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FREAKOUT (2005)

Director: YAGUCHI Masaki

Cast: KAKUTA Tairyu, KOYAMA Daikyo, OKUBO Kojun

Documentary about Kakuta Dairyu, the second temple master at the interdenominational temple Kouganji. Director Yaguchi Masaki trained under the late Ishii Teruo, whose popularity as a director extended overseas as well. Former rock musician Kakuta se...

OBOETEIRU (2005)

Director: YOSHIDA Hideaki, KUBO Tomohiro, AKAISHI Tomoyuki

Cast: MURAKAMI Jun, NAKAMURA Mirei, KAGAWA Teruyuki

Omnibus film adaption of three works by mystery writer Takahashi Katsuhiko, including the Naoki-Prize wining "Bloody Memory." A cast of method actors including Kagawa Teruyuki and Asou Yumi come together under three directors heralding from Nikkatsu ...

Sumo Hot Pot –Chanko– (2005)

Director: SATO Toshiki

Cast: SUDO Atsuko, AZUMA　Takahiro, Ricaya SPOONER

This coming-of-age story by Director Sato Toshiki tells the true story of the Hiroshima University sumo club and the two students, a foreign exchange student and a female student, who fought to save it from disappearing. Nakata Yuka (Sudo Atsuko), a ...

Zo no namida (2005)

Director: YOSHIDA Kota

Cast: KONDO Ayano, ITO Hiroshi, NOGUCHI Ryotaro

This is the second film directed by Yoshida Kota that has enjoyed the spotlight for the his unique style of combining eros and laughter. The film, based on the director's own experiences, invites strained laughter at what lies in the heart of a man w...

URINARA (2005)

Director: HA Jinsun

Cast: AN Yoosang, AN Jooyeon

Neko no hige (2005)

Director: YAGI Junichi

Cast: WATANABE Makiko, OKI Eiji, NISHINA Takashi

Marching March (2005)

Director: SAKAMOTO Yusuke

Cast

A Portrait of my Father (2005)

Director: SAKAMOTO Yusuke

Cast

Tha Telegraph Pole Mother (2005)

Director: SAKAMOTO Yusuke

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TOGITATSU NO UTARE: Noda Version (2005)

Director

Cast: NAKAMURA Kanzaburo, NAKAMURA Fukusuke, BANDO Mitsugoro

Bare-assed Japan (2005)

Director: ISHII Yuya

Cast

THE JAPAN SELF DEFENSE IN SAMAWAH OF IRAQ (2005)

Director: WATAI Takeharu

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SHIROH (2005)

Director: INOUE Hidenori

Cast: NAKAGAWA Akinori, KAMIKAWA Takaya, TAKAHASHI Yumiko

AODOKURO (2005)

Director: INOUE Hidenori

Cast: ICHIKAWA Somegoro, SUZUKI Anne, IKEUCHI Hiroyuki

KAMATAKI (2005)

Director: Claude GAGNON

Cast: Matt SMILEY, FUJI Tatsuya, YOSHIYUKI Kazuko

The Duckling (2005)

Director: ONO Sayaka

Cast: ONO Sayaka

Born in 1984, director Ono Sayaka has created this autobiographical documentary as her graduation project at the Japan Academy of Moving Images. Ono was sent away for a year when she was young to the Kofukukai Yamagishikai (Yamagishi Association), a ...

Summer Vacation in North Korea (2005)

Director: REN Shujian

Cast: REN Shujian

In the summer of 2004, Ren Shujian entered North Korea via the Yanbian area as a Chinese tourist. During his overnight trip, he boldly took up the challenge of filming the current situation of North Korea and attempted to interact with many North Kor...

Yesterday Today Tomorrow (2005)

Director: NAOI Riyo

Cast

Two HIV-positive families from a village in Northern Thailand look ahead to their future, with feet planted in the ground. Anna, who contracted HIV through her ex-husband, lives a peaceful life with her new husband while peddling fish and farming to ...

After All, I'm 70 Years Old (2005)

Director: SUZUKI Shirouyasu

Cast: SUZUKI Shirouyasu, SUZUKI Mari

Going on seventy years old, the filmmaker begins daily exercises to combat aging. Appreciating the flowers in his garden each day, he starts to feel invigorated. With a sometimes cynical, sometimes intimate first-person voice-over, this poet and pion...

Tibet Tibet (2005)

Director: KIM Seung-yong

Cast: The 14th Dalai Lama, Central Tibetan Administration

This film began when a young third-generation zainichi Korean first learned about Tibetan exiles during travels in India. Setting out on an unplanned world trip with video camera in hand, he encountered large numbers of Tibetans in exile in northern ...