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Leaving Home (2019)
- Director
- HAYAKAWA Daisuke
- Cast
- NAGAOKA Tasuku, KOZONO Yu, YANAGI Elisa
This drama about a family is set in a small community along the natural splendor of the Uwa Sea dotted by islands large and small. In the director's chair is Hayakawa Daisuke who is making his feature directing debut with this film. Ten years ago Ke...
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A Girl Under a Tree (2019)
- Director
- MORIYA Fumio
- Cast
- YANAGI Elisa
This uncommon film simply showing matter-of-factly a girl sleeping beneath the shade of a tree is directed by Moriya Fumio who made his directorial debut with Manga-jima: The Island of Cartoon. He is also an actor as well as a screenwriter who wrote ...
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Ryoma! The Prince of Tennis (2021)
- Director
- KOUJINA Hiroshi
- Cast
- MINAGAWA Junko, MATSUYAMA Takashi, TAKAHASHI Mikako
First full 3DCG animated feature film for the "Prince of Tennis" TV series based on the popular manga. Three days after winning the grueling national championships, Echizen Ryoma (Minakawa Junko) heads for the US to train on his own. However, upon a...
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Kakegurui 2: Ultimate Russian Roulette (2021)
- Director
- HANABUSA Tsutomu
- Cast
- HAMABE Minami, TAKASUGI Mahiro, FUJII Ryusei
Second feature film adaptation of the TV drama based on the popular comic. "Tokyo Revengers" director Hanabusa Tsutomu returns to the helm with original story supervised by Kawamoto Homura, creator of the original story. In Hyakkaoh Private Academy ...
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SANDAKAN NO.8 (1974)
- Director
- KUMAI Kei
- Cast
- KURIHARA Komaki, TANAKA Kinuyo, TAKAHASHI Yoko
The Long Darkness and Rise, Fair Sun director Kumai Kei helmed this film adaptation of a story by Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award-winner Yamazaki Tomoko. Depicts the cruel and checkered destiny of girls known as "Karayuki-san." Mitani Keiko (Kurihara Ko...
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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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A HOUSE OF GEISHA (1956)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, YAMADA Isuzu, TAKAMINE Hideko
Naruse Mikio helmed this adaptation of Koda Aya's same-named novel. Repast and Late Chrysanthemums screenplay writer Tanaka Sumie coauthored the script with Ide Toshiro. Depicts the tragicomedy of women gathered in the Yanagibashi entertainment distr...
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The Life of Oharu (1952)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, YAMANE Hisako, MIFUNE Toshiro
Mizoguchi Kenji's adaptation of a literary classic won the International Award at the 13th Venice International Film Festival. Oharu (Tanaka Kuniyo) is a star-crossed woman destroyed by men, both hateful and beloved. One freezing winter morning at d...
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MUNEKATA SISTERS (1950)
- Director
- OZU Yasujiro
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, TAKAMINE Hideko, UEHARA Ken
Melodrama helmed by Ozu Yasujiro that captures Japanese beauty while depicting pained yet beautiful human events. First film directed by Ozu away from Shochiku. The Munekata sisters are Setsuko (Tanaka Kinuyo) and Mariko (Takamine Hideko). Their fa...
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo (1945)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, TANAKA Kinuyo, ICHIKAWA Sensho
Historical drama helmed by Naruse Mikio that depicts the samurai spirit, a mysterious man, and a woman who risks her life to fulfill an obligation. It is Kyoto in the spring. The city is in a tizzy over whether Kishu retainer Kazusa Daihachiro (Ich...
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The Wandering Princess (1960)
- Director
- TANAKA Kinuyo
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, RYU Yomei
This tearful masterpiece about the harshness and depth of love known only to women is dedicated to women everywhere from an all-female creative team, namely the author Aishin Kakura Hiro, screenplay writer Wada Natto, and director Tanaka Kinuyo. Que...
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HER BROTHER (1960)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- KISHI Keiko, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, TANAKA Kinuyo
Based upon a novel written by Aya Koda. A woman loves her brother very much. They share their dreams as they grow up. When the brother turns 17, he tragically dies, leaving his sister devastated and alone. 【Quoted from the database of KADOKAWA】...
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HER MOTHER'S PROFESSION (1954)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, OTANI Tomoemon, KUGA Yoshiko
Yukio's lover rejects her when he discovers her mother runs a geisha house. Following a failed suicide attempt, Yukiko returns to her mother, and despises everything connected with the geisha house including her mother's lover. But gradually Yukiko c...
