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  • THE BOOK PEDDLER

    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...

  • HAUNTED CAMPUS

    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...

  • forgotten

    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...

  • SIX FOUR: Part 2

    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...

  • SHIMAUMA

    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...

  • SIX FOUR: Part 1

    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...

  • KAWAII KISS

    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...

  • Senkyaku ari

    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...

  • Murder on D. Street

    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...

  • Erased

    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 ...

  • lost and found

    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...

  • Garakowa -Restore the World-

    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...

  • HENTAI SAMURAI

    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 ...

  • Nihon Zero-year: Wind from Fukushima II

    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...

  • THE HYBRID

    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...

  • The Inerasable

    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...

  • STROBE LIGHT

    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...

  • MOZU

    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 ...

  • Fires on the Plain

    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...

  • Initiation Love

    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...

  • Solomon's PerjuryⅡ: Judgement

    Solomon's PerjuryⅡ: Judgement (2015)

    Director
    NARUSHIMA Izuru
    Cast
    FUJINO Ryoko, ITAGAKI Mizuki, SASAKI Kuranosuke

    Sequel to the film adaptation of Naoki Prize-winner Miyabe Miyuki's mystery by REBIRTH director Narushima Izuru. Immersive directorial approach tells the story of a school trial held by and for children after the death of a junior high school boy. S...

  • A Cup of Life

    A Cup of Life (2015)

    Director
    HONEKAWA Ko
    Cast
    SEKI Megumi, ICHIKAWA Yui, FUJIWARA Kaoru

    Mystery dealing with bone-marrow transplants that casts a compassionate gaze on people who have made missteps in life. Produced by Hashiguchi Kazunari, whose honors include the Grand Prix at the 29th Montreal World Film Festival 2006 for A Long Walk,...

  • Solomon's PerjuryⅠ: Suspicion

    Solomon's PerjuryⅠ: Suspicion (2015)

    Director
    NARUSHIMA Izuru
    Cast
    FUJINO Ryoko, ITAGAKI Mizuki, SASAKI Kuranosuke

    The first half of a two-part adaptation of Naoki Prize-winning author Miyabe Miyuki's mystery. Junior high students attempt to hold a mock trial after one of their classmates apparently falls from a building and dies within the school grounds. Its di...

  • THE FURTHEST END AWAITS

    THE FURTHEST END AWAITS (2014)

    Director
    CHIANG Hsiu‐Chiung
    Cast
    NAGASAKU Hiromi, SASAKI Nozomi, ASADA Miyoko

    A drama set on the Noto Peninsula. It presents a warm depiction of two women of different generations and outlooks whose lives are dependent on each other's support. Its director is Chiang Hsiu-Chung, a Taiwanese protege of master filmmaker Hou Hsiao...

  • END-end?

    END-end? (2014)

    Director
    SASAKI Tomonori
    Cast
    SASANO Suzune, KAGEYAMA Yuko, ONO Marie

    A film from the third Enbu Seminar Cinema Project. It depicts the despair and hope felt by three pairs of people of different ages, genders, and backgrounds who experience a sudden tragedy. Its writer and director is Sasaki Tomonori, whose previous w...