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last love / my one and only (2014)
- Director
- ISHIKAWA Hitoshi
- Cast
- SAKURAGI Rina, HINO Shohei
Third installation in the "Love Stories" series in which six directors explore the possibilities within different kinds of love. Depicts the touching romance between a middle-aged single guy and a woman with bipolar disorder. Directed by Ishikawa Hit...
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Starting Over (2014)
- Director
- NISHIHARA Takashi
- Cast
- AKIZUKI Mika, ENDO Nina, WATANABE Makiko
A love story from director Nishihara Takashi, whose Blue Ray was an official selection of the 2011 Osaka Asian Film Festival. It was made with a small crew centered around Nishihara. Screened in the Japanese Cinema Splash section of the 2014 Tokyo In...
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HOT ROAD (2014)
- Director
- MIKI Takahiro
- Cast
- Nounen Rena, TOSAKA Hiroomi, KIMURA Yoshino
Directed by Miki Takahiro, champion of coming-of-age romance films including Solanin and We Were There. Lucid visuals depict the pure but clumsy love between daughter and mother, and girl and boy, based on the same-titled story by Tsumugi Taku. Miya...
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Riding The Breeze (2014)
- Director
- HAGIUDA Koji
- Cast
- KUROKAWA Mei, Teresa DALEY, River HUANG
A heartwarming road movie revolving around cycling. Hagiuda Koji, winner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs Art Festival's Television Drama Award in 2000 for Rakuen (Paradise), directs his first film in six years since Child by Children. A Japan-Taiw...
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Say "I Love You" (2014)
- Director
- HYUGA Asako
- Cast
- KAWAGUCHI Haruna, FUKUSHI Sota, ICHIKAWA Tomohiro
Romance live-action adaptation directed by Hyuga Asako, who made her feature film debut with The Days of Morisaki Bookstore, based on Hazuki Kanae's same-titled comic for girls. Delicately interweaves the emotions of the heroine jolted by her first l...
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NO ZO KI A NA (2014)
- Director
- UEDA Nakaba, TSUKUDA Kensuke
- Cast
- IKEDA Chocolat, Atsumi, ITO Beni
A live-action adaptation of Honna Wako's eponymous manga that gained popularity on a manga website for mobile phone users. It depicts the erotic romantic fortunes and growth of a man and woman who spy on each other's personal lives. Director Ueda Nak...
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Uwakoi 2 (2014)
- Director
- ISHIKAWA Hitoshi
- Cast
- YANAGI Yurina, ISHIDA Tomoyuki, MOTOYAMA Nami
The second half of a two-part adaptation of Itosugi Masahiro's manga. Its director is Ishikawa Hitoshi, the writer of the first film, who uses striking visuals to depict love-hate relationships between high schoolers caught up in a love triangle. Yu...
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Tryst (2014)
- Director
- HANAWA Yukinari
- Cast
- MARU Junko, AKAGI Shinsuke
Second installation in the "Love Stories" series in which six directors explore the possibilities within different kinds of love. Lusciously depicts the struggles of a man and woman swayed by illicit love, set in Yokohama and integrating the flavor o...
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Sweet Poolside (2014)
- Director
- MATSUI Daigo
- Cast
- SUGA Kenta, KARIYA Yuiko, OCHIAI Motoki
Afro Tanaka director Matsui Daigo helms this coming-of-age romance that adapts Oshimi Shuzo's same-titled comic. Humorous depiction of the unusual friendship between a hairless guy and a hairy girl. Co-stars Suga Kenta from Always: Sunset on Third St...
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MY HAWAIIAN DISCOVERY (2014)
- Director
- MAEDA Koji
- Cast
- EIKURA Nana, TAKANASHI Rin, SETO Koji
Romantic comedy by Maeda Koji, known for Cannonball Wedlock. The protagonist rethinks what is really important in life while enjoying a trip to Hawaii on company expense. Authentic performances by young actors including Eikura Nana in the lead, as we...
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Maria's breast (2014)
- Director
- ZEZE Takahisa
- Cast
- SASAKI Kokone, ONISHI Shima
First installation in the "Love Stories" series in which six directors explore the possibilities within different kinds of love. Heaven's Story director Zeze Takahisa depicts a complex love-hate drama featuring a prostitute with psychic powers and a ...
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PORTRAIT (2013)
- Director
- UCHIDA Shuntaro
- Cast
- YOSHIMURA Kaito, MATSUMOTO Marika, SUSA Shinichi
The theatrically released debut of bright new talent Uchida Shuntaro, who writes and directs. It makes frequent use of fixed black and white cinematography to depict the change within a young man who lives as if he is already dead. Newcomer Yoshimura...
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SAD TEA (2013)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- OKABE Seiji, AOYAGI Fumiko, UCHIDA Chika
Romantic comedy featuring an array of love affairs involving twelve young men and women, including a two-timing film director, an idol on the verge of marriage, and a guy who is obsessed with idols. Directed by Imaizumi Rikiya, who won the 12th Trans...
