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Denen Boys (2020)
- Director
- NISHIUMI Kenichiro
- Cast
- ARISAWA Shotaro, IMARI Yu, TANAKA Naoki
The TV series depicting the struggles of four self-proclaimed hunks as they try to open a host club in the countryside moves to the big screen. The TV series drew attention for its original story developed by the energetic writers. Ikeura Sadayume, w...
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Light of Hope (2021)
- Director
- UENISHI Yudai
- Cast
- SHIMIZU Yume, TOKUTAKE Mika, HANAMURA Asuka
Drama about benevolent people trying to protect and assist those living with disabilities. Director Uenishi Yudai won the Best Film Award at the 6th Milan International Film Festival for Kanemasa, which he also starred in. Twenty-two year old Kurusu...
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Under the Open Sky (2021)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Miwa
- Cast
- YAKUSHO Koji, NAKANO Taiga, HASHIZUME Isao
Naoki Prize-winning author Saki Ryuzo's 'Mibuncho' serves as the basis for this character-driven drama. The Long Excuse director Nishikawa Miwa transplants the book's original setting 35 years later to the present-day. Former yakuza Mikami (Yakusho ...
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TRUE MOTHERS (2020)
- Director
- KAWASE Naomi
- Cast
- NAGASAKU Hiromi, IURA Arata, MAKITA Aju
After a long suffering experience in fertility treatment, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu choose to participate in adoption system. 6 years after adopting a boy who they named Asato, they were living in peace as a family. But one day, Satoko receives...
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BE YOUR KING (2019)
- Director
- OKUI Shuji
- Cast
- OKAYAMA Amane, GOTO Yoko, OKADA Yoshinori
Yusuke's dream is to become a photographer but he was standing on the edge of a cliff. The reality is too harsh to fulfill his dream and he was working at his uncle's ramen shop. One day, Yusuke meets Yukari at the ramen shop and gradually get att...
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WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR (2019)
- Director
- SASAKI Katsumi
- Cast
- KANEDA Ibuki, MASADA Kimika, OZEKI Toshikazu
I hate it…I hate it…I hate it… The worthless stupid comedians, the useless psychology counselor, the fuckin' teacher who fucked me… I hate it…the dumb college student who plays around with their parents money, the meaningless nobody who can't eve...
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KINEMA NO KAMISAMA (tentative title) (2021)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- SAWADA Kenji, SUDA Masaki, NAGANO Mei
Drama commemorating the centennial of Shochiku Films. Directed by maestro Yamada Yoji of the "Tora-san" series and The Little House, which won the Golden Bear at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Go (Sawada Kenji) has been spurned his wif...
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FOOD LUCK (2020)
- Director
- TERAKADO Jimon
- Cast
- EXILE NAOTO, TSUCHIYA Tao
Directorial debut from Terakado Jimon, who belongs to the comedy trio Dachou Club and has earned a reputation as the top TV celebrity foodie with experience eating cuisine throughout Japan. Incorporates Terakado's own experiences to show a guy with "...
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THE NIGHT BEYOND THE TRICORNERED WINDOW (2020)
- Director
- MORIGAKI Yukihiro
- Cast
- OKADA Masaki, SHISON Jun, HIRATE Yurina
Mystery featuring psychic detectives. Directed by Morigaki Yukihiro, whose film Goodbye, Grandpa! was selected for the Japanese Cinema Splash program in the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival. Bookstore employee Mikado Kosuke (Shison Jun) has be...
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Tokyo Wine Party People (2019)
- Director
- WADA Hideki
- Cast
- MATSUMURA Sayuri, ONO Ito, ONOZUKA Hayato
Shino Sakuragi, an office worker in Tokyo, gets invited to a wine party by her boss. It's a bourgeois party, and at first she feels uncomfortable, but soon she hits it off with a male participant, Kazushi Oda. She falls for him because even though ...
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Red Post on Escher Street (2020)
- Director
- SONO Sion
- Cast
- FUJIMARU Sen, KOHIRA Matsuri, MORGAN Maara
Sono Sion, who has been lauded in Japan and abroad for films such as Love Exposure and Himizu writes, directs, and edits this ensemble drama. It depicts the varied intertwining relationships between people on a film production set. Well-known and un...
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Angel Sign (2019)
- Director
- HOJO Tsukasa, Nonzee NIMIBUTR, Kamila ANDINI
- Cast
- MATSUSHITA Nao, Dean FUJIOKA, OGATA Naoto
The live-action movie "Angel Sign", the directorial debut of City Hunter and Cat's Eye creator Tsukasa Hojo, is a cinematic adaptation of SILENT MANGA AUDITION®'s award winning entries from Asia, Europe and South America. Selected from among 6888 man...
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Labyrinth of Cinema (2020)
- Director
- OBAYASHI Nobuhiko
- Cast
- ATSUGI Takuro, HOSOYAMADA Takahito, HOSODA Yoshihiko
The posthumously released final film directed by Obayashi Nobuhiko, known for I Are you, You Am Me who passed away in 2020. Set in Obayashi's hometown of Onomichi, the film uses multiple genres, from silent movies and talkies, to action and musicals ...
