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Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions (2019)

Director

KOMORI Haruka, SEO Natsumi

Cast

KODA Haruka, YONEKAWA Ko Leon, SAKAI Haruka

Documentary that emerged from a project from the artist unit Komori Haruka + Seo Natsumi, whose collaboration began through volunteer activities after the Great East Japan Earthquake. In 2018, four travelers gathered for a workshop based in Rikuzent...
La Vérité (The Truth) (2019)

Director

KORE-EDA Hirokazu

Cast

Catherine DENEUVE, Juliette BINOCHE, Ethan HAWKE

Kore-eda Hirokazu, winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for Shoplifters, directs his first international co-production film. Based on the autobiography by one of France's legendary actresses, the drama unfolds around a truth concealed betw...
Battle of Okinawa: Unknown Sad Memories (2019)

Director

OTA Takafumi

Cast

Documentary that delves into memories of the horrific combat in Okinawa, the site of Japan's only land warfare during World War II. Ota Takafumi helmed the feature film The House of Rising Suns about a tragic nuclear power plant accident. A third of...
The Murders of Oiso (2019)

Director

MISAWA Takuya

Cast

MORIYA Koji, NAKAZAKI Haya, MORI Yusaku

Drama about uncertainty and loneliness as experienced by young people in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture. Director Misawa Takuya's debut feature film Chigasaki Story was a Japan-Thailand co-production screened at the 44th International Film Festival Rotter...
Flying Rabbit in the Night Sky (2019)

Director

Andrew SHIN

Cast

KIKUCHI Atsuko, SUZUKI Mutsumi, ISHIYAMA Yuta

Fantasy best understood as a contemporary fairytale about the struggles of the pregnant heroine whose fetus is a rabbit. Feature directorial debut for Korean-American Andrew Shin, who has composed soundtracks for Manda Kunitoshi's films and also hand...
BOLT (2019)

Director

HAYASHI Kaizo

Cast

NAGASE Masatoshi, SANO Shiro, KANAYAMA Kazuhiko

Hayashi Kaizo of the "Private Detective Mike Hama" series writes and directs this short film omnibus which took three years to complete. It consists of three episodes titled "Bolt", "Life", and "Goodyear" each starring Hayashi's close friend Nagase M...
F is for Future (2019)

Director

ISOBE Teppei

Cast

SAKURAI Yasuyuki, SANO Hiroki, Karen

Coming-of-age film that uses humor and heart to portray a high school guy implementing a plan to protect his buddy's honor. Director Isobe Teppei won Best Picture in the Short Film category at the SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL 2018 for Wh...
Indelible (2019)

Director

TSUNODA Ryuichi

Cast

Documentary woven together as the universal story of father and son, focusing on the ethnic Chinese Koreans who live outside the Korean Peninsula. A boy who was born in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China moves to Japan at age 10. Now ...
The Investigator's Love Letter (2019)

Director

IMAI Iori

Cast

SATO Mao, SATO Nuiko

Sato Mao, known as "Investigator Mao", and his wife who is showing signs of dementia, are the subjects of this documentary which chronicles their daily life. In the director's chair is Imai Iori, an Osaka-based filmmaker who works both in television ...
Tagore Songs (2019)

Director

SASAKI Mika

Cast

Documentary exploring the appeal of "Tagore songs" about nature and devotion in Bengal from poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first non-Western Nobel laureate in literature. Debut film from 26-year-old Sasaki Mika, who learned about Bengali cultu...
Leaving Home (2019)

Director

HAYAKAWA Daisuke

Cast

NAGAOKA Tasuku, KOZONO Yu, YANAGI Elisa

This drama about a family is set in a small community along the natural splendor of the Uwa Sea dotted by islands large and small. In the director's chair is Hayakawa Daisuke who is making his feature directing debut with this film. Ten years ago Ke...
A Girl Under a Tree (2019)

Director

MORIYA Fumio

Cast

YANAGI Elisa

This uncommon film simply showing matter-of-factly a girl sleeping beneath the shade of a tree is directed by Moriya Fumio who made his directorial debut with Manga-jima: The Island of Cartoon. He is also an actor as well as a screenwriter who wrote ...
Dancing in her Dreams (2019)

Director

TOKIGAWA Hideyuki

Cast

KATO Masaya, INUKAI Atsuhiro, OKAMURA Izumi

Drama about a real-life strip club in Hiroshima that has survived numerous threatened closures. Direction, script and editing by Tokigawa Hideyuki of Cinema Angel. Won the Jury Award at the 2020 Madrid International Film Festival. Hiroshima Theater ...
AWAKE (2019)

