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TOKYO KURDS (2021)
- Director
- HYUGA Fumiari
- Cast
This documentary covers five-plus years in the lives of two young Turkish Kurds who are trying to get refugee status and exposes the plight of Kurdish refugees in Japan. 18-year-old Ozan and 19-year-old Ramazan arrived in Japan while still in elemen...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer THE MOVIE (2021)
- Director
- KIMURA Hisashi
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Jun, KAGAWA Teruyuki, SUGISAKI Hana
Feature film adaptation of the much-watched TV drama about the escapades of maverick lawyers. Helmed by TV series director Kimura Hisashi. Miyama (Matsumoto Jun) wins verdicts in criminal cases where defendants are 99.9% certain to end up guilty. He...
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Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is War (2021)
- Director
- KAWAI Hayato
- Cast
- HIRANO Sho, HASHIMOTO Kanna
Final film in the live-action series adapting the unique world in the "Love Is War" manga. Kawai Hayato continues as director from the previous film. Shuchiin Academy students Shirogane Miyuki (Hirano Sho) and Shinomiya Kaguya (Hashimoto Kanna) have...
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What Happened to Our Nest Egg!? (2021)
- Director
- MAEDA Tetsu
- Cast
- AMAMI Yuki, MATSUSHIGE Yutaka, KUSABUE Mitsuko
Film adaptation of Kakiya Miu's novel about the struggles of a homemaker dogged by financial disaster. A Banana? At This Time of Night? director Maeda Tetsu brings his unique perspective and rhythmical style to the film. Atsuko (Amami Yuki) has rais...
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue (2022)
- Director
- TADA Shunsuke
- Cast
- MIYANO Mamoru, SUZUMURA Kenichi
Production I.G produced the fourth season "Intrigue" for the "Die Neue These" animation based on the mammoth SF novel "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" by popular author Tanaka Yoshiki. The Galactic Empire is supported by reforms enacted by supreme l...
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Summer Ghost (2021)
- Director
- loundraw
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Chiaki, SHIMABUKURO Miyuri, SHIMAZAKI Nobunaga
Feature film directorial debut for cutting-edge illustrator loundraw, who worked on the feature film Josee, the Tiger and the Fish. Urban legend has it that "summer ghost" is the spirit of a young woman who appears when fireworks go off. Tomoya (Ko...
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Ring Wandering (2021)
- Director
- KANEKO Masakazu
- Cast
- KASAMATSU Show, ABE Junko, YASUDA Ken
In Downtown Tokyo, a young man Sosuke aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He canʼt draw the extinct wolf well, neither develop the story. One winterʼs day, Sosuke finds burnt animal...
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Lovely Little Ai (2021)
- Director
- ONO Candice Mana
- Cast
- SAKANOUE Akane, KUROZUMI Hisao, MATSUMURA Ryo
This is the feature-length directorial debut of Ono Candice Mana, an up-and-coming director who has garnered attention, winning two awards at the 2021 PFF Awards and the Special Jury Prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. Sixteen...
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Angry Son (2022)
- Director
- IIZUKA Kasho
- Cast
- HORIKE Kazuki, GOW, SHINOHARA Masafumi
A coming-of-age film directed and written by Iizuka Kasho, who made her commercial film debut with The World for the Two of Us, based on her own experiences as a transgender person. Jungo (Horike Kazuki) is a high school student living with his Fili...
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Indelible Memories (2022)
- Director
- SONODA Shin
- Cast
- HYODO Katsumi, Momoka, YAMAMOTO Ai
At night, Yui, a musician, meets Jun-ichi, an improvising actor, on the riverside square where young people are performing on the street. They argue with each other over their "stage". Jun-ichi intervenes in a fight one day, but is knocked down. Yui ...
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SHIKKOKUTEN (2022)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Koichi
- Cast
- ARAKI Hirofumi
Third production in the Movies x Stage series that utilizes film and theater performances. Script by "Token Ranbu" series director Suemitsu Kenichi. A guy with amnesia (Araki Hirofumi) shows up in Edo. After fate leads him to getting petty criminal ...
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YOUKAI HOUSEMATE IS HE PRINCE CHARMING? (2022)
- Director
- TOYOSHIMA Keisuke
- Cast
- KOSHIBA Fuka
A timid heroine teams up with yokai monsters to vanquish evil in this feature film adaptation of the horror comedy TV series aired in Summer 2020 and Spring 2021. Mio (Koshiba Fuka) dreams of being a writer while enjoying her life with yokai monste...
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BROKEN COMMANDMENT (2022)
- Director
- MAEDA Kazuo
- Cast
- MAMIYA Shotaro, ISHII Anna, YAMOTO Yuma
The first film adaptation in sixty years of Shimazaki Toson's immortal masterpiece, which was previously made into a film by Kinoshita Keisuke in 1948 and Ichikawa Kon in 1962. Maeda Kazuo (Whisper of the Heart) directed the film, and Kato Masato and...
