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Wash Away (2024)

Director: OKAZAKI Ikunosuke

Cast: NAKAO Yuka, KEN Naoko

A Soap Girl Takes Care of Her Grandmother. She must juggle two jobs and live two lives wash her grandmother's body as a caretaker by day, and wash her customers' bodies as a soap girl by night. Grandmother could not even remember her name because of ...

Giving Up World Domination (2025)

Director: KITAMURA Takumi

Cast: HAGIWARA Riku, TODO Hinata, IURA Arata

Kanata is an introverted socialite, spending his unchanging days in despair, feeling powerless, wondering if he is not needed by anyone. On the other hand, Hoshino, a colleague of his, is aloof and cheerful. Hoshino, who always wants things to be bla...

How Dare You? (2025)

Director: O Mipo

Cast: SHIMADA Tetta, Ruri, MIMOTO Yota

Yuishi, 10years old, a normal boy. Every day after school, he likes to catch woodlice (bugs) because he is in charge of the living creatures afterschool club. He has a crash on his classmate, Kokoa, who is a kind of go getter and conscious about en...

Kino ue no guntiai (2025)

Director: TAIRA Kazuhiro

Cast: TSUTSUMI Shinichi, YAMADA Yuki

1945, the end of the Pacific War. On Ie Island, Okinawa, the Japanese army had taken devastating damage after a fierce battle with the US forces. Kazuo Yamashita (Shinichi Tsutsumi), a seniorofficer sent from Miyazaki prefecture, and a local Okinawa...

RENOIR (2025)

Director: HAYAKAWA Chie

Cast: Suzuki Yui, ISHIDA Hikari, Lily Franky

Chie Hayakawa's first feature film "PLAN 75" (2022) won a Camera d‘or award-Special Mention at the 75th Cannes International Film Festival and was selected to represent Japan at the Academy Awards that year. Her latest film "Renoir" is an internation...

YA BOY KONGMING! THE MOVIE (2025)

Director: SHIBUE Shuhei

Cast: MUKAI Osamu, KAMISHIRAISHI Moka

The legendary strategist of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Kongming, was mysteriously reborn in modern-day Shibuya. Mesmerized by the singing voice of amateur singer Eiko Tsukimi, Kongming decided to team up with Eiko to aim for "universal peace" through ...

KISARAGI STATION Re: (2025)

Director: NAGAE Jiro

Cast: HONDA Miyu, TSUNEMATSU Yuri

On January 8, 2004, a woman who went by the name "Hasumi" posted about her experience arriving at "Kisaragi Station," an otherworldly station that does not exist in this world, on the anonymous message board '2channel.' This sparked the widespread po...

Let's Meet at Angie's Bar (2025)

Director: MATSUMOTO Yurugu

Cast: KUSABUE Mitsuko, MATSUDA Yoko, AOKI Yuzu

A white-haired woman arrives in town, blown by the wind. Introducing herself as a "wanted woman," Angie rents a mysterious property and opens a bar. The people in the town, each facing their own struggles, meet Angie. Inspired by her dignified way o...

Seaside Serendipity (2025)

Director: YOKOHAMA Satoko

Cast: HARADA Konosuke, ASO Kumiko, KORA Kengo

The story is set in a coastal town promoting relocation to artists. 14-year-old Sosuke, an easygoing teenager who belongs to the school art club, and his friends are busy despite it being summer vacation, such as painting a backdrop for the drama clu...

My Special One (working title) (2025)

Director: MATSUDA Ayato

Cast: HATA Mei, OHASHI Kazuya

Sahoko, an unremarkable high school girl, despises good-looking boys and has sworn off love after experiencing deep emotional pain. But her life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Kouta, a gorgeous pop star. As she gets to know his passion for h...

Catching The Stars of This Summer (working title) (2025)

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During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when club activities were restricted, Japanese students launched an astronomical observation event called the "Star Catch Contest" via remote meetings. What began as a collaboration between students from Ibaraki,...

