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SHIN ULTRAMAN (2022)
- Director
- HIGUCHI Shinji
- Cast
- SAITOH Takumi, NAGASAWA Masami, ARIOKA Daiki
Shinji Higuchi helms this film featuring Japan's beloved superhero in contemporary society with Shin Godzilla director Hideaki Anno serving as producer, screenwriter and supervisor. Mysterious Kaiju monster appears. Conventional weapons are useles...
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The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022)
- Director
- JIMBO Masato
- Cast
- MATSUOKA Yoshitsugu, HANAZAWA Kana, TAKETATSU Ayana
An animated feature film based on the comic of the same title by Haruba Negi, which has sold more than 20 million copies. This is the final part of the animated TV series about five sisters, beautiful girls who hate studying and are on the verge of f...
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Fragments of The Last Will (2022)
- Director
- ZEZE Takahisa
- Cast
- NINOMIYA Kazunari, KITAGAWA Keiko
Drama depicting the 11-year bond between real-life Japanese POW Yamamoto Hatao, his wife and his fellow internees in a Siberian concentration camp (Lageri). Set in Siberia 1945, during a severe winter that is forty degrees below zero. Yamamoto (Nin...
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2 Women (2022)
- Director
- HIROKI Ryuichi
- Cast
- TERAJIMA Shinobu, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, HIROSUE Ryoko
A film adaptation of the novel of the same title by writer Inoue Areno, based on her father, writer Inoue Mitsuharu, her mother, and writer and Buddhist monk Setouchi Jakucho. Director Hiroki Ryuichi of Vibrator and screenwriter Arai Haruhiko have te...
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PLAN 75 (2022)
- Director
- HAYAKAWA Chie
- Cast
- BAISHO Chieko
Director Hayakawa Chie makes her feature debut with this controversial work depicting the Japanese society where "Plan 75", a system that gives the right to choose between life and death from the age of 75, is enforced. The film was entered in the Un...
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God seeks in return (2022)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Keisuke
- Cast
- MURO Tsuyoshi, KISHII Yukino
Director Yoshida Keisuke of Himeanole and Blank directs an original screenplay for this unique love story filled with true feelings and preconceived notions. Tamogami (Muro Tsuyoshi), who works for an event company, meets YouTuber Yuri-chan (Kishii ...
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Nighttime Warbles (2022)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- YAMADA Yuki, MATSUMOTO Marika
A film adaptation of a short novel by writer Sato Yasushi set in the Kanto region, with a screenplay by Takada Ryo, the writer of The Light Shines Only There. Directed by Jojo Hideo, who received high acclaim for On the Edge of Their Seats. Unsucces...
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The Flower in the Sky (2022)
- Director
- KATASHIMA Ikki
- Cast
- HIGASHIDE Masahiro, IRIYAMA Noriko
A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Yoko, daughter of the poet Hagiwara Sakutaro, with a screenplay by Goto Sayaka and Arai Haruhiko. The film vividly portrays the poet who survived despite being at the mercy of war. Miyoshi Tatsuji (Higashi...
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Only I Can Hear (2022)
- Director
- MATSUI Itaru
- Cast
- Nyla, Jessica, MJ
The first feature-length documentary about CODA, or Children of Deaf Adults. Director Matsui Itaru earned acclaim for "Tokyo Little Nero", which was aired on NHK, and spent three years documenting Children of Deaf Adults at the sensitive age of 15. ...
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Crayon Shinchan the Movie: The Tornado Legend of Ninja Mononoke (2022)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Masakazu
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Yumiko, NARAHASHI Miki, MORIKAWA Toshiyuki
The thirtieth feature film for the popular TV anime. Helmed by Hashimoto Masakazu, who also directed Crayon Shinchan the Movie: Dangerous Honeymoon -The Lost Daddy-. Ueno Kimiko penned this action-packed script about ninjas who use their traditional ...
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MONDAYS: See you "this" week! (2022)
- Director
- TAKEBAYASHI Ryo
- Cast
- MARUI Wan, MAKITA SPORTS
This office drama marks the second film for Takebayashi Ryo, whose feature film debut Bookmark 14 became a long-running hit. Yoshikawa Akemi (Marui Wan), who has her eye on a job at a big ad agency, is scrambling to prepare a presentation on Monday ...
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BL Metamorphosis (2022)
- Director
- KARIYAMA Shunsuke
- Cast
- ASHIDA Mana, MIYAMOTO Nobuko
Feature film adaptation of Tsurutani Kaori's same-named comic with a script by Okada Yoshikazu, renowned for his many successful TV dramas. Warmly depicts the friendship between two women fifty-eight years apart who meet through boys' love manga. Sa...
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by the window (2022)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- INAGAKI Goro, NAKAMURA Yuri, TAMASHIRO Tina
This is the seventeenth completely original film by Imaizumi Rikiya, director of numerous high-profile films such as What is Love?, which won the Audience Award at the 35th Tokyo International Film Festival. Freelance writer Ichikawa Shigemi (Inagak...
