Movies
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Water Dream (2017)
- Director
- YAMAMURA Koji
- Cast
Short animation by animation artist Yamamura Koji, whose film Mt. Head was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 75th Academy Awards. Produced for the stage at the behest of French pianist Catherine Verhelst and stage designer Herv? Tougeron...
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FAIRY TAIL DRAGON CRY (2017)
- Director
- MINAMIKAWA Tatsuma
- Cast
- KAKIHARA Tetsuya, HIRANO Aya, KUGIMIYA Rie
Feature film anime based on the comic "Fairy Tale." Presents an original story based on the 200-page storyboard penned by comic author Mashima Hiro himself. The magical staff Dragon Cry enshrined in the Kingdom of Fiore gets stolen by traitor Zash (...
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Les Garcons- Bonbons 2 L'Oiseau du paradis (2017)
- Director
- HIROTA Leona
- Cast
- KURIHARA Rui, ARAMAKI Yoshihiko, SOMEYA Toshiyuki
The sequel to 2015's Les Garcons-Bonbons directed by Hirota Leona, who is also known as an actress. Kitazawa Haku (Kurihara Rui) had watched a movie and dreamed he was in a parallel universe. Meanwhile, Ryu (Kamiya Riku), the older brother of Haku's...
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Marbling (2017)
- Director
- YAMAGISHI Aya
- Cast
- ISHIZAKI Natsumi, TAMURA Kentaro, ITABASHI Shunya
The 11th collaboration project in an academic-industry partnership between vocational school, Tokyo Visual Arts, and distributor, Tollywood. Takamura Sayumi (Ishizaki Natsumi) is a girl with an indecisive personality. She meets slightly unusual boys...
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Cosmetic Wars (2017)
- Director
- SUZUKI Kosuke
- Cast
- OMASA Aya, OKINA Megumi, TAKAOKA Saki
Drama about the struggles of a heroine who infiltrates a company as a corporate spy, set in a venerable cosmetics company. Directed by Suzuki Kosuke of Tokyo PR Woman. Rookie corporate spy Misawa Akane (Omasa Aya) infiltrates a venerable cosmetics c...
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Kamejiro: The U.S. Military's Most Feared Man (2017)
- Director
- SAKO Tadahiko
- Cast
- SENAGA Kamejiro
Documentary about Senaga Kamejiro, the man who stood up to the US Army in Okinawa under US occupation. The feature film is reedited with footage added to the highly acclaimed TV documentary that aired in 2016. Sakamoto Ryuichi created the theme song....
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MIDNIGHT BUS (2017)
- Director
- TAKESHITA Masao
- Cast
- HARADA Taizo, YAMAMOTO Mirai, KONISHI Manami
Feature film drama adaptation of the original story by novelist Ibuki Yuki. Directed by Takeshita Masao of Jump. Takamiya Toshikazu (Harada Taizo) works as a long-distance overnight bus driver from his hometown in Niigata. One night his ex-wife Miyu...
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Listen to Light (2017)
- Director
- SUGITA Kyoshi
- Cast
- NAMIKI Akie, KITAMURA Misaki, KASAJIMA Tomo
Based on four tanka poems, selected in a contest with the theme of light, this film illustrates the meaning of light in the lives of four female protagonists. Shiori (Kitamura Misaki), Yukiko (Kasajima Tomo), Kyoko (Ito Kana) and Sachiko (Namiki Aki...
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Waiting for the Moon (2017)
- Director
- KOSHIKAWA Michio
- Cast
- IURA Arata, KUROKAWA Mei
Feature film romance based on the same-named novel by Saeki Kazumi. Directed by Koshikawa Michio of Life and Death On the Shore. After losing everything in an earthquake, Yumi's (Kurokawa Mei) aunt urges her to get out of the house and she finds a j...
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Party 'Round the Globe (2017)
- Director
- WATANABE Hirobumi
- Cast
- IMAMURA Gaku, Ringo, WATANABE Hirobumi
Winner of the Japan Cinema Splash Award at the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival for Poolside Man, director Watanabe Hirobumi helms this road movie illustrating the peculiarity of being alive through the quiet life and strange journey of two dev...
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Between Men and the Gods (2017)
- Director
- UCHIDA Eiji
- Cast
- SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko, TOTSUGI Shigeyuki, UCHIDA Chika
Tanizaki Junichiro's novel, 'Kami to Hito to no Aida' which drew on real life experiences, is brought to life in this drama which changes the setting to modern times. At the helm is "Lowlife Love" director, Uchida Eiji. Hozumi (Shibukawa Kiyohiko), ...
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Of Love & Law (2017)
- Director
- TODA Hikaru
- Cast
- MINAMI Kazuyuki, YOSHIDA Masafumi
Documentary about contemporary Japanese society through the lives of people in challenging circumstances including LGBT individuals and those left out of Japan's family registry system. Director Toda Hikaru, who has worked for many years in the US an...
