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REI (2024)
- Director
- TANAKA Toshihiko
- Cast
- SUZUKI Takara, OYAMA Maeko, MORIYAMA Shogo
This is the debut feature-length human drama by actor Tanaka Toshihiko. The film had its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and won the Tiger Award for Best Film. One day, Hikari (Suzuki Takara), who has been living with the...
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A Spoiling Rain (2023)
- Director
- ARAI Haruhiko
- Cast
- AYANO Go, EMOTO Tasuku, SATO Honami
Film adaptation of the novel of the same title by Matsuura Hisaki, winner of the 123rd Akutagawa Prize. This love story by renowned screenwriter Arai Haruhiko is his fourth film as a director, following It Feels So Good, and incorporates a motif not ...
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maboroshi (2023)
- Director
- OKADA Mari
- Cast
- ENOKI Junya, UEDA Reina, KUNO Misaki
Animation Studio MAPPA's first original animation movie written and directed by Mari Okada, who is also known as the script writer of "anohana the Movie: The Flower We Saw That Day". Ever since a bizarre factory explosion, 14-year-old Masamune Kikui...
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Analog (2023)
- Director
- TAKAHATA Hideta
- Cast
- NINOMIYA Kazunari, Haru
Film adaptation of Kitano Takeshi's first romantic novel of the same title. A love story that looks at the "starting point" of people's loving each other. Designer Satoru (Ninomiya Kazunari) happens to meet Miyuki (Haru), a mysterious woman who does...
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ROADSIDE FLOWERS AND GRASS (2023)
- Director
- KOSHIKAWA Michio
- Cast
- SAKUMA Mayu, YUYA Shintaro
The final chapter in a trilogy by Koshikawa Michio, who has depicted people's lives and sexuality from a unique perspective, following Their Backs and Hand in Hand on the theme of "the landscape of lovers who are nobody". Painter Nazuna (Sakuma Mayu...
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WITH YOU AGAIN (2023)
- Director
- HANA Kosei
- Cast
- HIRAI Amon, ITO Saki
The commercial film debut of up-and-coming director Hana Kosei, who has made a series of independent problematic films such as Love Someone and I Love You. The film is a human drama that explores new forms of love based on the director's own experien...
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SILENT LOVE (2024)
- Director
- UCHIDA Eiji
- Cast
- YAMADA Ryosuke, HAMABE Minami, NOMURA Shuhei
A love story spun from his own original screenplay by Uchida Eiji, director of Midnight Swan, which won the Best Film Award at the 44th Japan Academy Prize. Hisaishi Joe, who has worked on numerous Studio Ghibli works, composed the music. Aoi (Yamad...
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Spring in Between (2022)
- Director
- KATSU Rika
- Cast
- MIYAZAWA Hio, KONISHI Sakurako
This is the commercial film debut of Katsu Rika, who has worked on numerous drama adaptations as a manga editor while continuing to produce independent films. Magazine editor Komukai Haru (Konisihi Sakurako), who is having trouble with work and love...
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How to Find a Lover (2023)
- Director
- MAEDA Koji
- Cast
- KURA Yuki, IMOU Haruka
Director Maeda Koji, who made his theatrical film debut with Cannonball Wedlock, and screenwriter Takada Ryo team up again after making You're Not Normal, Either! together, for this quirky love story. Towa (Kura Yuki), who works in a gardening shop,...
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One Second Ahead, One Second Behind (2023)
- Director
- YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- OKADA Masaki, KIYOHARA Kaya
Director Yamashita Nobuhiro teams up for the first time with screenplay writer Kudo Kankuro for this remake of the 2020 Taiwanese romance My Missing Valentine with the male and female roles reversed. Hajime (Okada Masaki) works at the post office an...
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TILL WE MEET AGAIN ON THE LILY HILL (2023)
- Director
- NARITA Yoichi
- Cast
- FUKUHARA Haruka, MIZUKAMI Koshi
Follow the Light director Narita Yoichi brings Shiomi Natsue's same-named novel to the silver screen. Vividly portrays romance in the life of a high school girl who has traveled back in time to 1945 Japan. Yuri (Fukuhara Haruka) runs away from home ...
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How to Find Happiness (2022)
- Director
- NAGASAKI Shunichi
- Cast
- TAKASUGI Mahiro, SEKIMIZU Nagisa
Heartwarming romance about family ties and a couple who fall in love after randomly ending up under the same roof. Director Nagasaki Shunichi and scriptwriter Yazawa Yumi from The Witch of the West is Dead team up for their first original project in ...
