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LOVE STAGE!! (2020)
- Director
- INOUE Hiroki
- Cast
- SGUYAMA Mahiro, NAKADA Hiroki, WAGO Shinichi
With foreign language versions of the manga as well as anime winning popularity abroad, the "boys love" manga of the same name is adapted to film by original author Eiki Eiki and illustrator Zao Taishi. The protagonists are a star-studded assembly of...
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Engawa lovers 2 (2020)
- Director
- KONNO Yasumasa
- Cast
This follow-up to the warm-hearted comedy set on the porch of an old-fashioned Japanese home, Engawa Lovers 2 is also helmed by the first film's director, Konno Yasumasa. Hagiwara Daisuke (Higano Sho), a novice film director pressed to write a scrip...
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Engawa lovers (2020)
- Director
- KONNO Yasumasa
- Cast
- MATSUDA Gaku, MIYAMA Ryoki, SASA Tsubasa
Set on the porch of an old-fashioned Japanese home, this warm-hearted comedy depicts a group of men's joys and sorrows. In the director's chair is Konno Yasumasa whose Shinmashi was the first film produced through the Japan-China Young Filmmakers Joi...
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Care Nin 2 The Flower in Your Heart (2020)
- Director
- SUZUKI Kosuke
- Cast
- TOZUKA Junki, SHIMA Kaori, WATABIKI Katsuhiko
This is the sequel to the film dealing with nursing care, Care Nin: Thank God You're Here. Director Suzuki Kosuke and lead actor Tozuka Junki who plays the care worker both continue on from the first film. Omori Kei (Tozuka) has come to work for a l...
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Character (2021)
- Director
- NAGAI Akira
- Cast
- SUDA Masaki, Fukase, TAKAHATA Mitsuki
Nagai Akira of TEIICHI -Battle of Supreme High- directs this live-action adaptation of an original script by Nagasaki Takashi, story co-creator of many works by popular manga artist Urasawa Naoki, which took ten years to develop. Yamashiro Keigo (S...
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Between Us (2021)
- Director
- OKUAKI Yasuo
- Cast
- KONNO Ayaka, KUBOTA Sayu, FUKIKOSHI Mitsuru
The moment young girls harboring many anxieties connect with others through taiko drumming is depicted with a fresh spin in this coming-of-age film. At the helm is Okuaki Yasuo, whose feature debut was Kagurame. Tamaki (Konno Ayaka), who attends a ...
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In Those Days (2020)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- MATSUZAKA Tori, NAKANO Taiga, YAMANAKA Takashi
The everyday highs and lows of friends enamored with the idol group Hello! Project is entertainingly told in this revival-of-youth film. Imaizumi Rikiya of Just Only Love directs from a script by Tominaga Masanori of Pumpkin and Mayonnaise. Tsurugi ...
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Tidying Up With Love and Thanks (2020)
- Director
- ONUMA Yuichi
- Cast
- BITO Isao, NAKAO Mie
A husband termed the liquidation of his wife's estate "kanshari" (throwing away with thanks). This film adapts the identically titled essay in which are written his feelings for his wife. Kenzo's (Bito Isao) wife Kazuko (Nakao Mie) had lived with hi...
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The Samejima Incident (2020)
- Director
- NAGAE Jiro
- Cast
- TAKEDA Rena, SHUHAMA Harumi, SANO Gaku
Nagae Jiro, who's known for the "Tomodachi Game" series, undertakes this horror film based on his own, original script. It depicts the dread surrounding an incident which people say, "if you know the truth, you'll disappear," or "if you hear about it...
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First Gentleman (2021)
- Director
- KAWAI Hayato
- Cast
- TANAKA Kei, NAKATANI Miki
Best-selling author Harada Maha's about a married couple is adapted to film by director Kawai Hayato, who has worked as an assistant director on films by Somai Shinji, and Kuroki Kazuo, in addition to producing a numerous hit titles. Rinko (Nakatani...
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Signal: Long-Term Unsolved Case Investigation The Movie (2021)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Hajime
- Cast
- SAKAGUCHI Kentaro, KITAMURA Kazuki, KICHISE Michiko
Feature film spin-off from the TV remake of the Korean drama "Signal." Set in Tokyo in 2021. When a high-ranking government official dies in a traffic accident, the investigative team for long-term unresolved cases suspects that the incident was st...
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Horimiya (2021)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Hana
- Cast
- SUZUKA Oji, KUBOTA Sayu
Film adaptation of the same-named manga with total sales exceeding 6 million copies and a TV anime series adaptation. Dadadada Seventeen director Matsumoto Hana depicts the lives of high school students bonded by certain secrets. Miyamura (Suzuka Oj...
