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2 Women (2022)
- Director
- HIROKI Ryuichi
- Cast
- TERAJIMA Shinobu, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, HIROSUE Ryoko
A film adaptation of the novel of the same title by writer Inoue Areno, based on her father, writer Inoue Mitsuharu, her mother, and writer and Buddhist monk Setouchi Jakucho. Director Hiroki Ryuichi of Vibrator and screenwriter Arai Haruhiko have te...
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PLAN 75 (2022)
- Director
- HAYAKAWA Chie
- Cast
- BAISHO Chieko
Director Hayakawa Chie makes her feature debut with this controversial work depicting the Japanese society where "Plan 75", a system that gives the right to choose between life and death from the age of 75, is enforced. The film was entered in the Un...
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God seeks in return (2022)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Keisuke
- Cast
- MURO Tsuyoshi, KISHII Yukino
Director Yoshida Keisuke of Himeanole and Blank directs an original screenplay for this unique love story filled with true feelings and preconceived notions. Tamogami (Muro Tsuyoshi), who works for an event company, meets YouTuber Yuri-chan (Kishii ...
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Nighttime Warbles (2022)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- YAMADA Yuki, MATSUMOTO Marika
A film adaptation of a short novel by writer Sato Yasushi set in the Kanto region, with a screenplay by Takada Ryo, the writer of The Light Shines Only There. Directed by Jojo Hideo, who received high acclaim for On the Edge of Their Seats. Unsucces...
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The Flower in the Sky (2022)
- Director
- KATASHIMA Ikki
- Cast
- HIGASHIDE Masahiro, IRIYAMA Noriko
A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Yoko, daughter of the poet Hagiwara Sakutaro, with a screenplay by Goto Sayaka and Arai Haruhiko. The film vividly portrays the poet who survived despite being at the mercy of war. Miyoshi Tatsuji (Higashi...
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BL Metamorphosis (2022)
- Director
- KARIYAMA Shunsuke
- Cast
- ASHIDA Mana, MIYAMOTO Nobuko
Feature film adaptation of Tsurutani Kaori's same-named comic with a script by Okada Yoshikazu, renowned for his many successful TV dramas. Warmly depicts the friendship between two women fifty-eight years apart who meet through boys' love manga. Sa...
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by the window (2022)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- INAGAKI Goro, NAKAMURA Yuri, TAMASHIRO Tina
This is the seventeenth completely original film by Imaizumi Rikiya, director of numerous high-profile films such as What is Love?, which won the Audience Award at the 35th Tokyo International Film Festival. Freelance writer Ichikawa Shigemi (Inagak...
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Lonely Castle in the Mirror (2022)
- Director
- HARA Keiichi
- Cast
- TOMA Ami, KITAMURA Takumi
Colorful director Hara Keiichi helms this animation adaptation of Tsujimura Mizuki's same-named bestselling novel. Kokoro (Touma Ami) is a junior high school girl who finds herself ostracized at school and holes up in her room. The mirror in her roo...
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A WINTER ROSE (2022)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Junji
- Cast
- ITO Kentaro, KOBAYASHI Kaoru, YO Kimiko
A human drama by Sakamoto Junji, a film director at the peak of his maturity, who wrote an original screenplay for Ito Kentaro, an actor forty years younger than himself. Toguchi Jun (Ito), who lives in a port town, does not attend vocational school...
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MY BROTHER, THE ANDROID AND ME (2020)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Junji
- Cast
- TOYOKAWA Etsushi
A forbidden drama that strongly reflects Sakamoto Junji's own outlook on life. The original script, which was written with the image of actor Toyokawa Etsushi in mind, depicts "ultimate loneliness". Kiryu Kaoru (Toyokawa), a lonely robot engineer, h...
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Small, Slow But Steady (2022)
- Director
- MIYAKE Sho
- Cast
- KISHII Yukino, MIURA Tomokazu
A human drama modeled on a female professional boxer who fought while facing hearing impairment, inspired by her way of life. Directed and written by Miyake Sho, who received acclaim both in Japan and abroad for his film And Your Bird Can Sing. This ...
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ROLELESS (2022)
- Director
- SEKI Yutaro, HIRASE Kentaro, SATO Masahiko
- Cast
- KAGAWA Teruyuki, TSUDA Kanji, OMI Toshinori
A feature film debut from the directorial group "Gogatsu" consisting of Sato Masahiko, who worked on NHK's educational program "PythagoraSwitch," Seki Yutaro, who has directed dramas for NHK, and Hirase Kentaro, who participated in the screenplay for...
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Thousand and One Nights (2022)
- Director
- KUBOTA Nao
- Cast
- TANAKA Yuko, ONO Machiko, ANDO Masanobu
Inspired by a missing persons list, documentary director Kubota Nao spent eight years completing this human drama. Tanaka Yuko plays the lead role, in her fourth collaboration with the director, in addition to his dramatic film debut Homeland. A bea...
