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Foreign Filmmakers’ Guide to Hollywood (2008)
- Director
- NAKATA Hideo
- Cast
Director Nakata Hideo shot The Ring 2 at the invitation of Hollywood as the standard-bearer of Japanese horror films. In this unique documentary, he asks the many questions that emerged as he struggled with a whole new film production system to the H...
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ARMORED TROOPER VOTOMS Pailsen Files Movie (2008)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Ryosuke
- Cast
- GODA Hozumi, Otsuka Chikao, ISHIZUKA Unsho
Since it was first shown on TV in 1983, the robot anime series, "ARMORED TROOPER VOTOMS," has remained a perennial favorite. "ARMORED TROOPER VOTOMS Pailsen Files" is the prequel version of TV series. The director Takahashi Ryosuke has brought back t...
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Beauty (2008)
- Director
- GOTO Toshio
- Cast
- KATAOKA Takataro, KATAOKA Ainosuke, ASO Kumiko
Against the backdrop of the tumultuous Showa era, this film depicts the bonds that joined two actors over the course of 80 years as they devote their lives to the dedicatory "village kabuki" festival in their rural village. This beautifully scenic fi...
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READY, SET, SUICIDE! (2008)
- Director
- TSUKAMOTO Rempei
- Cast
- NAKA Riisa, SATO Jiro, KOMATSU Kazushige
One of the comical short films by seven directors all with strong personalities depicting the nature of "hijoshi (women who have given up on their womanhood)." The work comically depicts the silly series of acts by a young office worker who cannot co...
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HOT SPRING HEAVEN (2008)
- Director
- OOSUMI Yuuka
- Cast
- EGUCHI Noriko, FUKAMI Motoki, AYATA Toshiki
One of the comical short films by seven directors all with strong personalities depicting the nature of "hijoshi (women who have given up on their womanhood)." Sprinkled with subtle jokes, the film depicts a trip taken by the heroine whose hobby is e...
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WHO'S THE MAN (2008)
- Director
- KAWANO Koji
- Cast
- KATAGIRI Hairi, SUGAWARA Eiji, KONISHI Ryosei
One of the comical short films by seven directors all with strong personalities depicting the nature of "hijoshi (women who have given up on their womanhood)." The work depicts with a bizarre touch of comedy the straightforward passion of an actress ...
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B FOR BRA! (2008)
- Director
- FUKAGAWA Yoshihiro
- Cast
- TSUKIFUNE Sarara, TANAKA Koutaro, OCHIAI Kyoko
One of the comical short films by seven directors all with strong personalities depicting the nature of "hijoshi (women who have given up on their womanhood)." A career woman who chooses not to wear a bra is bewildered as she spots a bra hook on the ...
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FIST FIGHTER MITCHAN! (2008)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Yudai
- Cast
- YAMASAKI Mami, SAKAGUCHI Taku, JIJI･BOO
One of the comical short films by seven directors all with strong personalities depicting the nature of "hijoshi (women who have given up on their womanhood)." This work depicts the heroine who is proud of her muscles going wild at a free food sample...
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TAMAE, DRAW FORTUNES! (2008)
- Director
- TOYOSHIMA Keisuke
- Cast
- ADACHI Rika, SUNEOHAIR, Ananda JACOBS
One of the comical short films by seven directors all with strong personalities depicting the nature of "hijoshi (women who have given up on their womanhood)." An easily-influenced young girl who is addicted to fortune telling causes a great commotio...
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Opening & Ending (2008)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Takashi
- Cast
- TORII Miyuki, OTOMO Riku
A comical film from the short film series Hijyoshizukan (*A Guide of womanhood given up women) by seven directors all with strong personalities. This work depicts the beginning of "hijoshi," women who live true to themselves despite being considered ...
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A lot of curtaincall (2008)
- Director
- ARIMA Ken
- Cast
- MIKA, NAKAHARA Shoko, Demo TANAKA
A short omnibus film depicting the relationship between two heroines; it vividly portrays a confrontation between a woman who lives in ugliness with a woman who wants to die beautifully. The director, Arima Ken whose other works include Nipples and C...
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lights of little towns (2008)
- Director
- SATO Ryosuke
- Cast
- ADACHI Aki, SAKUMA Takako, HAMAGUCHI Kenji
A short omnibus film that brings together eight individual directors from Tokyo and Nagoya. Sato Ryosuke, one of the producers of this project, takes the director's chair to imaginatively depict the sense of stagnation felt by people living in a mode...
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TUKIAKARI NO UTA (2008)
- Director
- KAMADA Chikako
- Cast
- Yuchin, SAWAKI Satomi, SUZUKI Tsunekichi
An omnibus piece by eight directors each with different careers and directions. The director Kamada Chikako is a member of the Shonenoujakan theatrical group performance team based in Nagoya, and this fantasy drama features its leading actress, Yuchi...
