Movies
173 Results
-
Spring in Between (2022)
- Director
- KATSU Rika
- Cast
- MIYAZAWA Hio, KONISHI Sakurako
Haru is a magazine editor in her third year at a publishing company. She is constantly scolded by her boss and finds it difficult to communicate with her live-in boyfriend. One day, she encounters the painter Tohru Okunai, who only uses blue in his p...
-
THE CHOCOLATE MAN (2022)
- Director
- SUZUKI Yuji
- Cast
Tokai TV's 14th documentary for theatrical release. Feature film version of the TV program that won the TV Category Grand Prize from the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association in 2021. The Quon Chocolate brand is located in Toyohashi City, Aichi ...
-
hadaka no mura (2022)
- Director
- IOKIBE Yukio
- Cast
Haribote director Iokibe Yukio helms this documentary based on the Ishikawa TV programs "Hadaka no mura" and "Nihonkoku otokomura" that examine politics and society in staunchly conservative Ishikawa Prefecture. Governor Tanimoto Masanori held powe...
-
Nihonbara Diary (2022)
- Director
- KUROBE Shunsuke
- Cast
Documentary about the Naito family, who live their dream of herding cattle in a mountain town that has a Self Defense Force training facility. The Japan Ground Self Defense Force Camp Nihonbara is located in Nagi, Okayama Prefecture, a town with 6,0...
-
My Story,The Buraku Story (2022)
- Director
- MITSUWAKA Yusaku
- Cast
Mitsuwaka Yusaku's heartfelt documentary grabbed the top spot in Kinema Jumpo's Best Ten list for documentaries in 2022. Produced by Oshima Arata, who directed Why You Can't Be Prime Minister. The "burakumin" cast was legally abolished in 1871, but ...
-
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond (2022)
- Director
- KIKUCHI Yasuhito
- Cast
- OKAZAKI Miho, UCHIDA Yuma, FUKUMOTO Riko
Animated feature film based on "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime," the fantasy novel set in a parallel universe that boasts over 30 million copies sold for the series. Completely original story from author Fuse. Crisis befalls the Kingdom of ...
-
How to Find Happiness (2022)
- Director
- NAGASAKI Shunichi
- Cast
- TAKASUGI Mahiro, SEKIMIZU Nagisa
Heartwarming romance about family ties and a couple who fall in love after randomly ending up under the same roof. Director Nagasaki Shunichi and scriptwriter Yazawa Yumi from The Witch of the West is Dead team up for their first original project in ...
-
The WAY OF THE HOUSEHUSBAND: The Cinema (2022)
- Director
- RUTO Toichiro
- Cast
- TAMAKI Hiroshi, KAWAGUCHI Haruna, SHISON Jun
Feature film adaptation of the 2021 TV series based on Oono Kosuke's self-named comic. TV drama director Ruto Toichiro returns to helm the film and reunites cast members including Tamaki Hiroshi, who plays a legendary gangster turned homemaker. Tat...
-
Sanka : Nomads of the Mountain (2022)
- Director
- SASATANI Ryohei
- Cast
- SUGITA Rairu, KOMUKAI Naru, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko
Vivid coming-of-age drama about the summertime experiences of a solitary boy, inspired by the nomadic Sanka who once lived in Japan's mountains. Directed by Sasatani Ryohei, whose films deal with the ways people living in nature. The summer of 1965...
-
Trapped Balloon (2022)
- Director
- MIYAGAWA Hiroyuki
- Cast
- HIGASHIDE Masahiro, MIURA Toko, KOBAYASHI Kaoru
This drama deals with emotional healing and recovery on an island in the Seto Inland Sea still undergoing reconstruction after torrential rains. Helmed and scripted by Miyagawa Hiroyuki, who had personal experience with the floods in Western Japan in...
-
Motto choetsushita tokoro e (2022)
- Director
- YAMAGISHI Santa
- Cast
- MAEDA Atsuko, KIKUCHI Fuma, ITO Marika
Playwright Nemoto Shuko pens the script for this bold feature film adaptation of her same-named play. Director Yamagishi Santa of Bully School: Devil Full of Scars delightfully depicts the love lives of four women who attract loser men. The story is...
-
The Good Father (2022)
- Director
- KATAOKA Sho
- Cast
- MINAMI Sara, ONISHI Ryusei, SAKURAI Yuki
Mystery suspense based on the Tsutaya Creators' Program Film Grand Prix runner-up in 2017. Helmed and scripted by Kataoka Sho, the up-and-coming talent behind Noise. Kubo Hana's (Minami Sara) family was in a car accident that left her traumatized. S...
-
Yumeno Manimani (2022)
- Director
- HARIMOTO Kaori
- Cast
- KODAMA Taichi, CHIKUNI Megumi
Ensemble drama set in a real-life antique shop in Asakusa Rokku, once a vibrant theater district in Tokyo. Second film from Harimoto Kaori, who made her directorial debut with The Captain's Sweet Wife and worked as assistant director for Zeze Takahis...
