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Kiss Cam! (2020)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Hana
- Cast
- HAYAMA Shono, HOTTA Akane, YAGI Alissa
The inspiration for this romantic film is the "Kiss Cam" carried out at sporting events in which a couple selected from the crowd by a TV camera must kiss for all to see. At the helm is Matsumoto Hana whose A Midsummer Dream was screened at the Yubar...
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Hold Me Back (2020)
- Director
- OHKU Akiko
- Cast
- Non, HAYASHI Kento
Romance about the clumsy love life of a thirty-something woman who thoroughly enjoys being single. Director Ohku Akiko won the Audience Award at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival for Tremble All You Want. Thirty-one year old Mitsuko (Non) l...
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The Hardness of Avocado (2019)
- Director
- JO Masaya
- Cast
- MAEHARA Mizuki, TAGA Asami
Jo Masaya's feature-length directorial debut has picked up awards at PFF Award 2019 and other local independent film competitions. The film stars Maehara Mizuki, a member of theatre troupe Seinendan, in the lead role of Maehara and unspools a realist...
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You're Not Normal, Either! (2020)
- Director
- MAEDA Koji
- Cast
- NARITA Ryo, KIYOHARA Kaya
Love story about a romantically challenged cram school teacher and one of his students. Directed by Maeda Koji, whose Till Death Do Us What? was screened in the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival Panorama section. Ono Yasuomi (Narita Ryo) is ...
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COMING HOME (2020)
- Director
- INOUE Ryuta
- Cast
- FURUKAWA Yuki, RYUSEI Ryo
Romance about the innocent love between a young man dishearten by city life and the guy who accepts him. Directorial debut from Inoue Ryuta, who produced Parade that won the FIPRESCI award at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. Mitsuomi (Fu...
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The Real Thing (2020)
- Director
- FUKADA Koji
- Cast
- MORISAKI Win, TSUCHIMURA Kaho, UNO Shohei
Story about a couple's messy fall from grace. Helmed by Fukada Koji, who won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 69th Cannes Film Festival for Harmonium. Tsuji Kazumichi (Morisaki Win) is a bored office worker in questionable rela...
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Yes, No, or Maybe Half? (2020)
- Director
- TAKATA Masahiro
- Cast
- ABE Atsushi, KAWAHAEA Yoshihisa
Ichiho Michi's identically titled "boys love" novel is the basis for this anime love story. The adaptation is written and directed by Takata Masahiro who worked on Tobidasu Ehon 3D. Young reporter Kunieda Kei (voice: Abe Atsushi) has vastly differen...
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A Beast in Love (2020)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Koji
- Cast
- TANAKA Shunsuke, UNO Shohei
A violent romantic-comedy set in a rural town that is the subject of urban legend. Director Shiraishi Koji, who Impossibility Defense was screened at the 8th Beijing International Film Festival, reboots his previously directed short film into this fe...
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Georama Boy, Panorama Girl (2020)
- Director
- SETA Natsuki
- Cast
- YAMADA Anna, SUZUKI Jin
The intersecting romance of a boy and girl who have a seemingly destined encounter. At the helm is Seta Natsuki, whose A Liar and a Broken Girl screened in the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival's Japanese Eyes section (currently the Japanese Cin...
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Tokyo Wine Party People (2019)
- Director
- WADA Hideki
- Cast
- MATSUMURA Sayuri, ONO Ito, ONOZUKA Hayato
Shino Sakuragi, an office worker in Tokyo, gets invited to a wine party by her boss. It's a bourgeois party, and at first she feels uncomfortable, but soon she hits it off with a male participant, Kazushi Oda. She falls for him because even though ...
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Shape of Red (2020)
- Director
- MISHIMA Yukiko
- Cast
- Kaho, TSUMABUKI Satoshi
Mishima Yukiko, director of
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Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (2020)
- Director
- FUKUDA Yuichi
- Cast
- TAKAHATA Mitsuki, YAMAZAKI Kento
An innocent love story between a closeted "boys' love" comics fan and a hardcore gamer is depicted in this live-action adaptation of the identically titled web manga. At the helm is Fukuda Yuichi, director of hits such as Gintama. 26-year-old office...
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mellow (2020)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- TANAKA Kei, OKAZAKI Sae
Set in the most stylish flower shop in town and a ramen shop on the brink of closing down, this ensemble romance film depicts the yet-unripened love of various people. Just Only Love helmer Imaizumi Rikiya directs from his own original screenplay. N...