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SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, HANAYAGI Yoshiaki, KAGAWA Kyoko
Winner of the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. Medieval Japan: a compassionate governor is exiled, his family sold into slavery. Raised by a brutal tax collector, the governor's son grows into a brute himself but a childhood memory forc...
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Miss Oyu (1951)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, OTOWA Nobuko, HORI Yuji
Shinosuke is promised to Shizu but he falls in love with her sister, Oyu, a widowed single mother who is forbidden to marry. Oyu convinces both Shinosuke and Shizu to marry so she can stay close to him. 【Quoted from the database of KADOKAWA】...
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A Hen in the Wind (1948)
- Director
- OZU Yasujiro
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, SANO Shuji, RYU Chishu
Tokiko (Tanaka Kinuyo) lives in a rental with her young son Hiroshi and awaits her husband Shuichi's (Sano Shuji) return from the warfront. She brings kimono one by one to her trusted friend Akiko (Miyake Kuniko), who sells them to her neighbor Orie ...
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Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Hiroshi
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, RYU Chishu, KAWASAKI Hiroko
One summer Emi and Okiku venture from Tokyo to pay their respects at Mt. Minobu, and they stay overnight at the Shimobe hot spring. Scholar Katada and battle-wounded soldier Nanmura are sojourning at the same inn. One morning, Nanmura injures his fo...
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One in a Hundred Thousand (2020)
- Director
- MIKI Koichiro
- Cast
- SHIRAHAMA Alan (EXILE / GENERATIONS), TAIRA Yuna, YUKI Mio
Miyasaka Kaho's popular comic about the love of a high school couple confronting an incurable illness which strikes only one in hundred thousand people is adapted to live-acton by director Miki Koichiro who has delivered many hit teen films such as Y...
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Happy-Go-Lucky Days (2020)
- Director
- SATO Takuya
- Cast
- HANAZAWA Kana, KOMATSU Mikako, SAKURAI Takahiro
The anthology manga depicting various forms of love by Shimura Takako, a master of youth ensemble fiction, is adapted to this animated film. In the director's chair is Sato Takuya who has shown a gift for poetic imagery and music direction in Kase-sa...
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Tonkatsu DJ Agetaro (2020)
- Director
- NINOMIYA Ken
- Cast
- KITAMURA Takumi, YAMAMOTO Maika, ITO Kentaro
Based on the popular slapstick manga depicting the growth of young man aiming to be a "tonkatsu DJ", which was also adapted into an anime television series, this adolescent comedy was directed by Ninomiya Ken whose independent film Slum-polis was pra...
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Tokyo Revengers (2021)
- Director
- HANABUSA Tsutomu
- Cast
- KITAMURA Takumi, YAMADA Yuki, SUGINO Yosuke
Director Hanabusa Tsutomu, who has had a hand in numerous manga-based films, adapts to live-action the identically titled manga by Wakui Ken who is known for "Shinjuku Swan" among others. The story depicts a man living a sullen life who goes back in ...
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THE CONFIDENCE MAN JP -EPISODE OF THE PRINCESS- (2020)
- Director
- TANAKA Akira
- Cast
- NAGASAWA Masami, HIGASHIDE Masahiro, KOTE Shinya
This is the second film in the theatrical film series based on the hit television show depicting con-men duping one another. Set on the "legendary island" of Langkawi, a con game unfolds with a multimillionaire's supposed 10-trillion-yen inheritance ...
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The Promised Neverland (2020)
- Director
- HIRAKAWA Yuichiro
- Cast
- HAMABE Minami, JO Kairi, ITAGAKI Rihito
Director Hirakawa Yuichiro adapts to film the popular manga of the same name which has sold over 26 million copies worldwide and is soon to become serialized on television abroad. Orphan boys and girls learn the shocking truth about their own circums...
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Independence of Japan (2020)
- Director
- ITO Shunya
- Cast
- ASANO Tadanobu, MIYAZAWA Rie, KOBAYASHI Kaoru
Set after the war in occupied Japan, this drama depicts Yoshida Shigeru and Shirasu Jiro, who were an equally matched opponent for the Allied Forces General Headquarters (GHQ) as it rushed to immediately restore Japan's autonomy. The film is written ...
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COMPLICITY (2018)
- Director
- CHIKA-URA Kei
- Cast
- Lu Yulai, FUJI Tatsuya
Director Chikaura Kei, whose short film Signature was nominated for the short film competition section of the 70th Locarno Film Festival, makes his feature length debut with this film. It depicts the bond that develops between a young Chinese man and...
