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BRAVESTORM (2017)
- Director
- OKABE Junya
- Cast
- DAITOH Shunsuke, WATANABE Shu, YAMAMOTO Chihiro
Sci-fi action reboot of the hero TV series "Silver Mask" and "Super Robot Red Barron". Producer, screenwriter and director Okabe Junya creates radically new visual scenes. The year is 2050, and humans are mostly extinct from earth. The surviving fiv...
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One Cut of the Dead (2017)
- Director
- UEDA Shinichiro
- Cast
- HAMATSU Takayuki, Mao, SHUHAMA Harumi
Unique horror film produced by ENBU Seminar Cinema Project. Became a social-phenomenon hit when the theatrical run exploded from two theaters in Tokyo to a wide-scale release in response to the peculiar structure including a thirty-seven-minute openi...
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The Miraculous Postcards (2017)
- Director
- Jacky WOO
- Cast
- SUZUKI Sarina, AKAZA Miyoko, YUKIMURA Izumi
A drama adapting to film children's book author, Wakiya Midori's "Kibo no Switch ha, Kusu" by internationally engaged filmmaker Jacky Woo. Miyuki (Suzuki Sarina) devotes herself to caring for her daughter Nozomi () who has cerebral palsy. Without re...
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Home, Sweet Home (2017)
- Director
- ISE Shinichi
- Cast
- NISHIMURA Nao, NISHIMURA Norikazu, NISHIMURA Nobuko
Documentary film covering 35 years in the life of filmmaker Ise Shinichi's family. Like his previous films Nao-chan, Piglet, and Arigato, this film documents his disabled niece Nao and her family Eldest daughter Nao is disabled but has a naturally s...
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ONNANINARU (2017)
- Director
- TANAKA Yukio
- Cast
Documentary that captures the genuine emotional state of a college student with Gender Identity Disorder who undergoes sex reassignment surgery. Directed by Tanaka Yukio of ITECHO and On the road. Miyu has dreamed of becoming a female since early ch...
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THE LIMIT OF SLEEPING BEAUTY (2017)
- Director
- NINOMIYA Ken
- Cast
- SAKURAI Yuki, TAKAHASHI Issey
A drama portraying the intertwining of past & present and reality & delusion written and directed by the promising filmmaker of SLUM-POLIS and Matsumoto Tribe, Ninomiya Ken. Oria Aki (Sakurai Yuki) came to Tokyo with dreams of becoming an actress. S...
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Tales of CHIGASAKI (2017)
- Director
- KUMASAKA Izuru
- Cast
- MIYAJI Junichi, NAKAZAWA Shinichi, KAYAMA Yuzo
Miyaji Junichi, Kuwata Keisuke's classmate who christened his band "Southern All Stars" and anthropologist Nakazawa Shinichi who uses a technique known as "Earth Dive" to trace the past of an area of land, unravel the appeal and mystery of Chigasaki ...
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Homecoming (2017)
- Director
- KIKUCHI Takeo
- Cast
- KANJIYA Shihori, DAITOH Shunsuke
A mystery adapted from a novel by Minato Kanae which depicts the stories of a pair of parents and their children. In the director's chair is Kikuchi Takeo of Hello, Goodbye. Mutsuko (Kanjiya Shihori) has been living on an island to which her grandmo...
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Yamikin dogs 7 (2017)
- Director
- MOTOKI Takashi
- Cast
- AOKI Tsunenori, AIZAWA Rina, YAMADA Yuki
Seventh film in the "Yamikin Dogs" series about the lives of people who flock to money, set in an underworld ruled by violence and greed. Directed by Motoki Takashi, who has helmed other films in the series. Sick of working in black market finance, ...
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Living in Deafblindness (2017)
- Director
- NISHIHARA Takashi
- Cast
Director Nishihara Takashi gained attention for About My Liberty -SEALDs 2015- which followed the activities of student group SEALDs. In this documentary, he travels across the country to interview people who are both blind and deaf. Living in a wor...
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Yamikin dogs 6 (2017)
- Director
- MOTOKI Takashi
- Cast
- YAMADA Yuki, NISHIHARA Aki, AOKI Tsunenori
Sixth film in the "Yamikin Dogs" series about the lives of people who flock to money, set in an underworld ruled by violence and greed. Directed by Motoki Takashi, who has helmed other films in the series. Last Finance president Ando Tadaomi (Yamada...
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A LIFE LINE (2017)
- Director
- IMAZU Hidekuni
- Cast
Directorial debut from Hokkaido-based photographer Imazu Hidekuni, the long-time photographer for the posters at Asahiyama Zoo. This documentary offers an intimate look at animals in Hokkaido, including a flock of 80,000 white-fronted geese, ezonaki ...
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Saimon & Tada Takashi (2017)
- Director
- ODA Manabu
- Cast
- SAKAMOTO Itsuki, SUGA Kenta
Teenage film produced with scholarship funding from the 24th PFF Scholarship. Up-and-coming Oda Manabu scripts and directs this lighthearted romance about two high school boys. High school senior Saimon (Sakamoto Itsuki) is headed for college, and ...
