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Strum und drang (2013)
- Director
- YAMADA Isao
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Emiko, JITSUNASHI Satoru, HIROKAWA Takeshi
Coming-of-age ensemble drama about the Guillotine Society, an anarchist association in the Taisho period. Vividly depicts the youths involved in the Guillotine Society with richly colored images. Directed by artist and painter Yamada Isao, the film b...
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RYUGU NO TSUKAI School Girl’s Gestation (2013)
- Director
- UEDA Atsushi
- Cast
- TSURUOKA Moeki, TAKEDA Rina, SATO Ryo
An ensemble piece inspired by actual pregnancy scandal involving a group of students at a high school in the United States in 2008. It depicts the struggle of several young women who attempt to break free from their cloistered surroundings. Winner of...
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SAD HOWL (2013)
- Director
- MATSUMURA Kenzo
- Cast
- TOMITA Keisuke, ROKUSYA Nana, SATO Jiro
Feature film debut for Matsumura Kenzo, who has produced and directed numerous works. Pathos-infused depiction of a lonely young man who avoids other people as his fate is thrown into turmoil by society's absurdities. Part-time pub worker Yuji (Tomi...
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Broken Pieces (2013)
- Director
- TAJIRI Yuji
- Cast
- WAGATSUMA Miwako, NAKAMURA Mukau, KOBAYASHI Ryuju
A romantic drama from director Tajiri Yuji, who got his start in the erotic "pink film" genre and gained praise at home and abroad for Love Juice. Shot with a documentary touch thatforegoes lighting, music, and sound effects, it paints a picture of y...
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China to Japan -Japanese Woman with Chinese Mother Tongue (2013)
- Director
- CHITOSE Chihiro
- Cast
- YAMADA Shizuka
Directorial debut by Chitose Chihiro, who studied with director Hara Kazuo and served as assistant director to directors Shinohara Tetsuo and Kuroki Kazuo. Calls for improving Japan-China relations through intimately depicting the turbulent life of a...
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FUKUSHIMA (2013)
- Director
- KANNO Hiroshi
- Cast
- NATSUKI Yoko, KATSUNO Hiroshi, CHIBA Miku
A drama that depicts four generations of a family at the mercy of Japan's nuclear power policy. Scriptwriter Kanno Hiroshi, a Fukushima Prefecture native, was inspired to produce and direct the film by the will left by his father, who was exposed to ...
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PORTRAIT (2013)
- Director
- UCHIDA Shuntaro
- Cast
- YOSHIMURA Kaito, MATSUMOTO Marika, SUSA Shinichi
The theatrically released debut of bright new talent Uchida Shuntaro, who writes and directs. It makes frequent use of fixed black and white cinematography to depict the change within a young man who lives as if he is already dead. Newcomer Yoshimura...
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SAD TEA (2013)
- Director
- IMAIZUMI Rikiya
- Cast
- OKABE Seiji, AOYAGI Fumiko, UCHIDA Chika
Romantic comedy featuring an array of love affairs involving twelve young men and women, including a two-timing film director, an idol on the verge of marriage, and a guy who is obsessed with idols. Directed by Imaizumi Rikiya, who won the 12th Trans...
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INABE (2013)
- Director
- FUKADA Koji
- Cast
- MATSUDA Hiroaki, KURATA Ami, ITO Yui
Community-based film produced with assistance from Mie Prefecture's Inabe City as part of the Okinawa International Film Festival. The mysterious tale of siblings who reunite after a long separation in a pastoral setting seeped in history. Co-stars c...
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”INVISIBLE HANDCUFFS- The Sayama Case” (2013)
- Director
- KIM Sung Woong
- Cast
- ISHIKAWA Kazuo, ISHIKAWA Sachiko
A documentary that follows three years in the life of Ishikawa Kazuo and his wife Sachiko. For fifty-one years, Kazuo has protested his innocence in the Sayama Incident, a famous case of injustice. Its director is Kim Sung Woong, who depicted the dai...
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Beauty Within (2013)
- Director
- AZUMA Shizu
- Cast
A documentary that traces the lives of people who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Through interviews with victims of differing races and circumstances, it creates a vivid portrait of the strength and beauty of human be...
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SAKE BOMB (2013)
- Director
- SAKINO Junya
- Cast
- HAMADA Gaku, Eugene KIM, Marlane BARNES
The feature debut of U.S.-based director Sakino Junya. This comedy-tinged road movie depicts a knockabout journey by two young Asian men. Winner of Best Narrative Feature at the 2013 San Diego Asian Film Festival. Naoto (Hamada Gaku), the son of a t...
