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DETECTIVE CONAN: Quarter of Silence (2011)
- Director
- SHIZUNO Kobun
- Cast
- TAKAYAMA Minami, YAMAZAKI Wakana, KOYAMA Rikiya
Film commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of Aoyama Gosho's hit animation Detective Conan. Directed by newcomer Shizuno Kobun under the directorial supervision of Yamamoto Yasuichiro, who has helmed the series since the eighth film. The highlight ...
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Love and Treachery (2010)
- Director
- YAZAKI Hitoshi
- Cast
- KAMON Yoko, NAKAMURA Yuko, KAWAI Ryunosuke
A love story about a man and woman who allow themselves to become caught up in a romance that grows from an ill-fitting combination of infidelity and pure love. Director Yazaki Hitoshi is an exceptional filmmaker who is far from prolific, but his wor...
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Into the White Night (2011)
- Director
- FUKAGAWA Yoshihiro
- Cast
- HORIKITA Maki, KORA Kengo, FUNAKOSHI Eiichiro
Following stage, television, and film adaptations in South Korea, Naoki Prize-winning author Higashino Keigo's suspense novel has been brought to the silver screen in Japan. It follows nineteen years in the lives of a man and woman connected to a mur...
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Elevator to the Gallows (2010)
- Director
- OGATA Akira
- Cast
- KICHISE Michiko, ABE Hiroshi, TAMAYAMA Tetsuji
This remake of director Louis Malle's debut feature is from internationally acclaimed director Ogata Akira, whose achievements include winning the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 50th Berlin International Film Festival for Boy's Choir (Dokuritsu Shonen Gas...
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More wonderful night than usual (2010)
- Director
- KODAMA Yoshihisa
- Cast
- KOMATSU Miyuki, KAWAGUCHI Takahiro, AYANO
An entry in a series focused on "love" and "erotica," in which six creators from multiple fields -- from film and TV to direct-to-video and manga -- compete. Director Kodama Nobuhisa, who is known for his TV programs and direct-to-video works, portra...
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LOST LOVE MURDER (2010)
- Director
- KUBOTA Shoji
- Cast
- MIYAJI Mao, YANAGI Yurei, OURA Ryuichi
This erotic thriller is based on the short story "The Tale Lost His Wife's Love" by Edogawa Rampo. It revolves around the tragedy of a love triangle involving the wife of Akechi Kogoro, who was not in the original story. Miyaji Mao, the lead actress,...
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Nigai mitsu Kieta rekodo (2010)
- Director
- KAMEDA Yukinori
- Cast
- KANEKO Noboru, IKEGAMI Kimiko, TANAKA Ken
Kameda Yukinori, a playwright and leader of the theater company "Onarimon," makes a film based on his own play, "The 13th Letter." A closed-room mystery describes how 14 men and women try to decipher the mystery of a past burglary case. One year has ...
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TSUKI TO USO TO SATSUJIN (2010)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Masaya
- Cast
- YAGAMI Ren, TAKIGUCHI Yukihiro, MAYAMA Akihiro
A suspense piece featuring a web of characters tightly intertwined through crime. Former apprentice to such auteurs as Negishi Kichitaro and Ichikawa Jun, director Takahashi Masaya delivers his second feature film. Aida Shogo (Yagami Ren) and Okudera...
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NANASE: The Psychic Wanderers (2010)
- Director
- KONAKA Kazuya
- Cast
- ASHINA Sei, SATO Eriko, YOSHIDA Eisaku
Based on science-fiction writer Tsutsui Yasutaka's masterpiece of the same name, this was made in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his works. This experimental film utilizes animation and 8 millimeter film to represent the heroine's special a...
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Loups=Garous (2010)
- Director
- FUJISAKU Junichi
- Cast
- OKI Kanae, IGARASHI Hiromi, INOUE Marina
The anime version of a science fiction novel by popular writer Kyogoku Natsuhiko, for which he held a contest for readers to decide the setting. Intrigued by a mysterious series of murders, a group of girls in the near future begin to turn their gaze...
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TRICK The Movie Rsychic Battle Royale (2010)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- NAKAMA Yukie, ABE Hiroshi, NAMASE Katsuhisa
This is part three of the cinematic version of a mystery comedy made to commemorate the first ten years of the TV series. A female magician and a physicist, two entirely different characters, enter a contest to determine who has the greatest psychic ...
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Black Butler Musical -The Most Beautiful DEATH in The World- (2010)
- Director
- FUKUZAWA Satoshi
- Cast
- MATSUSHITA Yuya, NISHII Yukito, SAEKI Daisuke
The second musical performance based on Toboso Yana's popular comic book, which also became a hit TV animation series. An impeccable butler works for a noble family, but is actually a demon. The musical takes us through the adventures of the butler's...
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Partners: The Movie Ⅱ (2010)
- Director
- IZUMI Seiji
- Cast
- MIZUTANI Yutaka, OIKAWA Mitsuhiro, KONISHI Manami
The second feature film version of the popular TV suspense drama that started as a one-off two hour drama and is now entering its 9th season. An intellectually-minded detective who was thrown off a prestigious career path because of his idiosyncrasie...
