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Crayon Shin-chan: My Moving Story! Cactus Large Attack! (2015)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Masakazu
- Cast
- YAJIMA Akiko, NARAHASHI Miki, FUJIWARA Keiji
The twenty-third entry in the popular animated film series about the raucous misadventures of kindergarten kid Shinnosuke. This time it follows the Nohara family to their new home in Mexico, where they come face-to-face with mysterious man-eating cac...
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Pretty Cure All Stars Spring Carnival (2015)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Junji
- Cast
- SHIMAMURA Yu, ASANO Masumi, YAMAMURA Hibiku
The eighteenth installment in the "Pretty Cure" animated feature film series, and the seventh under the "All Stars" banner, featuring numerous characters from previous movies. In a fairy land called Harmonia, forty girl warriors face off against a su...
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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Space Heroes (2015)
- Director
- OSUGI Yoshihiro
- Cast
- MIZUTA Wasabi, OHARA Megumi, KAKAZU Yumi
A film that commemorates the thirty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the nationally popular "Doraemon" film series. Nobita and his friends take a stand to keep the peace in space. Osugi Yoshihiro, who has performed various tasks for films in the...
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Have a Song on Your Lips (2015)
- Director
- MIKI Takahiro
- Cast
- ARAGAKI Yui, KIMURA Fumino, KIRITANI Kenta
Film adaptation of the novel by Nakata Eiichi, who drew inspiration from a TV documentary. Directed by Miki Takahiro of Girl in the Sunny Place. The Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture. Kashiwagi Yuri (Aragaki Yui), a beautiful pianist from Tokyo, i...
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Halser Acre:The Movie Acres (2015)
- Director
- KISHIMOTO Tsukasa
- Cast
- AKINA, FUKUDA Moeko, YAMASHIRO Tomoji
First theatrical release for Halser Acre, the Okinawan superhero story that is a huge local hit. The heroine is a descendent of the Okinawa nature and farm-loving Halser Tribe and confronts the destruction of nature with farming tool nymphs. Directed...
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I ALONE (2013)
- Director
- TSUKIKAWA Sho
- Cast
- MAKITA SPORTS, IKEMATSU Sosuke, SANO Shiro
Action comedy in which a troubled middle-aged company employee and a wayward youth deliver a getaway drama driven purely by instinct. Comedian-cum-actor Makita Sports and the young character actor Ikematsu Sosuke form an unusual pair. Ito (Makita) u...
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Yamamoto Jisho bokyo no kane Manmo kaitakudan no rakujitsu (2014)
- Director
- YAMADA Hisako
- Cast
- NAITO Takashi, WATANABE Azusa, TOKIWA Takako
Drama about the life of Yamamoto Jisho, known as "father figure to orphans left behind in China" for his devotion to repatriating Japanese orphans. Director Yamada Hisako handled the live-action adaptation of Barefoot Gen and Fudeko and the Angel's P...
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And the Mud Ship Sails Away (2013)
- Director
- WATANABE Hirobumi
- Cast
- SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko, TAKAHASHI Saaya, IIDA Kaoru
Debut project from Foolish Piggies Films, the Tochigi Prefecture-based filmmaking collective formed primarily by director/scriptwriter Watanabe Hirobumi and his brother Watanabe Yuji, who handles production. Humorously depicts the encounter between a...
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Leap Year Girl (2014)
- Director
- AMANO Chihiro
- Cast
- KOSAKI Emiri, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko, SATO Takehirto
A film from the third Enbu Seminar Cinema Project. This fantasy depicts the wavering emotions of an unsuccessful actress tormented by pride and anxiety who comes face to face with her past self. Its director is Amano Chihiro (Hokago Rosuto). Emi (Ko...
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Dawn (2014)
- Director
- KAWAMURA Kiyoto
- Cast
- TAKEDA Rina, KASAJIMA Tomo, MURAKI Yu
A film from the third Enbu Seminar Cinema Project. It depicts the inconceivable fate of a woman and the mistress of her late husband. Takeda Rina of {The Tale of Iya} and {Attack on Titan} fame gives a fine performance as a girl who holds the key to ...
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Walking with My Mother (2014)
- Director
- SAKAGUCHI Katsumi
- Cast
- SAKAGUCHI Suchie, MIYAZANO Mariko, SAKAGUCHI Satoshi
A feature-length documentar y by Sakaguchi Kat sumi (Sleep), who has devised and directed around 200 television documentaries and films about families and young people. He closely follows his mother Suchie over four years, depicting her struggles and...
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Chokolietta (2014)
- Director
- KAZAMA Shiori
- Cast
- MORIKAWA Aoi, SUDA Masaki, ICHIKAWA Miwako
A coming-of-age film that presents a youthful depiction of a cinematographic journey undertaken by a girl who wants to become a dog, and a young man who professes to be a student bum. Its director is Kazama Shiori, who won the International Film Fest...
