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Own Night with a Shooting Star/ FUN FAIR (2012)
- Director
- MARIKO Tetsuya
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Takeshi, Soon Jenney, Azman Hassan
An installment in an omnibus film from three up-and-coming directors who depict "small miracles" that happen to Japanese living in Southeast Asia. NINIFUNI director Mariko Tetsuya presents a comedic depiction of the misadventures of a trio who all sp...
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Own Night with a Shooting Star/News Lounge at 25 (2012)
- Director
- TOMINAGA Masanori
- Cast
- Moody KATSUYAMA, ABE Mari, MORIMATSU Takenori
An installment in an omnibus film from three up-and-coming directors who depict "small miracles" that happen to Japanese living in Southeast Asia. Comedian Moody Katsuyama, who became popular for his "let it slide from right to left" gag, shows a new...
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Own Night with a Shooting Star/ Chiang Rai Girl (2012)
- Director
- TOMITA Katsuya
- Cast
- KAWASE Yohta, Ai, Susitraphon Nutchari
An installment in an omnibus film from three up-and-coming directors who depict "small miracles" that happen to Japanese living in Southeast Asia. Director Tomita Katsuya, whose Saudade won the Golden Montgolfiere in the 2011 Festival of the Three Co...
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Star Driver The Movie (2012)
- Director
- IGARASHI Takuya
- Cast
- MIYANO Mamoru, FUKUYAMA Jun, HAYAMI Saori
An animated feature film which blends re-edited footage from the television series "Star Driver", a coming-of-age tale set a high school where students summon robotic organisms, with new story elements. Southern Cross Isle is located in the seas so...
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Pathfinder of the Sky An Architect's Life / Story of Morin Kaku (2012)
- Director
- SAKAI Atsuko
- Cast
- KAKU Morin, LEE Teng-hui, Chia-Lu WU
This documentary by Sakai Atsuko, who made her directorial debut with Taiwanjinsei, follows the footsteps of Taiwan-born architect Kaku Morin. 1968 marked the birth of the Kasumigaseki Building, Japan's first building to exceed 100 meters. Construct...
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Love Bombs (2012)
- Director
- UCHIDA Nobuteru
- Cast
- YAMASAKI Mami, NAMIOKA Kazuki, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko
The commercial film debut of director Uchida Nobuteru, whose previous work Love Addiction won the TOKYO FILMeX 2010 Grand Prize. It tells a story of men at the mercy of the whims of a woman amid the beautiful Japanese countryside. Kiyomi (Yamasaki M...
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Yellow Elephant (2012)
- Director
- HIROKI Ryuichi
- Cast
- MIYAZAKI Aoi, MUKAI Osamu, HAMADA Tatsuomi
Fantastic drama about true love based on author Nishi Kanako's novel by the same name. A young couple who marry right after meeting learn what it means to live together. Directed by Hiroki Ryuichi, whose work spans a wide range of genres. Na?ve and ...
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THE GOLDEN AGE ARC III THE ADVENT (2012)
- Director
- KUBOOKA Toshiyuki
- Cast
- IWANAGA Hiroaki, SAKURAI Takahiro, YUKINARI Toa
The third part of the "Golden Age" arc in a film series adapting Miura Kentaro's eponymous manga that enjoys worldwide popularity. Its depiction of mercenaries fighting in a fictional world based on medieval Europe is brought to the screen by STUDIO ...
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Just Another Live Tape (2012)
- Director
- YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- HOSOKAWA Yoshitaka, OTSU Hiroki, MAENO Kenta
Film in the second group of works from the hands-on filmmaking academy Cinema Impact, produced by director Yamamoto Masashi with the participation of 13 up-and-coming directors. Mocumentary about students producing a film, directed by Yamashita Nobuh...
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SAWADA (2012)
- Director
- MATSUE Tetsuaki
- Cast
- KAGEYAMA Satomi, KOMA Yasuko, KOBAYASHI Hiromi
Film in the second group of works from the hands-on filmmaking academy Cinema Impact, produced by director Yamamoto Masashi with the participation of 13 up-and-coming directors. Matsue Tetsuaki, whose numerous groundbreaking documentaries include Liv...
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Sunrise sunset (2012)
- Director
- HASHIGUCHI Ryosuke
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Takeshi, FUJISAWA Daisuke, MIYAZONO Yasuhide
Film in the second group of works from the hands-on filmmaking academy Cinema Impact, produced by director Yamamoto Masashi with the participation of 13 up-and-coming directors. Ensemble comedy that adapts a theater piece performed in 1997 by directo...
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Shibata and Nagao (2012)
- Director
- YANG Ik-june
- Cast
- SHIBATA Chihiro, NAGAO Takuma, ARAGAKI Masato
Film in the second group of works from the hands-on filmmaking academy Cinema Impact, produced by director Yamamoto Masashi with the participation of 13 up-and-coming directors. Selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2013. Director...
