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J005311

J005311 (2022)

Director
KONO Hiroki
Cast
NOMURA Kazuaki, KONO Hiroki

A thrilling road movie depicting the miracle that occurs when two young men on the bottom of society meet and collide. Kanzaki, an office worker who despairs of life, is wandering the streets with a languishing expression on his face. When he was si...

Release Date
Apr, 22nd, 2023
ONE LAST BLOOM

ONE LAST BLOOM (2023)

Director
ZEZE Takahisa
Cast
SATO Koichi, YOKOHAMA Ryusei

A struggling young boxer Shogo is stunned by an elderly guy Jin's sharp counterpunch during a street fight, and asks him to be his trainer. Jin, it turns out, used to be a promising boxer who retired without realizing his dream to become a world cham...

Release Date
Aug, 25th, 2023
2 Women

2 Women (2022)

Director
HIROKI Ryuichi
Cast
TERAJIMA Shinobu, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, HIROSUE Ryoko

A film adaptation of the novel of the same title by writer Inoue Areno, based on her father, writer Inoue Mitsuharu, her mother, and writer and Buddhist monk Setouchi Jakucho. Director Hiroki Ryuichi of Vibrator and screenwriter Arai Haruhiko have te...

Release Date
Nov, 11th, 2022
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond (2022)

Director
KIKUCHI Yasuhito
Cast
OKAZAKI Miho, UCHIDA Yuma, FUKUMOTO Riko

Animated feature film based on "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime," the fantasy novel set in a parallel universe that boasts over 30 million copies sold for the series. Completely original story from author Fuse. Crisis befalls the Kingdom of ...

Release Date
Nov, 25th, 2022
A Foggy Paradise

A Foggy Paradise (2023)

Director
KOTSUJI Yohei
Cast
OKUTSU Yuya, LEE Masatoshi

Tatsuya is a traffic counter and caregiver to his mother. Kurage regularly visits a massive housing complex to care for an elderly man in a vegetative state until childhood friend Ame takes the two of them on a road trip. In this film, two unrelated ...

Release Date
Nov, 18th, 2023
Nightmare Resort

Nightmare Resort (2023)

Director
NAGAE Jiro
Cast
IHARA Rikka, FUJIWARA Taiyu, AKITA Shiori

College student Sakura Uchida (Rikka Ihara) is shy and has trouble fitting in with her class. Her childhood friend and fellow student Satoshi Manaka (Taiyu Fujiwara) thinks that a change of scenery is just what she needs to feel better, and along wit...

Release Date
Oct, 20th, 2023
A Girl in My Room

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...

Release Date
Nov, 11th, 2022
DARK TALES OF TERROR FROM TOKYO

DARK TALES OF TERROR FROM TOKYO (2023)

Director
SUZUKI Kosuke, KAWAMATSU Nao, SATO Shu
Cast
SUDA Aki, IMAI Shuto, MAEKAWA Tasuku

Episode 1 "A Child Who Came to the Hospital" – directed by Kosuke SUZUKI (TV series "Giver Taker", "24 Japan") Ryoka Hayama (Aiki Sugata), a high school girl in hospital, sees a mysterious girl. She is dressed in a kimono and holding a temari ball. ...

Release Date
Jul, 27th, 2023

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Mid-Summer Affair — “Underwater" Series, Part 4

Mid-Summer Affair — “Underwater" Series, Part 4 (1960)

Director
IWAMA Tsuruo
Cast
IZUMI Kyoko, OKI Minoru, KOYAMA Akiko

One summer day, a team of performing swimmers discovers Fumiko, a young woman, adrift on the sea whose husband has been drowned while attempting to save her. Next morning, on seeing Fumiko's picture in a swimming suit, Ryuko, a member of the team an...

Release Date
Jul, 19th, 1960
The All-Out Game

The All-Out Game (1970)

Director
OKAZAKI Akira
Cast
NAMIKAWA Yoko, YANAMI Eiko, YASHIRO Junko

When Daisaku Hotta (Kosaburo Onogawa), the cheer leader of Tonan High School, hears that Rikiya Kudo (Saburo Shindo), the captain of the Judo team and Shiro Usami (Kei Wakakura) of the boxing team are about to fight, he breaks it up that are apt to e...

Release Date
Sep, 12th, 1970
Spy on the Masked Car

Spy on the Masked Car (1967)

Director
MORI Kazuo
Cast
TAMIYA Jiro, NOGAWA Yumiko, NAITO Taketoshi

Inui, a motor car salesman, hears that a new taxi company is going to open, and hurries to sell his cars. But he has a rival, Kurokawa, and their competition for this important contract begins. Kurokawa hires a girl, Tomoko, to spy for him but she i...

Release Date
Jan, 28th, 1967
Their Legacy

Their Legacy (1962)

Director
YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
Cast
YAMAMURA So, WAKAO Ayako, KANO Junko

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He c...

Release Date
Jan, 3rd, 1962