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Butterfly Sleep (2017)
- Director
- JEONG Jae-Eun
- Cast
- NAKAYAMA Miho, KIM Jae-Uck, ISHIBASHI Anna
Romantic drama intertwining the lives of a female novelist with hereditary Alzheimerﾕs disease and a Korean student who aspires to be a writer. Stars Nakayama Miho of Love Letter. Popular novelist Ryoko (Nakayama) realizes that she is succumbing to ...
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Sweating the Small Stuff (2017)
- Director
- NINOMIYA Ryutaro
- Cast
- NINOMIYA Ryutaro, YASHIMA Yasumi, MATSUMOTO Daiki
Pia Film Festival alum Ninomiya Ryutaro writes, directs, and stars in his theatrical debut film. The semi-autobiographical film weaves truth and fiction together in depicting the impatience of a young man living a gloomy life. Ryutaro (Ninomiya), wh...
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ANIMA! (2017)
- Director
- HORIE Takahiro
- Cast
- HATTORI Saika, KOYANAGI Yu, KUROSAWA Haruka
Coming-of-age drama about a woman who grows up through contemporary dance. Opening film for Skip City International D-Cinema Festival 2017. Auditions are being held for funding to study abroad. Dancer Kaho (Hattori Saika) doesn't feel right about do...
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Tamayura (2017)
- Director
- TSUCHIDA Hirokazu
- Cast
- KUBO Haruka, OKABE Nao, TATSUMI Aoi
Medical drama based on a true story. Highlights problems in Japan's medical system through the eyes of a rookie hospital administrative assistant. Directorial debut for Tsuchida Hirokazu, an orthopedic surgeon. Former flight attendant Kazuyo (Kubo H...
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The Red Comet Club (2017)
- Director
- TAKEI Yuri
- Cast
- HABA Chihiro, TESHIMA Miyu, SAKURAI Yasuyuki
Promising new director Takei Yuri directs this ensemble teen sci-fi drama about adolescent boys and girls becoming fascinated by a star. The film won the Gemstone Award and the Cinema Fan Award at the PFF Award 2017. A red comet observable only once...
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NEW CINEMA KABUKI 『Yotsuya Kaidan』 (2017)
- Director
- KUSHIDA Kazuyoshi
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Shido, NAKAMURA Kankuro, NAKAMURA Shichinosuke
Twenty-eighth Cinema Kabuki digital theatrical screening of kabuki shot with HD cameras. Classic kabuki repertoire performed with a modern twist by Cocoon Kabuki is turned into film while preserving the immediacy of a playhouse. Iemon (Nakamura Shid...
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Lemon&Letter (2017)
- Director
- UMENOKI Keiko
- Cast
- SHINADA Makoto, UJIHARA Kyoko, KINOUCHI Akiko
Self-produced drama aiming to revitalize Ogijima island in the Seto Inland Sea by conveying the island's charms. A boy and girl who relocated to the island grow up as they become high school students and worry about love and their path in life. Fift...
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Home Away From Home (2017)
- Director
- MAKABE Yukinori
- Cast
- James Jirayu, ABE Junko, Hershel Peppers
Work in the Tokyo Cine-magic project that creates short films about Tokyo, produced by Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia. Directed by Makabe Yukinori of I Am a Monk. A taxi driver, young girl and backer packer travel through fantastical Tokyo that i...
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The Night I Swam (2017)
- Director
- IGARASHI Kohei, Damien MANIVEL
- Cast
- KOGAWA Takara, KOGAWA Keiki, KOGAWA Chisato
A Japan-France jointly produced film co-directed by Igarashi Kohei of Hold Your Breath Like a Lover and Damien Manivel of A Young Poet. It was screened at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. Just before the break of dawn in a small town nes...
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our blue moment (2017)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- FUKAGAWA Mai, YAMASHITA Kenjiro
Using "marriage" as a theme, this romantic ensemble crisscrosses comical human relationships. Imaizumi Rikiya of Sad Tea writes and directs. Bakery employee Ichii Fumi (Fukagawa Mai) holds a peculiar outlook on marriage: "I doubt anyone would love m...
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Meeting Pinkerton (2017)
- Director
- SAKASHITA Yuichiro
- Cast
- UCHIDA Chika, MATSUMOTO Wakana, TAMURA Kentaro
Fifth work in the original film project from Shochiku Broadcasting, which has also come out with Ecotherapy Getaway Holiday and Three Stories of Love. Depicts the struggles of women who were once pop stars and reunite after their breakup twenty years...
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Our House (2017)
- Director
- KIYOHARA Yui
- Cast
- KAWANISHI Nodoka, YASUNO Yukiko, OSAWA Mariwo
In this thriller, two different storylines about a girl who has lost her father and a woman who loses her memory intersect in the same house. Kiyohara Yui made this graduation film at Tokyo University of the Art's graduate school with mentorship from...
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Roupeiro's Melancholy (2017)
- Director
- KAJIYA Akihito
- Cast
- SHIRAISHI Shunya, MIZUKAWA Asami, NAGAI Masaru
Film about sports based on Inoue Naoto's novel by the same title. Depicts the struggles of a professional soccer team from the perspective of someone toiling behind the scenes. Stars Shiraishi Shunya from {Tokyo Ghoul}. Sakagami Eisaku (Shiraishi) i...
