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The Women (2021)
- Director
- UCHIDA Nobuteru
- Cast
- SHINOHARA Yukiko, KURASHINA Kana, TAKAHATA Atsuko
Misaki lives in a rural town situated among lush, green mountains beneath a clear blue sky. Despite graduating from a university in Tokyo, she was unable to find the job she hoped for due to the lack of employment opportunities that befell her genera...
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The Aobas' Dining Table (working title) (2021)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Soushi
- Cast
- NISHIDA Naomi, ICHIKAWA Miwako, OSHINARI Shugo
Haruko's "family" is a bit different from others. She is a single mother and lives with her son Riku, her friend Meiko and Meiko's boyfriend Sorao. One day, she gets a text from her old friend, Tomoko, asking Haruko to let stay her daughter Yuko duri...
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Osaka Loan Shark (2021)
- Director
- ISHIHARA Takahiro
- Cast
- MASAKI Reiya, SAKAKIBARA Tetsuji, ASAI Daichi
Haruo Sugimura, who was sentenced to two years in prison for causing an injury due to his short temper, is scouted by Sakai, a loan shark he met by chance, and starts working with him for a company called Minami Hachi Ban Kogyo. It is an old-fashione...
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A Janitor (2020)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Yugo
- Cast
- FUKUSHI Seiji, IMOU Haruka, MAENO Tomoya
Akira Fukami was raised by Majima Yoshiki, the president of the Majima Group, who controls the Japanese underworld, since his father Mitsuo was killed by someone in his childhood. He is now working as a janitor at high school as a secret bodyguard f...
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Riverside Mukolitta (TBD) (2021)
- Director
- OGIGAMI Naoko
- Cast
- MATSUYAMA Kenichi, MURO Tsuyoshi
Takeshi (Kenichi Matsuyama) arrives in a small village in the Hokuriku region. There, he begins to work at a small factory which makes shiokara (salted fish paste). Through the introduction of the CEO of the factory, he begins to live in at an old an...
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Tomorrow's Dinner Table (TBD) (2021)
- Director
- ZEZE Takahisa
- Cast
- KANNO Miho, TAKAHATA Mitsuki, ONO Machiko
A mother is beating up her son like he is a piece of object. You cannot tell who this mother and son are yet. The son becomes limp. The mother looks satisfied as if she has finished the work. Three different mothers are raising their three sons, who ...
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The Family Separation from the underworld (TBD) (2021)
- Director
- FUJII Michihito
- Cast
- AYANO Go, TACHI Hiroshi, ONO Machiko
A story of yakuza family from 1999 to 2019. Kenji Yamamoto's (Gou Ayano) father died from using a stimulant drug. His life fell into desperation. Kenji Yamamoto then joined a crime syndicate. There, he meets the gang's boss Hiroshi Shibasaki (Hiroshi...
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IN THE WAKE (2021)
- Director
- ZEZE Takahisa
- Cast
- SATOH Takeru, ABE Hiroshi
Actor Takeru Satoh and director Takahisa Zeze of The 8-Year Engagement are back, this time joined by Hiroshi Abe for a film adaptation of best-selling author Shichiri Nakayama's mystery novel. Nine years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, grisly...
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Honey Lemon Soda (2021)
- Director
- SHINTOKU Koji
- Cast
- Raul, YOSHIKAWA Ai
His hair is yellow like lemon, his personality, fizzy like soda. Meeting him has changed my world. The "real me" is taking flight… In middle school, the shy and reserved Uka Ishimori was bullied and nicknamed "Stone." Determined to reinvent herself,...
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Lost Baby Lost (2020)
- Director
- TSUGE Yuto
- Cast
- MATSUO Shohei, MURAKAMI Yukino
This feature-length film was directed by Tsuge Yuto, a graduate of the film department at the Kyoto University of the Arts (formerly known as Kyoto University of Art and Design) who passed away after filming was completed. Cinematographer Yonekura Sh...
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Woman of the Photographs (2020)
- Director
- KUSHIDA Takeshi
- Cast
- NAGAI Hideki, OTAKI Itsuki
Kushida Takeshi's feature film debut premiered at the 15th Osaka Asian Film Festival and has since been selected by over 70 international film festivals. Kai (Nagai Hideki) runs a photo studio that he inherited from his father and meets Kyoko (Otaki...
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Leaving Home (2019)
- Director
- HAYAKAWA Daisuke
- Cast
- NAGAOKA Tasuku, KOZONO Yu, YANAGI Elisa
This drama about a family is set in a small community along the natural splendor of the Uwa Sea dotted by islands large and small. In the director's chair is Hayakawa Daisuke who is making his feature directing debut with this film. Ten years ago Ke...
