Movies
218 Results
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Over the Sky (2020)
- Director
- SENA Yoshinobu
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Honoka, SETO Toshiki
Feature-film fantasy animation set in subculture center Ikebukuro, which makes numerous appearances in the film. Original story and script from Sena Yoshinobu, whose short animation Kushimitama Samurai was an official selection in the Annecy Internat...
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Mr.Suzuki -A Man In God's Country- (2020)
- Director
- SASAKI Omoi
- Cast
- ITO Asako, TSUKUDA Norihiko, OKATA Hisako
A living god - known simply as "God" - heads an insular nation where a beautiful, brilliant city exists. Due to a declining birthrate, the city issues an ordinance that all unmarried people over the age of forty-four will lose their citizenship. Yos...
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WHY YOU CAN'T BE PRIME MINISTER (2020)
- Director
- OSHIMA Arata
- Cast
- OGAWA Junya
Documentary following politician Ogawa Junya over a seventeen-year period. Director Oshima Arata's Theatrical - Kara Juro to Gekidan Karagumi no Kiroku won the 17th Japan Movie Critics Award for documentary film. Lower house lawmaker Ogawa Junya gra...
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Any Crybabies Around? (2020)
- Director
- SATO Takuma
- Cast
- NAKANO Taiga, YOSHIOKA Riho
A naked drunk man shows up on a national live TV in the middle of the sacred Namahage festival, where men dressed in ogre-like costume visit homes to scare kids not to do bad things in the next year. The man, young father Tasuku, gets ostracized for ...
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ARIA THE CREPUSCOLO (2020)
- Director
- SATO Junichi, NATORI Takahiro
- Cast
- HIROHASHI Ryo, SATO Rina, KAYANO Ai
Feature film based on Amano Kozue's comic that has total sales exceeding 4.6 million copies and was first adapted as a TV anime series in 2005. Something is bothering Anya (voice: Kayano Ai), who spends her days in training at the upstart water-gui...
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LIP×LIP FILM×LIVE (2020)
- Director
- MUROI Fumie
- Cast
- UCHIYAMA Koki, SHIMAZAKI Nobunaga
This film brings to the big screen the virtual idols LIP x LIP which is produced by the content creators known as HoneyWorks whose videos have been watched over 700 million times. In addition to footage of virtual concerts, it depicts the untold stor...
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It's a Summer Film! (2020)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Soushi
- Cast
- ITO Marika, KANEKO Daichi, KAWAI Yumi
Coming-of-age story that brings in scifi elements to portray a high school girl who belongs to her school's cinema club and obsesses over samurai movies. TV drama, CM and music video director Matsumoto Soushi takes the megaphone with a screenplay by ...
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The Stranger by the Shore (2020)
- Director
- OHASHI Akiyo
- Cast
- MURATA Taishi, MATSUOKA Yoshitsugu, SHIMAMURA Yu
The love story of a young boy an aspiring novelist…Bittersweet, and in the end, heartwarming. Three years ago, they met on the shore of an isolated Okinawan island. Shun Hashimoto, an aspiring gay novelist, notices a young boy, Mio Chibana, lost in...
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Company Retreat (2020)
- Director
- FUNAHASHI Atsushi
- Cast
- HIRAI Saki, ITO Megumi, YAMANAKA Takafumi
A woman working as a hotel receptionist was harassed by her superior. This docu-fiction depicts sexual harassment affects not only the victim and the perpetrator, but everyone around them....
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May I quit being a mom!? (2020)
- Director
- GODA Tomo
- Cast
A child is a blessing. You love the child. And it's sometimes therefore that you feel suffocated. The film is a collection of real-life moments of moms and their partners struggling, stumbling, and fighting to make it work. Featuring: --A mom who...
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UNDERDOG (2020)
- Director
- TAKE Masaharu
- Cast
- MORIYAMA Mirai, KITAMURA Takumi, KATSUJI Ryo
100 Yen Love director Take Masaharu and screenplay writer Adachi Shin reunite for another original story about boxing. Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who get used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira (Moriyama Mirai) fell off the pa...
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My TYRANO: Together Forever (2020)
- Director
- SHIZUNO Kobun
- Cast
- MIKI Shin-ichiro, ISHIHARA Kaori, YUKI Aoi
Tezuka Productions animates this Korea-Japan-China co-production based on Miyanishi Tatsuya's popular picture book. Directed by Shizuno Kobun, who helmed the animated Godzilla trilogy. It's the era of the dinosaurs and the ice age approaches. Punon ...
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Omoideshashin (2020)
- Director
- KUMAZAWA Naoto
- Cast
- FUKAGAWA Mai, KORA Kengo, Karina
This drama, directed by Kumazawa Naoto of Yurigokoro, deals with taking "remembrance portraits" which are not mere funeral portraits, but are portraits photographed at a place holding fond memories for elderly subjects who share the recollections of ...
