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Threads of Time

Threads of Time (2025)

Director
IOKIBE Yukio
Cast

Director Iokibe Yukio, known for films such as Naked Village, turns his camera toward Anamizu in Ishikawa Prefecture in this documentary. It highlights the distorted relationship between the town hall and the town council. Anamizu has seen its popul...

Release Date
May, 17th, 2025
Love Punch!

Love Punch! (2026)

Director
YAEGASHI Fuga
Cast
YAMANAKA Jyutaro, TAKAMATSU Aloha, SHIRATORI Haruto

Both love and fights are all about impulses... Kamei Madoka (Takamatsu Aloha), the toughest guy at Beniou High, is an outgoing, trusted leader who never loses in a fight. But after a certain event, he decides he'll never fight or fall in love, and e...

Release Date
Feb, 13th, 2026
Renoir

Renoir (2025)

Director
HAYAKAWA Chie
Cast
SUZUKI Yui, ISHIDA Hikari, Lily Franky

This is the story of a young girl's summer, written by director Hayakawa Chie, whose debut feature film, PLAN 75, garnered attention at the Cannes Film Festival and elsewhere. Set in a late-80s summer, at the height of the bubble economy. Fuki (Suzu...

Release Date
Jun, 20th, 2025
My Special One

My Special One (2025)

Director
MATSUDA Ayato
Cast
HATA Mei, OHASHI Kazuya

A live-action film adaptation of the romance manga by Koda Momoko, known for works such as "No Longer Heroine". The director is Matsuda Ayato, who has directed numerous dramas. Sahoko (Hata Mei), a dark-haired, bespectacled introvert who has develop...

Release Date
Jun, 20th, 2025
CLIMBING FOR LIFE

CLIMBING FOR LIFE (2025)

Director
SAKAMOTO Junji
Cast
YOSHINAGA Sayuri, SATO Koichi, AMAMI Yuki

Drama that reunites director Sakamoto Junji and actress Yoshinaga Sayuri for the first time since A Chorus of Angels 13 years ago. Portrays a heroine inspired by Tabei Junko, the first woman to successfully scale Mount Everest, and her family. In 19...

Release Date
Oct, 31st, 2025
AOSHO! Voices in Bloom

AOSHO! Voices in Bloom (2025)

Director
YAMAGUCHI Kyoji
Cast
RAN, YAMAKAWA Hiromi, KOYAMA Keiichiro

The protagonist, Shippei Iida, moves with his mother to the remote island of Origoshima. He transfers to the island's only high school, Origoshima High School (nicknamed "Oriko"). However, shortly after his transfer, it's announced that Oriko wil...

Release Date
Sep, 5th, 2025
A Unique Country in Asia

A Unique Country in Asia (2025)

Director
YAMAUCHI Kenji
Cast
CHONG Ami, IWAMOTO Eri, KANEKO Takenori

Socially progressive comedy from Yamauchi Kenji, known for Her Father, My Lover and Dawning on Us. Yoko (Chong Ami) lives in Tokyo with her husband Mutsuo (Kaneko Takenori) and looks after her bedridden father-in-law. Sensitive to politics and soci...

Release Date
Jun, 28th, 2025
Lives at Right Angles

Lives at Right Angles (2026)

Director
KOBAYASHI Syoutarou
Cast
YASUDA Shota, Non

Daiki has autism spectrum disorder. He works as a janitor and lives independently with some support. His younger sister Nozomi is a counselor and has lived supporting him since their mother passed young. When Nozomi's marriage plans came up, they wer...

Release Date
Aug, 28th, 2026

JFDB Classics

The Friends

The Friends (1994)

Director
SOMAI Shinji
Cast
MIKUNI Rentaro, SAKATA Naoki, OH Taiki

Maestro Somai Shinji adapted the same-named children's novel by Yumoto Kazumi. Set in summertime Kobe, three boys and a lonely old man spend the summer together. Shot by Shinoda Noboru, famed for Love Letter. Sixth graders Kiyama, Kawabe and Yamashi...

Release Date
Apr, 9th, 1994
G-Men of the Sea

G-Men of the Sea (1967)

Director
TANAKA Shigeo
Cast
UTSUI Ken, HONGO Kojiro, NARITA Mikio

With the steamship "Norde" about to dock, the Customs request Kobinata and his crack ICPO squad to watch for possible gold smuggling. On deck, however, the only persons to be seen are three innocent looking priests until one scrambles down a ladder a...

Release Date
Sep, 15th, 1967
The Dedicated Gunman

The Dedicated Gunman (1965)

Director
MURANO Tetsutaro
Cast
TAMIYA Jiro, MIZUTANI Yoshie, ENAMI Kyoko

Daisuke is a favourite with the ladies, and one of the best gangmen in the country. One day he is picked up by a young woman who tells him that three gangsters are about to kill her. He tries to help but soon gets into trouble, for one of the man is ...

Release Date
Jan, 13th, 1965
Law of the Outlaw

Law of the Outlaw (1971)

Director
MASUDA Toshio
Cast
WATARI Tetsuya, FAN Wen-Chiao, IWASHITA Shima

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) works at a florist snackbar who rescues a girl, Kyoko (Fan Wen- Chiao), who attempts to kill herself in a motorboat after taking sleeping pills. When he takes flowers to Kyoko's home he learns she is engaged to Nakazawa (Takash...

Release Date
Sep, 15th, 1971