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The Forest of Wool and Steel (2018)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Kojiro
- Cast
- YAMAZAKI Kento, SUZUKI Ryohei, KAMISHIRAISHI Mone
Live-action adaptation of Miyashita Natsu's same-named novel, which won the Japan Booksellers' Award. Sensitive and gentle portrayal of a boy who grows up after falling in love with piano tuning. Under Hashimoto Kojiro's brilliant direction, the mono...
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My Girlfriend is a Serial Killer (2019)
- Director
- ASAKURA Kayoko
- Cast
- SUGINO Yosuke, FUKUHARA Haruka
Film adaptation of the splatter romantic comedy manga "Ana Satsujin." Asakura Kayoko, who has helmed splatter horror films including It's a Beautiful Day and The Idols and the Undead, depicts love at its most extreme. Kurosu (Sugino Yosuke) despairs...
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THE LABOR COP (2002)
- Director
- OKU Shutaro
- Cast
- IMANARA Takayuki, ABE Sadawo, KUDO Kankuro
This suspense comedy features the actors of two theatrical companies Otona Keikaku and HIGHLEG JESUS. Due to the effect of the prolonged great depression, finally even the police have to introduce a part-time job system for its employees. Although h...
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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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SAD HOWL (2013)
- Director
- MATSUMURA Kenzo
- Cast
- TOMITA Keisuke, ROKUSYA Nana, SATO Jiro
Feature film debut for Matsumura Kenzo, who has produced and directed numerous works. Pathos-infused depiction of a lonely young man who avoids other people as his fate is thrown into turmoil by society's absurdities. Part-time pub worker Yuji (Tomi...
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Shadow of Fire (2023)
- Director
- TSUKAMOTO Shinya
- Cast
- Shuri, MORIYAMA Mirai
This drama builds on director Tsukamoto Shinya's Fires on the Plain and Killing with a story set in the chaos of a post-war black market. Won NETPAC award at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival. A woman (Shuri) living alone in a burned-out p...
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Afterschool Anglers Club (2023)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- Toomi, Marupi, MORI Futaba
Around the Edge of the Stand director Jojo Hideo scripts and helms this adaptation of Inoue Kaeru's teen novel "Afterschool Anglers Club for High School Girls." Oikawa Mezashi (Toomi) was the target of bullying, but she transfers to a girl's high sc...
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Chronicle of the After-School Wars (2018)
- Director
- TSUCHIDA Junpei
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Miori, AKIZUKI Narumi, Ririka
Film adaptation of the hit stage play utilizing A-list idols. Exquisitely depicts the subtleties of the emotions of girls wrapped up in absurd bloodletting with razor-sharp action and violence to boot. It's after school, and Kadowaki Sena (Ichikawa ...
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HOKKOMAI; TAKAMATSU JUNJO CINEMA (means the pure-hearted and crazy boys who love cinema in TAKAMATSU) (2008)
- Director
- TAKASHIMA Hiroshi
- Cast
- YANAGIDA Ryoma, ONISHI Setsuko, SATO Jun
A film adaptation of an essay written by film critic Kirai Masaki, who is based in Kagawa Prefecture and directed by his high school classmate Takashima Hiroshi. Starring another high school classmate, Takahata Atsuko as the main character's mother, ...
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Dust and Delusions (2014)
- Director
- SUZUKI Satoshi
- Cast
- TOTSUGI Shigeyuki, Minami, ENDO Kaname
Bittersweet drama about a man who returns home after his dreams go bust and lies about his work out of self-conceit. Suzuki Satoshi serves as director, producer, screenplay writer and editor for the film, and also holds a regular job in the medical i...
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HOKUSAI (2020)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Hajime
- Cast
- YAGIRA Yuya, TANAKA Min, NAGAYAMA Eita
Life in the Edo Period was oppressive under the shogunate. The artist Katsushika Hokusai practiced his craft during this time and is the focus of this biographical drama directed by Hashimoto Hajime of the Detective in the Bar series. The film depic...
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xxxHOLiC (2022)
- Director
- NINAGAWA Mika
- Cast
- KAMIKI Ryunosuke, SHIBASAKI Ko, MATSUMURA Hokuto
The first live-action fantasy based on the comic of the same title by the creative group CLAMP. Director Ninagawa Mika (Diner) has recreated the artistic world of the original work. Watanuki Kimihiro (Kamiki Ryunosuke), a high school student who can...
