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Domains (2018)
- Director
- KUSANO Natsuka
- Cast
- SHIBUYA Asami, KASAJIMA Tomo, ADACHI Tomomitsu
Sophomore feature film from Kusano Natsuka, who earned accolades within Japan and abroad for her debut film Antonym. Aki returns to her childhood home during a break from work and visits the new abode of Nodoka, her buddy from elementary school thro...
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Lightning Over the Beyond (2022)
- Director
- HANNO Yoshihiro
- Cast
- MAEDA Gordon, IKEUCHI Hiroyuki, Awich
A black-and-white road movie following a young man tracing the remnants of war in Nagasaki and Okinawa, guided by the work of Tomatsu Shomei, one of Japan's leading post-war photographers. Directed, scripted, and featuring the original story and musi...
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Actress Wouldn't Cry (2023)
- Director
- UDO Yoshifumi
- Cast
- RENBUTSU Misako, ITO Marika, KAMIKAWA Shusaku
This comedy marks the feature film directorial debut for CM director Udo Yoshifumi, who also directs and scripts TV dramas. Set in his hometown of Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture. When scandal leaves actress Rie (Renbutsu Misako) unemployable, she re...
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HOYAMAN (2023)
- Director
- SHOJI Teruaki
- Cast
- AFRO (MOROHA), KURESHIRO Kumi, KUROSAKI Kodai
In his feature debut, director Shoji Teruaki spins a tale of family rebirth in this drama shot entirely on location on a remote island that is part of his hometown of Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture. Akira (MOROHA Afro) catches "hoya" (sea squirt...
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September 1923 (2023)
- Director
- MORI Tatsuya
- Cast
- IURA Arata, TANAKA Rena, NAGAYAMA Eita
Drama about mob hysteria based on the 1923 Fukuda Village incident. Directed by Mori Tatsuya, known for the documentaries A and FAKE. The year is 1923. Sawada Tomokazu (Iura Arata) and his wife Shizuko (Tanaka Rena) leave Gyeongseong (Seoul at prese...
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Graveyard of Youth (2021)
- Director
- OKUDA Yosuke
- Cast
- KASAHARA Takashi, FURUKAWA Nae, TANAKA Atsuyuki
Director Okuda Yosuke (Tokyo Playboy Club) returns to his roots with this ensemble piece, his first film in six years and with the same title as his debut. A man working in a Chinese restaurant in downtown Tokyo is asked by a middle-aged woman, who ...
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A Far Shore (2022)
- Director
- KUDO Masaaki
- Cast
- HANASE Kotone, ISHIDA Yumemi, SAKUMA Yoshiro
Social drama that won the Audience Award in Competition at the 23rd TOKYO FILMeX. Director Kudo Masaaki, who attracted attention with his feature debut I'm Crazy, shot the entire film on location in Okinawa. 17-year-old Aoi (Hanase Kotone) lives wit...
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Mountain Woman (2022)
- Director
- FUKUNAGA Takeshi
- Cast
- YAMADA Anna, MORIYAMA Mirai, NAGASE Masatoshi
Drama inspired by folklorist Yanagida Kunio's famous book ‘Tales of Tono'. Directed and scripted by Fukunaga Takeshi, whose Ainu Moshir was highly acclaimed abroad. Tohoku in the late 18th century. Rin (Yamada Anna) lives in a village suffering from...
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A Spoiling Rain (2023)
- Director
- ARAI Haruhiko
- Cast
- AYANO Go, EMOTO Tasuku, SATO Honami
Film adaptation of the novel of the same title by Matsuura Hisaki, winner of the 123rd Akutagawa Prize. This love story by renowned screenwriter Arai Haruhiko is his fourth film as a director, following It Feels So Good, and incorporates a motif not ...
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Brats, Be Ambitious! (2023)
- Director
- ADACHI Shin
- Cast
- IKEGAWA Yukiya, TASHIRO Hikaru, SHIRAISHI Kiichi
A coming-of-age film based on his novel 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', a 20-year project by Adachi Shin (A Beloved Wife). The seven schoolchildren who become the protagonists are portrayed vividly through long takes. Primary school student Shun (Ikegawa Yu...
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December (2022)
- Director
- Anshul CHAUHAN
- Cast
- Shogen, MEGUMI, MATSUURA Ryo
Suspenseful social drama about juvenile crime. Directed by Chauhan Anshul, an Indian director living in Japan who gained international acclaim for his second feature film Kontora. Seven years after his daughter was murdered, Higuchi Katsu (Shogen) r...
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Baian the Assassin, M.D. (2023)
- Director
- KAWAKE Shunsaku
- Cast
- TOYOKAWA Etsushi, KATAOKA Ainosuke, KANNO Miho
Two films starring Toyokawa Etsushi adapt Ikenami Shotaro's series that rivals his "Onihei Hankacho" and "Kenkyaku Shobai" in popularity. Produced to commemorate the centennial of the great historical novelist's birth. Fujieda Baian (Toyokawa) is a ...
