Movies
20 Results
-
WE ARE ALIENS (2024)
- Director
- UGANA Kenichi
- Cast
- HYODO Katsumi, KIKUCHI Hina, NISHIGAKI Sho
One day, while Seiya was calling everybody on the phone to tell them "It's me, thank you" on the rooftop of a building, a strange creature with emerald-blue fur, something he had never seen before, descended from the sky. The creature, along with it...
-
Life of Mariko in Kabukicho (2023)
- Director
- UCHIDA Eiji, KATAYAMA Shinzo
- Cast
- ITO Sairi, TAKENOUCHI Yutaka
Directors Uchida Eiji (Midnight Swan) and Katayama Shinzo (Siblings of the Cape) team up for this detective drama set in Kabukicho, Shinjuku. Six episodes were divided between the two directors to create a single ambitious film. Mariko (Ito Sairi), ...
-
Divine (2023)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Kiichiro
- Cast
- AOKI Yuzu, SAKANOUE Akane
A science fiction coming-of-age film, is the first production from "TOEI VIDEO NEW CINEMA FACTORY," a project to discover new talent launched by Toei Video. Directed and written by Nakamura Kiichiro, whose many short films have received acclaim both ...
-
DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Part 2 (2024)
- Director
- KUROKAWA Tomoyuki
- Cast
- IKUTA Lilas, ano
When a gigantic spaceship suddenly starts hovering over Tokyo, people are terrified and launch an attack on it. However only the city suffers major damages, and the spaceship is unaffected. As the military keeps shooting down the smaller spacecrafts ...
-
GODZILLA MINUS ONE (2023)
- Director
- YAMAZAKI Takashi
- Cast
- KAMIKI Ryunosuke, HAMABE Minami
A film commemorating the 70th anniversary of the globally popular special effects monster film Godzilla. On this 30th Japanese outing, Yamazaki Takashi, director of Parasyte, served as director, screenwriter, and VFX. On the 12th January 2024, a blac...
-
PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower (2023)
- Director
- NISHIMI Shojiro
- Cast
- MIYAZAWA Rie, KUBOZUKA Yosuke, YOSHIDA Honoka
From the 12 volumes of Osamu Tezuka's timeless manga masterpiece "Phoenix", STUDIO4°C' has turned the "Nostalgia" volume, which depicts the future of the earth and the universe, into an animated film. Romi (Miyazawa Rie) and her boyfriend George (Ku...
-
Girls Drive (2023)
- Director
- MIYAOKA Taro
- Cast
- OGURI Yui, YAMAUCHI Mizuki, KURANOO Narumi
Road movie helmed by gift director Miyaoka Taro with original story penned by Inoue Tete, who scripted Initiation Love. Minami Koharu (Oguri Yui} has devoted her life to track and field and when she gets disqualified from the high school championsh...
-
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
- Director
- TSUKAMOTO Shinya
- Cast
- TAGUCHI Tomorowo
Powerful cinematic realization of the explosive drama about a man whose flesh is taken over by metal cells, based on the 1986 8mm film The Phantom of Regular Size. This 16mm film brought Tsukamoto Shinya to the world's attention. One morning, a whit...
-
KAPPEI (2022)
- Director
- HIRANO Takashi
- Cast
- ITO Hideaki, KAMISHIRAISHI Moka, NISHIHATA Daigo (Naniwa Danshi)
A live-action film adaptation of the humorous manga "Kappei" by Wakasugi Kiminori, the author of "Detroit Metal City". It is a high-octane depiction of love and adolescence of the main character, who has devoted his life to training. Kappei (Ito Hid...
-
DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Part 1 (2024)
- Director
- KUROKAWA Tomoyuki
- Cast
- IKUTA Lilas, ano
First film in the two-part animated feature adaptation of Asano Inio's same-named manga. Leading Japanese creators involved in the production include animation director Kurokawa Tomoyuki from the "PSYCHO-PASS" series. Koyama Kadode (Ikuta Lilas) and...
