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  • Nihon no ichiban nagai natsu

    Nihon no ichiban nagai natsu (2010)

    Director
    KURAUCHI Hitoshi
    Cast
    KIBA Katsumi, IKEUCHI Mansaku, KIMURA Midoriko

    A documentary drama describing a historic dialogue on how the war was ended, held among wartime government and military high officials for the first time after the war. Cultural figures representing Japan play the roles of dialogue attendees, adding ...

  • Hiroshima Pyongyang

    Hiroshima Pyongyang (2009)

    Director
    ITOH Takashi
    Cast
    LEE Kye-son, SHINYA Eiko

    A documentary tracing the lives of atomic bomb survivors living in North Korea, with a focus on women who were exposed to radiation through the bombing in Hiroshima and currently live in North Korea. Director Itoh Takashi, a veteran photo journalist,...

  • FURUSATO WORLD HERITAGE SITES VIEWED FROM SPACE

    FURUSATO WORLD HERITAGE SITES VIEWED FROM SPACE (2010)

    Director
    KUSAKA Hiromi
    Cast
    UCHIDA Kyara, Youssif WAEL, Matt RAYWARD

    A documentary featuring satellite images and 3D images of world and cultural heritage sites captured by high-performance cameras based on an original story. Multiple world heritage sites in the world are discussed from the viewpoint of local children...

  • HOLY ISLAND

    HOLY ISLAND (2010)

    Director
    HANABUSA Aya
    Cast
    Everybody in IWAISHIMA

    A documentary produced by Motohashi Seiichi, director of Alexei and the Spring (Alexei to Izumi) and directed by up-and-comer Hanabusa Aya. The film quietly depicts how locals live their daily lives in Iwaishima, Kaminoseki-cho of Yamaguchi Prefectur...

  • Livespire Musashi

    Livespire Musashi (2010)

    Director
    NINAGAWA Yukio
    Cast
    FUJIWARA Tatsuya, KATSUJI Ryo, SUZUKI Anne

    One of the Livespire series by Sony Corporation, which provides digital imaging, production/distribution of plays and other theater performances. Screenplay by Inoue Hisashi, directed by Ninagawa Yukio, and starring Fujiwara Tatsuya. Superb staff and...

  • Livespire Anjin English Samurai

    Livespire Anjin English Samurai (2010)

    Director
    Gregory DORAN
    Cast
    ICHIMURA Masachika, Owen TEALE, FUJIWARA Tatsuya

    A historic drama based on a true story. One of the Livespire series by Sony Corporation, which provides digital imaging, production/distribution of plays and other theater performances. The leading Japanese musical actor Ichimura Masachika and a youn...

  • Hetalia Axis Powers The Movie -Paint it, White-

    Hetalia Axis Powers The Movie -Paint it, White- (2010)

    Director
    Bob SHIRAHATA
    Cast
    NAMIKAWA Daisuke, YASUMOTO Hiroki, TAKAHASHI Hiroki

    The first theatrical version of the popular anime series, Hetalia: Axis powers (original manga series by Himaruya Hidekazu.) Using characters that embody the Axis characteristics based on their culture and history, such as jovial Italy, austere Germa...

  • Chandmani

    Chandmani (2009)

    Director
    KAMEI Takeshi
    Cast
    Davaasuren, Davaajav, Zaya

    A road movie about two young men on their way to the village of Chandmani, birthplace of "Khoomii," a traditonal Mongolian singing technique. Enthralled by traditional Mongolian music and Khoomii, director Kamei Takeshi ventures into Mongolia to crea...

  • Hana no Ato

    Hana no Ato (2009)

    Director
    NAKANISHI Kenji
    Cast
    KITAGAWA Keiko, KOMOTO Masahiro, MIYAO Shuntaro

    Based on a short story by noted historical novelist Fujisawa Shuhei, many of whose works have been made into films, including Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei), which was nominated for an Academy Award. Unasaka domain, northeastern Japan -- the Edo ...

  • BANYUKI from “GEKI ×CINE”

    BANYUKI from “GEKI ×CINE” (2010)

    Director
    INOUE Hidenori
    Cast
    KAMIKAWA Takaya, INAMORI Izumi, SAOTOME Taichi

    The first of the GEKI × CINE (Gekishine) series in which a live performance is digitally shot and released in movie theaters. Theater company Gekidan Shinkansen brings us a period action piece using "The Count of Monte Cristo" theme with spectacular ...

  • SWORD OF DESPERATION

    SWORD OF DESPERATION (2010)

    Director
    HIRAYAMA Hideyuki
    Cast
    TOYOKAWA Etsushi, IKEWAKI Chizuru, KIKKAWA Koji

    A film adaption of one of Fujisawa Shuhei's novels about the suffering of a master swordsman whose fate takes unpredictable turns, from his Kakushi Ken (Hidden Blade) series that is set in various periods of Japanese history, on which films like The ...

  • KUMO NO HYOSHIMAI

    KUMO NO HYOSHIMAI (2010)

    Director
    Cast
    BANDO Tamasaburo, BANDO Mitsugoro, ONOE Shoroku

    This is the 11th film in the Cinema Kabuki series that shows Kabuki performances filmed with HD cameras on digital screens in film theaters. This was one of the farewell performances, the last before the Kabukiza theater was closed for rebuilding. Ba...