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FIRST LOVE – A MEMORY IN SUMMER (2008)
- Director
- NOBUSHI Show
- Cast
- TAKIGAWA Hanako, YAMADA Kenta, ISHIGURO Ken
Turgenev's masterpiece, "First Love," has been made into a film many times in the past and in this version the location for the story has been moved to Japan. Picked out of an audition of more than 1000 people, the lead actress is Takigawa Hanako, da...
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M no Jyubaku (2008)
- Director
- NIIZATO Takeshi
- Cast
- NARITA Ai, NAGASAWA Tsugumi, NAGAKURA Daisuke
This suspense horror is based on a short story by the master of SM literature, Dan Oniroku's "Yojo" (*The Vamp). Making her film debut, former race queen and pin-up model Narita Ai takes on the challenge of nude, bedroom, and bondage scenes. Rumor ha...
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Livespire "The Place I Can Hear Your Heartbeat" (2008)
- Director
- NARUI Yutaka, MASHIBA Azuki
- Cast
- KUROKAWA Tomoka, NISHIKAWA Hiroyuki, OMORI Mikiko
Livespire is a series of digitally recordings of the theatrical arts -such as musicals, plays and music concerts- for release in film theatres and produced and distributed by Sony Corporation. This is a recording of a popular Christmas performance of...
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Livespire "Wait Until The Storm Comes" (2008)
- Director
- NARUI Yutaka
- Cast
- WATANABE Anri, TSUCHIYA Yuichi, HOSOMI Daisuke
This is the fifth in the Livespire series of digitally recordings of the theatrical arts -such as musicals, plays and music concerts- for film theatre release and produced and distributed by Sony Corporation. This suspense play, featuring popular the...
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Chikyu Stage (2008)
- Director
- SATO Iichiro
- Cast
- KUWAYAMA Norihiko
A documentary film on the journey of Kuwayama Norihiko, a psychiatrist engaging in awareness raising activities through live music, image, and narrative events entitled "Chikyu no Stage" alongside his medical activities providing mental health care t...
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2STEPS! (2008)
- Director
- UESHIMA Yukio
- Cast
- NAKAGAUCHI Masataka, FURUKAWA Yuta, SHINDO Gaku
The first film effort of Ueshima Yukio, stage director of the hugely popular "The Prince of Tennis" musical, about two dancing youths. Two young men from different backgrounds, each pursuing his own style, grow up and come of age through dance. Hayat...
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A creche in a downtown (2008)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- KAMAKARI Kenta, KAWAI Ryunosuke, MIYANO Mamoru
A heartwarming movie about a group of "hosts" (male social escorts) who were just drifting along in life until a strange set of circumstances forces them to take care of a bunch of kids. The anxieties of young people used to doing only what they're t...
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The two guerrilla gardeners (2008)
- Director
- KAWANO Koji
- Cast
- KONISHI Ryosei, BAN Anri, NAGAYAMA Takashi
A human drama that depicts the relationship between a teenage boy who walks around town secretly sowing flower seeds, and Eiko (Ban Anri), a harried female office worker who tires of her mundane, desk-bound life spent shuttling endlessly between home...
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NIHITI (2008)
- Director
- TAKAGI Masakatsu
- Cast
NIHITI is a short artistic film by internationally renowned artist Takagi Masakatsu, created with a theme of "In accordance with the senses of a cell." It was produced in collaboration with the Riken Center For Developmental Biology, and this work of...
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Homicevalo (2008)
- Director
- TAKAGI Masakatsu
- Cast
- BAYARD, OOBUCHI Yasuko
In Homicevalo, Kyoto-based artist Takagi Masakatsu's goal is to fuse a higher dimension of music and images. On this project, Takagi collaborated with the Tama Art University Institute for Art Anthropology, where Nakazawa Shinichi is the director. Th...
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HOKKOMAI; TAKAMATSU JUNJO CINEMA (means the pure-hearted and crazy boys who love cinema in TAKAMATSU) (2008)
- Director
- TAKASHIMA Hiroshi
- Cast
- YANAGIDA Ryoma, ONISHI Setsuko, SATO Jun
A film adaptation of an essay written by film critic Kirai Masaki, who is based in Kagawa Prefecture and directed by his high school classmate Takashima Hiroshi. Starring another high school classmate, Takahata Atsuko as the main character's mother, ...
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pattenrai!! ～Minaminosimanomizumonogatari～ (2008)
- Director
- ISHIGURO Noboru
- Cast
- INOUE Kazuhiko, MINAGAWA Junko, TAKIMOTO Fujiko
A feature animation film depicting the true story of the life of Hatta Yoichi, a Japanese engineer who lived in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. The theme song is written and sung by Hitoto Yo, a popular singer who is part Taiwanese. "Batian la...
