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Walking with My Mother (2014)
- Director
- SAKAGUCHI Katsumi
- Cast
- SAKAGUCHI Suchie, MIYAZANO Mariko, SAKAGUCHI Satoshi
A feature-length documentar y by Sakaguchi Kat sumi (Sleep), who has devised and directed around 200 television documentaries and films about families and young people. He closely follows his mother Suchie over four years, depicting her struggles and...
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APPLESEED ALPHA (2014)
- Director
- ARAMAKI Shinji
- Cast
- KOMATSU Yuka, SUWABE Junichi, YUKI Aoi
Feature length CG animation by world-renowned director Aramaki Shinji. SF action film prequel for Shirow Masamune‘s comic "APPLESEED" Mercenary Deunan (voice: Komatsu Yuka) and cyborg Briareos (voice: Suwabe Junichi) survived the great world war and...
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Chokolietta (2014)
- Director
- KAZAMA Shiori
- Cast
- MORIKAWA Aoi, SUDA Masaki, ICHIKAWA Miwako
A coming-of-age film that presents a youthful depiction of a cinematographic journey undertaken by a girl who wants to become a dog, and a young man who professes to be a student bum. Its director is Kazama Shiori, who won the International Film Fest...
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The Noise (2014)
- Director
- SEKINE Tsutomu
- Cast
- NUKUMIZU Yoichi, MURAMATSU Toshifumi, IIO Kazuki
Comedy marking the directorial debut for comedian Sekine Tsutomu as he enters his fourth decade in show business. Depicts the struggle between people living underground who appear out of the blue and five run-of-the-mill middle-aged guys, with charac...
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GIRLS und PANZER The Movie (2014)
- Director
- MIZUSHIMA Tsutomu
- Cast
- FUCHIGAMI Mai, KAYANO Mei, OZAKI Mami
A feature film adaptation of the popular TV anime series for its innovative concept of a combination of high school girls and tanks. The realistic depictions of tanks to show the courage of adorable high school girls who plunge into the tradition of ...
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MUCHI NO CHI I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance (2014)
- Director
- ISHIDA Tomoya
- Cast
- EDANO Yukio, FUKUYAMA Tetsuro, KAN Naoto
Documentary about issues concerning nuclear power plants. Director Ishida Tomoya became interested in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and conducted numerous interviews of both nuclear power proponents and critics who were involved in the situa...
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Grown-up? Sucks! (2014)
- Director
- SUZUKI Nao
- Cast
- KINOMOTO Minehiro, KAWAMURA Ryosuke, TSUDA Kanji
The ninth production to emerge from the Tollywood Studio Project, based on the concept of students making commercial films. It depicts the growth of a family who fall into disarray after an abduction. It is written and directed by Suzuki Nao, who was...
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100 YEN LOVE (2014)
- Director
- TAKE Masaharu
- Cast
- ANDO Sakura, ARAI Hirofumi
A film based on a screenplay that won the first-ever Matsuda Yusaku Prize, created by the Shunan Kizuna Film Festival in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Take Masaharu (Unsung Hero) directs. Ando Sakura (Love Exposure) won an audition to play the protagonist, a...
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PSYCHO-PASS THE MOVIE (2014)
- Director
- MOTOHIRO Katsuyuki(Executive Director), SHIOTANI Naoyoshi(Director)
- Cast
- HANAZAWA Kana, SEKI Tomokazu, NOJIMA Kenji
First feature film adaptation from "Psycho-Pass," the near-future SF anime series. Motohiro Katsuyuki, known for the Bayside Shakedown series, serves as executive director. Urobuchi Gen of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" wrote the original story and scri...
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Five Minutes to Tomorrow (2014)
- Director
- YUKISADA Isao
- Cast
- MIURA Haruma, LIU Shishi, CHANG Hsiao-Chuan
Romance with an element of suspense about the fate of a Japanese guy who falls in love with Chinese twin sisters in Shanghai. Directed by Yukisada Isao of Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World. Japan-China-Taiwan co-production with cast members...
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Princess Jellyfish (2014)
- Director
- KAWAMURA Taisuke
- Cast
- Nounen Rena, SUDA Masaki, HASEGAWA Hiroki
Live adaptation of Higashimura Akiko's same-named comic, which has also been adapted as a TV animation. Unites hot creators for a unique portrayal of nerdy girls and a cross-dressing guy. Direction and screenplay by AKKO-CHAN: The Movie's Kawamura Ta...
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The Vancouver Asahi (2014)
- Director
- ISHII Yuya
- Cast
- TSUMABUKI Satoshi, KAMENASHI Kazuya, KATSUJI Ryo
Drama depicting the anguish and hopes of people living in an age of turmoil, based on a real-life Japanese-Canadian baseball team in pre-war Canada. Directed by Ishii Yuya, whose film The Great Passage was selected to represent Japan for the Best For...
