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My Daddy (2021)
- Director
- KANAI Junichi
- Cast
- MURO Tsuyoshi, NAKADA Noa, Nao
Popular actor Muro Tsuyoshi stars in the lead role of a film for the first time in this drama. The story depicts a father's painfully desperate scramble to save his beloved daughter. Kazuo (Muro) lives with his middle school daughter Hikari (Nakada ...
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Welcome to the Occult Woods (2022)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Koji
- Cast
- HOTTA Mayu, IIJIMA Hiroki, KAKEI Miwako
Sadako vs. Kayako and Impossibility Defense director Shiraishi Koji scripts, lenses, helms and stars in this horror film that portrays the terror of a film crew as a subjective experience. Horror director Kuroishi Koji (Shiraishi) takes assistant d...
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TOMBI: Father and Son (2022)
- Director
- ZEZE Takahisa
- Cast
- ABE Hiroshi, KITAMURA Takumi, Anne
Adaptation of Shigematsu Kiyoshi's same-named bestselling novel. Helmed by Zeze Takahisa, known for Six Four and other heavy-hitting dramas. Deliveryman Yasu (Abe Hiroshi) was orphaned as a young kid and is awkward but cares deeply for his family. H...
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The Dry Spell (2023)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Masaya
- Cast
- IKUTA Toma, ONO Machiko, ISOMURA Hayato
Drama dealing with social issues based on Kawabayashi Mitsuru's same-named novel from three decades ago. Shiraishi Kazuya, who has a career as a director, produced the project. In the midst of a summer draught, city waterworks employee Iwakiri (Iku...
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SADAKO DX (2022)
- Director
- KIMURA Hisashi
- Cast
- KOSHIBA Fuka, KAWAMURA Kazuma
Mystery suspense about the curse of the Sadako character from the J-horror "Ring" series. People throughout Japan suddenly die within 24 hours of seeing a "cursed video," Ichijo Fumika (Koshiba Fuka), a university student with an IQ of 200, rejects...
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My Broken Mariko (2022)
- Director
- TANADA Yuki
- Cast
- NAGANO Mei, Nao, KUBOTA Masataka
A live-action film adaptation of the manga of the same title by Waka Hirako, which has been translated and published in ten countries around the world, directed by Tanada Yuki of Romance Doll fame. Shiino (Nagano Mei) learns that her best friend Mar...
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Come and Go (2020)
- Director
- LIM Kah Wai
- Cast
- LEE Kang-Sheng, USAMARU Manami, CHIHARA Seiji
Filmmaker Lim Kah Wai is known for his extemporaneous approach to shooting on the road and made this off-beat drama in Osaka, where he is currently based. Features a colorful cast from nine Asian countries. The skeletal remains of a middle-aged woma...
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Gift of Fire (2021)
- Director
- KUROSAKI Hiroshi
- Cast
- YAGIRA Yuya, ARIMURA Kasumi, MIURA Haruma
Based on the historical events of the end of the Pacific War, this coming-of-age ensemble drama tells the story of three young adults who lived their lives to the fullest while being at the mercy of the times. It is the summer of 1945. Under secret ...
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EVANGELION:3.0+1.01 THRICE UPON A TIME (2021)
- Director
- TSURUMAKI Kazuya, NAKAYAMA Katsuichi, MAEDA Mahiro
- Cast
- OGATA Megumi, HAYASHIBARA Megumi, MIYAMURA Yuko
This is the fourth and final installment of the "Rebuild of Evangelion" series which began in 2007. Executive producer Anno Hideaki tells the continuing story after the events of 2012's EVANGELION:3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO. with a fresh vision and new s...
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JOINT (2021)
- Director
- KOJIMA Oudai
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Ikken, KIM Jin-Cheol, KIM Chang-Bak
The underworld of modern Japan is depicted with a documentary touch in this noir. Director Kojima Oudai makes his feature-length directorial debut with this film. Returning to Tokyo after being released from prison, racketeer Ishigami Takeshi (Yamam...
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And So The Baton Is Passed (2021)
- Director
- MAEDA Tetsu
- Cast
- NAGANO Mei, TANAKA Kei, ISHIHARA Satomi
Director Maeda Tetsu of A Banana? At This Time of Night? adapts to film the identically titled novel which won the Bookstore Grand Prize in 2019. Raised by parents unrelated to her and having changed her last name four times, Yuko (Nagano Mei) lives...
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THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill (2021)
- Director
- EGUCHI Kan
- Cast
- OKADA Junichi, KIMURA Fumino, HIRATE Yurina
Bringing together an extravagant cast, this sequel to the action film depicts the ultimate assassin on his greatest mission. Fable (Okada Junichi) is a legendary assassin who can kill any opponent within six seconds. He is ordered by his boss (Sato ...
