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The Flowers of Evil (2019)
- Director
- IGUCHI Noboru
- Cast
- ITO Kentaro, TAMASHIRO Tina, AKITA Shiori
Iguchi Noboru, the prolific creator of The Machine Girl and other cult and fantastic films, was charmed by Oshimi Shuzo's comic of the same name and personally endeavored toward achieving this live-action, startling teen film. Kasuga Takao (Ito Kent...
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One Cut of the Dead Spin-Off: In Hollywood (2019)
- Director
- NAKAIZUMI Yuya
- Cast
- Mao, HAMATSU Takayuki, SHUHAMA Harumi
This is a spin-off film of the public phenomenon One Cut of the Dead which opened in two theaters in Tokyo and became a smash hit through word of mouth. Director Ueda Shinichiro serves as executive producer and screenwriter while Nakaizumi Yuya, assi...
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Romance Doll (Tentative) (2019)
- Director
- TANADA Yuki
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Issey, AOI Yu, Kitaro
Director Tanada Yuki writes the screenplay to this live-action adaptation of her own 2008 debut novel of the same name. In the leading roles of the married couple are Takahashi Issey and Aoi Yu who co-star for the first time in 18 years since All Abo...
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He Won't Kill, She Won't Die (2019)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Keiichi
- Cast
- MAMIYA Shotaro, SAKURAI Hinako
Live-action film adaptation of the tear-jerker 4-frame manga that was a sensation on Twitter. Director Kobayashi Keiichi depicted the highs and lows of teenage years with About the Pink Sky, which won the Japanese Eyes Best Picture Award at the 24th ...
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The Woman Who Keeps A Murderer (2019)
- Director
- NAKATA Hideo
- Cast
- ASUKA Rin, MIZUHASHI Kenji, NEGISHI Toshie
Nakata Hideo, director of the quintessential J-Horror film Ring, adapts the erotic-thriller novel of the same name by Oishi Kei. Four actresses depict with uninhibited eroticism the four personalities of the heroine. Kyoko (Asuka Rin) works at a bis...
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It Stopped Raining (2019)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Ryutaro
- Cast
- NAKANO Taiga, ETO Misa
Film adaptation of the 2004 debut novel from Miyashita Natsu, who made a splash when "The Forest of Wool and Steel" was adapted for film in 2018. Helmed by Nakagawa Ryutaro, whose accolades include the FIPRESCI Award at the 39th Moscow International ...
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Usohappyaku Zokuhen (TBD) (2019)
- Director
- TAKE Masaharu
- Cast
- NAKAI Kiichi, SASAKI Kuranosuke, HIROSUE Ryoko
Original comedy that reunites director Take Masaharu with scriptwriters Imai Masako and Adachi Shin from the previous film. Hirosue Ryoko plays the bewitching heroine who tricks the protagonists as portrayed by Nakai Kiichi and Sasaki Kuranosuke. An...
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SPECIAL ACTORS (2019)
- Director
- UEDA Shinichiro
- Cast
- OSAWA Kazuto, KONO Hiroki, FUJI Takuya
One Cut of the Dead director Ueda Shinichiro takes a concept he has been incubating for many years and casts 15 unknown actors through auditions for this multiple protagonist film resulting from his original script. It was the seventh project produce...
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Under Your Bed (2019)
- Director
- ASATO Mari
- Cast
- KORA Kengo, NISHIKAWA Kanako, ABE Kenichi
Film adaptation of Ohishi Kei's same-named horror novel about a lonely man's warped feelings of love. Helmed by Bilocation's Asato Mari, who served as assistant director on films by Kurosawa Kiyoshi and Shiota Akihiko. Ignored by even his parents, M...
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His Bad Blood (2019)
- Director
- OYAMA Koichiro
- Cast
- WATANABE Ikkei, TOYAMA Yu, ENOMOTO Sakura
Drama marking the feature film debut for Oyama Koichiro, who has worked as assistant director for Nakata Hideo and Wakamatsu Setsuro. Shot entirely in Nagano Prefecture's Iida City. Screened at the 23rd Fantasia International Film Festival. Raised b...
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To the Ends of the Earth (2019)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Kiyoshi
- Cast
- MAEDA Atsuko, KASE Ryo, SOMETANI Shota
Along the silk road, my heart went astray... Yoko (Atsuko Maeda) hosts a popular global travel show yet is cautious and insular like many young Japanese. But she has a bigger dream. On assignment in Uzbekistan, Yoko and her small TV crew attempt to ...
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Sleep in the Shadows (2019)
- Director
- IZUMI Seiji
- Cast
- KATO Masaya, NAKAMURA Yuri, YO Kimiko
The man has accepted everything. Fuyuki is an established artist who runs several bars in Yokohama. One day, injured Shinji runs into his bar. He always idolizes Fuyuki as his elder brother. Shinji is a member of the charity group which looks after ...
