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GUKOROKU - TRACES OF SIN (2017)
- Director
- ISHIKAWA Kei
- Cast
- TSUMABUKI Satoshi, MITSUSHIMA Hikari
Ishikawa Kei makes his feature film directorial debut with this mystery that delves into the "true nature of human beings." A year has gone by without any progress on the Tako family's murder, in which an elite businessman, his beautiful and perfec...
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RANMARU: THE MAN WITH THE GOD TONGUE (2016)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- MUKAI Osamu, KIMURA Fumino, SATO Jiro
The theatrical edition of a television series depicting the exploits of its protagonist who, analyzing every component of anything he tastes with his tongue, solves a variety of cases. Tsutsumi Yukihiko, known for his comedic style on the "Trick" ser...
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Same Old, Same Old (2016)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- UCHIBORI Taro, MATSUMOTO Marika, YAHAGI Masaru
Ensemble drama that explores the meaning of death through religion, romance and three film directors and the people in their lives. Directed by Imaizumi Rikiya of Sad Tea. Film director Kajiwara (Yahagi Masaru) does music videos to make ends meet bu...
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The Eye's Dream (2016)
- Director
- SATO Hisayasu
- Cast
- Marissa, SAKURAGI Rina, NAKANO Tsuyoshi
SI-SEI director, Sato Hisayasu, helms this Japan-America co-produced drama depicting the bizarre world unfolding for a female photographer obsessed with taking pictures of the human eye, and the man following her. Maya (Marissa), a photographer who ...
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THE WATCHER IN THE ATTIC (2016)
- Director
- KUBOTA Shoji
- Cast
- KIJIMA Noriko, MAMIYA Yuki, KAWAI Ryunosuke
Director Okuda Shuji, who adapted Edogawa Rampo's original stories "Lost Love Murder" and "Murder on D. Street" for film, creates a new film version of "The Watcher in the Attic," which has already been turned into a movie several times. Famed detec...
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THE BOOK PEDDLER (2016)
- Director
- OMORI Kenichi
- Cast
- TAKEDA Rina, KOBAYASHI Yutaka, YOSHIYUKI Kazuko
Set in Ehime Prefecture's Uwajima City, the film portrays the efforts by a novelist, who bicycles around town delivering books for the library courier department, to find a book crucial to a festival on the island. In the director's chair is Omori Ke...
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HAUNTED CAMPUS (2016)
- Director
- TAKEMOTO Satoshi
- Cast
- NAKAYAMA Yuma, SHIMAZAKI Haruka, ONO Takuro
A horror film about a male university student able to see ghosts, despite being timid, who solves the riddle to a mysterious case that occurs on campus. It is based on the popular novel by Kushiki Riu, who won the Reader Award at the 19th Japanese Ho...
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forgotten (2016)
- Director
- KUMAZAWA Naoto
- Cast
- OCHIAI Motoki, KANEKO Nobuaki, Saori
Short film in the four-part mystery omnibus Tokyo Thrilling. Depicts the anguish of a guy who suddenly vanishes from people's memories. Directed by Kumazawa Naoto, who excels at films about teenagers. Daiki (Ochiai Motoki), who is forgotten by every...
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SIX FOUR: Part 2 (2016)
- Director
- ZEZE Takahisa
- Cast
- SATO Koichi, AYANO Go, EIKURA Nana
The second installment in the two-part film adaptation, the ending of which strays from the original best-seller by detective novel specialist, Yokoyama Hideo. Numerous conflicts between suspect and police, organizations and individuals, as well as f...
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SHIMAUMA (2016)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Hajime
- Cast
- RYUSEI Ryo, SUGA Kenta, HINAMI Kyooko
Live-action adaptation of Obata Fumio's violent manga. A guy who has turned into an underworld "collection agent" uses violence to vent his clients' hatred and venom. Numerous horrific torture scenes include fingers being broken and feet being set on...
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SIX FOUR: Part 1 (2016)
- Director
- ZEZE Takahisa
- Cast
- SATO Koichi, AYANO Go, EIKURA Nana
The best-selling novel by Yokoyama Hideo, author of Half a Confession and Climber's High, is adapted into a two-part film. Director Zeze Takahisa of Heaven's Story and an all-star cast including Sato Koichi render this profound drama. Nicknamed "Six...
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KAWAII KISS (2016)
- Director
- IGUCHI Noboru
- Cast
- HON Yuni, UENO Sumire, NAKAMURA Asaka
The first feature film starring the idol group Nomakes created by producer Iguchi Noboru, who picked the five actresses through auditions for this film. Directed by Iguchi Noboru of Nuigulumar Z. High school theater club member Yoshie (Hon Yuni) dec...
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Senkyaku ari (2016)
- Director
- OGAWA Kazuya
- Cast
- IRIYAMA Anna, MATSUYAMA Yuta, NAMIOKA Kazuki
Film from the "9 Windows" short film omnibus produced in collaboration between the popular idol group AKB48 and Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, the largest international short film festival in Asia. College student Kitaoka Nana (Iriyama Anna) is...
