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Into the Picture Scroll‐THE TALE OF YAMANAKA TOKIWA (2004)

Director: HANEDA Sumiko

Cast: KATAOKA Kyoko

An adaptation of the 12-volume, 150-meter-long picture scroll of the same name by early-Edo period painter IWASA Matabei, which was in turn based on a popular bunraku puppet play. Panning slowly sideways, the camera captures in rigorous detail the ac...

Flic (2004)

Director: KOBAYASHI Masahiro

Cast: KAGAWA Teruyuki, TANABE Seiichi, OHTSUKA Nene

A suspense-thriller by Kobayashi Masahiro who is the first Japanese to have three of his films–Bootleg Film, Koroshi, and Man Walking on Snow–screened at the Cannes Film Festival three years in a row. It depicts the fate of a detective being made the...

AKA-SEN (2004)

Director: OKU Shutaro

Cast: NAKAMURA Shido, TSUGUMI, KOMATSU Kazushige

With Tsuruya Nanboku's drama "Sakurahime Azumabunsho" (*Cherry Blossom Princess) as its motif, this science fiction love story is the first leading role for kabuki actor Nakamura Shido, who has appeared in many different productions on stage and scre...

The Man who Lives in the Train (2004)

Director: SAKAMOTO Yusuke

Cast

A Song of Housemakerel (2004)

Director: SAKAMOTO Yusuke

Cast

AKADOKURO (2004)

Director: INOUE Hidenori

Cast: FURUTA Arata, MIZUNO Miki, SATO Hitomi

Shadow (2004)

Director: KAWASE Naomi

Cast: HAKO, YAMAZAKI Yutaka

Kawase Naomi, whose work has consistently featured an absent father figure, meets "him" through the body of an actress. A critique on the genre of personal film, as the staged situation reveals real emotions and subjectivity. Seen through the camera ...

Fort of the Fabrications (2004)

Director: TAKI Kentaro

Cast

One morning in October, my eyes came to rest upon a small article in the local section of the newspaper. Early the day before, the dead body of a man in his twenties or thirties had been found. As if in complete contradiction, right across the river ...

Ketsuzoku (2004)

Director: NUKUI Yuji

Cast: MANO Keiichi, MATSUURA Tateki, KOGA Mitsuki

Sound, Movement and Light (2004)

Director: TSUCHIHASHI Masahiro

Cast: NAKAE Emi, NAKAMURA Yuko, KATSURA Jakusaburo

Akaneko (2004)

Director: DAIKUHARA Masaki

Cast: MORITA Aki, LEE Kanehiro, FUJISAKI Rukino

Shin Nippon no Don 3 (2004)

Director: TAKASE Masatsugu

Cast: MATSUKATA Hiroki, CHIBA Shinichi, TAKEUCHI Riki

Shin Nippon no Don 2 (2004)

Director: TAKASE Masatsugu

Cast: MATSUKATA Hiroki, CHIBA Shinichi, TAKEUCHI Riki

Lethal Ninja (2004)

Director: YAN Herman

Cast: MASATO, SHIRATA Hisako, Eva HUANG

LATE BLOOMER (2004)

Director: SHIBATA Go

Cast: SUMIDA Masakiyo, TORII Mari, HORITA Naozo

Sumida Masakiyo is a severely-disabled man who lives an independent life with the help of an electric wheelchair, voice machine, and a carer. Using his real name, Sumida exerts himself to act the role of the "attacker Sumida". Sumida is leading a pea...

Funky Forest The First Contact (2004)

Director: ISHII Katsuhito, MIKI Shunichiro, ANIKI

Cast: TERAJIMA Susumu, ASANO Tadanobu, IKEWAKI Chizuru

Black Kiss Int'l Version (aka.Synchronicity) (2004)

Director: TEZKA Macoto

Cast: HASHIMOTO Reika, KAWAMURA Kaori, MATSUOKA Shunsuke

STARLIT HIGH NOON (2004)

Director: NAKAGAWA Yosuke

Cast: SUZUKI Kyoka, WANG Leehon, KASHII Yu

Lian Son is a Taiwanese assassin hiding in Okinawa. Yukiko works at a lunch box shop, but she has a painful past. Saya works at a public swimming pool, but is bored with her life. The solitary lives of these three people slowly intersect with each ot...

Yama ni Ikiru (2004)

Director: HAGIHARA Yoshihiro

Cast: OZAWA Shoichi, ARAGAKI Sakae

RUNIN - Banished (2004)

Director: OKUDA Eiji

Cast: MATSUZAKA Keiko, NISHIJIMA Kazuhiro, OZAWA Mayu

Memories of Agano (2004)

Director: SATO Makoto

Cast: HASEGAWA Miyae, KATO Kimii, ENDO Miki

In the early 1990s, a documentary crew came to the River Aga in Niigata Prefecture and shot a film about the people who lived along the river. That film, Aga ni Ikiru (Living with the River Aga), took three years to complete and was released in 1992....