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Oh! Father (2013)
- Director
- FUJII Michihito
- Cast
- OKADA Masaki, KUTSUNA Shioli, SANO Shiro
27-year-old cutting-edge director Fujii Michihito adapts author Isaka Kotaro's novel by the same name. Suspense comedy about a high school kid living with 4 idiosyncratic fathers who gets wrapped up in a bizarre crime. High school student Yukio (Oka...
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Dystonia (2013)
- Director
- KAWAHATA Yuki
- Cast
- SATO Haruko, TAIRA Takaomi
Documentary about patients and doctors dealing with dystonia, a chronic neurological ailment in which muscles atrophy and patients lose the ability to control movement. Feature film debut for director Kawahata Yuki. Sato Haruko serves as vice presid...
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KABUKICHO HIGHSCHOOL (2013)
- Director
- KARUBE Shinichi
- Cast
- SHIOYA Shun, KATAOKA Ainosuke, KAWANO Taro
Action film based on Motohashi Masahi's comic "Kabukicho Night High School". Eccentric students and teachers mix things up with aliens at a night high school in Shinjuku's Kabukicho, an area frequented by yakuza and bar hosts. Real estate company pr...
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The spirit of science (2013)
- Director
- TADACHI Yuko
- Cast
- NAGAOKA Masamitsu, NISHIMURA Toshiyuki, OMINO Yoshiki
A documentary that focuses on the work of Nagaoka Masamitsu, who has been involved in the production of supplements for popular educational publication "Otona no Kagaku Magazine" (adults and science magazine), a grown-up version of "Kagaku to Gakushu...
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Love is Possession (2013)
- Director
- MASUI Daichi, IGARASHI Kohei, ICHIMI Masataka
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Hana, TANIGUCHI Ran, Shuri
Romantic fantasy created from a collaboration between manga artist Fumi Fumiko and students at Tokyo University of the Art's Graduate School of Film and New Media. This three-part omnibus spins tales about love featuring surreal characters like ghost...
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BAD CHILD (2013)
- Director
- SATO Yoshinori
- Cast
- Moro MOROOKA, TAKEMORI Yunosuke, NISHIYAMA Ryo
The theatrically-released debut of director Sato Yoshinori, a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts who has continued to make independent films while working as a television director. Screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in ...
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Drops in Your Hand (2013)
- Director
- IIZUKA Ken
- Cast
- IKEMATSU Sosuke, HASHIMOTO Ai, KOBAYASHI Ryoko
An adaptation of the eponymous novel by author Higuchi Naoya. A cast of upcoming actors, including Ikematsu Sosuke of Ai no Uzu and television series "MOZU", and Hashimoto Ai of The Kirishima Thing, provides a youthful portrayal of the emotions of ch...
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TALK BACK OUT LOUD (2013)
- Director
- SAKAGAMI Kaori
- Cast
- Rhodessa JONES, The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women
Documentary that faithfully depicts women who have survived hardship like abuse and prejudice as they face society by telling their stories through theater. Director Sakagami Kaori, known for her wide-reaching social activism on issues of violence an...
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One For All, All For One (2013)
- Director
- PARK Sayu, PARK Donsa
- Cast
A documentary by female director and Seoul native Park Sayu that closely follows the Osaka Korean High School rugby team over a three-year period. As its members attempt to win a national championship for the first time ever, they confront harsh real...
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Walking with a Friend (2013)
- Director
- OGATA Akira
- Cast
- UEDA Koichi, SAITO Yoichiro, MATSUO Satoru
The first project in nine years from the duo of director Ogata Akira and scriptwriter Aoki Kenji, known for their work on Boy's Choir and MILKWOMAN, THE. Set in a suburban housing complex, this abundantly humorous and bittersweet omnibus depicts two ...
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Court of Zeus (2013)
- Director
- TAKAHASHI Gen
- Cast
- KOJIMA Hijiri, NOMURA Hironobu, SHIOYA Shun
A work of suspense from director Takahashi Gen, known for his internationally renowned Confessions of a Dog. This thrill-laden, unusual courtroom drama focuses on a judge and a defendant who are engaged to be married. Received its world premiere as a...
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Do you know what my name is? (2013)
- Director
- KAZAMA Naomi, OTA Shigeru
- Cast
Documentary about a senility treatment program developed in Japan. Residents at an elderly care facility in the state of Ohio, USA try the "learning therapy" developed by Kawashima Ryuta, known for "brain training" videogames that reinvigorate the br...
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Ai no uzu (2013)
- Director
- MIURA Daisuke
- Cast
- IKEMATSU Sosuke, KADOWAKI Mugi, TAKITO Kenichi
Theater group Potudo-ru's director Miura Daisuke writes the story, script and directs this film adaptation of the group's play that won the 50th Kishida Kunio Drama Award. Set at an orgy, the story coolly and comically exposes carnal desire brought o...
