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March comes in like a lion (2017)
- Director
- OTOMO Keishi
- Cast
- KAMIKI Ryunosuke, ARIMURA Kasumi, TOYOKAWA Etsushi
First film in the two-part live-action adaptation of manga artist Umino Chica's popular comic. Directed by Otomo Keishi of the "Rurouni Kenshin" series. Seventeen-year-old Kiriyama Rei (Kamiki Ryunosuke) is a professional player of shogi, or Japanes...
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BLAME! (2017)
- Director
- SESHITA Hiroyuki
- Cast
- SAKURAI Takahiro, HANAZAWA Kana, AMAMIYA Sora
Feature film animation adaptation of the masterpiece SF manga that enjoys a worldwide fan base. The completely new story was created with the full cooperation of the manga author Nihei Tsutomu, who served as creative consultant. Directed by Seshita H...
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Lu over the wall (2017)
- Director
- YUASA Masaaki
- Cast
- TANI Kanon, SHIMODA Shouta, SHINOHARA Shinichi
The first, completely original theatrical film by director Yuasa Masaaki. This tale of the encounter and separation of a young boy and a young mermaid is composed of careful depictions of life and delicate emotional portrayals rendered through animat...
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Your Voice -KIMIKOE- (2017)
- Director
- ITO Naoyuki
- Cast
- KATAHIRA Mina, TANAKA Yuki, IWABUCHI Momone
Original animated feature film about the adolescence of high school girls. Animation produced by Madhouse, which is known for films including The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Nagisa (voice: Katahira Mina) is a high school girl living in a seaside to...
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dream of illumination (2017)
- Director
- SAWADA Thunder
- Cast
- SHIDA Sara, HAMADA Akira
Commercial feature film debut for the cutting-edge Sawada Thunder, who published the illustrated book "Osananajimi no Bakki" in 2007 and was selected for competition in the Okamoto Taro Memorial Award for Contemporary Art. Uses black-and-white images...
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The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (2017)
- Director
- ZEZE Takahisa
- Cast
- KIRYU Mai, HIGASHIDE Masahiro, Kanichiro
Ensemble production about commoners living through the chaos of the post-war crash and Great Kanto Earthquake as they search for meaning in their lives. Directed by the brilliant Zeze Takahisa of Heaven's Story. The story takes place in the outskirt...
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Laughing Lucky Cats (2017)
- Director
- IIDUKA Ken
- Cast
- SHIMIZU Fumika, MATSUI Rena
Iizuka Ken, who directed Drops in Your Hand, adapts to film the debut work of novelist, Yamamoto Yukihisa. It depicts with plenty of affection and humor two comediennes' love and friendship amid a life resembling a standup routine composed of a color...
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Opening Night (2017)
- Director
- SAKAI Mai
- Cast
- HARA Nanoka, MATSUI Rena
Up-and-coming director, Sakai Mai, who gained attention with her previous film, Be A Light to the World, makes her commercial feature film debut. It screened in the Yubari Choice section at the 2017 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. Chil...
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Life and Death On the Shore (2017)
- Director
- KOSHIKAWA Michio
- Cast
- MITSUSHIMA Hikari, NAGAYAMA Kento
Film adaptation of a story about a passionate encounter and love written by Shimao Toshio, author of the personal novel "The Sting of Death", and Shimao Miho. Directed by Koshikawa Michio of Areno - The Wilderness. The year is 1944 at the tail end o...
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Her Sketchbook (2017)
- Director
- OZAKI Masaya
- Cast
- KADOWAKI Mugi
Original story about the maturation of an awkward girl as she ventures into the outside world. Directed by Ozaki Masaya, who helmed Rendez-vous! and has scripted numerous TV dramas and films. Mami (Kadowaki Mugi) doesn't have a job and is closed off...
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MUKOKU (2017)
- Director
- KUMAKIRI Kazuyoshi
- Cast
- AYANO Go, MURAKAMI Nijiro, MAEDA Atsuko
The live-action adaptation of Akutagawa Prize-winning author Fujisawa Shu's novel "Mukoku" which depicts the battles between handsome men burdened by unfortunate fates and tempestuously fiery spirits. Kumakiri Kazuyoshi, whose My Man won the award fo...
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My Teacher (2017)
- Director
- MIKI Takahiro
- Cast
- IKUTA Toma, HIROSE Suzu, RYUSEI Ryo
Live-action adaptation of Kawahara Kazune's comic for girls about the poignant love between a teacher and his student. Director Miki Takahiro has helmed numerous teen romances. Hibiki (Hirose Suzu) is an introverted high school junior who falls for ...
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Double Mints (2017)
- Director
- UCHIDA Eiji
- Cast
- FUCHIKAMI Yasushi, TANAKA Shunsuke, TOMITE Ami
Live-action adaptation of the same-named comic by Nakamura Asumiko, who has a built passionate fan base with works including "Doukyusei - Classmates". Two guys who formed a master-servant relationship in high school fatefully reunite and soon fall ho...
