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SUICIDE FOREST VILLAGE (2021)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Takashi
- Cast
- YAMADA Anna, YAMAGUCHI Mayu
The second horror film in the "terror village" series following Shimizu Takashi's Howling Village, it depicts under the backdrop of Mt. Fuji's dense woodlands a world of madness and chaos brought on by the terror of a cursed box. Once upon a time, a...
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Nosari - Impermanent Eternity (2020)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Tatsuya
- Cast
- FUJIWARA Kisetsu, HARA Chisako
Seventh Kitashirakawaha project from Kyoto University of the Arts Department of Film Production. This story about the oddball cohabitation of a conman and an elderly woman won the NETPAC Special Mention at the 24th Bucheon International Fantastic Fil...
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Sasaki in My Mind (2020)
- Director
- UCHIYAMA Takuya
- Cast
- FUJIWARA Kisetsu, HOSOKAWA Gaku, HAGIWARA Minori
Coming-of-age film from innovative director Uchiyama Takuya, who won the Audience Award at the Pia Film Festival 2016 for his debut film Vanitas. An actor whose career is going nowhere confronts his own past, inspired by a story from actor Hosokawa G...
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Kamata Prelude (2020)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Ryutaro, AKIYAMA Mayu, YASUKAWA Yuka
- Cast
- MATUBAYASHI Urara, FURUKAWA Kotone, SUDO Ren
Parody of society from the vantage point of actress Machiko as performed by Matsubayashi Urara, the star of The Hungry Lion who developed and produced this film. Four-part omnibus directed by the up-coming Nakagawa Ryutaro of Summer Blooms, Akiyama M...
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THE LAST GOZE (2020)
- Director
- TAKIZAWA Masaharu
- Cast
- KAWAKITA Non, YOSHIMOTO Miyu, NAKAJIMA Hiroko
A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). This film dramatizes the life of the late Kobayashi Haru, who as the last goze, carried the title of "intangible ...
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Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots (2020)
- Director
- YOSHINO Ryohei
- Cast
- SAKUMA Yui, Nao
First novel by Akutagawa Prize winner Tsumura Kikuko to hit the silver screen. Third feature film for director Yoshino Ryuhei. With college graduation right around the corner and a job already lined up, Horigai (Sakuma Yui) has too much time on her...
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Living in the Sky (2020)
- Director
- AOYAMA Shinji
- Cast
- TABE Mikako, KISHII Yukino, MIMURA Rie
The first feature-length film in seven years by Aoyama Shinji, who gained international acclaim for Eureka, renders the emotional subtleties of modern-day women making every effort at living without ruining their pride. Naomi (Tabe Mikako) works at ...
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Sad Angels (2020)
- Director
- MORIOKA Toshiyuki
- Cast
- WADA Hitomi, MIZUNO Masaru
Portrayed with audacious sensuality, this drama tells the story of a sorrowfully pure love between a prostitute and a young man who drifted into the red light district. The film is written and directed by Morioka Toshiyuki who has delved into the sex...
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ABOUT AZAMI (2020)
- Director
- KOSHIKAWA Michio
- Cast
- KOSHINO Ena, OKUNO Eita, MINE Goichi
Koshikawa Michio, who has consistently depicted the sexual affairs between men and women, directs this tender drama about the change of heart experienced by a woman who tries to compensate for her loneliness. Azami (Koshino Ena) ran away from her tr...
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Over the Sky (2020)
- Director
- SENA Yoshinobu
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Honoka, SETO Toshiki
Feature-film fantasy animation set in subculture center Ikebukuro, which makes numerous appearances in the film. Original story and script from Sena Yoshinobu, whose short animation Kushimitama Samurai was an official selection in the Annecy Internat...
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Mr.Suzuki -A Man In God's Country- (2020)
- Director
- SASAKI Omoi
- Cast
- ITO Asako, TSUKUDA Norihiko, OKATA Hisako
A living god - known simply as "God" - heads an insular nation where a beautiful, brilliant city exists. Due to a declining birthrate, the city issues an ordinance that all unmarried people over the age of forty-four will lose their citizenship. Yos...
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Ii-chan's White Cane (2018)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Mariko
- Cast
- KONAGAYA Iori, KONAGAYA Ibuki
Iori Konagaya was born blind. Going by the nickname Ii-chan, she learned how to live as a visually impaired person at the Shizuoka School for the Blind 20 years ago. She was desperate to become independent. But as she was growing up, she ran into man...
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WHY YOU CAN'T BE PRIME MINISTER (2020)
- Director
- OSHIMA Arata
- Cast
- OGAWA Junya
Documentary following politician Ogawa Junya over a seventeen-year period. Director Oshima Arata's Theatrical - Kara Juro to Gekidan Karagumi no Kiroku won the 17th Japan Movie Critics Award for documentary film. Lower house lawmaker Ogawa Junya gra...
