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BL Metamorphosis (2022)
- Director
- KARIYAMA Shunsuke
- Cast
- ASHIDA Mana, MIYAMOTO Nobuko
Feature film adaptation of Tsurutani Kaori's same-named comic with a script by Okada Yoshikazu, renowned for his many successful TV dramas. Warmly depicts the friendship between two women fifty-eight years apart who meet through boys' love manga. Sa...
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by the window (2022)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- INAGAKI Goro, NAKAMURA Yuri, TAMASHIRO Tina
This is the seventeenth completely original film by Imaizumi Rikiya, director of numerous high-profile films such as What is Love?, which won the Audience Award at the 35th Tokyo International Film Festival. Freelance writer Ichikawa Shigemi (Inagak...
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Mobile Suit Gundam Cucuruz Doan's Island (2022)
- Director
- YASUHIKO Yoshikazu
- Cast
- FURUYA Toru, TAKEUCHI Shunsuke
A film adaptation of the fifteenth episode "Cucuruz Doan's Island" from the TV animation "Mobile Suit Gundam" broadcast in 1979. Directed by Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, who worked on the "Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin" series. Amuro Ray (Furuya Toru) and h...
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Lonely Castle in the Mirror (2022)
- Director
- HARA Keiichi
- Cast
- TOMA Ami, KITAMURA Takumi
Colorful director Hara Keiichi helms this animation adaptation of Tsujimura Mizuki's same-named bestselling novel. Kokoro (Touma Ami) is a junior high school girl who finds herself ostracized at school and holes up in her room. The mirror in her roo...
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Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween (2022)
- Director
- MITSUNAKA Susumu
- Cast
- TAKAYAMA Minami, YAMAZAKI Wakana, KOYAMA Rikiya
The twenty-fifth theatrical outing for "Detective Conan", which is an animated adaptation of Aoyama Gosho's comic series serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday. Against the backdrop of the bustling Shibuya district of Tokyo during the Halloween season, a...
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A WINTER ROSE (2022)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Junji
- Cast
- ITO Kentaro, KOBAYASHI Kaoru, YO Kimiko
A human drama by Sakamoto Junji, a film director at the peak of his maturity, who wrote an original screenplay for Ito Kentaro, an actor forty years younger than himself. Toguchi Jun (Ito), who lives in a port town, does not attend vocational school...
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EVERYTHING WILL BE OWLRIGHT! (2022)
- Director
- ICHII Masahide
- Cast
- KATORI Shingo, KISHII Yukino
A black comedy by Ichii Masahide, director of numerous films with original screenplays including Blindly in Love and The Stormy Family, that comically depicts the "petty quarrels" of a married couple. Yujiro (Katori Shingo) and Hiyori (Kishii Yukino...
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MY BROTHER, THE ANDROID AND ME (2020)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Junji
- Cast
- TOYOKAWA Etsushi
A forbidden drama that strongly reflects Sakamoto Junji's own outlook on life. The original script, which was written with the image of actor Toyokawa Etsushi in mind, depicts "ultimate loneliness". Kiryu Kaoru (Toyokawa), a lonely robot engineer, h...
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THE CONFIDENCEMAN JP -EPISODE OF THE HERO- (2022)
- Director
- TANAKA Akira
- Cast
- NAGASAWA Masami, HIGASHIDE Masahiro, KOHINATA Fumiyo
Following on from Romance and Princess, this is the third theatrical film outing of the hit TV drama series, directed by Tanaka Akira and written by Kosawa Ryota. The con man "Tsuchinoko the Third", who was hailed as a hero, is dead. Dako (Nagasawa ...
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Small, Slow But Steady (2022)
- Director
- MIYAKE Sho
- Cast
- KISHII Yukino, MIURA Tomokazu
A human drama modeled on a female professional boxer who fought while facing hearing impairment, inspired by her way of life. Directed and written by Miyake Sho, who received acclaim both in Japan and abroad for his film And Your Bird Can Sing. This ...
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Arthouse vs.COVID-19 (2022)
- Director
- SUGAWARA Ryuta
- Cast
- KIMATA Junji, TSUBOI Atsushi
A documentary following Kimata Junji, the manager of the arthouse Cinema Skhole in Nagoya. Re-edited into movie from the Nagoya TV program "Me-Tele Documentary Theater reborn: Cinema and Covid-19", which was broadcast in March 2021. Founded in 1983 ...
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Suzume (2022)
- Director
- SHINKAI Makoto
- Cast
- HARA Nanoka, MATSUMURA Hokuto
Director Shinkai Makoto of your name. and Weathering With You, portrays the adventure about the liberation and maturation of a girl named Suzume, who embarks on a journey to seal the "doors" that cause natural disasters set in ruins throughout Japan....
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Love Nonetheless (2021)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- SETO Koji, SATO Honami
A romantic comedy directed by Jojo Hideo, the director of On the Edge of Their Seats, adapted from a screenplay by Imaizumi Rikiya. One of the "L/R15" projects in which Jojo and Imaizumi provide scripts for each other and direct the R15+ love stories...
