Movies
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Sergeant Keroro-The Super Duper Movie-DRAGON WARS (2009)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Susumu
- Cast
- WATANABE Kumiko, KOZAKURA Etsuko, NAKATA Joji
In a 10th year commemoration of the comic series by Yoshizaki Mine, this is the fourth Sergeant Keroro feature film. World heritage site Mont Saint-Michel is the backdrop for this animated feature film. The half-witted earth invaders of Keroro platoo...
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Elemi (2009)
- Director
- NAKATA Hideto
- Cast
- OKUMURA Tomoko, WATANABE Kazushi, KUDO Kyozo
Nakata Hideto, an up-and-coming art animator who has garnered attention at home and abroad, and his film production team Sovat Theater spent 8 years making this stop-motion animation. A poignant fantasy about a utility pole that falls in love with a ...
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SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO: RESURRECTION (2009)
- Director
- NISHIZAKI Yoshinori
- Cast
- YAMADERA Koichi, FUJIMURA Ayumi, IBU Masato
The crowning achievement of Sci-Fi animation since the first TV broadcast in 1974, Space Battleship Yamato returns to the big screen after 26 years since Final Yamato in 1983. The story picks up 17 years after the last installment. To save the human ...
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Yona Yona Penguin (2009)
- Director
- Rintaro
- Cast
- MORISAKO Ei, TANAKA Rena, OTA Hikaru
A fully computer-generated fantasy animation that follows the adventures of a young girl in a Goblin village. Director Rintaro, one of Japan's leading animation directors, also wrote the original story, while production was handled by MADHOUSE, produ...
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BALLAD (2009)
- Director
- YAMAZAKI Takashi
- Cast
- KUSANAGI Tsuyoshi, ARAGAKI Yui, OSAWA Takao
Of the numerous feature films in the Crayon Shin-chan anime series, Crayon Shinchan Bravo Samurai was particularly well received and honored with many prestigious awards. The world of this anime masterpiece has been reworked here as a live-action, ro...
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20th Century Boys - Chapter 3- (2009)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- KARASAWA Toshiaki, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, TOKIWA Takako
Having produced hits in a variety of genres and styles, from deadpan comedies to human dramas, director Tsutsumi Yukihiko completes the third and final chapter in the ‘20th Century Boys' trilogy, based on Urasawa Naoki's best-selling manga series. T...
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20th Century Boys - Chapter 2- (2009)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- TOYOKAWA Etsushi, TOKIWA Takako, TAIRA Airi
The second chapter in the ‘20th Century Boys' trilogy based on Urasawa Naoki's best-selling manga series, which has been published in twelve countries. Chapter two is permeated with iconic images from 1970s Japan such as the Osaka world expo. The al...
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Bare Essence of Life (2009)
- Director
- YOKOHAMA Satoko
- Cast
- MATSUYAMA Kenichi, ASO Kumiko, NOZOE Seiji
Yokohama Satoko's 2007 film, German+Rain, was self-produced butenjoyed a nationwide release and won the New Director's Award from the Directors Guild of Japan. This is the major-studio debut from this promising young director, made with a surrealisti...
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YATTERMAN (2009)
- Director
- MIIKE Takashi
- Cast
- SAKURAI Sho, FUKUDA Saki, FUKADA Kyoko
A comical action flick, based on a popular TV animation series from the late 1970s by Tatsunoko Productions. Gather the four pieces of the legendary Skull Stone and all your wishes will be fulfilled. The Yatterman heroes and the villains of the Doron...
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Mai Mai Miracle (2009)
- Director
- KATABUCHI Sunao
- Cast
- FUKUDA Mayuko, MIZUSAWA Nako, MORISAKO Ei
Nostalgic full length animated film adaptationof the autobiographical novel of the same title by Akutagawa Prize winner, Takagi Nobuko. Set in Hofu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture in the mid 1950's, a place which still retains historic sites and placename...
