Director

FUJINUMA Shinichi

Cast

NAGASE Masatoshi, KITAMURA Yukiya, SHIBUKAWA Kiyohiko

Directorial debut from Fujinuma Shinichi inspired by his experiences as guitarist for the punk band Anarchy formed in 1978. The band Guns became a social phenomenon in the 1980s, but they have to go on hiatus when Hal (Kitamura Yukiya) causes an in...

Release Date

Mar, 31st, 2023

Director

KONO Hiroki

Cast

NOMURA Kazuaki, KONO Hiroki

A thrilling road movie depicting the miracle that occurs when two young men on the bottom of society meet and collide. Kanzaki, an office worker who despairs of life, is wandering the streets with a languishing expression on his face. When he was si...

Release Date

Apr, 22nd, 2023

Director

MIHARA Mitsuhiro

Cast

KANJIYA Shihori, WADA Masato

Based on a true story, this human drama depicts the nine-year journey of a husband, who was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 39, and his wife. Tadano Koichi (Wada Masato), who lives with his wife Mao (Kanjiya Shihori) and their two daughters, i...

Release Date

Jun, 30th, 2023

Director

TAKEMURA Kentaro

Cast

TAKAHASHI Fumiya, SAKURADA Hiyori

Romance based on Sakura Eeyo's same-named teen novel about miscommunication and love that sold over 650,000 copies. Nozomi (Sakurada Hiyori) is in her second year of high school and finds a letter that says "I like you!" in her desk. It is from Seto...

Release Date

Jul, 7th, 2023

Director

ZEZE Takahisa

Cast

SATO Koichi, YOKOHAMA Ryusei

Zeze Takahisa adapts 'Midnight Express' author Sawaki Kotaro's same-named novel that was serialized in Asahi Shinbun. Hirooka Jinichi (Sato Koichi) retires from boxing and abruptly returns to Japan after four decades in the US. At his old gym he mee...

Release Date

Aug, 25th, 2023

Director

CHIHARA Tetsuya

Cast

YOSHIOKA Riho, MOTOLA Serena, UTAHA (WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA)

A love story adapted from the short story collection ‘Ice Cream Fever' by Akutagawa Award-winning author Kawakami Mieko. This is the first film directed by art director Chihara Tetsuya, who is active in a wide range of fields. Tsuneta Natsumi (Yoshi...

Release Date

Jul, 14th, 2023

Director

NARUSHIMA Izuru

Cast

SUGISAKI Hana, SHISON Jun

REBIRTH maestro filmmaker Narushima Izuru adapts Machida Sonoko's same-named novel that made a splash in Japan. This nuanced drama captures the unspoken voices of lonely individuals through the metaphor of the only whale in the world with a high-freq...

Release Date

Mar, 1st, 2024

Director

SEKINE Kosai

Cast

Anne Watanabe, OKUDA Eiji

Chisako Satoya, a writer, and her father, Kozo, had a long-standing feud and had been living apart for a long time. However now that Kozo, who lives alone, has dementia, so she returns to her hometown to begin taking care of him. One day, she rescues...

Release Date

Jun, 7th, 2024

Director

GOSHO Heinosuke

Cast

ARIMA Ineko, SABURI Shin, OTOWA Nobuko

At the funeral of Niizu, a well-known newspaper man, a young woman appears dressed in mourning. None present can place her ... her name is Kiyo ... One hot August night, Kiyo, then 16 years old, had slept together with Niizu, and the geisha, Hideya...

Release Date

Jan, 3rd, 1960

Director

MATSUO Akinori

Cast

TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, SHISHIDO Joe

A young gambler returns from prison to find his gang scattered, and many gone over to his old rival. But their rivalry is not only a matter of gambling. For when he is about to marry the daughter of a police official, the rival again interferes and t...

Release Date

Jan, 14th, 1966

Director

OZAWA Keiichi

Cast

TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, NATSUYAGI Isao

Kusanagi-Roppeita continues his wanderings to evade off his pursuers after failing to kill, under orders, his group leader Aochi-Godayu, a deserter. When he arrives at a beach, he is taken away to an island by one of his pursuers who has disguised h...

Release Date

Nov, 14th, 1970

Director

NOMURA Takashi

Cast

KOBAYASHI Akira, UCHIDA Ryohei, SUGA Fujio

In a small town about to be transformed into a modern city, two rival groups of gang- sters seek power. One is the Miyazono Gumi, an old-fashioned group led by a woman boss, Keiko (Noriko Maki), and the other the newly risin9 Seishin Kai. Keiko, tri...

Release Date

Dec, 5th, 1970