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All Aboard! (2020)
- Director
- HISHIKAWA Seiichi
- Cast
- MURAKAMI Yukino, FUJII Soma, SHIMAMOTO Katsuhiro
This is the movie "All aboard!". In Komatsushima, a port town in Tokushima, Shikoku, Haruka Asakura (played by Yukino Murakami) lives with her effeminate father Goro Asakura (Katsuhiro Shimamoto), her uncle Kentaro Asakura (Jun Suzuki) who is in love...
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KINMOZA The Movie: Thank You!! (2021)
- Director
- NAWA Munenori
- Cast
- NISHI Asuka, TANAKA Manami, TANEDA Risa
Feature film adaptation of Hara Yui's popular manga, which ran for a full decade starting in 2010. Depicts the lead characters' final days of high school. Alice is a girl from the UK doing a homestay with Shinobu's (Nishi Asuka) family. The girls ha...
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Unlock Your Heart (2021)
- Director
- SHUTO Rin
- Cast
- YAMADA Anna, SAKUMA Ryuto, IMOU Haruka
26-year-old (at the time of production) director Shuto Rin adapts to film this coming-of-age drama based on Akutagawa Prize-winning author Wataya Risa's identically titled novel which she was passionate about. Ai (Yamada Anna) is a popular girl in s...
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ARIA THE BENEDIZIONE (2021)
- Director
- SATO Junichi, NATORI Takahiro
- Cast
- SAITO Chiwa, MINAGAWA Junko, NAKAHARA Mai
Feature film adaptation of Amano Kozue's same-named comic "ARIA the ANIMATION." This film joins the OVA "ARIA The AVVENIRE" and "ARIA THE CREPSCOLO" to complete the Blue Curtain Call trilogy. Winter arrives in Neo-Venezia. Azusa (Nakahara Mai) hear...
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The Sound of Grass (2021)
- Director
- SAITO Hisashi
- Cast
- HIGASHIDE Masahiro, Nao, DAITOH Shunsuke
Fifth work by towering author Sato Yasushi to reach the big screen following And Your Bird Can Sing. Director Saito Hisashi updates the 1979 short story to contemporary times and lays bare the struggles of people dealing with loneliness. Kazuo (Higa...
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Sumikkogurashi: The Little Wizard in the Blue Moonlight (2021)
- Director
- OMORI Takahiro
- Cast
Second anime feature film based the popular Sumikko Gurashi characters, who have quirky but negative personalities. First-time collaboration by hitmakers Omori Takahiro of "Natsume Yujin-cho" and scriptwriter Yoshida Reiko of "Violet Evergarden." On...
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Ura Zokki (2021)
- Director
- SHINOHARA Rie
- Cast
- Citizens of Gamagori City, TAKENAKA Naoto, YAMADA Takayuki
"ZOKKI" is a unique film directed by Naoto Takenaka, Takayuki Yamada, and Takumi Saitoh. It is a live-action adaptation of a short story collection by manga artist, Hiroyuki Ohashi. The people of Gamagori City, Aichi, where the film will be shot, wer...
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Baby Assasins (2021)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Yugo
- Cast
- TAKAISHI Akari, IZAWA Saori, MIMOTO Masanori
A pair of socially awkward former high school girls and assassins attempt to fit in to society in this coming-of-age film writtend and directed by Sakamoto Yugo who has made a name for himself with fantastical films such as A Janitor. Chisato (Takai...
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The Lone Ume Tree (2021)
- Director
- WAJIMA Kotaro
- Cast
- KAGA Mariko, TSUKAJI Muga, WATANABE Ikkei
Drama that warmly and sincerely depicts the lives of an aging mother with her autistic son. Director Wajima Kotaro wrote the screenplay for Kyoto Elegy, which was selected for the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival. Yamada Tamako (Kaga Mariko) l...
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Junretsuger (2021)
- Director
- BUTSUDA Hiroshi
- Cast
- GOGAMI Shota, SHIRAKAWA Yujiro, ODAI Ryohei
Popcorn movie starring the popular group Junretsu comprising former stars of Toei special effects movies. Feature film debut for Butsuda Hiroshi, who has served as VFX director for the Super Sentai and Kamen Rider series. The Junretsu group perform...
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Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (2021)
- Director
- WATANABE Ayumu
- Cast
- OTAKE Shinobu, Cocomi, HANAE Natsuki
Popular comedian Akashiya Sanma produces his first animated feature film with this adaptation of Nishi Kanako's same-named novel. Official selection for the 45th Annecy International Animation Film Festival Nikuko (Otake Shinobu) and her fifth-grade...
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Aristocrats (2021)
- Director
- SODE Yukiko
- Cast
- KADOWAKI Mugi, MIZUHARA Kiko, KORA Kengo
Good Stripes director Sode Yukiko helms this film adaptation of a novel by Yamauchi Mariko, who has seen numerous works on the big screen. Shows the lives of two women living in very different worlds in the same city. Hanako (Kadowaki Mugi) had a sh...