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BAMY (2017)
- Director
- TANAKA Jun
- Cast
- YUKINAGA Hironobu, NAKAZATO Hiromi, TSUGE Misaki
Horror film produced by the cutting-edge director Tanaka Jun on a shoestring budget of just 700,000 yen. The ability to see ghosts pushes a man and woman to their emotional limits. Official selection for the feature film competition at the 35th Torin...
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Liverleaf (2017)
- Director
- NAITO Eisuke
- Cast
- YAMADA Anna, SHIMIZU Hiroya, OTANI Rinka
Live-action suspense based on manga artist Oshikiri Rensuke's "Liverleaf." Depicts a grandiose tale of revenge fueled by the intertwining emotions of people who have endured abuse, bullying, and other forms of trauma. Nozaki Haruka (Yamada Anna) mov...
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Love Disease (2017)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Kota
- Cast
- SETO Saori, OKAYAMA Amane
Sensual suspense drama about the love-hate relationship between a man pursuing a perverse relationship and a woman thrown into turmoil by the fate of intense love. Based on the Wakayama dating website robbery and homicide from 2002. Emiko (Seto Saor...
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Is the order a rabbit?? ~Dear My Sister~ (2017)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Hiroyuki
- Cast
- SAKURA Ayane, MINASE Inori, TANEDA Risa
Feature film produced for the TV anime series based on the four-panel comic by the manga artist Koi. Cocoa (voice: Sakura Ayane) arrives in a new town and takes up residence at a cafe called Rabbit House. She quickly becomes buddies with Rize (voice...
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HANAGATAMI (2017)
- Director
- OBAYASHI Nobuhiko
- Cast
- KUBOZUKA Shunsuke, MITSUSHIMA Shinnosuke, TOKIWA Takako
Feature film adaptation of the script penned by director Obayashi Nobuhiko prior to his 1977 debut film HOUSE. Culminates his "war time trilogy" together with Casting Blossoms to the Sky and Seven Weeks. Spring 1941. Toshihiko (Kubozuka Shunsuke) sh...
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Seishun yawa Amazing place (2017)
- Director
- KIRIDOSHI Risaku
- Cast
- Mikoto, SUMORI Ryubun, IIJIMA Daisuke
Directorial debut by Kiridoshi Risaku, an accomplished film and cultural critic and author of "Miyazaki Hayao no ‘sekai'" and "Kaiju tsukai to shonen: Ultraman no sakka tachi". Mikoto (Mikoto) and Takashi (Sumori Ryubun) graduated from the same high...
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DENSAN (2017)
- Director
- KANAMORI Masaaki
- Cast
- NISHINO Akihiro, YAMAMOTO Mayumi, Mihiro
A drama focusing on a designer and a molding artist who practices a traditional craft in the city of Takaoka in Toyama Prefecture. Kuon Shigeru (Nishino Akihiro) works at the molding factory run by his father Kouzaburo (Watanabe Tetsu). Every day Sh...
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I dreamed of flying in the sky (2017)
- Director
- TANAKA Hiromi
- Cast
- Maia, MIYAGI Daiki, TABATA Tomoko
Film produced as a music movie for music production team TGLAB.'s 10-track album "I dreamed of flying in the sky." Features one short film for each song on the album. The short films were released on a weekly basis on TGLAB.'s YouTube channel. Direct...
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Cocooning (2017)
- Director
- ADACHI Satoshi, MICHIKAWA Kei
- Cast
- MIZUSHIMA Yu, YOSHIMOTO Miyu, TOYOHARA Kosuke
A drama focusing on the World Heritage Site, Tomioka Silk Mill, and the dawn of Japan's silk industry legacy. Set in Gunma Prefecture during the early Meiji Era, the film depicts efforts of young women who supported the modernization of Japan. In th...
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Le lion est mort ce soir (2017)
- Director
- SUWA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- Jean-Pierre Léaud, Pauline Etienne, Maud Wyler
2 Duo, Perfect Couple director Suwa Nobuhiro welcomes The 400 Blows star Jean-Pierre Leaud to this Japanese-French co-production. Jean (Leaud) is an aging actor troubled by his inability to feign death. Haunted by the past, he visits an old estate i...
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Vibration (2017)
- Director
- MATSUNAGA Daishi
- Cast
- YOSHII Kazuya, KIKUCHI Hideaki, HIROSE Yoichi
After a 15-year hiatus, THE YELLOW MONKEY, one of Japan's greatest rock bands, reunites in 2016 and goes on tour. They vow never to break up again. Director Daishi Matsunaga of Pieta in the Toilet and Pyuupiru captures them on and off stage examinin...
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Shashin Koshien Summer in 0.5 Seconds (2017)
- Director
- SUGAWARA Hiroshi
- Cast
- KASA Natsuki, SHIRAHASE Kaira, NAKATA Seina
A national photography competition which decides Japan's top high school photography club is the subject of this coming-of-age film depicting high schoolers putting everything they have into photography. At the helm is Sugawara Hiroshi of Seven Days'...
