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LE JAPON, L’EMPEREUR ET L’ARMÉE (2009)
- Director
- WATANABE Kenichi
- Cast
- DEN Hideo, John DOWER, HIGUCHI Yoichi
A documentary dealing with lingering controversies of Japan's post-war history directed by Watanabe Kenichi who won the 2006 Grenoble International Nature and Environmental Film Festival's Artistic Prize for CHERRY BLOSSOMS. This film competed in the...
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Come on, Happiness (2009)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Daisuke
- Cast
- SUZUKI Sawa, ISHIGAKI Yuma, IMAI Masayuki
Based on a true story about the lives of musician Matsumoto Tetsuya, who comes from Iwate Prefecture, and his mother. Depicts a mother who has a rough life, and her son who grows up in a foster care facility, as they clumsily seek each other out. Pre...
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Bolero (2009)
- Director
- TAJIMA Motohiro
- Cast
- KOMINE Rena, TSUJIOKA Masato, ODA Asami
Contemporary romantic drama using the retro techniques of black-and-white and silent cinema. A guy in a band who is in the throes of despair makes a connection with a girl who has a hearing impairment. Directed by Tajima Motohiro, whose debut {Silhou...
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PURE ASIA (2009)
- Director
- KATASHIMA Ikki
- Cast
- KAN Hanae, KASAI Shige, KURODA Kohei
A road movie directed by Katashima Ikki, known for his works as a producer including Suzuki Seijun's Pistol Opera. It conveys a powerful message about Japan's colonization of Korea and the cycle of revenge, and was an official selection of the Intern...
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BMG (2009)
- Director
- MATSURA Hironao
- Cast
- ITO Maki, NISHIGUCHI Koichiro
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 work of fantasy, directed by young filmmaker Matsuura Hironao, is reminiscent of fi...
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Autumn Adagio (2009)
- Director
- INOUE Tsuki
- Cast
- SHIBAKUSA Rei, CHIBA Peiton, NISHIJIMA Kazuhiro
A female-centric drama that delicately depicts the emotional state of a nun in her forties who is struggling with menopause. It is the feature debut of promising new female director Inoue Tsuki, and has gained high praise at film festivals overseas, ...
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Tokyo-Unko (2009)
- Director
- MURAMATSU Eiji
- Cast
- MIYAZAWA Maki, OSAKO Ippei, YOKOYAMA Mayumi
The feature-length debut of director Muramatsu Eiji, who started out in self-made films. This comedy, based on an original screenplay, depicts a hopeless couple living in a town on the Chuo train line in Tokyo. Shuntaro (Osako Ippei) decides to becom...
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The Azemichi Road／Azemichi janpin! (2009)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Fumie
- Cast
- OBA Hruka, FUTENMA Misaki, UMEMOTO Sizuka
Set around a school for hearing-impaired children in Niigata Prefecture that was once visited by Helen Keller, this coming-of-age drama depicts the growth of a girl and her friends who love to dance. It has been screened at many film festivals around...
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Never Ending Blue (2009)
- Director
- OGATA Takaomi
- Cast
- MIZUI Maki, ONO Takahiro, MIMURA Junko
Shocking film that portrays the raw truth of a high school girl whose many troubles include abuse, self-injury, and pregnancy. Mizui Maki, who herself has experienced self-injury, stars in this film that became highly controversial for a scene showin...
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Woman who sucks up person's good intentions (2009)
- Director
- KATO Yukihiro
- Cast
- YAMADA Maho, MAKINO Takuya, ISHIKAWA Makoto
A black comedy in which an unknown actress comes up with a plan to produce an online drama series starring herself as a publicity stunt, and ruthlessly exploits others with her innate self-centeredness. Its director is Kato Yukihiro, who won the Mito...
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Mr.Bubblegum (2009)
- Director
- KATAOKA Sho
- Cast
- SUZUKI Koji, FUNAKOSHI Mamiko
A comedy focusing on the interaction between a middle-aged man facing a major life crisis and a high school girl. Director Kataoka Shoh is known as a skilled maker of short films, and this film won the Audience Award in the Japan Competition of Short...
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The Neighbor (2009)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Katsuto, KOBAYASHI Kenji
- Cast
- OGAKI Tomoya, ABE Yuriko, HIYORI Yuki
This drama takes a penetrating look at social issues facing contemporary Japan as well as other developed countries. This film is by former TV director Kobayashi Katsuto and Kobayashi Kenji, who hails from the theater group Haiyuza. The two brothers ...
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HIPIRA (2009)
- Director
- KIMURA Shinji
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Yumiko, OHARA Sayaka, SHIMADA Bin
A picture book that has been turned into a TV animation series, this fantasy has been much talked about for its magnificent production lineup, from its story writer, Otomo Katsuhiro, renowned for being the visual creator of AKIRA, to its illustrator,...
