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Run Away Without Permission! (2009)
- Director
- NISHIYAMA Yoichi
- Cast
- MATSUKAGE Hiroyuki, KONDO Naoki, OIKAWA Satoshi
A short film project originating from the cell phone game site "Dasshutsu Game@GotMail" (*Escape Game @ Got Mail). The evil arm of an "organization" reaches towards the man who can help anyone to "escape" from a spin-off of the game "Nigashiya" (*The...
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Get On The Bus (2009)
- Director
- Nario
- Cast
- SHIMIZU Maria, Macha Macha, AKIYAMA Yutaka
A short film project exploring the two-girl heroine theme. Music is created out of the noise of daily life and this miraculous process captivates the heart of a shy young girl. The director, Nario, is also a representative of the video production com...
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American Woman (2009)
- Director
- KAWAMOTO Takashi
- Cast
- SHIMIZU Kei, Milagros KUGA, KAGAWA Kyotaro
The third of the omnibus series of the video project "over8," which is a project to create novel and original films, depicts a worrywart expectant mother and a free-spirited Japanese-Peruvian girl who live together but want different things, against ...
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Straight City (2009)
- Director
- SAKAI Takehiro
- Cast
- OSHIMA Rie, DEGUCHI Kayo, OHASHI Yusuke
A short omnibus feature created by eight new and talented directors, four from Tokyo and four from Nagoya. Against a backdrop of serial terrorist attacks, the film is sprinkled with offbeat dialogue and humorously depicts the interplay between two wo...
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ramify (2009)
- Director
- YAMADA Koei
- Cast
- IWANAMI Mari, TAMURA Yuko, ONO Satoshi
A short film project featuring two heroines. After their lives took separate paths, two former high school classmates meet again for the first time in years, but both notice and are troubled by the sense of distance that has grown between them. The d...
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The Misery of Miss Doi (2009)
- Director
- NISHIJO Masatoshi
- Cast
- ISHIKAWA Miho, OTANI Naoko, MORIYAMA Shizuka
One of the short-story titles presented by the "over8" project's spirited film directors. It comically portrays a heroine who tries to use the unhappiness of others as material for a novel, but instead creates moments of happiness. The director, Saij...
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Sarutahiko Dochu Jinja (2009)
- Director
- NAMIKI Kohshi
- Cast
- SUZUKI Toraji Hiroyuki, SUZUKI Kunie, KAMATA Toji
Suzuki Toraji Hiroyuki is an artist who has been chasing after the connection between heaven and earth, thus pursuing "dochu drawing" where Japanese washi papers with pictures drawn using special ink that are left in the ground for 100 days are dug u...
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Love Triangle (2009)
- Director
- KANEDA Satoshi
- Cast
- MIYAUCHI Tomomi, YABUKI Charlotte, UCHIYAMA Masato
A slightly erotic love comedy film adaptation of a comic book series by Hatsuki Kyo. It stars Miyauchi Tomomi, the first Miss Champion and a member of the third generation Minisuka Police (Mini-skirt Police). Do not miss Miyauchi's first ever nude sc...
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TENTAI SHOSETSU : OTSUZAKURA GAKUENSAI 2 (2009)
- Director
- ADACHI Hirotaka, SAKURAI Ami
- Cast
- NAKATANI Tomoyasu, Liza, SUGI Sayaka
Two novelists popular among young readers, Sakurai Ami and Adachi Hirotaka (Otsuichi) each helped produce, director, script, and edit these two visual stories with "star" and "book" as their keywords. In Isshuki Monogatari (*Story of First Death Anni...
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Hoshi ni Negai wo : Fantastic Cat (2009)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kazuya
- Cast
- SAWASHIRO Miyuki, HIKAMI Kyoko, OKAWA Toru
The second in the blue ray 3D anime series, "Hoshi ni Negai wo: Fantastic Cat," from the anime production unit, barnum laboratory. This science fiction fantasy delicately portrays a young girl's growth into adolescence in a distance future when the h...
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THE FACELESS DEAD (2009)
- Director
- IZUCHI Kishu
- Cast
- TODO Umi, AKUZAWA Reika, TANAKA Gan
A "truth seeking" sensational film based on a true story produced by the Japan Journalist College. Directed and written by Izuchi Kishu of LAZARUS (RAZARO). An invitation film at the 33rd Montreal World Film Festival. One day Takigawa Misaki (Todo Um...
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ISAMU KATAYAMA = ARTISANAL LIFE (2009)
- Director
- MAKINO Koichi
- Cast
- KATAYAMA Isamu, THE ANONYMOUS, YANAKA Atsushi
An artistic documentary film which features the life of Katayama Isamu, a leather artist who obsessively distrusted the media. It is a work of art by Makino Koichi, who directed, filmed and edited this work by winning Katayama's trust through followi...