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HOTEL ROYAL (2020)
- Director
- TAKE Masaharu
- Cast
- Haru, MATSUYAMA Kenichi, YASUDA Ken
This drama adapts a series of novels set within a love hotel into a single story interconnecting the present and the past. At the helm is Take Masaharu who has directed 100 Yen Love and the We Make Antiques series. Masayo (Haru) failed her art schoo...
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Haruka's Pottery (2019)
- Director
- SUETSUGU Naruhito
- Cast
- Nao, HIRAYAMA Hiroyuki, MURAKAMI Jun
The highly anticipated live-action adaption of the identically titled comic about the pottery arts. Incorporating footage of the fiery kiln, the film depicts the finer qualities of Bizen ware and the dreams as well as passions of the people living in...
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Dance, Mita (2020)
- Director
- IIZUKA Toshimitsu
- Cast
- OKAYAMA Amane, KATO Konatsu, TAKEDA Rena
Town revitalization and dance videos are the themes depicted in this drama. At the helm is Iizuka Toshimitsu of "Dictator, Koga" and "Poetry Angel". Mita (Okayama Amane), who once dreamt of becoming a filmmaker in Tokyo, works in the city production...
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DON'T FORGET THE KIDS (2019)
- Director
- SUMITA Yasushi
- Cast
- KAMATAKI Eri, SUGITA Rairu, TSUBAKI Sango
Drama that portrays the emotionally devastating "screams of children." Direction and script from Sumita Yasushi, who made his directorial debut with Waruboro and helms for the first time in 12 years. Yukina (Kamataki Eri), who works as a call girl i...
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BAD POETRY TOKYO (2018)
- Director
- Anshul CHAUHAN
- Cast
- IIJIMA Shuna, MOCHIZUKI Orson, KAWAGUCHI Takashi
Drama that uses hallucinatory visuals to depict the hope and despair of a woman whose spirit is broken. Anshul Chauhan from India makes his feature film directorial debut. Thirty-year-old Jun (Iijima Shuna), an aspiring actress working at a nightclu...
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The Other Home (2018)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Tatsuro
- Cast
- MOCHIZUKI Ayumu, OTANI Mai, KIZU Toru
Studying film production as a graduate student at the Tokyo University of the Arts under Kurosawa Kiyoshi and Suwa Nobuhiko, director Nishikawa Tatsuro makes his feature-length debut with this film. It depicts people at the mercy of "inevitable" thin...
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Sacrifice (2019)
- Director
- TSUBOI Taku
- Cast
- AOKI Yuzu, HANDA Miki, GOMI Michiko
Drama depicting a "tale of death" for young adults nine years after the Great Tohoku Earthquake. Feature film debut by Tsuboi Takuo, who has worked on films by Shinozaki Makoto and Kurosawa Kiyoshi. Midori (Gomi Michiko), who previously predicted th...
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The Grapes of Joy (2020)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Akio
- Cast
- FUKUMOTO Riko, NAKAGAUCHI Masataka, YOSHIDA Cho
Haruna's dream is making confectionaries who bring happiness to people who eat them. After graduating high school, she started to work at Minamoto Kitchoan, a company that makes Japanese style confectionaries. She is sent out to assist at one of the ...
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KANEMASA (2020)
- Director
- UENISHI Yudai
- Cast
- UENISHI Yudai, KOMINAMI Kirari, FURUKAWA Ai
Uenishi Yudai, the head of the theatre troupe "10ANTS" writes, directs, edits and stars in this drama about child abuse. It depicts a criminal who was the victim of abuse and his interaction with a mother and her daughter whom he meets by chance. Ka...
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Beautiful Escape (2020)
- Director
- MORITA Kazuki
- Cast
- KASAMATSU Show, INORI Kirara, KUROSAWA Asuka
Commercial film directorial debut for Morita Kazuki, whose Scrap Youth won the Grand Prix and Cinegar Award at the 2019 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. Morita infuses his own life experiences into this ensemble drama, which unfolds with...
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Mother (2020)
- Director
- OMORI Tatsushi
- Cast
- NAGASAWA Masami, OKUDAIRA Daiken, ABE Sadawo
A crime drama inspired by an actual case of a juvenile murdering his grandparents. Kawamura Mitsunobu, producer of The Journalist and Omori Tatsushi, director of Every Day a Good Day, team up to dig deep into the dark secrets of the young perpetrator...
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MYSTIC SHRINE MAIDEN (2019)
- Director
- SONE Takeshi
- Cast
- YOSHIMOTO Miyu, SHIRAISHI Yua, HARANISHI Takayuki
Toko works as a shrine maiden. Her days are full of joy as she would be called out by the village people to play or sometimes simply savor time with nothing spectacular to do. One day, Toko finds out that the village festival which she has been waiti...
