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Extinct Animals (VACATION) (2021)
- Director
- SOEJIMA Masaki
- Cast
- KAKIMORI Manami, GOMI Michiko, SHO Daichi
Psychiatrist-cum-director Soejima Masaki helms this unique music film intercutting two incidents dealing with an extinct bird. Parallel stories unfold about a graduate student studying the extinct bird and a music recording session. Mai (Kakimori Ma...
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Back to That Day (2021)
- Director
- MAEDA Seira
- Cast
- MATSUI Rena, KAKEI Miwako, SHUHAMA Harumi
Ensemble piece about an awkward but forthright woman. Cutting-edge Maeda Seira helms her first commercial feature after earning critical acclaim with her short film Itsuka kagayaita kanojo ha. Manami (Matsui Reina) runs the unsuccessful 50% Theater ...
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Haruhara-san's Recorder (2021)
- Director
- SUGITA Kyoshi
- Cast
- ARAKI Chika, NIIBE Minako, KANEKO Takenori
Listen to Light director Sugita Kyoshi adapts the title poem "Haruhara-san's Recorder" from Higashi Naoko's first collection. The film won three awards in the 32nd Marseille International Film Festival's International Competition including the first-...
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Aiutusutsu (2018)
- Director
- HANA Kosei
- Cast
- HOSOKAWA Gaku, n a g o h o
Hana Kosei's feature film debut draws on personal experience to explore the nature of love and sex. Jun (Hosokawa Gaku) works in sales for a recruiting company and has been dating college student Yui (nagoho) for seven months. They have a harmonious...
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Grave of Love (2020)
- Director
- NARUSE Kiyoto
- Cast
- OGURA Yuna, ABERA Hidenobu, KANO Yura
Director Naruse Kiyoto, whose attracted attention with Night of the Dead Geisha at the Yubari Fantastic Film Festival, makes his commercial film debut. Yuta (Abera Hidenobu), a monk with a passion for photography, captures in his viewfinder "that gi...
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A Girl on the Shore (2021)
- Director
- UEDA Atsushi
- Cast
- ISHIKAWA Ruka, AOKI Yuzu, MAEDA Ohshiro
Live-action adaptation of the same-named comic released in 2009 by popular manga artist Asano Inio. This tale about adolescence depicts the shock of love and sexuality as experienced by a 14-year-old boy and girl and also captures the stultifying atm...
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Black Clow 0 (2021)
- Director
- KOMINAMI Toshiya
- Cast
- SAKIYAMA Tsubasa, UEDA Keisuke, TOKUYAMA Hidenori
Prequel in the "Black Crow" series about an agency that resolves underworld troubles, set in Shinjuku's red-light Kabukicho district. The story focuses on the protagonist's hidden past. Rookie police officer Kanzaki (Sakiyama Tsubasa) gets posted to...
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Black Crow 3 (2021)
- Director
- KOMINAMI Toshiya
- Cast
- SAKIYAMA Tsubasa, UEDA Keisuke, WATANABE Shu
Third film in the series about the feuding "Black Crow" agency that resolves underworld troubles, set in Shinjuku's red-light Kabukicho district. Direction and screenplay handled by Kominami Toshiya, the TV drama veteran who reprises his roles from t...
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What Did You Eat Yesterday? Movie (2021)
- Director
- NAKAE Kazuhito
- Cast
- NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, UCHINO Seiyo
Feature film adaptation of the popular TV drama based on Yoshinaga Fumi's bestselling manga. Reunites the cast and crew from the TV drama, including director Nakae Kazuhito and scriptwriter Adachi Naoko. Lawyer Kakei Shiro (Nakajima Hidetoshi) and h...
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What Happened to Our Nest Egg!? (2021)
- Director
- MAEDA Tetsu
- Cast
- AMAMI Yuki, MATSUSHIGE Yutaka, KUSABUE Mitsuko
Film adaptation of Kakiya Miu's novel about the struggles of a homemaker dogged by financial disaster. A Banana? At This Time of Night? director Maeda Tetsu brings his unique perspective and rhythmical style to the film. Atsuko (Amami Yuki) has rais...
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Summer Ghost (2021)
- Director
- loundraw
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Chiaki, SHIMABUKURO Miyuri, SHIMAZAKI Nobunaga
Feature film directorial debut for cutting-edge illustrator loundraw, who worked on the feature film Josee, the Tiger and the Fish. Urban legend has it that "summer ghost" is the spirit of a young woman who appears when fireworks go off. Tomoya (Ko...
