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Mr. Kumagai's Lighting School (2004)
- Director
- WADA Makoto
- Cast
- KUMAGAI Hideo, KOIZUMI Kyoko
A documentary on veteran film lighting technician, Kumagai Hideo, whose illustrious career spans half a century. After joining Daiei's Kyoto studio and working as a lighting assistant for directors including Mizoguchi Kenji, Kumagai switched to Nikk...
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University of Laughs (2004)
- Director
- HOSHI Mamoru
- Cast
- YAKUSHO Koji, INAGAKI Goro
Director Hoshi Mamoru (Tales of the Unusual) adapts the hit play of the same name by Mitani Koki, prolific writer for stage, television and film. The year is 1940, and Japan is edging toward war. Theater, the popular entertainment of the time, is he...
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Shin Nippon no Don 1 (2004)
- Director
- TAKASE Masatsugu
- Cast
- MATSUKATA Hiroki, CHIBA Shinichi, TAKEUCHI Riki
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FRONTIER DREAM (2004)
- Director
- MATSUSHIMA Tetsuya
- Cast
- KITAMURA Kazuki, TOMITA Yasuko, KAZAMA Toru
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Breathe In, Breathe Out (2004)
- Director
- SHINOHARA Tetsuo
- Cast
- Karina, TANIHARA Shosuke, NAGASAWA Masami
Seeking a fresh start in life, Hinami (Karina) applies for a part-time job cutting sugarcane on a plantation in Okinawa belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Taira (Kitamura Saburo and Yoshida Taeko). She soon finds herself working with four other young men and ...
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CRYING OUT LOVE, IN THE CENTER OF THE WORLD (2004)
- Director
- YUKISADA Isao
- Cast
- OSAWA Takao, SHIBASAKI Ko, NAGASAWA Masami
Yukisada Isao's (Go) massive hit, romantic drama was second only to Miyazaki Hayao's animated blockbuster Howl's Moving Castle at the Japanese box office in 2004, and gave birth to the hugely popular trend of "pure love" stories. Marriage-shy Sakuta...
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Saint Seiya Tenkai-hen Jyosou (2004)
- Director
- YAMAUCHI Shigeyasu
- Cast
- FURUYA Toru, SUZUOKI Hirotaka, HASHIMOTO Kouichi
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RED MOON (2004)
- Director
- FURUHATA Yasuo
- Cast
- TOKIWA Takako, ISEYA Yusuke, KAGAWA Teruyuki
Namiko (Tokiwa Takako) lives an affluent life in Manchuria with her sake-maker husband, Yutaro (Kagawa Teruyuki), but is unsatisfied by his staid ways. She reunites with former lover Osugi (Hotei Tomoyasu) only to see him sent away to fight the Russi...
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Shita - A DEADLY SILENCE (2004)
- Director
- SATO Tomoya
- Cast
- ASHIKAGA Aya, MANTA Norio, NANIWA Tenkaku
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Kusanoran (2004)
- Director
- KOYAMA Seijiro
- Cast
- OGATA Naoto, FUJITANI Miki, SUGIMOTO Tetta
In 1918 in Hokkaido, an elderly man on his deathbed calls for his wife and eldest son, and begins to tell them the story of his life for the first time. His real name is Inoue Denzo, a key figure in the Chichibu rebellion of 1884, and he had fled to ...
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Nobody Knows (2004)
- Director
- KORE-EDA Hirokazu
- Cast
- YAGIRA Yuya, KITAURA Ayu, KIMURA Hiei
A mother (YOU) smuggles her four young children into their new home in an apartment complex. Each has a different father, and none of them go to school. One day, she announces that she has to leave for a while and puts the oldest boy, Akira (Yagira Y...
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ONE MISSED CALL (2004)
- Director
- MIIKE Takashi
- Cast
- SHIBASAKI Ko, TSUTSUMI Shinichi, FUKIISHI Kazue
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FREE & EASY 15 (2004)
- Director
- ASAHARA Yuzo
- Cast
- NISHIDA Toshiyuki, MIKUNI Rentaro, ESUMI Makiko
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HEAVEN'S BOOKSTORE (2004)
- Director
- SHINOHARA Tetsuo
- Cast
- TAKEUCHI Yuko, YAGAMI Ren, KAGAWA Teruyuki
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Embers (2004)
- Director
- NEGISHI Kichitaro
- Cast
- AKIYOSHI Kumiko, NAGASHIMA Toshiyuki, YOSHIYUKI Kazuko
Documentary production company chairman, Go (Nagashima Toshiyuki), travels to Kanagawa for the first time in twenty five years, and heads for the home of a swordsmith who was the subject of one of his films. Vague memories of a large cedar tree begin...
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PRAYER BEADS (2004)
- Director
- OKANO Masahiro
- Cast
- KATO Masaya, TAKENAKA Naoto, ODAGIRI Joe
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Half a Confession (2004)
- Director
- SASABE Kiyoshi
- Cast
- TERAO Akira, HARADA Mieko, SHIBATA Kyohei
Former police detective Soichiro (Terao Akira) turns himself in at his local police station and confesses to the murder of his wife (Harada Mieko) at their home three days earlier. Under questioning by his former colleague, Shigi (Shibata Kyohei), he...
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The Face of Jizo (2004)
- Director
- KUROKI Kazuo
- Cast
- MIYAZAWA Rie, HARADA Yoshio, ASANO Tadanobu
In Hiroshima in 1948, memories of the atomic bombing three years earlier are still fresh in the minds of the people. Mitsue (Miyazawa Rie) works at a library where she meets Mr. Kinoshita (Asano Tadanobu), a shy, young man researching the disaster. T...
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The Crying Wind (2004)
- Director
- HIGASHI Yoichi
- Cast
- UEMA Muneo, KATO Haruko, TSUMIKI Miho
Masashi (Iju Tomoya) is taken by his mother, Kazue (Tsumiki Miho), to visit her hometown on a small island in Okinawa. There they hear a mysterious noise emanating from a place near the sea where the bodies of the dead are exposed to the elements. It...
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THIRTY LIES OR SO (2004)
- Director
- OTANI Kentaro
- Cast
- SHIINA Kippei, NAKATANI Miki, TSUMABUKI Satoshi
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KOI NO MON - Otakus in Love (2004)
- Director
- MATSUO Suzuki
- Cast
- MATSUDA Ryuhei, SAKAI Wakana, MATSUO Suzuki
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CAFE LUMIERE (2004)
- Director
- HOU Hsiao-Hsien
- Cast
- HITOTO Yo, ASANO Tadanobu, KOBAYASHI Nenji
Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Flowers of Shanghai, Millennium Mambo) directs this gently observant drama made to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of revered filmmaker Ozu Yasujiro. Freelance writer, Yoko (Hitoto Yo), has just returned to Tokyo fr...