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maboroshi (2023)
- Director
- OKADA Mari
- Cast
- ENOKI Junya, UEDA Reina, KUNO Misaki
Animation Studio MAPPA's first original animation movie written and directed by Mari Okada, who is also known as the script writer of "anohana the Movie: The Flower We Saw That Day". Ever since a bizarre factory explosion, 14-year-old Masamune Kikui...
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Kyrie (2023)
- Director
- IWAI Shunji
- Cast
- AiNA THE END, MATSUMURA Hokuto, KUROKI Haru
A music film by director Iwai Shunji and musician Kobayashi Takeshi, their first collaboration since All About Lily Chou-Chou. The film follows Kyrie (AiNA THE END), a street musician who can only express her "voice" by singing; Natsuhiko (Matsumura...
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Totto-chan the Movie: The Little Girl at the Window (2023)
- Director
- YAKUWA Shinnosuke
- Cast
- ONO Liliana, OGURI Shun, Anne
Anime adaptation of Kuroyanagi Tetsuko's same-named autobiographical novel about her youth, which has been translated into over 20 languages and sold 25 million copies worldwide. Japan is in the final years of World War Two. Totto-chan (Ono Liliana)...
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BLUE GIANT (2023)
- Director
- TACHIKAWA Yuzuru
- Cast
- YAMADA Yuki, MAMIYA Shotaro, OKAYAMA Amane
Animated film adaptation of Ishizuka Shinichi's manga of the same name, which won the Grand Prize in the Manga Division at the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival. The film's music was composed by Uehara Hiromi and other leading players from the Japanese ...
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TOKYO REVENGERS 2 Part.2 (2023)
- Director
- HANABUSA Tsutomu
- Cast
- KITAMURA Takumi, YAMADA Yuki, SUGINO Yosuke
Sequel to Tokyo Revengers, the No. 1 live-action film at the box office in 2021. This is the second part of a two-part film depicting the 'Bloody Halloween Arc', popular among fans of the original manga. The epic battle between former best friends h...
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TOKYO REVENGERS 2 Part.1 (2023)
- Director
- HANABUSA Tsutomu
- Cast
- KITAMURA Takumi, YAMADA Yuki, SUGINO Yosuke
Sequel to Tokyo Revengers, a live-action adaptation of Wakui Ken's original manga. The staff and cast of the previous film re-unite, depicting the 'Bloody Halloween Arc', which is popular with fans of the original work. This is part one of two-part f...
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ICHIKO (2023)
- Director
- TODA Akihiro
- Cast
- SUGISAKI Hana, WAKABA Ryuya, MORINAGA Yuki
Film adaptation of the play "Kawabe Ichiko no tameni", the flagship production for director Toda Akihiro's Cheese Theater. Kawabe Ichiko (Sugisaki Hana) vanishes the day after Hasegawa Yoshinori (Wakaba Ryuya), the boyfriend she's been living with ...
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FLY ON (2023)
- Director
- KATO Takuya
- Cast
- KADOWAKI Mugi, TAMURA Kentaro, KUROKI Haru
This is the second film by Kato Takuya, an up-and-coming director who has attracted attention in the theater world, following his first feature film Grown-Ups. Using realistic dialogue, he depicts deeply intertwined human characters. Watako (Kadowak...
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PERFECT DAYS (2023)
- Director
- Wim WENDERS
- Cast
- YAKUSHO Koji
Maestro Wim Wenders directs Yakusho Koji in this story about a toilet cleaner. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Best Actor Award. Hirayama (Yakusho) cleans toilets in Shibuya, Tokyo. He lives in an old ...
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Go! Go! Sakura Club (2023)
- Director
- NODA Takanori
- Cast
- FUJI Tatsuya
A humanistic comedy about gateball, starring the famous actor Fuji Tatsuya. Directed, written and edited by Noda Takanori, director of Queen of Okinawa Comedy Never Dies. 76-year-old Oda Momojiro (Fuji), who has been living a lonely life after the d...
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Analog (2023)
- Director
- TAKAHATA Hideta
- Cast
- NINOMIYA Kazunari, Haru
Film adaptation of Kitano Takeshi's first romantic novel of the same title. A love story that looks at the "starting point" of people's loving each other. Designer Satoru (Ninomiya Kazunari) happens to meet Miyuki (Haru), a mysterious woman who does...
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YOKO (2022)
- Director
- KUMAKIRI Kazuyoshi
- Cast
- KIKUCHI Rinko
Road movie featuring Babel actress Kikuchi Rinko's first solo starring role in a Japanese film. Director Kumakiri Kazuyoshi delivers a sensitive portrayal of the emotional turmoil experienced by a lonely woman in her forties. Forty-two-year-old part...
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PICTURE OF SPRING (2023)
- Director
- SHIOTA Akihiko
- Cast
- UCHINO Seiyo, KITA Kana
Director Shiota Akihiko's script for this comical drama depicts the profound appeal of Shunga, a popular pastime in the Edo period known as "Laughing Pictures". This is the first ever uncensored depiction of ukiyo-e shunga in a Japanese commercial fi...