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Ring Wandering (2021)
- Director
- KANEKO Masakazu
- Cast
- KASAMATSU Show, ABE Junko, YASUDA Ken
In Downtown Tokyo, a young man Sosuke aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He canʼt draw the extinct wolf well, neither develop the story. One winterʼs day, Sosuke finds burnt animal...
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Angry Son (2022)
- Director
- IIZUKA Kasho
- Cast
- HORIKE Kazuki, GOW, SHINOHARA Masafumi
Jungo, a high school student living in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture, has a Filipino mother who works at a Filipino pub. He has never heard anything about his father from his mother, and the only connection he has with his father is the monthly child-su...
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BROKEN COMMANDMENT (2022)
- Director
- MAEDA Kazuo
- Cast
- MAMIYA Shotaro, ISHII Anna, YAMOTO Yuma
At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a "buraku" area of low-class "untouchables," leaving his hometown to serve as an elementary school teacher where he excels and is loved by his students. But he constan...
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SUN AND BOLERO (2022)
- Director
- MIZUTANI Yutaka
- Cast
- DAN Rei
Riko Hanamura (Rei Dan) is in high gear, all for the Yayoi Symphony Orchestra, a semi-amateur group with an 18-year history. Following the sudden death of her father, Riko abandoned her dreams of becoming a pianist and returned to her hometown to ca...
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ANIME SUPREMACY! (2022)
- Director
- YOSHINO Kohei
- Cast
- YOSHIOKA Riho, NAKAMURA Tomoya, EMOTO Tasuku
Hitomi Saito works for a major animation production company. She gave up a stable career as a public servant to join the anime industry, and has at last been given her first chance to direct with a series called "Soundback: The Kanade Stone." Despit...
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Haw (2022)
- Director
- INUDO Isshin
- Cast
- TANAKA Kei
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Convenience Story (2022)
- Director
- MIKI Satoshi
- Cast
- NARITA Ryo, MAEDA Atsuko
Kato is an up-and-coming scriptwriter in the middle of a severe slump. He submits ideas for potential movies but makes no headway whatsoever, and spends his days downhearted and distressed. When he heads out to buy "Dog Man," food for his lover's bel...
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KYOTO CAMARO DETECTIVE (2021)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Yuichi
- Cast
- TSUKAMOTO Takashi, KIMURA Yuichi, CROKET
Maro Kamata, a self-proclaimed "private detective," is a freelancer whose only pride is his favorite car, a Camaro. He spends his days with a low self-esteem, when he receives a request from his favorite girl from a hostess club to find her missing f...
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A MAN (2022)
- Director
- ISHIKAWA Kei
- Cast
- TSUMABUKI Satoshi, ANDO Sakura, KUBOTA Masataka
Attorney Kido receives a strange request from Rie, a former client. She wants him to do a background check on her late husband, Daisuke. After getting a divorce, Rie had moved back to her hometown with her child before eventually meeting Daisuke and ...
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The Zen Diary (2022)
- Director
- NAKAE Yuji
- Cast
- SAWADA Kenji, MATSU Takako
Writer Tsutomu lives alone in a remote mountain villa in Nagano, Japan. He picks berries and mushrooms from the mountains, cooks his own vegetables grown in his fields, and writes manuscripts while experiencing the changing of the seasons....
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Alivehoon (2022)
- Director
- SHIMOYAMA Ten
- Cast
- NOMURA Shuhei, YOSHIKAWA Ai, JINNAI Takanori
A drift team on the verge of shutting down scouts out Koichi Oba, a shy, introverted gamer who is incredibly talented at Esport driving games. Koichi demonstrates his mastery in a real car, but he is up against professional drivers who challenge him ...
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RADIATIONHOUSE (2022)
- Director
- SUZUKI Masayuki
- Cast
- KUBOTA Masataka, HONDA Tsubasa, HIROSE Alice
Amakasu General Hospital's Radiographer, Iori Igarashi, is having a tough time. His darling, An Amakasu, has decided to go and study at a Washington Medical University to improve her Radiology skills. "Only 72 hours left." His fellow workers in...
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Leave in Summer (2022)
- Director
- IGASHI Aya
- Cast
- FUKUCHI Momoko, OKAYAMA Amane
Nana is a young hostess of Nakajima Inn in a town by the sea. In the beginning of September when Nakajima Inn is closed for business, a young man, Shuntaro appears and says that he really wants to stay at the inn. He explains that he lost his loved o...
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Yes, I Can't Swim (2022)
- Director
- WATANABE Kensaku
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Hiroki, AYASE Haruka
Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and people, still he decides on the spur of the moment to enroll in a swimming class. There he encounter...