UNDER THE BIG ONION (2025)

Director: KUSANO Shogo

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Inspired by a song by Bakufu Slump, this film is a heartfelt love story that transcends eras—from Heisei to Reiwa—connecting strangers through handwritten words. An emotional journey that will move you to tears....

THE 35-YEAR PROMISE (2025)

Director: TSUKAMOTO Rempei

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A heartwarming true story—now a film—about a husband who could not read or write and the wife who taught him the meaning of happiness.

PETALS AND MEMORIES (2025)

Director: MAEDA Tetsu

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Having lost their parents at a young age, siblings Toshiki and Fumiko have lived together ever since. With Fumiko's upcoming marriage, Toshiki, who has been like a parent to her, should finally feel a sense of relief. However, Fumiko has a secret she...

NAGASAKI -IN THE SHADOW OF THE FLASH- (2025)

Director: MATSUMOTO Jumpei

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Three nursing students—Sumi, Atsuko and Misao—return to Nagasaki due to air raid school closures. Their peaceful days end abruptly when an atomic bomb strikes on August 9th, 1945 at 11:02 AM. In a city transformed into hell, these young, inexperience...

A Pale View of Hills (2025)

Director: ISHIKAWA Kei

Cast: HIROSE Suzu, NIKAIDO Fumi

In 1982, UK. A mixed English-Japanese aspiring writer plans to write a book based on her mother Etsuko's post-war experiences in Nagasaki. Etsuko, haunted by the suicide of her older daughter, begins to recount her memories from 1952 as a young mothe...

I Have a Secret (working title) (2025)

Director: NAKAGAWA Shun

Cast: OKUDAIRA Daiken, DEGUCHI Natsuki, SANO Masaya (Ae! Group)

If you could see the feelings of someone you love… When you know this "Secret," 100% pure tears will overflow.

THE FINAL PIECE (2025)

Director: KUMAZAWA Naoto

Cast: SAKAGUCHI Kentaro, WATANABE Ken

What is it that enables us to say we are truly alive?

As for Me (2025)

Director: YAZAKI Hitoshi

Cast: HASHIMOTO Ai, NAKAGAWA Taishi, YAMADA Anna

Kanako, a senior college student in Tokyo, has been seeing Nagatsuda, the "writer" from the same theater club, since she was a freshman and he was a senior. When Nagatsuda breaks his promise and decides not to graduate or find a job, it causes a rift...

Tea for Three (2024)

Director: OTANI Kentaro

Cast: MATSUSHITA Nao, SUGINO Yosuke

Keiya, who failed his entrance exams, lived aimlessly in Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, known for its tea. Meanwhile, his brother Junya, having inherited the family's tea business, is devoted to revitalizing the town by promoting its tea culture. O...

How to Forget You (2024)

Director: SAKUDO Yu

Cast: BANDO Ryota, NISHINO Nanase

Subaru loses his girlfriend Miki in an accident, days before their marriage. As he returns to his parents'house and spends his days in a daze, he begins to see visions of her. As Subaru worries about how todeal with the illusion, he is approached by ...

Strangers in Kyoto (2025)

Director: TOMINAGA Masanori

Cast: FUKAGAWA Mai

Madoka Shibusawa, a Tokyo manga writer, goes to Kyoto to visit her husband's family's long-established fan shop in Kyoto. She interviews them and many proprietress and wants to write a comic essay. However, she struggles to protect Kyoto's historic ...

MUROI SHINJI STAY ALIVE (2024)

Director: MOTOHIRO Katsuyuki

Cast: YANAGIBA Toshiro, FUKUMOTO Riko

From working tirelessly as an crime scene investigator to striving for the police organizational reform, Shinji Muroi has had a turbulent career in policing. Filled with regret over his inability to keep the promise he made to Aoshima 27 years ago, h...

MUROI SHINJI NOT DEFEATED (2024)

Director: MOTOHIRO Katsuyuki

Cast: YANAGIBA Toshiro, FUKUMOTO Riko