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Nishijin (1961)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Toshio
- Cast
Short film directed by Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of avant-garde documentary films. A documentary film appreciation group in Kyoto self-produced the film as part of their cultural activities. The film is not about Nishijin as the origin of the luxur...
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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Toshio
- Cast
- Peter, TSUCHIYA Yoshio, OGASAWARA Osamu
First theatrical film by Matsumoto Toshio, creator of numerous experimental shorts. Depicts a bloody horror story set in late-1960s Shinjuku, Roppongi and Harajuku. Gonda (Tsuchiya Yoshio) owns a gay bar called Genet and Eddie (Peter) is the star ho...
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LUNA (2016)
- Director
- IKEDA Kazuma
- Cast
- IZUMI Haru, Kentaro, SUZUKI Hirono
Original live-action film shot in 8K/HDR and co-produced by IMAGICA and ROBOT. Director Ikeda Kazuma has created many visual-media works including live action, CG and anime. It is a fall day. High school student Shunsuke (Kentaro) notices Risa (Izum...
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born, bone, boon. (2016)
- Director
- Gori
- Cast
- Gori, SATO Hitomi, GUSHIKEN Azusa
Short comedy inspired by the "senkotsu" ceremony that involves washing the bones of the deceased. Family members who have lost touch with each other reconnect after coming face-to-face with their true selves. Directed by Gori, the TV personality and ...
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Home Away From Home (2017)
- Director
- MAKABE Yukinori
- Cast
- James Jirayu, ABE Junko, Hershel Peppers
Work in the Tokyo Cine-magic project that creates short films about Tokyo, produced by Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia. Directed by Makabe Yukinori of I Am a Monk. A taxi driver, young girl and backer packer travel through fantastical Tokyo that i...
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A Grain of Wheat (2016)
- Director
- SUZUKI Ben
- Cast
- Charlotte Kate Fox, HINOI Asuka, EMOTO Akira
Work from a short-film project that aims to share the appeal of Yokohama with the world. Directed by Suzuki Ben, who became the first Japanese director to win the Grand Prix at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia in 2008 with A Day in the Life of B...
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THE HOUSE WHERE THE MERMAID SLEEPS (2018)
- Director
- TSUTSUMI Yukihiko
- Cast
- SHINOHARA Ryoko, NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi
In this mystery based on the novel by "Into the White Night" and "Suspect X" author, Higashino Keigo, a couple is confronted by a tragedy involving their beloved child and ultimately must make a difficult choice. Tsutsumi Yukihiko of Sanada 10 Braves...
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THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES (2018)
- Director
- MIKI Koichiro
- Cast
- FUKUSHI Sota
Road movie adaptation of the bestselling novel by author Arikawa Hiro, whose works "Library Wars" and "Evergreen Love" have already been turned into movies. Evergreen Love and Anonymous Noise director Miki Koichiro depicts the journey of a boy and ca...
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PERFECT WORLD (2018)
- Director
- SHIBAYAMA Kenji
- Cast
- IWATA Takanori, SUGISAKI Hana
The live-action adaptation of Aruga Rie's similarly titled manga depicting the romance between a protagonist left handicapped by an accident and the heroine who cares deeply for him. In the director's chair is Shibayama Kenji of Nagareboshi ga Kienai...
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WHAT A WONDERFUL FAMILY! 3: MY WIFE, MY LIFE (2018)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- HASHIZUME Isao, YOSHIYUKI Kazuko, TSUMABUKI Satoshi
Third film in the "What a Wonderful Family!" series from director Yamada Yoji. This paean to homemakers depicts a family's plunge into chaos when faced with an emergency situation. The Hirata family have a lively household wi th three generations l...
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The Night I Swam (2017)
- Director
- IGARASHI Kohei, Damien MANIVEL
- Cast
- KOGAWA Takara, KOGAWA Keiki, KOGAWA Chisato
A Japan-France jointly produced film co-directed by Igarashi Kohei of Hold Your Breath Like a Lover and Damien Manivel of A Young Poet. It was screened at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. Just before the break of dawn in a small town nes...
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GHOST SQUAD (2017)
- Director
- IGUCHI Noboru
- Cast
- MIKADO Minori, HON Yuni, UENO Sumire
A quirky horror film depicting the escapades of the ghost revenge group, "Ghost Squad", by the gifted director of The Machine Girl, Iguchi Noboru. Rika (Yanagi Anna) is a young girl thinking of committing suicide who is possessed by the ghosts of th...
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Sennan Asbestos Disaster (2017)
- Director
- HARA Kazuo
- Cast
A documentary in which Hara Kazuo, director of The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, covers the eight-year-long court proceedings of a lawsuit against the national government demanding restitutions for wrongful injury from asbestos in the Sennen disct...
