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HOLY ISLAND (2010)
- Director
- HANABUSA Aya
- Cast
- Everybody in IWAISHIMA
A documentary produced by Motohashi Seiichi, director of Alexei and the Spring (Alexei to Izumi) and directed by up-and-comer Hanabusa Aya. The film quietly depicts how locals live their daily lives in Iwaishima, Kaminoseki-cho of Yamaguchi Prefectur...
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EVIL NINJA (2010)
- Director
- CHIBA Seiji
- Cast
- GODA Masashi, KASHIWABARA Shuji, KOGA Mitsuki
A bio-terror/samurai action piece. The film takes the audience through a gripping countdown to death as the Iga Ninjas fight warlord Oda Nobunaga and his army of Kouga Ninjas. By director Chiba Seiji, known for his cutting-edge samurai action pieces ...
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Piecing Me Back Together (2010)
- Director
- ISOMURA Itsumichi
- Cast
- KITAGAWA Keiko, OHTSUKA Nene, OKADA Masaki
Film version of the novel of the same title by Len Kawahara, who wrote the screenplay for Time Lost, Time Found (Yomei) and is also known by her multiple talent as a book producer and a translator. Directed by Isomura Itsumichi who is renowned for hi...
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MADOGIWA HERO (2010)
- Director
- SASAKI Megumi
- Cast
- NAKADA Yuya, HANDA Sayo, YOSHIDA Takeshi
This is a coming-of-age drama that was directed, written, edited and produced as her graduation work by Sasaki Megumi, who was assistant director to director Hiroki Ryuichi when she was in the Department of Cinema at Nihon University. It is a perfect...
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Chorura no uta (2010)
- Director
- KAWAGUCHI Hirofumi
- Cast
- KIM Min Jun, SEO Do Young, KIM Pu Reun
This is a Japan-Korea co-production of a love story starring two popular Korean stars, Kim Min Jun and Seo Do Young. Kawaguchi Hirofumi, who won praise in Japan and abroad for his debut work RAILTRUCK (Torokko), directed it. Hisayuki (Seo) is a Korea...
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The Legend of Siren XXX (2010)
- Director
- ASHIDUKA Shintaro
- Cast
- Marika, SAKURAI Yuko
The erotic horror series Yojo Densetsu Seiren has been released again in theaters with a porno video idol star. Kamei Toru, who has displayed a wide range of work including Double Suicide Elegy (Shinju Elegy), participated as supervisor. Ishikawa Ken...
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Livespire Musashi (2010)
- Director
- NINAGAWA Yukio
- Cast
- FUJIWARA Tatsuya, KATSUJI Ryo, SUZUKI Anne
One of the Livespire series by Sony Corporation, which provides digital imaging, production/distribution of plays and other theater performances. Screenplay by Inoue Hisashi, directed by Ninagawa Yukio, and starring Fujiwara Tatsuya. Superb staff and...
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Livespire Anjin English Samurai (2010)
- Director
- Gregory DORAN
- Cast
- ICHIMURA Masachika, Owen TEALE, FUJIWARA Tatsuya
A historic drama based on a true story. One of the Livespire series by Sony Corporation, which provides digital imaging, production/distribution of plays and other theater performances. The leading Japanese musical actor Ichimura Masachika and a youn...
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Hetalia Axis Powers The Movie -Paint it, White- (2010)
- Director
- Bob SHIRAHATA
- Cast
- NAMIKAWA Daisuke, YASUMOTO Hiroki, TAKAHASHI Hiroki
The first theatrical version of the popular anime series, Hetalia: Axis powers (original manga series by Himaruya Hidekazu.) Using characters that embody the Axis characteristics based on their culture and history, such as jovial Italy, austere Germa...
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Murasaki kagami (2010)
- Director
- MIHARA Mitsuhiro
- Cast
- SAAYA, NAGASAWA Nao, UESUGI Nao
A horror film based on an urban legend whispered amongst the ranks of junior high- and high-school students as if it were true. The film is a thrilling account of the dreadful terror that befalls a group of high-school girls who test the legend half ...
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Yugure (2010)
- Director
- TODA Akihiro
- Cast
- UI Haruo, TODA Akie, FUDAUCHI Kouta
This home drama, which looks at the condition of the modern family through a family living in Nara, was supported by the Association for Commemorative Events of the 1300th Anniversary of Nara Heijo-kyo Capital. Hailing from Nara, new-comer Toda Akihi...
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The Chasing World2 (2010)
- Director
- SHIBATA Issei
- Cast
- ISHIDA Takuya, YOSHINAGA Jun, MIURA Shohei
This is a continuation of the film version of the best-selling sci-fi horror novel of the same name by Yamada Yusuke. The hero of the previous film, who survived the no questions asked "death game," is involved in new challenges to his survival. Sato...
