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DARK TALES OF TERROR FROM TOKYO (2023)
- Director
- SUZUKI Kosuke, KAWAMATSU Nao, SATO Shu
- Cast
- SUDA Aki, IMAI Shuto, MAEKAWA Tasuku
Episode 1 "A Child Who Came to the Hospital" – directed by Kosuke SUZUKI (TV series "Giver Taker", "24 Japan") Ryoka Hayama (Aiki Sugata), a high school girl in hospital, sees a mysterious girl. She is dressed in a kimono and holding a temari ball. ...
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PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower (2023)
- Director
- NISHIMI Shojiro
- Cast
- MIYAZAWA Rie, KUBOZUKA Yosuke, YOSHIDA Honoka
From the 12 volumes of Osamu Tezuka's timeless manga masterpiece "Phoenix", STUDIO4°C' has turned the "Nostalgia" volume, which depicts the future of the earth and the universe, into an animated film. Romi (Miyazawa Rie) and her boyfriend George (Ku...
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Sumikkogurashi: The Patched-Up Toy Factory in the Woods (2023)
- Director
- SAKUTA Hazumu
- Cast
Third feature animation film based on San-X's popular "Sumikkogurashi" characters. Helmed by "Neko no dayan" director Sakuta Hazumu with screenplay by Tsunoda Takashi, who also penned the first film Sumikkogurashi: Good to be in the corner. At the i...
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A Foggy Paradise (2023)
- Director
- KOTSUJI Yohei
- Cast
- OKUTSU Yuya, LEE Masatoshi, YASHIMA Yasumi
Feature film directorial debut for Kotsuji Yohei, who takes an improvisational approach to filmmaking from scriptwriting through direction. This road movie was an official selection for the competition in the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival. ...
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Girls Drive (2023)
- Director
- MIYAOKA Taro
- Cast
- OGURI Yui, YAMAUCHI Mizuki, KURANOO Narumi
Road movie helmed by gift director Miyaoka Taro with original story penned by Inoue Tete, who scripted Initiation Love. Minami Koharu (Oguri Yui} has devoted her life to track and field and when she gets disqualified from the high school championsh...
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GREAT ABSENCE (2023)
- Director
- CHIKA-URA Kei
- Cast
- MORIYAMA Mirai, FUJI Tatsuya, MAKI Yoko
Distanced from his father Yohji for twenty years, Takashi is brought back home by a jarring police call–Yohji has disconnected from reality due to dementia, and his second wife Naomi is missing. Asked where she is, the old man replies that she commit...
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52-HERTZ WHALES (2024)
- Director
- NARUSHIMA Izuru
- Cast
- SUGISAKI Hana, SHISON Jun
REBIRTH maestro filmmaker Narushima Izuru adapts Machida Sonoko's same-named novel that made a splash in Japan. This nuanced drama captures the unspoken voices of lonely individuals through the metaphor of the only whale in the world with a high-freq...
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SILENT LOVE (2024)
- Director
- UCHIDA Eiji
- Cast
- YAMADA Ryosuke, HAMABE Minami, NOMURA Shuhei
A love story spun from his own original screenplay by Uchida Eiji, director of Midnight Swan, which won the Best Film Award at the 44th Japan Academy Prize. Hisaishi Joe, who has worked on numerous Studio Ghibli works, composed the music. Aoi (Yamad...
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Kadono Eiko's Colorful Life: Finding the Magic Within (2024)
- Director
- MIYAGAWA Marina
- Cast
- KADONO Eiko
A documentary that closely follows the daily life of Kadono Eiko, best known as the author of "Kiki's Delivery Service". Based on the NHK program of the same name that was broadcast from 2020 to 2022, directed by Miyagawa Marina, who also worked on t...
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Manzai Association THE MOVIE (2024)
- Director
- HANAWA Nobuyuki (a member of comedy duo "Knights")
- Cast
A documentary film about comedians in Tokyo who put their hearts on the stage. Why do Manzai performers continue to stand on the "stage"? Since June 2023, as a new and youngest ever chairman of Manzai association, Hanawa has been working to reform th...
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Keep Your Left Hand Down (2023)
- Director
- IGUCHI Nami
- Cast
- NAGOYA Megumi, KITAGUCHI Mia, MATSUMOTO Kei
The era of childish perversions and violence, the children's police are arresting left-handed people. Yet, at universities old-fashioned film seminars are given leisurely, at cafes lovers are dating, a mysterious female fortuneteller predicts future ...
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Spring in Between (2022)
- Director
- KATSU Rika
- Cast
- MIYAZAWA Hio, KONISHI Sakurako
This is the commercial film debut of Katsu Rika, who has worked on numerous drama adaptations as a manga editor while continuing to produce independent films. Magazine editor Komukai Haru (Konisihi Sakurako), who is having trouble with work and love...
