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almost people (2023)

Director: YOKOHAMA Satoko, ISHII Gakuryu, KATO Takuto

Cast: MINE Goichi, YANAGI Elisa, INOWAKI Kai

Groundbreaking directors Yokohama Satoko, Ishii Gakuryu, Kato Takuto and Moriya Fumio portray the everyday lives of four siblings. Each of the four siblings in the Kamio family has an emotional deficit. Elder son Hikaru (Mine Goichi) can't find the ...

MARU (2024)

Director: OGIGAMI Naoko

Cast: DOMOTO Tsuyoshi, AYANO Go

Noboru Sawada, forty-four years old. An art college graduate, not only himself but even those around him once did not doubt his talent and potential, but he has lost such feelings and now works as an assistant in the studio of a charismatic contempo...

Toxic Daughter (tentative title) (2024)

Director: NAITO Eisuke

Cast: SATSUKAWA Aimi, UEHARA Sera, IREI Himena

Hagino moved to a town after marrying Atsuhiro, who has a middle school daughter, Moeka. One day, Hagino receives a call on her cell phone from Moeka in a desperate voice, "Buy me three cakes and a coke!" Hagino rushes home to find a strange girl si...

Belonging (2024)

Director: HIGASHI Kahori

Cast: HASHIMOTO Tsumugi, KUSHIJIMA Soshi, KUSUDA Yuto

A person in charge of "Belonging" appears before people whose lives have ended and tells them, "Do you have any regrets in this world? If you have, you can become an object and return there." A wife decides to become her husband's favorite mug, a boy...

UNBEATABLE: ROAD TO TOKYO (2024)

Director: Akrom ISAKOV

Cast: Aziz KULIEV, Temur BABAYAROV, Philippe REINHARDT

Jarolov grew up in a beautiful farming village in Uz-bekistan. For the sake of his village and his family, he chose boxing as a career. Soon, Jarolov wins not only the Asian Championship but also the World Championship. He also takes a challenge at p...

SERPENT'S PATH (2024)

Director: KUROSAWA Kiyoshi

Cast: SHIBASAKI Ko, Damien BONNARD

An adaptation of Kurosawa's own film "Hebi no Michi (aka Serpent's Path)" produced by Daiei in1998. In the suburbs of Paris, Albert, a freelance reporter, vows to take revenge for the brutal murder of his young daughter, while Sayoko, a Japanese fema...

The Quilt (2024)

Director: YAMASAKI Shimpei

Cast: SAITO Yoichiro, AKITANI Mone, KATAOKA Reiko

Tokio Takenaka (48) is a scriptwriter who's lost his passion for his work, and whose relationship with his wife Madoka (37) has turned sour. He spends his days lost in a haze. One day, a girl named Yoshimi Yokoyama (21) barges into his office, saying...

Naomi: Reversed (2024)

Director: HORAI Tadaaki

Cast: MASUDA Yuki, HAYASHI Yuta, AOKI Airi

A gender-swapped portrayal of aesthetic novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's masterpiece "Chijin no Ai", set in modern times. A story of love and wild lust, and ultimate masochism... Naomi is a teacher who lives with a younger man named Yuzuru. On the...

Quicksand: Reversed (2024)

Director: HORAI Tadaaki

Cast: SUZUKI Shion, MONMA Wataru, NAKAZAKI Erina

A gender-swapped portrayal of aesthetic novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's masterpiece "Manji", set in modern times. A story of homosexuality and adultery, and destructive love... Sonoda was a Japanese salaryman who couldn't give up on his dream of ...

House of Sayuri (2024)

Director: SHIRAISHI Koji

Cast: MINAMIDE Ryoka

"I wish you'd all just die." The Kamiki family has finally moved into their dream home. But before the seven of them can start to enjoy their new life, tragedies and eerie events start to befall them. As members of the family begin to die one ...

The Yin Yang Master Zero (2024)

Director: SATO Shimako

Cast: YAMAZAKI Kento, SOMETANI Shota, Nao

Over a thousand years ago, during the Heian period of Japanese history, politics in the capital city of Heiankyo, present-day Kyoto, center on the Yin Yang Bureau, whose school trains the yin yang masters who defend the city from curses and other mal...

