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Curtain call (2004)
- Director
- SASABE Kiyoshi
- Cast
- ITO Ayumi, FUJII Takashi, TSURUTA Mayu
Kaori (Ito Ayumi) works for a publishing company in Tokyo, but when she screws up on the job, she is transferred to work for a local magazine in rural Fukuoka. There, she is put in charge of "The Good Old Days" reader's letter column. She gets a post...
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Going Home (2004)
- Director
- HAGIUDA Koji
- Cast
- NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, MORIYAMA Reia, KATAOKA Reiko
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YEAR ONE IN THE NORTH (2004)
- Director
- YUKISADA Isao
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, WATANABE Ken, TOYOKAWA Etsushi
Komatsubara Shino (Yoshinaga Sayuri) and her husband Hideaki (Watanabe Ken) are exiled to Hokkaido, the northernmost island in Japan, during the tumultuous years at the end of the nineteenth century. The family begins their struggle to carve out a ne...
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JYUKAI: The Sea of Trees Behind Mt.Fuji (2004)
- Director
- TAKIMOTO Tomoyuki
- Cast
- HAGIWARA Masato, IGAWA Haruka, IKEUCHI Hiroyuki
Set in the infamous suicide spot, Aokigahara Forest, at the foot of Mount Fuji, the film tells four stories of people who discover the value of life on the verge of death. In the first story, a Yakuza gang force Asakura (Hagiwara Masato) to embezzle...
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Hallucination (2004)
- Director
- MIYASAKA Takeshi
- Cast
- YAMAGUCHI Yoshiyuki, YOSHINO Kimika, TAKEUCHI Riki
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The Last Supper (2004)
- Director
- FUKUTANI Osamu
- Cast
- KATO Masaya, TAKUMI Hibiki, HARA Fumina
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SAYONARA COLOR (2004)
- Director
- TAKENAKA Naoto
- Cast
- TAKENAKA Naoto, HARADA Tomoyo, DANTA Yasunori
Sayonara Color is the fifth film by Takenaka Naoto, one of Japan's most respected character actors and the director of Muno no Hito (Nowhere Man) and Tokyo Biyori. Shohei (Takenaka Naoto) works as a doctor in a seaside hospital. One day, a new patie...
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Sayonara Midori (2004)
- Director
- FURUMAYA Tomoyuki
- Cast
- HOSHINO Mari, NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi
Based on the comic book of the same name by Minami Q-Ta and directed by Furumaya Tomoyuki, whose previous works include Mabudachi (Bad Company) and Robokon (Robot Contest). Yuko (Hoshino Mari), an unassuming office filing clerk, doesn't mind that sh...
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Innocent Seven, The (2004)
- Director
- DANKAN
- Cast
- DANKAN, WATANABE Ikkei, TAKAHASHI Hitomi
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Jam Films S (2004)
- Director
- SONODA Kenji, TAKATSU Ryuichi, ISHIKAWA Hitoshi
- Cast
- ZEEBRA, ENDO Kenichi, Koyuki
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World's end/girlfriend (2004)
- Director
- KAZAMA Shiori
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Mami, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko, NAGATSUKA Keishi
Shinnosuke (Shibukawa Kiyohiko) and Misawa (Nagatsuka Keishi) are joint managers of a Bonsai shop. Suddenly, Shinnosuke's childhood friend, Haruko (Nakamura Mami), turns up. She has split up with her boyfriend and finds herself out on the streets. Sh...
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ONE MISSED CALL 2 (2004)
- Director
- TSUKAMOTO Rempei
- Cast
- Mimula, YOSHIZAWA Hisashi, SETO Asaka
The sequel to Miike Takashi's One Missed Call (2004), directed by well-known TV drama director, Tsukamoto Rempei. Kyoko (Mimula) visits her boyfriend, Naoto (Yoshizawa Yu), at his workplace and hears the eerie sound of a mobile phone ringing. One ye...
