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  • Aiutusutsu

    Aiutusutsu (2018)

    Director
    HANA Kosei
    Cast
    HOSOKAWA Gaku, n a g o h o

    Hana Kosei's feature film debut draws on personal experience to explore the nature of love and sex. Jun (Hosokawa Gaku) works in sales for a recruiting company and has been dating college student Yui (nagoho) for seven months. They have a harmonious...

  • Suitable for You

    Suitable for You (2018)

    Director
    TAKARA Shunya
    Cast
    YAMAMOTO Mayumi, HASHIMOTO Ichiro, SHIMA Yuko

    The relationships between two married couples staying at a summer villa is the focus of this grown-up romantic film. At the helm is Takara Shunya who makes his feature film debut with this film. Miki (Yamamoto Mayumi), a housewife, is discontent wit...

  • Fake Plastic Planet

    Fake Plastic Planet (2018)

    Director
    SONO Kenichi
    Cast
    YAMAYA Kasumi

    Winner of the Best Lead Actress of a Foreign Language Film Award at the Madrid International Film Festival 2019, this survival story was independently funded by director Sono Kenichi who has worked in television and commercials. Shiho (Yamaya Kasumi...

  • COMPLICITY

    COMPLICITY (2018)

    Director
    CHIKA-URA Kei
    Cast
    Lu Yulai, FUJI Tatsuya

    Director Chikaura Kei, whose short film Signature was nominated for the short film competition section of the 70th Locarno Film Festival, makes his feature length debut with this film. It depicts the bond that develops between a young Chinese man and...

  • Listening to the air

    Listening to the air (2018)

    Director
    KOMORI Haruka
    Cast
    ABE Hiromi

    Radio personality Abe Hiromi, who worked at Rikuzentakata Saigai FM for three-and-a-half years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, is the focus of this documentary. Director Komori Haruka, who moved to the Tohoku region when she was a volunteer af...

  • KUSHINA

    KUSHINA (2018)

    Director
    HAYAMI Moet
    Cast
    KADER Ikumi, HIROTA Tomona, INAMOTO Yayoi

    Hayami Moët makes her directorial debut with a story that draws on her personal experiences. The film depicts life in a mountain hamlet inhabited entirely by women, where men are prohibited. Won the JAPAN CUTS award at the 2018 Osaka Asian Film Festi...

  • Ii-chan's White Cane

    Ii-chan's White Cane (2018)

    Director
    HASHIMOTO Mariko
    Cast
    KONAGAYA Iori, KONAGAYA Ibuki

    Iori Konagaya was born blind. Going by the nickname Ii-chan, she learned how to live as a visually impaired person at the Shizuoka School for the Blind 20 years ago. She was desperate to become independent. But as she was growing up, she ran into man...

  • BAD POETRY TOKYO

    BAD POETRY TOKYO (2018)

    Director
    Anshul CHAUHAN
    Cast
    IIJIMA Shuna, MOCHIZUKI Orson, KAWAGUCHI Takashi

    Drama that uses hallucinatory visuals to depict the hope and despair of a woman whose spirit is broken. Anshul Chauhan from India makes his feature film directorial debut. Thirty-year-old Jun (Iijima Shuna), an aspiring actress working at a nightclu...

  • WORLD IS NORMAL

    WORLD IS NORMAL (2018)

    Director
    SHIODE Taishi
    Cast
    OKADA Agasa

    Film adaptation of the one-person show "Watashigatari" created and directed by Okada Ogasa in 2007. Okada performs the lead from start to finish. Director Shiode Taishi's debut feature film Death and Tanya was selected for the Japanese Cinema Splash ...

  • Beyond the Blue

    Beyond the Blue (2018)

    Director
    HIRO Kenichiro
    Cast
    IMO Haruka, NAKAYAMA Yuki

    Fantastical road movie about a pained guy and girl who head from the boonies to Tokyo. Hiro Kenichiro has directed numerous music videos and makes his feature film debut. Set in a world where people get a "blue mail" missive from their future selves...

  • The Other Home

    The Other Home (2018)

    Director
    NISHIKAWA Tatsuro
    Cast
    MOCHIZUKI Ayumu, OTANI Mai, KIZU Toru

    Studying film production as a graduate student at the Tokyo University of the Arts under Kurosawa Kiyoshi and Suwa Nobuhiko, director Nishikawa Tatsuro makes his feature-length debut with this film. It depicts people at the mercy of "inevitable" thin...

  • KASURIKO

    KASURIKO (2018)

    Director
    TAKASE Masatsugu
    Cast
    ISHIBASHI Tamotsu, TAKUMA Shin

    Set in the underworld of 1960s Tosa in Kochi Prefecture, this drama depicts a man destroying himself through gambling. The script was written by Kochi resident Kuniyoshi Takuji, and in the director's chair is Takase Masatsugu who choreographed fights...

  • Love's Twisting Path

    Love's Twisting Path (2018)

    Director
    NAKAJIMA Sadao
    Cast
    KORA Kengo, TABE Mikako

    Veteran director Nakajima Sadao, known for the 'Kogarashi Monjiro' series and A Savage Beast Goes Mad, helms this samurai period film set at the end of the Edo era. Kumakiri Kazuyoshi, director of My Man, serves as assistant director. In order to ev...

