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THE LAST PASSENGER (2024)
- Director
- HORIE Takashi
- Cast
- IWATA Karen, FUKE Norimasa
This story unfolds in a small coastal town of Tohoku, Northeastern Japan, where a disastrous Tsunami wiped out the entire town and took thousands of people's lives ten years ago. Now, Endo, a taxi driver, waits at a train station every night for his ...
- Release Date
- Oct, 11th, 2024
SUPER HAPPY FOREVER (2024)
- Director
- IGARASHI Kohei
- Cast
- SANO Hiroki, MIYATA Yoshinori, YAMAMOTO Nairu
Director Igarashi Kohei, who gained international attention with films such as Hold Your Breath Like a Lover and The Night I Swam, depicts 'life's irreplaceable moments' in this human drama. August 19, 2023. Childhood friends Sano (Sano Hiroki) and ...
- Release Date
- Sep, 27th, 2024
UNDEAD LOVERS (2024)
- Director
- MATSUI Daigo
- Cast
- MIKAMI Ai, SATO Kanta
A film adaptation of Takagi Yuna's comic of the same title by director Matsui Daigo, known for such works as Just Remembering, took more than 10 years in the planning stages. A love story that depicts the feeling of "love" in a straightforward manner...
- Release Date
- May, 10th, 2024
REI (2024)
- Director
- TANAKA Toshihiko
- Cast
- SUZUKI Takara, OYAMA Maeko, MORIYAMA Shogo
This is the debut feature-length human drama by actor Tanaka Toshihiko. The film had its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and won the Tiger Award for Best Film. One day, Hikari (Suzuki Takara), who has been living with the...
- Release Date
- May, 31st, 2024
SECRET: A HIDDEN SCORE (2024)
- Director
- KAWAI Hayato
- Cast
- KYOMOTO Taiga, FURUKAWA Kotone
Based on the 2007 Taiwanese film of the same title, this is a love story directed by Kawai Hayato of My Love Story!! fame. Minato (Kyômoto Taiga), a music college student who is traumatized by his experience as a student studying piano overseas, mee...
- Release Date
- Jun, 28th, 2024
August My Heaven (2024)
- Director
- KUDO Riho
- Cast
- MURAKAMI Yukino, SUWA Shuri, FUJIE Takuma
Second original work from the streaming platform Roadstead, helmed by Let Me Hear it Barefoot director Kudo Riho. In an unspecified town, Joe (Murakami Yukino) makes a living as a proxy who attends events on behalf of her clients. Nambei (Suwa Shuri...
- Release Date
- Aug, 30th, 2024
Let's Go Karaoke! (2024)
- Director
- YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- AYANO Go, SAITO Jun
A unique buddy film adaptation of Wayama Yama's comic of the same title, written by Nogi Akiko, the director of numerous hit TV dramas and films including The Voice of Sin and Inu-Oh, and directed by Yamashita Nobuhiro. Oka Satomi (Saito Jun), a cho...
- Release Date
- Jan, 12th, 2024
The Quiet Yakuza 2 -Part 2- (2024)
- Director
- NARUSE Kiyoto
- Cast
- ITO Kentaro
Second film in the new two-part live-action adaptation of Nitta Tatsuo's popular yakuza manga "The Quiet Don," comprehensively produced by Motomiya Yasukaze of the "Japan Unification" series. Shizuya (Ito Kentaro) becomes a wanted man after putting ...
- Release Date
- Sep, 27th, 2024
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The Most Valuable Madam (1959)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, FUNAKOSHI Eiji
What do you think "The Most Valuable Madam" means? Some people say that it means a woman who keeps her husband completely under her thumb. According to another view it means a woman who has a profound knowledge about how to handle a man. lchiro, the...
- Release Date
- Feb, 10th, 1959
Red Buds and White Flowers (1962)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Katsumi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, KANEKO Nobuo
Miwa Shigeo and Iwase Tomiko are classmates and inseparable friends. Shigeo's father, a doctor, is a widower, while Tomiko's mother, the principal of a dressmaking school, is a widow. They long for their parents to become good friends like themselve...
- Release Date
- Jun, 10th, 1962
That Wonderful Guy (1958)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, TSUKIOKA Yumeji
This is a story of the bright lights of show business. Yoko, a dancer, dreams of happiness away from the hand to mouth existence of the theatre, and marriage with a handsome, rich man who haunts her dreams, a combination of James Dean, Yujiro Ishihar...
- Release Date
- Jul, 6th, 1958
Far Beyond the Waves (1961)
- Director
- YAGI Mitsuo
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, TSUGAWA Masahiko, TAKAMINE Mieko
When Chiaki Ezawa returns home after graduating from a Tokyo school, she finds her father's pearl business taken over by a former clerk. Her father strongly opposes her friendship with Ryuichi Satake, a research worker at the Pearl Institute. She the...
- Release Date
- Apr, 16th, 1961