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  • The Quiet Yakuza -Part 2-

    The Quiet Yakuza -Part 2- (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 second part of a two-part theatrical release whereby four chapters are divi...

  • Motion Picture: Choke

    Motion Picture: Choke (2023)

    Director
    NAGAO Gen
    Cast
    WADA Misa, HIBA Daiki, NISHINA Takashi

    This unusual drama shot in black and white depicts humans living in a devastated world where language has ceased to exist. Nagao Gen directs his second feature film after Itsuka no futari. A woman (Wada Misa) lives off the land in an abandon buildin...

  • Life is Climbing

    Life is Climbing (2023)

    Director
    NAKAHARA Sokichi
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Koichiro, SUZUKI Naoya, NISHIYAMA Kiyofumi

    This documentary follows a visually impaired climber and his partner as they take on the challenge of climbing in the United States. Koichiro Kobayashi a.k.a. Koba, a visually impaired climber, relies on the voice of Naoya Suzuki, a.k.a. Naoya, his ...

  • Greed & Hot Springs

    Greed & Hot Springs (2023)

    Director
    KAWAKAMI Ryo
    Cast
    SAWAGUCHI Aika, KOHAMA Momona, ITOSE Nanaha

    On a high school trip to a hot spring resort, a group of high school girls discover a bag full of wads of cash that a yakuza mistress has absconded with. The total amount is $200K! A hitman appears to recover the money, a teacher is blackmailed by a ...

  • Momotaro with Fearful Clans

    Momotaro with Fearful Clans (2023)

    Director
    NARUSE Kiyoto
    Cast
    HAYAKAWA Ruka, NISHINA Takashi, SAKURA Moe

    A kind-hearted married couple of earthbound spirits, who live in an accident property, warmly watch over their new tenant, Kijima. Kijima, however, is a bizarre murderer who brings women into his room, kills them, and dismembers their bodies. He is a...

  • Blooming Ashes

    Blooming Ashes (2023)

    Director
    URASAKI Kyohei
    Cast
    MORI Miharu, NISHIKAWA Fuka, IGARASHI Ryo

    In a suburban village, an honest old man lives happily with his beloved wife and his dog Haru. However, there is a mean old man, Toraji, who lived next door, and they are a bizarre and perverted man who keeps kidnapping and murdering people one after...

  • Dear Kaita Ablaze

    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,...

  • The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe

    The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe (2023)

    Director
    KOGA Go
    Cast
    SEKI Toshihiko, KIUCHI Hidenobu, TANEZAKI Atsumi

    This feature-length animated film, produced to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the original author Mizuki Shigeru, depicts the story leading up to the birth of Kitaro, which should be called "Episode 0" of the sixth season of the TV...

  • Fly Me To The Saitama -FROM BIWA LAKE WITH LOVE-

    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...

  • Lightning Over the Beyond

    Lightning Over the Beyond (2022)

    Director
    HANNO Yoshihiro
    Cast
    MAEDA Gordon, IKEUCHI Hiroyuki, Awich

    A black-and-white road movie following a young man tracing the remnants of war in Nagasaki and Okinawa, guided by the work of Tomatsu Shomei, one of Japan's leading post-war photographers. Directed, scripted, and featuring the original story and musi...

  • Actress Wouldn't Cry

    Actress Wouldn't Cry (2023)

    Director
    UDO Yoshifumi
    Cast
    RENBUTSU Misako, ITO Marika, KAMIKAWA Shusaku

    This comedy marks the feature film directorial debut for CM director Udo Yoshifumi, who also directs and scripts TV dramas. Set in his hometown of Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture. When scandal leaves actress Rie (Renbutsu Misako) unemployable, she re...

  • No election, no life

    No election, no life (2023)

    Director
    MAEDA Aki
    Cast
    HATAKEYAMA Michiyoshi

    Documentary about the ardor and anguish of freelance writer Hatakeyama Michiyoshi, who has covered elections for 25 years. Directed by Maeda Aki, producer of Why You Can't Be Prime Minister and Kagawa District 1. Hatakeyama throws himself into pursu...

  • HOYAMAN

    HOYAMAN (2023)

    Director
    SHOJI Teruaki
    Cast
    AFRO (MOROHA), KURESHIRO Kumi, KUROSAKI Kodai

    In his feature debut, director Shoji Teruaki spins a tale of family rebirth in this drama shot entirely on location on a remote island that is part of his hometown of Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture. Akira (MOROHA Afro) catches "hoya" (sea squirt...

