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Wu Yi, the smallest baby panda in the world (2012)
- Director
- SHIOHAMA Masayuki
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Jun, TOKUYAMA Cheg
A documentary that follows the growth of an extremely premature baby panda. It is compiled from a vast amount of footage that chronicles the efforts of its breeders and sheds light on the ecology of pandas, which are regarded as having a low fertilit...
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ELENAR Electoric Company (2011)
- Director
- TERAUCHI Kotaro
- Cast
- MATSUSHITA Koji, FUJIWARA Yoshiko, YAMAMOTO Takeshi
The eighth film in the second season of the "Seishun H" series, in which up-and-coming filmmakers exhibit their originality through themes of youth and sex. Director Terauchi Kotaro has made films in a variety of genres including horror and parody, a...
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Wild Flower (2011)
- Director
- AOKI Norichika
- Cast
- TOMODA Sayaka, FUKAZAWA Tomoki, IKENAGA Ami
The seventh film in the second season of the "Seishun H" series, in which up-and-coming filmmakers exhibit their originality through themes of youth and sex. This depiction of the absurdities of youth is the feature debut of director Aoki Norichika, ...
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Kalina's apple, Forest of Chernobyl (2011)
- Director
- IMAZEKI Akiyoshi
- Cast
- Nascha Seryogina, Tachiana Maruheri, Ryudimira Shidolchevichi
A dramatic film based on information gathered on Chernobyl and its neighboring areas by director Imazeki Akiyoshi, known for his coming-of-age stories. Despite its initial completion in 2004, it was not screened in theaters, but it was eventually rel...
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SHAREHOUSE (2011)
- Director
- KITA Ichiro
- Cast
- YOSHIYUKI Kazuko, SAEKI Megumi, ASADA Miyoko
Drama that considers new lifestyles through communal living among four women of different ages and backgrounds. Director Kita Ichiro has done many surfing movies, and this film also takes place on the Shonan coastline. Yukiko (Yoshiyuki Kazuko), a wi...
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ITSUKAICHI STORY (2011)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Jin
- Cast
- ENDO Kumiko, KUSAMURA Reiko, YAMAZAKI Yoshiyuki
The film was made to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the establishment of Akiruno City formed in a merger between Akigawa City and Itsukaichi Town. It is written and directed by independent filmmaker Kobayashi Jin who is also an Akiruno City...
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Fighting OKAN (2011)
- Director
- MAEDA Naoki
- Cast
- NAKAZAWA Yuko, TAKEHARA Shinji, KINOMOTO Ryo
An entry in the eighth installment of film series "Twilight File", comically depicting the journey of a lazy housewife who becomes obsessed with boxing and regains her lost sparkle. Officially selected by several film festivals, and winner of the Bes...
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Obachanonnanoko (2010)
- Director
- YOKOHAMA Satoko
- Cast
- NOZAKI Yoshimi, UNO Shohei, SATO Miyu
Mid-length feature depicting a childish wife and her husband's love. Directed by Yokohama Satoko, the up-and-coming female director who won the Directors Guild of Japan's New Directors Award, and has earned high acclaim for an approach that abounds w...
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WAYA! Uchuichi no Osekkai Daisakusen (2011)
- Director
- KOHATSU Yo
- Cast
- ITODA Jun, MIZUNO Miki, MIWA Mizuki
Set in an actual shopping arcade in Nagoya City, this film brings together a cast and crew with links to the area. Up-and-coming director Kohatsu Yo, whose debut film RAISE THE CASTLE! received considerable acclaim abroad, presents a heart-warming dr...
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Suite Pretty Cure♪Take Back！The Heart-Binding Miraculous Melody♪ (2011)
- Director
- IKEDA Yoko
- Cast
- KOSHIMIZU Ami, ORIKASA Fumiko, TOYOGUCHI Megumi
The eleventh feature film in the popular animated "Pretty Cure" series for young girls. It is the first to link into the television series, and is a side story in which a tale of a girl's family is told with abundant lyricism. One day, all sound sudd...
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Ｒessha daikosin the movie Ressha number-one daishugo (2011)
- Director
- Cast
- TOKUNAGA Reiko, NONAKA Ai, NAGAFUCHI Yukitoshi
The third film in the Ressha Nanmbawan movie series which delves into the appeal of Japanese trains from various perspectives, gaining fans among young children and train aficionados alike. With a theme of "number one in Japan," it introduces locomot...
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same blood (2008)
- Director
- HASEBE Daisuke
- Cast
- OKUNOYA Kana, TANAKA Yonosuke, KONO Juｎpei
An entry in Project Dengeki, a screening program introducing short works by up-and-coming directors selected by filmmaker and film school tutor Daikuhara Masaki. This offbeat domestic drama was directed by Hasebe Daisuke while he was a student at Tok...
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My Baby (2010)
- Director
- ISOGAI Nagisa
- Cast
- FUJII Momoyo, MORITA Aki, ARAI Hideyuki
An entry in Project Dengeki, a screening program introducing short works by up-and-coming directors selected by filmmaker and film school tutor Daikuhara Masaki. Rookie director Isogai Nagisa presents a sharp-eyed depiction of a love-hate relationshi...
