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To the Ends of the Earth (2019)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Kiyoshi
- Cast
- MAEDA Atsuko, KASE Ryo, SOMETANI Shota
Along the silk road, my heart went astray... Yoko (Atsuko Maeda) hosts a popular global travel show yet is cautious and insular like many young Japanese. But she has a bigger dream. On assignment in Uzbekistan, Yoko and her small TV crew attempt to ...
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Sleep in the Shadows (2019)
- Director
- IZUMI Seiji
- Cast
- KATO Masaya, NAKAMURA Yuri, YO Kimiko
The man has accepted everything. Fuyuki is an established artist who runs several bars in Yokohama. One day, injured Shinji runs into his bar. He always idolizes Fuyuki as his elder brother. Shinji is a member of the charity group which looks after ...
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ERICA 38 (2018)
- Director
- HIBI Yuichi
- Cast
- ASADA Miyoko, KIKI Kilin
Kiki Kilin's last film inspired by a true story.. Satoko is over 60-year-old, and makes her living as a cheap con artist. One day a mysterious lady approaches her saying that she is someone special and introduces her a man who gives her a job. She s...
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Minori, on the Brink (2019)
- Director
- NINOMIYA Ryutaro
- Cast
- HAGIWARA Minori
Life is a bunch of crap, including myself. Minori is a pretty girl. Boys always talk about her and try to get her, and girls admire her or try to use her. She is fed up with people who care only about her appearance and themselves. She is always str...
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Show Me the Way to the Station (2019)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Naoki
- Cast
- NIITSU Chise
My loving dog, Lou, I miss you so much... Sayaka, an 8-year-old girl, still cannot accept that Lou, her loving dog has passed away. One day, Sayaka goes to the secret place where they used to play together to look for Lou, believing that he is still...
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Handling Method for Grumpy Woman (working title) (2019)
- Director
- ARITA Shunsuke
- Cast
- HAYAMI Akari, HIRAOKA Yuta
Why are you so grumpy..? Ai is a university student studying Artificial Intelligence. She is working on her paper which theme is how to make up the grumpy mood for a woman with understanding the differences of the brains between men and women. For t...
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A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic (2019)
- Director
- KATAGIRI Kenji
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Honoka, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko
I found a monster... it might be me. Dad in my memory is always drunk-. Since Saki was a little girl, her father Toshifumi drinks alcohol almost everyday. He often invited his friends at home and played Mahjong, smoked and drank alcohol all the nigh...
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Little Miss Period (2019)
- Director
- SHINADA Shunsuke
- Cast
- NIKAIDO Fumi, ITOH Sairi
Fumi Nikaido fights for all women! "Why it sucks? Because I can't blame everything on my period." If you're a woman, you have to deal with your "monthly visitor" - your period - whether you like it or not. It comes in with a bang, dealing heavy blow...
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My Sweet Grappa Remedies (2019)
- Director
- OOKU Akiko
- Cast
- MATSUYUKI Yasuko, KUROKI Haru, SHIMIZU Hiroya
Dear diary, somehow, I like my life. Yoshiko is in her 40s, single and has no kid. She works in a publishing company and she enjoys small pleasures like having lunch with her junior colleague or drinking grappa alone at home. Her life is quiet but r...
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AIRCRAFT CARRIER IBUKI (2019)
- Director
- WAKAMATSU Setsuro
- Cast
- NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, SASAKI Kuranosuke, SATO Koichi
Based on a best comic book by Kaiji Kawaguchi, an epic action movie has finally become a live action starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and Kuranosuke Sasaki. In the year 20XX, sudden fire by unidentified 20 fishing boats in the southern sea has been repor...
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SEA OF REVIVAL (2019)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Kazuya
- Cast
- KATORI Shingo, TSUNEMATSU Yuri, NISHIDA Naomi
Ikuo, a 40 years-old guy who is in reduced circumstances with gambling addiction, decides to move to his partner, Ayumi's hometown with her and her 16 years old daughter from the former marriage. In Sanriku, an area in Tohoku where it is still recove...
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Turquoise Skies (2019)
- Director
- KENTARO
- Cast
- YAGIRA Yuya, Arma BALJINNYAM, Tsetsgee BYAMBAA
Takeshi, a rich and spoiled young Japanese man with no direction in life, is sent by his grandfather, a business mogul, on a quest to the steppes of Outer Mongolia in search of his long-lost daughter. Guided by Amaraa, a Mongolian horse thief, the m...
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Words Bubble Up Like Cider (W/T) (2020)
- Director
- ISHIGURO Kyohei
- Cast
"The evening lights / illuminate both your eyes / even though its dark." "That haiku is kind of cute." Cherry is a quiet boy who loves to make haikus based off of the things he sees. One summer day in a city in the Japanese countryside...At a shopp...
