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Struggling Man (2021)
- Director
- LEE Toshio
- Cast
- YASUDA Ken, KOIKE Eiko
The team of director Lee Toshio and Yasuda Ken of When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends to Be Dead unite again for this comedy. 45-year-old Haruo (Yasuda) is a typical stay-at-home dad who works at Umeya, a supermarket crowded with local custome...
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MANKAI MOVIE "A3!" -AUTUMN & WINTER- (2021)
- Director
- QURATA Kenji
- Cast
- MIZUE Kenta, ARAMAKI Yoshihiko
The actor training game A3! launched in 2017 and has been turned into a stage play and now hits the silver screen as a live action film. The unique world is portrayed in the two films "Spring & Summer" and "Autumn & Winter." The Mankai Theater Comp...
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A Dog Named Palma (aka: The Story of Akita and Palma) (2021)
- Director
- Aleksandr DOMOGAROV Jr.
- Cast
- Leonid BASOV, Viktor DOBRONRAVOV, Valeriya FEDOROVICH
The film is inspired by an incredible true story of a shepherd dog named Palma who was inadvertently left in the airport by her owner. She befriends nine-year old Nicholas whose mother dies leaving him with a father he barely knows – a pilot who fin...
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Drive My Car (2021)
- Director
- HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke
- Cast
- NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, MIURA Toko, KIRISHIMA Reika
Murakami Haruki's short story is adapted to film by director Hamaguchi Ryusuke, who won the Silver Bear at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival for Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy. It also competed at the 74th Cannes Film Festival, where it becam...
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NAKED ANGLE: THE RED ROOM (2021)
- Director
- KUBOTA Shoji
- Cast
- NAKAYAMA Kurumi, KINOSHITA Houka, NISHINA Takashi
One film in the "Red Room" series which are a modern adaptation of Edogawa Rampo's short stories. Based on 'Deformed Heavenly Maiden', the film portrays the lustful hell a company president goes through after meeting a mysterious girl. At the helm is...
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THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR: THE RED ROOM (2021)
- Director
- KUBOTA Shoji
- Cast
- KURIBAYASHI Aino, NAMIOKA Kazuki, MASAKI Reiya
One film in the "Red Room" series which are a modern adaptation of Edogawa Rampo's short stories. Based on 'Devil Doll', the film depicts the sorrowful yet beautiful fate of a former high school teacher and a high school girl. In the director's chair...
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AOI-CHAN WON'T LET ME DO IT (2021)
- Director
- IMAOKA Shinji
- Cast
- KOMAKI Maco, MATSUZAKI Shohei, MORIOKA Ryu
Imaoka Shinji, who has made films across many genres such as Reiko and the Dolphin in addition to working as a screenwriter on films such as The Drudgery Train, directs this fantastic love story. Aspiring film director Shingo (Matsuzaki Shohei) is v...
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ARARAT (2021)
- Director
- KOSHIKAWA Michio
- Cast
- YUKIHIRA Aika, OGITA Tadatoshi, SHUNPUTEI Kiichi
This is the third film in the "Daredemo nai Koibitotachi no Fukei" series. At the helm is Koshikawa Michio who has portrayed the love between men and women in films such as areno - the wilderness, Life and Death On the Shore, and Waiting for the Moon...
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The Cursed Sanctuary X (2021)
- Director
- IRIE Yu
- Cast
- OKADA Masaki, KAWAGUCHI Haruna
Director Irie Yu of AI Amok adapts to screen the stage play by theatre troupe Ikiuma. The film was shot entirely in South Korea with the production team of Suicide Forest Village, the production company ROBOT, and B.A. Entertainment of The Gangster, ...
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Moonlight Shadow (2021)
- Director
- Edmund YEO
- Cast
- KOMATSU Nana, MIYAZAWA Hio
Malaysian director Edmond Yeo helms this adaptation of Yoshimoto Banana's same-named novel, which has been translated into over 30 languages. In this love story, the main character loses her beloved and gropes for a way forward in life. Satsuki (Kom...
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My Father's Tracks (2021)
- Director
- TSUKAMOTO Rempei
- Cast
- MORISAKI Win, FUKAGAWA Mai
Drama about a young man coming to terms with animosity in his past through motor sport rallies. Directed by Tsukamoto Rempei of Bento Harassment. Taiga (Morisaki Win) has left his hometown to attend college in Tokyo and dreams of becoming an actor, ...
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Bittersand (2021)
- Director
- SUGIOKA Tomoya
- Cast
- INOUE Yuki, HAGIWARA Riku, KINOSHITA Ayane
Coming-of-age mystery that exposes the truth behind an incident in high school that destroyed a relationship. Directorial debut for Sugioka Tomoya. Akito (Inoue Yuki) is a 25 year old slogging through days at the office, and he unexpectedly reconnec...
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Musicophilia (2021)
- Director
- TANIGUCHI Masaaki
- Cast
- INOWAKI Kai, MATSUMOTO Honoka, YAMAZAKI Ikusaburo
The identically titled manga by Saso Akira, who has won the Excellence Award twice in the Manga Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival, is adapted to live action from a script by Ono Hiroyuki of Uzumasa Limelight, and also serves as producer. Sak...
