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My Special One (working title) (2025)
- Director
- MATSUDA Ayato
- Cast
- HATA Mei, OHASHI Kazuya
Sahoko, an unremarkable high school girl, despises good-looking boys and has sworn off love after experiencing deep emotional pain. But her life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Kouta, a gorgeous pop star. As she gets to know his passion for h...
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Catching The Stars of This Summer (working title) (2025)
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During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when club activities were restricted, Japanese students launched an astronomical observation event called the "Star Catch Contest" via remote meetings. What began as a collaboration between students from Ibaraki,...
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UNDER THE BIG ONION (2025)
- Director
- KUSANO Shogo
- Cast
Inspired by a song by Bakufu Slump, this film is a heartfelt love story that transcends eras—from Heisei to Reiwa—connecting strangers through handwritten words. An emotional journey that will move you to tears....
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THE 35-YEAR PROMISE (2025)
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- TSUKAMOTO Rempei
- Cast
A heartwarming true story—now a film—about a husband who could not read or write and the wife who taught him the meaning of happiness.
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PETALS AND MEMORIES (2025)
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- MAEDA Tetsu
- Cast
Having lost their parents at a young age, siblings Toshiki and Fumiko have lived together ever since. With Fumiko's upcoming marriage, Toshiki, who has been like a parent to her, should finally feel a sense of relief. However, Fumiko has a secret she...
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PELELIU: GUERNICA OF PARADISE (working title) (2025)
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- KUJI Goro
- Cast
This monumental animation is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Out of 10,000 soldiers, only 34 survived on the hellish battlefield of Peleliu Island. What did those young soldiers feel as they fought till their dying breat...
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NAGASAKI -IN THE SHADOW OF THE FLASH- (2025)
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- MATSUMOTO Jumpei
- Cast
Three nursing students—Sumi, Atsuko and Misao—return to Nagasaki due to air raid school closures. Their peaceful days end abruptly when an atomic bomb strikes on August 9th, 1945 at 11:02 AM. In a city transformed into hell, these young, inexperience...
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A Pale View of Hills (2025)
- Director
- ISHIKAWA Kei
- Cast
- HIROSE Suzu, NIKAIDO Fumi
UK 1982. An young aspiring Japanese-British writer plans to write a book based on her mother Etsuko's postwar experiences in Nagasaki. Haunted by the suicide of her older daughter, Etsuko begins to recount her memories from 1952 as a young mother-to-...
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I Have a S/e/c/r/e/t/ (2025)
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- NAKAGAWA Shun
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- OKUDAIRA Daiken, DEGUCHI Natsuki, SANO Masaya (Ae! Group)
Five classmates, each with the unique ability to see the emotions of others, keep this power secret. This is a bittersweet and melancholic tale, woven with the "hidden truths". Kyo, a high school student who feels inferior to those around him, finds...
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THE FINAL PIECE (2025)
- Director
- KUMAZAWA Naoto
- Cast
- SAKAGUCHI Kentaro, WATANABE Ken
What is it that enables us to say we are truly alive? This mystery begins with a man's corpse found on a mountain, holding a bag of valuable shogi pieces. What gradually unravels is a startling truth and a painful and sad 'life choice'....
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As for Me (2025)
- Director
- YAZAKI Hitoshi
- Cast
- HASHIMOTO Ai, NAKAGAWA Taishi, YAMADA Anna
Yazaki Hitoshi brings his unique cinematic vision to this sensitive drama about how women live, based on Yuzuki Asako's novel "Wasejo, Onna, Otoko." Saotome Kanako (Hashimoto Ai) begins dating Nagatsuda (Nakagawa Taishi), an aspiring playwright in ...
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Tea for Three (2024)
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- OHTANI Kentaro
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- MATSUSHITA Nao, SUGINO Yosuke
Romance based on the coming-of-age novel "Sukitootta kaze ga fuite" by Asano Atsuko, who hails from Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture. Directed by Ohtani Kentaro who is also from Mimasaka. Keiya (Sugino Yosuke) fails his college entrance exams and spends...
