Director

SAKAGAMI Kaori

Cast

This documentary spent six years getting permission to do the first-ever extended shoot in a Japanese prison. Directed by Sakagami Kaori, who shot US prisoners in Talk Back Out Loud and Lifers. Shimane Asahi Rehabilitation Program Center is a joint...

Release Date

Jan, 25th, 2020

Director

SADO Taketoshi

Cast

HOSONO Haruomi, Van Dyke Parks, OYAMADA Keigo

Documentary film depicting the trajectory of musician Hosono Haruomi, whose five-decade career includes key roles in Happy End and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Captures his activities in recent years with Hosono's reflections on his life. The film focuses...

Release Date

Nov, 1st, 2019

Director

SHINOHARA Tetsuo

Cast

YAMAZAKI Masayoshi, ONO Machiko, KITAMURA Takumi

Director Shinohara Tetsuo and star Yamazaki Masayoshi team up again the first time in 22 years since One More Time, One More Chance for this adaptation of the mystery novel Yokoyama Hideo who became known through Six Four. Makabe Shuichi (Yamazaki) ...

Release Date

Nov, 15th, 2019

Director

SUGIYAMA Taiichi

Cast

TAIHEI Saburo, Lasalle ISHII, KOMIYA Takayasu

A film adaptation of the 25 year long-running, identically titled stage production performed by theatre troupe Hoshikuzu no Kai which was formed by playwright and stage director Mizutani Ryuji. The story depicts the sorrows of an obscure ballad choru...

Release Date

Mar, 6th, 2020

Director

TAMURA Kotaro

Cast

NAKAGAWA Taishi, KIYOHARA Kaya

Feature film animation adaptation of Akutagawa Prize-winner Tanabe Seiko's renowned story, which has also been turned into a live-action film. Helmed by Tomura Kotaro, who worked as assistant director on Wolf Children and directed the TV anime series...

Release Date

Dec, 25th, 2020

Director

NISHITANI Hiroshi

Cast

FUKUYAMA Masaharu, ISHIDA Yuriko

This love story is based on the 2016 novel released by author Hirano Keiichiro, a recipient of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Chevalier. It directed by Nishitani Hiroshi who has a reputation for solid and dynamic direction. Classical guit...

Release Date

Nov, 1st, 2019

Director

NAGASAKI Kenji

Cast

YAMASHITA Daiki, OKAMOTO Nobuhiko

The second film in the animated series adapting the popular comic which has sold more than twenty-five million copies. Director Nagasaki Kenji continues on from the previous film while original author Horikoshi Kohei serves as supervisor and original...

Release Date

Dec, 20th, 2019

Director

HIGUCHI Naofumi

Cast

MAEDA Atsuko, KORA Kengo

Film inspired by Nobel Prize-winning author Kawabata Yasunari's "Diary of My Sixteenth Year" and "Carrying My Teacher's Coffin on My Shoulder." Helmed by film critic Higuchi Naofumi, who made a splash with his 2013 directorial debut Intermission. Y...

Release Date

Sep, 20th, 2019

Director

MASUMURA Yasuzo

Cast

WAKAO Ayako, TAMIYA Jiro, MIZUTANI Yoshie

Some time after Masuko, once the reigning queen of a cabaret, and Asai, an automobile salesman, set up housekeeping together, she finds out that he is already married to Ryuko, the daughter of the man to whom he was indebted while still a student. I...

Release Date

Mar, 14th, 1962

Director

INOUE Umetsugu

Cast

WAKAO Ayako, TAKAHASHI Masaya, KAWAZU Yusuke

A young couple start on their honeymoon. There is nothing to mar the girl's happiness as she sits beside the man she loves and respects. As night falls her heart is divided between expectation and fear, for tomorrow she will really be a wife. Yet, de...

Release Date

Oct, 3rd, 1964

Director

DOI Michiyoshi

Cast

OBATA Kinuko, IKEUCHI Junko, SUGAWARA Bunta

This is a very sensitive and intriguing story filled with suspense and revealed through the checkered careers of two half-sisters each endowed with her own different character, one being good, and the other evil. Tired of poverty, Keiko leaves home...

Release Date

Jun, 4th, 1960

Director

INOUE Umetsugu

Cast

MISORA Hibari, MORI Shinichi, SHIMADA Shogo

Seijuro Fujihana (Shogo Shimada), head master of the Fujihana dance school, is a proud and lonely artist. And because of his character, his group lacks the prosperity of others. He wishes his daughter Kasumi (Hibari Misora), gifted like himself, to t...

Release Date

Jan, 15th, 1970