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Night of Tacos (2012)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Masashi
- Cast
- ITO Ryota, SAITO Takafumi, ICHIHASHI Yuko
Film in the second group of works from the hands-on filmmaking academy Cinema Impact, produced by director Yamamoto Masashi with the participation of 13 up-and-coming directors. Yamamoto himself directs and scripts this wittily told story of hoodlums...
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See You Tomorrow, Everyone (2012)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Yoshihiro
- Cast
- HAMADA Gaku, KURASHINA Kana, NAGAYAMA Kento
Nakamura Yoshihiro, acclaimed for humanistic dramas like The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker and Chips, directs this film adaptation of Kubodera Takehiko's novel by the same name. Coming-of-age story starring Hamada Gaku, a reg...
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Before the Vigil (2012)
- Director
- YUKISADA Isao
- Cast
- ABE Hiroshi, KOIZUMI Kyoko, NONAMI Maho
An adaptation of a romance novel by Naoki Prize-winning author Inoue Areno. It candidly depicts an intricate tapestry of love and hate between the acquaintances of a free-spirited woman who has collapsed from an illness. Director Yukisada Isao previo...
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Dead Sushi (2012)
- Director
- IGUCHI Noboru
- Cast
- TAKEDA Rina, MATSUZAKI Shigeru, SUGA Takamasa
Panic film screened at over 30 international film festivals. Director Iguchi Noboru, who has earned cult-like popularity within Japan and overseas with films like Karate-Robo Zaborgar, creates a film with his own unique taste about the terror of sush...
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Be My Slave (Director's cut) (2012)
- Director
- KAMEI Toru
- Cast
- DAN Mitsu, MAYAMA Akihiro, ITAO Itsuji
Be My Slave, released in 2012 and directed by Kamei Toru, whose films Double Suicide Elegy and Paradise have been acclaimed at overseas film festivals. Director's cut version, including previously unreleased shocking scenes. The protagonist (Mayama ...
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KARAKARA (2012)
- Director
- Claude GAGNON
- Cast
- Gabriel ARCAND, KUDOH Youki, TOMITA Megumi
Road movie about cultivating friendship across both nationality and circumstances, as a man and woman who meet in Okinawa go on a journey together. Directed by Claude Gagnon, whose film Kenny was an international hit in the 1980s. Honored in two cate...
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Flashback Memories 3D (2012)
- Director
- MATSUE Tetsuaki
- Cast
- GOMA & The Jungle Rhythm Section
Winner of the Audience Award for the Competition Section at the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival. Documentary about an artist who suffers from memory impairment. GOMA is a player of the aboriginal instrument didgeridoo. The film follows his com...
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Tokyo Family (2012)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- HASHIZUME Isao, YOSHIYUKI Kazuko, TSUMABUKI Satoshi
Family drama themed on Ozu Yasujiro's Tokyo Story, which inscribed its name on Japanese cinema history. Director Yamada Yoji, embarking on his fiftieth year as a director, depicts the existence of contemporary families as part of his homage to Ozu's ...
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Rakugo on screen Tatekawa Danshi the movie (2012)
- Director
- KATO Takeshi
- Cast
- TATEKAWA Danshi, MATSUOKA Yumiko, EMOTO Akira
Tatekawa Danshi, the one-of-a-kind genius rakugo performer who revolutionized the classic performing art of rakugo into entertaining and literary artistic works that also speak to contemporary society. Documentary created to memorialize the first ann...
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ARAGURE (2012)
- Director
- GONNO Hajime
- Cast
- SUZUKI Nobuyuki, CHO Tamiyasu, AKIYAMA Shintaro
Coming-of-age film that interweaves violent battle action scenes as it depicts the lives of a hoodlum group based in Roppongi, Tokyo. Directed by Gonno Hajime, whose previous works include the hoodlum action film Gachiban SUPER MAX. Straightforward...
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Inside Mr.Suzuki's classroom... the movie (2012)
- Director
- KAWAI Hayato
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Hiroki, USUDA Asami, TSUCHIYA Tao
Film adaption of the highly acclaimed TV drama that received honors including the 49th Galaxy Award. Story based on Taketomi Kenji‘s comic by the same name, which won an Excellence Award in the Manga Division at the 2007 Japan Media Arts Festival. De...
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Aokigahara (2012)
- Director
- SHINJO Taku
- Cast
- KATSUNO Hiroshi, MAEDA Aki, YASHIBA Toshihiro
An adaptation of a novella by politician and author Ishihara Shintaro, who initiated the project himself. Set in the Aokigahara forest, a famous suicide spot at the foot of Mt. Fuji, it presents a fantastical portrayal of tragic romances involving th...
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HUNTER×HUNTER THE MOVIE: Phantom Rouge (2012)
- Director
- SATO Yuzo
- Cast
- HAN Megumi, ISE Mariya, FUJIWARA Keiji
An adventure-laden animated film that is the first feature adaptation of the popular manga by Togashi Yoshihiro, currently serialized in manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. It reveals a hitherto unknown incident that motivated the story's key characte...
