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It Stopped Raining (2019)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Ryutaro
- Cast
- NAKANO Taiga, ETO Misa
Film adaptation of the 2004 debut novel from Miyashita Natsu, who made a splash when "The Forest of Wool and Steel" was adapted for film in 2018. Helmed by Nakagawa Ryutaro, whose accolades include the FIPRESCI Award at the 39th Moscow International ...
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Usohappyaku Zokuhen (TBD) (2019)
- Director
- TAKE Masaharu
- Cast
- NAKAI Kiichi, SASAKI Kuranosuke, HIROSUE Ryoko
Original comedy that reunites director Take Masaharu with scriptwriters Imai Masako and Adachi Shin from the previous film. Hirosue Ryoko plays the bewitching heroine who tricks the protagonists as portrayed by Nakai Kiichi and Sasaki Kuranosuke. An...
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Seven Days War (2019)
- Director
- MURANO Yuta
- Cast
Feature film animation adaptation of Souda Osamu's same-named novel, which has also been turned into a live-action film starring Miyazawa Rie. Script handled by Ohkouchi Ichirou of the popular series CODE GEASS Lelouch of the Re;surrection and helmed...
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SPECIAL ACTORS (2019)
- Director
- UEDA Shinichiro
- Cast
- OSAWA Kazuto, KONO Hiroki, FUJI Takuya
One Cut of the Dead director Ueda Shinichiro takes a concept he has been incubating for many years and casts 15 unknown actors through auditions for this multiple protagonist film resulting from his original script. It was the seventh project produce...
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HUMAN LOST (2019)
- Director
- KIZAKI Fuminori
- Cast
- MIYANO Mamoru, HANAZAWA Kana, SAKURAI Takahiro
Tokyo, 2036: a revolution in medical treatment has conquered death... By means of internal nanomachines, and the "Shell System" whose network controls them, human beings are guaranteed a 120-year lifespan, free from illness. The disparity between t...
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His Bad Blood (2019)
- Director
- OYAMA Koichiro
- Cast
- WATANABE Ikkei, TOYAMA Yu, ENOMOTO Sakura
Drama marking the feature film debut for Oyama Koichiro, who has worked as assistant director for Nakata Hideo and Wakamatsu Setsuro. Shot entirely in Nagano Prefecture's Iida City. Screened at the 23rd Fantasia International Film Festival. Raised b...
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To the Ends of the Earth (2019)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Kiyoshi
- Cast
- MAEDA Atsuko, KASE Ryo, SOMETANI Shota
Along the silk road, my heart went astray... Yoko (Atsuko Maeda) hosts a popular global travel show yet is cautious and insular like many young Japanese. But she has a bigger dream. On assignment in Uzbekistan, Yoko and her small TV crew attempt to ...
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Sleep in the Shadows (2019)
- Director
- IZUMI Seiji
- Cast
- KATO Masaya, NAKAMURA Yuri, YO Kimiko
The man has accepted everything. Fuyuki is an established artist who runs several bars in Yokohama. One day, injured Shinji runs into his bar. He always idolizes Fuyuki as his elder brother. Shinji is a member of the charity group which looks after ...
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ERICA 38 (2018)
- Director
- HIBI Yuichi
- Cast
- ASADA Miyoko, KIKI Kilin
Kiki Kilin's last film inspired by a true story.. Satoko is over 60-year-old, and makes her living as a cheap con artist. One day a mysterious lady approaches her saying that she is someone special and introduces her a man who gives her a job. She s...
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Minori, on the Brink (2019)
- Director
- NINOMIYA Ryutaro
- Cast
- HAGIWARA Minori
Life is a bunch of crap, including myself. Minori is a pretty girl. Boys always talk about her and try to get her, and girls admire her or try to use her. She is fed up with people who care only about her appearance and themselves. She is always str...
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Show Me the Way to the Station (2019)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Naoki
- Cast
- NIITSU Chise
My loving dog, Lou, I miss you so much... Sayaka, an 8-year-old girl, still cannot accept that Lou, her loving dog has passed away. One day, Sayaka goes to the secret place where they used to play together to look for Lou, believing that he is still...
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Extro (2019)
- Director
- MURAHASHI Naoki
- Cast
- HAGINOYA Kozo
Extras are maestros. This powerful documentary dives deep into the tragicomic world of the "towns-people" stand-ins working at Warp Station Edo, a popular shooting location for samurai dramas, through a piercing study of a 63-year-old extra. Well, t...
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Handling Method for Grumpy Woman (working title) (2019)
- Director
- ARITA Shunsuke
- Cast
- HAYAMI Akari, HIRAOKA Yuta
Why are you so grumpy..? Ai is a university student studying Artificial Intelligence. She is working on her paper which theme is how to make up the grumpy mood for a woman with understanding the differences of the brains between men and women. For t...