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Day of Destruction (2020)
- Director
- TOYODA Toshiaki
- Cast
- SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko, MahiToThePeople, Issey OGATA
In January of 2020, director Toyoda Toshiaki developed this ambitious film about the state of society with the Tokyo Olympics approaching. He used crowdfunding to produce the film as the spreading COVID-19 infections raised questions about the very m...
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PLANETIST (2020)
- Director
- TOYODA Toshiaki
- Cast
- MIYAGAWA Noritsugu, GOMA, KUBOZUKA Yosuke
Documentary selected for the Special Screenings program at the 19th TOKYO FILMeX. Director Toyoda Toshiaki fell in love with the natural splendor of the World Heritage Ogasawara Islands after visiting in 2014, and he moved to the islands and spent fo...
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Battle of Okinawa: Unknown Sad Memories (2019)
- Director
- OTA Takafumi
- Cast
Documentary that delves into memories of the horrific combat in Okinawa, the site of Japan's only land warfare during World War II. Ota Takafumi helmed the feature film The House of Rising Suns about a tragic nuclear power plant accident. A third of...
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RESONANCE (2020)
- Director
- TANAKA Toshinori
- Cast
- AOYAGI Takuji
Tokyo-born Takuji was raised by his mother and guitarist grandfather. He becomes a musician himself and father of two daughters. He leaves the ever-changing modern metropolis where people are divorced from nature and relocates to Okinawa. There, an i...
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Love Letter (1953)
- Director
- TANAKA Kinuyo
- Cast
- MORI Masayuki, KUGA Yoshiko, KAGAWA Kyoko
Directorial debut for celebrated actress Tanaka Kinuyo. All-star cast depicts the sorrowful romance of a couple at the mercy of fate. Script by Kinoshita Keisuke. Reikichi has been searching for his beloved Michiko for five years since the end of th...
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Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, HORI Yuji, KAGAWA Kyoko
Lyrical film from Naruse Mikio that poignantly portrays women working as hostesses in Ginza still recovering from the war. Tanaka Kiniyo performs brilliantly as both "woman" and "mother." Yukiko works as a hostess in Ginza while raising the son she ...
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Forever By Your Side (2020)
- Director
- UEDA Tokitaka
- Cast
- SEON Min-Gyeong, ONO Hiroshi, NONAKA Tomoko
Kansai-based film production studio Theater Café Nyan assembles a cast and crew of Japanese and Koreans for this co-production. Set both in Japan and Korea, the film depicts a trio of themes: two forms of love, friendship, and a way of living. Mamor...
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Tank Sit-In Protest:Japanese Citizen VS.U.S. Military (2020)
- Director
- TSUJI Toyofumi
- Cast
In 1972 toward the final stages of the Vietnam War, a protest movement arose against the U.S. military's repair of tanks at the Sagami General Supply Depot in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture and their transport to the Yokohama north docks. This ...
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HERO 2020 (2020)
- Director
- SAIJO Mitsutoshi
- Cast
- HIROSE Tomoki, KITAHARA Rie, KOMATSU Junya
Saijo Mitsutoshi, a playwright and theatre director who wrote the screenplay for the film blank13, adapts to film the debut play of the theatre company he supervises, Taiyo Magic Film. It depicts the mayhem revolving around a "two year limit on love"...
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I quit, being "friends" (2020)
- Director
- IMAMURA Ayako
- Cast
Film director Imamura Ayako who filmed herself wrestling with communication barriers in Start Line points the camera at her relationship with her friend in this documentary. Full of discontent "me" (Imamura), the film director, and my friend "Ma-cha...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)
- Director
- SHINDO Kaneto
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, KYO Machiko, YAMADA Isuzu
This is a documentary on the life and films of Kenji Mizoguchi, the great Japanese film director who died in 1956, directed by the now well-known creator of films who was once assistant director to Mizoguchi. Beginning in the hospital where Mizoguch...
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AKIRA Shimada (2021)
- Director
- SAKO Tadahiko
- Cast
Feature-length documentary that sheds light on the overlooked wartime history of Okinawa, helmed by Sako Tadahiko of Kamejiro: The U.S. Military's Most Feared Man. Draws on newly uncovered materials to piece together the full picture of the epic Okin...
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Closet (2020)
- Director
- SHINDO Takehiro
- Cast
- MINOGAWA Yosuke, KURIBAYASHI Aino, ARAI Iku
Drama about the "spiritual loneliness" lurking within contemporary society. Helmed by Shindo Takehiro, who cut his chops assistant directing films by Park Chan-wook and others. Selected for some thirty film festivals worldwide, including the Cineques...
