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PENALTY LOOP (2024)
- Director
- ARAKI Shinji
- Cast
- WAKABA Ryuya, ISEYA Yusuke, YAMASHITA Rio
Second feature film by director Araki Shinji, who made his feature film debut with The Town of Headcounts, again using an original screenplay. The film depicts the conflict of a protagonist who repeatedly commits murder in a time loop. Iwamori Jun (...
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ROADSIDE FLOWERS AND GRASS (2023)
- Director
- KOSHIKAWA Michio
- Cast
- SAKUMA Mayu, YUYA Shintaro
Nazuna lives with a violent man Kitamura. Her mental balance is unstable, and she constantly clashes with Kitamura. One day, out of emotional entanglement, Nazuna had a fierce fight with Kitamura and ran out of his place. And she rolls into Kotaro...
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WITH YOU AGAIN (2023)
- Director
- HANA Kosei
- Cast
- ITO Saki, HIRAI Amon
I don't want to have sex because I love her... Maruo is an independent film director who still hasn't been able to forget his ex-girlfriend Aki, whom he broke up with because of this reason. He tries to make a new film based on his own experiences,...
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A Foggy Paradise (2023)
- Director
- KOTSUJI Yohei
- Cast
- OKUTSU Yuya, LEE Masatoshi, YASHIMA Yasumi
Feature film directorial debut for Kotsuji Yohei, who takes an improvisational approach to filmmaking from scriptwriting through direction. This road movie was an official selection for the competition in the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival. ...
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Girls Drive (2023)
- Director
- MIYAOKA Taro
- Cast
- OGURI Yui, YAMAUCHI Mizuki, KURANOO Narumi
Koharu is a senior in high school who devoted her youth to athletics and worked hard in a small town. She is a sprinter who has been attracting attention, but her three years of training have been ruined unexpectedly. In the midst of grief, another m...
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GREAT ABSENCE (2023)
- Director
- CHIKA-URA Kei
- Cast
- MORIYAMA Mirai, FUJI Tatsuya, MAKI Yoko
Distanced from his father Yohji for twenty years, Takashi is brought back home by a jarring police call–Yohji has disconnected from reality due to dementia, and his second wife Naomi is missing. Asked where she is, the old man replies that she commit...
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52-HERTZ WHALES (2024)
- Director
- NARUSHIMA Izuru
- Cast
- SUGISAKI Hana, SHISON Jun
REBIRTH maestro filmmaker Narushima Izuru adapts Machida Sonoko's same-named novel that made a splash in Japan. This nuanced drama captures the unspoken voices of lonely individuals through the metaphor of the only whale in the world with a high-freq...
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SILENT LOVE (2024)
- Director
- UCHIDA Eiji
- Cast
- YAMADA Ryosuke, HAMABE Minami, NOMURA Shuhei
A love story spun from his own original screenplay by Uchida Eiji, director of Midnight Swan, which won the Best Film Award at the 44th Japan Academy Prize. Hisaishi Joe, who has worked on numerous Studio Ghibli works, composed the music. Aoi (Yamad...
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Keep Your Left Hand Down (2023)
- Director
- IGUCHI Nami
- Cast
- NAGOYA Megumi, KITAGUCHI Mia, MATSUMOTO Kei
The era of childish perversions and violence, the children's police are arresting left-handed people. Yet, at universities old-fashioned film seminars are given leisurely, at cafes lovers are dating, a mysterious female fortuneteller predicts future ...
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Spring in Between (2022)
- Director
- KATSU Rika
- Cast
- MIYAZAWA Hio, KONISHI Sakurako
This is the commercial film debut of Katsu Rika, who has worked on numerous drama adaptations as a manga editor while continuing to produce independent films. Magazine editor Komukai Haru (Konisihi Sakurako), who is having trouble with work and love...
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The Women in the Lakes (2024)
- Director
- OMORI Tatsushi
- Cast
- FUKUSHI Sota, MATSUMOTO Marika
A 100 year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him alive suddenly malfunction, or was he murdered? A young detective on the case meets a woman caregiver. The investigation runs into a dead end, but the...
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How to Find a Lover (2023)
- Director
- MAEDA Koji
- Cast
- KURA Yuki, IMOU Haruka
Director Maeda Koji, who made his theatrical film debut with Cannonball Wedlock, and screenwriter Takada Ryo team up again after making You're Not Normal, Either! together, for this quirky love story. Towa (Kura Yuki), who works in a gardening shop,...
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The Beast of Comedy (2024)
- Director
- TAKIMOTO Kengo
- Cast
- OKAYAMA Amane, KATAOKA Reiko, MATSUMOTO Honoka
Film adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Tsuchiya Takayuki, a writer obsessed with the world of comedy. It is the commercial film debut of director Takimoto Kengo, who has directed many TV dramas and commercials. After six years of coming up...