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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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HOME COMING (2010)
- Director
- IIJIMA Toshihiro
- Cast
- TAKADA Junji, TAKAHASHI Keiko, REINA
Comedy depicting the challenges facing the elderly generation in new towns, once enviable neighborhoods that are now ridiculed as Senior Citizen Towns. Director Ijima Toshihiro is a veteran TV director behind numerous dramas that have garnered high r...
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HOME (2011)
- Director
- IZUMI Seiji
- Cast
- MIZUTANI Yutaka, YASUDA Narumi, HAMADA Tatsuomi
Mizutani Yutaka and Izumi Seiji, the actor-director team behind Partners, created this film adaptation of Ogiwara Hiroshi's Naoki Prize-nominated novel. Warmly depicts a household grappling with various issues as they restore their family bonds. The ...
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The Homeless Student (2008)
- Director
- FURUMAYA Tomoyuki
- Cast
- KOIKE Teppei, NISHINO Akihiro, IKEWAKI Chizuru
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HOMESICK (2012)
- Director
- HIROHARA Satoru
- Cast
- KAKU Tomohiro, KANEDA Yuki, FUNASAKI Tsubasa
Director Hirohara Satoru caught the world's attention with Good Morning to the World!!, his Musashino Art University graduation film. Hirohara produced this feature-length theatrical debut with a scholarship from the Pia Film Festival. Poignant and f...
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HOMUNCULUS (2021)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Takashi
- Cast
- AYANO Go, NARITA Ryo, KISHII Yukino
Cult-status manga artist Yamamoto Hideo's same-named manga hits the silver screen a decade after its serialized began. International director Shimizu Takashi handles this psychological mystery with daring yet sensitive portrayals of mental states. S...
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Crooked Book (2015)
- Director
- KUSAKARI Isao
- Cast
- KANAYAMA Kazuhiko, KODAMA Norikatsu, ONO Shiori
One completed film of the 2014 ndjc: Young Filmmaker Development Project, an Agency of Cultural Affairs venture aimed at discovering and cultivating young filmmakers. The director is Kusakari Isao, whose Touzoku Boogie won the Special Jury Prize at t...
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honey (2017)
- Director
- SHINTOKU Koji
- Cast
- HIRANO Sho, TAIRA Yuna
Live-action film adaptation of Meguro Amu's romance comic "honey." Directed by Shintoku Koji, who has served as assistant director for films including Moteki and Bakuman. Timid and shy high school student Nao (Taira Yuna) is suddenly confronted with...
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HONEY LEMONSODA (2021)
- Director
- SHINTOKU Koji
- Cast
- Raul, YOSHIKAWA Ai
Raul from the idol group Snow Man stars in the coming-of-age film adapting the girls' manga 'Honey Lemon Soda'. In the director's chair is Shintoku Koji who made his feature debut with Peach Girl. Bullied in middle school, Uka (Yoshikawa Ai) enters ...
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HoneyMoon (2009)
- Director
- ITO Hiromitsu
- Cast
- YAMAKI Mika, ISHIZAKI Chavetaro, masa
One film out of a short film project comprised of 11 filmmakers interpretations of a cell-phone game series. Based upon the "Akuma no kaseifu" (*Devil Housemaid) series, this is a drama portraying a fugitive murderess and her boyfriend. Wakako (Yamam...
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The Real Thing (2020)
- Director
- FUKADA Koji
- Cast
- MORISAKI Win, TSUCHIMURA Kaho, UNO Shohei
Story about a couple's messy fall from grace. Helmed by Fukada Koji, who won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 69th Cannes Film Festival for Harmonium. Tsuji Kazumichi (Morisaki Win) is a bored office worker in questionable rela...
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Lost Sex (1966)
- Director
- SHINDO Kaneto
- Cast
- KANZE Hideo, OTOWA Nobuko, TONO Eijiro
A new picture by the director of Naked Island and Onibaba, is the story of a man (played by Noh actor, Hideo Kanze) who is impotent due to being exposed to the atom-bomb explosion at Nagasaki. He lives alone with his house-keeper (Nobuko Otowa, star ...
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HONNOUJI HOTEL (2017)
- Director
- SUZUKI Masayuki
- Cast
- AYASE Haruka, TSUTSUMI Shinichi, HAMADA Gaku
The "Honnoji Incident", the most puzzling affair in Japan's history, is the subject of this mystery. It portrays a woman who, under strange circumstances, travels back to the Warring States Period just prior to the incident and her encounter with mil...
