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SAMURAI SHIFTERS (2019)
- Director
- INUDO Isshin
- Cast
- HOSHINO Gen, TAKAHASHI Issey, TAKAHATA Mitsuki
The Floating Castle director Inudo Isshin adapts to film the novel "Hikkoshi Daimyo" by Dobashi Akihiro, which is based on an anecdote about the true-life feudal lord, Matsudaira Naonori. One day, Matsudaira Naonori (Oikawa Mitsuhiro), the lord of H...
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SAMURAI MARATHON (2019)
- Director
- Bernard Rose
- Cast
- SATOH Takeru, KOMATSU Nana, MORIYAMA Mirai
Historical drama directed by Bernard Rose of Immortal Beloved and produced by Jeremy Thomas of The Last Emperor. Based on Dobashi Akihiro's novel 'Bakumatsu Marathon Samurai' about the Ansei Tooashi, known as Japan's first marathon. Annaka feudal lo...
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Tengu Rider ~Emperor's inspector~ (2017)
- Director
- KUNO Tsutomu
- Cast
- KASAHARA Shinji, NAKAMURA Seijiro, NOGUCHI Mao
Action-packed samurai drama set at the end of the Tokugawa era, produced as a regional development project for Otaki Village in Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture. Kyoto in 1961, the first year in the Bunkyu Era. As part of the policy for shogunate-im...
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The Great War of Archimedes (2019)
- Director
- YAMAZAKI Takashi
- Cast
- SUDA Masaki, EMOTO Tasuku, HAMABE Minami
Mita Norifusa's popular comic is adapted to live action. Set in 1930s Japan, the film depicts a brilliant mathematician's attempt to stop the construction program of the battleship Yamato. Yamazaki Takashi of The Eternal Zero directs. The headquarte...
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ORGAN (2019)
- Director
- HIRAMATSU Emiko
- Cast
- TODA Erika, OHARA Sakurako, SAKUMA Yui
Film adaptation of the true story of young nursery school caretakers who evacuated the children in their care to protect them from air strikes at the end of the Pacific War. Togoshi nursery teachers in Tokyo scramble to find a place to evacuate and ...
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This Old Road -KONOMICHI- (2019)
- Director
- SASABE Kiyoshi
- Cast
- OMORI Nao, AKIRA, KANJIYA Shihori
Poet Kitahara Hakushu and musician Yamada Kosaku created numerous acclaimed nursery rhymes. This biographical drama warmly depicts anecdotes about the birth of their collaborations, starting with the song 'Konomichi' in the film's title. Director Sas...
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Henkankoshonin Itsuka Okinawa o torikaesu (2018)
- Director
- YANAGAWA Tsuyoshi
- Cast
- IURA Arata, TODA Naho, OMI Toshinori
Feature film that incorporates new footage into the NHK drama based on Miyagawa Tetsuji's non-fiction film 'Boku wa Okinawa wo torimodoshitai.' Depicts legendary diplomat Chiba Kazuo's battle for his very soul. Diplomat Chiba (Iura Arata) was on the...
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Yassa Daruman (2018)
- Director
- OMORI Kenichi
- Cast
- SATO Hisanori, SUDO Maasa, TAKETATSU Ayana
Youthful drama inspired by the official mascot for Mihara City, Hiroshima Prefecture. Young employees at city hall scramble to boost the mascot's popularity. Reunites the cast from Fun way to write the light novel, along with director Omori Kenichi. ...
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SAMURAI'S PROMISE (2018)
- Director
- KIMURA Daisaku
- Cast
- OKADA Junichi, NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, KUROKI Haru
Naoki Prize-winning author Hamuro Rin's period novel is brought to life on film. It nobly portrays the bond between an upright samurai and his deceased wife amid the backdrop of internal intrigue entangling a fief. At the helm is Kimura Daisaku who i...
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Legend of the Demon Cat (2018)
- Director
- Chen Kaige
- Cast
- SOMETANI Shota, Huang Xuan, ABE Hiroshi
Japan-China co-production about monk Kukai and poet Hakurakuten as they tackle a tremendous mystery that shakes Chang'an, based on author Yumemakura Baku‘s "Samon kukai tou no kuni nite oni to utagesu". Directed by Farewell My Concubine's Chen Kaige....
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"Parade" de Satie (2016)
- Director
- YAMAMURA Koji
- Cast
Short animation by animation artist Yamamura Koji, whose film Mt. Head was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 75th Academy Awards. Recreates surrealistic ballet images as animation with text from French composer Erik Satie's essays and mus...
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Water Dream (2017)
- Director
- YAMAMURA Koji
- Cast
Short animation by animation artist Yamamura Koji, whose film Mt. Head was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 75th Academy Awards. Produced for the stage at the behest of French pianist Catherine Verhelst and stage designer Herv? Tougeron...
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Begon Bell Care (2014)
- Director
- YAMAMURA Koji
- Cast
Short animation by animation artist Yamamura Koji, whose film Mt. Head was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 75th Academy Awards. Produced using an excerpt from Norman McLaren's Begone Dull Care through a partnership between Quartier des...