  • September 1923

    September 1923 (2023)

    Director
    MORI Tatsuya
    Cast
    IURA Arata, TANAKA Rena, NAGAYAMA Eita

    Drama about mob hysteria based on the 1923 Fukuda Village incident. Directed by Mori Tatsuya, known for the documentaries A and FAKE. The year is 1923. Sawada Tomokazu (Iura Arata) and his wife Shizuko (Tanaka Rena) leave Gyeongseong (Seoul at prese...

  • Graveyard of Youth

    Graveyard of Youth (2021)

    Director
    OKUDA Yosuke
    Cast
    KASAHARA Takashi, FURUKAWA Nae, TANAKA Atsuyuki

    Director Okuda Yosuke (Tokyo Playboy Club) returns to his roots with this ensemble piece, his first film in six years and with the same title as his debut. A man working in a Chinese restaurant in downtown Tokyo is asked by a middle-aged woman, who ...

  • A Far Shore

    A Far Shore (2022)

    Director
    KUDO Masaaki
    Cast
    HANASE Kotone, ISHIDA Yumemi, SAKUMA Yoshiro

    Social drama that won the Audience Award in Competition at the 23rd TOKYO FILMeX. Director Kudo Masaaki, who attracted attention with his feature debut I'm Crazy, shot the entire film on location in Okinawa. 17-year-old Aoi (Hanase Kotone) lives wit...

  • Mountain Woman

    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...

  • A Spoiling Rain

    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 ...

  • Brats, Be Ambitious!

    Brats, Be Ambitious! (2023)

    Director
    ADACHI Shin
    Cast
    IKEGAWA Yukiya, TASHIRO Hikaru, SHIRAISHI Kiichi

    A coming-of-age film based on his novel 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', a 20-year project by Adachi Shin (A Beloved Wife). The seven schoolchildren who become the protagonists are portrayed vividly through long takes. Primary school student Shun (Ikegawa Yu...

  • December

    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...

  • Alone Again in Fukushima

    Alone Again in Fukushima (2023)

    Director
    NAKAMURA Mayu
    Cast
    MATSUMURA Naoto

    Sequel to the 2015 documentary Alone in Fukushima about a man living in Tomioka, a town in Fukushima Prefecture rendered uninhabitable by the 2011 nuclear power accident. Nakamura Mayu returns as director, cinematographer and editor. Matsumura Naoto...

  • "To Live" People Who Fought for the Okawa Elementary School Tsunami Trial

    "To Live" People Who Fought for the Okawa Elementary School Tsunami Trial (2022)

    Director
    TERADA Kazuhiro
    Cast

    Documentary based on ten years of footage about the court case involving Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, where numerous people lost their lives in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Okawa Elementary School lost ten teach...

  • Baian the Assassin, M.D.

    Baian the Assassin, M.D. (2023)

    Director
    KAWAKE Shunsaku
    Cast
    TOYOKAWA Etsushi, KATAOKA Ainosuke, KANNO Miho

    Two films starring Toyokawa Etsushi adapt Ikenami Shotaro's series that rivals his "Onihei Hankacho" and "Kenkyaku Shobai" in popularity. Produced to commemorate the centennial of the great historical novelist's birth. Fujieda Baian (Toyokawa) is a ...

  • IDOLiSH7 the Movie; LIVE 4bit BEYOND THE PERiOD <DAY 1>

    IDOLiSH7 the Movie; LIVE 4bit BEYOND THE PERiOD <DAY 1> (2023)

    Director
    NISHIKIORI Hiroshi, YAMAMOTO Kensuke
    Cast
    ONO Kensho, MASUDA Toshiki, SHIRAI Yusuke

    A new beginning, with you, on this stage! The dream concert by the top male idol contenders for the 'BLACK or WHITE LIVE SHOWDOWN' finally takes place! Four groups, IDOLiSH7・TRIGGER・Re:vale・ŹOOĻ, each with their own distinct charms, come together f...

  • With Each Passing Breath

    With Each Passing Breath (2023)

    Director
    KAWAKAMI Atiqa
    Cast
    MINATOYA Kosome, MINATOYA Koryu

    This documentary follows the development of Minatoya Kosome, who fell in love with and became an apprentice of Rōkyoku (traditional Japanese narrative singing) master Minatoya Koryu. Director Kawakami Atiqa, who directed the short film Minatoya Koryu...