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honokaa boy (2009)
- Director
- SANADA Atsushi
- Cast
- OKADA Masaki, BAISHO Chieko, HASEGAWA Jun
A heartfelt coming-of-age story, based on the travel writing of Yoshida Leo. A sensitive college boy comes to Honokaa on the Big Island of Hawaii, an actual town where many of the residents are Japanese immigrants, and through his interactions with t...
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i -Documentary of the Journalist- (2019)
- Director
- MORI Tatsuya
- Cast
- MOCHIZUKI Isoko
Director Mori Tatsuya, known for closely covering the ghostwriter uproar that rocked Samuragochi Mamoru in the documentary FAKE, follows the real-life Tokyo Shimbun city news reporter Mochizuki Isoko who inspired the film "The Journalist". It receive...
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With the dog tag and the croquette (2011)
- Director
- NAGAHARA Seiki
- Cast
- KAMAKARI Kenta, Tisun, NAKAMURA Masaya
Osaka-based comedian Nagahara Seiki directs this adaptation of his autobiographical novel. It presents a realistic retelling of his upbringing as a Zainichi Korean (an ethnic Korean resident of Japan), and his entrance into the world of comedy. Scree...
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Petrel Hotel Blue (2011)
- Director
- WAKAMATSU Koji
- Cast
- KATAYAMA Hitomi, JIBIKI Go, IURA Arata
An adaptation of Naoki Prize-winning author Funado Yoichi's eponymous novel by Wakamatsu Koji, the formidably talented director of Caterpillar. Set at the Kaien Hotel, this unusual work depicts the madness of human emotions and the collapse of men's ...
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COLORFUL (2010)
- Director
- HARA Keiichi
- Cast
- TOMIZAWA Kazato, MIYAZAKI Aoi, MINAMI Akina
By director Hara Keiichi, highly regarded for Crayon Shin-chan Arashi o Yobu Moretsu Otona Teikoku no Gyakushu. His realistic style as seen in his previous picture Summer Days with Coo (Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi) is taken one step further, and crea...
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kasanegafuti (2011)
- Director
- NISHIYAMA Yoichi
- Cast
- MIYATA Aki, SUZUO Keita, NAKUI Mina
Part of a movie project born from a collaboration between three instructors at The Film School of Tokyo and their students. This crime melodrama is a modern spin on the classic rakugo (storytelling) ghost tale "Shinkei Kasanegafuchi." Its director is...
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Yesterday Today Tomorrow (2005)
- Director
- NAOI Riyo
- Cast
Two HIV-positive families from a village in Northern Thailand look ahead to their future, with feet planted in the ground. Anna, who contracted HIV through her ex-husband, lives a peaceful life with her new husband while peddling fish and farming to ...
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Vampire In Love (2015)
- Director
- SUZUKI Mai
- Cast
- KIRITANI Mirei, TOTSUKA Shota, TANABE Seiichi
Love story in which popular model and actress Kiritani Mirei turns into a vampire girl. Suzuki Mai, who studied theater at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, makes her directorial debut. The film is supported by cast members from Hong Kong, Tai...
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KOTOKO (2011)
- Director
- TSUKAMOTO Shinya
- Cast
- Cocco, TSUKAMOTO Shinya
Winner of Best Film in the 68th Venice International Film Festival's Orizzonti section. Director Tsukamoto Shinya, known for his Tetsuo series, cast singer-songwriter Cocco in the lead role for this extraordinary work about a mother's intense love fo...
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Kyo-en (2008)
- Director
- TSUJI Hiroyuki
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Shigeyuki, Hakuryu, NAKANO Hideo
A yakuza film based on the life of Agata Mitsunori, a real-life mobster who led a huge force in Shinjuku. Nakamura Shigeyuki passionately plays a young gang leader who rises to the top of the underground community with the philosophy, "become the wor...
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Carol of the old ones (2011)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Hiroshi
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Wakana, NAKAHARA Shoko, TSUDA Kanji
Part of a movie project born from a collaboration between three instructors at The Film School of Tokyo and their students. This depiction of spiraling madness on an independent film set from director Takahashi Hiroshi, best known as a scriptwriter w...
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Myway Highway (2010)
- Director
- SUDO Akira
- Cast
- Tortoise MATSUMOTO, SUDO Akira
An extraordinary documentary that fully captures how music producer Sudo Akira goes to the United States with Tortoise Matsumoto and lives there with him for a short while. The film is filled with Matsumoto's new songs. After taking a break from the ...