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Zodiac One Third (2016)
- Director
- YAMAMURA Koji
- Cast
Short animation by animation artist Yamamura Koji, whose film Mt. Head was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 75th Academy Awards. Produced with "twenty" as the concept to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Toronto Reel Asia Internat...
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KOJIKI at Hyuga (2013)
- Director
- YAMAMURA Koji
- Cast
Short animation by animation artist Yamamura Koji, whose film Mt. Head was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 75th Academy Awards. Animated rendition of "The Cleansing," "Sun Goddess Amaterasu," "Flowering Trees" and "Umisachi and Yamasac...
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Anthology with Cranes (2011)
- Director
- YAMAMURA Koji
- Cast
Short animation by animation artist Yamamura Koji, whose film Mt. Head was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 75th Academy Awards. Inspired by Edo period artist Tawaraya Sotatsu's unique 17th century "Anthology with Cranes" scroll that e...
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The Salt of the Earth, Gunpei Yamamuro (2016)
- Director
- TOJO Masatoshi
- Cast
- MORIOKA Ryu, WAGATSUMA Miwako, TATSUMI Takuro
Historical drama set in the tumultuous Meiji period about Yamamuro Gunpei, who devoted his life to saving others, and his comrades. Directed by Tojo Masatoshi of 9/10. Born into a poor farming family in Okayama, Gunpei (Morioka Ryu) was adopted by ...
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Pelican: 74 Years of Japanease Tradition (2017)
- Director
- UCHIDA Shuntaro
- Cast
- WATANABE Kazuo, WATANABE Riku, NAGI HIoriki
Documentary about the venerable Pelican bakery that was founded 74 years ago. Directed by Uchida Shuntaro of Portrait. Tokyo is crowded with bakeries that sell bread of all varieties imaginable. Located in Tokyo's old-style downtown district of Asa...
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ERNESTO (2017)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Junji
- Cast
- ODAGIRI Joe, NAGAYAMA Kento, Juan Miguel VALERO ACOSTA
In this drama, Sakamoto Junji, director of Human Trust and The Projects, portrays the life of a man of Japanese descent who fought alongside Che Guevara and from whom he was given his first name. Odagiri Joe plays Freddy Maemura Hurtado, who was in l...
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FLOWER AND SWORD (2017)
- Director
- SHINOHARA Tetsuo
- Cast
- NOMURA Mansai, ICHIKAWA Ennosuke, NAKAI Kiichi
A film adaptation using Onitsuka Tadashi's novel relating episodes about Ikenobo Senko, a master of flower arrangement during the end of the Warring States Period, as a motif. In the director's chair is Shinohara Tetsuo of TERMINAL. Ikenobo Senko (N...
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TATARA SAMURAI (2017)
- Director
- NISHIKORI Yoshinari
- Cast
- AOYAGI Sho, KOBAYASHI Naoki, TABATA Tomoko
First film produced by Hiro of Exile. Directed by Nishikori Yoshinari of Railways. It is the end of the Sengoku period. In Tatara Village deep in the mountains of Izumo, Tatara blowing is secret method for making high-quality iron that is touted to ...
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Great Mother Takiji Kobayashi's Motheｒ (2017)
- Director
- YAMADA Hisako
- Cast
- TERAJIMA Shinobu, SHIOYA Shun, WATANABE Ikkei
Drama about the life of the mother of Hayashi Takiji, known for the proletarian novel {The Crab Cannery Ship}. Directed by Yamada Hisako of Bokyo no kane Manmo kaitakudan no rakujitsu. Seki (Terajima Shinobu) was born into an impoverished family in ...
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SAMURAI HUSTLE RETURNS (2016)
- Director
- MOTOKI Katsuhide
- Cast
- SASAKI Kuranosuke, FUKADA Kyoko, IHARA Tsuyoshi
The sequel to Samurai Hustle which depicts the struggle of a minor fiefdom suddenly ordered by the shogunate to fulfill the "sankin kotai" journey to Edo. Director Motoki Katsuhide and screenwriter Tsuchihashi Akihiro once again resume their roles fo...
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Yumeji: A Spurt of Love (2015)
- Director
- MIYANO Keiji
- Cast
- SURUGA Taro, KOMIYA Arisa, KATO Masaya
A drama portraying the life of Takehisa Yumeji, a painter who proclaimed himself "Japan's first pop-art artist". It details the love-hate relationship and ultimate separation from his wife, a "Bijin-ga" (paintings of beautiful women) model, as well a...
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THE BOOK PEDDLER (2016)
- Director
- OMORI Kenichi
- Cast
- TAKEDA Rina, KOBAYASHI Yutaka, YOSHIYUKI Kazuko
Set in Ehime Prefecture's Uwajima City, the film portrays the efforts by a novelist, who bicycles around town delivering books for the library courier department, to find a book crucial to a festival on the island. In the director's chair is Omori Ke...
