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honokaa boy (2009)
- Director
- SANADA Atsushi
- Cast
- OKADA Masaki, BAISHO Chieko, HASEGAWA Jun
A heartfelt coming-of-age story, based on the travel writing of Yoshida Leo. A sensitive college boy comes to Honokaa on the Big Island of Hawaii, an actual town where many of the residents are Japanese immigrants, and through his interactions with t...
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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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ROMANTIC PRELUDE (2009)
- Director
- KUMAZAWA Naoto
- Cast
- OKADA Junichi, ASO Kumiko
Winner in the honorable mention category at the Hakodate Harbor Illumination Film Festival, this film adaptation of the screenplay written by Manabe Yukiko is a heartwarming love story featuring a lineup of popular contemporary actors including Okada...
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Satoyama (2009)
- Director
- KIKUCHI Tetsunori
- Cast
- IMAMORI Mitsuhiko
The first theatrical film edited from one of the NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) documentary series ‘Satoyama,' which has earned high audience ratings in Japan and wide international acclaim, including the Prix Italia. The four seasons of the "s...
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The Robin Sisters Are Here, Yeah, Yeah, Yeaｈ! (2009)
- Director
- KATAOKA Eiko
- Cast
- OSANAI Eiko, OSANAI Toshiko, ATSUMI Jiro
Director Kataoka Eiko, whose career has included working as assistant director for Yukisada Isao (Luxurious Bone) and Yaguchi Shinobu (Water Boys), spent three years filming this intimate documentary that portrays the tumultuous lives of the "Robin S...
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84 Years of Showa 〜The last witness of the "Darkside of the Showa era". (2009)
- Director
- ITO Yoshiaki
- Cast
- IIDA Susumu
A documentary that follows Iida Susumu, who continues vigorous activity in his late 80s, writing accounts of World War II and running a welfare facility for children with disabilities. Exhausting body and soul on the brutal New Guinea front in the th...
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Gravity's Clowns (2009)
- Director
- MORI Jun-ichi
- Cast
- KASE Ryo, OKADA Masaki, KOHINATA Fumiyo
Based on popular writer Isaka Kotaro's bestselling novel, reworked into an emotionally charged mystery by promising director Mori Junichi (Laundry). A puzzling series of arsons grip the city of Sendai, causing the tragic history of one family to resu...
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Doraemon the Movie: The New Record of Nobita's Spaceblazer (2009)
- Director
- KOSHI Shigeo
- Cast
- MIZUTA Wasabi, OHARA Megumi, KAKAZU Yumi
Remake of Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Spaceblazer, the second in the popular Doraemon film series that was launched in 1980. This is the 29th animation of the series, and includes original characters that have never before appeared. Due to a wa...
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Where are you? (2009)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Masahiro
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Yuto, EMOTO Tokio, WATANABE Makiko
Poignant film portraying the struggles, financial and otherwise, of a son of a single-parent family, from Director Kobayashi Masahiro, who won the Grand prize at the Locarno International Film Festival for The Rebirth. The film offers a glimpse of th...
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Yona Yona Penguin (2009)
- Director
- Rintaro
- Cast
- MORISAKO Ei, TANAKA Rena, OTA Hikaru
A fully computer-generated fantasy animation that follows the adventures of a young girl in a Goblin village. Director Rintaro, one of Japan's leading animation directors, also wrote the original story, while production was handled by MADHOUSE, produ...
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Go Find A Psychic! (2009)
- Director
- MOTOHIRO Katsuyuki
- Cast
- NAGASAWA Masami, MIYAKE Hiroki, SUWA Masashi
An up-tempo situation comedy, based on the play, ‘Yuri Geller in Winter,' from the Europe Kikaku troupe led by playwright Ueda Makoto. An assistant director on a TV program dealing with paranormal phenomena engages in riotous slapstick with true para...
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Villon's Wife (2009)
- Director
- NEGISHI Kichitaro
- Cast
- MATSU Takako, ASANO Tadanobu, HIROSUE Ryoko
An all-star cast enacts a story distilled from seven of Dazai Osamu's works, in a literary drama released on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the novelist. The relationship between a hard-drinking, promiscuous writer and his beautiful, upstandin...
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BALLAD (2009)
- Director
- YAMAZAKI Takashi
- Cast
- KUSANAGI Tsuyoshi, ARAGAKI Yui, OSAWA Takao
Of the numerous feature films in the Crayon Shin-chan anime series, Crayon Shinchan Bravo Samurai was particularly well received and honored with many prestigious awards. The world of this anime masterpiece has been reworked here as a live-action, ro...