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Mobile Suit Gundam Cucuruz Doan's Island (2022)
- Director
- YASUHIKO Yoshikazu
- Cast
- FURUYA Toru, TAKEUCHI Shunsuke
A film adaptation of the fifteenth episode "Cucuruz Doan's Island" from the TV animation "Mobile Suit Gundam" broadcast in 1979. Directed by Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, who worked on the "Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin" series. Amuro Ray (Furuya Toru) and h...
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Lonely Castle in the Mirror (2022)
- Director
- HARA Keiichi
- Cast
- TOMA Ami, KITAMURA Takumi
Colorful director Hara Keiichi helms this animation adaptation of Tsujimura Mizuki's same-named bestselling novel. Kokoro (Touma Ami) is a junior high school girl who finds herself ostracized at school and holes up in her room. The mirror in her roo...
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Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween (2022)
- Director
- MITSUNAKA Susumu
- Cast
- TAKAYAMA Minami, YAMAZAKI Wakana, KOYAMA Rikiya
The twenty-fifth theatrical outing for "Detective Conan", which is an animated adaptation of Aoyama Gosho's comic series serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday. Against the backdrop of the bustling Shibuya district of Tokyo during the Halloween season, a...
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A WINTER ROSE (2022)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Junji
- Cast
- ITO Kentaro, KOBAYASHI Kaoru, YO Kimiko
A human drama by Sakamoto Junji, a film director at the peak of his maturity, who wrote an original screenplay for Ito Kentaro, an actor forty years younger than himself. Toguchi Jun (Ito), who lives in a port town, does not attend vocational school...
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EVERYTHING WILL BE OWLRIGHT! (2022)
- Director
- ICHII Masahide
- Cast
- KATORI Shingo, KISHII Yukino
A black comedy by Ichii Masahide, director of numerous films with original screenplays including Blindly in Love and The Stormy Family, that comically depicts the "petty quarrels" of a married couple. Yujiro (Katori Shingo) and Hiyori (Kishii Yukino...
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THE CONFIDENCEMAN JP -EPISODE OF THE HERO- (2022)
- Director
- TANAKA Akira
- Cast
- NAGASAWA Masami, HIGASHIDE Masahiro, KOHINATA Fumiyo
Following on from Romance and Princess, this is the third theatrical film outing of the hit TV drama series, directed by Tanaka Akira and written by Kosawa Ryota. The con man "Tsuchinoko the Third", who was hailed as a hero, is dead. Dako (Nagasawa ...
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Small, Slow But Steady (2022)
- Director
- MIYAKE Sho
- Cast
- KISHII Yukino, MIURA Tomokazu
A human drama modeled on a female professional boxer who fought while facing hearing impairment, inspired by her way of life. Directed and written by Miyake Sho, who received acclaim both in Japan and abroad for his film And Your Bird Can Sing. This ...
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Arthouse vs.COVID-19 (2022)
- Director
- SUGAWARA Ryuta
- Cast
- KIMATA Junji, TSUBOI Atsushi
A documentary following Kimata Junji, the manager of the arthouse Cinema Skhole in Nagoya. Re-edited into movie from the Nagoya TV program "Me-Tele Documentary Theater reborn: Cinema and Covid-19", which was broadcast in March 2021. Founded in 1983 ...
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Suzume (2022)
- Director
- SHINKAI Makoto
- Cast
- HARA Nanoka, MATSUMURA Hokuto
Director Shinkai Makoto of your name. and Weathering With You, portrays the adventure about the liberation and maturation of a girl named Suzume, who embarks on a journey to seal the "doors" that cause natural disasters set in ruins throughout Japan....
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Chronicle in the Ruins - Our Own Ethnographic Film (2022)
- Director
- HARA Maori
- Cast
- HARA Masato, HARA Kobo, HARA Mamiya
A documentary that shows the love and bond within a family as they face the consequences of a fire that destroyed their home by making a film. Hara Masato made his debut as a high school student in the 1960s and was praised as a genius film director...
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ROLELESS (2022)
- Director
- SEKI Yutaro, HIRASE Kentaro, SATO Masahiko
- Cast
- KAGAWA Teruyuki, TSUDA Kanji, OMI Toshinori
A feature film debut from the directorial group "Gogatsu" consisting of Sato Masahiko, who worked on NHK's educational program "PythagoraSwitch," Seki Yutaro, who has directed dramas for NHK, and Hirase Kentaro, who participated in the screenplay for...
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Thousand and One Nights (2022)
- Director
- KUBOTA Nao
- Cast
- TANAKA Yuko, ONO Machiko, ANDO Masanobu
Inspired by a missing persons list, documentary director Kubota Nao spent eight years completing this human drama. Tanaka Yuko plays the lead role, in her fourth collaboration with the director, in addition to his dramatic film debut Homeland. A bea...