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The Women in the Lakes (2024)
- Director
- OMORI Tatsushi
- Cast
- FUKUSHI Sota, MATSUMOTO Marika
A 100 year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him alive suddenly malfunction, or was he murdered? A young detective on the case meets a woman caregiver. The investigation runs into a dead end, but the...
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How to Find a Lover (2023)
- Director
- MAEDA Koji
- Cast
- KURA Yuki, IMOU Haruka
Director Maeda Koji, who made his theatrical film debut with Cannonball Wedlock, and screenwriter Takada Ryo team up again after making You're Not Normal, Either! together, for this quirky love story. Towa (Kura Yuki), who works in a gardening shop,...
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The Beast of Comedy (2024)
- Director
- TAKIMOTO Kengo
- Cast
- OKAYAMA Amane, KATAOKA Reiko, MATSUMOTO Honoka
Film adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Tsuchiya Takayuki, a writer obsessed with the world of comedy. It is the commercial film debut of director Takimoto Kengo, who has directed many TV dramas and commercials. After six years of coming up...
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One Second Ahead, One Second Behind (2023)
- Director
- YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- OKADA Masaki, KIYOHARA Kaya
Director Yamashita Nobuhiro teams up for the first time with screenplay writer Kudo Kankuro for this remake of the 2020 Taiwanese romance My Missing Valentine with the male and female roles reversed. Hajime (Okada Masaki) works at the post office an...
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After the Fever (2023)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Akira
- Cast
- HASHIMOTO Ai, NAKANO Taiga, KIRYU Mai
Second feature film from cutting-edge director Yamamoto Akira, whose Tokyo University of the Arts graduation work Speak Low earned acclaim overseas. World premiere screening in the New Currents competition at the 28th Busan International Film Festiva...
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(Ab)normal Desire (2023)
- Director
- KISHI Yoshiyuki
- Cast
- INAGAKI Goro, ARAGAKI Yui, ISOMURA Hayato
Film adaptation of Asai Ryo's same-named best seller. Wilderness director Kishi Yoshiyuki reunites with screenwriter Minato Takehiko for this vivid drama about the intersecting lives of five people with varied backgrounds. Terai Keiki (Inagaki Goro)...
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Detective of Joshidaikoji (2023)
- Director
- MATSUOKA Tatsuya
- Cast
- GORIKI Ayame, DAIGO Kotaro
A poignant mystery with a screenplay by author Hata Takehiko, who adapts his own novel of the same name, and is best known as the author of the "Unfair" series. Daiki (Daigo Kotaro), who works part-time at a bar in Nagoya's entertainment district of...
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Who Were We? (2023)
- Director
- TOMINA Tetsuya
- Cast
- KOMATSU Nana, MATSUDA Ryuhei, OTAKE Shinobu
The story is set in a gold-mining town on Sado Island, Japan. A woman wakes up with no memory of her past. She is rescued by an elderly female cleaner named Kii (which means the colour yellow). Kii takes her to a home that already houses two girls—Ak...
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#MITO (2023)
- Director
- MIYAZAKI Daisuke
- Cast
- TAMASHIRO Tina, YUKAWA Hina, INABA Yu
Thriller depicting the madness that infests online society, featuring a heroine who works as an influencer for a living. Directed and written by Miyazaki Daisuke (VIDEOPHOBIA). Yamane Mito (Tamashiro Tina) lives her life as the charismatic influence...
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Shadow of Fire (2023)
- Director
- TSUKAMOTO Shinya
- Cast
- Shuri, MORIYAMA Mirai
This drama builds on director Tsukamoto Shinya's Fires on the Plain and Killing with a story set in the chaos of a post-war black market. Won NETPAC award at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival. A woman (Shuri) living alone in a burned-out p...
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TILL WE MEET AGAIN ON THE LILY HILL (2023)
- Director
- NARITA Yoichi
- Cast
- FUKUHARA Haruka, MIZUKAMI Koshi
Follow the Light director Narita Yoichi brings Shiomi Natsue's same-named novel to the silver screen. Vividly portrays romance in the life of a high school girl who has traveled back in time to 1945 Japan. Yuri (Fukuhara Haruka) runs away from home ...
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The Quiet Yakuza -Part 1- (2023)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Kento
- Cast
- ITO Kentaro
A new live-action adaptation of the popular yakuza manga ‘The Quiet Don' by Nitta Tatsuo, comprehensively produced by Motomiya Yasukaze of the "Japan Unification" series. The first part of a two-part theatrical release whereby four chapters are divid...
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Six Singing Women (2023)
- Director
- ISHIBASHI Yoshimasa
- Cast
- TAKENOUCHI Yutaka, YAMADA Takayuki
Suspense thriller that marks the first film in a decade from the brilliant Ishibashi Yoshimasa, whose idiosyncratic films include Oh! Mikey and Milocrorze. Kayashima (Takenouchi Yutaka) returns to his family home to sell the mountain bequeathed by h...
