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Crayon Shinchan the Movie: School Mystery! The Splendid Tenkasu Academy (2021)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Wataru
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Yumiko, NARAHASHI Miki, MORIKAWA Toshiyuki
Twenty-ninth feature film for the popular TV anime series. The story shows the truth behind an incident involving Shinnosuke and friends with Takahashi Wataru directing and screenplay by Ueno Kimiko. Kazama (Mashiba Mari) dreams of attending the ult...
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Crayon Shinchan the Movie: Crash! Rakuga-Kingdom and Almost Four Heroes (2020)
- Director
- KYOGOKU Takahiko
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Yumiko, NARAHASHI Miki, MORIKAWA Toshiyuki
Twenty-eighth feature film for the popular TV anime series. "Love Live!" anime series director Kyogoku Takahiko helms this adventure featuring doodles. The floating "Doodle Kingdom" is powered by doodles, and it attacks Kasukabe to secure an energy ...
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HOKKOMAI; TAKAMATSU JUNJO CINEMA (means the pure-hearted and crazy boys who love cinema in TAKAMATSU) (2008)
- Director
- TAKASHIMA Hiroshi
- Cast
- YANAGIDA Ryoma, ONISHI Setsuko, SATO Jun
A film adaptation of an essay written by film critic Kirai Masaki, who is based in Kagawa Prefecture and directed by his high school classmate Takashima Hiroshi. Starring another high school classmate, Takahata Atsuko as the main character's mother, ...
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Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Fast Asleep! The Great Assault on the Dreaming World (2016)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Wataru
- Cast
- YAJIMA Akiko, NARAHASHI Miki, FUJIWARA Keiji
The twenty-fourth theatrical film of the televised anime based on Usui Yoshito's comedy manga featuring the adventures of a brat kindergartener. In order to protect the quiet sleep of humanity, Shinnosuke and the other characters run amok in the drea...
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LONELY LANE (1962)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- TAKAMINE Hideko, TAKARADA Akira, KATO Daisuke
Naruse Mikio helmed this film adaptation of Hayashi Fumiko's bestselling autobiographical novel, which was also adapted for the stage. Born as a peddler's daughter, the impoverished Fumiko struggles as a waitress while writing poetry and eventually f...
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Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
- Director
- GOSHA Hideo
- Cast
- TANBA Tetsuro, HIRA Mikijiro, NAGATO lsamu
Shiba, a masterless samurai, enters a village under the administration of magistrate Matsushita where he senses trouble. Due to bad crops and heavy taxation, the farmers have kidnapped the magistrate's daughter, Aya, and barricaded themselves in a m...
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Cash Calls Hell (1966)
- Director
- GOSHA Hideo
- Cast
- NAKADAI Tatsuya, KUWANO Miyuki, HIRA Mikijiro
A young man just out of jail - played by Nakadai Tatsuya, hero of Harakiri and Kwaidan -becomes involved in a mysterious scheme to kill three men. All three are eventually murdered, but not by him. For it seems that another plot is unfolding and at t...
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Jungle Taxi (2016)
- Director
- Hakhyun KIM
- Cast
- MATSUZAKI Hayate, SUGANUMA Hisayoshi, USHIDA Hiroko
The taxi driver and other characters who hold an influence towards his destiny are drawn with a hard-boiled touch. A mysterious mood is created with arid colour, with red and blue on a monochrome background. The taxi driver picks up an unwelcome far...
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Bloody River (1958)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- TAKADA Kokichi, SAGA Michiko, TAKACHIHO Hizuru
In the middle of the 19th century, Sukegoro of Iioka, and Shigezo of Sasagawa, are gambling bosses whose territories in the Kashima district, divided by the River Tone are competing to increase their influence. The Sukegoro, old established, and in l...
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The Shape of Night (1964)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- KUWANO Miyuki, HIRA Mikijiro, SUGAWARA Bunta
Yoshie first met Eiji in a small bar in Tokyo. Though she was only nineteen, she gave herself to him as she thought they could marry and live happily together. Instead, he turns out to be a gangster who forces her to prostitute herself for him. Later...
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United Red Army (2007)
- Director
- WAKAMATSU Koji
- Cast
- SAKAI Maki, ARATA, NAMIKI Akie
The harsh path of the United Red Army is followed based on true events leading to the Asama cabin siege of February 1972. The incident was televised and kept everyone in Japan glued to the TV. Directed by Wakamatsu Koji who holds a unique place in Ja...
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Village Album, The (2004)
- Director
- MIHARA Mitsuhiro
- Cast
- FUJI Tatsuya, KAITO Ken, MIYAJI Mao
Hanatani Village in the valley of Tokushima Prefecture is going to be submerged when a dam is constructed. In order to preserve the beauty of the place for future generations, the villagers decide to take photographs of all the families in the villag...
