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90 Years Old - So What? (2024)
- Director
- MAEDA Tetsu
- Cast
- KUSABUE Mitsuko, KARASAWA Toshiaki
Laughter-inducing adaptation of the same-named essay collection from Naoki Prize-winning author Sato Aiko. Directed by Maeda Tetsu, known for I Don't Have Any Money Left in My Retirement Account. 90-year-old writer Aiko (Kusabue Mitsuko) has declare...
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Rental Family (2023)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Takehito
- Cast
- SHIOYA Shun, KAWAKAMI Nanami, SHIRAISHI Yua
Drama based on Ishii Yuichi's book "Ningen Rentaru-ya" about an agency that rents out family members. Sakamoto Takehito's second feature after Eternal Maria. A single mother rents a dad for her only child. Mother and daughter get hooked on buying th...
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The One I've Longed to see (2023)
- Director
- Joe
- Cast
- KURANOO Narumi, SAI Tetsuhiro, NAKAMURA Tamao
Human drama produced by Hori Tomoko, whose own daughter was diagnosed with leukemia and whose family helped overcome the condition. The story is based on real-life experiences and cites the importance of bone marrow transplantation and donor registra...
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Second Birth Day (2023)
- Director
- MOROSAWA Kazuyuki
- Cast
- HIGUCHI Daigo, MATSUMOTO Wakana, OKADA Koki
Using his own experience of having a bone marrow transplant to combat a disease actor Higuchi Daigo planned, conceived and starred in this human drama. The film is directed and written by Morosawa Kazuyuki from the series "Leave It to the Nurses". ...
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TO MOM, WITH LOVE (2024)
- Director
- HASHIGUCHI Ryosuke
- Cast
- EGUCHI Noriko, UCHIDA Chika, FURUKAWA Kotone
Hashiguchi Ryosuke helms his first feature film since Three Stories of Love nine years ago. Silver-screen version of the TV drama adapted from dramaturge Peyoung Maki's stage play by the same name. Three sisters take their mother on a hot springs tr...
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The Friends (1994)
- Director
- SOMAI Shinji
- Cast
- MIKUNI Rentaro, SAKATA Naoki, OH Taiki
Maestro Somai Shinji adapted the same-named children's novel by Yumoto Kazumi. Set in summertime Kobe, three boys and a lonely old man spend the summer together. Shot by Shinoda Noboru, famed for Love Letter. Sixth graders Kiyama, Kawabe and Yamashi...
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Moving (1993)
- Director
- SOMAI Shinji
- Cast
- NAKAI Kiichi, SAKURADA Junko, TABATA Tomoko
Tenth feature film by masterful director Somai Shinji, who passed away in 2001. This drama deals with the unsettled emotions of an 11-year-old girl whose parents live apart and are about to get divorced. Shot by Kurita Toyomichi, who also works in th...
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The WAY OF THE HOUSEHUSBAND: The Cinema (2022)
- Director
- RUTO Toichiro
- Cast
- TAMAKI Hiroshi, KAWAGUCHI Haruna, SHISON Jun
Feature film adaptation of the 2021 TV series based on Oono Kosuke's self-named comic. TV drama director Ruto Toichiro returns to helm the film and reunites cast members including Tamaki Hiroshi, who plays a legendary gangster turned homemaker. Tat...
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Mom, Is That You?! (2023)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, OIZUMI Yo
Family drama that marks the 90th film helmed by 91-year-old maestro director Yamada Yoji. Highly anticipated as his third film about motherhood in collaboration with legendary actress Yoshinaga Sayuri, after Kabei: Our Mother and Nagasaki: Memories o...
