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A penguin's troubles THE MOVIE Shiawase no Aoi Tori de Gopennasai (2009)
- Director
- KAMIYA Jun
- Cast
- ITO Miyako, MATSUMOTO Sachi, GOTO Saori
A film adaptation of the comic and TV anime, which the original comic is made by Nagai Yuji. In addition to using the same main production staff as in the TV series, including director Kamiya Jun, it features a guest appearance from the immensely pop...
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Naruto Shippuden the Movie 3 (2009)
- Director
- MURATA Masahiko
- Cast
- TAKEUCHI Junko, INOUE Kazuhiko, NAKAMURA Chie
The sixth in the series of film adaptations of the TV anime program that has captured high audience figures throughout the world, which follows the personal growth of the drop-out ninja, Uzumaki Naruto. It is based on Kishimoto Masashi's popular comi...
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LIVE TAPE (2009)
- Director
- MATSUE Tetsuaki
- Cast
- MAENO Kenta, NAGASAWA Tsugumi
In this offbeat documentary filmed in one single 74-minute take, Director Matsue Tetsuaki, who has won critical acclaim for works such as Annyong Yumika , follows around singer songwriter Maeno Kenta's guerrilla show. On New Year's Day in 2009, we tr...
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Symphony in August (2009)
- Director
- NISHIZAWA Akio
- Cast
- FUKUEN Misato, TAKAHASHI Keiko, TAKAHASHI Kazuya
Singer-songwriter Kawashima Ai's autobiography, "Last words," made film. It took second place in the Animated and third in the Children's film sections at the 15th Lyon Asian Film Festival. The film has also gained recognition for its ambitious fusio...
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KAMEN RIDER W & MASKED RIDER DECADE (2009)
- Director
- TASAKI Ryuta
- Cast
- INOUE Masahiro, KIRIYAMA Ren, KIKKAWA Koji
Masked Rider Decade (Kamen rider decade) is the tenth, and Masked Rider W (Kamen rider W) the eleventh edition in the "Heisei Masked Rider" series. The deluxe duo of masked riders avenge evil in the tenth edition of the 'Heisei Masked Rider' cinema s...
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SHINKENGERS THE MOVIE (2009)
- Director
- NAKAZAWA Shojiro
- Cast
- MATSUZAKA Tori, AIBA Hiroki, TAKANASHI Rin
The theater version of "Samurai Sentai Shinkenger," act number 33 in the Super Sentai Series. This is the first digital 3D Super Sentai film, which tells about the spirit of wa (harmony) through the deeds of a young samurai. The malevolent spirits of...
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MASKED RIDER DECADE THE MOVIE (2009)
- Director
- KANEDA Osamu
- Cast
- INOUE Masahiro, MURAI Ryota, MORI Kanna
Film adaptation of the monumental piece "Masked Rider Decade," marking the 10th anniversary of the Heisei era Masked Rider series. The characters that appear in this episode not only include Heisei era masked riders, but Showa era masked riders and b...
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MASKED RIDER DEN-O & DECADE (2009)
- Director
- TASAKI Ryuta
- Cast
- SAKURADA Dori, INOUE Masahiro, TOTANI Kimihito
The first in a series of theater versions of the TV series, "Masked Rider Den-O," which made a new start as the "Cho Den-O" series. In addition to a plot line that connects to the "Masked Rider Decade" story, this latest episode in the series also fe...
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GO-ONGERS vs. GEKI RANGERS THE MOVIE (2009)
- Director
- MOROTA Satoshi
- Cast
- FURUHARA Yasuhisa, KATAOKA Shinwa, AIZAWA Rina
This series the Super Sentai V-Cinema original video series was created following the end of the Super Sentai series "Choriki Sentai Orenja" in 1995. This is the 15th episode in that series and the first to be shown at the film theaters. The Gaiark's...
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Be Sure to Share (2009)
- Director
- SONO Sion
- Cast
- AKIRA, ITO Ayumi, TAKAHASHI Keiko
This taught drama, by Love Exposure Ai no Mukidashi director Sono Shion, stars AKIRA from music group, EXILE in the leading role. Although his father is seriously ill, AKIRA has himself been sentenced to have his life curtailed even sooner. This film...
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Boku to Mama no Kiiroi Jitensha (2009)
- Director
- KONO Keita
- Cast
- TAKEI Akashi, ABE Sadawo, SUZUKI Kyoka
From Kono Keita, the director of Helen The Baby Fox (Kogitsune Helen) comes a heartwarming road film based upon the bestseller 'Boku no Yuku Michi' (*My way) by Shindo Fuyuki. Trained by an Japan Academy Prize Association Special Award winning dog t...
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Chikyu Stage (2008)
- Director
- SATO Iichiro
- Cast
- KUWAYAMA Norihiko
A documentary film on the journey of Kuwayama Norihiko, a psychiatrist engaging in awareness raising activities through live music, image, and narrative events entitled "Chikyu no Stage" alongside his medical activities providing mental health care t...
