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Fumiko no Ashi (2010)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Kojiro
- Cast
- KATO Rosa, TERADA Minori, YUKI Jutta
This is the fifth in the BUNGO Japanese Literature Cinema (BUNGO Nihon Bungaku Shinema, Fumiko no Ashi) series of films depicting Japan's short novels. The original work is a sensual novel by Tanizaki Junichiro's that is full of masochistic fetishism...
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The Barber (2011)
- Director
- AKINO Shoichi
- Cast
- YAMADA Hiroshi, ENDO Yumi, SHIMIZU Daikei
A humanistic drama that gently depicts the bond between a couple who run a hair salon. Director Akino Shoichi is a newcomer who was born in 1985, and this film was made as a fifth-year graduation project for the Tokyo University of the Arts' Graduate...
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What Did You Eat Yesterday? Movie (2021)
- Director
- NAKAE Kazuhito
- Cast
- NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, UCHINO Seiyo
Feature film adaptation of the popular TV drama based on Yoshinaga Fumi's bestselling manga. Reunites the cast and crew from the TV drama, including director Nakae Kazuhito and scriptwriter Adachi Naoko. Lawyer Kakei Shiro (Nakajima Hidetoshi) and h...
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HOTEL FLOWERS (2011)
- Director
- OTSUKI Eiji
- Cast
- HARA Mikie, MORISHITA Yuuri
A crime drama starring two top gravure idols. A woman who runs a resort hotel forms a bizarre friendship with a female guest. Directed, written, shot, and edited by straight-to-video veteran Otsuki Eiji. Misono (Hara Mikie), who single-handedly manag...
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ALL ABOUT MY DOG (2005)
- Director
- INUDO Isshin, KURODA Yoshio, NEZU Tetsuhisa
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Shido, ITO Misaki, MIYAZAKI Aoi
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Living with “Memories” (2015)
- Director
- DOI Toshikuni
- Cast
- KIM Sun-deok, KANG Deok-yeong
Documentary by Doi Toshikuni, whose numerous films include The Town of Iitate: Radiation and the Return Home. "Part One: House of Sharing" brings together the voices of former military sex slaves, and "Part Two: Kang Duk-Kyung" presents in-depth cove...
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Irokoishi (2007)
- Director
- KOMINO Masashi
- Cast
- NAKAKURA Kentaro, KOMATSU Chiharu, ARAI Mieko
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Dangerous Drugs of Sex (2019)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- KITADAI Takashi, WATANABE Sho
The live-action adaptation of Mizuta Yuki's boy's love comic of the same name incorporates extreme sexual portrayals as it renders a story of rebirth though finding the meaning of "sex" and "life". In the director's chair is Jojo Hideo, who is known ...
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Sayonara, Girls. (2023)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Shun
- Cast
- KAWAI Yumi, ONO Rina, KOMIYAMA Rina
Commercial feature film debut for cutting-edge director Nakagawa Shun based on stories by coming-of-age novel maestro Asai Ryo. Emotive depiction of the two days before graduation for four high school girls in love. The story takes place in a provin...
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TSUKIJI WONDERLAND (2016)
- Director
- ENDO Naotaro
- Cast
A documentary filmed over 16 months closely chronicling, including areas never before filmed, the Tsukiji Market which is due to be moved to Toyosu in November of 2016. Endo Naotaro, who has been involved in wide ranging works from advertisements to ...
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tsukiji de itiban damenaotoko (2010)
- Director
- UCHIDA Eiji
- Cast
- HIMURA Yuki, MATSUZAKA Minami, HIRAIWA Terumi
An omnibus drama of three inept men who work in the fish market in Tsukiji, Tokyo, produced under the supervision of Iida Joji who directed Rasen and Dragonhead. Muraoka Taiyo (Himura Yuki) who works in Tsukiji fish market is a totally unattractive a...
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WHO'S THE MAN (2008)
- Director
- KAWANO Koji
- Cast
- KATAGIRI Hairi, SUGAWARA Eiji, KONISHI Ryosei
One of the comical short films by seven directors all with strong personalities depicting the nature of "hijoshi (women who have given up on their womanhood)." The work depicts with a bizarre touch of comedy the straightforward passion of an actress ...
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SHINIGAMI AND THE DEATH HANDLER (2020)
- Director
- SHIBAZAKI Takayuki
- Cast
- SUZUKI Hiroki, YASUI Kentaro, SAKIYAMA Tsubasa
Second production in the Toei Movie x Stage project that connects the big screen with theater. The last of the death handlers investigates serial killings in Edo for this innovative historical drama. Original story and script by Suto Yasushi of Detec...