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The Noise (2014)
- Director
- SEKINE Tsutomu
- Cast
- NUKUMIZU Yoichi, MURAMATSU Toshifumi, IIO Kazuki
Comedy marking the directorial debut for comedian Sekine Tsutomu as he enters his fourth decade in show business. Depicts the struggle between people living underground who appear out of the blue and five run-of-the-mill middle-aged guys, with charac...
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YO-KAI WATCH the MOVIE (2014)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Shigeharu, USHIRO Shinji
- Cast
- TOMATSU Haruka, SEKI Tomokazu, KOZAKURA Etsuko
This is the first 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 countl...
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Mr. Tanikawa, please write a poem. (2014)
- Director
- SUGIMOTO Nobuaki
- Cast
- TANIKAWA Shuntaro, FURUYAMA Mami, MATSUNAGA Hidenori
A documentary that uses the poem "Kotoba" (WORDS), written by poet Tanikawa Shuntaro about the Great East Japan Earthquake, as an entry point for exploring precious words spoken by people living in various regions. It depicts the process in which new...
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AKANE (2014)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Yuno
- Cast
- SATO Fuko, SATO Rina, MORITA Yuki
A coming-of-age fantasy made through a collaboration between grown-up film professionals and junior high and high school students, including its director, first year high school student Sakamoto Yuno. Kotoni Town in Hokkaido provided full location su...
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SOFTEN! (2014)
- Director
- IZUMA Yasunari
- Cast
- KANON, OTA Aika, TANAKA Mirei
Film adaptation of Ibata Mina's same-named comic about the struggles of a girl's softball team on the verge of dissolution. Co-stars individualistic actresses including KANON and MIINA from Lucky Color's, Ota Aika from HKT48, and Tanaka Mirei from SU...
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Bay Blues -25years and 364days- (2014)
- Director
- TAKAYAMA Tomohiro
- Cast
- NAMIOKA Kazuki, CHO Tamiyasu, OGAWA Natsumi
Film about the youth of Kawamoto Eitoku, the comedian who was hailed as a genius but died unexpectedly at age 25, directed by his former stand-up comedy partner Takayama Tomohiro. Kawamoto is played by Cho Tamiyasu, who portrayed Matsumoto Hitoshi in...
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Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!: Ballerina of the Doll Kingdom (2014)
- Director
- KON Chiaki
- Cast
- NAKAJIMA Megumi, HAN Megumi, KITAGAWA Rina
The 17th entry in the "Pretty Cure" series of animated feature films about transforming heroines. In order to save a land of dolls in a time of crisis, young female warriors for good rise to the challenge. Its director is Kon Chiaki, known for her wo...
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Animal Expedition in Fuji Safari Park (2014)
- Director
- YAMAGISHI Kentaro
- Cast
- MIZUKI Nyoko, SUZUKI Daisuke
The second film in the "Children's Cinema" series that encourages young children to make their first visit to a movie theater. With the cooperation of Fuji Safari Park, where animals from around the world live in harmony, it presents a fun introducti...
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UNSUNG HERO (2014)
- Director
- TAKE Masaharu
- Cast
- KARASAWA Toshiaki, FUKUSHI Sota, KUROTANI Tomoka
"Suit actors" take risks their lives to perform in action scenes wearing superhero costumes, and their faces are never revealed.While we see these suit actors in numerous action and hero movies, this film puts these real-life unsung heroes in the lim...
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Shelｌy (2013)
- Director
- KASAHARA Masao
- Cast
- MORISAKI Win, SHINGYOJI Kimie, SHIMIZU Satomi
Coming-of-age drama in homage to singer/songwriter Ozaki Yutaka, who passed away unexpectedly at the age of 26. Set at the time of Ozaki's death in 1992, the story depicts the struggles and solitude of a young man who draws emotional sustenance from ...
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gift (2014)
- Director
- MIYAOKA Taro
- Cast
- ENDO Kenichi, MATSUI Rena, KAKIZAWA Hayato
The first film in the "M Cinema" series of movies mainly produced and screened outside of Tokyo. It follows an emotionally scarred man and woman as they travel from local city to Tokyo. The feature debut of director Miyaoka Taro. One day, Sinozaki (...
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I'm ten, then I'll catch eleven. (2014)
- Director
- JIMBO Yoshimasa
- Cast
- HAMADA Hibiki, Shion, Karmula Kosho
Drama dealing with death. Feature debut for director Jimbo Yoshimasa. The director mines his experiences in India and Bhutan in the employ of a travel agency specializing in remote destinations, and infuses the film with views on life and death. Sho...
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Shiroihane "Light from Phony" (2013)
- Director
- MAENO Yusuke
- Cast
- OKAMOTO Shogo, OSHIMA Roi, MANABE Tokiko
Short drama about a boy in a single-mother household who engages with an angel. Maeno Yusuke, who has done film trailers and documentaries, works with a script by illustrated book author Kimura Rei. This feature film debut delivers a heartfelt rendit...
