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  • KUDAN

    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...

  • KATHPUTALI: The Angel of the Himalayas

    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 ...

  • HELLS

    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...

  • Ultimate land - a year of IWASAKI ONIKENBAI(sword dance)

    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...

  • Symptom X

    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...

  • same blood

    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...

  • Kaibutsu ha koko ni iru

    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...

  • END CALL

    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...

  • Nagayama ryu Suisai gahou -Nagayama yuko bara wo egaku-

    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...

  • Restaurant UFO

    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...

  • Happy end

    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...

  • ACACIA

    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...

  • LINE

    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...

  • LOCKED OUT

    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...

  • YOU'RE KIDDING

    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 ...

  • echo of silence

    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...

  • I am.

    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...

  • Shirley no Tenraku Jinsei

    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...

  • Shirley no Koshoku Jinsei

    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...

  • MAGAN

    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 ...

  • DAIKENJU

    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 ...

  • Taiwanjinsei

    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...

  • ARAKI-Sakae no uta ga  kikoeru

    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...

  • DAYS WITH YOU

    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...

  • KANNA'S BIG SUCCESS!

    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...