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Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly (2009)
- Director
- KIMURA Takeo
- Cast
- HARADA Yoshio, MATSUZAKA Keiko, KAWAZU Yusuke
The second feature film from director Kimura Takeo, who after almost 70 years serving the Japanese film industry as an art director entered the Guiness World Records in 2008 for making his feature film directing debut at the age of 90. Golden Flower ...
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Dear Doctor (2009)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Miwa
- Cast
- SHOFUKUTEI Tsurube, Eita, YO Kimiko
The third film from Nishikawa Miwa, whose previous film Sway swept many domestic film awards and garnered attention at the Cannes film festival. A novel she herself wrote, bated on the idea of this film, was nominated for the Naoki Prize. This sincer...
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ROOKIES (2009)
- Director
- HIRAKAWA Yuichiro
- Cast
- SATO Ryuta, ICHIHARA Hayato, KOIDE Keisuke
A theatrical feature film version of a mega hit TV drama based on a popular manga by Morita Masanori. With smoldering passionand energy, the film tells a triumphant story of a newly arrived passionate teacher rebuilding a baseball team eventually lea...
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April Bride (2009)
- Director
- HIROKI Ryuichi
- Cast
- EIKURA Nana, Eita, TEZUKA Satomi
This film is an all-star cast love story inspired by a true story that aired as a documentary on TBS and subsequently became a bestseller upon its publication in a book form. Based on the life story of Nagashima Chie, who died of breast cancer in Ma...
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CROWS II (2009)
- Director
- MIIKE Takashi
- Cast
- OGURI Shun, YABE Kyosuke, KUROKI Meisa
A coming-of-age violence action film, this is the second prequel to the legendary youth manga 'Crows' by Takahashi Hiroshi, but written originally for the screen. The story begins a few months after the first installment at Suzuran High, a veritable ...
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Annyong Yumika (2009)
- Director
- MATSUE Tetsuaki
- Cast
- HAYASHI Yumika, YU Jin-Seon, IRIE Koji
Hayashi Yumika was a legendary film actress who appeared in "pink films," TV shows, commercial movies as well as porn videos before her sudden death in 2005, at age 34. When filmmaker Matsue Tetsuaki learns that Yumika had starred in a little-known K...
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USB (2009)
- Director
- OKU Shutaro
- Cast
- WATANABE Kazushi, MOMOI Kaori, MINETA Kazunobu
The latest film from Oku Shutaro, known for his work as a theater director and designing stage visuals for Takarazuka revue operas and troupe Noda-Map, as well as an independent film director of Akasen , Cain's Descendant and Death of Donomata. Imbue...
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KANIKOSEN (2009)
- Director
- SABU
- Cast
- MATSUDA Ryuhei, NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, KORA Kengo
Written some 80 years ago, Kobayashi Takiji's proletarian literary masterpiece of the same title depicting the misery of laborers toiling in substandard working conditions has seen a resurge in popularity due to today's widening economic disparity. D...
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Fish Story (2009)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Yoshihiro
- Cast
- ITO Atsushi, KORA Kengo, TABE Mikako
Director Nakamura Yoshihiro and novelist (original story) Isaka Kotaro follow The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck, and God with a new collaboration. Singer-songwriter Saito Kazuyoshi served as a music producer, and young character actors fill the cast....
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Boku wa umi ga mitaku narimashita (2009)
- Director
- FUKUDA Yoshihisa
- Cast
- OTSUKA Chihiro, ITO Yuki, AKINO Taisaku
This human drama depicts a invigorating journey taken by an autistic young man and a student nurse. The script writer Yamashita Kuniaki, whose own son is autistic, was in charge of planning, the original story, and script. It realistically portrays t...