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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (2017)
- Director
- MIIKE Takashi
- Cast
- YAMAZAKI Kento, KAMIKI Ryunosuke, KOMATSU Nana
Live-action adaptation of Araki Hirohiko's popular comic "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure," which has over 100 million copies in print to date. Helmed by internationally renowned director Miike Takashi. A series of bizarre deaths happen in Morioh, home to ...
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What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- HASHIZUME Isao, YOSHIYUKI Kazuko, TSUMABUKI Satoshi
Hashizume Isao, Yoshiyuki Kazuko, Nakajima Tomoko, and Tsumabuki Satoshi, the cast who portrayed a different family in Yamada Yoji's Tokyo Family, once again return for this follow-up to his comedy, What a Wonderful Family!. After narrowly avoiding t...
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SUMMER BLOOMS (2017)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Ryutaro
- Cast
- ASAKURA Aki, MIURA Takahiro, KAWASAKI Yuriko
Tale about loss and rebirth from director Nakagawa Ryutaro, who became the youngest director to have his films selected by Tokyo International Film Festival for two consecutive years with August in Tokyo and Tokyo Sunrise. Latest film from "Tokyo New...
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Hizume (2017)
- Director
- KIMURA Asagi
- Cast
- KIMURA Tomoki, ISHIDUKA Yu, KIMURA Masaaki
A fantasy shot on director Kimura Asagi's birthplace of Okinawa and the Yaeyama Islands. The film is a 13th Cineastes Organization Osaka (CO2) grant-recipient production. Flower shop owner, Yu (Kimura Tomoki), chases the meaning of the words, "I am ...
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REMINISCENSE (2017)
- Director
- FURUHATA Yasuo
- Cast
- OKADA Junichi, OGURI Shun, EMOTO Tasuku
This drama reunites director Fururhata Yasuo with cameraman Kimura Daisaku, the team behind the hit film Poppoya: Railroad Man, for the first time in nine years. The fates of three childhood friends are upended when a murder incident reunites them fo...
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Saki (2017)
- Director
- ONUMA Yuichi
- Cast
- HAMABE Minami, ASAKAWA Nana, HIROTA Aika
Teenage drama about high school girls who devote themselves to competitive mahjong. Refreshing portrayal of friendship and the girls confronting their main rivals as they strive to reach the national championships. Four schools face off in the final...
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GUKOROKU - TRACES OF SIN (2017)
- Director
- ISHIKAWA Kei
- Cast
- TSUMABUKI Satoshi, MITSUSHIMA Hikari
Ishikawa Kei makes his feature film directorial debut with this mystery that delves into the "true nature of human beings." A year has gone by without any progress on the Tako family's murder, in which an elite businessman, his beautiful and perfec...
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Bully School:Devil Full of Scars (2017)
- Director
- YAMAGISHI Santa
- Cast
- ADACHI Rika, ENOSAWA Manami, Kayano
Drama about a high school girl whose life falls apart when she transfers to a school in the countryside and meets the girl who she used to bully. Director Yamagishi Santa also helmed Zenin Kataomoi. Mai (Adachi Rika) transfers from Tokyo to a high s...
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Great Mother Takiji Kobayashi's Motheｒ (2017)
- Director
- YAMADA Hisako
- Cast
- TERAJIMA Shinobu, SHIOYA Shun, WATANABE Ikkei
Drama about the life of the mother of Hayashi Takiji, known for the proletarian novel {The Crab Cannery Ship}. Directed by Yamada Hisako of Bokyo no kane Manmo kaitakudan no rakujitsu. Seki (Terajima Shinobu) was born into an impoverished family in ...
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Random Lives (2017)
- Director
- ZEZE Takahisa
- Cast
- SANO Shiro, EMOTO Akira, ADACHI Masao
A drama stressing the theme of "humans continue to live" by depicting various people being persecuted by unforeseen homicides and ill fortune. The life and death of characters from different time periods and circumstances are shown as connecting with...
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HAMON: YAKUZA BOOGIE (2017)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Syoutarou
- Cast
- SASAKI Kuranosuke, YOKOYAMA You, KITAGAWA Keiko
Film adaptation of Kurokawa Hiroyuki's Naoki Prize-winning novel. Depicts the travails of a yakuza and construction consultant who get ripped off and go after the conman. Directed by Kobayashi Syoutarou of Family Matters. Construction consultant Nin...
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SHINJUKU SWAN II (2017)
- Director
- SONO Sion
- Cast
- AYANO Go, ASANO Tadanobu, ISEYA Yusuke
Set in Shinjuku's Kabuki-cho entertainment district, this is the continuing chapter of the drama depicting the life of a man who works as a scout for the after dark industries. Sono Sion, known for his radical characterizations in Cold Fish among oth...
