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Last Love (2007)
- Director
- FUJITA Akiji
- Cast
- TAMURA Masakazu, ITO Misaki, MORISAKO Ei
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#MANHOLE (2023)
- Director
- KUMAKIRI Kazuyoshi
- Cast
- NAKAJIMA Yuto, Nao, NAGAYAMA Kento
A situational thriller directed by Kumakiri Kazuyoshi, based on an original script written by Okada Michitaka, who has written numerous hit movies, such as Masquerade Hotel. Kawamura Shunsuke (Nakajima Yuto), a talented salesman, falls down a manhol...
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IT’S IN THE WOODS (2022)
- Director
- NAKATA Hideo
- Cast
- AIBA Masaki, MATSUMOTO Honoka, EGUCHI Noriko
Horror flick from Nakata Hideo, who set the bar for J-horror with Ring. Unfathomable terror unfolds in a real-life forest where bizarre phenomena occur. Junichi (Aiba Masaki) runs a farm on his own in the boonies and ends up having to take care of h...
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0.5mm (2013)
- Director
- ANDO Momoko
- Cast
- ANDO Sakura, EMOTO Akira, TSUGAWA Masahiko
Director Ando Momoko, who drew attention at home and abroad with her debut film Kakera: A Piece of Our Life, adapts her own novel inspired by her experiences of caring for an elderly relative. It explodes with rage at a society in which connections b...
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009-1 THE END OF THE BEGINNING (2013)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Koichi
- Cast
- IWASA Mayuko, KINOMOTO Minehiro, NAGASAWA Nao
Live action adaptation of the SF action adult version of "Cyborg 009," manga artist Ishinomori Shotaro's signature work. Displays violence and sexiness, the themes of the original story, with sultry scenes included with the action. Set in the near f...
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Ichi ni san shi (2010)
- Director
- TAMAKI Yoko
- Cast
- HIGUCHI Fumi, UEBABA Takehiro, HANDA Sachiko
Momo Matsuri is a film screening group that was started in 2006 by several young female directors in search of a place to show their works. Every year, short films with a common theme are created and screened. In 2010, the 12 directors came together ...
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Juuichibunnoichi (2014)
- Director
- KATAOKA Sho
- Cast
- IKEOKA Ryosuke, TAKETOMI Seika, KUDO Asuka
Yellow Elephant screenwriter Kataoka Shou makes his feature-length directorial debut with this adaptation of Nakamura Takatoshi's popular tearjerking coming-of-age manga, which has sold over 600,000 copies in total. The up-and-coming cast, including ...
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100 YEN LOVE (2014)
- Director
- TAKE Masaharu
- Cast
- ANDO Sakura, ARAI Hirofumi
A film based on a screenplay that won the first-ever Matsuda Yusaku Prize, created by the Shunan Kizuna Film Festival in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Take Masaharu (Unsung Hero) directs. Ando Sakura (Love Exposure) won an audition to play the protagonist, a...
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Crying 100 Times ~Every Raindrop Falls~ (2013)
- Director
- HIROKI Ryuichi
- Cast
- OKURA Tadayoshi, KIRITANI Mirei, TOMOSAKA Rie
Pure romance based on author Nakamura Ko's bestselling novel of the same name. Uses a delicate touch to movingly depict the love between a youth who loses his memory and a girl afflicted by terminal illness. Broke 150 million yen in box office receip...
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108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba (2019)
- Director
- MATSUO Suzuki
- Cast
- MATSUO Suzuki, NAKAYAMA Miho
Original production that marks the fourth feature film directed by Theatre Otona Keikaku leader Matsuo Suzuki, who also stars in the film and penned the screenplay. Comedy about a husband's outrageous plot to get revenge against his wife. Screenplay...
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11/25 The Day Mishima Chose His Own Fate (2011)
- Director
- WAKAMATSU Koji
- Cast
- IURA Arata, MITSUSHIMA Shinnosuke, IWAMA Takatsugu
An official selection of the 65th Cannes International Film Festival. Internationally-acclaimed filmmaking genius Wakamatsu Koji directs this depiction of the turbulent fortunes of Mishima Yukio and the members of Tatenokai (shield society), the priv...
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The Thirteen Steps (2002)
- Director
- NAGASAWA Masahiko
- Cast
- SORIMACHI Takashi, YAMAZAKI Tsutomu, SHOFUKUTEI Tsurube
Mikami Junichi (Sorimachi Takashi) is serving a murder sentence after accidentally killing a person during a fight. After being released, he is asked by prison guard Nango Shoji (Yamazaki Tsutomu) to join the investigation to exonerate a wrongfully c...
