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Bittersand (2021)
- Director
- SUGIOKA Tomoya
- Cast
- INOUE Yuki, HAGIWARA Riku, KINOSHITA Ayane
Coming-of-age mystery that exposes the truth behind an incident in high school that destroyed a relationship. Directorial debut for Sugioka Tomoya. Akito (Inoue Yuki) is a 25 year old slogging through days at the office, and he unexpectedly reconnec...
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Musicophilia (2021)
- Director
- TANIGUCHI Masaaki
- Cast
- INOWAKI Kai, MATSUMOTO Honoka, YAMAZAKI Ikusaburo
The identically titled manga by Saso Akira, who has won the Excellence Award twice in the Manga Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival, is adapted to live action from a script by Ono Hiroyuki of Uzumasa Limelight, and also serves as producer. Sak...
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Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me? (2021)
- Director
- HORIE Takahiro
- Cast
- KUROKI Haru, EMOTO Tasuku, KANEKO Daichi
Drama about a husband and wife based on the project that won the runner-up grand prize for the film proposal contest Tsutaya Creators' Program Film 2018. Directed by Horie Takahiro, a cutting-edge filmmaker who is moving into new territory with film ...
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MANKAI MOVIE "A3!" -SPRING & SUMMER- (2021)
- Director
- QURATA Kenji
- Cast
- YOKOTA Ryugi, JINNAI Sho
The actor training game A3! launched in 2017 and has been turned into a stage play and now hits the silver screen as a live-action film. The unique world is portrayed in the two films "Spring & Summer" and "Autumn & Winter." "Biroadway" is holy gro...
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The Sunday Runoff (2021)
- Director
- SAKASHITA Yuichiro
- Cast
- KUBOTA Masataka, MIYAZAWA Rie, AKASO Eiji
Meeting Pinkerton director Sakashita Yuichiro tries his hand at comedy with an original script penned over a five-year period. A stick-in-the-mud legislative secretary and a politically naive candidate campaign with the goal of losing the election. ...
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Tales of the Undeparted (2021)
- Director
- General Director: ITOSO Kenji, YAMADA Masafumi, TORII Yasutake
- Cast
- OMORI Maho, OGURI Yui, GYOTEN Yurina
Scary stories offered up for entertainment by members of the AKB48 idol group. Eight AKB48 members sit in a circle and tell each other about scary happenings in a send up to unexplained events, mysterious worlds, and paranormal phenomena. The documen...
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When the Curry is Ready (2021)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Yasuhiko
- Cast
- Lily Franky
Drama directed by Shimizu Yasuhiko of CUBE that was planned and produced by Saitoh Takumi. Lily Franky, who dominated the screen in Shoplifters, pulls off a solo performance confined almost exclusively to a single situation. Kenichi's (Lily) young s...
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Cornflakes (2020)
- Director
- ISOBE Teppei
- Cast
- GON, TAKADA Reiko, HINO Hinami
Yuya, who can't let go of his dream of becoming a musician, has been living with Miho, an insurance salesperson, for almost six years now, and Miho wonders if living with Yuya is good for her future. One day, Miho sees text messages between Yuya and...
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All Aboard! (2020)
- Director
- HISHIKAWA Seiichi
- Cast
- MURAKAMI Yukino, FUJII Soma, SHIMAMOTO Katsuhiro
This is the movie "All aboard!". In Komatsushima, a port town in Tokushima, Shikoku, Haruka Asakura (played by Yukino Murakami) lives with her effeminate father Goro Asakura (Katsuhiro Shimamoto), her uncle Kentaro Asakura (Jun Suzuki) who is in love...
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Unlock Your Heart (2021)
- Director
- SHUTO Rin
- Cast
- YAMADA Anna, SAKUMA Ryuto, IMOU Haruka
26-year-old (at the time of production) director Shuto Rin adapts to film this coming-of-age drama based on Akutagawa Prize-winning author Wataya Risa's identically titled novel which she was passionate about. Ai (Yamada Anna) is a popular girl in s...
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The Sound of Grass (2021)
- Director
- SAITO Hisashi
- Cast
- HIGASHIDE Masahiro, Nao, DAITOH Shunsuke
Fifth work by towering author Sato Yasushi to reach the big screen following And Your Bird Can Sing. Director Saito Hisashi updates the 1979 short story to contemporary times and lays bare the struggles of people dealing with loneliness. Kazuo (Higa...
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Baby Assasins (2021)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Yugo
- Cast
- TAKAISHI Akari, IZAWA Saori, MIMOTO Masanori
A pair of socially awkward former high school girls and assassins attempt to fit in to society in this coming-of-age film writtend and directed by Sakamoto Yugo who has made a name for himself with fantastical films such as A Janitor. Chisato (Takai...