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SHIROBAKO(W/T) (2020)
- Director
- MIZUSHIMA Tsutomu
- Cast
SHIROBAKO are video tapes that come in white boxes, that are given to producers in the video industry when they first finish a project. Compared to a commercial package, with its beautifully decorated illustrations and photographs, plain white boxes ...
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Brothers in Brothel (2019)
- Director
- SATO Jiro
- Cast
An extreme love story by people who are tied to an isolated island. Based on legendary play by "Chikarawaza" the prodigy actor Jiro Sato creates a world of people who are disturbed deep down inside. In Japan. Sometime, somewhere at an island. Lived...
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Grandma is All Good (2019)
- Director
- Jacky WOO
- Cast
- TERADA Kokoro, FUJI Manami
Based on bestselling picture book about Tsubasa, an elementary school kid and his beloved grandmother who develops dementia. One day grandma leaves home wearing no shoes, and disappears. Tsubasa eventually finds out grandma's secret... Award: Won Be...
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The Portrait of Brothers (2019)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- YANAGISAWA Shinichi, TAKAHASHI Choei, TSUCHIYA Takako
76-year-old Tetsuo runs a local factory in Ueda city, Nagano. Kin-Nosuke, his estranged 80-year-old brother, comes back to his house on the day of their 100-year-old father's funeral. He returns home with a mysterious woman. Where has he been for 40...
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The Sketch of Life (2019)
- Director
- SEGI Naoki
- Cast
- SATO Kanta, FUJIMOTO Izumi, TAKEDA Tetsuya
Ryota (25) (Kanta Sato) came back to his hometown, Ohmuta-city, Fukuoka from Tokyo as he gave up his dream to be a comic artist. His friend offers him a part time job at the Zoo. It is a very unique zoo. They try to take good care of elderly anima...
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The Phone of The Wind (2019)
- Director
- SUWA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- MOTOLA Serina, NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, MIURA Tomokazu
8 years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. A 16 year-old high school girl, Haru (Serena Motola) has been wondering why she is still alive. Because she lost her parents and younger brother in the Tsunami caused by the Earthquake when...
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Shadowfall (2019)
- Director
- SHINOHARA Tetsuo
- Cast
- YAMAZAKI Masayoshi, ONO Machiko, KITAMURA Takumi
As a thief, Shuichi Makabe sneaks into houses in the dead of night to steal money. But Shuichi is no mere burglar—he's a professional, a cut above the rest. Originally an academic star on the road to becoming a prosecutor, he turned to a life of crim...
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One Night (2019)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Kazuya
- Cast
- SATOH Takeru, SUZUKI Ryohei, MATSUOKA Mayu
One night, a tragedy befalls a family, derailing the fates of a mother and her three children. Despite being unable to escape their shared traumatic past, they each follow divergent paths in life, and are eventually reunited 15 years later. Burdened ...
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Brave Father Online – our story of FINAL FANTASY XIV (2019)
- Director
- NOGUCHI Teruo, YAMAMOTO Kiyoshi
- Cast
- SAKAGUCHI Kentaro, YOSHIDA Kotaro
Akio wishes he had a better relationship with his reserved father Akira. One day Akira suddenly quits his job and retires without giving out any explanation to the family. Thinking it could be a good tool to be close to his father, Akio gives him s...
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YOU ARE BRILLIANT LIKE A SPICA (2019)
- Director
- OTANI Kentaro
- Cast
- FUKUHARA Haruka, SATO Taiki, SUZUKI Jin
A high school girl, Sei Saotome, unexpectedly is transferred to an elite high school in Nagano prefecture due to her parents' house-moving. One day, she meets Mizuki and Taiyo, and is invited to join astronomy club with them. The personalities of two...
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Siblings of the Cape (2018)
- Director
- KATAYAMA Shinzo
- Cast
- MATSUURA Yuya, WADA Misa, KITAYAMA Masayasu
The debut film by Katayama Shinzo, who has served as assistant director on the films of Bong Joon-ho and Yamashita Nobuhiro, which he wrote, directed and produced. It depicts a brother and sister with disabilities dirtying their hands with prostituti...
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NO LONGER HUMAN (2019)
- Director
- NINAGAWA Mika
- Cast
- OGURI Shun, MIYAZAWA Rie, SAWAJIRI Erika
Osamu Dazai is a genius best-selling author. He has a pregnant wife Michiko and two children, but his life is a total mess. He has affairs with women and attempts suicides repeatedly. His pupil Shizuko and a widow Tomie step into his life, and he com...