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(Ab)normal Desire (2023)
- Director
- KISHI Yoshiyuki
- Cast
- INAGAKI Goro, ARAGAKI Yui, ISOMURA Hayato
Film adaptation of Asai Ryo's same-named best seller. Wilderness director Kishi Yoshiyuki reunites with screenwriter Minato Takehiko for this vivid drama about the intersecting lives of five people with varied backgrounds. Terai Keiki (Inagaki Goro)...
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Who Were We? (2023)
- Director
- TOMINA Tetsuya
- Cast
- KOMATSU Nana, MATSUDA Ryuhei, OTAKE Shinobu
The story is set in a gold-mining town on Sado Island, Japan. A woman wakes up with no memory of her past. She is rescued by an elderly female cleaner named Kii (which means the colour yellow). Kii takes her to a home that already houses two girls—Ak...
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Shadow of Fire (2023)
- Director
- TSUKAMOTO Shinya
- Cast
- Shuri, MORIYAMA Mirai
This drama builds on director Tsukamoto Shinya's Fires on the Plain and Killing with a story set in the chaos of a post-war black market. Won NETPAC award at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival. A woman (Shuri) living alone in a burned-out p...
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TILL WE MEET AGAIN ON THE LILY HILL (2023)
- Director
- NARITA Yoichi
- Cast
- FUKUHARA Haruka, MIZUKAMI Koshi
Follow the Light director Narita Yoichi brings Shiomi Natsue's same-named novel to the silver screen. Vividly portrays romance in the life of a high school girl who has traveled back in time to 1945 Japan. Yuri (Fukuhara Haruka) runs away from home ...
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The Quiet Yakuza -Part 1- (2023)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Kento
- Cast
- ITO Kentaro
A new live-action adaptation of the popular yakuza manga ‘The Quiet Don' by Nitta Tatsuo, comprehensively produced by Motomiya Yasukaze of the "Japan Unification" series. The first part of a two-part theatrical release whereby four chapters are divid...
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Six Singing Women (2023)
- Director
- ISHIBASHI Yoshimasa
- Cast
- TAKENOUCHI Yutaka, YAMADA Takayuki
Suspense thriller that marks the first film in a decade from the brilliant Ishibashi Yoshimasa, whose idiosyncratic films include Oh! Mikey and Milocrorze. Kayashima (Takenouchi Yutaka) returns to his family home to sell the mountain bequeathed by h...
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Qualia (2023)
- Director
- USHIMARU Ryo
- Cast
- SASAKI Kokone, ISHIKAWA Ruka, KIGUCHI Kenta
Black comedy based on the same-named theatrical production staged by Theater Utsulolo in 2021. Ushimaru Ryo makes his directorial debut after becoming enthralled with the play as an actor. Yuko (Sasaki Kokone) lives frugally after marrying into the ...
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The Moon (2023)
- Director
- ISHII Yuya
- Cast
- MIYAZAWA Rie, ISOMURA Hayato, NIKAIDO Fumi
The Great Passage director Ishii Yuya scripts and helms this adaptation of Hemmi Yo's same-named novel about the real-life murders of people with disabilities. Once-popular novelist Dojima Yoko (Miyazawa Rie) lives frugally with her husband Shohei (...
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99% Cloudy... Always (2023)
- Director
- SANGOUMI Midori
- Cast
- SANGOUMI Midori, NIKAIDO Satoshi, ENA Ayumi
Feature film directorial debut from film and voice actress Sangoumi Midori. She plays the lead in this drama about the struggles of a woman with Asperger syndrome. At the one-year memorial for her mother's death, 45-year-old Kusunoki Kazuha is distr...
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The Friends (1994)
- Director
- SOMAI Shinji
- Cast
- MIKUNI Rentaro, SAKATA Naoki, OH Taiki
Maestro Somai Shinji adapted the same-named children's novel by Yumoto Kazumi. Set in summertime Kobe, three boys and a lonely old man spend the summer together. Shot by Shinoda Noboru, famed for Love Letter. Sixth graders Kiyama, Kawabe and Yamashi...
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Moving (1993)
- Director
- SOMAI Shinji
- Cast
- NAKAI Kiichi, SAKURADA Junko, TABATA Tomoko
Tenth feature film by masterful director Somai Shinji, who passed away in 2001. This drama deals with the unsettled emotions of an 11-year-old girl whose parents live apart and are about to get divorced. Shot by Kurita Toyomichi, who also works in th...
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Sanka : Nomads of the Mountain (2022)
- Director
- SASATANI Ryohei
- Cast
- SUGITA Rairu, KOMUKAI Naru, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko
Vivid coming-of-age drama about the summertime experiences of a solitary boy, inspired by the nomadic Sanka who once lived in Japan's mountains. Directed by Sasatani Ryohei, whose films deal with the ways people living in nature. The summer of 1965...
