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When A Tree Falls (2019)
- Director
- ISHII Yuya
- Cast
- TSUMABUKI Satoshi, INOUE Mao
Novelist Nukui Tokuro's original story of the same name which was adapted as a television series by "The Great Passage" director Ishii Yuya now heads to theaters. It depicts head on social problems facing contemporary Japan with a realistic touch. H...
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If It Were a Dream (1962)
- Director
- TOMIMOTO Sokichi
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, KIMURA Isao, TAKAMI Kuniichi
Sono who works for a pearl shop, goes to Kyoto on a business trip with several leisured society women. On the train she meets Motomura. Coming home from Kyoto, Sono discovers that her husband Kiyomi has been having an affair with Kyoko, her step-sist...
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no "mother" anymore (2013)
- Director
- CHO Kyonsu
- Cast
A feature documentary based on a twice-broadcast television documentary that was re-edited to include additional footage. It follows a freelance writer caring for his mother with senile dementia, and sends a warning about a society with no systems in...
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Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)
- Director
- MIIKE Takashi
- Cast
- ICHIHARA Hayato, NARUMI Rico, Lily Franky
A yakuza action movie with an outlandish premise: people who are bitten by gangsters begin transforming into them. Its director is Miike Takashi, known for his prolific output in a wide variety of genres. Selected for the 2015 Cannes Film Festival's ...
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A Hen in the Wind (1948)
- Director
- OZU Yasujiro
- Cast
- SANO Shuji, TANAKA Kinuyo, MURATA Chieko
Ozu's second film made upon his return from military service, following 1947's Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Nagaya shinshiroku). Reduced to poverty during the hardship of the immediate post-war years, a woman is forced to prostitute herself to aff...
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Memories of Agano (2004)
- Director
- SATO Makoto
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Miyae, KATO Kimii, ENDO Miki
In the early 1990s, a documentary crew came to the River Aga in Niigata Prefecture and shot a film about the people who lived along the river. That film, Aga ni Ikiru (Living with the River Aga), took three years to complete and was released in 1992....
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A Band of Assassins (1962)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, FUJIMURA Shiho, URAJI Yoko
In the 1570's there were many martial artists expert in the occult, including Goemon Ishikawa, grouped under two leaders, Sandayu Momochi and Nagato Fujibayashi, who lived in two different forts. General Nobunaga Oda had almost unified the country b...
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Once Upon A Dream (2007)
- Director
- SHICHIRI Kei
- Cast
- TSUGUMI, NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, YAMAMOTO Hiroshi
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Symphony in August (2009)
- Director
- NISHIZAWA Akio
- Cast
- FUKUEN Misato, TAKAHASHI Keiko, TAKAHASHI Kazuya
Singer-songwriter Kawashima Ai's autobiography, "Last words," made film. It took second place in the Animated and third in the Children's film sections at the 15th Lyon Asian Film Festival. The film has also gained recognition for its ambitious fusio...
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AND SO I'M AT A LOSS (2022)
- Director
- MIURA Daisuke
- Cast
- FUJIGAYA Taisuke, MAEDA Atsuko, NAKAO Akiyoshi
Film director Miura Daisuke, who is also the leader of theater group Potudo-ru, known for the films Love's Whirlpool and Call Boy, made his own film adaptation of the 2018 stage play "And So I Am at a Loss". Following the stage production, he teamed ...
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TENNENKAJYU SAYAKA (2009)
- Director
- UDAGAWA Daigo
- Cast
- KIRIYAMA Rui, KASAHARA Mika, IWATA Yui
An adolescent comedy film based on the popular comic series by Sano Kunikazu serialized in "Bessatsu Young Magazine." Kiriyama Rui, the winner of the 1st G-tele Girl Grand Prix of "Monthly Gravure The Television", plays a virgin high school girl with...
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LOVE AND WOLBACHIA (2017)
- Director
- ONO Sayaka
- Cast
- Ouji, Ayu, Jurian
Having made her debut with the autobiographical documentary The Duckling, Ono Sayaka directs, shoots, and edits this documentary focusing on Japan's sexual minorities. After a man starts to wear women's clothing simply hoping to be stylish, he finds...