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Misojionna wa romantic na yume o miruka? (2017)
- Director
- YAMAGISHI Kentaro
- Cast
- TAKEDA Rina, KUBOTA Yuki, SASO Yuki
A road movie depicting a woman who goes on the run with the band of robbers who kidnapped her. It is written and directed by Yamagishi Kentaro, whose short film Tokyo Mukokuseki Shojo was adapted to a feature length film by Oshii Mamoru. Nana (Taked...
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CHIHAYAFURU Part 3 (2018)
- Director
- KOIZUMI Norihiro
- Cast
- HIROSE Suzu, NOMURA Shuhei, ARATA Mackenyu
Sequel to CHIHAYAFURU Part 1 and CHIHAYAFURU Part 2, live-action adaptations of the popular girls' comic. A group of high school students compete in their final karuta card game tournament. Two years have gone by since the Mizusawa Karuta Club found...
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Gekijoban Ultraman Geed Tsunaguze! negai!! (2018)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Koichi
- Cast
- HAMADA Tatsuomi, YAMAMOTO Chihiro, HASEGAWA Mayu
The theatrical film depicting the adventures of the Ultraman hero for a new generation, "Ultraman Geed". Overcoming a harsh fate, Ultraman Geed rises up against a new enemy attacking the Earth. In the director's chair is Sakamoto Koichi who has helme...
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Last Winter, We Parted (2018)
- Director
- TAKIMOTO Tomoyuki
- Cast
- IWATA Takanori, YAMAMOTO Mizuki, SAITOH Takumi
The film adaptation of Nakamura Fuminori's novel of the same name. It depicts an extreme love that besets the human mind as the story speeds headlong to an unpredictable outcome. Yakumo Kyosuke (Iwata Takanori), a young reporter looking for a scoop,...
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KIDS ON THE SLOPE (2018)
- Director
- MIKI Takahiro
- Cast
- CHINEN Yuri, NAKAGAWA Taishi, KOMATSU Nana
Miki Takahiro of My Teacher directs the film adaptation of the same-named comic from manga artist Kodama Yuki. It is summer 10 years ago. Kaoru (Chinen Yuri) transfers to a new school and has a fateful encounter with the school's terrifying bad-boy ...
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Bungo Stray Dogs - DEAD APPLE - (2018)
- Director
- IGARASHI Takuya
- Cast
- UEMURA Yuto, MIYANO Mamoru, ONO Kensho
The theatrical film adaptation of the animation in which Japan's literary figures are turned into characters who fight with superpowers against the backdrop of a fictitious version of Yokohama. Two years after the Ryuto Resistance six years ago, Nak...
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Principal -Am I In A Love Story?- (2018)
- Director
- SHINOHARA Tetsuo
- Cast
- KUROSHIMA Yuina, KOTAKI Nozomu, TAKASUGI Mahiro
Live-action adaptation of manga author Ikuemi Ryo's girls' comic "Principal." Depicts the love life of a straightforward and awkward high school girl. Shima (Kuroshima Yuina) has a falling out with her Tokyo high school friends and flees to Sapporo....
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Infini-T Force Movie (2018)
- Director
- MATSUMOTO Jun
- Cast
- SEKI Tomokazu, SAKURAI Takahiro, SUZUMURA Kenichi
Feature film animation sequel to the TV series "Infini-T Force" featuring battles by anime production company Tatsunoko Production's renowned heroes Gatchaman, Tekkaman, Polimar and Casshan. The four heroes have recovered their own world and each of...
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MAQUIA: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)
- Director
- OKADA Mari
- Cast
- ISHIMI Manaka, IRINO Miyu, KAYANO Mei
Animation that marks the directorial debut for Okada Mari, the scriptwriter of works including The Anthem of the Heart. Depicts the "eternal moment" of a boy and girl who meet amidst the passage of time. Maquia (voicr: Iwami Manaka) is a girl from t...
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CHERRY BOYS (2018)
- Director
- NISHIUMI Kenichiro
- Cast
- HAYASHI Kento, YANAGI Shuntaro, MAENO Tomoya
Having worked as an assistant director to Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Takika Yojiro, and Miike Takashi among others, director Nishiumi Kenichiro makes his feature-length debut in this dramedy about three men who are still virgins. The script was written by Mat...
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our blue moment (2017)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- FUKAGAWA Mai, YAMASHITA Kenjiro
Using "marriage" as a theme, this romantic ensemble crisscrosses comical human relationships. Imaizumi Rikiya of Sad Tea writes and directs. Bakery employee Ichii Fumi (Fukagawa Mai) holds a peculiar outlook on marriage: "I doubt anyone would love m...
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Sunny (2018)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Kazuya
- Cast
- KITAHARA Rie, Pierre TAKI, KADOWAKI Mugi
The Devil's Path director Shiraishi Kazuya and screenwriter Takahashi Izumi re-team for this original story detailing what happens as the perpetrator of a crime which caused a nationwide uproar becomes entangled in a kidnapping. It has been 14 years...