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ERICA 38 (2018)
- Director
- HIBI Yuichi
- Cast
- ASADA Miyoko, KIKI Kilin
Kiki Kilin's last film inspired by a true story.. Satoko is over 60-year-old, and makes her living as a cheap con artist. One day a mysterious lady approaches her saying that she is someone special and introduces her a man who gives her a job. She s...
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Minori, on the Brink (2019)
- Director
- NINOMIYA Ryutaro
- Cast
- HAGIWARA Minori
Life is a bunch of crap, including myself. Minori is a pretty girl. Boys always talk about her and try to get her, and girls admire her or try to use her. She is fed up with people who care only about her appearance and themselves. She is always str...
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Show Me the Way to the Station (2019)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Naoki
- Cast
- NIITSU Chise
My loving dog, Lou, I miss you so much... Sayaka, an 8-year-old girl, still cannot accept that Lou, her loving dog has passed away. One day, Sayaka goes to the secret place where they used to play together to look for Lou, believing that he is still...
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Handling Method for Grumpy Woman (working title) (2019)
- Director
- ARITA Shunsuke
- Cast
- HAYAMI Akari, HIRAOKA Yuta
Why are you so grumpy..? Ai is a university student studying Artificial Intelligence. She is working on her paper which theme is how to make up the grumpy mood for a woman with understanding the differences of the brains between men and women. For t...
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A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic (2019)
- Director
- KATAGIRI Kenji
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Honoka, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko
I found a monster... it might be me. Dad in my memory is always drunk-. Since Saki was a little girl, her father Toshifumi drinks alcohol almost everyday. He often invited his friends at home and played Mahjong, smoked and drank alcohol all the nigh...
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Little Miss Period (2019)
- Director
- SHINADA Shunsuke
- Cast
- NIKAIDO Fumi, ITOH Sairi
Fumi Nikaido fights for all women! "Why it sucks? Because I can't blame everything on my period." If you're a woman, you have to deal with your "monthly visitor" - your period - whether you like it or not. It comes in with a bang, dealing heavy blow...
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My Sweet Grappa Remedies (2019)
- Director
- OOKU Akiko
- Cast
- MATSUYUKI Yasuko, KUROKI Haru, SHIMIZU Hiroya
Dear diary, somehow, I like my life. Yoshiko is in her 40s, single and has no kid. She works in a publishing company and she enjoys small pleasures like having lunch with her junior colleague or drinking grappa alone at home. Her life is quiet but r...
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Kessan! Chushingura (working title) (2019)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Yoshihiro
- Cast
- TSUTSUMI Shinichi, OKAMURA Takashi, TSUMABUKI Satoshi
No Money, No Revenge!!? In 1701, a feudal lord, Asano was told to kill himself by the government because he tried to kill a bureaucrat of the government, Kira. Asano's right hand, Kuranosuke organized a revenge for Asano with his samurai retainers, ...
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AIRCRAFT CARRIER IBUKI (2019)
- Director
- WAKAMATSU Setsuro
- Cast
- NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, SASAKI Kuranosuke, SATO Koichi
Based on a best comic book by Kaiji Kawaguchi, an epic action movie has finally become a live action starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and Kuranosuke Sasaki. In the year 20XX, sudden fire by unidentified 20 fishing boats in the southern sea has been repor...
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SEA OF REVIVAL (2019)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Kazuya
- Cast
- KATORI Shingo, TSUNEMATSU Yuri, NISHIDA Naomi
Ikuo, a 40 years-old guy who is in reduced circumstances with gambling addiction, decides to move to his partner, Ayumi's hometown with her and her 16 years old daughter from the former marriage. In Sanriku, an area in Tohoku where it is still recove...
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Sadako (2019)
- Director
- NAKATA Hideo
- Cast
- IKEDA Elaiza, TSUKAMOTO Takashi, SHIMIZU Hiroya
J-Horror's influential "Ring" series returns to its origins. Nakata Hideo spearheads an original team for this film focusing on the black haired vengeful ghost Sadako. Mayu (Ikeda Elaiza) is a counselor who tends to a young girl recently admitted to...
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A Girl Missing (2019)
- Director
- FUKADA Koji
- Cast
- TSUTSUI Mariko, ICHIKAWA Mikako, IKEMATSU Sosuke
Challenging work that tackles the theme of an "innocent assailant" with an original script by director Fukada Koji, who won the Prix du Jury in the Un Certain Regard program for Harmonium at the 69th Cannes International Film Festival. Risa (Tsutsui...
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The Journalist (2019)
- Director
- FUJII Michihito
- Cast
- SHIM Eun-kyung, MATSUZAKA Tori
Inspired by the non-fiction book of the same name by Tokyo Newspaper journalist Mochizuki Isoko, this film is an original story depicting how state authority clashes with news media. Toto Newspaper journalist Yoshioka (Shim Eun-kyung) obtains anonym...
