Movies
5,121 Results
-
Baby Assasins 2 Babies (2023)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Yugo
- Cast
- TAKAISHI Akari, IZAWA Saori, MIZUISHI Atomu
A sequel to the action film Baby Assassins in which two female assassins struggle to fit in with society. Once again, Sakamoto Yugo directs and Sonomura Kensuke of Manhunt is the action director. Chisato (Takaishi Akari) and Mahiro (Izawa Saori) str...
-
Ripples (2023)
- Director
- OGIGAMI Naoko
- Cast
- TSUTSUI Mariko, MITSUISHI Ken, ISOMURA Hayato
Human drama that presents modern social issues such as new religions, discrimination against people with disabilities, and distress among women. Written and directed by Ogigami Naoko with a touch of black humor. Sudo Yoriko (Tsutsui Mariko), a belie...
-
Okiku and the World (2023)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Junji
- Cast
- KUROKI Haru, Kanichiro, IKEMATSU Sosuke
Sakamoto Junji helms this coming-of-age drama about the lives of young people at the end of the Edo period. Kasamatsu Norimichi, who collaborated with Sakamoto on Face and A Winter Rose, renders the story with vivid black-and-white cinematography. T...
-
TELL ME (2022)
- Director
- TSUKAMOTO Rempei
- Cast
- IMAI Tsubasa, TSUKAMOTO Takashi, JUON
Based on a book written by the younger brother of X-JAPAN guitarist Hide, who has fans around the world, director Tsukamoto Renpei (Bento Harassment) adapts the book to film. The film spins a tale of hope as the younger brother and his friends delive...
-
SHIMAMORI (2022)
- Director
- IGARASHI Sho
- Cast
- HAGIWARA Masato, MURAKAMI Jun, YOSHIOKA Riho
A human drama, set in Okinawa at the end of World War II, depicting the preciousness of human life. Directed by Igarashi Sho of One Step on a Mine, It's All Over. Together with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa ...
-
Chinmoku no parade (2022)
- Director
- NISHITANI Hiroshi
- Cast
- FUKUYAMA Masaharu, SHIBASAKI Ko, KITAMURA Kazuki
Third feature film for author Higashino Keigo's "Galileo" series. Reunites popular characters from the TV series for the first time in nine years, including brilliant physicist Yukawa Manabu and his partner Utsumi and best friend Kusanagi, who are bo...
-
SHIN ULTRAMAN (2022)
- Director
- HIGUCHI Shinji
- Cast
- SAITOH Takumi, NAGASAWA Masami, ARIOKA Daiki
Shinji Higuchi helms this film featuring Japan's beloved superhero in contemporary society with Shin Godzilla director Hideaki Anno serving as producer, screenwriter and supervisor. Mysterious Kaiju monster appears. Conventional weapons are useles...
-
Fragments of The Last Will (2022)
- Director
- ZEZE Takahisa
- Cast
- NINOMIYA Kazunari, KITAGAWA Keiko
Drama depicting the 11-year bond between real-life Japanese POW Yamamoto Hatao, his wife and his fellow internees in a Siberian concentration camp (Lageri). Set in Siberia 1945, during a severe winter that is forty degrees below zero. Yamamoto (Nin...
-
2 Women (2022)
- Director
- HIROKI Ryuichi
- Cast
- TERAJIMA Shinobu, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, HIROSUE Ryoko
A film adaptation of the novel of the same title by writer Inoue Areno, based on her father, writer Inoue Mitsuharu, her mother, and writer and Buddhist monk Setouchi Jakucho. Director Hiroki Ryuichi of Vibrator and screenwriter Arai Haruhiko have te...
-
PLAN 75 (2022)
- Director
- HAYAKAWA Chie
- Cast
- BAISHO Chieko
Director Hayakawa Chie makes her feature debut with this controversial work depicting the Japanese society where "Plan 75", a system that gives the right to choose between life and death from the age of 75, is enforced. The film was entered in the Un...
-
God seeks in return (2022)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Keisuke
- Cast
- MURO Tsuyoshi, KISHII Yukino
Director Yoshida Keisuke of Himeanole and Blank directs an original screenplay for this unique love story filled with true feelings and preconceived notions. Tamogami (Muro Tsuyoshi), who works for an event company, meets YouTuber Yuri-chan (Kishii ...
-
Nighttime Warbles (2022)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- YAMADA Yuki, MATSUMOTO Marika
A film adaptation of a short novel by writer Sato Yasushi set in the Kanto region, with a screenplay by Takada Ryo, the writer of The Light Shines Only There. Directed by Jojo Hideo, who received high acclaim for On the Edge of Their Seats. Unsucces...
-
The Flower in the Sky (2022)
- Director
- KATASHIMA Ikki
- Cast
- HIGASHIDE Masahiro, IRIYAMA Noriko
A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Yoko, daughter of the poet Hagiwara Sakutaro, with a screenplay by Goto Sayaka and Arai Haruhiko. The film vividly portrays the poet who survived despite being at the mercy of war. Miyoshi Tatsuji (Higashi...