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Chronicle in the Ruins - Our Own Ethnographic Film (2022)
- Director
- HARA Maori
- Cast
- HARA Masato, HARA Kobo, HARA Mamiya
A documentary that shows the love and bond within a family as they face the consequences of a fire that destroyed their home by making a film. Hara Masato made his debut as a high school student in the 1960s and was praised as a genius film director...
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ROLELESS (2022)
- Director
- SEKI Yutaro, HIRASE Kentaro, SATO Masahiko
- Cast
- KAGAWA Teruyuki, TSUDA Kanji, OMI Toshinori
A feature film debut from the directorial group "Gogatsu" consisting of Sato Masahiko, who worked on NHK's educational program "PythagoraSwitch," Seki Yutaro, who has directed dramas for NHK, and Hirase Kentaro, who participated in the screenplay for...
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Thousand and One Nights (2022)
- Director
- KUBOTA Nao
- Cast
- TANAKA Yuko, ONO Machiko, ANDO Masanobu
Inspired by a missing persons list, documentary director Kubota Nao spent eight years completing this human drama. Tanaka Yuko plays the lead role, in her fourth collaboration with the director, in addition to his dramatic film debut Homeland. A bea...
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The Last 10 Years (2022)
- Director
- FUJII Michihito
- Cast
- KOMATSU Nana, SAKAGUCHI Kentaro
A film adaptation of Kosaka Ruka's novel of the same title, co-written by Okada Yoshikazu and Watanabe Mako and directed by Fujii Michihito (The Journalist). RADWIMPS, of your name. and other Shinkai Makoto films fame, are in charge of the music, inc...
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Your Turn To Kill: The Movie (2021)
- Director
- SAKUMA Noriyoshi
- Cast
- HARADA Tomoyo, TANAKA Kei
Feature film adaptation of the mystery drama broadcast on TV in 2019. The TV series cast and staff reunite for this story about serial killings on a cruise ship. Nana (Harada Tomoyo) and the much younger Shota (Tanaka Kei) are to be married two year...
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KINGDOM2: FAR AND AWAY (2022)
- Director
- SATO Shinsuke
- Cast
- YAMAZAKI Kento, YOSHIZAWA Ryo, HASHIMOTO Kanna
Sequel to Kingdom, the adaptation of Hara Yasuhisa's bestselling same-named manga that topped the box office for Japanese live-action films in 2019. Reunites the main cast with director Sato Shinsuke. The story takes place in China, during the pre-e...
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YAMABUKI (2022)
- Director
- YAMASAKI Juichiro
- Cast
- KANG Yoon-Soo, INORI Kirara
Third feature film from The Sound of Light and Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn director Yamasaki Junichiro, who makes films while farming in the mountains of Maniwa City, Okayama Prefecture. This ambitious ensemble work was shot on 16mm film and has ...
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THE MISOGYNY (2022)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Hiroshi
- Cast
- NAKAHARA Shoko, KONO Tomomi, YOKOI Shojiro
Known for penning screenplays for the "Ring" series and Don't Look Up, Takahashi Hiroshi helms his first film since the release of Occult Bolshevism four years ago. Actress-cum-playwright Naomi (Nakahara Showko) rents a mountain villa for the summer...
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The Wandering Bonbon (2022)
- Director
- SATO Toshiki
- Cast
- KAGEYAMA Yuko, HARADA Kenta
Based on a short story from Nobue Hiroshi's collection "7 Colors" and helmed by Sato Toshiki, known for numerous masterpieces created with scriptwriter Kobayashi Masahiro. Drama about the compelling and comical lives of people looking for love. 34-y...
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The World of You (2022)
- Director
- SHIOTA Akihiko
- Cast
- SHINTANI Yuzumi, HIDAKA Marin, KUBOZUKA Airu
Director Shiota Akihiko, known for Harmful Insect and Canary, takes on this coming-of-age drama starring Shintani Yuzumi and Hidaka Marin, whom he met on the 2019 movie Farewell Song, as the main characters, with an original script written with the t...
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LOVE LIFE (2022)
- Director
- FUKADA Koji
- Cast
- KIMURA Fumino, NAGAYAMA Kento, SUNADA Atom
Fukada Koji, director of Harmonium and The Real Thing, both of which were highly acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival, takes a head-on look at "love" and "life" after the COVID pandemic. The story is spun from the director's original screenplay insp...
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AMIKO (2022)
- Director
- MORII Yusuke
- Cast
- OSAWA Kana, IURA Arata, ONO Machiko
First film from Morii Yusuke, who also penned the screenplay based on Akutagawa Prize-winning author Imamura Natsuko's 2010 debut novel. Amiko (Osawa Kana) is a vivacious fifth-grader in Hiroshima who grows up under the protective gaze of her kind f...
