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HEART BEATS (2021)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Hiroto
- Cast
- UKISHO Hidaka, SHIRAISHI Sei
Feature film adaptation of Konno Risa's popular comic that has sold over 2.5 million copies in total. This teen romance gives a fresh take on universally relatable everyday experiences like unrequited high school love. Arima Hayato (Ukisho Hidaka) t...
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A Girl on the Shore (2021)
- Director
- UEDA Atsushi
- Cast
- ISHIKAWA Ruka, AOKI Yuzu, MAEDA Ohshiro
Live-action adaptation of the same-named comic released in 2009 by popular manga artist Asano Inio. This tale about adolescence depicts the shock of love and sexuality as experienced by a 14-year-old boy and girl and also captures the stultifying atm...
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Black Clow 0 (2021)
- Director
- KOMINAMI Toshiya
- Cast
- SAKIYAMA Tsubasa, UEDA Keisuke, TOKUYAMA Hidenori
Prequel in the "Black Crow" series about an agency that resolves underworld troubles, set in Shinjuku's red-light Kabukicho district. The story focuses on the protagonist's hidden past. Rookie police officer Kanzaki (Sakiyama Tsubasa) gets posted to...
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Black Crow 3 (2021)
- Director
- KOMINAMI Toshiya
- Cast
- SAKIYAMA Tsubasa, UEDA Keisuke, WATANABE Shu
Third film in the series about the feuding "Black Crow" agency that resolves underworld troubles, set in Shinjuku's red-light Kabukicho district. Direction and screenplay handled by Kominami Toshiya, the TV drama veteran who reprises his roles from t...
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The Land Beyond the Starry Sky (2021)
- Director
- KONAKA Kazuya
- Cast
- SUZUKA Oji, AKITA Shiori, SATO Yusuke
Konaka Kazuya remakes the same-named SF teen ensemble drama that he helmed 35 years ago in 1986. Nostalgic depiction of a high school romance that takes place in parallel worlds. For two months, high schooler Akio (Suzuka Oji) has reoccurring dream...
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HOMUNCULUS (2021)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Takashi
- Cast
- AYANO Go, NARITA Ryo, KISHII Yukino
Cult-status manga artist Yamamoto Hideo's same-named manga hits the silver screen a decade after its serialized began. International director Shimizu Takashi handles this psychological mystery with daring yet sensitive portrayals of mental states. S...
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What Did You Eat Yesterday? Movie (2021)
- Director
- NAKAE Kazuhito
- Cast
- NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, UCHINO Seiyo
Feature film adaptation of the popular TV drama based on Yoshinaga Fumi's bestselling manga. Reunites the cast and crew from the TV drama, including director Nakae Kazuhito and scriptwriter Adachi Naoko. Lawyer Kakei Shiro (Nakajima Hidetoshi) and h...
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RIKA - Love Obsessed Psycho (2021)
- Director
- MATSUKI Tsukuru
- Cast
- TAKAOKA Saki, ICHIHARA Hayato, UCHIDA Rio
Feature film based on the "Rika" psycho-thriller novels, which have been adapted twice as TV dramas. Depicts the terror of a self-proclaimed 28-year-old Pure Love Monster. A dead body is found in a suitcase in the mountains. The victim is identified...
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HONOKA (2021)
- Director
- KUNITOMO Yugo
- Cast
Documentary that touches on life itself through looking at the activities surrounding a girl who was pronounced nearly brain dead upon birth. Haru wo tsugeru machi director Shimada Ryuichi serves as producer, and the same film's assistant director Ku...
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TOKYO KURDS (2021)
- Director
- HYUGA Fumiari
- Cast
This documentary covers five-plus years in the lives of two young Turkish Kurds who are trying to get refugee status and exposes the plight of Kurdish refugees in Japan. 18-year-old Ozan and 19-year-old Ramazan arrived in Japan while still in elemen...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer THE MOVIE (2021)
- Director
- KIMURA Hisashi
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Jun, KAGAWA Teruyuki, SUGISAKI Hana
Feature film adaptation of the much-watched TV drama about the escapades of maverick lawyers. Helmed by TV series director Kimura Hisashi. Miyama (Matsumoto Jun) wins verdicts in criminal cases where defendants are 99.9% certain to end up guilty. He...
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Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is War (2021)
- Director
- KAWAI Hayato
- Cast
- HIRANO Sho, HASHIMOTO Kanna
Final film in the live-action series adapting the unique world in the "Love Is War" manga. Kawai Hayato continues as director from the previous film. Shuchiin Academy students Shirogane Miyuki (Hirano Sho) and Shinomiya Kaguya (Hashimoto Kanna) have...
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What Happened to Our Nest Egg!? (2021)
- Director
- MAEDA Tetsu
- Cast
- AMAMI Yuki, MATSUSHIGE Yutaka, KUSABUE Mitsuko
Film adaptation of Kakiya Miu's novel about the struggles of a homemaker dogged by financial disaster. A Banana? At This Time of Night? director Maeda Tetsu brings his unique perspective and rhythmical style to the film. Atsuko (Amami Yuki) has rais...