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A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic (2019)
- Director
- KATAGIRI Kenji
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Honoka, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko
I found a monster... it might be me. Dad in my memory is always drunk-. Since Saki was a little girl, her father Toshifumi drinks alcohol almost everyday. He often invited his friends at home and played Mahjong, smoked and drank alcohol all the nigh...
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Little Miss Period (2019)
- Director
- SHINADA Shunsuke
- Cast
- NIKAIDO Fumi, ITOH Sairi
Fumi Nikaido fights for all women! "Why it sucks? Because I can't blame everything on my period." If you're a woman, you have to deal with your "monthly visitor" - your period - whether you like it or not. It comes in with a bang, dealing heavy blow...
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My Sweet Grappa Remedies (2019)
- Director
- OOKU Akiko
- Cast
- MATSUYUKI Yasuko, KUROKI Haru, SHIMIZU Hiroya
Dear diary, somehow, I like my life. Yoshiko is in her 40s, single and has no kid. She works in a publishing company and she enjoys small pleasures like having lunch with her junior colleague or drinking grappa alone at home. Her life is quiet but r...
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Kessan! Chushingura (working title) (2019)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Yoshihiro
- Cast
- TSUTSUMI Shinichi, OKAMURA Takashi, TSUMABUKI Satoshi
No Money, No Revenge!!? In 1701, a feudal lord, Asano was told to kill himself by the government because he tried to kill a bureaucrat of the government, Kira. Asano's right hand, Kuranosuke organized a revenge for Asano with his samurai retainers, ...
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AIRCRAFT CARRIER IBUKI (2019)
- Director
- WAKAMATSU Setsuro
- Cast
- NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, SASAKI Kuranosuke, SATO Koichi
Based on a best comic book by Kaiji Kawaguchi, an epic action movie has finally become a live action starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and Kuranosuke Sasaki. In the year 20XX, sudden fire by unidentified 20 fishing boats in the southern sea has been repor...
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SEA OF REVIVAL (2019)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Kazuya
- Cast
- KATORI Shingo, TSUNEMATSU Yuri, NISHIDA Naomi
Ikuo, a 40 years-old guy who is in reduced circumstances with gambling addiction, decides to move to his partner, Ayumi's hometown with her and her 16 years old daughter from the former marriage. In Sanriku, an area in Tohoku where it is still recove...
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Tenzo (2019)
- Director
- TOMITA Katsuya
- Cast
- KAWAGUCHI Chiken, KONDO Shinko, KURASHIMA Ryugyo
Two young monks, Chiken and Ryûgyô, return to their temples - one to Yamanashi and the other to Fukushima - after completing their training apprenticeship at the dojo of the Sôtô Buddhist school. Ten years later, facing the post-Fukushima socio-econo...
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TOKYO BUTTERFLY (2019)
- Director
- SAKON Keitaro
- Cast
- SHIRAHATA Kamin, MIZUISHI Atomu, KOBAYASHI Ryuju
There was a popular band with four students. After the band was offered a major contract, they broke up with a minor mistake. 6 years later, they are living their lives in their late twenties with troubles: Marriage, work, human relationship. They me...
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Mio on the Shore (2019)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Ryutaro
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Honoka, WATANABE Daichi, TOKUNAGA Eri
Drama helmed by Nakagawa Ryutaro, whose accolades include the FIPRESCI Award at the 39th Moscow International Film Festival for Summer Blooms. Depicts a 20-year-old girl as she grows up through her relationships with others. Miyakawa Mio (Matsumoto ...
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Turquoise Skies (2019)
- Director
- KENTARO
- Cast
- YAGIRA Yuya, Arma BALJINNYAM, Tsetsgee BYAMBAA
Takeshi, a rich and spoiled young Japanese man with no direction in life, is sent by his grandfather, a business mogul, on a quest to the steppes of Outer Mongolia in search of his long-lost daughter. Guided by Amaraa, a Mongolian horse thief, the m...
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SHIROBAKO(W/T) (2020)
- Director
- MIZUSHIMA Tsutomu
- Cast
SHIROBAKO are video tapes that come in white boxes, that are given to producers in the video industry when they first finish a project. Compared to a commercial package, with its beautifully decorated illustrations and photographs, plain white boxes ...
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Children of the Sea (2019)
- Director
- WATANABE Ayumu
- Cast
- ASHIDA Mana, ISHIBASHI Hirio, URAGAMI Seishu
The first day of summer vacation for 14 years old Ruka takes an abrupt turn when her coach prohibits her from participating in her handball team practices because she wouldn't apologize to her teammate. While feeling lost and frustrated with a long ...