HAKKENDEN (tentative title) (2024)

Director: SORI Fumihiko

Cast: YAKUSHO Koji, UCHINO Seiyo

Set in early 1800s, the film depicts a story behind the creation of HAKKENDEN(八犬伝), a novel which has been passed down for many generations and is said to have become the root of the heroism of Japanese entertainment. With a great performance of awar...

The Ex-idol, Stuck in Life, Decided to Live with a Complete Stranger (2023)

Director: AKIYAMA Mayu

Cast: FUKAGAWA Mai, MATSUURA Ryo, YANAGI Yurina

Film adaptation of the true-life novel of the same name by former SDN48 member Oki Akiko. Directed by Akiyama Mayu, an up-and-coming filmmaker who has garnered attention for such films as Rent a Friend and Early Dawn Colored Weekend. Former idol Aki...

TO MOM, WITH LOVE (2024)

Director: HASHIGUCHI Ryosuke

Cast: EGUCHI Noriko, UCHIDA Chika, FURUKAWA Kotone

Directed by Ryosuke HASHIGUCHI ("All Around Us", "Three Stories of Love"), this is a story of family, bringing you laughter and tears. Yayoi, Manami, and Kiyomi are 3 sisters with different characters, each hiding their own complex from each other...

SANA: LET ME HEAR (2024)

Director: SHIMIZU Takashi

Cast: SHIBUYA Nagisa, HAYASE Ikoi, SANTOKI Soma

The latest film from the director of "JU-ON", "HOWLING VILLAGE", and "SANA". In the makeup class during the summer school holidays, a student who is not supposed to be there turns up. In 1992, a girl falls from the rooftop of a middle school. Bes...

we don't know love yet. (2024)

Director: SAKAI Mai

Cast: ONISHI Ryusei, KUBOZUKA Airu, SAITO Nagisa

Based on a popular girls' comic of the same title by Minami Mizuno. A genuine love story where the deep connections between six high school students come alive, offering a 360-degree whirlwind of heartwarming moments and surprising turns. In thei...

THE LAST PASSENGER (2024)

Director: HORIE Takashi

Cast: IWATA Karen, FUKE Norimasa

This story unfolds in a small coastal town of Tohoku, Northeastern Japan, where a disastrous Tsunami wiped out the entire town and took thousands of people's lives ten years ago. Now, Endo, a taxi driver, waits at a train station every night for his ...

Living in Two Worlds (2024)

Director: O Mipo

Cast: YOSHIZAWA Ryo

Dai is born to deaf parents and has been raised with deep love in rural Japan. However, as he grows older, he becomes troubled by his differences from others and begins to blame his deaf mother for his daily frustrations. When he turns 20, Dai leaves...

Desert of Namibia (2024)

Director: YAMANAKA Yoko

Cast: KAWAI Yuumi, KANEKO Daichi, Kanichiro

Battle King!! Map of the Mind (2025)

Director: TAKIGAWA Genki

Cast: YAMASHITA Eiku (ONE N' ONLY), TAKAO Hayato (ONE N' ONLY)

BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues (2025)

Director: HOKIMOTO Sora

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The story is based on the autobiography of Takuo Honda, the owner of BAUS Theater. Shinji Aoyama was scheduled to direct this movie before he passed away. Sora Hokimoto, Aoyama's favorite disciple, took over the project and completed the film, contin...

Sisam (2024)

Director: NAKAO Hiroyuki

Cast: Kanichiro, WADA Masato, SAHEL Rosa

In the 17th century, early in the Edo Period of Japanese history, trade with the indigenous Ainu is the main source of income for the Matsumae clan. Kojiro, the son of a Matsumae clan retainer, and his older brother, Einosuke, are sent to Ezo for the...

Kanasando (2025)

Director: TERUYA Toshiyuki

Cast: MATSUDA Ruka, HORIUCHI Keiko, ASANO Tadanobu

This is a story of a family living on an island in Okinawa. Traumatized by her father's infidelity and her mother's death, Mika leaves the island alone. She has never been back to the home island since, but one day she is informed of her father's cr...

60's

Boy (1969)

Director: OSHIMA Nagisa

Cast: ABE Tetsuo, WATANABE Fumio, KOYAMA Akiko

A deadbeat father exploits his status as a veteran to force his son to feign being hit by cars in order to shake down the drivers for money. The film captures poignantly the boy's lonely plight as, following his father's orders, he repeatedly puts hi...