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TSUDUKU (2011)
- Director
- OMACHI Kozo
- Cast
- HIGA Kenji, KURIHARA Hitomi, MURANO Takenori
A middle-aged building developer gets tangled up in trouble revolving around a big corporation's development. This drama depicts the gradual revelation of his unknown past. Kasahara Nobuaki (Higa Kenji), who runs a small construction company, partici...
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TOWANOQUON Episode 4 (2011)
- Director
- IIDA Umanosuke
- Cast
- KAMIYA Hiroshi, SHIRAISHI Ryoko, NAZUKA Kaori
Fourth installation in the six-part science fiction anime. Youth who have awakened to paranormal abilities face a cyborg organization focused on their destruction. Conceived by director Iida Umanosuke, who passed away in 2010, and completed with help...
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Tanatosu (2011)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- TOKUYAMA Hidenori, SATO Yuki, TAIRA Airi
Film adaptation of the boxing manga with an original story by Takehara Shinji, former WBA Middleweight Champion. Lead actor Tokuyama Hidenori, who has boxing experience, delivers convincing fight scenes, and guest appearances by successive world cham...
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Takeo, A Percussionist with Down Syndrome (2011)
- Director
- TOKIDA Takashi
- Cast
- NIKURA Takeo, Doudou N'diaye Rose, Wagane N'diaye Rose
Documentary about Niikura Takeo (known as Takeo), a twenty-four-year-old musician who has Down's syndrome. Tokida Takashi, who makes his directorial debut with this film, handles video documentation for the NPO Medecins Sans Frontieres Japan. Takeo, ...
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Summer for the Living (2011)
- Director
- FUKUMA Kenji
- Cast
- YOSHINO Akira, KOHARA Saori, SUZUKI Tsunekichi
A humanistic drama about an encounter in the life of a woman around the age of 40, set during the Obon season when the living take time to reflect on the dead. Director Fukuma Kenji is also a poet and a university professor. Chikage (Yoshino Akira) i...
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HAYATE THE COMBAT BUTLER THE MOVIE HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH (2011)
- Director
- KOMORI Hideto
- Cast
- SHIRAISHI Ryoko, KUGIMIYA Rie, TANAKA Rie
First animated feature film of the popular comic by Hata Kenjiro, serialized in . Based on a new story written story by Hata, with a screenplay by Kamen Rider series' Kobayashi Yasuko. Komori Hideto makes his directorial debut with this film. Impover...
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Come as you are (2011)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Kota
- Cast
- SERIZAWA Tateto, UMENO Nagisa, YASUDA SAYA
The fourth film in the second season of the "Seishun H" series, in which up-and-coming filmmakers exhibit their originality through themes of youth and sex. Director Yoshida Kota has won several awards at international film festivals for his numerous...
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Takumikun Series ano Hareta Aozora (2011)
- Director
- YOKOI Takeshi
- Cast
- HAMAO Kyousuke, WATANABE Daisuke, TAKIGUCHI Yukihiro
The fifth in a series of live action adaptations of Goto Shinobu's homoromantic novels. It is a dramatic and romantic love story that takes place in a boarding school for boys and features a cast of up-and-coming actors. This installment drew attenti...
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VANISHED:AGE 7 (2011)
- Director
- MIYAKE Ryuta
- Cast
- HINAMI Kyooko, ASUKA Rin, FUJIMOTO Nanami
This thriller follows the developments of multiple missing persons cases, while delving into profound darkness within the human heart. Seemingly random episodes in the lives of three young girls and a mother turn out to be connected, bringing to ligh...
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TSUCHIOTO (2011)
- Director
- OKUBO Yui
- Cast
A documentary about the Great East Japan Earthquake. Director Okubo Yui, a native of Otsuchi Town in Iwate Prefecture whose own family were caught up in the disaster, expresses his feelings for his hometown with a visually poetic touch using footage ...
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Lives After The Tsunami (2011)
- Director
- MORIKOTO Syuichi
- Cast
A documentary that reports on the region devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11th 2011. Its director is Morimoto Shuichi, who has worked as an assistant director under the tutelage of Kobayashi Masahiro. The film gathers raw testim...
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TOWANOQUON Episode 3 (2011)
- Director
- IIDA Umanosuke
- Cast
- KAMIYA Hiroshi, SHIRAISHI Ryoko, NAZUKA Kaori
Third installation in the six-part science fiction anime. Youth who have awakened to paranormal abilities face a cyborg organization focused on their destruction. Conceived by director Iida Umanosuke, who passed away in 2010, and completed with help ...
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Reikai no Tobira Street View (2011)
- Director
- KOGA Soichiro
- Cast
- ONO Marie, AYANO, HIYORI Yuki
A horror based on an urban legend regarding the online map navigation service Street View. Its director is Koga Soichiro, who is well-known for his work in the horror genre, and it features a core cast of promising newcomers. Ako (Ono Marie) is searc...