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The Lone Ume Tree (2021)
- Director
- WAJIMA Kotaro
- Cast
- KAGA Mariko, TSUKAJI Muga, WATANABE Ikkei
Drama that warmly and sincerely depicts the lives of an aging mother with her autistic son. Director Wajima Kotaro wrote the screenplay for Kyoto Elegy, which was selected for the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival. Yamada Tamako (Kaga Mariko) l...
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Junretsuger (2021)
- Director
- BUTSUDA Hiroshi
- Cast
- GOGAMI Shota, SHIRAKAWA Yujiro, ODAI Ryohei
Popcorn movie starring the popular group Junretsu comprising former stars of Toei special effects movies. Feature film debut for Butsuda Hiroshi, who has served as VFX director for the Super Sentai and Kamen Rider series. The Junretsu group perform...
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Aristocrats (2021)
- Director
- SODE Yukiko
- Cast
- KADOWAKI Mugi, MIZUHARA Kiko, KORA Kengo
Good Stripes director Sode Yukiko helms this film adaptation of a novel by Yamauchi Mariko, who has seen numerous works on the big screen. Shows the lives of two women living in very different worlds in the same city. Hanako (Kadowaki Mugi) had a sh...
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Day of Destruction (2020)
- Director
- TOYODA Toshiaki
- Cast
- SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko, MahiToThePeople, Issey OGATA
In January of 2020, director Toyoda Toshiaki developed this ambitious film about the state of society with the Tokyo Olympics approaching. He used crowdfunding to produce the film as the spreading COVID-19 infections raised questions about the very m...
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Love Letter (1953)
- Director
- TANAKA Kinuyo
- Cast
- MORI Masayuki, KUGA Yoshiko, KAGAWA Kyoko
Directorial debut for celebrated actress Tanaka Kinuyo. All-star cast depicts the sorrowful romance of a couple at the mercy of fate. Script by Kinoshita Keisuke. Reikichi has been searching for his beloved Michiko for five years since the end of th...
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Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, HORI Yuji, KAGAWA Kyoko
Lyrical film from Naruse Mikio that poignantly portrays women working as hostesses in Ginza still recovering from the war. Tanaka Kiniyo performs brilliantly as both "woman" and "mother." Yukiko works as a hostess in Ginza while raising the son she ...
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Forever By Your Side (2020)
- Director
- UEDA Tokitaka
- Cast
- SEON Min-Gyeong, ONO Hiroshi, NONAKA Tomoko
Kansai-based film production studio Theater Café Nyan assembles a cast and crew of Japanese and Koreans for this co-production. Set both in Japan and Korea, the film depicts a trio of themes: two forms of love, friendship, and a way of living. Mamor...
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HERO 2020 (2020)
- Director
- SAIJO Mitsutoshi
- Cast
- HIROSE Tomoki, KITAHARA Rie, KOMATSU Junya
Saijo Mitsutoshi, a playwright and theatre director who wrote the screenplay for the film blank13, adapts to film the debut play of the theatre company he supervises, Taiyo Magic Film. It depicts the mayhem revolving around a "two year limit on love"...
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Closet (2020)
- Director
- SHINDO Takehiro
- Cast
- MINOGAWA Yosuke, KURIBAYASHI Aino, ARAI Iku
Drama about the "spiritual loneliness" lurking within contemporary society. Helmed by Shindo Takehiro, who cut his chops assistant directing films by Park Chan-wook and others. Selected for some thirty film festivals worldwide, including the Cineques...
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The Murders of Oiso (2019)
- Director
- MISAWA Takuya
- Cast
- MORIYA Koji, NAKAZAKI Haya, MORI Yusaku
Drama about uncertainty and loneliness as experienced by young people in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture. Director Misawa Takuya's debut feature film Chigasaki Story was a Japan-Thailand co-production screened at the 44th International Film Festival Rotter...
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Flying Rabbit in the Night Sky (2019)
- Director
- Andrew SHIN
- Cast
- KIKUCHI Atsuko, SUZUKI Mutsumi, ISHIYAMA Yuta
Fantasy best understood as a contemporary fairytale about the struggles of the pregnant heroine whose fetus is a rabbit. Feature directorial debut for Korean-American Andrew Shin, who has composed soundtracks for Manda Kunitoshi's films and also hand...
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BOLT (2019)
- Director
- HAYASHI Kaizo
- Cast
- NAGASE Masatoshi, SANO Shiro, KANAYAMA Kazuhiko
Hayashi Kaizo of the "Private Detective Mike Hama" series writes and directs this short film omnibus which took three years to complete. It consists of three episodes titled "Bolt", "Life", and "Goodyear" each starring Hayashi's close friend Nagase M...
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MO-RUERANI (2020)
- Director
- TSUBOKAWA Takushi
- Cast
- OSUGI Ren, OHTSUKA Nene, KAGAWA Kyoko
Filmmaker Tsubokawa Takushi moved from Tokyo to Muroran City in Hokkaido. He has written a series of scripts for seven stories based on anecdotes he heard from Muroran residents and turned them into this film of somewhat connected episodes. (Osugi ...
