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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! (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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