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ICHIKO (2023)
- Director
- TODA Akihiro
- Cast
- SUGISAKI Hana, WAKABA Ryuya, MORINAGA Yuki
Film adaptation of the play "Kawabe Ichiko no tameni", the flagship production for director Toda Akihiro's Cheese Theater. Kawabe Ichiko (Sugisaki Hana) vanishes the day after Hasegawa Yoshinori (Wakaba Ryuya), the boyfriend she's been living with ...
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TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room - THE MOVIE (2023)
- Director
- MATSUKI Aya
- Cast
- SUZUKI Ryohei, KAKU Kento, NAKAJO Ayami
Theatrical outing for the big-hit drama series that aired in the summer of 2021. It depicts the activities of an emergency medical team TOKYO MER that rushes to the scene in an ER (Emergency Rescue) vehicle fully equipped with an operating theatre. ...
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New Dimension! Crayon Shinchan the Movie: Battle of Supernatural Powers ~Flying Sushi~ (2023)
- Director
- ONE Hitoshi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Yumiko, NARAHASHI Miki, MORIKAWA Toshiyuki
First 3DCG animation film based on the popular TV anime series "Crayon Shinchan". Shirogumi, the team behind Stand By Me Doraemon, handles the 3DCG and "Moteki" series director One Hitoshi helms his first animation film. Black and white light shower...
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FLY ON (2023)
- Director
- KATO Takuya
- Cast
- KADOWAKI Mugi, TAMURA Kentaro, KUROKI Haru
This is the second film by Kato Takuya, an up-and-coming director who has attracted attention in the theater world, following his first feature film Grown-Ups. Using realistic dialogue, he depicts deeply intertwined human characters. Watako (Kadowak...
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PERFECT DAYS (2023)
- Director
- Wim WENDERS
- Cast
- YAKUSHO Koji
Maestro Wim Wenders directs Yakusho Koji in this story about a toilet cleaner. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Best Actor Award. Hirayama (Yakusho) cleans toilets in Shibuya, Tokyo. He lives in an old ...
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Go! Go! Sakura Club (2023)
- Director
- NODA Takanori
- Cast
- FUJI Tatsuya
A humanistic comedy about gateball, starring the famous actor Fuji Tatsuya. Directed, written and edited by Noda Takanori, director of Queen of Okinawa Comedy Never Dies. 76-year-old Oda Momojiro (Fuji), who has been living a lonely life after the d...
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Analog (2023)
- Director
- TAKAHATA Hideta
- Cast
- NINOMIYA Kazunari, Haru
Film adaptation of Kitano Takeshi's first romantic novel of the same title. A love story that looks at the "starting point" of people's loving each other. Designer Satoru (Ninomiya Kazunari) happens to meet Miyuki (Haru), a mysterious woman who does...
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My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Movie (2023)
- Director
- INOUE Keisuke
- Cast
- UCHIDA Maaya, AOI Shota, KAKIHARA Tetsuya
First feature film adaptation of the TV anime series based on the same-named light novel. Author Yamaguchi Satoru pens an original script that picks up the storyline after season two of the TV series. Catarina Claes (Uchida Maaya) is reincarnated as...
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Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine (2023)
- Director
- TACHIKAWA Yuzuru
- Cast
- TAKAYAMA Minami, YAMAZAKI Wakana, KOYAMA Rikiya
The 26th theatrical animated film based on Aoyama Gosho's popular "Detective Conan" manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday. A desperate maritime battle royal unfolds at an offshore Interpol facility. In preparation for the official opening of the...
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The Concierge (2023)
- Director
- ITAZU Yoshimi
- Cast
- KAWAIDA Natsumi, OTSUKA Takeo, TSUDA Kenjiro
Feature-length animation film from Production I.G based on the same-named manga by Nishimura Tsuchika, who is also a book decorator and illustrator. Cutting-edge animator Itazu Yoshimi makes his debut as feature film animation director. Akino (Kawa...
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WHALE BONES (2023)
- Director
- OE Takamasa
- Cast
- OCHIAI Motoki, ano
Mysterious fantasy about a man wandering in a world where the real and virtual are blurred. Directed by Oe Takemasa, who co-wrote the script for Drive My Car with Hamaguchi Ryusuke. Insomniac Mamiya (Ochiai Motoki) suffered a bad breakup and meets a...
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PICTURE OF SPRING (2023)
- Director
- SHIOTA Akihiko
- Cast
- UCHINO Seiyo, KITA Kana
Director Shiota Akihiko's script for this comical drama depicts the profound appeal of Shunga, a popular pastime in the Edo period known as "Laughing Pictures". This is the first ever uncensored depiction of ukiyo-e shunga in a Japanese commercial fi...
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SHUNGA: THE LOST JAPANESE EROTICA (2023)
- Director
- HIRATA Junko
- Cast
- YOKOO Tadanori, AIDA Makoto, KIMURA Ryoko
Documentary that explores all aspects of the culture of Shunga, which flourished during the Edo period. The famous ukiyo-e artists of the Edo period, including Katsushika Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro, poured their extraordinary passion into shunga. ...