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The Last 10 Years (2022)
- Director
- FUJII Michihito
- Cast
- KOMATSU Nana, SAKAGUCHI Kentaro
A film adaptation of Kosaka Ruka's novel of the same title, co-written by Okada Yoshikazu and Watanabe Mako and directed by Fujii Michihito (The Journalist). RADWIMPS, of your name. and other Shinkai Makoto films fame, are in charge of the music, inc...
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YAMABUKI (2022)
- Director
- YAMASAKI Juichiro
- Cast
- KANG Yoon-Soo, INORI Kirara
Third feature film from The Sound of Light and Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn director Yamasaki Junichiro, who makes films while farming in the mountains of Maniwa City, Okayama Prefecture. This ambitious ensemble work was shot on 16mm film and has ...
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The Wandering Bonbon (2022)
- Director
- SATO Toshiki
- Cast
- KAGEYAMA Yuko, HARADA Kenta
Based on a short story from Nobue Hiroshi's collection "7 Colors" and helmed by Sato Toshiki, known for numerous masterpieces created with scriptwriter Kobayashi Masahiro. Drama about the compelling and comical lives of people looking for love. 34-y...
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The World of You (2022)
- Director
- SHIOTA Akihiko
- Cast
- SHINTANI Yuzumi, HIDAKA Marin, KUBOZUKA Airu
Director Shiota Akihiko, known for Harmful Insect and Canary, takes on this coming-of-age drama starring Shintani Yuzumi and Hidaka Marin, whom he met on the 2019 movie Farewell Song, as the main characters, with an original script written with the t...
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LOVE LIFE (2022)
- Director
- FUKADA Koji
- Cast
- KIMURA Fumino, NAGAYAMA Kento, SUNADA Atom
Fukada Koji, director of Harmonium and The Real Thing, both of which were highly acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival, takes a head-on look at "love" and "life" after the COVID pandemic. The story is spun from the director's original screenplay insp...
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AMIKO (2022)
- Director
- MORII Yusuke
- Cast
- OSAWA Kana, IURA Arata, ONO Machiko
First film from Morii Yusuke, who also penned the screenplay based on Akutagawa Prize-winning author Imamura Natsuko's 2010 debut novel. Amiko (Osawa Kana) is a vivacious fifth-grader in Hiroshima who grows up under the protective gaze of her kind f...
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DEPENDENCE (2022)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Kento
- Cast
- KUROBA Mario, HOSHI Moeka, TOMITE Ami
Drama with a perceptive take on the "ailments" that plague young people. Developed and produced by Fujii Michihito, who directed The Last 10 Years and The Journalist. Shuichi (Kuroba Mario) works as an editor at a publishing company and has abandone...
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THE Y-TEAM (2022)
- Director
- TSUJI Hiroyuki
- Cast
- KITADAI Takashi, TACHI Yoshimi, Katsuya
This is the first theatrical version depicting the struggles of the "Yamazaki Clan" from the popular ninkyo (chivalry) series Japan Unification. The film was produced by Motomiya Yasukaze of Japan Unification and its theme song, written and produced...
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Break in the Clouds (2021)
- Director
- OZAWA Kazuyoshi
- Cast
- KODAMA Haruka, Tsumugi, SATO Eriko
A social human drama depicting the harsh reality faced by a single mother and a person without a family register. Directed by Ozawa Kazuyoshi, an actor who has been active in movies, dramas, and V-cinemas since the 1980s. Maika (Kodama Haruka), a pr...
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OLD SCHOOL (2022)
- Director
- IKAWA Kotaro
- Cast
- KITAMURA Yukiya, MATSUKADO Yohei, TAKE Iriya
A hard-boiled crime action film that depicts an underworld swirling with desire. Directed by Ikawa Kotaro, whose Lost in Tokyo has been screened at numerous international film festivals. Private detective Shinjiro (Kitamura Yukiya) is forced to take...
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NO PLACE TO GO (2022)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Banmei
- Cast
- ITAYA Yuka, ONISHI Ayaka, MIURA Takahiro
Inspired by the tragedy that struck a homeless woman in the winter of 2020, this controversial film depicts social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Directed by Takahashi Banmei, the master filmmaker of Peaceful Death. Forty-five-year-old Kita...
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Eternal New Mornings (2023)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Toru
- Cast
- SAKURABA Nanami, SUGIMOTO Tetta, TEZUKA Satomi
Director Yamamoto Toru spins an ensemble drama about "people who support each other and live together," based on Saito Yukio's book "Live and Let Live: Telling Life Lessons from the Disaster." A former band member (Sakuraba Nanami) who lost her boyf...
