimmy's memories of his first love come back to him, and he sets off...
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Refugee X (2023)
- Director
- KUMAZAWA Naoto
- Cast
- UENO Juri, HAYASHI Kento, NOMURA Shuhei
One day, Japanese government announces that they will accept Planet X Refugees, who have been forced to leave their homeland. Who is X? What is their purpose? People are filled with unspoken fears and anxieties, and are eager to find out where X is, ...
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SECRET: A HIDDEN SCORE (2024)
- Director
- KAWAI Hayato
- Cast
- KYOMOTO Taiga, FURUKAWA Kotone
Minato, back from piano studies abroad, encounters Yukino at his music university playing an enigmatic piano in an old music room set for demolition. Mesmerized by her enchanting melodies, he asks for the piece's title, but she mischievously keeps it...
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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,...
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Rei (2024)
- Director
- TANAKA Toshihiko
- Cast
- SUZUKI Takara, OYAMA Maeko, MORIYAMA Shogo
Hikari is in her early thirties and lives and works in Tokyo. She has no particular problems but is unable to find her own value. In contrast to her, the people around her have their own big problems. Everyone has their own counterparts, clumsily ba...
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A Spoiling Rain (2023)
- Director
- ARAI Haruhiko
- Cast
- AYANO Go, EMOTO Tasuku, SATO Honami
Film adaptation of the novel of the same title by Matsuura Hisaki, winner of the 123rd Akutagawa Prize. This love story by renowned screenwriter Arai Haruhiko is his fourth film as a director, following It Feels So Good, and incorporates a motif not ...
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maboroshi (2023)
- Director
- OKADA Mari
- Cast
- ENOKI Junya, UEDA Reina, KUNO Misaki
Animation Studio MAPPA's first original animation movie written and directed by Mari Okada, who is also known as the script writer of "anohana the Movie: The Flower We Saw That Day". Ever since a bizarre factory explosion, 14-year-old Masamune Kikui...
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ROADSIDE FLOWERS AND GRASS (2023)
- Director
- KOSHIKAWA Michio
- Cast
- SAKUMA Mayu, YUYA Shintaro
Nazuna lives with a violent man Kitamura. Her mental balance is unstable, and she constantly clashes with Kitamura. One day, out of emotional entanglement, Nazuna had a fierce fight with Kitamura and ran out of his place. And she rolls into Kotaro...
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WITH YOU AGAIN (2023)
- Director
- HANA Kosei
- Cast
- ITO Saki, HIRAI Amon
I don't want to have sex because I love her... Maruo is an independent film director who still hasn't been able to forget his ex-girlfriend Aki, whom he broke up with because of this reason. He tries to make a new film based on his own experiences,...
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SILENT LOVE (2024)
- Director
- UCHIDA Eiji
- Cast
- YAMADA Ryosuke, HAMABE Minami, NOMURA Shuhei
A love story spun from his own original screenplay by Uchida Eiji, director of Midnight Swan, which won the Best Film Award at the 44th Japan Academy Prize. Hisaishi Joe, who has worked on numerous Studio Ghibli works, composed the music. Aoi (Yamad...
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TILL WE MEET AGAIN ON THE LILY HILL (2023)
- Director
- NARITA Yoichi
- Cast
- FUKUHARA Haruka, MIZUKAMI Koshi
Follow the Light director Narita Yoichi brings Shiomi Natsue's same-named novel to the silver screen. Vividly portrays romance in the life of a high school girl who has traveled back in time to 1945 Japan. Yuri (Fukuhara Haruka) runs away from home ...
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How to Find Happiness (2022)
- Director
- NAGASAKI Shunichi
- Cast
- TAKASUGI Mahiro, SEKIMIZU Nagisa
Heartwarming romance about family ties and a couple who fall in love after randomly ending up under the same roof. Director Nagasaki Shunichi and scriptwriter Yazawa Yumi from The Witch of the West is Dead team up for their first original project in ...
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Motto choetsushita tokoro e (2022)
- Director
- YAMAGISHI Santa
- Cast
- MAEDA Atsuko, KIKUCHI Fuma, ITO Marika
Playwright Nemoto Shuko pens the script for this bold feature film adaptation of her same-named play. Director Yamagishi Santa of Bully School: Devil Full of Scars delightfully depicts the love lives of four women who attract loser men. The story is...