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BELOVED NORA (2017)
- Director
- TAJIRI Yuji
- Cast
- MIZUSAWA Shingo, OSHIMA Hako, MORIYA Fumio
Inspired by novelist Uchida Hyakken's 'Noraya', this drama depicts the connection between cats and humans. Veteran director, Tajiri Yuji of Broken Pieces helms. Tsukumo Sakumi (Mizusawa Shingo) is an undistinguished screenwriter who discovers a stra...
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The Miraculous Postcards (2017)
- Director
- Jacky WOO
- Cast
- SUZUKI Sarina, AKAZA Miyoko, YUKIMURA Izumi
A drama adapting to film children's book author, Wakiya Midori's "Kibo no Switch ha, Kusu" by internationally engaged filmmaker Jacky Woo. Miyuki (Suzuki Sarina) devotes herself to caring for her daughter Nozomi () who has cerebral palsy. Without re...
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THE LIMIT OF SLEEPING BEAUTY (2017)
- Director
- NINOMIYA Ken
- Cast
- SAKURAI Yuki, TAKAHASHI Issey
A drama portraying the intertwining of past & present and reality & delusion written and directed by the promising filmmaker of SLUM-POLIS and Matsumoto Tribe, Ninomiya Ken. Oria Aki (Sakurai Yuki) came to Tokyo with dreams of becoming an actress. S...
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Tales of CHIGASAKI (2017)
- Director
- KUMASAKA Izuru
- Cast
- MIYAJI Junichi, NAKAZAWA Shinichi, KAYAMA Yuzo
Miyaji Junichi, Kuwata Keisuke's classmate who christened his band "Southern All Stars" and anthropologist Nakazawa Shinichi who uses a technique known as "Earth Dive" to trace the past of an area of land, unravel the appeal and mystery of Chigasaki ...
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Homecoming (2017)
- Director
- KIKUCHI Takeo
- Cast
- KANJIYA Shihori, DAITOH Shunsuke
A mystery adapted from a novel by Minato Kanae which depicts the stories of a pair of parents and their children. In the director's chair is Kikuchi Takeo of Hello, Goodbye. Mutsuko (Kanjiya Shihori) has been living on an island to which her grandmo...
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Love Disease (2017)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Kota
- Cast
- SETO Saori, OKAYAMA Amane
Sensual suspense drama about the love-hate relationship between a man pursuing a perverse relationship and a woman thrown into turmoil by the fate of intense love. Based on the Wakayama dating website robbery and homicide from 2002. Emiko (Seto Saor...
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I dreamed of flying in the sky (2017)
- Director
- TANAKA Hiromi
- Cast
- Maia, MIYAGI Daiki, TABATA Tomoko
Film produced as a music movie for music production team TGLAB.'s 10-track album "I dreamed of flying in the sky." Features one short film for each song on the album. The short films were released on a weekly basis on TGLAB.'s YouTube channel. Direct...
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Le lion est mort ce soir (2017)
- Director
- SUWA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- Jean-Pierre Léaud, Pauline Etienne, Maud Wyler
2 Duo, Perfect Couple director Suwa Nobuhiro welcomes The 400 Blows star Jean-Pierre Leaud to this Japanese-French co-production. Jean (Leaud) is an aging actor troubled by his inability to feign death. Haunted by the past, he visits an old estate i...
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Shashin Koshien Summer in 0.5 Seconds (2017)
- Director
- SUGAWARA Hiroshi
- Cast
- KASA Natsuki, SHIRAHASE Kaira, NAKATA Seina
A national photography competition which decides Japan's top high school photography club is the subject of this coming-of-age film depicting high schoolers putting everything they have into photography. At the helm is Sugawara Hiroshi of Seven Days'...
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Les Garcons- Bonbons 2 L'Oiseau du paradis (2017)
- Director
- HIROTA Leona
- Cast
- KURIHARA Rui, ARAMAKI Yoshihiko, SOMEYA Toshiyuki
The sequel to 2015's Les Garcons-Bonbons directed by Hirota Leona, who is also known as an actress. Kitazawa Haku (Kurihara Rui) had watched a movie and dreamed he was in a parallel universe. Meanwhile, Ryu (Kamiya Riku), the older brother of Haku's...
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Marbling (2017)
- Director
- YAMAGISHI Aya
- Cast
- ISHIZAKI Natsumi, TAMURA Kentaro, ITABASHI Shunya
The 11th collaboration project in an academic-industry partnership between vocational school, Tokyo Visual Arts, and distributor, Tollywood. Takamura Sayumi (Ishizaki Natsumi) is a girl with an indecisive personality. She meets slightly unusual boys...
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Ice Cream and the Sound of Raindrops (2017)
- Director
- MATSUI Daigo
- Cast
- MORITA Kokoro, TANAKA Reiko, TANAKA Taketo
Coming-of-age story consisting of a single seventy-four-minute take covering one month in the lives of youths floundering in the gap between reality and fiction, based on a true story. Directed by Matsui Daigo of Japanese Girls Never Die. The rap gro...