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Ambiguous Places (2017)
- Director
- IKEDA Akira
- Cast
- SUMII Kujirako, SHIBA Hirofumi, OTA Michi
The "dreams" seen by people are intertwined through an abstract mystery in this surreal fantasy directed by Ikeda Akira whose Anatomy of a Paper Clip won the grand prizes at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Vancouver International Fi...
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The Hungry Lion (2017)
- Director
- OGATA Takaomi
- Cast
- MATUBAYASHI Urara, MIZUISHI Atomu, TSUTSUI Mariko
The propagation of fake news and the fiendish appetite of those who consume such information are revealed in this drama by Sunk in to the Womb director, Ogata Takaomi. One morning, Hitomi's (Matubayashi Urara) homeroom teacher is taken away by polic...
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Ice Cream and the Sound of Raindrops (2017)
- Director
- MATSUI Daigo
- Cast
- MORITA Kokoro, TANAKA Reiko, TANAKA Taketo
Coming-of-age story consisting of a single seventy-four-minute take covering one month in the lives of youths floundering in the gap between reality and fiction, based on a true story. Directed by Matsui Daigo of Japanese Girls Never Die. The rap gro...
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Last Night Rewind (2017)
- Director
- YOKOO Hatsuki
- Cast
- OKANO Maya, TSURUTA Mayu, WATANABE Ikkei
A magical film adapting the play by theatre troupe Taiyo Magic Film. Director Yokoo Hatsuki makes his theatrical feature film debut while theatre troupe leader, Saijo Mitsutoshi, serves as screenwriter. A daughter schemes with her father to fake her...
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Almost Coming, Almost Dying (2017)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Toshimasa
- Cast
- NOU Misoo, YANAGI Elisa, OKI Chizuru
A live-action adaptation of Nakagawa Manabu's manga which itself is based on his personal experiences. It is a true account of a man's secret shame directed by Kobayashi Toshimasa who directed the television series based on Nakagawa's debut work, 'Bo...
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The Fall of Icarus:Narita Stories (2017)
- Director
- DAISHIMA Haruhiko
- Cast
- KASE Tsutomu, AKIBA Emiko, HIRATA Seigo
Documentary that serves as a companion to The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories, which dealt with the protests against the construction of Narita Airport. Depicts the lives of youth who fought alongside farmers against the nation state. Farmers la...
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Hikari - And Then There Was Light (2017)
- Director
- OMORI Tatsushi
- Cast
- IURA Arata, Eita, HASEGAWA Kyoko
An adaptation of Miura Shion's identically titled novel by The Ravine of Goodbye director Omori Tatsushi. On Mihama, one of Tokyo's outlying islands, Shinji witnesses the rape of his girlfriend and middle-school classmate, Haruka, then commits an ir...
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honey (2017)
- Director
- SHINTOKU Koji
- Cast
- HIRANO Sho, TAIRA Yuna
Live-action film adaptation of Meguro Amu's romance comic "honey." Directed by Shintoku Koji, who has served as assistant director for films including Moteki and Bakuman. Timid and shy high school student Nao (Taira Yuna) is suddenly confronted with...
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When I get home, my wife always pretends to be dead. (2017)
- Director
- LEE Toshio
- Cast
- EIKURA Nana, YASUDA Ken
Romantic comedy inspired by a question posted in the Yahoo! Answers knowledge-sharing community that got everyone talking. Helmed by Lee Toshio of TIME TRIP APP and Bali Big Brother. In his third year of marriage, Jun (Yasuda Ken) works at an office...
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The Many Faces of Ito (2017)
- Director
- HIROKI Ryuichi
- Cast
- OKADA Masaki, KIMURA Fumino, SASAKI Nozomi
Author, Yuzuki Asako's romance novel is adapted to film by Vibrator director Hiroki Ryuichi. It depicts women whose lives have been manipulated by an attractive yet self-conscious, but overly callous man. 32-year-old screenwriter, Rio (Kimura Fumino...
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blank13 (2017)
- Director
- SAITOH Takumi
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Issey, MATSUOKA Mayu, SAITOH Takumi
Drama by actor Saitoh Takumi, who makes his feature-film directorial debut. Won the Best Director in the Asian New Talent Awards at the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival. Family members learn the whereabouts of the father (Lily Franky) who v...
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Karanukan (2017)
- Director
- HAMANO Yasuhiro
- Cast
- GACKT, KIMURA Suzuka, AKIYOSHI Kumiko
Romance set in Okinawa. Original story and direction by Hamano Yasuhiro, who has produced projects for fashion and architecture. Screened at the 9th Okinawa Film Festival. Globe-trotting photographer Oyama Hikaru (GACKT) meets a beautiful girl named...
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MR.LONG (2017)
- Director
- SABU
- Cast
- Chang Chen, AOYAGI Sho, Yao Yi-ti
Monday and Kanikosen director SABU helms this violent film produced through a collaboration between Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Germany. It was screened in the 67th Berlin International Film Festival's competition section. Hitman Long (Chang Chen)...