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Nightmare Resort (2023)
- Director
- NAGAE Jiro
- Cast
- IHARA Rikka, FUJIWARA Taiyu, AKITA Shiori
Horror film based on an urban legend passed down via the internet. Directed by Jiro Nagae, whose numerous horror films include Kisaragi Station and The Samejima Incident, also based on urban legends. Sakura (Ihara Rikka) is a university student who ...
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Terror World: KOWASUGI! (2023)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Koji
- Cast
- OSAKO Shigeo, KUBOYAMA Chika, FUKUNAGA Akari
A feature-length film that is the first sequel in eight years to director Shiraishi Kōji's POV-style fake documentary film series, "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi". Producer Kudo (Osako Shigeo), who is on the verge of bankruptcy, receives a video clip...
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Fanfare (2023)
- Director
- YOSHINO Ryohei
- Cast
- MINAKAMI Kyoka, NOMOTO Sora, KITA Noa
Coming-of-age film depicting the wavering emotions of a woman in her twenties whose dreams have been dashed. Directed, written and edited by Yoshino Ryuhei, whose Akaboshi and Spring, Has Come were screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival. ...
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GOLDFISH (2023)
- Director
- FUJINUMA Shinichi
- Cast
- NAGASE Masatoshi, KITAMURA Yukiya, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko
Directorial debut from Fujinuma Shinichi inspired by his experiences as guitarist for the punk band Anarchy formed in 1978. The band Guns became a social phenomenon in the 1980s, but they have to go on hiatus when Hal (Kitamura Yukiya) causes an in...
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ROADSIDE FLOWERS AND GRASS (2023)
- Director
- KOSHIKAWA Michio
- Cast
- SAKUMA Mayu, YUYA Shintaro
The final chapter in a trilogy by Koshikawa Michio, who has depicted people's lives and sexuality from a unique perspective, following Their Backs and Hand in Hand on the theme of "the landscape of lovers who are nobody". Painter Nazuna (Sakuma Mayu...
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WITH YOU AGAIN (2023)
- Director
- HANA Kosei
- Cast
- HIRAI Amon, ITO Saki
The commercial film debut of up-and-coming director Hana Kosei, who has made a series of independent problematic films such as Love Someone and I Love You. The film is a human drama that explores new forms of love based on the director's own experien...
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DARK TALES OF TERROR FROM TOKYO (2023)
- Director
- SUZUKI Kosuke, KAWAMATSU Nao, SATO Shu
- Cast
- SUDA Aki, IMAI Shuto, MAEKAWA Tasuku
Episode 1 "A Child Who Came to the Hospital" – directed by Kosuke SUZUKI (TV series "Giver Taker", "24 Japan") Ryoka Hayama (Aiki Sugata), a high school girl in hospital, sees a mysterious girl. She is dressed in a kimono and holding a temari ball. ...
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PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower (2023)
- Director
- NISHIMI Shojiro
- Cast
- MIYAZAWA Rie, KUBOZUKA Yosuke, YOSHIDA Honoka
From the 12 volumes of Osamu Tezuka's timeless manga masterpiece "Phoenix", STUDIO4°C' has turned the "Nostalgia" volume, which depicts the future of the earth and the universe, into an animated film. Romi (Miyazawa Rie) and her boyfriend George (Ku...
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Sumikkogurashi: The Patched-Up Toy Factory in the Woods (2023)
- Director
- SAKUTA Hazumu
- Cast
Third feature animation film based on San-X's popular "Sumikkogurashi" characters. Helmed by "Neko no dayan" director Sakuta Hazumu with screenplay by Tsunoda Takashi, who also penned the first film Sumikkogurashi: Good to be in the corner. At the i...
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A Foggy Paradise (2023)
- Director
- KOTSUJI Yohei
- Cast
- OKUTSU Yuya, LEE Masatoshi, YASHIMA Yasumi
Feature film directorial debut for Kotsuji Yohei, who takes an improvisational approach to filmmaking from scriptwriting through direction. This road movie was an official selection for the competition in the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival. ...
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Girls Drive (2023)
- Director
- MIYAOKA Taro
- Cast
- OGURI Yui, YAMAUCHI Mizuki, KURANOO Narumi
Road movie helmed by gift director Miyaoka Taro with original story penned by Inoue Tete, who scripted Initiation Love. Minami Koharu (Oguri Yui} has devoted her life to track and field and when she gets disqualified from the high school championsh...
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GREAT ABSENCE (2023)
- Director
- CHIKA-URA Kei
- Cast
- MORIYAMA Mirai, FUJI Tatsuya, MAKI Yoko
Distanced from his father Yohji for twenty years, Takashi is brought back home by a jarring police call–Yohji has disconnected from reality due to dementia, and his second wife Naomi is missing. Asked where she is, the old man replies that she commit...