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Men's Egg - Summer Beat (2011)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Yudai
- Cast
- MAEDA Gouki, FURUKAWA Yuki, TAKABE Ai
A coming-of-age drama featuring numerous appearances by popular models from the street fashion magazines Men's Egg and Egg, directed by Yamaguchi Yudai (ELITE YANKEE SABURO). It offers a glimpse of a surprising side to "gyaru-o," men who adopt the sa...
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Noh mask carver (2006)
- Director
- MIYAKE Nagaru
- Cast
- ARAI Tatsuya, NAKASYO Nobuo, TSUMURA Reijiro
A documentary portrait of Arai Tatsuya, a prodigiously talented craftsman who began carving Noh masks at the age of 6, and later became the youngest person ever to receive the Incentive Award of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and...
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NECO-BAN (2010)
- Director
- ARIMA Ken
- Cast
- IBU Masato, Lily, OKUDA Iroha
An adaptation of a television series about the heartwarming interaction between a retiree in the autumn of his life and the stray cats that gather at his house. Rather than convert footage from 2D to 3D in post-production, it was filmed entirely with...
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Nude (2010)
- Director
- ONUMA Yuichi
- Cast
- WATANABE Naoko, SATSUKAWA Aimi, NAGAYAMA Takashi
Former popular porn actress Mihiro creates a film out of the novel describing her own conflicting emotions and success. Under the direction of Onuma Yuichi of Musubime (Knot) Watanabe Naoko, who plays the leading role in a film for the first time, pa...
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Hokusai's Daughter (2025)
- Director
- OMORI Tatsushi
- Cast
- NAGASAWA Masami
Born as the third daughter of Katsushika Hokusai, one of the world's leading painters in Japan's ukiyo-e world, O-Ei (later Katsushika Oi) continued to support Hokusai as a disciple for about 30 years from her twenties. It is said that most of Hokusa...
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Puppy Oldman (2012)
- Director
- MAENO Tomoya
- Cast
- SAOTOME Bach, GAN Kyotaro, OKITA Anri
The ninth entry in the second season of the "Youth H" series, which produces works with a strong auterist approach that focus on coming-of-age and sexual themes. Its writer and director is Maeno Tomoya, who won a Special Jury Prize and the Cinegar Aw...
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parole (2004)
- Director
- MAEDA Tetsu
- Cast
- UEDA Shinya, ARITA Teppei, KARASUMA Setsuko
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pattenrai!! ～Minaminosimanomizumonogatari～ (2008)
- Director
- ISHIGURO Noboru
- Cast
- INOUE Kazuhiko, MINAGAWA Junko, TAKIMOTO Fujiko
A feature animation film depicting the true story of the life of Hatta Yoichi, a Japanese engineer who lived in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. The theme song is written and sung by Hitoto Yo, a popular singer who is part Taiwanese. "Batian la...
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Rubbers Oou onna (2010)
- Director
- WATANABE Takafumi
- Cast
- KISHI Aino, YAMAMOTO Hiroshi, YOSHIDA Satomi
This is the second in a series of erotic films that have the common theme of portraying the curious sexual propensities of women. It portrays people with a fetish for rubber, who derive sexual enjoyment from the feeling of having their bodies covered...
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ring my bell (2011)
- Director
- CHINZEI Naokazu
- Cast
- TSUKISHIRO Maora, YAMAGATA Ikuhiro, SEGI Masaru
Installment in the highly lauded Seishun H (Youth Sex) series created by distinctively original filmmakers on the shared theme of adolescence and love. Naokazu Chinzei hails from the world of erotic film, and made this film starring the two frontmen ...
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sadistic mica band (2007)
- Director
- TAKIMOTO Kengo
- Cast
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sah nohara e ikou aozorajishuhoiku no sannenkan (2011)
- Director
- KIRINO Naoko
- Cast
- HIRANO Aya
The Aozora Jishu Hoiku Nakayoshi-kai (blue sky independent childcare friends group) is an independent outdoor childcare group in Kamakura City, Kanagawa that has been active since 1985. Based in a rural valley, the children who take part play in the ...
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saru phase three (2006)
- Director
- HAYAMA Yoichiro
- Cast
- TAKANO Hassei, SHIMIZU Yumi, YUGE Tomohisa
