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MIGAWARI ZAZEN (2010)
- Director
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Kanzaburo, BANDO Mitsugoro, ICHIKAWA Somegoro
Nakamura Kanzaburo is a major star, known not just in Japan but internationally. This film shows the comedic performance characteristic of Nakamura. This performance was shown at the same time as KUMO NO HYOSHIMAI as the 11th in the Cinema Kabuki ser...
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OEDO LIVING DEAD (2010)
- Director
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Somegoro, NAKAMURA Shichinosuke, NAKAMURA Kanzaburo
This is the 12th production in the Cinema Kabuki series of Kabuki performances filmed using a HD camera. In this original drama by Kudo Kankuro for a Kabuki performance set in the present age, Shiriagari Kotobuki was in charge of the scenery drop cur...
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BANYUKI from “GEKI ×CINE” (2010)
- Director
- INOUE Hidenori
- Cast
- KAMIKAWA Takaya, INAMORI Izumi, SAOTOME Taichi
The first of the GEKI × CINE (Gekishine) series in which a live performance is digitally shot and released in movie theaters. Theater company Gekidan Shinkansen brings us a period action piece using "The Count of Monte Cristo" theme with spectacular ...
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KUMO NO HYOSHIMAI (2010)
- Director
- Cast
- BANDO Tamasaburo, BANDO Mitsugoro, ONOE Shoroku
This is the 11th film in the Cinema Kabuki series that shows Kabuki performances filmed with HD cameras on digital screens in film theaters. This was one of the farewell performances, the last before the Kabukiza theater was closed for rebuilding. Ba...
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Black Butler Musical -The Most Beautiful DEATH in The World- (2010)
- Director
- FUKUZAWA Satoshi
- Cast
- MATSUSHITA Yuya, NISHII Yukito, SAEKI Daisuke
The second musical performance based on Toboso Yana's popular comic book, which also became a hit TV animation series. An impeccable butler works for a noble family, but is actually a demon. The musical takes us through the adventures of the butler's...
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The Wife of Gegege (2010)
- Director
- SUZUKI Takuji
- Cast
- FUKIISHI Kazue, KUDO Kankuro, SAKAI Maki
A love story depicting the younger days of Mizuma Shigeru, author of "Gegege no Kitaro," the well-known comic on 'yokai' (supernatural beings), and his wife Mura Nunoe, who supported him through the years. Like the hit TV drama version, the film is b...
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A man on the verge at a BLACK company (2009)
- Director
- SATOH Yuichi
- Cast
- KOIKE Teppei, Maiko, SHINAGAWA Hiroshi
A comedy originating from a real life internet forum, and adapted to film by director Sato Yuichi of the Simsons. Koike Teppei plays a formerly withdrawn young man finally employed, only to find himself at the mercy of an awaiting hellish work enviro...
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Goemon Rock (2009)
- Director
- INOUE Hidenori
- Cast
- FURUTA Arata, MATSUYUKI Yasuko, MORIYAMA Mirai
This is the newest of a series of theater and film conglomerates recorded with the latest digital technology, "Geki×cine," the play "Goemon Rock" incorporates live band performances by the theater group "Gekidan ☆ Shinkansen." This adventure play is ...
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The Amazing Grandma of Saga (2008)
- Director
- SHIMADA Yoshichi
- Cast
- KAYAMA Yoshiko, TAKASHIMA Reiko, KOBAYASHI Ayako
A film adaptation of the great hit memoir of Shimada Yoshichi 'Saga no Gabai Bachan' which sold a total of 6.7 million copies for the entire series. He directed and wrote the script for this film. This tear-jerking and side-splitting work depicts the...
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IREZUMI CHOHAN (2008)
- Director
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Kanzaburo, BANDO Tamasaburo, KATAOKA Kamezo
The eighth film of "Cinema Kabuki" where kabuki stage performances filmed digitally with an HD camera are screened at movie theaters. This work about the deep love of married couples has a rich cast lineup and is a heart-grabbing masterpiece by Haseg...
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Hokaibo Sumidagawa-Gonichi no Omokage (2009)
- Director
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Kanzaburo, NAKAMURA Hashinosuke, BANDO Yajuro
The tenth production of "Cinema Kabuki" where a kabuki stage performance filmed in HD is digitally screened at film theaters. Nakamura Kanzaburo, a famous and popular actor even abroad, passionately plays the part of Hokaibo, a corrupt priest who jus...
