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Marmalade Boy (2018)
- Director
- HIROKI Ryuichi
- Cast
- SAKURAI Hinako, YOSHIZAWA Ryo
Live-action adaptation helmed by Wolf Girl and Black Prince director Hiroki Ryuichi based on Yoshizumi Wataru's popular comic, which has sold over 10 million copies over the course of the entire series. Teen romance starring Yoshizawa Ryo of Gintama ...
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Okko’s Inn (2018)
- Director
- KOSAKA Kitaro
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Seiran, MATSUDA Satsumi, MIZUKI Nana
Theatrical film anime adaptation of a popular piece of children's literature that has sold over 3 million copies in total. Directed by Kosaka Kitaro of NASU: SUMMER IN ANDALUSIA with script by Yoshida Reiko of Lu over the wall. Sixth-grader Okko (K...
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Shoplifters (2018)
- Director
- KORE-EDA Hirokazu
- Cast
- Lily Franky, ANDO Sakura, MATSUOKA Mayu
Drama interweaving emotional ties that transcend family, directed by THE THIRD MURDER's Kore-eda Hirokazu. Won the Palme d'Or in competition at the 71st Cannes International Film Festival. Day-laborer father Shibata Osamu (Lily Franky) and his son ...
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Chronicle of the After-School Wars (2018)
- Director
- TSUCHIDA Junpei
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Miori, AKIZUKI Narumi, Ririka
Film adaptation of the hit stage play utilizing A-list idols. Exquisitely depicts the subtleties of the emotions of girls wrapped up in absurd bloodletting with razor-sharp action and violence to boot. It's after school, and Kadowaki Sena (Ichikawa ...
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ASAKO I & II (2018)
- Director
- HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke
- Cast
- HIGASHIDE Masahiro, KARATA Erika, SETO Koji
Commercial film debut from Hamaguchi Ryusuke, whose previous work Happy Hour won the Best Actress award at the 68th Locarno International Film Festival. Brings a sensitive touch to depicting the emotions of a woman vacillating between two men with th...
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Café Funiculi Funicula (2018)
- Director
- TSUKAHARA Ayuko
- Cast
- ARIMURA Kasumi, ITO Kentaro
Film adaptation of the debut novel from stage writer and director Kawaguchi Toshikazu. Film directorial debut by Tsukahara Ayuko, who has helmed popular TV dramas included 'Unnatural.'. Urban legend has it that you can return to your chosen point in ...
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Ao-Natsu (2018)
- Director
- FURUSAWA Takeshi
- Cast
- AOI Wakana, SANO Hayato
Nanba Atsuko's identically titled comic is adapted to this live-action love story. In the director's chair is Furusawa Takeshi of Love for Beginners. Rio (Aoi Wakana) is a Tokyo-raised high school girl who dreams of a destined romance. She ends up s...
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DAY AND NIGHT (2019)
- Director
- FUJII Michihito
- Cast
- ABE Shinnosuke, ANDO Masanobu, KIYOHARA Kaya
Drama brought together under the aegis of idiosyncratic actor Yamada Takayuki, who focuses his energies on producing for this film. Deals with the fundamental question of whether people are good or bad by honing in on the gap between how people act a...
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Love At Least (2018)
- Director
- SEKINE Kosai
- Cast
- Shuri, SUDA Masaki, NAKA Riisa
Romance film adaptation of the novel from Akutagawa Prizewinning author Motoya Yukiko. Moving depiction of the growing distance between a woman dealing with isolation and a vacuous guy. Feature film debut from video director Sekine Kosai. Yasuko's (...
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OUR DEPARTURES (2018)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Yasuhiro
- Cast
- ARIMURA Kasumi, KUNIMURA Jun
Third film in the 'RAILWAYS' series about local railroads that celebrates humanity. Set on the Hisatsu Orange Railway in Kyushu, the film depicts the rebirth of a family unrelated by blood who have lost a loved one. Akira's (Arimura Kasumi) husband ...
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Legend of the Demon Cat (2018)
- Director
- Chen Kaige
- Cast
- SOMETANI Shota, Huang Xuan, ABE Hiroshi
Japan-China co-production about monk Kukai and poet Hakurakuten as they tackle a tremendous mystery that shakes Chang'an, based on author Yumemakura Baku‘s "Samon kukai tou no kuni nite oni to utagesu". Directed by Farewell My Concubine's Chen Kaige....
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NEW CINEMA KABUKI 『Yotsuya Kaidan』 (2017)
- Director
- KUSHIDA Kazuyoshi
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Shido, NAKAMURA Kankuro, NAKAMURA Shichinosuke
Twenty-eighth Cinema Kabuki digital theatrical screening of kabuki shot with HD cameras. Classic kabuki repertoire performed with a modern twist by Cocoon Kabuki is turned into film while preserving the immediacy of a playhouse. Iemon (Nakamura Shid...