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RAINBOW DAYS (2018)
- Director
- IIZUKA Ken
- Cast
- SANO Reo, NAKAGAWA Taishi, TAKASUGI Mahiro
Live-action adaptation of the girl's comic by manga artist Mizuno Minami. Directed by Iizuka Ken of Drops in Your Hand and Laughing Lucky Cats. Natchan (Sano Reo), Mattsun (Nakagawa Taishi), Tsuyopon (Takasugi Mahiro) and Keichan (Yokohama Ryusei) a...
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The Flowers of Evil (2019)
- Director
- IGUCHI Noboru
- Cast
- ITO Kentaro, TAMASHIRO Tina, AKITA Shiori
Iguchi Noboru, the prolific creator of The Machine Girl and other cult and fantastic films, was charmed by Oshimi Shuzo's comic of the same name and personally endeavored to achieve this live-action, startling teen film. Kasuga Takao (Ito Kentaro), ...
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HOMUNCULUS (2021)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Takashi
- Cast
- AYANO Go, NARITA Ryo, KISHII Yukino
Cult-status manga artist Yamamoto Hideo's same-named manga hits the silver screen a decade after its serialized began. International director Shimizu Takashi handles this psychological mystery with daring yet sensitive portrayals of mental states. S...
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Party ha sento kara hajimaru (2012)
- Director
- MATSUDA Keita
- Cast
- TOKUYAMA Hidenori, SUGA Takamasa, TAKANO Hassei
A time-traveling romantic comedy. A young man who keeps returning to the same time on the same day at a public bathhouse again and again frantically struggles to discover the reason behind his predicament, and get himself a girlfriend. Its cast inclu...
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After the Fever (2023)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Akira
- Cast
- HASHIMOTO Ai, NAKANO Taiga, KIRYU Mai
Second feature film from cutting-edge director Yamamoto Akira, whose Tokyo University of the Arts graduation work Speak Low earned acclaim overseas. World premiere screening in the New Currents competition at the 28th Busan International Film Festiva...
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2.11 (2012)
- Director
- OMORI Tatsushi
- Cast
- ANRAKU Masashi, ICHIHASHI Yuko, ITO Nozomi
One of five films to emerge from the first year of the Cinema Impact hands-on filmmaking course produced by director Yamamoto Masashi and featuring the participation of 13 up-and-coming directors. All of the films had to shoot in two different locati...
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Baian the Assassin, M.D. (2023)
- Director
- KAWAKE Shunsaku
- Cast
- TOYOKAWA Etsushi, KATAOKA Ainosuke, KANNO Miho
Two films starring Toyokawa Etsushi adapt Ikenami Shotaro's series that rivals his "Onihei Hankacho" and "Kenkyaku Shobai" in popularity. Produced to commemorate the centennial of the great historical novelist's birth. Fujieda Baian (Toyokawa) is a ...
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THE WITNESS (2019)
- Director
- MORI Junichi
- Cast
- YOSHIOKA Riho, TAKASUGI Mahiro
A thriller remaking the 2011 Korean film Blind to also take into account the nature of Japanese society. Mori Junichi of the "Little Forest" series directs. Once an outstanding policewoman, Hamanaka Natsume (Yoshioka Riho) is in the pit of despair a...
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Indelible (2019)
- Director
- TSUNODA Ryuichi
- Cast
Documentary woven together as the universal story of father and son, focusing on the ethnic Chinese Koreans who live outside the Korean Peninsula. A boy who was born in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China moves to Japan at age 10. Now ...
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Zenin seppuku (2021)
- Director
- TOYODA Toshiaki
- Cast
- KUBOZUKA Yosuke, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko, IMOU Haruka
Toyoda Toshiaki, who has constantly been releasing works including Wolf's Calling and The Day of Destruction, directs this twenty-six-minute period film on which he also serves as planner and producer. Kubozuka Yousuke, known for his roles in Silence...
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A Madder Red (2021)
- Director
- ISHII Yuya
- Cast
- ONO Machiko, WADA Iori, KATAYAMA Yuki
Biting drama about the inner life of a single mother forced into desperate social circumstances. Ishii Yuya wrote, edited and directed this ambitious film the same year he made The Asian Angel, his first collaboration with Korean cast and crew. Tana...
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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...
