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Until We Meet Again

Until We Meet Again (2026)

Director
MIKI Takahiro
Cast
HAMABE Minami, MEGURO Ren

A human drama about a funeral planner striving to create the "perfect funeral." Directed by Miki Takahiro, who has directed numerous hit youth films, including Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight. Shimizu Misora (Hamabe Minami), who ...

Release Date
Feb, 6th, 2026
HERO'S ISLAND

HERO'S ISLAND (2025)

Director
OTOMO Keishi
Cast
TSUMABUKI Satoshi, HIROSE Suzu, KUBOTA Masataka

"Rurouni Kenshin" series director Otomo Keishi adapts Shindo Junjo's same-named novel for the big screen. Captures the struggles and friendships of young people seeking freedom in US-occupied Okinawa. The year is 1952. Gusuku (Tsumabuki Satoshi) dre...

Release Date
Sep, 19th, 2025
S-friends 4

S-friends 4 (2025)

Director
JOJO Hideo
Cast
YUKIHIRA Aika, AOYAGI Sho

Release Date
Dec, 12th, 2025
Zakken! - The Cosmos Beneath Our Feet

Zakken! - The Cosmos Beneath Our Feet (2026)

Director
KAMIMURA Naho
Cast
NAKASHIMA Runa, OSHIMA Miyu, NAKAMURA Shuri

Spring, a freshman in high school, in the middle of youth. Yukari has yet to find something she is passionate. Then she meets Mimi, a classmate who loves a wildflower. The two of them decide to join the Wildflower Research Club = "ZAKKEN" together....

Release Date
Apr, 3rd, 2026
Whoever Steals This Book

Whoever Steals This Book (2025)

Director
FUKUOKA Daiki
Cast
KATAOKA Rin, TAMAKI Sora

A theatrical animation adaptation of Fukamidori Nowaki's popular novel. Director Fukuoka Daisei of the "Phantom of the Idol" series fame has created a mystery-solving adventure fantasy that races through the world of books. Mifuyu (Kataoka Rin), a h...

Release Date
Dec, 26th, 2025
The Chatterboxes

The Chatterboxes (2025)

Director
KAWAI Ken
Cast
NAGASAWA Itsuki, KEZUKA Kazuyoshi, Yildirm FIRAT

A comedy that satirically depicts linguistic disparities and language barriers, using Japanese Sign Language and Kurdish as its subject matter. The film was directed and written by Kawai Ken, who is also a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult). The Koga family...

Release Date
Nov, 29th, 2025
Emergency Interrogation Room THE FINAL MOVIE

Emergency Interrogation Room THE FINAL MOVIE (2025)

Director
TSUNEHIRO Jota
Cast
AMAMI Yuki, TANAKA Tetsushi, HAYAMI Mokomichi

A theatrical film finale to the TV drama series "Emergency Interrogation Room," which began airing in 2014. The members of the specialized team "Emergency Case Interrogation Team (commonly known as Kintori)" engage in a back-and-forth psychological b...

Release Date
Dec, 26th, 2025
You, Fireworks, and Our Promise

You, Fireworks, and Our Promise (2026)

Director
SUZUKI Kei
Cast
SATO Shori (timelesz), HARA Nanoka

"We really met, didn't we...?" One day, shortly after entering high school, Makoto Natsume is approached by his classmate, Aki, a girl he's never met before. Aki says that ever since she was young, her great-grandmother had shown her a drawing of...

Release Date
Jul, 17th, 2026

JFDB Classics

Musume tsuma haha

Musume tsuma haha (1960)

Director
NARUSE Mikio
Cast
HARA Setsuko, TAKAMINE Hideko, TAKARADA Akira

Release Date
May, 28th, 1960
Zero fighter daikusen

Zero fighter daikusen (1966)

Director
MORITANI Shiro
Cast
KAYAMA Yuzo, SATO Makoto, CHIAKI Minoru

Release Date
Jul, 13th, 1966
The Good Little Bad Girl

The Good Little Bad Girl (1970)

Director
USUZAKA Reijiro
Cast
ATSUMI Mari, KASAHARA Reiko, KANEKO Kenzo

Yumi (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen years old, and bored with life in the country, comes to Tokyo, dreaming of a good life in the big city where her elder sister, Nobuko (Reiko Kasahara), is working. She takes a test for a part in a musical ,and her nice...

Release Date
Aug, 22nd, 1970
(Haru)

(Haru) (1996)

Director
MORITA Yoshimitsu
Cast
FUKATSU Eri, UCHINO Seiyo

Ingenious film about romance released in 1996 by director Morita Yoshimitsu, who passed away in 2011 at the age of 61. His original script portrays a love story between a man and women connected online in the days before the Internet was commonplace....

Release Date
Mar, 9th, 1996