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"CHOU"KOWAIHANASHI (2017)
- Director
- CHIBA Seiji
- Cast
- OGINO Karin, SHIDA Yumi, Kyoka
Alien vs. Ninja director, Chiba Seiji, resumes directorial and screenplay duties in this follow-up to Chou Kowaihanashi Comprised of four episodes, each stars current and former members of the idol group Yumemiru Adolescence. "Creak" is an encounter ...
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VAMPIRE CLAY (2017)
- Director
- UMEZAWA Soichi
- Cast
- TAKEDA Anna, SUGIMOTO Momoka, FUJITA Ena
A horror film in which people are beset by cursed clay. Serving as writer, director, and editor is Umezawa Soichi who worked on a segment of the omnibus project, The ABCs of Death2. Hidaka Kaori (Takeda Anna) has transferred to a vocational school. ...
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Lemon&Letter (2017)
- Director
- UMENOKI Keiko
- Cast
- SHINADA Makoto, UJIHARA Kyoko, KINOUCHI Akiko
Self-produced drama aiming to revitalize Ogijima island in the Seto Inland Sea by conveying the island's charms. A boy and girl who relocated to the island grow up as they become high school students and worry about love and their path in life. Fift...
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Danchi Woman (2017)
- Director
- SUGIMOTO Akiko
- Cast
- UCHIKOSHI Shizu, HIRAYAMA Reiko, TERADA Keiko
A documentary by Sugimoto Akiko who shot the independent film Seaside Road Danchi Story about a public housing complex on the verge of demolition. The camera is once again turned on the same public housing apartments as new construction begins and ca...
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MABUIGUMI (2017)
- Director
- HONGO Yoshiaki
- Cast
- Jean-Pierre Zengoro, Kana Obry, TAMAKI Katsuo
Documentary based on journalist and commentator Miki Takeshi's "Kuhaku no iminshi - New Caledonia to Okinawa." Miki serves as the navigator and explores the themes of family, war and ethnic groups from multiple perspectives. On his first visit to Ne...
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I Want to Run for Office (2016)
- Director
- XING Fei
- Cast
A documentary closely chronicling the process of running for the Shinjuku Ward Legislative Assembly by Lee Komaki, a man who worked over 20 years as a customer solicitor for restaurants and brothels in Shinjuku's red light district of Kabukicho. Lee...
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”Children of the Hakkyo School Project”, Work-in-progress 2017 (2017)
- Director
- SHIOZAKI Toshiko
- Cast
Documentary about kids growing up as they attend the Korean school in Edakawa in Tokyo's Koto district. Footage covering first-graders in 2010 through graduation was edited as a work-in-progress and given a special screening at the Yamagata Internati...
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The Road Home (2017)
- Director
- OURA Miran
- Cast
Oura Miran was a university student when she shot this documentary about her family in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The Oura family are forced to leave their hometown of Namie because of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster....
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Tenryu-ku Okuryoke Osawa: Bessho Tea Factory (2014)
- Director
- HORI Teiichi
- Cast
A documentary directed by Hori Teiichi who was a production assistant on the 1994 documentary Otentousama ga Hoshii and has worked in a wide variety of genres from pink films to ordinary theatrical releases. The lifestyle and scenery of Osawa, a vil...
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A Woman of the Butcher Shop (2016)
- Director
- YAMASHIRO Chikako
- Cast
- Natsuko, YAMAZAKI Akiko
Documentary by artist Yamashiro Chikako, who jumps between reality and fiction to trigger multifaceted interpretations from viewers through the use of allegories. Screened in the New Asian Currents section at the Yamagata International Documentary Fi...
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The Beginning of Creation: Abduction / A Child (2015)
- Director
- YAMASHIRO Chikako
- Cast
- KAWAGUCHI Takao
Short film by artist Yamashiro Chikako, who confronts the complex circumstances of Okinawa including US military bases and the problem of passing down memories and records from the Battle of Okinawa. Delves into the process of dancer and former artis...
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Tremorings of Hope (2017)
- Director
- AGATSUMA Kazuki
- Cast
Depicts the aftermath to disaster as a sequel to The People Living in Hadenya, which followed daily life in the Hadenya fishing village in Miyagi Prefecture's Sanriku Town during the three years prior to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Depicts the...
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The Power of Expression: The Minamata Producer Speaks (2016)
- Director
- INOUE Minoru, KATAOKA Nozomi
- Cast
- TAKAGI Ryutaro, NISHIGUCHI Seiji, HIGASHI Yoichi
Feature-length documentary by directors Kataoka Nozomi and Inoue Minoru of Kiraigo - Town Where Ogres and Buddha Live. Interweaves interviews and film excerpts to create a contemporary rendition of the filmmaking methods of Takagi Ryutaro, who produc...