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Aru Ongaku - A Music (2009)
- Director
- TOMOHISA Takeshi
- Cast
- TAKAGI Masakatsu, TAGUCHI Haruka, MATSUDAIRA Takashi
Up-and-coming artist Takagi Masakatsu has traveled the world collecting images, arranging them with digital processing, and then setting them to music, particularly the piano. His work has been commanding global attention and he was chosen as one of ...
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A Cat And Two Women (1956)
- Director
- TOYODA Shiro
- Cast
- MORISHIGE Hisaya, KAGAWA Kyoko, YAMADA Isuzu
The essence of Tanizaki Junichiro's literature is expressed in this poetic masterpiece. It depicts a man with an unusual love for his cat, as well as the desires and jealousies of women. Shozo is an undependable man who runs a small hardware store i...
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Happily Ever After (2007)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- NAKATANI Miki, ABE Hiroshi, NISHIDA Toshiyuki
Yukie's (Nakatani Miki) life has been a series of misfortunes since her childhood. She spent a lot of her time at junior high school doing paper rounds as she was poor, while her father, Ieyasu (Nishida Toshiyuki), was arrested for bank robbery. As s...
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Earwig and the Witch (2020)
- Director
- MIYAZAKI Goro
- Cast
- TERAJIMA Shinobu, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, HAMADA Gaku
Studio Ghibli's first full 3DCG animation adapts the same-named novel by Diana Wynne Jones, known for Howl's Moving Castle. Official selection for the 73rd Cannes International Film Festival and released in North America and beyond. Ten-year-old Ea...
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Our Happiness Alone (1964)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Kei, BAISHO Chieko, SUGURO Homare
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Motot...
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FLOWER AND SNAKE 3 (2010)
- Director
- NARITA Yusuke
- Cast
- KOMUKAI Minako, MOTOMIYA Yasukaze, HINO Shohei
The third film in the series based on the leading writer of pornographic novels Dan Oniroku's masterpiece, portraying a heroine who gets dragged into the world of bondage and the lewd pleasures of psychological torture and domination. The main charac...
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AKAME 48 WATERFALLS (2003)
- Director
- ARATO Genjiro
- Cast
- ONISHI Takijirou, TERAJIMA Shinobu
The latest film from Arato Genjirou, a well-known producer for directors such as Suzuki Seijun and Sakamoto Junji. Ikushima Yoichi (Onishi Takijirou), having given up on life, drifts into the slums of Amagasaki. Hired at a yakitori bar, he spends hi...
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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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Shibata and Nagao (2012)
- Director
- YANG Ik-June
- Cast
- SHIBATA Chihiro, NAGAO Takuma, ARAGAKI Masato
Film in the second group of works from the hands-on filmmaking academy Cinema Impact, produced by director Yamamoto Masashi with the participation of 13 up-and-coming directors. Selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2013. Director...
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Dust and Delusions (2014)
- Director
- SUZUKI Satoshi
- Cast
- TOTSUGI Shigeyuki, Minami, ENDO Kaname
Bittersweet drama about a man who returns home after his dreams go bust and lies about his work out of self-conceit. Suzuki Satoshi serves as director, producer, screenplay writer and editor for the film, and also holds a regular job in the medical i...
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"A Band Rabbit" and a Boy (2013)
- Director
- SUZUKI Takuji
- Cast
- KAWASAKI Kosei, MIYAZAKI Masaru, YAMADA Maho
A musical drama adapted from Nakazawa Kei's eponymous novel by The Wife of Gegege director Suzuki Takuji. It presents a heartfelt depiction of junior high school students devoted to brass band music. Children were cast from Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Pref...
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Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
- Director
- YAMADA Naoko
- Cast
- TANEZAKI Atsumi, TOYAMA Nao, FUJIMURA Konomi
Film animation adaptation of Takeda Ayano's novel "Sound! Euphonium Kitauji High School's Concert Band: Haran no Dainigakusho". Captures fleetingly beautiful moments in the lives of two girls. Helmed by Yamada Naoko, who hails from Kyoto Animation an...
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The Sisters and I (1967)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- FUJIMURA Shiho, WAKAYANAGI Kiku, ITO Eiko
Shinkichi Yuki, a well-known novelist, returns to Kyoto and meets two sisters he used to know who run a Japanese-style restaurant. Staying at the home of Shima, formerly a famous geisha, he calls on the two and finds that Kiyoko, an unhappy marriage ...