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SUMMER WARS (2009)
- Director
- HOSODA Mamoru
- Cast
- KAMIKI Ryunosuke, SAKURABA Nanami, TANIMURA Mitsuki
A sci-fi animated feature film from internationally acclaimed director Hosoda Mamoru, whose previous work The Girl Who Leapt Through Time won the Special Distinction for Feature Film at France's Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Sadamoto ...
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hospitalité (2010)
- Director
- FUKADA Koji
- Cast
- YAMAUCHI Kenji, SUGINO Kiki, FURUTACHI Kanji
A comedy screened in the section "Japanese Eyes" at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival. The director, Fukada Koji, is a member of the production team of the theatrical troupe Seinendan (Artistic Director: Hirata Oriza) who has received high p...
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252：Signal of Life (2008)
- Director
- MIZUTA Nobuo
- Cast
- ITO Hideaki, UCHINO Seiyo
An epic spectacle which portrays people in an unprecedented disaster. A large quantity of water was actually used, in addition to CG and VFX, to achieve realistic images. Mizuta Nobuo of Maiko Haaaan!!!, in-house director of Nippon Television Network...
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Welcom to The Quiet Room (2007)
- Director
- MATSUO Suzuki
- Cast
- UCHIDA Yuki, KUDO Kankuro, AOI Yu
A film adaptation of an Akutagawa award nominated novel of the same title, by Matsuo Suzuki, the writer himself, who took on the script as well as the direction. It is a story of a female writer admitted into a closed ward of a psychiatric department...
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Our Little Sister (2015)
- Director
- KORE-EDA Hirokazu
- Cast
- AYASE Haruka, NAGASAWA Masami, Kaho
A live-action adaptation by Kore-eda Hirokazu (Like Father, Like Son) of Yoshida Akimi's eponymous 2013 Manga-Taisho (cartoon grand prize)-winning manga. It depicts the emotional journeys of four sisters after the death of their father, with beautifu...
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LOFT (2005)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Kiyoshi
- Cast
- NAKATANI Miki, TOYOKAWA Etsushi, NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi
Directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi of Cure and Pulse (Kairo). This is his first feature film in three years. A female writer, Reiko (Nakatani Miki), is in a slump. On the advice of the editor, Kijima (Nishijima Hidetoshi), Reiko moves into a western-sty...
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The Land of Hope (2012)
- Director
- SONO Sion
- Cast
- NATSUYAGI Isao, OTANI Naoko, MURAKAMI Jun
A socially-conscious drama from Sono Sion COLD FISH , Himizu , who is currently one of Japan's most sought-after directors at film festivals around the world. Set in a fictional Japanese town, it depicts a family whose lives are torn apart by a nucle...
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Castle of Sand (1974)
- Director
- NOMURA Yoshitaro
- Cast
- TANBA Tetsuro, KATO Go, MORITA Kensaku
A man of about 60 is found murdered in the yard of a railway station in Tokyo. Two detectives are assigned: Imanishi and Yoshimura. The victim is Miki, a retired policeman in Shimane Prefecture near the Japan Sea. Miki had been a model policeman for...
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Life Tears in Heaven (2007)
- Director
- SHINJO Takehiko
- Cast
- OSAWA Takao, ITO Misaki, MAYA Miki
Iijima Naoki is the only professional wind surfer in Japan who participated in the World Cup for eight years in a row. The film portrays his life, and his dedicated wife, Hiroko, who supported him throughout. Based on his novel ‘Tears in Heaven (Teng...
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your name. (2016)
- Director
- SHINKAI Makoto
- Cast
- KAMIKI Ryunosuke, KAMISHIRAISHI Mone, NAGASAWA Masami
A teen fantasy directed by Shinkai Makoto, known for the delicate romances and picturesque scenery of his animation, in which an unacquainted boy and girl experience being the other while they dream. Animation director, Ando Masashi, has also served ...
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DAINIPPONJIN (2007)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Hitosi
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Hitosi, TAKEUCHI Riki, UA
Directorial debut of Matsumoto Hitosi, a darling of the comedian's world who is one of the comic duo, Downtown. Dainipponjin is an ordinary person in everyday life, but once electrified, he transforms into a gigantic hero and protects Japan against e...
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Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky (2006)
- Director
- HAMAMOTO Masaki
- Cast
- UCHINO Seiyo, NAKATANI Miki, ISHIBASHI Renji
An empathic period drama, based on Yamamoto Ichiriki's Naoki Award winning novel, starring Nakatani Miki and Uchino Masaaki. The scene is set in Fukagawa in the Edo period, with Eikichi (Uchino Masaaki), a tofu maker who comes from Kyo to Edo, and hi...
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KISARAGI (2007)
- Director
- SATOH Yuichi
- Cast
- OGURI Shun, KAGAWA Teruyuki, Yusuke SANTAMARIA
A murder mystery behind closed doors with a comical touch, portraying five men who find out the truth about the suicide of an idol. Directed by Sato Yuichi of Simsons. Original story and script by Kosawa Ryota of ALWAYS -Sunset on Third Street (ALWAY...