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YO-KAI WATCH the MOVIE (2014)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Shigeharu, USHIRO Shinji
- Cast
- TOMATSU Haruka, SEKI Tomokazu, KOZAKURA Etsuko
This is the first theatrical anime of "YO-KAI WATCH," the game which has expanded to a variety of other media. The film depicts the interaction between a regular boy Amano Keita, who acquires a mysterious timepiece known as "YO-KAI WATCH," and countl...
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BLUE SPRING RIDE (2014)
- Director
- MIKI Takahiro
- Cast
- HONDA Tsubasa, HIGASHIDE Masahiro, SHINKAWA Yua
SOLANIN director Miki Takahiro creates a live action adaptation of Sakisaka Io's bestselling girls' comic. Costars model-turned-act res s Honda Tsubasa and Higashide Masahiro, who won the Newcomer of the Year Award at the 36th Japan Academy Awards fo...
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MITAKUYE OYASIN (2014)
- Director
- ETO Takaharu
- Cast
- KATO Tsubasa
A documentary about young modern artist Kato Tsubasa that closely observes a project he took on in the United States in 2013. It follows him as he seeks the cooperation of Native Americans, and also shows his growing interest in their culture and his...
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THE LAST : NARUTO THE MOVIE (2014)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Tsuneo
- Cast
- TAKEUCHI Junko, NAKAMURA Chie, MORIKUBO Shotaro
An animated feature film based on a manga series that has sold over 130 million copies, and is also popular overseas. Creator Kishimoto Masashi acts as story supervisor and character designer for this adaptation of a story that follows on from that o...
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Chonoryoku kenkyubu no 3 nin (2014)
- Director
- YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
- Cast
- AKIMOTO Manatsu, IKUTA Erika, HASHIMOTO Nanami
An offbeat idol film that is both a movie and a making-of documentary. Moving back and forth between reality and fiction, it depicts the coming-of-age of a group of female high school students. Idol group Nogizaka 46 members Akimoto Manatsu, Ikuta Er...
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Being Born: Together Forever (2014)
- Director
- GODA Tomo
- Cast
- KIKI Kirin
Director Goda Tomo, who addressed issues related to birth in the documentary Being Born, delves into the diverse circumstances facing three families. He projects his own anxieties about child-raising as he probes the significance of family, the preci...
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Nuclear Nation II (2014)
- Director
- FUNAHASHI Atsushi
- Cast
A sequel to Nuclear Nation, which chronicled the town of Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture that was forcibly evacuated due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The first episode focused on the nine months following the evacuatio...
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The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories (2014)
- Director
- OTSU Koshiro, DAISHIMA Haruhiko
- Cast
A documentary by Otsu Koshiro, cinematographer of Summer in Narita that depicted the struggle against the construction of Narita Airport. In addition to extensive archive footage, Otsu includes new images shot in Narita for the first time in forty-fi...
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COMING OUT (2014)
- Director
- INUDO Kazutoshi
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Naoto, OKAMURA Yu, Natsuo
Drama that faithfully depicts the travails of a young gay man and the confusion of those around him. Directed by Inudo Kazutoshi, who portrayed romance involving gender identity disorder in SRS arikitari na futari. Screened at the 2014 Tokyo Internat...
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THE NEXT GENERATION-PATLABOR- Chapter6 (2014)
- Director
- TAGUCHI Kiyotaka, YUASA Hiroaki
- Cast
- MANO Erina, FUKUSHI Seiji, KAKEI Toshio
The sixth in a seven-part series of completely original live-action films continuing the "Patlabor" saga, a multimedia property created in the 1980s. As rumors fly that Special Vehicle Section 2 will be shut down, a powerful military Labor robot appe...
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The Nutcracker (2014)
- Director
- MASUDA Sebastian
- Cast
- ARIMURA Kasumi, MATSUZAKA Tori, HIROSUE Ryoko
Masuda Sebastian, the top promoter of Harajuku culture to the world, remakes Sanrio's 1979 stop-motion puppet animation as a 3D musical. Screened at the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival in the Special Screenings section. Clara (voice: Arimura ...
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PARASYTE (2014)
- Director
- YAMAZAKI Takashi
- Cast
- SOMETANI Shota, FUKATSU Eri, ABE Sadawo
Always: Sunset on Third Street director Yamazaki Takashi uses lavish special effects in his live action adaptation of Iwaaki Hitoshi's world-renowned SF manga. Thrilling and humor-laced depiction of the battle between humans and "parasytes" that take...
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Ecotherapy Getaway Holiday (2014)
- Director
- OKITA Shuichi
- Cast
- NEGISHI Haruko, YASUZAWA Chigusa, OGINO Yuriko
Comedy about the struggles of seven aging women on a tour to view fall foliage who get lost in the mountains. Direction and screenplay by Okita Shuichi, who won accolades for The Woodman and the Rain and A Story of Yonosuke. Selected work for the Jap...