Director

YAMADA Atsuhiro

Cast

YOSHIZAWA Ryo, WAKABA Ryuya, OCHIAI Motoki

Yamada Atsuhiro directs his own screenplay, Inspired by the 2015 Shogi (Japanese-style chess) Denou-sen competition, which won the first Kinoshita Group New Director Award Grand Prix with Kawase Naomi heading up the jury. Inspired by the 2015 Shogi D...
I Never Shot Anyone (2019)

Director

SAKAMOTO Junji

Cast

ISHIBASHI Renji, OKUSU Michiyo, KISHIBE Ittoku

Quirky comedy helmed by Another World director Sakamoto Junji, with original script by Maruyama Shoichi of "Detective Story" fame. Rumor has it that Ichikawa Susumu (Ishibashi Renji) is a legendary hitman. However, in truth he's a struggling writer ...
CENOTE (2019)

Director

ODA Kaori

Cast

Documentary about "cenotes", cave water pits that are found throughout the northern part of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Cenotes were the sole water source during the Maya civilization period, and they were also sites of sacrificial ceremonies prayin...
Dangerous Drugs of Sex (2019)

Director

JOJO Hideo

Cast

KITADAI Takashi, WATANABE Sho

The live-action adaptation of Mizuta Yuki's boy's love comic of the same name incorporates extreme sexual portrayals as it renders a story of rebirth though finding the meaning of "sex" and "life". In the director's chair is Jojo Hideo, who is known ...
Reiko and the Dolphin (2019)

Director

IMAOKA Shinji

Cast

TAKEDA Aki, KAWAYA Hidetoshi

This drama portrays twenty-three years in the life of a husband and wife who lost their only daughter in the Great Hanshin Earthquake. Director Imaoka Shinji depicts, among the streets of Kobe, the restoration of the couple's relationship after the d...
PARADISE LOST (2019)

Director

FUKUMA Kenji

Cast

WADA Misa, AZUMA Tengo, ETO Shuhei

Drama marking the sixth feature film from poet-cum-director Fukuma Kenji. The film uses both fantasy and realism in exploring how to live after your dreams have been lost, through the life of a woman who has been widowed. In a lonely spot in the Tok...
ALL ABOUT "CHIAKI MAYUMURA" (PROVISIONAL) (2019)

Director

MATSUURA Hajime

Cast

MAYUMURA Chiaki, TOKUNAGA Eri, SHINADA Makoto

Documentary that uses a plethora of fictional elements to disentangle the life of "self-produced idol" Mayamura Chiaki, who plunges ahead on her unique path in life as head of the company Janaimon. Helmed by Matsuuura Hajime, who directs her music vi...
The Modern Lovers (2019)

Director

SHIMOYASHIRO Atsuro

Cast

MORIOKA Ryu, KAWAKAMI Nanami

Romance that uses bold eroticism to portray a guy who meets his ex-girlfriend and makes a clean break with his youth. Won multiple awards at MOOSIC LAB 2019. Feature film directorial debut for Shimoyashiro Atsuro, who did the soundtrack for Imaoka Sh...
TOBISHIMA (2019)

Director

OMIYA Koichi, TANAKA Kei

Cast

Out in the Sea of Japan rises the populated island of Tobishima. This documentary chronicles the day-to-day life of the people living there. It is co-directed by Omiya Koichi of TAIDAMA–I'm home, a place for everyone and Tanaka Kei of Under the Cher...
A Man in Love (2019)

Director

MURATA Nobuo

Cast

OGI Shigemitsu, SASAKI Kokone, DEGUCHI Arisa

Mature comedy about the love life of a middle-aged guy at the half-way point in life. Distribution company Mermaid Films' head Murata Nobuo makes his directorial debut at age 56. The Polish cinema maestro Jerzy Skolimowski serves as supervising edito...
KONTORA (2019)

Director

Anshul CHAUHAN

Cast

MARUI Wan, MASE Hidemasa, YAMADA Taichi

The odd meeting between a young girl in search of a mysterious treasure and a homeless man unfolds in monochromatic imagery in this drama. At the helm is Anshul Chauhan, an Indian director presently residing in Japan who garnered attention at domesti...
Mentai-piriri (2019)

Director

EGUCHI Kan

Cast

HAKATA Hanamaru, TOMITA Yasuko

The life of a businessman who broadened the popularity of mentaiko (spicy cod roe) in Japan serves is the basis for this biographical drama directed by Eguchi Kan who won the Best Action Film award at the 23rd Fantasia International Film Festival for...