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The Untold Tale of the Three Kingdoms (2020)
- Director
- FUKUDA Yuichi
- Cast
- OIZUMI Yo, Murotsuyoshi, OGURI Shun
Writer and director Fukuda Yuichi, known for Gintama and From Today, It's My Turn!!: The Movie, depicts an original interpretation of the historically-based fiction, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". 1,800 years ago in China, the Wei, Wu, and Shu war...
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Arc (2021)
- Director
- ISHIKAWA Kei
- Cast
- YOSHINE Kyoko, TERAJIMA Shinobu, OKADA Masaki
Director Ishikawa Kei grabbed the spotlight with Gukoroku - Traces of Sin and brings world-renowned SF author Ken Liu's short story to the big screen. In this epic tale, a woman becomes the first human to achieve immortality. The story takes place ...
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ITO (2021)
- Director
- YOKOHAMA Satoko
- Cast
- KOMAI Ren, TOYOKAWA Etsushi
Drama about a girl who matures through her experiences playing the Tsugaru shamisen. Directed by Yokohama Satoko, known for Bare Essence of Life. High schooler Ito (Komai Ren) is a misfit with her Tsugaru dialect accent and shy disposition, but she ...
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Mogura no uta Sennyusosakan Reiji Final (2021)
- Director
- MIIKE Takashi
- Cast
- IKUTA Toma, SUZUKI Ryohei, TSUTSUMI Shinichi
Final film in the live-action comedy series based on Takahashi Noboru's popular comic with Miike Takashi as director, Kudo Kankuro writing the script and Ikuta Toma as the lead actor. Depicts the protagonist's final mission as a mole infiltrating Suk...
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Masquerade Night (2021)
- Director
- SUZUKI Masayuki
- Cast
- KIMURA Takuya, NAGASAWA Masami
Second live-action adaptation of bestselling author Higashino Keigo's "Masquerade" series following up on the previous Masquerade Hotel that brought in 4.64 billion yen at the box office. An anonymous tip arrives that a certain murderer will show up...
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I'll never forget Cowra (2021)
- Director
- MITSUDA Yasuhiro
- Cast
The Rainbow Over The River Kwai director Mitsuda Yasuhiro uncovers the truth about the group of Japanese war prisoners who tried to escape from a POW camp in Australia. During World War II the Cowra 12th Prisoner of War Camp granted the POWs a certa...
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A MORNING OF FAREWELL (2021)
- Director
- NARUSHIMA Izuru
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, MATSUZAKA Tori, HIROSE Suzu
Rebirth director Narushima Izuru helms this adaptation of the same-named 2020 novel by real-life physician Minami Kyoko. Humanistic drama that addresses euthanasia and death with dignity through in-home medical care. Shiraishi Sawako (Yoshinaga Sayu...
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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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The Asian Angel (2021)
- Director
- ISHII Yuya
- Cast
- IKEMATSU Sosuke, Moon CHOI, ODAGIRI Joe
Road movie from The Great Passage director Ishii Yuya shot entirely in Korea. Brings together a cutting-edge team from Japan and Korea. Produced by Park Jung-Bum, who served as juror alongside Ishii at the Busan International Film Festival in 2014. ...
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Remain in Twilight (2020)
- Director
- MATSUI Daigo
- Cast
- NARITA Ryo, WAKABA Ryuya, HAMANO Kenta
The past and present of high school friends reunited for the first time in years intersect in this drama. Matsui Daigo, known for Japanese Girls Never Die and #HandballStrive directs from his own original script. Six classmates who were in the homec...
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Pompo: The Cinéphile (2021)
- Director
- HIRAO Takayuki
- Cast
- SHIMIZU Hiroya, KOHARA Konomi
Sugitani Shogo's (aka "Human Plastic Model") identically titled comic is adapted into this feature animated film by writer/director Hirao Takayuki known for The Garden Of Sinners - Paradox Paradigm and others. The production gathers together the top ...
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Minamata Mandala (2020)
- Director
- HARA Kazuo
- Cast
Documentary shot over a two-decade period by The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On director Hara Kazuo. Documents multilayered lives and stories of Minamata, where debilitating disease continues to cast a long shadow. On October 15, 2004, the Supreme...
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Onoda:10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)
- Director
- Arthur HARARI
- Cast
- ENDO Yuya, TSUDA Kanji
Drama about Onoda Hiroo, who didn't know the war had ended and continued his mission as an intelligence officer. In 1944 with the war's end approaching, intelligence trainee Onoda Hiroo (Endo Yuya, Tsuda Kanji) is ordered to wage a guerrilla war on ...
