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YAMABUKI

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 ...

Release Date
Nov, 5th, 2022
WEDDING HIGH

WEDDING HIGH (2022)

Director
OHKU Akiko
Cast
SHINOHARA Ryoko, NAKAMURA Tomoya, SEKIMIZU Nagisa

Comedy about weddings helmed by Tremble All You Want director Ohku Akiko with original script from comedian Bakarhythm, who also is acclaimed as a screenplay writer. Nakagoshi (Shinohara Ryoko) is the wedding planner for groom Akito (Nakamura Tomoya...

Release Date
Mar, 12th, 2022
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B

Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B (2022)

Director
KAWASE Naomi
Cast

Official documentary film for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. This two-part project weaves together the "truth" of the Games that were delayed a year and faced numerous COVID-19 related issues, including the unprecedented step of holding competitions withou...

Release Date
Jun, 24th, 2022
SHYLOCK'S CHILDREN

SHYLOCK'S CHILDREN (2023)

Director
MOTOKI Katsuhide
Cast
ABE Sadawo, UETO Aya, TAMAMORI Yuta

A million yen goes missing at the Nagahara Branch of Tokyo Daiichi Bank. Long-time customer service staff Nishiki (Sadawo Abe) sets out on a mission to uncover the truth together with his colleagues Airi (Aya Ueto) and Tabata (Yuta Tamamori). After c...

Release Date
Feb, 17th, 2023
DRIVE INTO NIGHT

DRIVE INTO NIGHT (2021)

Director
SAKO Dai
Cast
ADACHI Tomomitsu, TAMAOKI Reo

Sako Dai directed renowned actor Osugi Ren's final performance in The Chaplain and spent nine years on the original script for this story about despair and hope for two men. Two men work at a scrapyard factory in the boonies. Akimoto Taichi (Adachi ...

Release Date
May, 13th, 2022
MONDAYS: See you "this" week!

MONDAYS: See you "this" week! (2022)

Director
TAKEBAYASHI Ryo
Cast
MARUI Wan, Makita Sports

This office drama marks the second film for Takebayashi Ryo, whose feature film debut Bookmark 14 became a long-running hit. Yoshikawa Akemi (Marui Wan), who has her eye on a job at a big ad agency, is scrambling to prepare a presentation on Monday ...

Release Date
Oct, 14th, 2022
To Be Killed by a High School Girl

To Be Killed by a High School Girl (2022)

Director
JOJO Hideo
Cast
TANAKA Kei, MINAMI Sara, OSHIMA Yuko

Haruto Higashiyama (Kei Tanaka) is a 34-year-old Japanese history teacher who combines good looks with an honest and friendly personality. When he has been assigned to Nitaka High School, a school for advanced students, Haruto immediately attracts t...

Release Date
Apr, 1st, 2022
FAMILIA

FAMILIA (2022)

Director
NARUSHIMA Izuru
Cast
YAKUSHO Koji, YOSHIZAWA Ryo, MATSUSHIGE Yutaka

Seiji, a potter, lost his wife early and lives alone in a mountain village. His only son Manabu, temporarily returns home from an assignment in Algeria, with his wife Nadia, who is a former refugee. Manabu declares that he will quit his job and take ...

Release Date
Jan, 6th, 2023

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Danger Paws

Danger Paws (1962)

Director
NAKAHIRA Ko
Cast
SHISHIDO Joe, ASAOKA Ruriko, NAGATO Hiroyuki

Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling th...

Release Date
Dec, 1st, 1962
The Shrikes

The Shrikes (1961)

Director
SHIBUYA Minoru
Cast
ARIMA Ineko, AWASHIMA Chikage, KAWAZU Yusuke

Sugako Okada, a restaurant waitress, and her daughter Sachiko meet for the first time in twenty years. But their long separation has made it difficult for them to understand each other and Sachiko leaves to work at a beauty parlor. When her mother fa...

Release Date
Mar, 1st, 1961
Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell

Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)

Director
SATO Hajime
Cast
KO Hideo, YOSHIDA Teruo, SATO Tomomi

A passenger plane, flying on course, is suddenly forced down by a huge flying-saucer. The passengers are unhurt. But one of them, trying to escape, is suddenly engulfed by the huge craft which had originally forced them down. Then a horrible thing h...

Release Date
Aug, 14th, 1968
The Body

The Body (1962)

Director
NARUSAWA Masashige
Cast
SAGA Michiko, KAWAZU Yusuke, SHINDO Eitaro

Sakiko, who works at a firm on the Ginza, is gifted with so sensual a physique that it even attracts her own sex. Her parents work at public bathhouse in a fishing town. One night she gives herself to her boss Sasaki and becomes his mistress. Sasaki...

Release Date
Nov, 8th, 1962