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All the long nights (2024)
- Director
- MIYAKE Sho
- Cast
- MATSUMURA Hokuto, KAMISHIRAISHI Mone, MITSUISHI Ken
Human drama adapted from the novel of the same title by Seo Maiko, directed by Miyake Sho, whose Small, Slow but Steady was highly acclaimed both at home and abroad. Once a month, Fujisawa Misa (Kamishiraishi Mone), who suffers from PMS (pre-menstru...
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Ohmuro family dear sisters (2024)
- Director
- TATSUWA Naoyuki
- Cast
- KATO Emiri, SAITO Chiwa, HIDAKA Rina
Sakurako Ohmuro is in her first year of middle school, and she's always cheerful and energetic, whether she's at home or at school. She has fun every day, and is constantly exasperating her older sister Nadeshiko and younger sister Hanako. Today she...
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Fanfare (2023)
- Director
- YOSHINO Ryohei
- Cast
- MINAKAMI Kyoka, NOMOTO Sora, KITA Noa
Coming-of-age film depicting the wavering emotions of a woman in her twenties whose dreams have been dashed. Directed, written and edited by Yoshino Ryuhei, whose Akaboshi and Spring, Has Come were screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival. ...
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GOLDFISH (2023)
- Director
- FUJINUMA Shinichi
- Cast
- NAGASE Masatoshi, KITAMURA Yukiya, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko
Directorial debut from Fujinuma Shinichi inspired by his experiences as guitarist for the punk band Anarchy formed in 1978. The band Guns became a social phenomenon in the 1980s, but they have to go on hiatus when Hal (Kitamura Yukiya) causes an in...
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A Girl Named Ann (2024)
- Director
- IRIE Yu
- Cast
- KAWAI Yuumi
Ann was beaten by her mother since childhood, dropped out of school in her third year, and was forced into prostitution by her mother in her mid-teens. One day, Ann is interrogated by the police on a charge of using drug and meets Tatara, a detective...
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BUSHIDO (2024)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Kazuya
- Cast
- KUSANAGI Tsuyoshi, KUNIMURA Jun, KIYOHARA Kaya
Kakunoshin Yanagida, a ronin, is accused of a crime he does not commit and mourns his wife. He is forced to leave his hometown, the Hikone domain, and lives with his daughter, Okinu, in a poor tenement house in Edo. Even under such circumstances, he ...
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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
The final chapter in a trilogy by Koshikawa Michio, who has depicted people's lives and sexuality from a unique perspective, following Their Backs and Hand in Hand on the theme of "the landscape of lovers who are nobody". Painter Nazuna (Sakuma Mayu...
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WITH YOU AGAIN (2023)
- Director
- HANA Kosei
- Cast
- HIRAI Amon, ITO Saki
The commercial film debut of up-and-coming director Hana Kosei, who has made a series of independent problematic films such as Love Someone and I Love You. The film is a human drama that explores new forms of love based on the director's own experien...
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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
Road movie helmed by gift director Miyaoka Taro with original story penned by Inoue Tete, who scripted Initiation Love. Minami Koharu (Oguri Yui} has devoted her life to track and field and when she gets disqualified from the high school championsh...
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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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One Second Ahead, One Second Behind (2023)
- Director
- YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- OKADA Masaki, KIYOHARA Kaya
Director Yamashita Nobuhiro teams up for the first time with screenplay writer Kudo Kankuro for this remake of the 2020 Taiwanese romance My Missing Valentine with the male and female roles reversed. Hajime (Okada Masaki) works at the post office an...
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After the Fever (2023)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Akira
- Cast
- HASHIMOTO Ai, NAKANO Taiga, KIRYU Mai
Second feature film from cutting-edge director Yamamoto Akira, whose Tokyo University of the Arts graduation work Speak Low earned acclaim overseas. World premiere screening in the New Currents competition at the 28th Busan International Film Festiva...
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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 ...
