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KUDAN (2008)
- Director
- KIMURA Taku
- Cast
- SENA Keigo, KODURU Rina
An animated short film which has been awarded the Excellence Prize at the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival among many other awards from countries across the globe. Writer and director, Kimura Taku, is an art director and CG artist who has been at the f...
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KATHPUTALI: The Angel of the Himalayas (2008)
- Director
- ITO Toshiaki
- Cast
- Ganesh Man Lama, Kangan Lama, Mithila Sharma
Leading Nepalese film scholar and Tokyo University of Information Sciences professor Ito Toshiaki serves as the first Japanese director and screenplay writer for a Nepalese film in this mid-length feature film. Screened in Kathmandu and recipient of ...
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HELLS (2008)
- Director
- YAMAKAWA Yoshiki
- Cast
- FUKUEN Misato, PARK Romi, KISHIO Daisuke
An official selection of the 2008 Tokyo International Film Festival. Production company Madhouse ({The Girl Who Leapt Through Time}) presents this feature-length animated adaptation of Hiromoto Shinichi's dark fantasy manga "HELLS ANGELS". Rinne (voi...
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Ultimate land - a year of IWASAKI ONIKENBAI（sword dance） (2008)
- Director
- MIYAKE Nagaru
- Cast
The folk performing art "oni kenbai," or devil's sword dance, which has been handed down over 1,300 years in the rural areas of Iwate Prefecture's Kitakami City. Documentary about this dance, which is a national Important Intangible Folk Property, an...
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Symptom X (2008)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Kohki
- Cast
- SAKAMOTO Masari, MIYASHIGE Kiyoko, SAWADA Yukiko
Thirty-something sensation Yoshida Koki depicts the life of a man looking after his demented and schizophrenic mother at home. Honors include the Special Jury Prize at Pia Film Festival, the independent film festival where young film directors launch...
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same blood (2008)
- Director
- HASEBE Daisuke
- Cast
- OKUNOYA Kana, TANAKA Yonosuke, KONO Juｎpei
An entry in Project Dengeki, a screening program introducing short works by up-and-coming directors selected by filmmaker and film school tutor Daikuhara Masaki. This offbeat domestic drama was directed by Hasebe Daisuke while he was a student at Tok...
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Kaibutsu ha koko ni iru (2008)
- Director
- SAKAIDA Shun
- Cast
- TOYAMA Takahiro, AOKI Shinya, UETAKE Naoto
An audacious crime movie from director Sakaida Shun, whose constantly experimental and ambitious style of direction and imagery has caused a sensation and is attracting considerable attention in the independent film scene. It is also an installment i...
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END CALL (2008)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Kiyoshi
- Cast
- USUDA Asami, HAGA Yuria, KOBAYASHI Shun
A Japanese horror film produced with American funding and released in 10 countries in the world. Director Yamamoto Kiyoshi is widely recognized as a horror creator of the new generation. Mai (Haga Yuria), a girl in high school, tries to make her love...
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Nagayama ryu Suisai gahou -Nagayama yuko bara wo egaku- (2008)
- Director
- KASAI Kazuo
- Cast
- NAGAYAMA Yuko
The first series of the documentary film about the popular water color artist Nagayama Yuko. With the illustrations by the artist herself, the film shows the process of painting roses, dahlia, glass, etc. The camera sneaks into the atelier of Nagayam...
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Restaurant UFO (2008)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Satoshi
- Cast
- TAKAYAMA Yuko, SHIGA Koutaro, KATAGIRI Hairi
A film completed by a young and promising director during a hands-on training of film making in "ndjc: Young Film Creators Development Project." The director of this film, Yamaguchi Satoshi, won the Best Short Award/Governor of Tokyo Award Japan Comp...
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Happy end (2008)
- Director
- YAMADA Atsuhiro
- Cast
- Nahana, HASEGAWA Tomoharu, KAWAI Ryunosuke
Yamada Atsuhiro, winner of the Grand Prix at the Yamagata International Movie Festival 2007, directs his first full-length film with the scholarship obtained as the award. This piece humorously portrays a young girl who hates romantic comedies as she...
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ACACIA (2008)
- Director
- TSUJI Jinsei
- Cast
- Antonio INOKI, ISHIDA Eri, HAYASHI Ryoga
Director Tsuji Jinsei, who is also an Akutagawa Prize-winning author and a musician, filmed this human drama in his hometown of Hakodate. The lead actor is Antonio Inoki, Japan's most famous wrestler, who is still blessed with unflagging popularity e...
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LINE (2008)
- Director
- Cast
- KOTANI Yasunori, KOTANI Tadasuke
A documentary that has been the center of much attention in international film festivals, and was also selected in the CULT Award Competition in the 27th Torino Film Festival. In constant conflict with his father, director Kotani Tadasuke goes to Oki...