  • Amanogawa

    Amanogawa (2018)

    Director
    CONEY Shun
    Cast
    FUKUCHI Momoko, YANAGI Takayuki, IKUTA Tomoko

    Shiori, a student living in Tokyo, feels lost in life. Her mother Satomi is an AI researcher, dedicated both to her work and educating her daughter to the highest level. Shiori stops going to school after getting banned from playing the Japanese taik...

  • Orphans Blues

    Orphans Blues (2018)

    Director
    KUDO Riho
    Cast
    MURAKAMI Yukino, KAMIKAWA Takuro, TSUJI Nagiko

    Road movie that won the Grand Prize at Pia Film Festival Award 2018. Director Kudo Riho was 22 years old when a passage by Terayama Shuji inspired this film about a heroine who lives all out amidst the impending doom of an endless summer. Ema (Murak...

  • SOMETHING

    SOMETHING (2018)

    Director
    SHIBATA Keisuke
    Cast
    OGAWA An, TAKAHASHI Yusuke

    Coming-of-age drama helmed by Shibata Keisuke, who garnered numerous honors at domestic film festivals for his short film Hitomazu Susume. Set in a provincial seaside town, the film depicts the halcyon days of an overseas exchange student girl and hi...

  • Cyclops

    Cyclops (2018)

    Director
    OBA Norichika
    Cast
    IKEUCHI Mansaku, SAITO Yu, SATO Kozo

    Noir indie film helmed by Oba Norichika, who drew inspiration from a painting by the French artist Odilon Redon. Won the Governor of Hokkaido Prize and the Cinegard Award at the 2018 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. Shinohara (Ikeuchi M...

  • MOONLESS DAWN

    MOONLESS DAWN (2018)

    Director
    ABE Harika
    Cast
    NAKAO Yuka, AOKI Yuzu, ECHIGO Haruka

    Teen ensemble film that won the Runner-up Grand Prize at MOOSIC LAB 2018, the film festival for collaborations between cutting-edge directors and artists. Rookie director Abe Harika drew inspiration from LOWPOPLTD., who releases music online. Ko (Ao...

  • MUGEN FOUNDATION

    MUGEN FOUNDATION (2018)

    Director
    OSAKI Akira
    Cast
    MINAMI Sara, NISHIYAMA Cosame, HARA Nanoka

    Coming-of-age film about teenage girls created with improvised performances and inspired by singer/songwriter Nishiyama Cosame's song "Mirai e." Won two awards at MOOSIC LAB 2018, the film festival where cutting-edge filmmakers collaborate with music...

  • Remember the full moon night

    Remember the full moon night (2018)

    Director
    KAWAKITA Yumeki
    Cast
    TOKIYOSHI Erika, TAKEUCHI Momoko, NOJIMA Kenya

    Coming-of-age ensemble film produced for MOOSIC LAB 2018, the film festival where cutting-edge filmmakers collaborate with musicians. Directed by Kawakita Yumeki, whose previous film Kawaranaide. Hyakunichisou was selected for screenings at indie fil...

  • Itsuka kagayaiteita kanojo ha

    Itsuka kagayaiteita kanojo ha (2018)

    Director
    MAEDA Seira
    Cast
    OGURA Ao, mahocato

    Coming-of-age ensemble film produced for MOOSIC LAB 2018, the film festival where cutting-edge filmmakers collaborate with musicians. Director-cum-screenwriter Maeda Seira has been performing since the sixth grade and is a self-taught filmmaker. "MI...

  • ERICA 38

    ERICA 38 (2018)

    Director
    HIBI Yuichi
    Cast
    ASADA Miyoko, KIKI Kilin

    This is the only film Kiki Kilin, of Shoplifters fame among many others, conceived in her lifetime. Based on a true story, it depicts a woman turning to a life of fraud because of her desires. In the director's chair is Hibi Yuichi whose Ken San won ...

  • Speak Low

    Speak Low (2018)

    Director
    YAMAMOTO Akira
    Cast
    OBA Minami, IIDA Kaoru, YAMAZAKI Yohei

    Romance helmed by Yamamoto Akira, the assistant director of Our House, an official selection at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. Depicts the emotional distance between a couple visiting the Atami hot springs. Nominated for the First Film ...

  • KICK

    KICK (2018)

    Director
    NAKAMURA Kazuhiko
    Cast
    NAGAOKA Mari, HIGASHI Takenori, KITAZAWA Yohei

    Documentary capturing six years in the lives of players with serious disabilities who aim to compete in the Powerchair Football World Cup. Nagaoka Mari suffers from spinal muscular atrophy and has never walked even a single step in her life. But, sh...

  • Michikusa

    Michikusa (2018)

    Director
    SHISHIDO Daisuke
    Cast

    This documentary follows the daily life of people with severe autism living by themselves. Most individuals with severe developmental disabilities are limited in the places they can reside such as those who live with their parents, and at institution...