-
SINGLE8 (2023)
- Director
- KONAKA Kazuya
- Cast
- UEMURA Yu, TAKAISHI Akari
A coming-of-age portrait set in the 1970s about young people who were passionate about 8mm films. Director Konaka Kazuya, who has worked on the "Heisei Ultraman" series, has realized his dream project based on his own experiences. In the summer of 1...
-
SHIN ULTRAMAN (2022)
- Director
- HIGUCHI Shinji
- Cast
- SAITOH Takumi, NAGASAWA Masami, ARIOKA Daiki
Shinji Higuchi helms this film featuring Japan's beloved superhero in contemporary society with Shin Godzilla director Hideaki Anno serving as producer, screenwriter and supervisor. Mysterious Kaiju monster appears. Conventional weapons are useles...
-
EUREKA: EUREKA SEVEN HI-EVOLUTION (2021)
- Director
- KYODA Tomoki
- Cast
- NAZUKA Kaori, ENDO Rina
Finale in the feature film trilogy adapting the TV anime series "Eureka Seven" that went on air in 2005. Reviled by the world, Eureka undertakes her final journey after a decade of atonement. Eureka lives to uphold world peace as a high-ranking figh...
-
Indelible Memories (2022)
- Director
- SONODA Shin
- Cast
- HYODO Katsumi, Momoka, YAMAMOTO Ai
At night, Yui, a musician, meets Jun-ichi, an improvising actor, on the riverside square where young people are performing on the street. They argue with each other over their "stage". Jun-ichi intervenes in a fight one day, but is knocked down. Yui ...
-
BREAK OF DAWN (2022)
- Director
- KUROKAWA Tomoyuki
- Cast
- SUGISAKI Hana, YUKI Aoi
An animated feature film adaptation of Imai Tetsuya's sci-fi young adult manga of the same name. In the summer of 2049, fourth-grader Sawatari Yuma (Sugisaki Hana), who lives in the Asagaya housing complex, is obsessed with Comet SH3-Arville, which ...
-
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Collision (2022)
- Director
- TADA Shunsuke
- Cast
- MIYANO Mamoru, SUZUMURA Kenichi
Production I.G produced the third season for the "Die Neue These" animation based on the mammoth SF novel "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" by popular author Tanaka Yoshiki. The 12 episodes (25 to 36) in the Collision arc were released in theaters in ...
-
Arc (2021)
- Director
- ISHIKAWA Kei
- Cast
- YOSHINE Kyoko, TERAJIMA Shinobu, OKADA Masaki
Director Ishikawa Kei grabbed the spotlight with Gukoroku - Traces of Sin and brings world-renowned SF author Ken Liu's short story to the big screen. In this epic tale, a woman becomes the first human to achieve immortality. The story takes place ...
-
The Door into Summer (2021)
- Director
- MIKI Takahiro
- Cast
- YAMAZAKI Kento, KIYOHARA Kaya, FUJIKI Naohito
Epic love story that adapts Robert A. Heilein's science fiction novel "The Door Into Summer" with the setting moved to Japan. Directed by Miki Takahiro of Fortuna's Eye. Scientist Takakura Soichiro (Yamazaki Kento) immerses himself in research at th...
-
The Blue Skies at Your Feet (2022)
- Director
- Yuki Saito
- Cast
- FUKUMOTO Riko, MATSUDA Genta, ITAGAKI Mizuki
Feature film adaptation of Sakura Eeyo's same-named novel. Directed by Yuki Saito, who moved to the US after high school and studied film for eight years in Hollywood. Miyu (Fukumoto Riko) and Shuya (Matsuda Genta) are high school seniors who have b...
-
JUNK HEAD (2021)
- Director
- HORI Takahide
- Cast
This stop-motion animated science fiction film took lone creator Hori Takahide seven years to complete. He was solely responsible for editing, filming, lighting, and the music in addition to creating the figures and directing the film. The human rac...
