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Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions!: Rikka Version (2013)
- Director
- ISHIHARA Tatsuya
- Cast
- UCHIDA Maaya, FUKUYAMA Jun
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ATARU-THE FIRST LOVE & THE LAST KILL (2013)
- Director
- KIMURA Hisashi
- Cast
- NAKAI Masahiro, KITAMURA Kazuki, KURIYAMA Chiaki
A feature film based on a television mystery series broadcast in 2012. A man with savant syndrome who has extraordinary powers of memory and deduction attempts to solve a difficult case that spans Japan and the United States. Grossed 350 million yen ...
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Unforgiven (2013)
- Director
- LEE Sang-il
- Cast
- WATANABE Ken, SATO Koichi, EMOTO Akira
A remake of Clint Eastwood's 1992 Academy Award-winning western that shifts its story to Japan. A heavy-hitting cast and crew was assembled, including star Watanabe Ken (Inception) and composer Iwashiro Taro (Red Cliff). In Hokkaido in the thirteent...
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Usotsuki paradox (2013)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Kota
- Cast
- MOTOYAMA Nami, MAYAMA Akihiro, TODA Rei
Director Yoshida Kota, who has built a solid reputation for abundantly humorous erotica and gained attention at home and abroad for Come as you are, adapts the popular comic of the same title. A bold and delicate evocation of the fate of a relationsh...
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Shining Besides Funny Moon (2013)
- Director
- SHIMADA Kakuei
- Cast
- KUROKAWA Mei, SAWADA Yuki, HAMAO Kyousuke
Director Shimada Kakuei, a veteran of the independent film scene, presents this unconventional mystery that boldly attempts to unite punk and S&M. It revolves around a dominatrix with highly-developed powers of deduction, and a police detective who g...
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HAMELN (2013)
- Director
- TSUBOKAWA Takushi
- Cast
- NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, BAISHO Chieko, SAKAMOTO Nagatoshi
A fantastical drama revolving around a closed school. Memories of a mountain village in Fukushima with a dwindling population are revealed together with beautiful autumn scenery. Its writer and director is Tsubokawa Takushi, whose Utsukushiki Tennen ...
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009-1 THE END OF THE BEGINNING (2013)
- Director
- SAKAMOTO Koichi
- Cast
- IWASA Mayuko, KINOMOTO Minehiro, NAGASAWA Nao
Live action adaptation of the SF action adult version of "Cyborg 009," manga artist Ishinomori Shotaro's signature work. Displays violence and sexiness, the themes of the original story, with sultry scenes included with the action. Set in the near f...
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Backwater (2013)
- Director
- AOYAMA Shinji
- Cast
- SUDA Masaki, MITSUISHI Ken, TANAKA Yuko
TOKYO KOEN director Aoyama Shinji helms this adaptation of Tanaka Shinya's 146th Akutagawa Prize-winning novel. Its screenplay is by Arai Haruhiko, an industry veteran who has received numerous accolades for his works such as VIBRATOR. Winner of two ...
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SPACE PIRATE CAPTAIN HARLOCK (2013)
- Director
- ARAMAKI Shinji
- Cast
- OGURI Shun, MIURA Haruma, AOI Yu
A fully CG-animated adaptation of Matsumoto Leiji's science fiction manga. This ambitious work boasts the largest budget in the history of Toei Animation at $30 million dollars, and follows the swashbuckling adventures of a steadfastly principled spa...
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Uchi no hara no uchi (2013)
- Director
- IWASHITA Chikako
- Cast
- MATSUNAGA Nagisa, OHKOUCHI Nanako, UDA Takaki
The eighth film from the Tollywood Studio Project, founded on the concept of commercial film production by students. With a fresh touch, it depicts the journey to independence of a young woman who hides her emotions. Director Iwashita Chikako, who wa...
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R-18 Women’s Fiction Prize vol.2 JELLYFISH (2013)
- Director
- KANEKO Shusuke
- Cast
- OTANI Mio, HANAI Rumi, KAWATA Hiroki
Film adaptation of a finalist for the 11th R-18 Women's Fiction Prize, which solicits novels about sex by female authors. This romance brings a sensitive touch to the story of inexperienced love between two high school girls. Miyashita Yuki (Otani M...
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Soul flower train (2013)
- Director
- NISHIO HIroshi
- Cast
- HIRATA Mitsuru, Marin, Sayoko
First theatrically released film by director Nishio Hiroshi, whose indie film National Anthem earned praise from the likes of Kurosawa Kiyoshi. Depicts a peculiar mishmash of humanity in Osaka based on a short comic by manga artist Robin Nishi, whose...