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Tokyo Tower (2004)
- Director
- MINAMOTO Takashi
- Cast
- KUROKI Hitomi, OKADA Junichi, MATSUMOTO Jun
Toru (Okada Junichi) is a university student in Tokyo. From the window of his apartment, he can see the famous landmark, Tokyo Tower, which reminds him of the secret in his life. Toru is having an affair with an older woman, Shifumi (Kuroki Hitomi), ...
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TONY TAKITANI (2004)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Jun
- Cast
- Issey OGATA, MIYAZAWA Rie, NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi
Tony Takitani is based on the novel of the same title by Murakami Haruki and directed in his characteristic understated style by Ichikawa Jun, the director of Osaka Story and Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover. Tony Takitani's mother died short...
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Man Behind the Scissors, The (2004)
- Director
- IKEDA Toshiharu
- Cast
- TOYOKAWA Etsushi, ASO Kumiko, ABE Hiroshi
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Parsley (2004)
- Director
- UEDA Hisashi
- Cast
- TOMOI Yusuke, HATACHIYA Megumi, KATSUMURA Mika
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WE SHALL OVERCOME SOMEDAY (2004)
- Director
- IZUTSU Kazuyuki
- Cast
- SHIOYA Shun, TAKAOKA Sosuke, SAWAJIRI Erika
It's 1968 and the height of the "Group Sounds" (male harmony bands) craze in Japan. The Higashi High School Karate Club in Kyoto clashes with a gang of delinquents from a high school for resident Koreans, and their leader Ang-son (Takaoka Sosuke). Ma...
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Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai, The (2004)
- Director
- MEIKE Mitsuru
- Cast
- KURODA Emi, ITO Takeshi, HOTARU Yukijiro
Sachiko (Kuroda Emi) works in a fantasy sex club. One day, she gets embroiled in a gunfight between foreign spies and is hit in the forehead by a stray bullet. Strangely, the bullet doesn't kill her, but turns her into a genius. Meanwhile, Kim, the m...
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Hi-bi: Days of Fire (2004)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Banmei
- Cast
- TANAKA Yuko, KUBOZUKA Shunsuke, KISHIBE Ittoku
Hi-bi: Days of Fire is based on the true and tragic story of Kohyama Kiyoko. Kiyoko (Tanaka Yuko), was a single mother with two children and also one of the few women potters in Japan. Throughout her life she dedicated herself to re-inventing an art...
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Turn over -An Angel is coming on a bicycle (2004)
- Director
- NOMURA Keiichi
- Cast
- FUJIMURA Shiho, KURIZUKA Asahi, KASHU Toshiki
Kuroyoshi Gen (Kurizuka Asahi) is an elderly artisan who makes clothes for the royal family and Shinto priests. He lives in an old neighborhood in Kyoto with his wife of 45 years, Chie (Fujimura Shiho), but Chie is suffering from a wasting disease an...
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PROJECT Y (2004)
- Director
- NARAMOTO Aki
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Kayako, OHTA Yoichiro, URATA Ryuji
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Village Album, The (2004)
- Director
- MIHARA Mitsuhiro
- Cast
- FUJI Tatsuya, KAITO Ken, MIYAJI Mao
Hanatani Village in the valley of Tokushima Prefecture is going to be submerged when a dam is constructed. In order to preserve the beauty of the place for future generations, the villagers decide to take photographs of all the families in the villag...
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Into the Picture Scroll‐THE TALE OF YAMANAKA TOKIWA (2004)
- Director
- HANEDA Sumiko
- Cast
- KATAOKA Kyoko
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MONSIEUR GREENPEAS (2004)
- Director
- KURITA Yasuo
- Cast
- Watanababy, GASHUIN Tatsuya, TANAKA Yoji
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Lakeside Murder Case (2004)
- Director
- AOYAMA Shinji
- Cast
- YAKUSHO Koji, YAKUSHIMARU Hiroko, TOYOKAWA Etsushi
Three families rent a lakeside summer cottage and invite a home tutor along for an intensive study session, to get their children into top class junior high schools. One of the fathers, Namiki, comes along with his wife, Minako, although he is skepti...
