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Kazoku no fukei (2013)
- Director
- SAKON Keitaro
- Cast
- IKEMATSU Sosuke, SATO Mari, NAKAJIMA Hidekazu
Short drama produced as a Nihon University College of Art graduation film and screened at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in 2014. Depicts a family's everyday existence and personal relationships from the son's perspective. Director ...
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Mirai Shutter (2015)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Kazuyuki
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Yo, MIDORIKAWA Kenji, MASAGO Takeshi
Drama probing deeply into diversity and identity with a focus on the ability to "draw the line" emotionally, which is said to be at the root of social problems. Open innovation from the NPO Wupfilm. Miki (Hasegawa Yo) quits her job and shuts down em...
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Dictator, Koga (2013)
- Director
- IIZUKA Toshimitsu
- Cast
- SHIMIZU Naoya, MURAKAMI Honoka, SERIZAWA Tateto
Author Iizuka Toshimitsu makes his feature length directorial debut in this adaptation of his screenplay which won the Best Screenplay award at the Isama Studio Cinema Festival. The film won the Entertainment Award at the 2014 Pia Film Festival Award...
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Summer on the Frontline (2015)
- Director
- MATSUSHIMA Tetsuya
- Cast
- TANAKA Min, NATSUYAGI Isao, OTANI Eiko
Drama based on Tawara Kazuo's notebooks by the same title. Delves into the tragic fate of student draftees who were left behind at the border between the Soviet Union and Manchu at the close of World War II. The film bolsters its social advocacy by h...
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Home of Our Hearts (2015)
- Director
- IMANISHI Yuko
- Cast
- MATSUDA Madoka, NAKADA Yuichi, MORIBAYASHI Erina
Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the merger of Takayama City in Gifu Prefecture, this human drama was produced by a group of Takayama natives. Imanishi Yuko, director of Ano Saka wo Noboreba, takes the reigns while actress Matsuda Madoka, a Tak...
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Lived, Loved, Stole (2015)
- Director
- ASANUMA Naoya
- Cast
- YAMADA Kinuo, Kanna, ASAKURA Aki
Installation in the omnibus "4 Stories with a Cat" in which four young directors deal with the theme of cats. Director Asanuma Naoya's feature Heart Beat was screened at the 2012 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. Kiki (Yamada Kinuwo) and...
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Her Father, My Lover (2015)
- Director
- YAMAUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- FUKIKOSHI Mitsuru, KISHII Yukino, ANDO Wako
A romantic comedy about a university student who falls head over heels in love with her best friend's father with no concern for what others think. Its director is Yamauchi Kenji, whose directorial debut Being Mitsuko was nominated for the Internatio...
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Spring Has Come (2015)
- Director
- YOSHINO Ryohei
- Cast
- YANAGIYA Kyotaro, ISHII Anna, PARK Romi
Road film about a single dad and his daughter traveling from Hiroshima to Tokyo in search of a place to live. Director Yoshino Ryohei, whose film Akaboshi was selected for the Japanese Eyes section of the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival, handl...
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Lingering Memories (2014)
- Director
- TSURUOKA Keiko
- Cast
- KINOSHITA Misaki, IZUMISAWA Yuki, TANAKA Ryuzo
Drama about a man and woman confronting the void left behind by someone irreplaceable. Directed by Tsuruoka Keiko, whose The Town of Whales was screened at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival and won the Grand Prize and Gemstone Award at the ...
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SINBAD -A Flying Princess and a Secret Island- (2015)
- Director
- MIYASHITA Shinpei
- Cast
- MURANAKA Tomo, TANABE Momoko, NAGASAWA Nao
The first part of an anime trilogy based on the literary classic 'The Arabian Nights.' A young boy dreaming of being a seaman meets a young girl from a sorcerer clan and heads out on a wondrous adventure. The film commemorates the 40th anniversary of...
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Happy Landing (2015)
- Director
- AMANO Chihiro
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Yuri, NAGAYAMA Takashi, SATO Megumi
Romance featuring an ensemble cast in seven episodes about marriage. Upcoming director Amano Chihiro won both the Audience Award and Grand Prize in the 5th Shitamachi Comedy Film Festival for The Confessions of Figaro. A woman flees her wedding cere...
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KUMI TO TYURIPPU (2015)
- Director
- YOSHIMURA Fumihiro
- Cast
A short animation produced through the Agency for Cultural Affairs' "Anime Mirai" project to nurture young animators. Director Yoshimura Fumihiro has worked on "Black Jack" among other Tezuka Productions works. Visualist film director Tezuka Makoto s...
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YOSHIKO EX MACHINA (2015)
- Director
- SUDA Yumiko
- Cast
- WATANABE Naoko, MORIYA Shotaro, AI Ichitaro
A short animation produced through the Agency for Cultural Affairs' "Anime Mirai" project to nurture young animators. The original story and screenplay were written by "Chibi Maruko-chan" series voice actor TARAKO and is directed by Suda Yumiko of Ch...