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ZENTAI (2013)
- Director
- HASHIGUCHI Ryosuke
- Cast
- NAKAJIMA Ayumu, SHINOHARA Atsushi, NARUSHIMA Touko
An offbeat omnibus comedy featuring six short films that emerged from a workshop led by creator, writer, and director Hashiguchi Ryosuke, whose Like Grains of Sand won awards including the 25th International Film Festival Rotterdam's Tiger Award (gra...
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Messiah sikkoku no sho (2013)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Hiroki
- Cast
- HAMAO Kyousuke, OTA Motohiro, MATSUDA Ryo
A dark fantasy from director Yamaguchi Hiroki, whose first theatrically-released film Hellevator: The Bottled Fools was selected by numerous film festivals overseas. Inspired by Takadono Madoka's popular novel, it depicts the growth of a group of you...
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Anohana (2013)
- Director
- NAGAI Tatsuyuki
- Cast
- IRINO Miyu, KAYANO Mei, TOMATSU Haruka
A feature adaptation of an animated coming-of-age television series that gained popularity after screening in a late-night slot in 2011. The ghost of a friend who died young brings change to the lives of a group of estranged childhood friends. New se...
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TIME SCOOP HUNTER: The Movie (2013)
- Director
- NAKAO Hiroyuki
- Cast
- KANAME Jun, Kaho, UESHIMA Ryuhei
A feature film adaptation of a history-themed educational television series with a mockumentary touch in which a journalist from the future travels through time. Its director is Nakao Hiroyuki, who also helmed episodes of the TV version. The Time Sc...
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Sadako 3D 2 (2013)
- Director
- HANABUSA Tsutomu
- Cast
- TAKIMOTO Miori, SETO Koji, OSAWA Itsumi
Installation in the popular horror "Ring" series authored by Suzuki Koji. Follows the curse of Sadako, J-horror heroine par excellence, set 5 years after the previous Sadako 3D. Created a stir with an unprecedented screening stunt linking the film wi...
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The Knives of Maestro WU (2013)
- Director
- HAYASHI Masayuki
- Cast
- Wu Tseng-dong
A documentary about a knife maker by director Hayashi Masayuki, who has focused on Taiwanese history in works such as Ame ga mau Kinkaseki zansho. It adopts a neutral perspective and uses beautiful cinematography to depict people who live resolutely ...
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Hakuoki THE MOVIE 1 (2013)
- Director
- YAMASAKI Osamu
- Cast
- KUWASHIMA Houko, MIKI Shin-ichiro, MORIKUBO Shotaro
The first half of a feature film duology from the "Hakuoki: Shinsengumi Kitan" franchise that began as a video game and has expanded to encompass books, story CDs, stage productions, and animated television shows. Set in the late Edo period, it follo...
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GATCHAMAN (2013)
- Director
- SATO Toya
- Cast
- MATSUZAKA Tori, AYANO Go, GORIKI Ayame
A live-action adaptation of a popular animated television series created by Tatsunoko Pro in 1972. It boldly alters the original alien invasion premise, and focuses on the anguish of five young people whose fates are intertwined. Its director is Sato...
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shame hair morning set gyunyu haru (2013)
- Director
- SATO Toshiki
- Cast
- HIRATA Mitsuru, MIZUMOTO Kanako, ITO Takeshi
Pink film veteran Sato Toshiki, whose unique perspective has gained him a devoted following, directs this drama that illuminates the sorrow of a middle-aged man. Through a blend of memories of a first love and erotic and surreal episodes and depictio...
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Schoolgirl Complex (2013)
- Director
- ONUMA Yuichi
- Cast
- MORIKAWA Aoi, KADOWAKI Mugi, KONDO Maaya
A coming-of-age drama inspired by photobook "Schoolgirl Complex" that captured the vulnerable and provocative aspects of high school girls. Director Onuma Yuichi evokes the ever-changing emotional states of young women. Students at Kibogaoka Girls H...
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The Connecting Bridge (2013)
- Director
- IMAMURA Ayako
- Cast
A theatrical version of a television documentary about deaf victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Shot over a twelve-month period by director Imamura Ayako who is also hearing-impaired, it reveals the little-known hardships that deaf people fac...
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Koisuru kamisama kojiki nyumon (2013)
- Director
- ENOMOTO Toshiro
- Cast
- KAWATSURE Hiroaki, AYANA Rei, KOTO Masahiko
Thirty-third film in the Youth-H series that depicts youth and sex with a super low budget using cutting-edge directors. Director Enomoto Toshiro joins the project for the third time, after Reunion and Earing, and delivers a humorous rendition of "Ko...
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The Targeted Village (2013)
- Director
- MIKAMI Chie
- Cast
Up-close coverage of the violent conflict between police and residents, including many elderly people, who staged a massive sit-in protest at the Futenma base in September 2012 to oppose the construction of a landing strip for the Osprey, the U.S. mi...