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My Sis Violates an Insect Taboo (2011)
- Director
- DAIKUHARA Masaki
- Cast
- CHOSOKABE Yoko, OKABE Nao, MORITA Aki
A mystery inspired by the ancient Chinese black magic ritual "Ko," in which small animals or insects are placed in a receptacle and made to fight to the death, after which the survivor is endowed with a powerful mystical force. Director Daikuhara Mas...
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HAYATE THE COMBAT BUTLER THE MOVIE HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH (2011)
- Director
- KOMORI Hideto
- Cast
- SHIRAISHI Ryoko, KUGIMIYA Rie, TANAKA Rie
First animated feature film of the popular comic by Hata Kenjiro, serialized in . Based on a new story written story by Hata, with a screenplay by Kamen Rider series' Kobayashi Yasuko. Komori Hideto makes his directorial debut with this film. Impover...
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Drawer Hobs (2010)
- Director
- KISE Kazuchika
- Cast
- NOTO Mamiko, OOURA Fuyuka, MATSUMOTO Megumi
Short fantasy produced as part of the Young Animators Fostering Project 2010, sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Directorial debut of Kise Kazuchika, an animator at Production I.G, known for films including A Letter to Momo. Noeru (voice: ...
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INAZUMA ELEVEN GO THE MOVIE (2011)
- Director
- MIYAO Yoshikazu
- Cast
- TERASAKI Yuka, OHASHI Takashi, SAIGA Mitsuki
A feature film version of an animated television series based on a popular football video game. Ten years after the events of the previous film, the world of football is now controlled by an administrative body, and junior high school players fight f...
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KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR (2011)
- Director
- IGUCHI Noboru
- Cast
- ITAO Itsuji, FURUHARA Yasuhisa, YAMASAKI Mami
A film adaptation of a special ef fectsladen superhero television series with a cult following that was broadcast on Japanese television in the 1970s. The exploits of secret police officer Daimon Yutaka are told in two parts at different stages of hi...
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BUNNY DROP (2011)
- Director
- SABU
- Cast
- MATSUYAMA Kenichi, Karina, ASHIDA Mana
A heartwarming tale based on Unita Yumi's popular manga. An ordinary office worker, twenty-seven and single, ends up raising a six-year-old girl. She is played by acting prodigy Ashida Mana, a first grade elementary schooler who was ubiquitous in the...
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Gingira Taiyo`s Hajimete Mono Gatari (2011)
- Director
- OTSUKA Muneto
- Cast
- OTSUKA Muneto, TATEISHI Yoshie, SUGIYAMA Hidemi
An adaptation of one of the best-known plays by Fukuoka-based theater troupe Gingira Taiyo's, popular for their anthropomorphic stage shows, that depicts the birth of the bullet train right up until the present day. A 0 series bullet train on the ver...
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Hotarubi no Mori e (2011)
- Director
- OMORI Takahiro
- Cast
- UCHIYAMA Koki, SAKURA Ayane
A short animated work from author Midorikawa Yuki, writer of "Natsume's Book of Friends" (Natsume Yujincho) which is also a popular animated television series, and director Omori Takahiro. It uses photorealistic imagery to delicately depict a fleetin...
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RYUJIN MABUYER THE MOVIE (2012)
- Director
- SANO Tomoki
- Cast
- YAMADA Shintaro, ISSA, FUKUMOTO Judy Sachiko
A feature film adaptation of a superhero television show broadcast in Okinawa. It humorously depicts the adventures of an offbeat hero who doesn't vanquish his enemies, and incorporates Okinawan history, culture, and dialect. Its cast features an arr...
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Inu no Omawarisan (2011)
- Director
- ARIMA Ken
- Cast
- NAKAO Akiyoshi, KAWAHARA Kazuhisa, NAKAMURA Yuri
A heartwarming story in 3D about the struggles of a young police officer who ends up adopting a golden retriever puppy. One day, an elementary school boy brings a puppy to a police box in the remote countryside. However, since a revision to the Lost ...
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Kaibutsu-kun: The Movie (2011)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Yoshihiro
- Cast
- OHNO Satoshi, MATSUOKA Masahiro, YASHIMA Norito
Live action adaption with CG galore of the hugely popular TV drama, based on Fujiko Fujio A's successful manga. The film dramatically depicts the prince from the land of monsters who wreaks havoc in the human realm, complete with 3D images and scenes...
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Little Ghostly Adventures of the Tofu Boy (2011)
- Director
- SUGII Gisaburo, KAWAHARA Shimmei
- Cast
- FUKADA Kyoko, TAKEDA Tetsuya, KOIKE Teppei
An animated fantasy supervised by Sugii Gisaburo and based on a novel by Kyogoku Natsuhiko, whose works have inspired several films including Ubume. Blending characters depicted in a hand-drawn style with three-dimensional computer graphics, it creat...
