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Doraemon Nobita to midori no kyojinden (2008)

Director: WATANABE Ayumu

Cast: MIZUTA Wasabi, OHARA Megumi, KIMURA Subaru

Fujiko F. Fujio's Doraemon has been enormously popular since the serialization started in 1969. It has been adapted to TV animations as well as feature animations, and these have been blockbuster hits like the original manga. This is the 28th of the ...

After School (2008)

Director: UCHIDA Kenji

Cast: OIZUMI Yo, SASAKI Kuranosuke, SAKAI Masato

Directed by Uchida Kenji, who won four prizes at the 2005 Cannes International Film Festival Critics Week for his A Stranger of Mine. The story centers on three former classmates who have now gone out into the world following separate paths. Their "a...

The Wolf Talisman - where town and mountain meet (2008)

Director: YUI Suguru

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A documentary closes in on the mystery of the "Wolf Talisman" which is believed to provide protection for arable land while showing that the land-based belief still remains in the Kanto region including Tokyo. The winner of the Bunka-cho Film Prizes ...

Your Friends (2008)

Director: HIROKI Ryuichi

Cast: ISHIBASHI Anna, KITAURA Ayu, YOSHITAKA Yuriko

Following a spate of film adaptation of novels by a Naoki Prize winner Shigematsu Kiyoshi, another of his novels by the same title has been adapted to a sensitive adolescent film by Hiroki Ryuichi of Vibrator. The scenery, all shot on location in Yam...

Child by Children (2008)

Director: HAGIUDA Koji

Cast: AMARI Haruna, MIYAZAKI Yoshiko, ASO Kumiko

Based on Saso Akira's manga series of the same title, which has been hugely popular since it was still running. Adapted again by Hagiuda Koji, following Genius. Soundtrack which adds gentle colors to the story is by a pop maestro, Tokumaru Shugo. Or...

Suspect X (2008)

Director: NISHITANI Hiroshi

Cast: FUKUYAMA Masaharu, SHIBASAKI Ko, KITAMURA Kazuki

A mystery where a genius physicist unravels the truth behind a challenging case. Based on a novel by the currently most popular and best selling writer, Higashino Keigo, who dominated the top three places in the best selling book ranking in the liter...

The Magic Hour (2008)

Director: MITANI Koki

Cast: SATO Koichi, TSUMABUKI Satoshi, FUKATSU Eri

A non-stop comedy by Mitani Koki, the king of comedy in the film and stage theater world. It was well talked about also for the superb set of a town created by Taneda Yohei, a leading production designer in Japan, and for the star-studded actors of l...

Happy Flight (2008)

Director: YAGUCHI Shinobu

Cast: TANABE Seiichi, TOKITO Saburo, AYASE Haruka

A hit maker Yaguchi Shinobu of Waterboys and Swing Girls unfolds his favorite entertaining group drama in this latest movie, featuring people with various occupations relating to the operating of airplanes. The end product is a movie which cannot be ...

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...

One Million Yen Girl (2008)

Director: TANADA Yuki

Cast: AOI Yu, MORIYAMA Mirai, Pierre TAKI

A road movie by an up-and-coming young female director, Tanada Yuki, starring Aoi Yu (Hana and Alice and Hula Girls), who is highly sought after for movies and TV advertisements. Suzuko (Aoi Yu) graduates from a two-year college, but without any ski...

NAOKO-winning runners (2008)

Director: FURUMAYA Tomoyuki

Cast: UENO Juri, MIURA Haruma, SHOFUKUTEI Tsurube

Based on a manga of the same title, written by Sakata Nobuhiro, drawn by Nakahara Yu, and serialized for as long as nine years with legendary popularity. This has been adapted to a film by Furumaya Tomoyuki, who excels at adolescent movies such as Ro...