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SECRET: A HIDDEN SCORE (2024)
- Director
- KAWAI Hayato
- Cast
- KYOMOTO Taiga, FURUKAWA Kotone
Based on the 2007 Taiwanese film of the same title, this is a love story directed by Kawai Hayato of My Love Story!! fame. Minato (Kyômoto Taiga), a music college student who is traumatized by his experience as a student studying piano overseas, mee...
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REI (2024)
- Director
- TANAKA Toshihiko
- Cast
- SUZUKI Takara, OYAMA Maeko, MORIYAMA Shogo
This is the debut feature-length human drama by actor Tanaka Toshihiko. The film had its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and won the Tiger Award for Best Film. One day, Hikari (Suzuki Takara), who has been living with the...
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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
An anime film adaptation of "Omuro Family," a spin-off of the manga "YuruYuri" by Namori. This is the first of a two-part film depicting the fast-paced daily lives of the three Omuro sisters: the cool eldest daughter, the playful second daughter, and...
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A Girl Named Ann (2024)
- Director
- IRIE Yu
- Cast
- KAWAI Yuumi, SATO Jiro, INAGAKI Goro
A social drama based on an incident involving a girl that happened in Japan during the coronavirus pandemic, brought together by director Irie Yu of AI Amok and the staff of PLAN75. Twenty-one-year-old Ann (Kawai Yumi), who has been beaten by her mo...
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BUSHIDO (2024)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Kazuya
- Cast
- KUSANAGI Tsuyoshi, KIYOHARA Kaya, NAKAGAWA Taishi
Director Shiraishi Kazuya (The Blood of Wolves) takes on a historical drama for the first time, teaming up with Kusanagi Tsuyoshi (Midnight Swan) for this revenge drama. Yanagida Kakunoshin (Kusanagi), a ronin who was falsely accused of a crime and ...
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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, MIYAZAWA Hio
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, ASANO Tadanobu
After a break of about 10 years following the highly acclaimed The Ravine of Goodbyes, director Omori Tatsushi returns to the mystery genre with another adaptation of author Shuichi Yoshida's work. A 100-year-old bedridden elderly man is murdered at...
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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
- MORIYAMA Mirai, GOTO Noa
Japanese-French co-produced feature-length animation based on the comic by Imashiro Takashi. The vivid characters were created using director Kuno Yoko's rotoscope animation of the live-action footage shot by a team led by director Yamashita Nobuhiro...
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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...