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Just the two of us (2020)
- Director
- FUJIMOTO Keita
- Cast
- NAGASE Masatoshi, DOI Shiori
Set in Kyoto's Nishijin district, this drama depicts the day-to-day nursing care between a man who has lost everything, and a blind woman. The film was produced by an energetic young staff from Kyoto University of the Arts. Shunsaku (Nagase Masatosh...
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Kiss Cam! (2020)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Hana
- Cast
- HAYAMA Shono, HOTTA Akane, YAGI Alissa
The inspiration for this romantic film is the "Kiss Cam" carried out at sporting events in which a couple selected from the crowd by a TV camera must kiss for all to see. At the helm is Matsumoto Hana whose A Midsummer Dream was screened at the Yubar...
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Daughters (2020)
- Director
- TSUDA Hajime
- Cast
- MIYOSHI Ayaka, ABE Junko
Fashion event director and video creator Tsuda Hajime makes his feature film debut as both director and screenplay writer. Follows ten months in the lives of two women facing the crossroads of pregnancy. Koharu (Miyoshi Ayaka) and Ayano (Abe Junko) ...
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#HandballStrive (2020)
- Director
- MATSUI Daigo
- Cast
- KATO Seishiro, DAIGO Kotaro, MAKITA Aju
Coming-of-age film helmed by Matsui Daigo, who has brought teen stories to the big screen since his feature film debut with Afro Tanaka. Original screenplay co-authored with Sato Dai. High schoolers use social media to galvanize recovery efforts in K...
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My Name is Yours (2020)
- Director
- FUKUDA Momoko
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Honoka
Coming-of-age film helmed by cutting-edge Fukuda Momoko, who is also a novelist and directs plays and TV dramas. Mukai Kosuke of Gukoroku: Traces of Sin transforms two stories by the director into a single storyline. En (Matsumoto Honoka) is a high ...
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Soirée (2020)
- Director
- SOTOYAMA Bunji
- Cast
- MURAKAMI Nijiro, IMOU Haruka
Cutting-edge director Sonoyama Bunji's talent intrigued actors Toyohara Kosuke and Koizumi Kyoko, who took on this unusual love story for their first project as producers. A young man and woman commit an unforgivable crime and run until they find a r...
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Hold Me Back (2020)
- Director
- OHKU Akiko
- Cast
- Non, HAYASHI Kento
Romance about the clumsy love life of a thirty-something woman who thoroughly enjoys being single. Director Ohku Akiko won the Audience Award at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival for Tremble All You Want. Thirty-one year old Mitsuko (Non) l...
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Denen Boys (2020)
- Director
- NISHIUMI Kenichiro
- Cast
- ARISAWA Shotaro, IMARI Yu, TANAKA Naoki
The TV series depicting the struggles of four self-proclaimed hunks as they try to open a host club in the countryside moves to the big screen. The TV series drew attention for its original story developed by the energetic writers. Ikeura Sadayume, w...
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Werewolf Game - Master of Death Game (2020)
- Director
- KAWAKAMI Ryo
- Cast
- OGOE Yuki, NAKAJIMA Ken, Uchikuri UCHIKURA
The eighth film in the series is the first to set a male figure in the lead role, and also depict the game from the game master's point of view. Series creator Kawakami Ryo, writes and directs this outing while Kodama Takeshi, a central figure in the...
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Crayon Shinchan the Movie: Crash! Rakuga-Kingdom and Almost Four Heroes (2020)
- Director
- KYOGOKU Takahiko
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Yumiko, NARAHASHI Miki, MORIKAWA Toshiyuki
Twenty-eighth feature film for the popular TV anime series. "Love Live!" anime series director Kyogoku Takahiko helms this adventure featuring doodles. The floating "Doodle Kingdom" is powered by doodles, and it attacks Kasukabe to secure an energy ...
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Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! The Movie (2020)
- Director
- HANABUSA Tsutomu
- Cast
- SAITO Asuka, YAMASHITA Mizuki, UMEZAWA Minami
Live-action feature film adaptation of Owara Sumito's same-named comic about three high school girls, which has also been turned into a TV anime series helmed by Yuasa Masaaki. Directed by Hanabusa Tsutomu, whose skillful manga adaptations include Ka...
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Secret × Heroine Phantomirage The Movie ～Getting the forbitten heart on the movie～ (2020)
- Director
- MIIKE Takashi
- Cast
- HISHIDA Minami, YAMAGUCHI Kira, HARADA Toa
The SFX television series receives a theatrical release with series director/supervisor Miike Takashi at the helm. One day, the phantom thieves of justice, the Phantomirage (Hishida Minai, Yamaguchi Kira, Harada Toa, Ishii Ran) are offered roles in ...