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FIRST LOVE (2019)
- Director
- MIIKE Takashi
- Cast
- KUBOTA Masataka, UCHINO Seiyo, OMORI Nao
Director Miike Takashi depicts the events of a single intense night in this original story. Selected for Directors' Fortnight at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. Kabukicho, Shinjuku's red-light district. Katsuragi Leo (Kubota Masataka) is a destitute ...
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his (2020)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- MIYAZAWA Hio, FUJIWARA Kisetsu
Two men who were once a couple reunite after eight years in this romance film. It portrays the LGBTQ community's hopes for coexistence, a courtroom drama contesting parental rights, the transformation of the family structure, and the harsh conditions...
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Your Eyes Tell (2020)
- Director
- MIKI Takahiro
- Cast
- YOSHITAKA Yuriko, YOKOHAMA Ryusei
This love story is a remake of the South Korean film Always which took its cue from Chaplin's City Lights. In the director's chair is Miki Takahiro who has worked on We Were There and other romance films. One day, Rui (Yokohama Ryusei) meets a blind...
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Love Me, Love Me Not (Feature) (2020)
- Director
- MIKI Takahiro
- Cast
- HAMABE Minami, KITAMURA Takumi, FUKUMOTO Riko
This feature film sequel to "Strobe Edge" and "Blue Spring Ride" completes the live-action adaptations of Sakisaka Io's same-named girls' comic trilogy. Helmed by romance film maestro Miki Takahiro. Akari (Hamabe Minami), Rio (Kitamura Takumi), Yuna...
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Love Me, Love Me Not (Animation) (2020)
- Director
- KUROYANAGI Toshimasa
- Cast
- SHIMAZAKI Nobunaga, SAITO Soma, HAN Megumi
This feature film sequel to "Strobe Edge" and "Blue Spring Ride" completes the animation adaptations of Sakisaka Io's same-named girls' comic trilogy. Produced by A-1 Pictures of Sword Art Online the Movie-Ordinal Scale. Four teens in their first ye...
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TWO KOMACHIS (2020)
- Director
- SONE Takeshi
- Cast
- Hanna CHAN, Eliz LAO, IZUMI Soko
Transposes Akutagawa Ryunosuke's story into a contemporary setting to depict the Grim Reaper's relationships with two women. Director Sone Takeshi served as cinematographer for One Cut of the Dead and helmed Mystic Shrine Maiden, which won the Best F...
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KISS HIM, NOT ME! (2020)
- Director
- HIRANUMA Norihisa
- Cast
- YOSHINO Hokuto, KAMIO Fuju, YAMAGUCHI Nonoka
Live-action adaptation of the same-named romantic comedy comic that won the 40th Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shojo Manga and has also been turned into a TV anime series. Helmed by Hiranuma Norihisa, who penned the screenplay for the "HIGH & LOW" se...
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JOSEE, THE TIGER AND THE FISH (2020)
- Director
- TAMURA Kotaro
- Cast
- NAKAGAWA Taishi, KIYOHARA Kaya
Feature film animation adaptation of Akutagawa Prize-winner Tanabe Seiko's renowned story, which has also been turned into a live-action film. Helmed by Tamura Kotaro, who worked as assistant director on Wolf Children and directed the TV anime series...
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WHISPER OF THE HEART (2022)
- Director
- HIRAKAWA Yuichiro
- Cast
- SEINO Nana, MATSUZAKA Tori
Hit-maker Hirakawa Yuichiro helms this live-action adaptation of Hiiragi Aoi's celebrated manga, which fans know from the same-named 1995 animation film. This completely new story picks up the protagonists' lives ten years later. Bibliophile Tsukish...
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ALL ABOUT MARCH (2020)
- Director
- YUKAWA Kazuhiko
- Cast
- Haru, NARITA Ryo
Yukawa Kazuhiko, the screenwriter of numerous popular television dramas, makes the month of March the focus of this love story about the 30 years in the life of a man and woman bound by fate. March 1st, 1986. Yayoi (Haru) and Taro (Narita Ryo) meet ...
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Last Letter (2020)
- Director
- IWAI Shunji
- Cast
- MATSU Takako, HIROSE Suzu, ANNO Hideaki
Romance by director Iwai Shunji, known for Swallowtail Butterfly and Hana and Alice. Depicts the emotional rebirth and development, as well as the romance, between men and women of different generations, instigated by miscommunications via letters. ...
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colorless (2019)
- Director
- KOYAMA Takashi
- Cast
- KANEKO Daichi, ISHIKAWA Ruka
Director Koyama Takashi has adapted a trailer which won the Grand Prix at the 2nd MI-CAN unfinished-movie trailer awards into this feature-length love story. It world premiered at the Japan Cinema Splash section of the 2019 Tokyo International Film F...
