Movies
372 Results
-
DEATH NOTE Light up the NEW world (2016)
- Director
- SATO Shinsuke
- Cast
- HIGASHIDE Masahiro, IKEMATSU Sosuke, SUDA Masaki
Sequel to the "Death Note" series that became a megahit with the catchy concept "If your name is written in the notebook, you'll die" and premiered in sixty countries worldwide. Ten years have passed since the confrontation between Yagami Light aka ...
-
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final (2016)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Masatoshi
- Cast
- YAMADA Takayuki, AYANO Go, NAGAYAMA Kento
The final theatrical installment of the hit, late-night TV series based on Manabe Shohei's comic and starring Yamada Takayuki. The origin of Ushijima Kaoru, the protagonist who chose the life of a loan shark, is revealed. A classmate from Ushijima's...
-
BIRTHDAY WISHES (2016)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Yasuhiro
- Cast
- HASHIMOTO Ai, Yusuke SANTAMARIA, MIYAZAKI Aoi
Drama portraying the profound love between a daughter and mother through the birthday cards that arrive each year from the mother after her death. Direction and screenplay by Yoshida Yasuhiro of Leaving on the 15th Spring. Noriko (Hashimoto Ai) is a...
-
Gold Medal Man (2016)
- Director
- UCHIMURA Teruyoshi
- Cast
- UCHIMURA Teruyoshi, CHINEN Yuri, KIMURA Tae
Film adaptation of the 2011 one-man performance "A Man Born on the Year of the Tokyo Olympics" by Uchimura Teruyoshi from the comedy duo Ucchan Nanchan. Laughter-inducing depiction of a guy who goes after every imaginable type of gold medal. Uchimura...
-
HIGANJIMA: VAMPIRE ISLAND (2016)
- Director
- WATANABE Takeshi
- Cast
- SHIRAISHI Shunya, SUZUKI Ryohei, SAKURAI Minami
New film adaptation of the survival horror story based on Matsumoto Koji's same-named comic which was adapted for film in 2009 and turned into a TV drama in 2013, starring the Shiraishi Shunya and Suzuki Ryohei from the TV drama production. Tells the...
-
SOMEONE (2016)
- Director
- MIURA Daisuke
- Cast
- SATOH Takeru, ARIMURA Kasumi, NIKAIDO Fumi
Miura Daisuke, theater troupe Potudo-ru's stage director and also director of such films as Ai no uzu, adapts the Naoki Prize-winning novel by "The Kirishima Thing" author, Asai Ryo. It depicts university students slowly baring their ugly side as the...
-
The Long Excuse (2016)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Miwa
- Cast
- MOTOKI Masahiro, TAKEHARA Pistol, FUKATSU Eri
Romance starring Motoki Masahiro from Departures with original story, script and direction from Nishikawa Miwa of SWAY. A bestselling author discovers the joys of living for others after his wife dies and he spends time with children who have lost th...
-
GANTZ：O (2016)
- Director
- KAWAMURA Yasushi
- Cast
- ONO Daisuke, M・A・O, HAYAMI Saori
Full 3DCG animated theatrical film based on Oku Hiroya's SF comic, which has already been adapted as a live action movie and TV series. Focusing on the Osaka arc, the story powerfully depicts the battles between people resurrected from death and myst...
-
Good Morning Show (2016)
- Director
- KIMIZUKA Ryoichi
- Cast
- NAKAI Kiichi, NAGASAWA Masami, SHIDA Mirai
In this comedy, unforeseen misfortunes successively visit a sincere, middle-aged anchor of a television magazine show. It is written and directed by Kimizuka Ryoichi, who was the screenwriter of the "Bayside Shakedown" series. Sumita (Nakai Kiichi) ...
-
NIGHT'S TIGHTROPE (2016)
- Director
- MISHIMA Yukiko
- Cast
- HONDA Tsubasa, YAMAMOTO Mizuki, INAGAKI Goro
A film based on Minato Kanae's best-selling mystery novel. The dark hearts of two sincere yet cruel girls are revealed through their respective points of view. Known for her uplifting style, director Mishima Yukiko makes a complete about-face and tak...
-
Kuroko’s Basketball: Winter Cup Highlights ~Beyond the Tears~ (2016)
- Director
- TADA Shunsuke
- Cast
- ONO Kensho, ONO Yuki, SAITO Chiwa
The second volume in the condensed version of the television anime series, ‘Kuroko no Basuke', based on the popular basketball manga which has sold over 30 million copies. It depicts Kuroko Tetsuya (voice: Ono Kensho) and the Seirin High School baske...
-
THE EXTREMISTS’ OPERA (2016)
- Director
- EMOTO Junko
- Cast
- Saori, NAKAMURA Arisa, SAKURAI Yuki
Coming-of-age ensemble drama that is the film directorial debut for theater group Kegawazoku head Emoto Junko, based on her semi-autobiographical novel "Kokan," which means "groin." Humorously depicts the successes and frustrations of two women who m...