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SUN AND BOLERO (2022)
- Director
- MIZUTANI Yutaka
- Cast
- DAN Rei
This unique paean to life portrays the relationships in an amateur orchestra that struggles toward their final concert after deciding to disband. Acclaimed actor Mizutani Yutaka directs, scripts and stars in the film. After her father's sudden death...
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ANIME SUPREMACY! (2022)
- Director
- YOSHINO Kohei
- Cast
- YOSHIOKA Riho, NAKAMURA Tomoya, EMOTO Tasuku
A film adaptation of the novel of the same title by Tsujimura Mizuki, which depicts the passionate human drama of the animation industry. The animated sections are directed by Tani Azuma and Otsuka Takashi, and produced with the participation of popu...
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Haw (2022)
- Director
- INUDO Isshin
- Cast
- TANAKA Kei, IKEDA Elaiza
Drama from Gu Gu, the Cat director Inudo Isshin, acclaimed for his films featuring animals, about the relationship between a young man and a rescue dog. Original story and script from screenplay writer Saito Hiroshi, known for Himitsu and Resurrectio...
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GREEN BULLET (2022)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Yugo
- Cast
- IZUMI Karen, YAMAOKA Miyabi, AMANO Kiki
A sequel to the faux-documentary Legendary Hit-man, Kunioka by Sakamoto Yugo, director of Baby Assassins, depicts the daily lives of hit men. Six women, including Yamada Fumika(Izumi Karen), who aspires to becoming a professional assassin, decide to...
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Convenience Story (2022)
- Director
- MIKI Satoshi
- Cast
- NARITA Ryo, MAEDA Atsuko
Wacky adventure developed and helmed by Miki Satoshi, known for his quirky story worlds in Adrift in Tokyo and It's Me, It's Me, in collaboration with film critic and producer Mark Shilling. Unsuccessful screenwriter Kato (Narita Ryo) is on a trip t...
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Kitakaze Outsider (2021)
- Director
- SAI Tetsuhiro
- Cast
- SAI Tetsuhiro, KAISAKU Maho, ITO Wataru
A human drama about a family living in the town of Korean residents in Ikuno, Osaka. Directed, written, produced, and starring actor Choi Cheol-ho, the leader of the theater troupe Stray Dog Dan, which he founded with director Irie Yu in 2007. The ...
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KYOTO CAMARO DETECTIVE (2021)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Yuichi
- Cast
- TSUKAMOTO Takashi, KIMURA Yuichi, CROKET
An action comedy about a self-proclaimed detective who loves exotic cars. Kyoto-born Yoshida Yuichi, a multi-talented actor, artist, and martial artist, came up with the original idea. He then wrote the screenplay, directed and acted in the resulting...
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IT’S IN THE WOODS (2022)
- Director
- NAKATA Hideo
- Cast
- AIBA Masaki, MATSUMOTO Honoka, EGUCHI Noriko
Horror flick from Nakata Hideo, who set the bar for J-horror with Ring. Unfathomable terror unfolds in a real-life forest where bizarre phenomena occur. Junichi (Aiba Masaki) runs a farm on his own in the boonies and ends up having to take care of h...
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A MAN (2022)
- Director
- ISHIKAWA Kei
- Cast
- TSUMABUKI Satoshi, ANDO Sakura, KUBOTA Masataka
Mystery that adapts Akutagawa Prize-winning author Hirano Keiichiro's same-named novel about the source of human identity. Director Ishikawa Kei has earned accolades internationally for Gokuroku - Traces of Sin and Listen to the Universe. Attorney K...
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The Zen Diary (2022)
- Director
- NAKAE Yuji
- Cast
- SAWADA Kenji, MATSU Takako
Nakae Yuji, director of Nabbie's Love, adapted the worldview of author Mizukami Tsutomu's 1978 cooking essay into a screenplay. The film depicts the true richness of the writer's life through the "Twelve Months" that he spends appreciating the blessi...
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Alivehoon (2022)
- Director
- SHIMOYAMA Ten
- Cast
- NOMURA Shuhei, YOSHIKAWA Ai, JINNAI Takanori
A car action film about the exploits of a genius e-sports driver. The film is directed by Shimoyama Ten, director of the globally distributed Netflix original drama "Erased," and supervised by Tsuchiya Keiichi, a former racer known as the "Drift King...
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Battlecry (2021)
- Director
- Yanakaya
- Cast
- TOMITA Shinya, FUKUDA Yui
A fictitious 1980s Japan. Soji, a soldier on furlough, returns to his country. He receives a request from Haya, who was sent from the World Bank, to help her on a mission to investigate the actual circumstances of a narcotic called "Golden Monkey" wh...