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LOCKED OUT (2008)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Yasunobu
- Cast
- SONOBE Kiichi, OGATA Miho, MIYASHITA Tomomi
Winner of three awards at the 2009 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival including Best International Feature Film, this is the first feature film by director Takahashi Yasunobu, a former film student in the U.S. The film is a ro...
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YOU'RE KIDDING (2008)
- Director
- TAKAYANAGI Haruki
- Cast
- HIROKI Kenta, AKIMOTO Yui
A coming-of-age drama depicting the daily life and camaraderie of four kids in a bad crowd living in one of the regional cities outside Tokyo. Directed by newcomer Takayanagi Haruki, whose prior films have gained recognition at the Pia Film Festival ...
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echo of silence (2008)
- Director
- WATABE Atsuro
- Cast
- WATABE Atsuro, TAKAOKA Saki, HIROTA Leona
Selected for the Competition section of the 2008 Tokyo International Film Festival, this film marks the feature-length directorial debut of actor Watabe Atsuro. Composed of long takes with a hand-held camera, the film brilliantly captures the natural...
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I am. (2008)
- Director
- SEJI Rodo
- Cast
- MIZUKAWA Asami, KASHIWABARA Shuji, KAMURA Sachika
A Sci-Fi human drama where Mizukawa Asami, the popular actress from such works as Nodame Cantabile Part 1 and 2, plays the lead in a film for the first time. Seji Rodo, who studied montage theory in Russia, directs this film. Mizue (Sakai Wakako), De...
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Shirley no Tenraku Jinsei (2008)
- Director
- TOMINAGA Masanori
- Cast
- FUKUTSUYA Kenzo, HIRASAWA Rinako, KASAKI Izumi
Volume two of the drama series starring the hero Shirley, a no good but lovable man who for some reason is popular among women. This is a prequel to the film Shirley no Koshoku Jinsei (*Shirley's Shaggy Life) directed by Sato Hisashi, and provides th...
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Shirley no Koshoku Jinsei (2008)
- Director
- SATO Hisashi
- Cast
- FUKUTSUYA Kenzo, NATSUO Sachi, SUGIYAMA Hikohiko
Volume one of the drama series starring the hero Shirley, a no good but lovable man who for unfathomable reasons is popular among women. This story complements the other story in the series, Shirley no Tenraku Jinsei (*Shirley's Downfall Life), by di...
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MAGAN (2008)
- Director
- ITO Atsushi
- Cast
- TANI Sarasa, ODA Atsushi, WATANABE Mihoko
This piece was created in the advanced course in fiction film at The Film School of Tokyo, and one of the entries into the Ketsu Riki Chin Kai (*Great, Power, Unique, Fishy) Film Festival, an independent film project that takes up "Rehabilitation of ...
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DAIKENJU (2008)
- Director
- OHATA Hajime
- Cast
- ONO Takahiro, OKABE Nao, MIYAGAWA Hiromi
This piece was created in the advanced course of fiction film at The Film School of Tokyo, and one of the entries into the Ketsu Riki Chin Kai (*Great, Power, Unique, Fishy) Film Festival, an independent film project that takes up "Rehabilitation of ...
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Taiwanjinsei (2008)
- Director
- SAKAI Atsuko
- Cast
- Yang ZU-MEI, Taligu PULJALJUYAN, Chen CHING-SHIANG
Taiwan was ruled as a Japanese colony for as long as 51 years, from 1895 to 1945. Under the forced assimilation policy imposed by the government at the time, education in Taiwanese schools was carried out entirely in Japanese, producing an entire gen...
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ARAKI-Sakae no uta ga kikoeru (2008)
- Director
- MINATO Kenjiro
- Cast
- hizuki, DAIKU Tetsuhiro, Minehaha
This documentary that traces the footprints of singer-songwriter Araki Sakae, who participated in the Mitsui Miike Dispute, a large-scale strike in 1960 that had a major influence on postwar Japan. Sakae left behind a large number of worker songs. Th...
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DAYS WITH YOU (2008)
- Director
- Amiy MORI
- Cast
- TODA Erika, KATO Kazuki, WAKABA Ryuya
A short story taken from a girl's comic magazine has been made into a film directed by female photographer AMIY MORI. The budding young actress Toda Erika gives a life-size performance as the single-minded heroine. Popular R&B singer, Aoyama Thelma s...
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KANNA'S BIG SUCCESS! (2008)
- Director
- INOUE Koichi
- Cast
- YAMADA Yu, YAMASAKI Shizuyo, NAKABEPPU Aoi
In this slapstick comedy, the very popular model Yamada Yu poses as a "plastic surgery beauty." Highly acclaimed for her performance in Hula Girls Hula girl, the comedienne Yamasaki Shizuyo plays the role of the "ugly buddy" along side Yamada. The fi...