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THE SEASIDE MOTEL (2010)
- Director
- MORIYA Kentaro
- Cast
- IKUTA Toma, ASO Kumiko, YAMADA Takayuki
This is an ensemble drama based on the comic by Okada Yukio, with 11 men and women of unique character in four closed rooms. This is the second feature work by Moriya Kentaro whose debut work, School Days was highly regarded both in Japan and abroad....
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SOUND to MUSIC (2010)
- Director
- HATTORI Tomoyuki
- Cast
- Otoasobi no Kai, ISHIMURA Maki, EZAKI Masafumi
The Otoasobi Project was started in 2005 by students who studied improvised musical performances with people with intellectual disabilities. This film is a music documentary tracking their activities. The whole initiative was started to create new mu...
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Asami is The Yakuza☆Hunters Part I: The Ultimate Battle Royale (2010)
- Director
- NAKADAIRA Kazushi
- Cast
- Asami, KOMINE Rena, SATO Jiro
This is a 70s style "pink-film" violence film with B-movie staff gathered together, including Nakadaira Kazushi, graphic design art director for director Kitano Takeshi's works, Nishimura Yoshihiro from The Machine Girl (Kataude Machine Girl) and Kaz...
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ZATOICHI THE LAST DAYS (2010)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Junji
- Cast
- KATORI Shingo, SORIMACHI Takashi, BAISHO Chieko
A blind drifter who strikes down his foes with lightning-fast speed, Ichi returns for the last installment of the Zatoichi films -- an action series set in old Japan that has gone down in Japanese film history. This newest film shows us a more human ...
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Seikazoku Yamatoji (2010)
- Director
- AKIHARA Masatoshi
- Cast
- KATAGIRI Jin, SUENAGA Haruka, IWATA Sayuri
This is the 11th in the New Sense Literary Film series, making films of Japanese literary classics with a modern sensibility. The original works are Hori Tatsuo's "The Holy Family" and "Yamatoji." Katagiri Jin, a part of the comic duo The Rahmens and...
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PLANZET (2010)
- Director
- AWAZU Jun
- Cast
- MIYANO Mamoru, ISHIHARA Kaori, TAKEUCHI Junko
A full-CG animation depicting the war between space organisms and human beings. The voice of the main character is played by Miyano Mamoru, who has voiced main characters in many popular works including Mobile Suit Gundam 00 and was awarded the leadi...
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Asami is The Yakuza☆Hunters Part II:The Revenge Duel In Hell (2010)
- Director
- OKUDA Shinichi
- Cast
- Asami, MIWA Hitomi, KAWANO Naoki
Okuda Shinichi from THE SAGAMI-LAKE CYCLONE MASSACRE (Keiji no Ikenie), Nishimura Yoshihiro from The Machine Girl (Kataude Machine Girl) and Kazuno Tsuyoshi from Robo Geisha, the staff representing the B-movie, gathered for this film. Asami, who play...
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Aniki (2010)
- Director
- TSUJI Hiroyuki
- Cast
- KANEKO Ken, UCHIYAMA Shinji
An action/drama piece about a juvenile delinquent who dives into the real gang world. Director Tsuji Hiroyuki has worked with Miike Takashi on Miike's Fudoh: The New Generation (Gokudo sengokushi: Fudo) and went on to direct a chain of yakuza films. ...
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DIR EN GREY UROBOROS movie project -10- (2010)
- Director
- IWAKI Yuichiro
- Cast
- DIR EN GREY
Since their debut in 1997, rock band DIR EN GREY has had many followers in the West too, with their message-heavy lyrics and extreme performances. Following the release of their "UROBOROS" album in November 2008, the band launched world tour spanning...
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DIR EN GREY UROBOROS movie project -09- (2010)
- Director
- IWAKI Yuichiro
- Cast
- DIR EN GREY
A music documentary covering one the first night of the electrifying performance on tour by DIR EN GREY, the Kansai born rock band who are also widely known in the West. Following the release of their 7th album "UROBOROS" in November 2008, the band l...
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BOOK GIRL～the Literature Girl～ (2010)
- Director
- TADA Shunsuke
- Cast
- HANAZAWA Kana, IRINO Miyu, HIRANO Aya
This is the film version of Nomura Mizuki's "Girl Who Loves Literature" series of campus mystery novels about the activities of a girl, who loves stories so intensely that she eats books, and a young boy who is her junior in school. Production I.G, k...
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Scope (2010)
- Director
- URABE Atsushi
- Cast
- KANEKURA Kousuke, IMAMURA Inori, MORISAKI Genta
Told from the perspective of criminal offenders who want to rehabilitate themselves, it questions the nature of the Sexual Offenses Act. The director is Urabe Atsushi, an exciting new director who has received many awards for independent films at fil...
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Aete yokatta (2010)
- Director
- HASEGAWA Hiroyuki
- Cast
- TADA Asami, KUROSAWA Toshio, MIHARA Junko
Based on the true story of Ishihara Shinji, who is known as "Boss Night Watch" due to his untiring efforts to help juvenile delinquents turn their lives around. Pin-up model Tada Asami provides an all-out performance as a young delinquent heading dow...