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KAKEGURUI Part 2 (2021)
- Director
- HANABUSA Tsutomu
- Cast
- HAMABE Minami, TAKASUGI Mahiro, FUJII Ryusei
In Hyakkaoh Private Academy which is an elite school for the rich, the student council dominates all students over rigorous hierarchy determined by gambling results. A transfer student Yumeko Jabami, seemingly elegant yet a "compulsive gambler" who f...
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A Hen in the Wind (1948)
- Director
- OZU Yasujiro
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, SANO Shuji, RYU Chishu
Tokiko (Tanaka Kinuyo) lives in a rental with her young son Hiroshi and awaits her husband Shuichi's (Sano Shuji) return from the warfront. She brings kimono one by one to her trusted friend Akiko (Miyake Kuniko), who sells them to her neighbor Orie ...
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Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Hiroshi
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, RYU Chishu, KAWASAKI Hiroko
One summer Emi and Okiku venture from Tokyo to pay their respects at Mt. Minobu, and they stay overnight at the Shimobe hot spring. Scholar Katada and battle-wounded soldier Nanmura are sojourning at the same inn. One morning, Nanmura injures his fo...
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Theatre: A Love Story (2020)
- Director
- YUKISADA Isao
- Cast
- YAMAZAKI Kento, MATSUOKA Mayu
Helmed by romance maestro Yukisado Isao, whose films include Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World. Depicts a guy struggling to make it as a stage director and the love of the woman who supports him. Based on the same-named novel by Akutagawa P...
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Town without Sea (2020)
- Director
- IKEDA Elaiza
- Cast
- KURA Yuki, ISHIUCHI Roi, SAITO Nari
Coming-of-age drama that marks the directorial debut for actress Ikeda Elaiza. Depicts the preciousness of everyday life and the importance of relationships through the lives of young people in Tagawa City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Selected for the 21st J...
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Dangerous Drugs of Sex (2019)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- KITADAI Takashi, WATANABE Sho
The live-action adaptation of Mizuta Yuki's boy's love comic of the same name incorporates extreme sexual portrayals as it renders a story of rebirth though finding the meaning of "sex" and "life". In the director's chair is Jojo Hideo, who is known ...
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Reiko and the Dolphin (2019)
- Director
- IMAOKA Shinji
- Cast
- TAKEDA Aki, KAWAYA Hidetoshi
This drama portrays twenty-three years in the life of a husband and wife who lost their only daughter in the Great Hanshin Earthquake. Director Imaoka Shinji depicts among the streets of Kobe the restoration of the couple's relationship after the dea...
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PARADISE LOST (2019)
- Director
- FUKUMA Kenji
- Cast
- WADA Misa, AZUMA Tengo, ETO Shuhei
Drama marking the 6th feature film from poet-cum-director Fukuma Kenji. The film uses both fantasy and realism in exploring how to live after your dreams have been lost, through the life of a woman who has been widowed. In a lonely spot in the Tokyo...
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Love, Life and Goldfish (2021)
- Director
- MAKABE Yukinori
- Cast
- ONOE Matsuya, MOMOTA Kanako, KAKIZAWA Hayato
Acclaimed for his feature film debut I AM A MONK, Makabe Yukinori helms this live-action adaptation of Otani Noriko's same-named manga about "kingyo sukui," the goldfish catching game at summer festivals. The protagonist is a formerly high-flying ban...
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JUMP!! : The Heroes Behind the GOLD (2021)
- Director
- IIZUKA Ken
- Cast
- TANAKA Kei, TSUCHIYA Tao
Drama based on the true story of test jumpers at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, where Japan's ski jump team won its first-ever Gold Medal. Directed by Iizuka Ken of Step and Rainbow Days. Nishikata Jinya (Tanaka Kei) was on the national team for the prev...
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Wonderwall : the Movie (2020)
- Director
- MAEDA Yuki
- Cast
- SUDO Ren, OKAYAMA Amane, NARUMI Rico
Feature film that adds previously unreleased scenes to the much-discussed TV drama about students and university administration fighting over a dormitory's reconstruction. Script by Watanabe Aya of Josee, the Tiger and the Fish. Directed by Maeda Yuk...
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Kotera - san climbs! (2020)
- Director
- FURUMAYA Tomoyuki
- Cast
- KUDO Haruka, ITO Kentaro
The popular manga of the same name about a girl preoccupied by sport climbing is adapted to live-action by director Furumaya Tomoyuki who has tackled numerous adolescent films such as Robocon. The script is written by popular screenwriter Yoshida Rei...
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Beautiful dreamer (2020)
- Director
- MOTOHIRO Katsuyuki
- Cast
- OGAWA Sara, FUJITANI Riko, KAMIO Fuju
The first work from "Cinema Lab", an experimental film label touting the stature of the film director. Motohiro Katsuyuki who has been involved with many hit films adapts to live-action Oshii Mamoru's original concept for "Yume Miruhito". The film de...