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Good Bye, My Secret Friend (2009)
- Director
- OOOKA Toshihiko
- Cast
- FUKAZAWA Arashi, AOI Yu, TOMOSAKA Rie
Based on the heartwarming debut picture book from well-known manga artist Saibara Rieko (‘Everyday Mom'). Popular child actor Fukazawa Arashi (Helen and the Baby Fox) stars as a boy who enjoys an affectionate relationship with the strange little crea...
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The Blood of Rebirth (2009)
- Director
- TOYODA Toshiaki
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Tatsuya (BLANKEY JET CITY), KUSAKARI Mayuu, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko
A new film, after an absence of four years, by Toyoda Toshiaki, the director known for such films as Pornostar, Blue Spring, and Hanging Garden. With the legend of "Oguri Hangan" from the Kumano region as its inspiration, the film creates an allegori...
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Fish Story (2009)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Yoshihiro
- Cast
- ITO Atsushi, KORA Kengo, TABE Mikako
Director Nakamura Yoshihiro and novelist (original story) Isaka Kotaro follow The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck, and God with a new collaboration. Singer-songwriter Saito Kazuyoshi served as a music producer, and young character actors fill the cast....
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Mahotsukai ni taisetsuna koto (2008)
- Director
- NAKAHARA Shun
- Cast
- YAMASHITA Rio, OKADA Masaki, TANAKA Tetsushi
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TOKYO BOY (2007)
- Director
- HIRANO Shunichi
- Cast
- HORIKITA Maki, ISHIDA Takuya, KUSAMURA Reiko
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NEW TYPE: JUST FOR YOUR LOVE (2008)
- Director
- HIROKI Ryuichi
- Cast
- OMASA Aya, SANO Kazuma, YAMADA Kinuo
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Tamagotchi: Happiest Story in the Universe! (2008)
- Director
- SHIMURA Joji
- Cast
- KUGIMIYA Rie, GIBU Yuko, YUZUKI Ryouka
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STRAIT JACKET International ver. (2008)
- Director
- USHIRO Shinji
- Cast
- MIKI Shin-ichiro, SHINDO Kei, MAEDA Ai
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GURREN LAGANN THE MOVIE -Childhood's End- (2008)
- Director
- IMAISHI Hiroyuki
- Cast
- KAKIHARA Tetsuya, KONISHI Katsuyuki, INOUE Marina
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SPY GIRL'S MISSION (2008)
- Director
- KAWAMURA Eitoku
- Cast
- HASHIMOTO Sawa, HIKITA Saya, KAGURAZAKA Megumi
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Kanahiru The Iron Boy (2007)
- Director
- HIGA Kazutetsu, HIGA Yukinori
- Cast
- NAKADA Sachiko, NAKADA Masae, FUKUHARA Akira
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UTAKATA (2008)
- Director
- KOMATSUZAKI Yoshiko, JINGUJI Sei, FUJITA Kenichiro
- Cast
- NAGANO Serina, NAGANO Reina, WATANABE Banbi
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Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008)
- Director
- MIYAZAKI Hayao
- Cast
- YAMAGUCHI Tomoko, NAGASHIMA Kazushige, AMAMI Yuki
The latest animated film by Miyazaki Hayao of Spirited Away from Studio Ghibli after four years since Howl's Moving Castle. It was created without using CG, valuing expressions achieved through drawing by hand. A fantasy based on Andersen's The Littl...
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L change the WorLd (2008)
- Director
- NAKATA Hideo
- Cast
- MATSUYAMA Kenichi, KUDOH Youki, FUKUDA Mayuko
A spin-off film of the Death Note diptych which was hugely successful not just in Japan but in the whole of Asia including Hong Kong, Korea and Thailand. Directed by Nakata Hideo, a leading figure in Japanese horror movies which have stormed the worl...
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20th Century Boys -Chapter 1- (2008)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- KARASAWA Toshiaki, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, TOKIWA Takako
Film adaptation of a bestselling comic by a globally well-recognized manga artist, Urasawa Naoki. This film is the first part of a trilogy with a production cost of 6 billion yen. It also attracted media attention as the film features a cast of 300 p...