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Bruises (2009)
- Director
- KITAZAWA Yukio
- Cast
- TAKAAI Michiyo, TOKUHARA Shinichi, YOKOSAWA Michika
A human drama written and directed by Kitazawa Yukio, who has directed and produced many V-Cinema (direct-to-video) releases and internet dramas. Hiromi (Takaai Hiromi), who has lived with an inferiority complex due to a large birthmark on her face, ...
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Dogs, Cats & Humans (2009)
- Director
- IIDA Motoharu
- Cast
Director Iida Motoharu made this documentary following a request from an old lady who had been taking care of abandoned cats for many years. On the one hand, Japan is known to be a country that loves pets and that treats animals like members of the f...
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Boku to Mama no Kiiroi Jitensha (2009)
- Director
- KONO Keita
- Cast
- TAKEI Akashi, ABE Sadawo, SUZUKI Kyoka
From Kono Keita, the director of Helen The Baby Fox (Kogitsune Helen) comes a heartwarming road film based upon the bestseller 'Boku no Yuku Michi' (*My way) by Shindo Fuyuki. Trained by an Japan Academy Prize Association Special Award winning dog t...
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Livespire "The Empire of Lights" (2009)
- Director
- NARUI Yutaka, MASHIBA Azuki
- Cast
- HATANAKA Tomoyuki, OKAUCHI Mikiko, OUCHI Atsuwo
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 fantasy play is performed by the Caramel Box theatri...
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Livespire "I Can See You In Every Scenery" (2009)
- Director
- NARUI Yutaka, MASHIBA Azuki
- Cast
- OKADA Tatsuya, NUKUI Maya, OKADA Satsuki
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. The Caramel Box theatrical group brings to the stage RESU...
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Livespire "AI TO SEISHUN NO TAKARAZUKA" (2009)
- Director
- SUZUKI Yumi
- Cast
- SHIBUKI Jun, KOZUKI Wataru, AYAKI Nao
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. Oishi Shizuka of Where the Legend Lives Maborshi no Yamat...
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Yamino manimani (2009)
- Director
- TOMOMATSU Naoyuki
- Cast
- Kotono, USAGI Tsubasa, TAKAYAMA Yuya
Based on the short comic collection "Yami no mani mani" (*Just the way the Darkness is) by popular manga artist Uchida Shungiku, this erotic horror story realistically portrays the true inner life of a frustrated housewife. It features a number of ad...
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Inubaka (2009)
- Director
- YORIKO Jun
- Cast
- Suzanne, TOKUYAMA Hidenori, OKADA Ryosuke
The first film starring Suzanne, a widely popular TV personality. The work is based on the original story of a popular comic series by Sakuragi Yukiya where a dog loving pet shop clerk creates a ruckus wherever she goes. The music is by EDISON, the p...
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A LITTLE STEP (2009)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Teppei
- Cast
- IHARA Tsuyoshi, Skyler ALEXANDER, Kenneth HUGHES
A short film shot in English created by local cast and crew with actor Ihara Tsuyoshi as the executive producer and Nakamura Teppei, who is actively working in the US as the director. The work depicts the interaction between a lonely boy and a Japane...
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Ame ga mau Kinkaseki zansho (2009)
- Director
- HAYASHI Masayuki
- Cast
- CHANG A-hui, LAI Weng-chang
The follow up of his last documentary on a Taiwanese gold town Kaze wo Kiku (Hearing The Wind) ~Story of Jeofen, Taiwan~ (Kaze o Kiku Taiwan Kowloon Monogatari), director Hayashi Masayuki returns and crosses to the opposite side of the mountains to f...
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Farewell at the Keyhole Street (2009)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Kunio
- Cast
- OTANI Kenjiro, KOBAYASHI Asako, KAMIYAMA Tengai
The feature film debut of Director Yoshida Kunio inspired by the novel The Castle written by Franz Kafka. This work stars Otani Kenjiro, a stage actor, theatrical workshop organizer, English teacher and stage producer. Imamiya (Otani) is suffering fr...
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GURREN LAGANN THE MOVIE -The Lights In The Sky Are Stars- (2009)
- Director
- IMAISHI Hiroyuki
- Cast
- KAKIHARA Tetsuya, KONISHI Katsuyuki, INOUE Marina
The second feature film of the series "GURREN LAGANN." In the preceding episode, the human race finally escaped from its underground hideouts, but once again finds itself under attack by a mysterious enemy. The script was written by Nakashima Kazuki,...
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Vaudevillian Dolls DONT&NOT (2009)
- Director
- FUNABIKI Aki
- Cast
- UNABARA Tomoko, UNABARA Yasuyo, TAKEWAKA Motohiro
A theatrical version of a surreal short clay animation film which attracted public attention as a late night TV show. The film with pop designs and lines read in a heavy Kansai dialect depicts the bittersweet episodes of two female comedians about to...
