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Love Me, Love Me Not (Animation) (2020)
- Director
- KUROYANAGI Toshimasa
- Cast
- SHIMAZAKI Nobunaga, SAITO Soma, HAN Megumi
This feature film sequel to "Strobe Edge" and "Blue Spring Ride" completes the animation adaptations of Sakisaka Io's same-named girls' comic trilogy. Produced by A-1 Pictures of Sword Art Online the Movie-Ordinal Scale. Four teens in their first ye...
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Animation Maestro GISABURO (2012)
- Director
- ISHIOKA Masato
- Cast
- SUGII Gisaburo, OTSUKA Yasuo, TEZUKA Osamu
A documentary film that profiles animator Sugii Gisaburo, who has been involved in the creation of numerous masterpieces since the early days of Japanese animation. Its director is Ishioka Masato, who displayed his talent for delving into the inner l...
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Animus Anima (2003)
- Director
- SAITO Reiko
- Cast
- OSHINARI Shugo, SHIINA Eihi, TANAKA Yoji
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Anitomo (2018)
- Director
- NAKAJIMA Ryo
- Cast
- YOKOHAMA Ryusei, MATSUKAZE Risaki, MATSUOKA Kodai
Romance about a good-looking but shy high school boy and his younger schoolmate who is indifferent to love. Debut starring film role for Yokohama Ryusei, whose recent appearances include honey and RAINBOW DAYS. Handsome but awkward Sota (Yokohama) m...
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The Dark Maidens (2017)
- Director
- YAKUMO Saiji
- Cast
- SHIMIZU Fumika, IITOYO Marie, SEINO Nana
A film adaptation of Akiyoshi Rikako's mystery novel directed by Yakumo Saiji of My Pretend Girlfriend, and written by Okada Mari, the writer of the anime, The Anthem of the Heart who is making her first venture into live-action screenplays. One day...
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The Dark Voyage (1966)
- Director
- NOMURA Takashi
- Cast
- SHISHIDO Joe, WADA Koji, FUJI Manami
Jiro, a young boxer, is on his way back to Japan from Thailand when his ship stops to pick up four survivors of a wreck. It turns out, however, that these four are really smugglers. They take over the ship and there is little that Jiro can do when th...
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The Last Gunfight (1960)
- Director
- OKAMOTO Kihachi
- Cast
- MIFUNE Toshiro, TSURUTA Koji, TSUKASA Yoko
The third installment in Toho's "made-in-Japan" gangster Underworld series, following on the heels of Underworld (Ankokugai, dir. YAMAMOTO Kajiro, 1956) and Boss of the Underworld (Ankokugai no kaoyaku, dir. Okamoto, 1959), starring MIFUNE Toshiro an...
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ANKOMAN (2014)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Yutaro
- Cast
- AOYAMA Miku, WADA Misa, NAKAMURA Yutaro
Drama featuring the cutting-edge Nakamura Yutaro as director, cameraman, editor and actor. The struggles and growth of a heroine who can't express herself are set to pop songs by Machi Akari. Screened at the music and cinema project MOOSIC LAB 2014. ...
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A Girl Named Ann (2024)
- Director
- IRIE Yu
- Cast
- KAWAI Yuumi, SATO Jiro, INAGAKI Goro
A social drama based on an incident involving a girl that happened in Japan during the coronavirus pandemic, brought together by director Irie Yu of AI Amok and the staff of PLAN75. Twenty-one-year-old Ann (Kawai Yumi), who has been beaten by her mo...
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A Story of Anna (2008)
- Director
- YAMADA Saki
- Cast
- MONOU Akiko, HOTARU Yukijiro, YOSHIOKA Mutsuo
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Annyong Yumika (2009)
- Director
- MATSUE Tetsuaki
- Cast
- HAYASHI Yumika, YU Jin-Seon, IRIE Koji
Hayashi Yumika was a legendary film actress who appeared in "pink films," TV shows, commercial movies as well as porn videos before her sudden death in 2005, at age 34. When filmmaker Matsue Tetsuaki learns that Yumika had starred in a little-known K...
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The Takanosu-machi Thereafter (2005)
- Director
- HANEDA Sumiko
- Cast
The third film by Haneda Sumiko of INTO THE PICTURE SCROLL-The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa- (Yamanaka Tokiwa) to record the politics and welfare at the town of Takanosu-machi, Akita Prefecture, following Town's Welfare that Residents Selected (Jumin ga S...