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1303 (2006)
- Director
- OIKAWA Ataru
- Cast
- NAKAGOSHI Noriko, HATSUNE Eriko, OTANI Naoko
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14 That Night (2016)
- Director
- ADACHI Shin
- Cast
- INUKAI Naoki, MITSUISHI Ken, HAMADA Mari
Drama about the summer adventures of junior high school students fed up with their monotonous lives, set in a countryside town. Directorial debut by Adachi Shin, who earned accolades for his screenplay 100 Yen Love. The year is 1987. Junior high sc...
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Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes The Boy Saw (2005)
- Director
- WAKAMATSU Koji
- Cast
- EMOTO Tasuku, HARIU Ichiro, SEKI Etsuko
A boy (Emoto Tasuku) furiously pedals his bicycle past Mt. Fuji and crowds of young people in the city. As he continues his solitary journey, we begin to see shots of an empty study and a woman smiling, possibly his mother. On the way, he is invited ...
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1980 (2003)
- Director
- KERA (Keralino SANDOROVICH)
- Cast
- TOMOSAKA Rie, INUYAMA Inuko, AOI Yu
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1BR～LOVEHOTEL～ (2013)
- Director
- ONISHI Hiroshi
- Cast
- YAMAGISHI Yuka, MORIYA Fumio
A comeback film and the first in two years from Kokuei, a long-running production company specializing in erotic "pink" cinema. It uses trivial conversations in a love hotel to shine a light on the subtle differences in the emotional makeup of men an...
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2STEPS! (2008)
- Director
- UESHIMA Yukio
- Cast
- NAKAGAUCHI Masataka, FURUKAWA Yuta, SHINDO Gaku
The first film effort of Ueshima Yukio, stage director of the hugely popular "The Prince of Tennis" musical, about two dancing youths. Two young men from different backgrounds, each pursuing his own style, grow up and come of age through dance. Hayat...
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2.11 (2012)
- Director
- OMORI Tatsushi
- Cast
- ANRAKU Masashi, ICHIHASHI Yuko, ITO Nozomi
One of five films to emerge from the first year of the Cinema Impact hands-on filmmaking course produced by director Yamamoto Masashi and featuring the participation of 13 up-and-coming directors. All of the films had to shoot in two different locati...
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20th Century Boys - Chapter 3- (2009)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- KARASAWA Toshiaki, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, TOKIWA Takako
Having produced hits in a variety of genres and styles, from deadpan comedies to human dramas, director Tsutsumi Yukihiko completes the third and final chapter in the ‘20th Century Boys' trilogy, based on Urasawa Naoki's best-selling manga series. T...
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20th Century Boys -Chapter 1- (2008)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- KARASAWA Toshiaki, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, TOKIWA Takako
Film adaptation of a bestselling comic by a globally well-recognized manga artist, Urasawa Naoki. This film is the first part of a trilogy with a production cost of 6 billion yen. It also attracted media attention as the film features a cast of 300 p...
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20th Century Boys - Chapter 2- (2009)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- TOYOKAWA Etsushi, TOKIWA Takako, TAIRA Airi
The second chapter in the ‘20th Century Boys' trilogy based on Urasawa Naoki's best-selling manga series, which has been published in twelve countries. Chapter two is permeated with iconic images from 1970s Japan such as the Osaka world expo. The al...
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2045 Carnival Folklore (2016)
- Director
- KATO Naoki
- Cast
- ISHII Junya, OKA Misaki, OKUSE Shigeru
The third feature-length film by director Kato Naoki is a sci-fi, noise rock motion picture set in Japan 100 years after the dropping of an atomic bomb. Nagashima Hiroyuki (Dowser), Hamamoto Ryo, Okamoto Hideyuki, and other musicians along with noise...
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20nenmae no hanketsu (2010)
- Director
- TSUBOUCHI Takahiro
- Cast
- SANADA Etsuko, MURAKAMI Rumi, YODA Tatsuya
A self-produced film by director Tsubouchi Takahiro, who also writes, shoots, and edits his works. Set to the rhythms of flamenco music, it depicts the struggle of a public prosecutor who hides a secret regarding her child. Its cast features many sta...
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Memoirs of a Murderer (2017)
- Director
- IRIE Yu
- Cast
- FUJIWARA Tatsuya, ITO Hideaki
"8000 MILES: SR Saitama's Rapper" director Irie Yu remakes the 2012 Korean film Confession of Murder. Fujiwara Tatsuya of the "Death Note" series plays the enchanting killer Sonezaki, and Ito Hideaki of Lesson of the Evil plays Makimura, the detectiv...