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A creche in a downtown (2008)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- KAMAKARI Kenta, KAWAI Ryunosuke, MIYANO Mamoru
A heartwarming movie about a group of "hosts" (male social escorts) who were just drifting along in life until a strange set of circumstances forces them to take care of a bunch of kids. The anxieties of young people used to doing only what they're t...
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Café Seoul (2009)
- Director
- TAKE Masaharu
- Cast
- KIM Jeong Hoon, SAITOH Takumi, KIM Dong Uk
This human drama features John Hoon, star of the immensely popular Korean drama 'Love in Palace,' and the young Japanese actor Saito Takumi. Against a backdrop of Seoul, Korea, it depicts a cultural interchange between brothers who run a confectionar...
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MAMESHIBA (2009)
- Director
- KAMEI Toru
- Cast
- SATO Jiro, ADACHI Yumi, WATANABE Tetsu
A film adaptation of the TV series which depicts the journey of a middle-aged man with a two-month old puppy in search of his mother who has run away from home. The film has a rich lineup of established actors from TV dramas, films and stage performa...
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Now, I... (2007)
- Director
- CHIKUMA Yasutomo
- Cast
- CHIKUMA Yasutomo, FUJISAWA Yoshiharu, BEN
A social drama film produced, written, directed and starred in by Chikuma Yasutomo, who was 23 years old at the time of production. Without any additional background music, the work closely depicts in great detail the mentality of a youth who has clo...
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Tsuma no Kao (2008)
- Director
- KAWAMOTO Akito
- Cast
- IWASAKI Toru, TANI Nobuko, KAWAMOTO Akito
A husband acquires an 8mm on the birth of his eldest son, and in the following 50 years continues to record images of his family. The 82 year old film creator Kawamoto Akito, who lives in Hiroshima, documents the day to day life of his wife Kiyoko. S...
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PRETTY CURE ALL STARS DX -Calling All Friends☆The Miracle Union- (2009)
- Director
- OOTSUKA Takashi
- Cast
- OKI Kanae, KITAMURA Eri, NAKAGAWA Akiko
A crossover production including 14 Pretty Cure characters from all seasons of the popular TV animation series "Pretty Cure." In a gorgeously portrayed adventure, adorable heroines from past and present join forces for action filled confrontations wi...
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The Amazing Grandma of Saga (2008)
- Director
- SHIMADA Yoshichi
- Cast
- KAYAMA Yoshiko, TAKASHIMA Reiko, KOBAYASHI Ayako
A film adaptation of the great hit memoir of Shimada Yoshichi 'Saga no Gabai Bachan' which sold a total of 6.7 million copies for the entire series. He directed and wrote the script for this film. This tear-jerking and side-splitting work depicts the...
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THE HARIMAYA BRIDGE (2009)
- Director
- Aaron WOOLFOLK
- Cast
- Ben GUILLORY, TAKAOKA Saki, SHIMIZU Misa
This is a Japan-U.S. co-production drama with the executive producer Danny Glover, from Lethal Weapon. An American photographer must travel to Japan after his son's death, who had lived there. But the people he meets and things he discovers cause him...
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Cobalt Blue (2009)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Yosuke
- Cast
- NAGASAWA Masami, FUKUSHI Seiji, SASAKI Kuranosuke
Nakagawa Yosuke 1997 debut feature Blue Fish (Aoi Sakana) as was his second, Departure, and third, Starlit High Noon (Mahiru no hoshizora), were all set in Okinawa. His films have won international acclaim, including being an official selection of th...
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A Thousand Year Song of Baobab (2009)
- Director
- MOTOHASHI Seiichi
- Cast
- HASHIZUME Isao, Modou DIOUF, Mbaye DIOUF
A documentary film taking up the long-living giant Baobab trees as its theme. It is shot by photographer Motohashi Seiichi, known as the director of Alexei and the Spring (Alexei to Izumi) and others. Set in Senegal in West Africa, where modernizatio...
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Snow Prince (2009)
- Director
- MATSUOKA Joji
- Cast
- MORIMOTO Shintaro, KUWAJIMA Marino, KAGAWA Teruyuki
A heart moving drama in the motif of 'A Dog of Flanders.' It is written by Koyama Kundo, the scriptwriter of Departures (Okuribito) which won an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Set in a small village in the early Showa perio...
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Listen to My Heart (2009)
- Director
- MISHIRO Shinichi
- Cast
- TOKIWA Takako, HAYASHI Kento, NAKAJIMA Tomoko
A human drama film with a rich cast of actors and comedians of various generations. A radio personality, Mai (Tokiwa Takako), receives a letter from her father who passed away while still in discord with her. She has the letter stowed away in a drawe...
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Sergeant Keroro-The Super Duper Movie-DRAGON WARS (2009)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Susumu
- Cast
- WATANABE Kumiko, KOZAKURA Etsuko, NAKATA Joji
In a 10th year commemoration of the comic series by Yoshizaki Mine, this is the fourth Sergeant Keroro feature film. World heritage site Mont Saint-Michel is the backdrop for this animated feature film. The half-witted earth invaders of Keroro platoo...