-
Cutie honey Tears (2016)
- Director
- A.T., HIGUCHI Ryo
- Cast
- NISHIUCHI Mariya, MIURA Takahiro, ISHIDA Nicole
Well-known through anime and live-action adaptations, Nagai Go's action manga once again hits screens in a new live-action film created from an original script. A beautiful android who feels emotions throws herself into a battle with the fate of huma...
-
Kanon (2016)
- Director
- SAIGA Toshiro
- Cast
- HIGA Manami, Mimula, SASAKI Nozomi
Drama about family ties set in the Hokuriku region in northwestern Japan. The flowing Pachelbel's Canon embellishes the film as the music that connects three sisters with their mother. Yukari (Mimura), Ai (Higa Manami) and Akane (Sasaki Nozomi) are ...
-
TSUKIJI WONDERLAND (2016)
- Director
- ENDO Naotaro
- Cast
A documentary filmed over 16 months closely chronicling, including areas never before filmed, the Tsukiji Market which is due to be moved to Toyosu in November of 2016. Endo Naotaro, who has been involved in wide ranging works from advertisements to ...
-
SCOOP! (2016)
- Director
- ONE Hitoshi
- Cast
- FUKUYAMA Masaharu, NIKAIDO Fumi, YOSHIDA Yoh
Remake of director Harada Masato's 1985 TV drama "Out of Focus". A down-and-out middle-aged paparazzi pursues an earth-shattering scandal. Directed by One Hitoshi of Love Strikes! and stars Fukuyama Masaharu of Like Father, Like Son. Miyakonojo (Fuk...
-
dadadada seventeen (2016)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Hana
- Cast
- SUZUKI Rigaku, KITAZAWA Yuho, INORI Kirara
Coming-of-age film featuring a collaboration between the girls band the peggies and high school female director Matsumoto Hana, whose debut film A Midsummer Dream was selected for the 2015 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. Thirty-four-ye...
-
Crying Clown's Wedding (2016)
- Director
- MINORIKAWA Osamu
- Cast
- SHIDA Mirai, RYUSEI Ryo, ARAKI Yuko
Romance based on a real story about the relationship between a woman who is training to be a clown and a young man who has stopped smiling. Good Morning Show's Shida Mirai gives an authentic performance as the upbeat heroine who believes in the all-m...
-
Digimon Adventure tri. Chapter 3 “Confession” (2016)
- Director
- MOTONAGA Keitaro
- Cast
- HANAE Natsuki, MIMORI Suzuko, HOSOYA Yoshimasa
A film produced to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the popular television anime series based on the monster rearing game, Digital Monster. In this third installment out of the full six chapter follow-up to the first television series, the heroes...
-
AJIN: DEMI-HUMAN―Collide (2016)
- Director
- SESHITA Hiroyuki, ANDO Hiroaki
- Cast
- MIYANO Mamoru, HOSOYA Yoshimasa, FUKUYAMA Jun
The concluding chapter closing out the story begun in AJIN: DEMI‐HUMAN-Compel and continued in Ajin Shoutotsu. The battle against the immortal "Ajin" intensifies as the Self-Defense Force and the American Department of Defense become involved. The th...
-
Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 3 (2016)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Masatoshi
- Cast
- YAMADA Takayuki, AYANO Go, HONGO Kanata
The third theatrical installment of the hit TV series depicting in hard-boiled fashion the interconnections between debtors and Ushijima, the loan shark. It stars Yamada Takayuki, whom the Hollywood Reporter chose as one of "10 Actors to Look Out for...
-
Sanada 10 Braves (2016)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Kankuro, MATSUZAKA Tori, OSHIMA Yuko
Filmed on a set of splendid scale, "Sanada Ten Braves" resuscitates the breathless spectacle of the historical samurai epic with non-stop battle scenes, gripping political drama and subterfuge, secret romances, unexpected dramatic twists. 14 years h...
-
HIGH HEELS REVOLUTION (2016)
- Director
- KOHATSU Yo
- Cast
- MAJIKINA Natsuki, HAMADA Tatsuomi, FUJITA Tomoko
Documentary covering the experiences of transsexual Majikina Natsuki from teenage years to the present. Vivid depiction of how Majikina made her choice to live as a woman, interspersed with drama sequences. Directed by Kohatsu Yo of Raise the Castle!...
-
OVER THE FENCE (2016)
- Director
- YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- ODAGIRI Joe, AOI Yu, MATSUDA Shota
Sequel to Sketches of Kaitan City and The Light Shines Only There and the finale to the Hakodate trilogy based on Sato Yasushi's novel. Director Yamashita Nobuhiro flexes his muscles for this offbeat comedy about the love-hate relationship between an...
-
Trumpet of the Cliff (2016)
- Director
- HAN Sang-Hee
- Cast
- SAKURABA Nanami, L.JOE, OHTSUKA Nene
This romance is a Japan-Korea co-production co-starring L. JOE from the Korean music group TEEN POP and Sakuraba Nanami. A female college student visiting Okinawa to recuperate meets a guy who plays the trumpet. College student Aoi (Sakuraba) has un...