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The Takanosu-machi Thereafter - The Sequel (2006)
- Director
- HANEDA Sumiko
- Cast
The third film by Haneda Sumiko of INTO THE PICTURE SCROLL-The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa- (Yamanaka Tokiwa) to record the politics and welfare at the town of Takanosu-machi, Akita Prefecture, following Town's Welfare that Residents Selected (Jumin ga S...
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A Light in the Distance (2014)
- Director
- TSURUOKA Keiko
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Mariko, SHIMIZU Naoya, TAKESHITA Kaori
Young director Tsuruoka Keiko, whose directorial debut The Town of Whales was screened at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival 2013, shot this mystery in her hometown of Ueda in Nagano Prefecture. She garnered attention for her bold direction ...
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Beyond the Blue (2018)
- Director
- HIRO Kenichiro
- Cast
- IMO Haruka, NAKAYAMA Yuki
Fantastical road movie about a pained guy and girl who head from the boonies to Tokyo. Hiro Kenichiro has directed numerous music videos and makes his feature film debut. Set in a world where people get a "blue mail" missive from their future selves...
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TILL WE MEET AGAIN ON THE LILY HILL (2023)
- Director
- NARITA Yoichi
- Cast
- FUKUHARA Haruka, MIZUKAMI Koshi
Follow the Light director Narita Yoichi brings Shiomi Natsue's same-named novel to the silver screen. Vividly portrays romance in the life of a high school girl who has traveled back in time to 1945 Japan. Yuri (Fukuhara Haruka) runs away from home ...
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ORGAN (2019)
- Director
- HIRAMATSU Emiko
- Cast
- TODA Erika, OHARA Sakurako, SAKUMA Yui
Film adaptation of the true story of young nursery school caretakers who evacuated the children in their care to protect them from air strikes at the end of the Pacific War. Togoshi nursery teachers in Tokyo scramble to find a place to evacuate and ...
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Lust in a Karaoke Box (2018)
- Director
- TAMADA Shinya
- Cast
- YAMASHINA Keita, KONDO Tsuyoshi, KINOSHITA Takahiro
Playwright-cum-theater director Tamada Shinya adapts his same-named stage production for film. Features guest performances by Taiga of Pumpkin and Mayonnaise and Murakami Nijiro of MUKOKU alongside the cast from the theatrical production. Captures th...
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In Those Days (2020)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- MATSUZAKA Tori, NAKANO Taiga, YAMANAKA Takashi
The everyday highs and lows of friends enamored with the idol group Hello! Project is entertainingly told in this revival-of-youth film. Imaizumi Rikiya of Just Only Love directs from a script by Tominaga Masanori of Pumpkin and Mayonnaise. Tsurugi ...
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A Pearl in the Waves (1961)
- Director
- YAGI Mitsuo
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, TSUGAWA Masahiko, TAKAMINE Mieko
Chiaki is in love with Ryuichi, but to help her family decides to marry lkejiri. The marriage is not a success. When lkejiri's embezzlement of school money is discovered, he sends Chiaki to Hokkaido to borrow it from her real mother, Minako. Ryuich...
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Her Last Pearl (1961)
- Director
- YAGI Mitsuo
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, TSUGAWA Masahiko, ISHIHAMA Akira
When Chiaki testifies for her husband, Ikejiri, who is charged with attempted homicide, a young industrialist, Miyahara, who is struck by her beauty offers her help while secretly desiring her. When Chiaki asks Ikejiri for a divorce, he refuses and ...
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Ano onna wa yametoke (2012)
- Director
- ICHII Masahide
- Cast
- MAKINO Takuya, HIROKI Kenta, UCHIBORI Taro
Drama about friendship that humorously depicts the pathos of life's losers. Three ordinary guys who are friends from childhood stir up unexpected trouble during a trip. Directed by Ichii Masahide, whose {Naked of Defenses} was selected for the Berlin...
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Spy on the Masked Car (1967)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, NOGAWA Yumiko, NAITO Taketoshi
Inui, a motor car salesman, hears that a new taxi company is going to open, and hurries to sell his cars. But he has a rival, Kurokawa, and their competition for this important contract begins. Kurokawa hires a girl, Tomoko, to spy for him but she i...
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ANOSORANOAO (2012)
- Director
- NASHIMOTO Tao
- Cast
- NAKAYAMA Masei, HARA Mikie, AIZAWA Maki
Drama depicting people tormented by the uncertainties of their present circumstances, with a focus on a young man who aspires to do film production. Director Nashimoto Tao of Tsubame City in Niigata Prefecture drew inspiration from the town and its r...
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Ano sora wo oboeteru (2008)
- Director
- TOGASHI Shin
- Cast
- TAKENOUCHI Yutaka, MIZUNO Miki, HIROTA Ryohei
