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Picking Up Flowers (2011)
- Director
- SATO Toshiki
- Cast
- WADA Misa, YOSHIOKA Mutsuo, KOJIMA Ayano
The fifth film in the second season of the "Seishun H" series, in which up-and-coming filmmakers exhibit their originality through themes of youth and sex. Director Sato Toshiki is known as one of the masters of the erotic "pink film" genre. Asako (W...
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Snow Flake (2011)
- Director
- TANIGUCHI Masaaki
- Cast
- KIRITANI Mirei, AOYAMA Haru, SHIRAISHI Shunya
A coming-of-age mystery starring model and actress Kiritani Mirei that was screened together with Ranhansha, also directed by Taniguchi Masaaki. It is the ninth entry in the CineMusica series that aims for a collaboration between images and music, an...
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Mistaken (2011)
- Director
- ITOU Takayuki
- Cast
- KAWASHIMA Kunihiro, ROSSY, MIYAZAKI Tom
The second directorial effort of television producer Itou Takayuki (Stay The Night at The Grave), who built a reputation for his late-night TV shows, It presents a comical and suspenseful depiction of a series of terrifying incidents that occur withi...
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DOG x POLICE: The K-9 Force (2011)
- Director
- SHICHITAKA Go
- Cast
- ICHIHARA Hayato, TODA Erika
Suspense action film dealing with security dogs that search for explosives, rescue people during disasters, and wear down criminals. A tightly bonded young trainer and police dog together pursue a case of serial explosions. The original idea came fro...
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Before Sunrise (2011)
- Director
- WAKAMATSU Setsuro
- Cast
- KISHITANI Goro, FUKADA Kyoko, KIMURA Tae
A love story with a suspenseful touch based on the bestselling novel by Higashino Keigo, who is currently one of Japan's most popular authors. Director Wakamatsu Setsuro's previous work THE UNBROKEN won Best Film at the 2010 Japan Academy Awards. Wat...
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Avatar (2011)
- Director
- WADA Atsushi
- Cast
- HASHIMOTO Ai, SAKATA Rikako, MIZUSAWA Nako
School drama depicting the insanity and reckless abandon of a high school girl who loses herself completely in her avatar, the personal character used in online communities. Yamada Yusuke, author of the original story, is an up-and-coming writer with...
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Record Future (2010)
- Director
- KISHI Kentaro
- Cast
- KAMIMURA Satoshi, Angie, SUZUKI Kosuke
The first feature-length film directed by actor Kishi Kentaro, a protege of playwright Miyazawa Akio who primarily works in theater and film. It is a cinematic adaptation of a 'vision' that came to him on the streets of Palestine during a visit to th...
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Girls' Compass (2010)
- Director
- NAGASAKI Shunichi
- Cast
- NARUMI Rico, KUTSUNA Shioli, MORITA Ayaka
A mystery from talented director Nagasaki Shunichi. Exciting young actors Narumi Riko, Kutsuna Shioli, Morita Ayaka, and Kusakari Mayuu play the lead roles, and their collaboration drew considerable attention. High schooler Kusuda Rumi (Narumi) forms...
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CRAZY-ISM (2011)
- Director
- KUBOTA Shoji
- Cast
- BABA Ryoma, AN Akiko, UENOBORI Makoto
Director Kubota Shoji, whose LOST LOVE MURDER was officially selected by the Montreal World Film Festival and highly praised, has adapted his own original screenplay for this close-quarters crime suspense film. It was shot continuously over 40 hours ...
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Thunderfish (2006)
- Director
- HANO Toru
- Cast
- KURITA Masahiro, KIMOTO Junko, KATO Chika
A tale of a man and a woman, produced with the support of the Cineastes Organization Osaka Exhibition (CO2) that aims to cultivate up-and-coming filmmakers. Its director Hano Toru is not only active as a filmmaker, but has also worked as a playwright...
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Gene Waltz (2011)
- Director
- OTANI Kentaro
- Cast
- KANNO Miho, TANABE Seiichi, OMORI Nao
Film adaptation of the same-titled bestseller authored by Kaido Takeru, whose has seen many of his medical mysteries, including Team Batista no Eiko, turned into films. Directed by Otani Kentaro, who also directed . Kanno Miho, who appeared in Perman...
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OBOETEIRU (2005)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Hideaki, KUBO Tomohiro, AKAISHI Tomoyuki
- Cast
- MURAKAMI Jun, NAKAMURA Mirei, KAGAWA Teruyuki
Omnibus film adaption of three works by mystery writer Takahashi Katsuhiko, including the Naoki-Prize wining "Bloody Memory." A cast of method actors including Kagawa Teruyuki and Asou Yumi come together under three directors heralding from Nikkatsu ...
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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...
