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Missing Child Videotape

Missing Child Videotape (2025)

Director
KONDO Ryota
Cast
SUGITA Rairu, HIRAI Amon, MORITA Kokoro

Director Kondo Ryota's feature-length debut film is based on his short film of the same name, which won the 2nd Grand Prize at the Japan Horror Film Awards, an open film competition. J-horror heavyweight Director Shimizu Takashi oversaw overall produ...

Release Date
Jan, 24th, 2025
DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Part 2

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Part 2 (2024)

Director
KUROKAWA Tomoyuki
Cast
IKUTA Lilas, ano

The second chapter of a two-part animated feature film adaptation of Asano Inio's manga of the same title, which depicts young girls enjoying their adolescence in Tokyo, where the presence of a mothership that has attacked from outer space has become...

Release Date
May, 24th, 2024
TEKI COMETH

TEKI COMETH (2023)

Director
YOSHIDA Daihachi
Cast
NAGATSUKA Kyozo, TAKIUCHI Kumi, KAWAI Yuumi

A human drama directed and written by Yoshida Daihachi, known for his works such as Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction. This film won the Tokyo Grand Prix at the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival. 77-year-old Watanabe Gisuke (Nagatsuka Kyozo) has been ...

Release Date
Jan, 17th, 2025
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram

Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram (2024)

Director
NAGAOKA Chika
Cast
TAKAYAMA Minami, YAMAZAKI Wakana, KOYAMA Rikiya

The 27th theatrical outing for "Detective Conan," an animated adaptation of Aoyama Gosho's comic series serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday. With this work, the total number of viewers for the series exceeded 100 million. A warning note from the Magi...

Release Date
Apr, 12th, 2024
MY BELOVED STRANGER

MY BELOVED STRANGER (2025)

Director
MIKI Takahiro
Cast
NAKAJIMA Kento, milet

Romance based on the French film Love at Second Sight. Helmed by love-story maestro Miki Takahiro. Riku (Nakajima Kento) and Minami (milet) have a whirlwind romance in college and get married. Riku struggles to make it as a novelist and achieves be...

Release Date
Feb, 28th, 2025
Ohmuro family dear sisters

Ohmuro family dear sisters (2024)

Director
TATSUWA Naoyuki
Cast
KATO Emiri, SAITO Chiwa, HIDAKA Rina

An anime film adaptation of "Omuro Family," a spin-off of the manga "YuruYuri" by Namori. This is the first of a two-part film depicting the fast-paced daily lives of the three Omuro sisters: the cool eldest daughter, the playful second daughter, and...

Release Date
Feb, 2nd, 2024
Teasing Master Takagi-san

Teasing Master Takagi-san (2024)

Director
IMAIZUMI Rikiya
Cast
NAGANO Mei, TAKAHASHI Fumiya

A live-action adaptation of Yamamoto Sōichirō's popular comic book about the adolescent teasing of a classmate. Director Imaizumi Rikiya, known for films such as Just Only Love and Over the Town, depicts the two main characters as adults 10 years aft...

Release Date
May, 31st, 2024
Visitors -complete edition-

Visitors -complete edition- (2023)

Director
UGANA Kenichi
Cast
Shiho, NOMURA Keisuke, HIRAI Saki

Feature film adaptation of the short film Visitors, which was screened at more than 20 film festivals worldwide, including the Porto International Film Festival. Director Ugana Kenichi is the director of this horror action drama that pays respectful ...

Release Date
Feb, 23rd, 2024

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Innocent Sinner

Innocent Sinner (1970)

Director
YUGE Taro
Cast
ATSUMI Mari, IIDA Emiko, CHIAKI Minoru

Yoko Hamaguchi (Mari Atsumi) had been the inmate of a Girls' Home, sent there when she had taken the blame for her younger sister, a kleptomaniac. She has been placed in the care of Minister Wada (Minoru Chiaki), a probation officer, and his wife (Mi...

Release Date
Jul, 1st, 1970
The Gift of the Fox

The Gift of the Fox (1971)

Director
MISUMI Kenji
Cast
KATSU Shintaro, OTANI Naoko, NAKATANI Ichiro

In the days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, many river porters and pack-horse drivers live at Kanaya, a putting stage. There is no bridge over the Oi River and everyone going to the other side must pay these husky men to carry them across. But even among ...

Release Date
May, 26th, 1971
Odd Obsession

Odd Obsession (1959)

Director
ICHIKAWA Kon
Cast
KYO Machiko, KANO Junko, NAKADAI Tatsuya

Mr. Kenmochi, in his early sixties, is enjoying an obviously happy life in his Kyoto home. A man of artistic temperament, he is not merely an art-critic and an antiquarian, but also a connoisseur of beautiful things and a dilettante. He complains of...

Release Date
Jun, 23rd, 1959
Jigoku

Jigoku (1960)

Director
NAKAGAWA Nobuo
Cast
AMACHI Shigeru, NUMATA Yoichi, NAKAMURA Torahiko

A bold concoction of a work, Nakagawa's Jigoku looks beyond Eastern values to incorporate Western classics such as Goethe's Faust and Dante's Divine Comedy among its tapestry of influences. When his friend Tamura commits a hit-and-run, it sets in mot...

Release Date
Jul, 30th, 1960