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Hand (2022)
- Director
- MATSUI Daigo
- Cast
- FUKUNAGA Akari, KANEKO Daichi
This film kicks off the Roman Porno Now project celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Just Remembering director Matsui Daigo shows the reality of romance in his adaptation of Yamazaki Nao-cola's same-named novel. Sawako (Fukunaga...
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Safe Word (2022)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Koji
- Cast
- KAWASE Chisako, TORIUMU Nagisa
Second film in the Roman Porno Now project celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Coming-of-age S&M comedy by horror maestro Shiraishi Koji of Sadako vs. Kayako and Impossibility Defense. Misa (Kawase Chisako) is an underground id...
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When the Rain Falls (2022)
- Director
- KANEKO Shusuke
- Cast
- KOMIYA Kazuha, Kazumi
Third film in the Roman Porno Now project celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Lyrical portrayal of a new kind of romance from Kaneko Shusuke, who launched his career with a Roman Porno film and worked on the Heisei-era "Gamera" ...
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KAPPEI (2022)
- Director
- HIRANO Takashi
- Cast
- ITO Hideaki, KAMISHIRAISHI Moka, NISHIHATA Daigo (Naniwa Danshi)
A live-action film adaptation of the humorous manga "Kappei" by Wakasugi Kiminori, the author of "Detroit Metal City". It is a high-octane depiction of love and adolescence of the main character, who has devoted his life to training. Kappei (Ito Hid...
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OUR SECRET DIARY (2023)
- Director
- TAKEMURA Kentaro
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Fumiya, SAKURADA Hiyori
Romance based on Sakura Eeyo's same-named teen novel about miscommunication and love that sold over 650,000 copies. Nozomi (Sakurada Hiyori) is in her second year of high school and finds a letter that says "I like you!" in her desk. It is from Seto...
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You Made My Dawn (2023)
- Director
- SAKAI Mai
- Cast
- SHIROIWA Ruki, KUMADA Rinka
A love story adapted from Shiomi Natsue's hit novel series, which has sold over 550,000 copies, by up-and-coming director Sakai Mai of the "My Beautiful Man" series. Niwa Akane (Kumada Rinka), is an honor student who always wears a face mask at sch...
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ICE CREAM FEVER (2023)
- Director
- CHIHARA Tetsuya
- Cast
- YOSHIOKA Riho, MOTOLA Serena, UTAHA (WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA)
A love story adapted from the short story collection ‘Ice Cream Fever' by Akutagawa Award-winning author Kawakami Mieko. This is the first film directed by art director Chihara Tetsuya, who is active in a wide range of fields. Tsuneta Natsumi (Yoshi...
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S-friends 2 (2023)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- YUKIHIRA Aika, AOYAGI Sho
Second part of a two-part film adaptation of the popular manga by Minato Yoriko. Directed by Hideo Jojo of On the Edge of Their Seats fame. Morimura Shoko (Yukihira Aika) is a 36-year-old single mother who has been in a "friendship" with Kitada Kazu...
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S-friends (2023)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- YUKIHIRA Aika, AOYAGI Sho
Part one of a two-part film adaptation of the popular manga by Minato Yoriko. Directed by Jojo Hideo On the Edge of Their Seats, the film depicts the emotions of a man and woman who spend the night together at a class reunion. 36-year-old Morimura S...
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A Girl in My Room (2022)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Natsuki
- Cast
- KUBO Shiori, HAGIWARA Riku, ONO Rina
A film adaptation of Chugaku Yamamoto's manga of the same title depicting the strange communal life shared by a pure ghost and a businessman who is clumsy in love. Directed and scripted by Takahashi Natsuki, a female director born in 1996, it freshly...
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Tuberose (2022)
- Director
- FUCHIZAWA Yuki
- Cast
- KIYOSE Yuki, MATSUI Kenta, MATSUMOTO Hiroyuki
Fuchisawa Yuki, who works as an announcer and narrator, makes her feature film directorial debut with an intense love story for adults. The screenplay is written by Nogi Lily, who also wrote the screenplay for Wish Upon A Star: Grandad Wants to be a ...