  • THE LAST RONIN

    THE LAST RONIN (2010)

    Director
    SUGITA Shigemichi
    Cast
    YAKUSHO Koji, SATO Koichi, SAKURABA Nanami

    A sequel to the "Chushingura" story that usually ends with the suicides of the forty-seven samurai, the film features two splendid actors, Yakusho Koji who starred in 13 Assassins (Jusannin no Shikaku), and Sato Koichi, who starred in Nobody to Watch...

  • Abacus And Sword

    Abacus And Sword (2010)

    Director
    MORITA Yoshimitsu
    Cast
    SAKAI Masato, NAKAMA Yukie, MATSUZAKA Keiko

    A film adaptation of the book by Isoda Michifumi, in which he paints a picture of life in the final days of the Tokugawa shogunate, based on his painstaking analysis of the household accounts left behind by a low ranking samurai. Director Morita Yosh...

  • Leonie

    Leonie (2010)

    Director
    MATSUI Hisako
    Cast
    Emily MORTIMER, NAKAMURA Shido, HARADA Mieko

    Matsui Hisako, director of Yukie and Oriume, scripts and directs a film on the life of Leonie Gilmour, mother of the world-renowned sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, based on his biography. Assembling established producers and cast members from the American f...

  • The Lightning Tree

    The Lightning Tree (2010)

    Director
    HIROKI Ryuichi
    Cast
    OKADA Masaki, AOI Yu

    A love story based on the period novel of the same name by Mary Weather. In the crisp, clear mountains, a troubled young man from the shogunate family falls in love with a young girl who was abducted as an infant and raised in the wild. Hiroki Ryuich...

  • Thirteen Assassins

    Thirteen Assassins (2010)

    Director
    MIIKE Takashi
    Cast
    YAKUSHO Koji, YAMADA Takayuki, ICHIMURA Masachika

    A modern remake of Kudo Eiichi's 1963 period movie of the same title. In his trademark over-the-top-style, Miike Takashi delivers relentless violence, as the thirteen samurai take on an army of 300 in the last battle scene which runs for a whopping ...

  • HANJIRO

    HANJIRO (2010)

    Director
    IGARASHI Sho
    Cast
    ENOKI Takaaki, AKIRA, SHIRAISHI Miho

    A historical drama on the life of Nakamura Hanjiro, later known as Kirino Toshiaki, a samurai from Satsuma who played a part in the Meiji Restoration alongside Saigo Takamori and others. Lead actor Enoki Takaaki, born in Kagoshima and trained in trad...

  • Caterpillar

    Caterpillar (2010)

    Director
    WAKAMATSU Koji
    Cast
    TERAJIMA Shinobu, ONISHI Shima, YOSHIZAWA Ken

    A sensational war drama from director Wakamatsu Koji, the mastermind behind United Red Army (Jitsuroku Rengosekigun Asama-sanso e no michi), that unabashedly depicts a husband and wife gone wrong by war. Terajima Shinobu won the Silver Bear for Best ...

  • Arrietty

    Arrietty (2010)

    Director
    YONEBAYASHI Hiromasa
    Cast
    SHIDA Mirai, KAMIKI Ryunosuke, MIURA Tomokazu

    A Studio Ghibli animation based on Mary Norton's children's novels, "The Borrowers," set in modern day Japan. A story of a budding love between a boy and a tiny girl who must not let her existence be known by humans. 14-year-old Arrietty (voice: Shid...

  • Kotsunagi--Iriai, the Commons in Japan

    Kotsunagi--Iriai, the Commons in Japan (2009)

    Director
    NAKAMURA Kazuo
    Cast

    This documentary was the winner of a Bunka-cho Film Award in 2010. In the mountains of Kotsunagi in the northern region of Iwate prefecture, a long legal battle was fought over the right of commons (the right to enter the mountains to collect firewoo...

  • Okoru Saigyo

    Okoru Saigyo (2009)

    Director
    OKISHIMA Isao
    Cast
    OKISHIMA Isao, ISHIYAMA Tomomi

    Having worked in a wide range of fields from children's TV animation scripts to 'pink' films, independent auteur Okishima Isao directs and stars in this documentary. Upon hearing that the walkway along the Tamagawa Aqueduct, one of his favorite spots...

  • 442 -Live with Honor, Die with Dignity-

    442 -Live with Honor, Die with Dignity- (2010)

    Director
    SUZUKI Junichi
    Cast
    Daniel INOUE (U.S. Senator), George TAKEI, Steve SHIMIZU

    A documentary screened in the section "Japanese Eyes" at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival. The director Suzuki Junichi, who currently resides in the United States and focuses his efforts on co-productions between Japanese and US filmmakers,...

  • Taiwanjinsei

    Taiwanjinsei (2008)

    Director
    SAKAI Atsuko
    Cast
    Yang ZU-MEI, Taligu PULJALJUYAN, Chen CHING-SHIANG

    Taiwan was ruled as a Japanese colony for as long as 51 years, from 1895 to 1945. Under the forced assimilation policy imposed by the government at the time, education in Taiwanese schools was carried out entirely in Japanese, producing an entire gen...

  • ARAKI-Sakae no uta ga  kikoeru

    ARAKI-Sakae no uta ga kikoeru (2008)

    Director
    MINATO Kenjiro
    Cast
    hizuki, DAIKU Tetsuhiro, Minehaha

    This documentary that traces the footprints of singer-songwriter Araki Sakae, who participated in the Mitsui Miike Dispute, a large-scale strike in 1960 that had a major influence on postwar Japan. Sakae left behind a large number of worker songs. Th...