-
MONDAYS: See you "this" week! (2022)
- Director
- TAKEBAYASHI Ryo
- Cast
- MARUI Wan, MAKITA SPORTS
This office drama marks the second film for Takebayashi Ryo, whose feature film debut Bookmark 14 became a long-running hit. Yoshikawa Akemi (Marui Wan), who has her eye on a job at a big ad agency, is scrambling to prepare a presentation on Monday ...
-
BL Metamorphosis (2022)
- Director
- KARIYAMA Shunsuke
- Cast
- ASHIDA Mana, MIYAMOTO Nobuko
Feature film adaptation of Tsurutani Kaori's same-named comic with a script by Okada Yoshikazu, renowned for his many successful TV dramas. Warmly depicts the friendship between two women fifty-eight years apart who meet through boys' love manga. Sa...
-
by the window (2022)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- INAGAKI Goro, NAKAMURA Yuri, TAMASHIRO Tina
This is the seventeenth completely original film by Imaizumi Rikiya, director of numerous high-profile films such as What is Love?, which won the Audience Award at the 35th Tokyo International Film Festival. Freelance writer Ichikawa Shigemi (Inagak...
-
Mobile Suit Gundam Cucuruz Doan's Island (2022)
- Director
- YASUHIKO Yoshikazu
- Cast
- FURUYA Toru, TAKEUCHI Shunsuke
A film adaptation of the fifteenth episode "Cucuruz Doan's Island" from the TV animation "Mobile Suit Gundam" broadcast in 1979. Directed by Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, who worked on the "Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin" series. Amuro Ray (Furuya Toru) and h...
-
A WINTER ROSE (2022)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Junji
- Cast
- ITO Kentaro, KOBAYASHI Kaoru, YO Kimiko
A human drama by Sakamoto Junji, a film director at the peak of his maturity, who wrote an original screenplay for Ito Kentaro, an actor forty years younger than himself. Toguchi Jun (Ito), who lives in a port town, does not attend vocational school...
-
EVERYTHING WILL BE OWLRIGHT! (2022)
- Director
- ICHII Masahide
- Cast
- KATORI Shingo, KISHII Yukino
A black comedy by Ichii Masahide, director of numerous films with original screenplays including Blindly in Love and The Stormy Family, that comically depicts the "petty quarrels" of a married couple. Yujiro (Katori Shingo) and Hiyori (Kishii Yukino...
-
MY BROTHER, THE ANDROID AND ME (2020)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Junji
- Cast
- TOYOKAWA Etsushi
A forbidden drama that strongly reflects Sakamoto Junji's own outlook on life. The original script, which was written with the image of actor Toyokawa Etsushi in mind, depicts "ultimate loneliness". Kiryu Kaoru (Toyokawa), a lonely robot engineer, h...
-
THE CONFIDENCEMAN JP -EPISODE OF THE HERO- (2022)
- Director
- TANAKA Akira
- Cast
- NAGASAWA Masami, HIGASHIDE Masahiro, KOHINATA Fumiyo
Following on from Romance and Princess, this is the third theatrical film outing of the hit TV drama series, directed by Tanaka Akira and written by Kosawa Ryota. The con man "Tsuchinoko the Third", who was hailed as a hero, is dead. Dako (Nagasawa ...
-
Small, Slow But Steady (2022)
- Director
- MIYAKE Sho
- Cast
- KISHII Yukino, MIURA Tomokazu
A human drama modeled on a female professional boxer who fought while facing hearing impairment, inspired by her way of life. Directed and written by Miyake Sho, who received acclaim both in Japan and abroad for his film And Your Bird Can Sing. This ...
-
Love Nonetheless (2021)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- SETO Koji, SATO Honami
A romantic comedy directed by Jojo Hideo, the director of On the Edge of Their Seats, adapted from a screenplay by Imaizumi Rikiya. One of the "L/R15" projects in which Jojo and Imaizumi provide scripts for each other and direct the R15+ love stories...
-
ROLELESS (2022)
- Director
- SEKI Yutaro, HIRASE Kentaro, SATO Masahiko
- Cast
- KAGAWA Teruyuki, TSUDA Kanji, OMI Toshinori
A feature film debut from the directorial group "Gogatsu" consisting of Sato Masahiko, who worked on NHK's educational program "PythagoraSwitch," Seki Yutaro, who has directed dramas for NHK, and Hirase Kentaro, who participated in the screenplay for...
-
Thousand and One Nights (2022)
- Director
- KUBOTA Nao
- Cast
- TANAKA Yuko, ONO Machiko, ANDO Masanobu
Inspired by a missing persons list, documentary director Kubota Nao spent eight years completing this human drama. Tanaka Yuko plays the lead role, in her fourth collaboration with the director, in addition to his dramatic film debut Homeland. A bea...
