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Forgiven Children (2020)
- Director
- NAITO Eisuke
- Cast
- UEMURA Yu, KUROIWA Yoshi, NAGURA Yukino
The first independent film since Let's Make The Teacher Have A Miscarriage Club by director Naito Eisuke whose strong filmmaking voice attracts attention each time he releases a film. Taken from an actual bullying case which resulted in a fatality, t...
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KUSHINA (2018)
- Director
- HAYAMI Moet
- Cast
- KADER Ikumi, HIROTA Tomona, INAMOTO Yayoi
Hayami Moët makes her directorial debut with a story that draws on her personal experiences. The film depicts life in a mountain hamlet inhabited entirely by women, where men are prohibited. Won the JAPAN CUTS award at the 2018 Osaka Asian Film Festi...
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Nosari - Impermanent Eternity (2020)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Tatsuya
- Cast
- FUJIWARA Kisetsu, HARA Chisako
A young man traveling all over Japan reaches to the small island in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture. He makes money out of so-called "ore ore sagi" (a telephone scam or "it's me" swindle= fraudulent technique to swindle money from aged people). One day,...
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Sasaki in My Mind (2020)
- Director
- UCHIYAMA Takuya
- Cast
- FUJIWARA Kisetsu, HOSOKAWA Gaku, HAGIWARA Minori
The story of a would-be actor, his larger-than-life classmate and their friends. Unfolding their past and present, Sasaki in My Mind looks head-on at adolescent sparkle and the pathos of bygone days....
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The Last Goze (2020)
- Director
- TAKIZAWA Masaharu
- Cast
- KAWAKITA Non, YOSHIMOTO Miyu, NAKAJIMA Hiroko
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Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots (2020)
- Director
- YOSHINO Ryohei
- Cast
- SAKUMA Yui, Nao
The story begins in ordinary days of Horigai, a 22-year-old virgin who is about to graduate and got a job as a social worker. She is spending boring days between her school and apartment with her college graduation coming soon. She meets Inogi at the...
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Living in the Sky (2020)
- Director
- AOYAMA Shinji
- Cast
- TABE Mikako, KISHII Yukino, IWATA Takanori
Why can't I cry when I want to cry? The loneliness felt by people with holes in their hearts, the answers they find, and the realism of it all will move your heart. Naomi works for a small publishing company in the suburbs, but she's having troub...
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The Ballad of Sad Angel (tentative) (2020)
- Director
- MORIOKA Toshiyuki
- Cast
- WADA Hitomi, MIZUNO Masaru, KINOSHITA Houka
Red-light district, where the brothels from Taisho-era, the places left behind from the times, stands. Shigeru, an unemployed man with huge debts, meet a beautiful courtesan named Kazumi and chose to become a pimp to provide her mental care. In the...
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ABOUT MISS AZAMI (tentative) (2020)
- Director
- KOSHIKAWA Michio
- Cast
- KOSHINO Ena, OKUNO Eita, MINE Goichi
Azami ran away from the complexed, troubled family when she was 17 years-old. She started going out with a much older editor, Kitajima-san, and force herself to become a worthy person for him. However, Kitajima-san did not take her seriously because ...
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Mr.Suzuki -A Man In God's Country- (2020)
- Director
- SASAKI Omoi
- Cast
- ITO Asako, TSUKUDA Norihiko, OKATA Hisako
A living god - known simply as "God" - heads an insular nation where a beautiful, brilliant city exists. Due to a declining birthrate, the city issues an ordinance that all unmarried people over the age of forty-four will lose their citizenship. Yos...
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Restart (2020)
- Director
- SHINAGAWA Hiroshi
- Cast
- EMILY, SWAY
Mio is a 28-year-old struggling idol. She came to Tokyo from Hokkaido after graduating high school to become a singer songwriter, but her dream has not come true. One day, she is paparazzied with her boyfriend who is a star in a famous band, and find...
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KONTORA (2019)
- Director
- Anshul CHAUHAN
- Cast
- MARUI Wan, MASE Hidemasa, YAMADA Taichi
After her grandfather dies, Sora retraces the diary written by him during World War II and has begun to search for a mysterious treasure buried in the local woods. Meantime, a homeless man who wordlessly walks backwards appears in the town. One night...
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Angry Rice Wives (2021)
- Director
- MOTOKI Katsuhide
- Cast
- INOUE Mao
In 1918, Japan's Siberian Intervention inflames a sudden rise in rice price to supply the food for the troops. It gives economic hardship to the ordinary people, including Ito, one of the fishers' wives in a rural town who frugally hold down the fort...