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Perfect blue (2010)
- Director
- SHIMOYAMA Ten
- Cast
- KATO Rosa, NAKAMURA Aoi, TAKUMA Shin
This film adaptation of Naoki Award-winning writer Miyabe Miyuki's full-length debut novel is about the murder of a high school baseball player and the schemes of a pharmaceutical company, told from multiple angles in chapters. The film begins with t...
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DETECTIVE CONAN : The Lost Ship in the Sky (2010)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Yasuichiro
- Cast
- TAKAYAMA Minami, YAMAGUCHI Kappei, YAMAZAKI Wakana
This is the 14th in the series of films based on the TV anime and comic books by Aoyama Gosho. The film depicts the heroic actions of a junior detective squad on an airship flying between Tokyo and Osaka, onboard with an armed group of bio-terrorists...
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GOLDEN SLUMBER (2010)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Yoshihiro
- Cast
- SAKAI Masato, TAKEUCHI Yuko, YOSHIOKA Hidetaka
Following on from The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker (Ahiru to Kamo no Coin Locker) and Fish Story by popular mystery writer Isaka Kotaro, director Nakamura Yoshihiro has risen to the challenge of adapting a third work by the ...
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MAGAN (2008)
- Director
- ITO Atsushi
- Cast
- TANI Sarasa, ODA Atsushi, WATANABE Mihoko
This piece was created in the advanced course in fiction film at The Film School of Tokyo, and one of the entries into the Ketsu Riki Chin Kai (*Great, Power, Unique, Fishy) Film Festival, an independent film project that takes up "Rehabilitation of ...
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THE HOVERING BLADE (2009)
- Director
- MASHIKO Shoichi
- Cast
- TERAO Akira, TAKENOUCHI Yutaka, SAKAI Miki
A film adaptation of popular author Higashino Keigo's best selling novel, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies. A father is planning revenge on the young criminals who murdered his daughter and the police who are trying to stop him -this drama...
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PARTNERS: CSI FILES (2009)
- Director
- HASEBE Yasuharu
- Cast
- ROKKAKU Seiji, HAGIWARA Masato, ICHIKAWA Somegoro
A film spin-off of the popular TV drama 'Partners,' starring forensics expert Yonezawa Mamoru as the hero, the popular character from the original series. The film follows Yonezawa's thrilling efforts to uncover the truth back behind the case drawn o...
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M no Jyubaku (2008)
- Director
- NIIZATO Takeshi
- Cast
- NARITA Ai, NAGASAWA Tsugumi, NAGAKURA Daisuke
This suspense horror is based on a short story by the master of SM literature, Dan Oniroku's "Yojo" (*The Vamp). Making her film debut, former race queen and pin-up model Narita Ai takes on the challenge of nude, bedroom, and bondage scenes. Rumor ha...
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THE FACELESS DEAD (2009)
- Director
- IZUCHI Kishu
- Cast
- TODO Umi, AKUZAWA Reika, TANAKA Gan
A "truth seeking" sensational film based on a true story produced by the Japan Journalist College. Directed and written by Izuchi Kishu of LAZARUS (RAZARO). An invitation film at the 33rd Montreal World Film Festival. One day Takigawa Misaki (Todo Um...
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the Garden of sinners - ....not nothing heart. (2009)
- Director
- TAKIZAWA Shinsuke
- Cast
- SAKAMOTO Maaya, SUZUMURA Kenichi, NAKATA Joji
The 7th of the anime series based on the romantic novel "the Garden of Sinners" by Nasu Kinoko, who is best known as the scriptwriter for the game, Tsukihime. This is the final chapter in the story of the strange destiny that has befallen Ryogi Shiki...
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huyunokaidan～bokutowatashitoobaachannomonogatari～ (2009)
- Director
- UENO Koichi
- Cast
- YAJIMA Maimi, KIMURA Nobuo, FUKUDA Kanon
A romantic horror film about an ordinary high school boy who is led by a mysterious beauty to battle in a magical world. As a psychic heroine, Yajima Maimi, the leader of ℃-ute of the Hello! Project, engages in a deadly battle with evil spirits. Kaza...
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Hitokui-Yama (Man-eater Mountain) (2009)
- Director
- NIIYA Naoyuki
- Cast
An extraordinary horror film referred to as a "picture-story anime" comprised of ink brush painting montage (all still images) and narration. Written, drawn and narrated by the animation creator Niiya Naoyuki. Cold-hearted Police inspector Haido, who...
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Elevator Trap (2009)
- Director
- HORIBE Keisuke
- Cast
- UCHINO Seiyo, SATSUKAWA Aimi, Moto FUYUKI
This suspense comedy marks the directorial debut of actor and television writer Horibe Keisuke. The author of the original work, Kinoshita Hanta, is an actor and playwright who runs the drama group "Team KGB." Ogawa (Saitoh Takumi) becomes trapped in...