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Restart (2021)
- Director
- SHINAGAWA Hiroshi
- Cast
- EMILY, SWAY
Comedian Shinagawa Hiroshi has worked on many films as a director. His latest work is this coming-of-age film set in the town of Shimokawa in Hokkaido and describes the restart of a 28-year-old musician who returns home after her dream of being a mus...
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The Past is Always New, The Future is Always Nostalgic Photographer Daido Moriyama (2021)
- Director
- IWAMA Gen
- Cast
- MORIYAMA Daido, KANBAYASHI Yutaka, MACHIGUCHI Satoshi
This documentary is a close-up portrait of photographer Moriyama Daido who won the 2019 Hasselblad Award, referred to as the "Nobel Prize of photography", and is still active as a photographer even at over 80 years of age. Serving as director, cinema...
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KONTORA (2019)
- Director
- Anshul CHAUHAN
- Cast
- MARUI Wan, MASE Hidemasa, YAMADA Taichi
The odd meeting between a young girl in search of a mysterious treasure and a homeless man unfolds in monochromatic imagery in this drama. At the helm is Anshul Chauhan, an Indian director presently residing in Japan who garnered attention at domesti...
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Any Crybabies Around? (2020)
- Director
- SATO Takuma
- Cast
- NAKANO Taiga, YOSHIOKA Riho
A naked drunk man shows up on a national live TV in the middle of the sacred Namahage festival, where men dressed in ogre-like costume visit homes to scare kids not to do bad things in the next year. The man, young father Tasuku, gets ostracized for ...
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Angry Rice Wives (2021)
- Director
- MOTOKI Katsuhide
- Cast
- INOUE Mao, MIURA Takahiro, NATSUKI Mari
Entertaining film about the "rice riots" said to be the first example of citizen activism by women in Japan. Matsuura Ito (Inoue Mao) is a wife with three kids who works as a female laborer hauling bales of rice to the shore. The wives are vexed by ...
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ARIA THE CREPUSCOLO (2020)
- Director
- SATO Junichi, NATORI Takahiro
- Cast
- HIROHASHI Ryo, SATO Rina, KAYANO Ai
Feature film based on Amano Kozue's comic that has total sales exceeding 4.6 million copies and was first adapted as a TV anime series in 2005. Something is bothering Anya (voice: Kayano Ai), who spends her days in training at the upstart water-gui...
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PORNOGRAPHER: PLAYBACK (2021)
- Director
- MIKI Koichiro
- Cast
- TAKEZAI Terunosuke, IZUKA Kenta
The "Pornographer" manga series about the dictation of erotic literature hits the silver screen after being adapted as a live-action TV drama. Sensitive depiction of the tension and affection between two people who care about each other but fail to c...
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LIAR x LIAR (2021)
- Director
- YAKUMO Saiji
- Cast
- MATSUMURA Hokuto, MORI Nana
The comic of the same name which has surpassed over 1.9 million total copies published is adapted to live-action by Mars director Yakumo Saiji. The unusual love story depicts a "love triangle" between only two people which began with a lie. Minato (...
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LIP×LIP FILM×LIVE (2020)
- Director
- MUROI Fumie
- Cast
- UCHIYAMA Koki, SHIMAZAKI Nobunaga
This film brings to the big screen the virtual idols LIP x LIP which is produced by the content creators known as HoneyWorks whose videos have been watched over 700 million times. In addition to footage of virtual concerts, it depicts the untold stor...
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It's a Summer Film! (2020)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Soushi
- Cast
- ITO Marika, KANEKO Daichi, KAWAI Yumi
Coming-of-age story that brings in scifi elements to portray a high school girl who belongs to her school's cinema club and obsesses over samurai movies. TV drama, CM and music video director Matsumoto Soushi takes the megaphone with a screenplay by ...
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The Stranger by the Shore (2020)
- Director
- OHASHI Akiyo
- Cast
- MURATA Taishi, MATSUOKA Yoshitsugu, SHIMAMURA Yu
The love story of a young boy an aspiring novelist…Bittersweet, and in the end, heartwarming. Three years ago, they met on the shore of an isolated Okinawan island. Shun Hashimoto, an aspiring gay novelist, notices a young boy, Mio Chibana, lost in...
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Company Retreat (2020)
- Director
- FUNAHASHI Atsushi
- Cast
- HIRAI Saki, ITO Megumi, YAMANAKA Takafumi
A woman working as a hotel receptionist was harassed by her superior. This docu-fiction depicts sexual harassment affects not only the victim and the perpetrator, but everyone around them....