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PORNOGRAPHER: THE MOVIE -PLAYBACK- (tentative) (2021)
- Director
- MIKI Koichiro
- Cast
- TAKEZAI Terunosuke, IZUKA Kenta
The erotic novel writer that dictates the text and the one that writes it down... Time has passed since their strange first meeting, and erotic novel writer Rio Kijima and college student Haruhiko Kuzumi have now become lovers. Even with Kijima now l...
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LIAR x LIAR (2021)
- Director
- YAKUMO Saiji
- Cast
- MATSUMURA Hokuto, MORI Nana
Minato, a plain and clean-freak college student girl, lives and goes to the same school with her younger brother-in-law of the same age Toru who is a beautiful playboy and popular with girls. Minato often gets into trouble because of Toru's bad behav...
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It's a Summer Film! (2020)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Soushi
- Cast
- ITO Marika, KANEKO Daichi, KAWAI Yumi
Barefoot (Marika Ito) is a high-school girl who adores samurai movies and Japanese costume drama. She doesn't have a chance to make samurai movies in the school film club, however, as the other members prefer romantic movies. One day Barefoot meets R...
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Company Retreat (2020)
- Director
- FUNAHASHI Atsushi
- Cast
- HIRAI Saki, ITO Megumi, YAMANAKA Takafumi
A woman working as a hotel receptionist was harassed by her superior. This docu-fiction depicts sexual harassment affects not only the victim and the perpetrator, but everyone around them....
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UNDERDOG (2020)
- Director
- TAKE Masaharu
- Cast
- MORIYAMA Mirai, KITAMURA Takumi, KATSUJI Ryo
100 Yen Love director Take Masaharu and screenplay writer Adachi Shin reunite for another original story about boxing. Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira (Moriyama Mirai) fell off the p...
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Omoideshashin (2020)
- Director
- KUMAZAWA Naoto
- Cast
- FUKAGAWA Mai, KORA Kengo, Karina
This drama, directed by Kumazawa Naoto of Yurigokoro, deals with taking "remembrance portraits" which are not mere funeral portraits, but are portraits photographed at a place holding fond memories for elderly subjects who share the recollections of ...
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Just the two of us (2020)
- Director
- FUJIMOTO Keita
- Cast
- NAGASE Masatoshi, DOI Shiori
Set in Kyoto's Nishijin district, this drama depicts the day-to-day nursing care between a man who has lost everything, and a blind woman. The film was produced by an energetic young staff from Kyoto University of the Arts. Shunsaku (Nagase Masatosh...
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Mentai-piriri (2019)
- Director
- EGUCHI Kan
- Cast
- HAKATA Hanamaru, TOMITA Yasuko
The life of a businessman who broadened the popularity of mentaiko (spicy cod roe) in Japan serves is the basis for this biographical drama directed by Eguchi Kan who won the Best Action Film award at the 23rd Fantasia International Film Festival for...
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Dancing Mary (2019)
- Director
- SABU
- Cast
- EXILE NAOTO, YAMADA Aina, ISHIBASHI Ryo
The efforts of a man and woman struggling to fulfill the wish of a ghost unfold in this fantasy drama directed by SABU whose Mr. Long was screened in the competition section of the 76th Berlin International Film Festival. This film was awarded the Ju...
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Kiss Cam! (2020)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Hana
- Cast
- HAYAMA Shono, HOTTA Akane, YAGI Arisa
The inspiration for this romantic film is the "Kiss Cam" carried out at sporting events in which a couple selected from the crowd by a TV camera must kiss for all to see. At the helm is Matsumoto Hana whose A Midsummer Dream was screened at the Yubar...
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The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese (2020)
- Director
- YUKISADA Isao
- Cast
- OKURA Tadayoshi, NARITA Ryo
Yukisada Isao of Narratage helms this touching romance based on Mizushiro Setona's same-named comic, which innocently depicts the joy and pain of falling in love and is a hit with women. Otomo Kyoichi (Okura Tadayoshi) has let women take the lead in...
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Daughters (2020)
- Director
- TSUDA Hajime
- Cast
- MIYOSHI Ayaka, ABE Junko
Fashion event director and video creator Tsuda Hajime makes his feature film debut as both director and screenplay writer. Follows ten months in the lives of two women facing the crossroads of pregnancy. Koharu (Miyoshi Ayaka) and Ayano (Abe Junko) ...
