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CONFESSION (2024)
- Director
- YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- IKUTA Toma, YANG Ik-june
Jiyong gets seriously injured in a blizzard during a mountain trek with Asai, an old friend from college. Facing death, Jiyong confesses that he killed Asai's ex-girlfriend Sayuri who went missing 16 years ago. The wind suddenly weakens, however, and...
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SECRET: A HIDDEN SCORE (2024)
- Director
- KAWAI Hayato
- Cast
- KYOMOTO Taiga, FURUKAWA Kotone
Minato, back from piano studies abroad, encounters Yukino at his music university playing an enigmatic piano in an old music room set for demolition. Mesmerized by her enchanting melodies, he asks for the piece's title, but she mischievously keeps it...
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REI (2024)
- Director
- TANAKA Toshihiko
- Cast
- SUZUKI Takara, OYAMA Maeko, MORIYAMA Shogo
Hikari is in her early thirties and lives and works in Tokyo. She has no particular problems but is unable to find her own value. In contrast to her, the people around her have their own big problems. Everyone has their own counterparts, clumsily ba...
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All the long nights (2024)
- Director
- MIYAKE Sho
- Cast
- MATSUMURA Hokuto, KAMISHIRAISHI Mone, MITSUISHI Ken
Human drama adapted from the novel of the same title by Seo Maiko, directed by Miyake Sho, whose Small, Slow but Steady was highly acclaimed both at home and abroad. Once a month, Fujisawa Misa (Kamishiraishi Mone), who suffers from PMS (pre-menstru...
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Ohmuro family dear sisters (2024)
- Director
- TATSUWA Naoyuki
- Cast
- KATO Emiri, SAITO Chiwa, HIDAKA Rina
Sakurako Ohmuro is in her first year of middle school, and she's always cheerful and energetic, whether she's at home or at school. She has fun every day, and is constantly exasperating her older sister Nadeshiko and younger sister Hanako. Today she...
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A Girl Named Ann (2024)
- Director
- IRIE Yu
- Cast
- KAWAI Yuumi
Ann was beaten by her mother since childhood, dropped out of school in her third year, and was forced into prostitution by her mother in her mid-teens. One day, Ann is interrogated by the police on a charge of using drug and meets Tatara, a detective...
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BUSHIDO (2024)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Kazuya
- Cast
- KUSANAGI Tsuyoshi, KUNIMURA Jun, KIYOHARA Kaya
Kakunoshin Yanagida, a ronin, is accused of a crime he does not commit and mourns his wife. He is forced to leave his hometown, the Hikone domain, and lives with his daughter, Okinu, in a poor tenement house in Edo. Even under such circumstances, he ...
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PENALTY LOOP (2024)
- Director
- ARAKI Shinji
- Cast
- WAKABA Ryuya, ISEYA Yusuke, YAMASHITA Rio
Second feature film by director Araki Shinji, who made his feature film debut with The Town of Headcounts, again using an original screenplay. The film depicts the conflict of a protagonist who repeatedly commits murder in a time loop. Iwamori Jun (...
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52-HERTZ WHALES (2024)
- Director
- NARUSHIMA Izuru
- Cast
- SUGISAKI Hana, SHISON Jun
REBIRTH maestro filmmaker Narushima Izuru adapts Machida Sonoko's same-named novel that made a splash in Japan. This nuanced drama captures the unspoken voices of lonely individuals through the metaphor of the only whale in the world with a high-freq...
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SILENT LOVE (2024)
- Director
- UCHIDA Eiji
- Cast
- YAMADA Ryosuke, HAMABE Minami, NOMURA Shuhei
A love story spun from his own original screenplay by Uchida Eiji, director of Midnight Swan, which won the Best Film Award at the 44th Japan Academy Prize. Hisaishi Joe, who has worked on numerous Studio Ghibli works, composed the music. Aoi (Yamad...
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Kadono Eiko's Colorful Life: Finding the Magic Within (2024)
- Director
- MIYAGAWA Marina
- Cast
- KADONO Eiko
A documentary that closely follows the daily life of Kadono Eiko, best known as the author of "Kiki's Delivery Service". Based on the NHK program of the same name that was broadcast from 2020 to 2022, directed by Miyagawa Marina, who also worked on t...
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Manzai Association THE MOVIE (2024)
- Director
- HANAWA Nobuyuki (a member of comedy duo "Knights")
- Cast
A documentary film about comedians in Tokyo who put their hearts on the stage. Why do Manzai performers continue to stand on the "stage"? Since June 2023, as a new and youngest ever chairman of Manzai association, Hanawa has been working to reform th...
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The Women in the Lakes (2024)
- Director
- OMORI Tatsushi
- Cast
- FUKUSHI Sota, MATSUMOTO Marika
A 100 year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him alive suddenly malfunction, or was he murdered? A young detective on the case meets a woman caregiver. The investigation runs into a dead end, but the...
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The Beast of Comedy (2024)
- Director
- TAKIMOTO Kengo
- Cast
- OKAYAMA Amane, KATAOKA Reiko, MATSUMOTO Honoka
Film adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Tsuchiya Takayuki, a writer obsessed with the world of comedy. It is the commercial film debut of director Takimoto Kengo, who has directed many TV dramas and commercials. After six years of coming up...
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Ghost Cat Anzu (2024)
- Director
- KUNO Yoko, YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
- Cast
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MATCHED (2024)
- Director
- UCHIDA Eiji
- Cast
- TSUCHIYA Tao, SAKUMA Daisuke (Snow Man), KANEKO Nobuaki
Unique thriller developed as an original project from Midnight Swan director Uchida Eiji. Rinka (Tsuchiya Tao) is a wedding planner without a love life, and she signs up for a dating app at her colleague's suggestion. She gets matched up with Tomu (...
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Let's Go Karaoke! (2024)
- Director
- YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- AYANO Go, SAITO Jun
A unique buddy film adaptation of Wayama Yama's comic of the same title, written by Nogi Akiko, the director of numerous hit TV dramas and films including The Voice of Sin and Inu-Oh, and directed by Yamashita Nobuhiro. Oka Satomi (Saito Jun), a cho...
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Best Regards to All (2024)
- Director
- SHIMOTSU Yuta
- Cast
- FURUKAWA Kotone, MATSUDAI Koya
A feature-length film produced by Shimizu Takashi, based on a short film that won the first grand prize at the Japan Horror Film Awards, a film competition open to the general public focused on the horror genre. The film is directed by Shimotsu Yuta,...
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DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Part 1 (2024)
- Director
- KUROKAWA Tomoyuki
- Cast
- IKUTA Lilas, ano
First film in the two-part animated feature adaptation of Asano Inio's same-named manga. Leading Japanese creators involved in the production include animation director Kurokawa Tomoyuki from the "PSYCHO-PASS" series. Koyama Kadode (Ikuta Lilas) and...