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Murder on D. Street (2015)
- Director
- KUBOTA Shoji
- Cast
- Shoko, KAWAI Ryunosuke, KUSANO Kota
Sensual suspense film commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Edogawa Rampo. Film adaptation of the same-named original story in which master detective Akechi Kogoro makes his first appearance. Director and screenwriter Kubota Shoji return...
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Erased (2016)
- Director
- HIRAKAWA Yuichiro
- Cast
- FUJIWARA Tatsuya, ARIMURA Kasumi, ISHIDA Yuriko
Sanbe Kei's multiple award-winning manga becomes a live-action film. A man caught up in a time reversing phenomenon known as "revival" closes in on the true culprit and mystery behind a serial kidnapping and murder case that occured 18 years ago. At ...
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lost and found (2015)
- Director
- YANAGISAWA Show
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Tomoya, ARAI Hirofumi, SASAKI Nozomi
Feature-length mystery that marks the directorial debut for Yanagisawa Show, whose numerous commercials have garnered awards around the world. Official selection at the 39th Montreal World Film Festival. Haruto (Nakamura Tomoya), who works at the lo...
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Garakowa -Restore the World- (2015)
- Director
- ISHIHAMA Masashi
- Cast
- HANAMORI Yumiri, TANEDA Risa, SAKURA Ayane
Ishihama Masashi, director of the opening sequence from the "Attack on Titan" TV series, directs this film adaptation of Pony Canyon's 2013 Anime Adaptation Competition Grand Prize winner. Girls who meet in a zero gravity world known as the "box of w...
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HENTAI SAMURAI (2015)
- Director
- IGUCHI Noboru
- Cast
- BAN Hidemitsu, HARUNO Miko, AYANA Rei
Suspense film produced as a graduation piece for the Wakuwaku Eigajuku workshop run by The Machine Girl director Iguchi Noboru. A cameraman with an excrement fetish meets people with various sexual obsessions as he pursues a high school girl who has ...
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Nihon Zero-year: Wind from Fukushima II (2015)
- Director
- KATO Tetsu
- Cast
- TOBA Jun, SAEKI Hinako, MEGURO Maki
A docu-drama that portrays the world two years after the Fukushima nuclear accident. Kato Tetsu directs this sequel to his documentary, Wind from Fukushima, utilizing a blend of the documentary and drama genres. On March 11, two years after the brea...
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THE HYBRID (2015)
- Director
- HANO Toru, KURATANI Yoshio
- Cast
- ISHIBASHI Honoka, YAMAMURA Ken, SHIBATA Kotaro
This sci-fi fantasy tells of the love-hate relationship of a couple, and the battles of Unidentified Mysterious Animal (UMA) hunters using the enigmatic "Nue," a monster from ancient Japan, as a motif. Yamamura Ken, who appeared in Hollywood's versio...
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The Inerasable (2016)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Yoshihiro
- Cast
- TAKEUCHI Yuko, HASHIMOTO Ai, SASAKI Kuranosuke
An adaptation of Ono Fuyumi's documentary-style horror novel "Zang-e" by The Snow White Murder Case director Nakamura Yoshihiro. Palpably tense visuals enhance this story of two women, an author and one of her readers, who seek the truth about an apa...
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STROBE LIGHT (2013)
- Director
- KATAMOTO Ryo
- Cast
- FUKUCHI Takamitshu, MIYAO Maiko, KINOSHITA Kiyohiro
Suspense film about a bizarre murder in a peaceful residential neighborhood. Osaka University of Arts graduate Katamoto Ryo makes his directorial debut. Preview screenings held in 2013 in Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe, with the Tokyo opening in 2015. The pr...
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MOZU (2015)
- Director
- HASUMI Eiichiro
- Cast
- NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, KAGAWA Teruyuki, MAKI Yoko
A feature film spinoff of a television series based on the hard-boiled novel by Osaka Go. After solving the mystery of his wife's death, a Public Security Bureau agent deals with a new terrorist threat. Beat Takeshi gives an unearthly performance as ...
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Fires on the Plain (2014)
- Director
- TSUKAMOTO Shinya
- Cast
- TSUKAMOTO Shinya, Lily Franky, NAKAMURA Tatsuya (BLANKEY JET CITY)
Live adaption of Ooka Shohei‘s same-named seminal novel about war, produced after two decades in germination. Although an indie film with Tetsuo: The Iron Man director Tsukamoto Shinya handling six roles including director, lead actor and cinematogra...
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Iniｔiation Love (2015)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- MATSUDA Shota, MAEDA Atsuko, KIMURA Fumino
"SPEC" series director Tsutsumi Yukihiko delivers the film adaptation of Inui Kurumi's bestselling novel, which made waves with the surprise ending. Set in the late 1980s, the Tokyo and Shizuoka parts of the story depict a love triangle between two w...