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Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me? (2021)
- Director
- HORIE Takahiro
- Cast
- KUROKI Haru, EMOTO Tasuku, KANEKO Daichi
Drama about a husband and wife based on the project that won the runner-up grand prize for the film proposal contest Tsutaya Creators' Program Film 2018. Directed by Horie Takahiro, a cutting-edge filmmaker who is moving into new territory with film ...
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ARASHI ANNIVERSARY TOUR 5×20 FILM "RECORD OF MEMORIES" (2021)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- ARASHI (AIBA Masaki, MATSUMOTO Jun, NINOMIYA Kazunari, OHNO Satoshi, SAKURAI Sho)
Keeping the lead in music industry since its debut back in 1999, the Japanese group ARASHI has fascinated over 14 million audience worldwide in live concerts. Captured by over 100 plus cameras, this Dolby Cinema film shows one of the group's last con...
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MANKAI MOVIE "A3!" -SPRING & SUMMER- (2021)
- Director
- QURATA Kenji
- Cast
- YOKOTA Ryugi, JINNAI Sho
The actor training game A3! launched in 2017 and has been turned into a stage play and now hits the silver screen as a live-action film. The unique world is portrayed in the two films "Spring & Summer" and "Autumn & Winter." "Biroadway" is holy gro...
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The Sunday Runoff (2021)
- Director
- SAKASHITA Yuichiro
- Cast
- KUBOTA Masataka, MIYAZAWA Rie, AKASO Eiji
Meeting Pinkerton director Sakashita Yuichiro tries his hand at comedy with an original script penned over a five-year period. A stick-in-the-mud legislative secretary and a politically naive candidate campaign with the goal of losing the election. ...
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Tales of the Undeparted (2021)
- Director
- General Director: ITOSO Kenji, YAMADA Masafumi, TORII Yasutake
- Cast
- OMORI Maho, OGURI Yui, GYOTEN Yurina
Scary stories offered up for entertainment by members of the AKB48 idol group. Eight AKB48 members sit in a circle and tell each other about scary happenings in a send up to unexplained events, mysterious worlds, and paranormal phenomena. The documen...
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When the Curry is Ready (2021)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Yasuhiko
- Cast
- Lily Franky
Drama directed by Shimizu Yasuhiko of CUBE that was planned and produced by Saitoh Takumi. Lily Franky, who dominated the screen in Shoplifters, pulls off a solo performance confined almost exclusively to a single situation. Kenichi's (Lily) young s...
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THE UNNAMEABLE DANCE (2021)
- Director
- INUDO Isshin
- Cast
- TANAKA Min, ISHIHARA Rin, NAKAMURA Tatsuya
Documentary about world-class dancer Tanaka Min. Director Inudo Isshin got to know Tanaka after inviting him to appear in La Maison de Himiko, and he interweaves animation by {Mt. Head} director Yamamura Koji for this exploration of Tanaka's approach...
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KINMOZA The Movie: Thank You!! (2021)
- Director
- NAWA Munenori
- Cast
- NISHI Asuka, TANAKA Manami, TANEDA Risa
Feature film adaptation of Hara Yui's popular manga, which ran for a full decade starting in 2010. Depicts the lead characters' final days of high school. Alice is a girl from the UK doing a homestay with Shinobu's (Nishi Asuka) family. The girls ha...
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Unlock Your Heart (2021)
- Director
- SHUTO Rin
- Cast
- YAMADA Anna, SAKUMA Ryuto, IMOU Haruka
26-year-old (at the time of production) director Shuto Rin adapts to film this coming-of-age drama based on Akutagawa Prize-winning author Wataya Risa's identically titled novel which she was passionate about. Ai (Yamada Anna) is a popular girl in s...
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ARIA THE BENEDIZIONE (2021)
- Director
- SATO Junichi, NATORI Takahiro
- Cast
- SAITO Chiwa, MINAGAWA Junko, NAKAHARA Mai
Feature film adaptation of Amano Kozue's same-named comic "ARIA the ANIMATION." This film joins the OVA "ARIA The AVVENIRE" and "ARIA THE CREPSCOLO" to complete the Blue Curtain Call trilogy. Winter arrives in Neo-Venezia. Azusa (Nakahara Mai) hear...
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The Sound of Grass (2021)
- Director
- SAITO Hisashi
- Cast
- HIGASHIDE Masahiro, Nao, DAITOH Shunsuke
Fifth work by towering author Sato Yasushi to reach the big screen following And Your Bird Can Sing. Director Saito Hisashi updates the 1979 short story to contemporary times and lays bare the struggles of people dealing with loneliness. Kazuo (Higa...
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Sumikkogurashi: The Little Wizard in the Blue Moonlight (2021)
- Director
- OMORI Takahiro
- Cast
Second anime feature film based the popular Sumikko Gurashi characters, who have quirky but negative personalities. First-time collaboration by hitmakers Omori Takahiro of "Natsume Yujin-cho" and scriptwriter Yoshida Reiko of "Violet Evergarden." On...