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La Faute des Fleurs ̶ a portrait of Kazuki Tomokawa, Musicians of Our Times Episode 2 (2009)
- Director
- Vincent MOON
- Cast
- TOMOKAWA Kazuki, NOZOKI Eito, OHZEKI Naoki
Director Vincent Moon, who has innovated music videos with his new improvisational style, focuses his attention on Tomokawa Kazuki, who expresses himself in multiple art forms. The work won the Sound and Vision Award 2009 at the Copenhagen Internatio...
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Belgrade 1999 (2009)
- Director
- KANEKO Yu
- Cast
- KIMURA Mitsuhiro, Vojislav Šešelj, Vojislav Kostunica
Mishima Yukio and Morita Masakatsu committed suicide through disembowelment in the Ichigaya Camp of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces in 1970. Activists impacted by this incident gathered together to establish Issuikai, a right-wing nationalist group ...
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DOMAN SEMAN (2009)
- Director
- SHIBATA Go
- Cast
- ISHII Motako, YAMAMOTO Takeshi, NOGUCHI Yuusuke
A science fiction battle film which was formally entered into the 10th TOKYO FILMeX Competition Section. The director is Shibata Go who became a huge sensation at overseas film festivals for his shocking film Late Bloomer (Osoi Hito) which portrays a...
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Mole's Festival (2009)
- Director
- IZUCHI Kishu
- Cast
- Hotaru, CHOSOKABE Yoko, AKUZAWA Reika
By the same director as THE FACELESS DEAD (Koryo Shibonin) and based on an actual disappearance, Izuchi Kishu wrote and produced this ambitious film together with the students of the Film School of Tokyo. One day, home-helpers Asako (Hotaru), Kasumi ...
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Rhinoceros horn (2009)
- Director
- IZUCHI Kishu
- Cast
- SAKURAI Takuya, TOMIOKA Eriko, YOSHIOKA Mutsuo
Director Izuchi Kishu, who has long been intimately involved in the production and screening of independent films, created this drama of adolescence together with the students of the Acting Department at the Japan Academy of Moving Images. This film ...
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Under the Wind Little Creatures' Life, Grass'Life, Objects'Life (2009)
- Director
- TSUTSUI Katsuhiko
- Cast
Over the course of one month, this documentary closely follows the day-to-day lives of the children who are learning without inhibitions at a kindergarten in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, surrounded by the abundant nature of the area. We watch the children a...
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Nagayama ryu Suisai gahou -Nagayama yuko kudamono to ajisai wo egaku- (2009)
- Director
- KASAI Kazuo
- Cast
- NAGAYAMA Yuko
The second series of the documentary film about the popular water color artist Nagayama Yuko. The camera sneaks into the atelier of Nagayama and shows the detailed process of painting the popular motifs among water color enthusiasts, like hydrangea, ...
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Ukurere paititi the movie (2009)
- Director
- HARAGUCHI Tomoo
- Cast
- DOGUCHI Yoriko, ISHIDA Hidenori, SAKAIDE Masami
A documentary closely following the Ukulele group "PAITITI" established in 1998 by actress Doguchi Yoriko and filmmaker Ishida Hidenori. The film was directed by Haraguchi Tomoo, who is known as the special effects artist for the "Heisei Gamera" seri...
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Kowarekake no orugoru (2009)
- Director
- KAWAGUCHI Keiichiro
- Cast
- ASANO Masumi, KAKIHARA Tetsuya, IGUCHI Yuka
A Sci-Fi animation that was independently created in 2009 and screened at movie theaters, adding a new episode to the main storyline. The movie is directed by Kawaguchi Keiichiro, who is known for his comic touch, with the original character design d...
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TENBATSU (2009)
- Director
- TANAKA Yoshiyuki
- Cast
- YOSHITANI Ayako, UMEZAWA You, YOSHIKAWA Maria
Up-and-coming director Tanaka Yoshiyuki creates this horror movie, set in a school with bright young cast members such as Yoshitani Ayako, a former child actress, and Koizumi Maya, a member of the Nippon Television-Genic 2009. Koda Yuki (Yoshitani Ay...
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KING GAME (2009)
- Director
- EGAWA Tatsuya
- Cast
- ISHIDA Takuya, ASHINA Sei, KUBOZUKA Shunsuke
This is the second live-action film directed by the charismatic manga artist, Egawa Tatsuya, of the film University of Tokyo Story (Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari). The film takes as its motif a locked room mystery and a game in which a "king" is chosen b...
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THE FOOLISH MAN (2009)
- Director
- MATSUDA Kentaro
- Cast
- ASAMI Koshiro, OTSUKA Yoshie, Nahana
A unique family drama with an offbeat sense of humor that evokes pathos for a middle-aged man. Matsuda Kentaro, who has worked on many independent films since he was a university student, works on his first theatrical piece, skillfully drawing out th...