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Snow Flake (2011)
- Director
- TANIGUCHI Masaaki
- Cast
- KIRITANI Mirei, AOYAMA Haru, SHIRAISHI Shunya
A coming-of-age mystery starring model and actress Kiritani Mirei that was screened together with Ranhansha, also directed by Taniguchi Masaaki. It is the ninth entry in the CineMusica series that aims for a collaboration between images and music, an...
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Ranhansha (2011)
- Director
- TANIGUCHI Masaaki
- Cast
- KIRITANI Mirei, MIURA Takahiro, TSUKIFUNE Sarara
A starring vehicle for model and actress Kiritani Mirei, screened together with Snowflake, which was also directed by Taniguchi Masaaki. This coming-of-age film is based on works in the eponymous tanka (short poem)collection by Kojima Nao, blending t...
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Go! Boys' School Drama Club (2011)
- Director
- HANABUSA Tsutomu
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Aoi, IKEMATSU Sosuke, TOMITA Keisuke
Film script debut by Ikeda Tetsuhiro, individualistic actor belonging to the theatrical troupe Cat Hotel. Humorously depicts the members of a theater club on the verge of dissolution at a boys' high school, as they gradually become obsessed with thea...
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Barefoot Gen's Hiroshima (2011)
- Director
- ISHIDA Yuko
- Cast
- NAKAZAWA Keiji
A documentary in which manga creator and atomic bombing survivor Nakazawa Kenji tells the story of his own life. "Barefoot Gen", his manga based on his experiences during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, is a widely-known bestseller that has been rea...
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Last folk singer Hitoshi Kaji (2011)
- Director
- HORIUCHI Hiroshi
- Cast
- KAJI Hitoshi, OKA Keishi
A documentary that focuses on folk singer Kaji Hitoshi, who died suddenly at the age of 40. It gives a detailed record of two and a half years in his life, from the beginning of his musical endeavors in Tokyo to his death. Kaji, who had previously be...
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INAZUMA ELEVEN GO THE MOVIE (2011)
- Director
- MIYAO Yoshikazu
- Cast
- TERASAKI Yuka, OHASHI Takashi, SAIGA Mitsuki
A feature film version of an animated television series based on a popular football video game. Ten years after the events of the previous film, the world of football is now controlled by an administrative body, and junior high school players fight f...
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Prince of Tennis the Movie Eikokushiki Teikyu-jo Kessen! (2011)
- Director
- TADA Shunsuke
- Cast
- MINAGAWA Junko, OKIAYU Ryotaro, DAITO Shunsuke
An animated film made to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the animated television adaptation of popular comic "The Prince of Tennis". Familiar junior high schools from the series - Seishun Gakuen, Hyotei, Rikkai, and Shitenhoji - are invited to r...
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Quartet! (2011)
- Director
- MIMURA Junichi
- Cast
- TAKASUGI Mahiro, GORIKI Ayame, HOSOKAWA Shigeki
A musical drama commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the establishment of the Urayasu city Government in Chiba Prefecture. Based on Onizuka Tadashi's eponymous novel, it warmly spins a tale of the rebirth of a musical family on the verge of col...
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CROSSROADS (2011)
- Director
- KURAKATA Masatoshi
- Cast
- MIURA Tomokazu, YO Kimiko, KOIKE Eiko
The second film in the RAILWAYS series of odes to the human condition that use trains as their central motif. A middle-aged married couple who have reached a crossroads in their lives find themselves on the verge of divorce due to their differing out...
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Second Virginity (2011)
- Director
- KUROSAKI Hiroshi
- Cast
- SUZUKI Kyoka, HASEGAWA Hiroki, FUKADA Kyoko
A film adaptation of a romantic television drama series that caused a sensation when it screened on NHK. It depicts the confusion experienced by a career woman in her forties who is being courted by a younger married man. It unveils new revelations a...
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JAZZ G MEN (2011)
- Director
- MIYATAKE Yui
- Cast
- INOUE Jun, KAWAHARA Sabu, UEDA Koichi
A drama about a group of elderly men who form an improvised jazz band and pull off a miracle to help revitalize their town. Its director is Miyatake Yui, who has helmed both films and television series in her career to date. In a bid to bring back li...
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friends NAKI ON THE MONSTER ISLAND (2011)
- Director
- YAMAZAKI Takashi, YAGI Ryuichi
- Cast
- KATORI Shingo, YAMADERA Koichi, ABE Sadawo
Yamazaki Takashi, known for the ALWAYS: Sunset on Third Street series, draws on his strength in CG for his first-ever 3D animation. Based on Hamada Hirosuke's nursery tale "The Red Devil Who Cried", used even in school textbooks, the film cutely port...
