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NO LIMIT, YOUR LIFE (2023)
- Director
- MORI Tetsuya
- Cast
- MUTO Masatane, MUTO Yuko
Documentary about ALS patient Muto Masatane and his wife Yuko. Captures their day-to-day lives challenging the limits of the disease. Muto landed a job at a big ad agency and was sailing full speed ahead in life. But at age 27 he was diagnosed with ...
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Don’t Lose Your Head! (2024)
- Director
- KAWAI Hayato
- Cast
- Murotsuyoshi, NAGAYAMA Eita, KAWAGUCHI Haruna
Samurai Hustle and Samurai Shifters screenplay writer Dobashi Akihiro adapts his own same-named novel for this samurai period comedy. The much-hated Kira Kozukenosuke is stabbed to death in Edo Castle. With their very survival on the line, the Kira ...
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The Heart of the Emergency Room (2023)
- Director
- ADACHI Takuro
- Cast
A documentary that closely follows the Emergency and Rescue Centre at the Nagoya Kaisaikai Hospital in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Produced by Abuno Katsuhiko and Hijikata Hiroshi (Yakuza and the Constitution & Goodbye TV), and directed by first time di...
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SOMEDAYS (2023)
- Director
- SONE Takeshi
- Cast
- NISHIO Mau, Yuhi
Drama that won the Best Lead Actress and Best Director prizes at the 2023 Madrid International Film Festival. Helmed by One Cut of the Dead cinematographer Sone Takeshi. Matsudaira Kaoru (Nishio Mau) and her younger brother Hayato (Yuhi) live on the...
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Rental Family (2023)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Takehito
- Cast
- SHIOYA Shun, KAWAKAMI Nanami, SHIRAISHI Yua
Drama based on Ishii Yuichi's book "Ningen Rentaru-ya" about an agency that rents out family members. Sakamoto Takehito's second feature after Eternal Maria. A single mother rents a dad for her only child. Mother and daughter get hooked on buying th...
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Cinderella Girl (2023)
- Director
- OGATA Takaomi
- Cast
- IREI Himena, TSUJI Chie, IZUMI Marin
Drama about a heroine with a prosthetic leg from director Ogata Takaomi, who helmed Sunk Into the Womb and The Hungry Lion. Supervised by the model Moriyama Kazaho, who was diagnosed with progressive muscular dystrophy. Disease results in Otoha (Ire...
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Another Day in Paradise (2023)
- Director
- INABA Yusuke
- Cast
- SOMEYA Toshiyuki, YOSHIDA Mizuki, TATEKAWA Kashime
Inaba Yusuke, director of Love in Parallel, and lead actor Someya Toshiyuki, teamed up for the first time in four years to make this drama. Filmed entirely on location in Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture, the film depicts the shared life of three unusua...
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The One I've Longed to see (2023)
- Director
- Joe
- Cast
- KURANOO Narumi, SAI Tetsuhiro, NAKAMURA Tamao
Human drama produced by Hori Tomoko, whose own daughter was diagnosed with leukemia and whose family helped overcome the condition. The story is based on real-life experiences and cites the importance of bone marrow transplantation and donor registra...
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Battle King!! (2023)
- Director
- TAKIGAWA Genki
- Cast
- YAMASHITA Eiku (ONE N' ONLY), SAKURA Arisa
Coming-of-age drama starring the six members of the dance and vocal group ONE N' ONLY. Directed by Takikawa Genki of "Oni Girl!" fame. Genjiro (Yamashita Eiku), who repeatedly gets into fights with fellow delinquents, meets Kano (Sakura Arisa), a gi...
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Second Birth Day (2023)
- Director
- MOROSAWA Kazuyuki
- Cast
- HIGUCHI Daigo, MATSUMOTO Wakana, OKADA Koki
Using his own experience of having a bone marrow transplant to combat a disease actor Higuchi Daigo planned, conceived and starred in this human drama. The film is directed and written by Morosawa Kazuyuki from the series "Leave It to the Nurses". ...
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Ohmuro family dear friends (2024)
- Director
- TATSUWA Naoyuki
- Cast
- KATO Emiri, SAITO Chiwa, HIDAKA Rina
One particular day, the Ohmuro household was far more tense than usual. "Fine! Then I don't want to be your sister anymore!" Sakurako was on the verge of tears after an irate Hanako declared that she didn't want to be sisters anymore. "Do you re...
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DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Part 2 (2024)
- Director
- KUROKAWA Tomoyuki
- Cast
- IKUTA Lilas, ano
When a gigantic spaceship suddenly starts hovering over Tokyo, people are terrified and launch an attack on it. However only the city suffers major damages, and the spaceship is unaffected. As the military keeps shooting down the smaller spacecrafts ...