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Fictitious girl's diary The Movie (2020)
- Director
- SUMIDA Takashi
- Cast
- Bakarhythm, Kaho, USUDA Asami
Multitalented TV personality Bakarhythm blogged about his pretend life as an "office lady", which became the basis for a TV drama and now comes to the silver screen. Bakarhythm stars in the film and penned the script to deliver a keenly observed and ...
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The Craft of Memories (2020)
- Director
- IKEDA Chihiro
- Cast
- ISHII Anna, KURIHARA Goro, EMOTO Tokio
Suspense film that brings a title from manga artist Yoshino Sakumi, who died suddenly in 2016, to the big screen for the first time. Tells the story of a high school girl who confronts shocking facts and goes on a journey to find herself. Karen (Ish...
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PRETENDERS (2021)
- Director
- KUMASAKA Izuru
- Cast
- ONO Karin, MIKAMI Ai, FURUTACHI Kanji
A rebellious and a bit of a social misfit 17-year-old, Karin is idling around and often absent from school. One day she experiences an indescribable feeling when she gives up her seat on the train to a sick person, and it gives her inspiration. Karin...
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The Women (2021)
- Director
- UCHIDA Nobuteru
- Cast
- SHINOHARA Yukiko, KURASHINA Kana, TAKAHATA Atsuko
Okuyama Kazuyoshi, a prominent producer in the Japanese film industry, executive produces this drama helmed by Uchida Nobuteru who directed Love Addiction and Odayaka. Misaki (Shinohara Yukiko) cares for her mother while working at a local daycare c...
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Around the Table (2021)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Soushi
- Cast
- NISHIDA Naomi, ICHIKAWA Miwako, OSHINARI Shugo
Feature-length drama based on the short online drama that reached 6 million views, produced by the e-commerce store Hokuou Kurashi no Douguten. Selected for the Hawaii International Film Festival. The Aoba household consists of single mother Haruko ...
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Osaka Loan Shark (2021)
- Director
- ISHIHARA Takahiro
- Cast
- MASAKI Reiya, SAKAKIBARA Tetsuji, ASAI Daichi
"Osaka Violence" series director Ishihara Takahiro depicts the humorously sad, and wild human relationships of people converging on black market loans in this coming-of-age story of young people. After serving a two-year sentence for assault, Sugimu...
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A Janitor (2020)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Yugo
- Cast
- FUKUSHI Seiji, IMOU Haruka, MAENO Tomoya
Suspense gangster film about the dramatic rescue that happens at a school ripped apart by gang warfare. Helmed by Sakamoto Yugo, who excels at action, suspense and violence. Fukumi (Fukushi Seiji) is a high school janitor whose father was a gangster...
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Riverside Mukolitta (2021)
- Director
- OGIGAMI Naoko
- Cast
- MATSUYAMA Kenichi, MURO Tsuyoshi, MITSUSHIMA Hikari
An original screenplay by Ogigami Naoko, director of Close-Knit, tells a story of human connections. This ensemble drama questions the meaning of happiness through the warmth of conversation around a dinner table shared with other people. Yamada (Ma...
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Tomorrow's Dinner Table (2021)
- Director
- ZEZE Takahisa
- Cast
- KANNO Miho, TAKAHATA Mitsuki, ONO Machiko
Drama maestro Zeze Takehisa helms this adaptation of the same-named novel by Yazuki Michiko, winner of prestigious literary awards in Japan. Depicts the epic tale of three mothers whose children share the name "You." Rumiko (Kanno Miho), Kana (Takah...
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A Family (2021)
- Director
- FUJII Michihito
- Cast
- AYANO Go, TACHI Hiroshi, ONO Machiko
Drama from the production team behind The Journalist, winner of six Japan Academy Prizes. Shows three periods in the life of a guy who decides to be yakuza amidst changing times. Yamamoto (Ayano Go) enters into a filial relationship with the local y...
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INTOLERANCE (2021)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Keisuke
- Cast
- FURUTA Arata, MATSUZAKA Tori
Suspense film with an original script that teams up HIME-ANOLE director Yoshida Keisuke with Star Sands, creators of The Journalist and other films that offer an incisive view of contemporary society. A junior high school girl suddenly dies. She got...
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CUBE (2021)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Yasuhiko
- Cast
- SUDA Masaki, Anne WATANABE, OKADA Masaki
Vicenzo Natali's 1997 locked-room thriller Cube is remade in Japan. Six people with no connection to one another, including engineer Goto Yuichi (Suda Masaki), organization staffer Kai Asako (Anne), and freelancer Ochi Shinji (Okada Masaki), find th...
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IN THE WAKE (2021)
- Director
- ZEZE Takahisa
- Cast
- SATOH Takeru, ABE Hiroshi
Mystery set in Sendai ten years after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Known for his hard-hitting and meticulous character portrayals in Six Four Part 1 and Part 2, Zeze Takahisa reunites with lead actor Satoh Takeru for the first time since The 8-ye...