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THE PEONY LANTERN (2009)
- Director
- Cast
- KATAOKA Nizaemon, BANDO Mitsugoro, KATAOKA Ainosuke
The ninth work of the "Cinema Kabuki" series. "Botan Doro (The Peony Lantern)" is a ghost story which won fame as the rakugo comic storytelling act of Sanyutei Encho. This film, however, picks up the stage performance at Kabuki-za in October 2007. Th...
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Cinema Kabuki BOTAN TEI (2009)
- Director
- BANDO Tamasaburo
- Cast
- BANDO Tamasaburo, YU Jiu-Lin
A special version of Cinema Kabuki which shows kabuki performances on the big cinema screen. This film introduces the Kunqu opera "Botan-tei (Peony Pavilion)" which Bando Tamasaburo performed in March 2009 in Suzhou, China, as well as the documentary...
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On Next Sunday (2009)
- Director
- KEMMOCHI Satoki
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Somegoro, Younha, TAKENAKA Naoto
Starring Kabuki actor Ichikawa Somegoro and popular Korean talents such as singer Younha, this warm and relaxed film from Director Kemmochi Satoki (who was awarded Best New Director by the All Nippon Producers Association in 1999) portrays the gradua...
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Things When I Was A Girl (2009)
- Director
- MORIOKA Toshiyuki
- Cast
- FUKATSU Eri, OHGO Suzuka, FUKUSHI Seiji
Nostalgic story based on the autobiographical best-seller comic by Saibara Rieko depicting a woman's search to reclaim her joie de vivre by reconnecting with her own childhood memories. Director/screenplay writer Morioka Toshiyuki (Koneko no namida) ...
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Enko elegy : Asakusa aika (2008)
- Director
- MATSUDA Akira, SUDO Tamegoro
- Cast
- KATSURA Asami, SAKURAI Asami, YOSHIDA Tuzumi
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FILM OF THE DEAD (2007)
- Director
- SHINADA Ryusuke
- Cast
- SHINADA Ryusuke, URATA Syuko, SHIBUYA Yu
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United Red Army (2007)
- Director
- WAKAMATSU Koji
- Cast
- SAKAI Maki, ARATA, NAMIKI Akie
The harsh path of the United Red Army is followed based on true events leading to the Asama cabin siege of February 1972. The incident was televised and kept everyone in Japan glued to the TV. Directed by Wakamatsu Koji who holds a unique place in Ja...
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Best Wishes for Tomorrow (2007)
- Director
- KOIZUMI Takashi
- Cast
- Makoto Fujita, Robert LESSER, Fred MCQUEEN
Directed by Koizumi Takashi, who worked as the Assistant Director for Kurosawa Akira movies from the 1970s through to Kurosawa's late years. Koizumi then made his directorial debut in 2000 with After the Rain based on Kurosawa Akira's posthumous scri...
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jellyfish (2006)
- Director
- IKEDA Sho
- Cast
- IKEDA Sho, HABU Hiroshi, MASUBUCHI Minato
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School Days with a Pig (2008)
- Director
- MAEDA Tetsu
- Cast
- TSUMABUKI Satoshi, HARADA Mieko, OSUGI Ren
A documentary-like drama that asks the question of true dietary education, based on a true story that took place at an elementary school in Osaka in 1990. Double winner at the 2008 Tokyo International Film Festival, of the Audience Award in the Compe...
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RENJISHI (original Japanese title) (2007)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Kanzaburo, NAKAMURA Kantaro, NAKAMURA Shichinosuke
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THE TALE OF BUNSHICHI (2007)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Kanzaburo, NAKAMURA Shikan, NAKAMURA Senjaku
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FURU AMERIKA NI SODE HA NURASAJI (original Japanese title) (2007)
- Director
- Cast
- BANDO Tamasaburo, NAKAMURA Shido, NAKAMURA Kanzaburo
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TOGITATSU NO UTARE: Noda Version (2005)
- Director
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Kanzaburo, NAKAMURA Fukusuke, BANDO Mitsugoro
