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MANKAI MOVIE "A3!" -AUTUMN & WINTER- (2021)
- Director
- KURATA Kenji
- Cast
"Director! Please make our talent blossom!" Veludo, a suburb of Tokyo, is a mecca for actors and home to many theatre companies along its famous Veludo Way. The film audience's point of view will overlap with that of the female POV character, a form...
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Drive My Car (2021)
- Director
- HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke
- Cast
- NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, MIURA Toko, KIRISHIMA Reika
Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a stage actor and director is happily married to Oto (Reika Kirishima), a screenwriter. However, Oto suddenly dies after leaving behind a secret. Two years later, Kafuku, still unable to fully cope with the loss o...
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AOI-CHAN WON'T LET ME DO IT (2021)
- Director
- IMAOKA Shinji
- Cast
- KOMAKI Maco, MATSUZAKI Shohei, MORIOKA Ryu
The ghost of Kawashita-san, a senior at the university's film club who committed suicide one year ago, suddenly appears in front of Shingo, an aspiring filmmaker. As per Kawashita-san, he came back because he wanted to have sex with Aoi-chan, a junio...
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ARARAT (2021)
- Director
- KOSHIKAWA Michio
- Cast
- YUKIHIRA Aika, OGITA Tadatoshi, SHUNPUTEI Kiichi
Saki is a wife of an artist, Sugi-chan. Sugi-chan collapsed few years ago and the left half of his body is paralyzed, and he stopped drawing since then. Saki, who works and supports their life at a family restaurant at midnight shift, wanted him to d...
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Moonlight Shadow (2021)
- Director
- Edmund YEO
- Cast
- KOMATSU Nana
"I sincerely hope that only the image of that young me will always be with you." Satsuki lost her boyfriend, Hitoshi, in a car accident. Unable to face up to his death, she spends her days unable to sleep properly. At some point, Satsuki began to jo...
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The Rally with her (Temporary title) (2021)
- Director
- TSUKAMOTO Rempei
- Cast
- MORISAKI Win, FUKAGAWA Mai
Taiga Kitamura (Win Morisaki), who was separated from his mother at an early age, believes that his father's selfishness in devoting himself to the rally hastened her death, and leaves for Tokyo upon entering university. While aiming to become an act...
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Skeleton Flowers (2020)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- SHIDA Sara, SUZUKA Oji, IURA Arata
High school student, Yo (Sara Shida), lived with her father, Nao (Arata Iura), after her mother, Sachiyo (Hikari Ishida), left the family when she was very young. However, their life together came to an end and they started a new life as a family of...
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Bittersand ~my high school memory~ (2021)
- Director
- SUGIOKA Tomoya
- Cast
- INOUE Yuki, HAGIWARA Riku, KINOSHITA Ayane
One day, Akito (Yuki Inoue) happens to meet Eriko (Ayane Kinoshita), whom he secretly had feelings for in high school. The reunion brings back memories of the two of them, memories that they want to "change" and "erase". In order to clear up the unpl...
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MANKAI MOVIE "A3!" -SPRING & SUMMER- (2021)
- Director
- KURATA Kenji
- Cast
"Director! Please make our talent blossom!" Veludo, a suburb of Tokyo, is a mecca for actors and home to many theatre companies along its famous Veludo Way. The film audience's point of view will overlap with that of the female POV character, a form...
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When the Curry is Ready (Working Title) (2021)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Yasuhiko
- Cast
- Lily Franky
Onions, carrots, potatoes, pork shoulder...A tired man stands in his kitchen, surrounded by familiar ingredients. Kenichi is preparing his special curry for his wife's birthday in three days. For a reason, he's alone this year, while a smiling pictur...
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Cornflakes (2020)
- Director
- ISOBE Teppei
- Cast
- GON, TAKADA Reiko, HINO Hinami
Yuya, who can't let go of his dream of becoming a musician, has been living with Miho, an insurance salesperson, for almost six years now, and Miho wonders if living with Yuya is good for her future. One day, Miho sees text messages between Yuya and...
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All Aboard! (2020)
- Director
- HISHIKAWA Seiichi
- Cast
- MURAKAMI Yukino, FUJII Soma, SHIMAMOTO Katsuhiro
This is the movie "All aboard!". In Komatsushima, a port town in Tokushima, Shikoku, Haruka Asakura (played by Yukino Murakami) lives with her effeminate father Goro Asakura (Katsuhiro Shimamoto), her uncle Kentaro Asakura (Jun Suzuki) who is in love...