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Summer Ghost (2021)
- Director
- loundraw
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Chiaki, SHIMABUKURO Miyuri, SHIMAZAKI Nobunaga
Feature film directorial debut for cutting-edge illustrator loundraw, who worked on the feature film Josee, the Tiger and the Fish. Urban legend has it that "summer ghost" is the spirit of a young woman who appears when fireworks go off. Tomoya (Ko...
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Ring Wandering (2021)
- Director
- KANEKO Masakazu
- Cast
- KASAMATSU Show, ABE Junko, YASUDA Ken
In Downtown Tokyo, a young man Sosuke aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He canʼt draw the extinct wolf well, neither develop the story. One winterʼs day, Sosuke finds burnt animal...
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Lovely Little Ai (2021)
- Director
- ONO Candice Mana
- Cast
- SAKANOUE Akane, KUROZUMI Hisao, MATSUMURA Ryo
This is the feature-length directorial debut of Ono Candice Mana, an up-and-coming director who has garnered attention, winning two awards at the 2021 PFF Awards and the Special Jury Prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. Sixteen...
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Kitakaze Outsider (2021)
- Director
- SAI Tetsuhiro
- Cast
- SAI Tetsuhiro, KAISAKU Maho, ITO Wataru
A human drama about a family living in the town of Korean residents in Ikuno, Osaka. Directed, written, produced, and starring actor Choi Cheol-ho, the leader of the theater troupe Stray Dog Dan, which he founded with director Irie Yu in 2007. The ...
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KYOTO CAMARO DETECTIVE (2021)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Yuichi
- Cast
- TSUKAMOTO Takashi, KIMURA Yuichi, CROKET
An action comedy about a self-proclaimed detective who loves exotic cars. Kyoto-born Yoshida Yuichi, a multi-talented actor, artist, and martial artist, came up with the original idea. He then wrote the screenplay, directed and acted in the resulting...
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Battlecry (2021)
- Director
- Yanakaya
- Cast
- TOMITA Shinya, FUKUDA Yui
A fictitious 1980s Japan. Soji, a soldier on furlough, returns to his country. He receives a request from Haya, who was sent from the World Bank, to help her on a mission to investigate the actual circumstances of a narcotic called "Golden Monkey" wh...
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The World For The Two of Us (2021)
- Director
- IIZUKA Kasho
- Cast
- KATAYAMA Yuki, BANDO Ryota
One day, Yui Konno, who works at a nursery school, and Shinya Kobori, who runs a lunch box shop, fell in love. They started dating and promised to get married in the future. However, Shinya had a secret he couldn't tell her. He was a transgender (use...
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Let Me Hear it Barefoot (2021)
- Director
- KUDO Riho
- Cast
- SASAKI Shion, SUWA Shuri, ITO Kaho
Commercial feature debut from Kudo Riho, who won the Pia Film Festival Award's Grand Prize in 2018 with Orphans Blues. Fresh depiction of what happens to the desires of two taciturn young men. Naoki (Sasaki Shion) works for his father's waste collec...
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ruined (2021)
- Director
- MIYAOKA Taro
- Cast
- HAGIWARA Minori, HIIRAGI Rumi, KIGUCHI Kenta
Director Miyaoka Taro was blown away when he saw the stage production of the same-named play presented by Theater Group elePHANTMoon in 2009 and adapted the drama as an indie film. Sayo (Hagiwara Minori), an aspiring fashion designer in Tokyo, gets...
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You've Got A Friend (2021)
- Director
- HIROKI Ryuichi
- Cast
- MURAKAMI Jun, Nahana, YOSHII Masao
Romance film maestro Hiroki Ryuichi adapts Yamamoto Naoki's same-named comic for the big screen. Portrays the contradictory relationship of a man and woman who inflict and endure physical injury while championing emotional freedom. Yoshida Yoshio (M...
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Share-Kowa: Urban Legends That Will Scare You to Death (Working Title) (2021)
- Director
- NAGAE Jiro, TORII Yasutake, SOEJIMA Koji
- Cast
- Niji no Conquistador
Episode 1: I Found Someplace Really Bad Failed idols Yuri Kato and Mari Ueno are "YuriMari", a YouTuber pair struggling to hit it big. Their producer gets an idea to make a fake livestream saying they've found the abandoned building from the famous ...
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FUNNY BUNNY (2021)
- Director
- IIZUKA Ken
- Cast
- NAKAGAWA Taishi, OKAYAMA Amane
Iizuka Ken, a filmmaker who works in a variety of fields including television, stage, and music videos, adapts a play performed in 2012 for this film. Playing the fiercely individualistic lead character is Nakagawa Taishi, who also worked with Iizuka...