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Who Said Death Is Beatifull? (2023)
- Director
- NAKAJIMA Ryo
- Cast
- NAGAE Ryoki, NAKAMURA Yurika, MAYAMA Rika
A dystopian feature-length animation that uses generative AI throughout and depicts the sadness of the surviving human beings. The film attracted attention at the 49th Annecy International Animated Film Festival and other international film festivals...
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almost people (2023)
- Director
- YOKOHAMA Satoko, ISHII Gakuryu, KATO Takuto
- Cast
- MINE Goichi, YANAGI Elisa, INOWAKI Kai
Groundbreaking directors Yokohama Satoko, Ishii Gakuryu, Kato Takuto and Moriya Fumio portray the everyday lives of four siblings. Each of the four siblings in the Kamio family has an emotional deficit. Elder son Hikaru (Mine Goichi) can't find the ...
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A NEW DAWN (2024)
- Director
- SHINOMIYA Yoshitoshi
- Cast
— A phantom firework representing the universe that his father used to create. It has been four years since Keitaro has been holed up in a closed-down factory, chasing after an illusion of his father who vanished. It was once part of a forest surr...
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MARU (2024)
- Director
- OGIGAMI Naoko
- Cast
- DOMOTO Tsuyoshi, AYANO Go
Noboru Sawada, forty-four years old. An art college graduate, not only himself but even those around him once did not doubt his talent and potential, but he has lost such feelings and now works as an assistant in the studio of a charismatic contempo...
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Tomorrow in the Finder (2024)
- Director
- AKIYAMA Jun
- Cast
- HIRAIZUMI Sei, SANO Masaya
Samejima is a quiet photographer who runs an old photo studio. Taichi is an up-and- coming photographer who is fascinated by Samejima's photograph and asks him to become his mentor by leaving behind a spectacular career. Taichi who avoids even commun...
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UNBEATABLE: ROAD TO TOKYO (2024)
- Director
- Akrom ISAKOV
- Cast
- Aziz KULIEV, Temur BABAYAROV, Philippe REINHARDT
Jarolov grew up in a beautiful farming village in Uz-bekistan. For the sake of his village and his family, he chose boxing as a career. Soon, Jarolov wins not only the Asian Championship but also the World Championship. He also takes a challenge at p...
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SERPENT'S PATH (2024)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Kiyoshi
- Cast
- SHIBASAKI Ko, Damien BONNARD
An adaptation of Kurosawa's own film "Hebi no Michi (aka Serpent's Path)" produced by Daiei in1998. In the suburbs of Paris, Albert, a freelance reporter, vows to take revenge for the brutal murder of his young daughter, while Sayoko, a Japanese fema...
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The Quilt (2024)
- Director
- YAMASAKI Shimpei
- Cast
- SAITO Yoichiro, AKITANI Mone, KATAOKA Reiko
Tokio Takenaka (48) is a scriptwriter who's lost his passion for his work, and whose relationship with his wife Madoka (37) has turned sour. He spends his days lost in a haze. One day, a girl named Yoshimi Yokoyama (21) barges into his office, saying...
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Naomi: Reversed (2024)
- Director
- HORAI Tadaaki
- Cast
- MASUDA Yuki, HAYASHI Yuta, AOKI Airi
A gender-swapped portrayal of aesthetic novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's masterpiece "Chijin no Ai", set in modern times. A story of love and wild lust, and ultimate masochism... Naomi is a teacher who lives with a younger man named Yuzuru. On the...
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Quicksand: Reversed (2024)
- Director
- HORAI Tadaaki
- Cast
- SUZUKI Shion, MONMA Wataru, NAKAZAKI Erina
A gender-swapped portrayal of aesthetic novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's masterpiece "Manji", set in modern times. A story of homosexuality and adultery, and destructive love... Sonoda was a Japanese salaryman who couldn't give up on his dream of ...
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House of Sayuri (2024)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Koji
- Cast
- MINAMIDE Ryoka
"I wish you'd all just die." The Kamiki family has finally moved into their dream home. But before the seven of them can start to enjoy their new life, tragedies and eerie events start to befall them. As members of the family begin to die one ...
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The Yin Yang Master Zero (2024)
- Director
- SATO Shimako
- Cast
- YAMAZAKI Kento, SOMETANI Shota, Nao
Over a thousand years ago, during the Heian period of Japanese history, politics in the capital city of Heiankyo, present-day Kyoto, center on the Yin Yang Bureau, whose school trains the yin yang masters who defend the city from curses and other mal...
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HAKKENDEN (tentative title) (2024)
- Director
- SORI Fumihiko
- Cast
- YAKUSHO Koji, UCHINO Seiyo
Set in early 1800s, the film depicts a story behind the creation of HAKKENDEN(八犬伝), a novel which has been passed down for many generations and is said to have become the root of the heroism of Japanese entertainment. With a great performance of awar...