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Unlock Your Heart (2021)
- Director
- SHUTO Rin
- Cast
- YAMADA Anna, SAKUMA Ryuto, IMOU Haruka
Ai (Anna Yamada) is in her last year of high school. She's popular, cheerful, and gets good grades. She's also in love with a boy in her class named Tatoe, though he doesn't know it. He's an ordinary-looking boy who never speaks up in class. But ever...
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The Sound of Grass (2021)
- Director
- SAITO Hisashi
- Cast
- HIGASHIDE Masahiro
Kazuo Kudo returns to his hometown of Hakodate with his wife because of his autonomic ataxia. Kazuo, who is not able to work and has to attend the psychiatry regularly, continues to run in the city of Hakodate for mental treatment on sunny days and r...
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Baby Assasins (2021)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Hugo
- Cast
- TAKAISHI Akari, IZAWA Saori, MIMOTO Masanori
Chisato and Mahiro, a pair of high school girls who are assassins, have to become "members of society" to disguise their true identities from tomorrow. They are tangled up in society's official business, human relationships, and unreasonable days. On...
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Spaghetti Code Love (2021)
- Director
- MARUYAMA Takeshi
- Cast
- KURA Yuki, MIURA Toko, SHIMIZU Hiroya
A delivery boy who cannot forget the one he loves. A singer-songwriter who has given up on her dreams. A digital nomad who lives out of a suitcase. A call girl who continues to be betrayed by those she adores. A creative director who destroys the wor...
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The Lone Ume Tree (2021)
- Director
- WAJIMA Kotaro
- Cast
- KAGA Mariko, TSUKAJI Muga, WATANABE Ikkei
An old house stands amongst newly built buildings, as if it has been left behind. Tamako, a popular fortune teller, has been living there alone with her son, Tadao for years. Because he has intellectual disability and autism, their neighbors often co...
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Hazard Lights (working title) (2021)
- Director
- SAKAKI Hideo
- Cast
- YASUDA Ken, YAMADA Yuki
Sugai works as a driver at a chauffeur service company at night. On the night of a full moon weekend, he is told to pair up with a newcomer Kariya. Kariya is a mysterious young guy who gives a silly quiz to Sugai while they work. Sometime later, a d...
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Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (2021)
- Director
- WATANABE Ayumu
- Cast
- OTAKE Shinobu, Cocomi, HANAE Natsuki
"Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko" is the heartwarming and moving comedy drama of an unconventional family – a not-so-ordinary mother-and-daughter pair who live their lives to the fullest. Easy-going, cheerful, passionate and always ready to eat somethin...
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Aristocrats (2021)
- Director
- SODE Yukiko
- Cast
- KADOWAKI Mugi, MIZUHARA Kiko, KORA Kengo
Good Stripes director Sode Yukiko helms this film adaptation of a novel by Yamauchi Mariko, who has seen numerous works on the big screen. Shows the lives of two women living in very different worlds in the same city. Hanako (Kadowaki Mugi) had a sh...
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Day of Destruction (2020)
- Director
- TOYODA Toshiaki
- Cast
- SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko, MahiToThePeople, Issey OGATA
In January of 2020, director Toyoda Toshiaki developed this ambitious film about the state of society with the Tokyo Olympics approaching. He used crowdfunding to produce the film as the spreading COVID-19 infections raised questions about the very m...
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Love Letter (1953)
- Director
- TANAKA Kinuyo
- Cast
- MORI Masayuki, KUGA Yoshiko, KAGAWA Kyoko
Directorial debut for celebrated actress Tanaka Kinuyo. All-star cast depicts the sorrowful romance of a couple at the mercy of fate. Script by Kinoshita Keisuke. Reikichi has been searching for his beloved Michiko for five years since the end of th...
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Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, HORI Yuji, KAGAWA Kyoko
Lyrical film from Naruse Mikio that poignantly portrays women working as hostesses in Ginza still recovering from the war. Tanaka Kiniyo performs brilliantly as both "woman" and "mother." Yukiko works as a hostess in Ginza while raising the son she ...
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Forever By Your Side (2020)
- Director
- UEDA Tokitaka
- Cast
- SEON Min-Gyeong, ONO Hiroshi, NONAKA Tomoko
Kansai-based film production studio Theater Café Nyan assembles a cast and crew of Japanese and Koreans for this co-production. Set both in Japan and Korea, the film depicts a trio of themes: two forms of love, friendship, and a way of living. Mamor...
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HERO 2020 (2020)
- Director
- SAIJO Mitsutoshi
- Cast
- HIROSE Tomoki, KITAHARA Rie, KOMATSU Junya
Saijo Mitsutoshi, a playwright and theatre director who wrote the screenplay for the film blank13, adapts to film the debut play of the theatre company he supervises, Taiyo Magic Film. It depicts the mayhem revolving around a "two year limit on love"...