-
Hand (2022)
- Director
- MATSUI Daigo
- Cast
- FUKUNAGA Akari, KANEKO Daichi
This film kicks off the Roman Porno Now project celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Just Remembering director Matsui Daigo shows the reality of romance in his adaptation of Yamazaki Nao-cola's same-named novel. Sawako (Fukunaga...
-
Safe Word (2022)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Koji
- Cast
- KAWASE Chisako, TORIUMU Nagisa
Second film in the Roman Porno Now project celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Coming-of-age S&M comedy by horror maestro Shiraishi Koji of Sadako vs. Kayako and Impossibility Defense. Misa (Kawase Chisako) is an underground id...
-
When the Rain Falls (2022)
- Director
- KANEKO Shusuke
- Cast
- KOMIYA Kazuha, Kazumi
Third film in the Roman Porno Now project celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Lyrical portrayal of a new kind of romance from Kaneko Shusuke, who launched his career with a Roman Porno film and worked on the Heisei-era "Gamera" ...
-
Goodbye, Bad Magazines (2022)
- Director
- YOKOYAMA Shoichi
- Cast
- Kyoka
Ensemble indie drama about the process of creating an adult magazine. Sex Detective Hatenashi director Yokoyama Shoichi spent three-years plus writing the script with elements drawn from real life. Shiori (Kyoka) finds work at a Tokyo publishing hou...
-
Baseball Club Rhapsody (2022)
- Director
- IIZUKA Ken
- Cast
- DAIGO Kotaro, KUROBA Mario, TAKASHIMA Masahiro
Coming-of-age film based on the manga by Kuromatsu Tetsuro, beloved by fans for depicting kids obsessed with baseball. Director Iizuka Ken is known for his breezy humor in JUMP!!: The Heroes Behind the GOLD. Kuroda Teppei (Daigo Kotaro) enters high ...
-
Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure the Movie – Precious Lunch Dreams (2022)
- Director
- ZAKO Akifumi
- Cast
- HISHIKAWA Hana, SHIMIZU Risa, IGUCHI Yuka
This is the 31st film version of the "Pretty Cure" series and the film version of the TV animation "Delicious Party Pretty Cure," which began airing in February 2022. Kazumi Yui (Hishikawa Kana), a second-year junior high school student, who loves t...
-
It's All My Fault (2022)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Yusaku
- Cast
- SHIRATORI Haruto, KAWASHIMA Ririka, ODAGIRI Joe
Matsumoto Yusaku , the director of Noise, which has been a hot topic at film festivals both in Japan and abroad, presents a drama that depicts via vivid images the interaction between a young boy and lonely people. Thirteen-year-old Yuta (Shiratori ...
-
KAPPEI (2022)
- Director
- HIRANO Takashi
- Cast
- ITO Hideaki, KAMISHIRAISHI Moka, NISHIHATA Daigo (Naniwa Danshi)
A live-action film adaptation of the humorous manga "Kappei" by Wakasugi Kiminori, the author of "Detroit Metal City". It is a high-octane depiction of love and adolescence of the main character, who has devoted his life to training. Kappei (Ito Hid...
-
Dreaming in Between (2022)
- Director
- NINOMIYA Ryutaro
- Cast
- MITSUISHI Ken, YOSHIMOTO Miyu, KUDO Haruka
Shuhei is a vice principal at a regular high school in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, living with his wife and 20 something daughter. One day, Shuhei goes to a nursing home to visit his father, who suffers from dementia and tells him, "I'm screwed. What am I g...
-
Believers (2022)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- ISOMURA Hayato, KITAMURA Yui, UNO Shohei
A film adaptation of Yamamoto Naoki's manga of the same title by Jôjô Hideo, director of On the Edge of Their Seats. This is an intense human drama that looks at three foolish and lovable men and women. Belonging to a religious organization called t...
-
THE FOOLS prison and babylon (2022)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Shinichi
- Cast
- ITO Ko, KAWADA Ryo, FUKUSHIMA Seiji
A spectacular documentary that closely examines "ten years" of the solitary rock band THE FOOLS. Directed by Takahashi Shinichi of Cu-Bop fame. Since its formation in 1980, THE FOOLS, led by vocalist Ito Ko and guitarist Kawada Ryo, has undergone se...
-
Tea Friends (2022)
- Director
- SOTOYAMA Bunji
- Cast
- OKAMOTO Rei
A socially-conscious ensemble drama inspired by the news of an actual 2013 prostitution club bust involving the elderly. Directed and written by Sotoyama Bunji, who made his feature film debut with Sansan. Tokioka Shigeo (Watanabe Tetsu), a lonely m...