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AKI NO KANADE (2015)
- Director
- SUZUKI Yohei
- Cast
- SATO Rina, HAMADA Kenji
A short animation produced through the Agency for Cultural Affairs' "Anime Mirai" project to nurture young animators. The director is Suzuki Yohei known for TV animation titled The Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat. Aki (voice: Sato Rina) came to Toky...
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CHIBI MARUKO CHAN -A Boy from Italy- (2015)
- Director
- TAKAGI Jun
- Cast
- TARAKO, YARA Yusaku, ICHIRYUSAI Teiyu
This is the 25th anniversary film of televised anime "Chibi Maruko chan". For the first time in the series' history, the setting moves from Shimizu City as the well-known characters travel around Osaka and Kyoto. The script was written by the origina...
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YO-KAI WATCH 2: Five Tales from Beyond... Meow! (2015)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Shigeharu, USHIRO Shinji
- Cast
- TOMATSU Haruka, SEKI Tomokazu, KOZAKURA Etsuko
This is the second theatrical anime of "YO-KAI WATCH," the game which has expanded to a variety of other media. The film depicts the interaction between a regular boy Amano Keita, who acquires a mysterious timepiece known as "YO-KAI WATCH," and count...
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GAMBA (2015)
- Director
- KAWAMURA Tomohiro, KOMORI Yoshihiro
- Cast
- KAJI Yuki, KANDA Sayaka, NOMURA Mansai
Based on the juvenile literature classic "The Adventurers, Gamba and his Fifteen Companions" published in 1972, the grand story of gallant mice battling an evil, white ferret is thrillingly told with full 3D animation. City mice Gamba (voice: Kaji Y...
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The Anthem of the Heart (2015)
- Director
- NAGAI Tatsuyuki
- Cast
- MINASE Inori, UCHIYAMA Koki, AMAMIYA Sora
Nagai Tat suyuki, Okada Mar i, and Tanaka Masayoshi (respectively, the director, writer, and character designer of the popular anime series "Anohana") reunite for this original theatrical anime which delicately weaves a story about the rejuvenation o...
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At Home (2015)
- Director
- CHONO Hiroshi
- Cast
- TAKENOUCHI Yutaka, MATSUYUKI Yasuko, SAKAGUCHI Kentaro
Live action adaptation of the novella by Honda Takayoshi, who has had numerous other works including Strayer's Chronicle on the big screen. Depicts the tight bonds that connect a dysfunctional family of five, and the troubles that befall them. The M...
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Pokémon: Pikachu and the Pokémon Music Squad (2015)
- Director
- YUYAMA Kunihiko
- Cast
- OTANI Ikue, INUYAMA Inuko
Short animation screened together with Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages. Lots of Pokémon gather in the woods and sing a chorus together. Features direction so the audience can sing along with the short film. The Pokémon have been looki...
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Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages (2015)
- Director
- YUYAMA Kunihiko
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Rika, OTANI Ikue
Eighteenth feature film for the animated Pokémon TV series, based on the popular video games. Set in a desert town, legendary Pokémon engage in the fiercest battle ever in the history of Pokémon. Ash (voice: Matsumoto Rika) and friends meet a mythic...
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THE BOY AND THE BEAST (2015)
- Director
- HOSODA Mamoru
- Cast
- YAKUSHO Koji, MIYAZAKI Aoi, SOMETANI Shota
A feature-length animated film based on an original screenplay, created by Studio Chizu and Hosoda Mamoru, director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, SUMMER WARS, and Wolf Children. A lonely boy unexpectedly becomes the disciple of abeast. Together...
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Tensai bakabuon yomigaeru furandasu no inu (2015)
- Director
- FROGMAN
- Cast
- FROGMAN, TAKIMOTO Miori, HAMADA Gaku
An anime commemorating the 80th anniversary of manga artist Akatsuka Fujio's birth in which Nello and Patrasche from the famed anime "A Dog of Flanders" appear in the world of Akatsuka's masterpiece, "Tensai Bakabon," to surrealistically hilarious ef...
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Flying Colors: How a Teen Girl Went from Academic Absurdity to an Elite University in One Amazing Year (2015)
- Director
- DOI Nobuhiro
- Cast
- ARIMURA Kasumi, ITO Atsushi, NOMURA Shuhei
Film adaptation of the nonfiction bestseller with 650,000 copies sold. Depicts the struggles of an airhead girl with bleached-out hair at the bottom of her class who strives to pass the entrance exam for prestigious Keio University. Directed by Doi N...
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DRAGON BALL Z Resurrection 'F' (2015)
- Director
- YAMAMURO Tadayoshi
- Cast
- NOZAWA Masako, NAKAO Ryusei, YAMADERA Koichi
Nineteenth feature film in the "Dragon Ball" series. Screenwriting debut for original story author Toriyama Akira and directorial debut for Yamamuro Tadayoshi, who has served as animation director for many films in the series. Evil emperor Freeza (v...