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Amalfi (2009)
- Director
- NISHITANI Hiroshi
- Cast
- ODA Yuji, AMAMI Yuki, TODA Erika
A suspense drama, produced to mark the 50th anniversary of Fuji Television and filmed entirely on location in Italy. Based on a new novel by popular writer Shimpo Yuichi (Whiteout), the kidnapping of a Japanese girl in Rome unfolds into a series of t...
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Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai (2009)
- Director
- NISHIKUBO Mizuho
- Cast
- SUGO Takayuki
Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645) was an unrivalled swordsman who became renowned through stories of his excellent swordsmanship. He wrote a master treatise on military strategy, ‘The Book of Five Rings' and sought the way to enlighten his spirit and c...
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Sideways (2009)
- Director
- Cellin GLUCK
- Cast
- KOHINATA Fumiyo, NAMASE Katsuhisa, SUZUKI Kyoka
A remake of the 2004 Hollywood film that won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, made by an American crew with a Japanese cast. It is directed by Cellin Gluck, a Japan-born American who has worked as second-unit director on numerous American and Ja...
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Air Doll (2009)
- Director
- KORE-EDA Hirokazu
- Cast
- BAE Doona, ARATA, ITAO Itsuji
Director Kore-eda Hirokazu, known for such films as Nobody Knows and Still Walking, adapts Gouda Yoshiie's short manga "The Pneumatic Figure of a Girl" into this fantasy-romance. The relations between the ultra-real doll with a heart and her lonely ...
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Oh, My Buddha! (2009)
- Director
- TAGUCHI Tomorowo
- Cast
- WATANABE Daichi, MINETA Kazunobu, KISHIDA Shigeru
A second film, following Iden & Tity, directed by Taguchi Tomorowo from the semiautobiographical coming-of-age fiction of the multi-talented illustrator Miura Jun. A summer in the life of a bookish high-school student, who is troubled by the tranquil...
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SUMMER WARS (2009)
- Director
- HOSODA Mamoru
- Cast
- KAMIKI Ryunosuke, SAKURABA Nanami, TANIMURA Mitsuki
A sci-fi animated feature film from internationally acclaimed director Hosoda Mamoru, whose previous work The Girl Who Leapt Through Time won the Special Distinction for Feature Film at France's Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Sadamoto ...
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No More Cry!!! (2009)
- Director
- MIZUTA Nobuo
- Cast
- ABE Sadawo, Eita, TAKEUCHI Yuko
The team that created Maiko Haaaan!!! — director Mizuta Nobuo, screenwriter Kudo Kankuro and star Abe Sadawo – reunite for this family drama full of laughter and tears. Set in a friendly old working class neighborhood of Tokyo, the film follows the u...
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20th Century Boys - Chapter 3- (2009)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- KARASAWA Toshiaki, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, TOKIWA Takako
Having produced hits in a variety of genres and styles, from deadpan comedies to human dramas, director Tsutsumi Yukihiko completes the third and final chapter in the ‘20th Century Boys' trilogy, based on Urasawa Naoki's best-selling manga series. T...
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GOKUSEN THE MOVIE (2009)
- Director
- SATO Toya
- Cast
- NAKAMA Yukie, KAMENASHI Kazuya, NAMASE Katsuhisa
A big screen adaptation of the hit TV series which ran three seasons between 2002 to 2008 and served as the gateway to success for countless young acting talent. Series director Sato Toya returns to helm the feature film version. Enthusiastic teache...
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20th Century Boys - Chapter 2- (2009)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- TOYOKAWA Etsushi, TOKIWA Takako, TAIRA Airi
The second chapter in the ‘20th Century Boys' trilogy based on Urasawa Naoki's best-selling manga series, which has been published in twelve countries. Chapter two is permeated with iconic images from 1970s Japan such as the Osaka world expo. The al...
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POOL (2009)
- Director
- OMORI Mika
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Satomi, KASE Ryo, Kana
Omori Mika (Nekonade) writes and directs this adaptation of an original story written for the screen by popular manga author Sakurazawa Erika. Set in Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand, Pool's lush visuals capture the scenery, culture and array of cuisi...
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Bare Essence of Life (2009)
- Director
- YOKOHAMA Satoko
- Cast
- MATSUYAMA Kenichi, ASO Kumiko, NOZOE Seiji
Yokohama Satoko's 2007 film, German+Rain, was self-produced butenjoyed a nationwide release and won the New Director's Award from the Directors Guild of Japan. This is the major-studio debut from this promising young director, made with a surrealisti...