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Uwakoi (2014)
- Director
- YOSHIMURA Norihisa
- Cast
- YANAGI Yurina, ISHIDA Tomoyuki, MOTOYAMA Nami
The first half of a two-part adaptation of Itosugi Masahiro's manga. It shines a spotlight on the male urge to be unfaithful, as seen in a love triangle between a high school couple and a female transfer student. Its director is Yoshimura Norihisa, a...
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The Unfading Dream We Have (2014)
- Director
- TSUJI Jinsei
- Cast
- DOHCHIN Yoshikuni, TAKANASHI Rin, ISHIBASHI Anna
An adaptation of Tsuji Hitonari's self-penned and directed musical play, which he also wrote and directed himself. Set in Kyoto, it uses fantastical imagery to depict the uncertain relationship between a theatrical director, an actress, and her young...
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The Black Square (2012)
- Director
- OKUHARA Hiroshi
- Cast
- NAKAIZUMI Hideo, DAN Hong, CHEN Xixiu
Japan-China collaboration about "war and the present" that depicts complex human events involving tangled eras and national borders. Directed by Okuhara Hiroshi, who was honored with the New Currents Award at the 4th Busan International Film Festival...
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Number 10 Blues Goodbye Saigon (2012)
- Director
- OSADA Norio
- Cast
- KAWAZU Yusuke, Thanh Lan, ISOMURA Kenji
Violent action film that was shot in former South Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War, and was completed 37 years later in 2012. International screenings include the 42nd Rotterdam International Film Festival. Directorial debut for Osada Norio, kno...
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KURO (2012)
- Director
- SHIMOTE Daisuke
- Cast
- KIDO Airi, SAITO Yu, NAKAIZUMI Hideo
Ensemble coming-of-age story that gives a humorous and unembellished depiction of the emotional distance among two guys and a girl. The film uses long cuts, minimal dialogue and background music from radio and live performances only. Feature film deb...
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HADAKANOKUSURIYUBI (2014)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Masaya
- Cast
- HAMADA Noriko, NANAUMI Nana, TARUMI Keisuke
An adaptation of Tsuyatsuya's eponymous youth manga about an illicit love affair between a prim housewife in her forties and her daughter's prospective marriage partner. Its alluring protagonist is played by Hamada Noriko (FLOWER AND SNAKE: ZERO). Ya...
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Eiga happy negative marriage part2 (2014)
- Director
- YOKOI Takeshi
- Cast
- NAGAYAMA Takashi, SETO Saki, SUGIYAMA Hikohiko
The second film in a two-part live-action adaptation of Amazume Ryuta's manga about marriage seekers. It follows the romance of a man and woman who meet at matchmaking meeting, and takes both a comical and erotic approach. Its director is Yokoi Kenji...
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Love is Possession (2013)
- Director
- MASUI Daichi, IGARASHI Kohei, ICHIMI Masataka
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Hana, TANIGUCHI Ran, Shuri
Romantic fantasy created from a collaboration between manga artist Fumi Fumiko and students at Tokyo University of the Art's Graduate School of Film and New Media. This three-part omnibus spins tales about love featuring surreal characters like ghost...
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L-DK -LIVING TOGETHER- (2014)
- Director
- KAWAMURA Taisuke
- Cast
- GORIKI Ayame, YAMAZAKI Kento, NAKAO Akiyoshi
Live action romance based on Watanabe Ayu's school comic. Lushly depicts the relationship between a boy and girl in high school who suddenly find themselves living together. Directed by Kawamura Taisuke, whose live action adaptations of comics includ...
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Drops in Your Hand (2013)
- Director
- IIZUKA Ken
- Cast
- IKEMATSU Sosuke, HASHIMOTO Ai, KOBAYASHI Ryoko
An adaptation of the eponymous novel by author Higuchi Naoya. A cast of upcoming actors, including Ikematsu Sosuke of Ai no Uzu and television series "MOZU", and Hashimoto Ai of The Kirishima Thing, provides a youthful portrayal of the emotions of ch...
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Tokyo Doppelkonzert (2014)
- Director
- HIRANAMI Wataru
- Cast
- SEKIGUCHI Takanori, DAZAI Mio, OSAWA Mariwo
A love story that blends fact and fiction in presenting a multilayered depiction of the lovelife of a man of the theater. Change occurs in the relationships between various people connected to a playwright facing divorce. Its writer and director is i...
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5 count to dream of you (2014)
- Director
- Ū-ki Yamato
- Cast
- YAMABE Miyu, ARAI Hitomi, SHOJI Mei
A coming-of-age film from exciting new director Yamato Yuki, who made a name for herself with her debut film That Girl Is Dancing by the Seaside and displayed further progress with her follow-up Otogi-Banashi Mitai (like a fairy tale). Its stars the ...
