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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"...
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Closet (2020)
- Director
- SHINDO Takehiro
- Cast
- MINOGAWA Yosuke, KURIBAYASHI Aino, ARAI Iku
Drama about the "spiritual loneliness" lurking within contemporary society. Helmed by Shindo Takehiro, who cut his chops assistant directing films by Park Chan-wook and others. Selected for some thirty film festivals worldwide, including the Cineques...
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The Murders of Oiso (2019)
- Director
- MISAWA Takuya
- Cast
- MORIYA Koji, NAKAZAKI Haya, MORI Yusaku
Drama about uncertainty and loneliness as experienced by young people in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture. Director Misawa Takuya's debut feature film Chigasaki Story was a Japan-Thailand co-production screened at the 44th International Film Festival Rotter...
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BOLT (2019)
- Director
- HAYASHI Kaizo
- Cast
- NAGASE Masatoshi, SANO Shiro, KANAYAMA Kazuhiko
Hayashi Kaizo of the "Private Detective Mike Hama" series writes and directs this short film omnibus which took three years to complete. It consists of three episodes titled "Bolt", "Life", and "Goodyear" each starring Hayashi's close friend Nagase M...
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MO-RUERANI (2020)
- Director
- TSUBOKAWA Takushi
- Cast
- OSUGI Ren, OHTSUKA Nene, KAGAWA Kyoko
Filmmaker Tsubokawa Takushi moved from Tokyo to Muroran City in Hokkaido. He has written a series of scripts for seven stories based on anecdotes he heard from Muroran residents and turned them into this film of somewhat connected episodes. (Osugi ...
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LOVE STAGE!! (2020)
- Director
- INOUE Hiroki
- Cast
- SGUYAMA Mahiro, NAKADA Hiroki, WAGO Shinichi
With foreign language versions of the manga as well as anime winning popularity abroad, the "boys love" manga of the same name is adapted to film by original author Eiki Eiki and illustrator Zao Taishi. The protagonists are a star-studded assembly of...
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Care Nin 2 The Flower in Your Heart (2020)
- Director
- SUZUKI Kosuke
- Cast
- TOZUKA Junki, SHIMA Kaori, WATABIKI Katsuhiko
This is the sequel to the film dealing with nursing care, Care Nin: Thank God You're Here. Director Suzuki Kosuke and lead actor Tozuka Junki who plays the care worker both continue on from the first film. Omori Kei (Tozuka) has come to work for a l...
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100 Nichikan Ikita Wani (TBD) (2021)
- Director
- UEDA Shinichiro, FUKUDA Miyuki
- Cast
- KAMIKI Ryunosuke, NAKAMURA Tomoya, KIMURA Subaru
In March, when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, a crocodile, Wani, is nowhere to be found at the cherry blossom viewing that everyone had promised to attend. On the way to pick him up on a motorcycle, his best friend, Nezumi sends a photo of th...
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In Those Days (2020)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- MATSUZAKA Tori, NAKANO Taiga, YAMANAKA Takashi
The everyday highs and lows of friends enamored by the idol group Hello! Project is entertainingly told in this revival-of-youth film. Imaizumi Rikiya of Just Only Love directs from a script by Tominaga Masanori of Pumpkin and Mayonnaise. Tsurugi (M...
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Tidying Up With Love and Thanks (2020)
- Director
- ONUMA Yuichi
- Cast
- BITO Isao, NAKAO Mie
A husband termed the liquidation of his wife's estate "kanshari" (throwing away with thanks). This film adapts the identically titled essay in which are written his feelings for his wife. Kenzo's (Bito Isao) wife Kazuko (Nakao Mie) had lived with hi...
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EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK (2021)
- Director
- TAKAHATA Hideta
- Cast
- FUJIWARA Tatsuya, KAZAMA Shunsuke, TSUCHIYA Tao
Shinichi Tsuda (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his li...
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Fictitious girl's diary The Movie (2020)
- Director
- SUMIDA Takashi
- Cast
- Bakarhythm, Kaho, USUDA Asami
Multitalented TV personality Bakarhythm blogged about his pretend life as an "office lady", which became the basis for a TV drama and now comes to the silver screen. Bakarhythm stars in the film and penned the script to deliver a keenly observed and ...
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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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Around the Table (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 Hugo
- Cast
- FUKUSHI Seiji, IMOU Haruka, MAENO Tomoya
Suspense gangster film about the dramatic rescue that happens at a school ripped apart by gang warfare. Helmed by Sakamoto Yugo, who excels at action, suspense and violence. Fukumi (Fukushi Seiji) is a high school janitor whose father was a gangster...
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Riverside Mukolitta (2021)
- Director
- OGIGAMI Naoko
- Cast
- MATSUYAMA Kenichi, MURO Tsuyoshi, MITSUSHIMA Hikari
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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A Family (2021)
- Director
- FUJII Michihito
- Cast
- AYANO Go, TACHI Hiroshi, ONO Machiko
Drama from the production team behind The Journalist, winner of six Japan Academy Prizes. Shows three periods in the life of a guy who decides to be yakuza amidst changing times. Yamamoto (Ayano Go) enters into a filial relationship with the local y...
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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 LEMONSODA (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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The quiet and hot riot wearing a tie - Story of Shinkansen Shin-Hanamaki station - (2017)
- Director
- KONO Zibeta
- Cast
- KONNO Yoshihiro, CHIDA Hideyuki, KIDO Naoyuki
Local volunteers shot this powerful ensemble film about the 14-year story behind the construction of Shin-Hanamaki Station for the Tohoku Shinkansen. Japan National Railways announced the master plan for the Tohoku Shinkansen in 1971, when the natio...