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How to Forget You (2024)
- Director
- SAKUDO Yu
- Cast
- BANDO Ryota, NISHINO Nanase
Drama about grief care for people suffering from loss. Directed and written by the emerging talent Sakudo Yu, who garnered international acclaim with his VR animation "Thank you for sharing your world." Morishita Subaru (Bando Ryota) loses his fianc...
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Strangers in Kyoto (2025)
- Director
- TOMINAGA Masanori
- Cast
- FUKAGAWA Mai
Madoka Shibusawa, a Tokyo manga writer, goes to Kyoto to visit her husband's family's long-established fan shop in Kyoto. She interviews them and many proprietress and wants to write a comic essay. However, she struggles to protect Kyoto's historic ...
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MUROI SHINJI STAY ALIVE (2024)
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- MOTOHIRO Katsuyuki
- Cast
- YANAGIBA Toshiro, FUKUMOTO Riko
The second part of a new two-part theatrical version of the "Bayside Shakedown" series, which began airing as a TV drama in 1997 and became a social phenomenon. The production team behind the series, including director Motohiro Katsuyuki, reunite. A...
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MUROI SHINJI NOT DEFEATED (2024)
- Director
- MOTOHIRO Katsuyuki
- Cast
- YANAGIBA Toshiro, FUKUMOTO Riko
The first part of a new two-part theatrical version of the "Bayside Shakedown" series, which began airing as a TV drama in 1997 and has grossed over 48.7 billion yen in total for all six theatrical versions. The production team behind the series, inc...
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Run for Money The Movie (2024)
- Director
- NISHIURA Masaki
- Cast
- KAWANISHI Takumi, NAKAJIMA Sota, KIMATA Shoya
The first feature film version of the variety show "Run for Money," which began broadcasting on the Fuji TV network in 2004. The game, in which players must elude pursuers called "hunters" to win the prize money, is dramatized with members of the voc...
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Exit 8 (2025)
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Dollhouse (2025)
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- YAGUCHI Shinobu
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- NAGASAWA Masami, SETO Koji
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What Should We Have Done? (2024)
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- FUJINO Tomoaki
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Fujino Tomoaki directed, shot and edited this film over a 20-year period, documenting his sister who developed symptoms of schizophrenia and their socially isolated family. The filmmaker's sister is 8 years his senior, and she excelled academically ...
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Or Utopia (2024)
- Director
- KIM Yunsoo
- Cast
- FUJIWARA Kisetsu, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko, YOSHIOKA Mutsuo
Debut feature film with an original screenplay by Kim Yunsoo, director of White-T and Feeble Things, a 2016 ndjc: Young Filmmaker Development Project selection, and Sunday, Calm, winner of the 34th Tokyo International Film Festival Amazon Prime Video...
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Fists and Prayers: The Life of Iwao Hakamada (2024)
- Director
- KASAI Chiaki
- Cast
- HAKAMADA Iwao, HAKAMADA Hideko
This documentary, completed 10 years after his release, chronicles the struggle of Hakamada Iwao, who spent 47 years and seven months in prison having been accused of robbery, arson and murder. Death row inmate Hakamada Iwao is suddenly released fro...
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Adabana (2024)
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- KAI Sayaka
- Cast
- IURA Arata, MIZUHARA Kiko
This is the second feature film by director Kai Sayaka, who has garnered attention in Japan and overseas, and is her first in five years since her debut feature film, Red Snow. It is a Japanese-French co-production. Shinji (Iura Arata), who grew up ...
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FURERU (2024)
- Director
- NAGAI Tatsuyuki
- Cast
- NAGASE Ren, BANDO Ryota, MAEDA Kentaro
An original feature-length animation that reunites director Nagai Tatsuyuki, screenwriter Okada Mari, and character designer Tanaka Masayoshi, who worked together on Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day and other youth trilogy films. Aki (Nagase Ren)...
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There is a Stone (2022)
- Director
- OTA Tatsunari
- Cast
- OGAWA An, KANO Tsuchi
Directed by Ota Tatsunari of Bundesliga fame, which was selected for the PFF Awards in 2017, this drama captures a fleeting moment in the lives of a man and a woman who meet by a river. The film was invited to the Forum section of the 70th Berlin Int...