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Motto choetsushita tokoro e (2022)
- Director
- YAMAGISHI Santa
- Cast
- MAEDA Atsuko, KIKUCHI Fuma, ITO Marika
Playwright Nemoto Shuko pens the script for this bold feature film adaptation of her same-named play. Director Yamagishi Santa of Bully School: Devil Full of Scars delightfully depicts the love lives of four women who attract loser men. The story is...
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Hand (2022)
- Director
- MATSUI Daigo
- Cast
- FUKUNAGA Akari, KANEKO Daichi
This film kicks off the Roman Porno Now project celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Just Remembering director Matsui Daigo shows the reality of romance in his adaptation of Yamazaki Nao-cola's same-named novel. Sawako (Fukunaga...
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Safe Word (2022)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Koji
- Cast
- KAWASE Chisako, TORIUMU Nagisa
Second film in the Roman Porno Now project celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Coming-of-age S&M comedy by horror maestro Shiraishi Koji of Sadako vs. Kayako and Impossibility Defense. Misa (Kawase Chisako) is an underground id...
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When the Rain Falls (2022)
- Director
- KANEKO Shusuke
- Cast
- KOMIYA Kazuha, Kazumi
Third film in the Roman Porno Now project celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Lyrical portrayal of a new kind of romance from Kaneko Shusuke, who launched his career with a Roman Porno film and worked on the Heisei-era "Gamera" ...
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(Haru) (1996)
- Director
- MORITA Yoshimitsu
- Cast
- FUKATSU Eri, UCHINO Seiyo
Ingenious film about romance released in 1996 by director Morita Yoshimitsu, who passed away in 2011 at the age of 61. His original script portrays a love story between a man and women connected online in the days before the Internet was commonplace....
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And Then (1985)
- Director
- MORITA Yoshimitsu
- Cast
- MATSUDA Yusaku, FUJITANI Miwako, KOBAYASHI Kaoru
Superb romance based on the same-named masterpiece by the literary legend Natsume Soseki. Lead actor Matsuda Yusaku and director Morita Yoshimitsu reprise their successful teamwork from Family Game. Top Japanese film in Kinema Junpo's 59th Best Ten l...
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KAPPEI (2022)
- Director
- HIRANO Takashi
- Cast
- ITO Hideaki, KAMISHIRAISHI Moka, NISHIHATA Daigo (Naniwa Danshi)
A live-action film adaptation of the humorous manga "Kappei" by Wakasugi Kiminori, the author of "Detroit Metal City". It is a high-octane depiction of love and adolescence of the main character, who has devoted his life to training. Kappei (Ito Hid...
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OUR SECRET DIARY (2023)
- Director
- TAKEMURA Kentaro
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Fumiya, SAKURADA Hiyori
Romance based on Sakura Eeyo's same-named teen novel about miscommunication and love that sold over 650,000 copies. Nozomi (Sakurada Hiyori) is in her second year of high school and finds a letter that says "I like you!" in her desk. It is from Seto...
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You Made My Dawn (2023)
- Director
- SAKAI Mai
- Cast
- SHIROIWA Ruki, KUMADA Rinka
A love story adapted from Shiomi Natsue's hit novel series, which has sold over 550,000 copies, by up-and-coming director Sakai Mai of the "My Beautiful Man" series. Niwa Akane (Kumada Rinka), is an honor student who always wears a face mask at sch...
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ICE CREAM FEVER (2023)
- Director
- CHIHARA Tetsuya
- Cast
- YOSHIOKA Riho, MOTOLA Serena, UTAHA (WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA)
A love story adapted from the short story collection ‘Ice Cream Fever' by Akutagawa Award-winning author Kawakami Mieko. This is the first film directed by art director Chihara Tetsuya, who is active in a wide range of fields. Tsuneta Natsumi (Yoshi...
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S-friends 2 (2023)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- YUKIHIRA Aika, AOYAGI Sho
Second part of a two-part film adaptation of the popular manga by Minato Yoriko. Directed by Hideo Jojo of On the Edge of Their Seats fame. Morimura Shoko (Yukihira Aika) is a 36-year-old single mother who has been in a "friendship" with Kitada Kazu...
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S-friends (2023)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- YUKIHIRA Aika, AOYAGI Sho
Part one of a two-part film adaptation of the popular manga by Minato Yoriko. Directed by Jojo Hideo On the Edge of Their Seats, the film depicts the emotions of a man and woman who spend the night together at a class reunion. 36-year-old Morimura S...
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A Girl in My Room (2022)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Natsuki
- Cast
- KUBO Shiori, HAGIWARA Riku, ONO Rina
A film adaptation of Chugaku Yamamoto's manga of the same title depicting the strange communal life shared by a pure ghost and a businessman who is clumsy in love. Directed and scripted by Takahashi Natsuki, a female director born in 1996, it freshly...
