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6 Lying University Students (2024)
- Director
- SATOH Yuichi
- Cast
- HAMABE Minami, AKASO Eiji, SANO Hayato
The six university students were given a task at their final exam for a recruitment examination for an IT company, where only one of them will be chosen to receive a job offer. When the existence of an "envelope" accusing them revealed, they start t...
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HIMURO RENJI (2024)
- Director
- TSUJI Hiroyuki
- Cast
- MOTOMIYA Yasukaze, KUROBA Mario, LIU Shadow
A message arrives on Himuro's smartphone from his son Yuta, who is now a high school student. Himuro stares at the message with a startled expression. The message is a single word - Revenge. Then, there is a picture of Yuta, gagged and staring resent...
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Tatsumi (2023)
- Director
- SHOJI Hiroshi
- Cast
- ENDO Yuya, MORITA Kokoro
A sad revenge drama about Tatsumi and Aoi. Directed by Shoji Hiroshi of Ken and Kazu, which won the Japanece Cinema Splash Best Film Award at TIFF 2015. One day, Tatsumi, a lonely underworld worker, comes across the murder scene of his ex-girlfrie...
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Sin and Evil (2024)
- Director
- SAITO Yuki
- Cast
- KORA Kengo, DAITOH Shunsuke, ISHIDA Takuya
Mystery about the sins that burden three childhood friends and a new murder case in the making. Saito Yuki makes his directorial debut with the script that he penned. When 14-year-old Masaki is killed, his classmates Haru, Akira and Saku barge into ...
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18x2 Beyond Youthful Days (2024)
- Director
- FUJII Michihito
- Cast
- HSU Kuanghan, KIYOHARA Kaya, JOSEPH Chang
Jimmy goes back to his parents' house for the first time in a long time and finds a postcard from Ami. Ami, a backpacker from Japan, showed up at the his work place 18 years ago. Jimmy's memories of his first love come back to him, and he sets off...
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The Quiet Yakuza -Part 2- (2023)
- Director
- YAMAGUCHI Kento
- Cast
- ITO Kentaro
A new live-action adaptation of the popular yakuza manga ‘The Quiet Don' by Nitta Tatsuo, comprehensively produced by Motomiya Yasukaze of the "Japan Unification" series. The second part of a two-part theatrical release whereby four chapters are divi...
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BUZZY NOISE (2024)
- Director
- KAZAMA Hiroki
- Cast
- KAWANISHI Takumi, SAKURADA Hiyori
Ushio loves the music played by Kiyosumi, her neighbor in the same apartment. One day, she posts a video of Kiyosumi immersed in his music, which unexpectedly goes viral and changes Kiyosumi's isolated life. He discovers real joy in sessions with his...
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SECRET: A HIDDEN SCORE (2024)
- Director
- KAWAI Hayato
- Cast
- KYOMOTO Taiga, FURUKAWA Kotone
Minato, back from piano studies abroad, encounters Yukino at his music university playing an enigmatic piano in an old music room set for demolition. Mesmerized by her enchanting melodies, he asks for the piece's title, but she mischievously keeps it...
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The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe (2023)
- Director
- KOGA Go
- Cast
- SEKI Toshihiko, KIUCHI Hidenobu, TANEZAKI Atsumi
This feature-length animated film, produced to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the original author Mizuki Shigeru, depicts the story leading up to the birth of Kitaro, which should be called "Episode 0" of the sixth season of the TV...
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Lightning Over the Beyond (2022)
- Director
- HANNO Yoshihiro
- Cast
- MAEDA Gordon, IKEUCHI Hiroyuki, Awich
A black-and-white road movie following a young man tracing the remnants of war in Nagasaki and Okinawa, guided by the work of Tomatsu Shomei, one of Japan's leading post-war photographers. Directed, scripted, and featuring the original story and musi...
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Actress Wouldn't Cry (2023)
- Director
- UDO Yoshifumi
- Cast
- RENBUTSU Misako, ITO Marika, KAMIKAWA Shusaku
This comedy marks the feature film directorial debut for CM director Udo Yoshifumi, who also directs and scripts TV dramas. Set in his hometown of Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture. When scandal leaves actress Rie (Renbutsu Misako) unemployable, she re...
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HOYAMAN (2023)
- Director
- SHOJI Teruaki
- Cast
- AFRO (MOROHA), KURESHIRO Kumi, KUROSAKI Kodai
In his feature debut, director Shoji Teruaki spins a tale of family rebirth in this drama shot entirely on location on a remote island that is part of his hometown of Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture. Akira (MOROHA Afro) catches "hoya" (sea squirt...
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September 1923 (2023)
- Director
- MORI Tatsuya
- Cast
- IURA Arata, TANAKA Rena, NAGAYAMA Eita
Drama about mob hysteria based on the 1923 Fukuda Village incident. Directed by Mori Tatsuya, known for the documentaries A and FAKE. The year is 1923. Sawada Tomokazu (Iura Arata) and his wife Shizuko (Tanaka Rena) leave Gyeongseong (Seoul at prese...
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Graveyard of Youth (2021)
- Director
- OKUDA Yosuke
- Cast
- KASAHARA Takashi, FURUKAWA Nae, TANAKA Atsuyuki
Director Okuda Yosuke (Tokyo Playboy Club) returns to his roots with this ensemble piece, his first film in six years and with the same title as his debut. A man working in a Chinese restaurant in downtown Tokyo is asked by a middle-aged woman, who ...
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A Far Shore (2022)
- Director
- KUDO Masaaki
- Cast
- HANASE Kotone, ISHIDA Yumemi, SAKUMA Yoshiro
Social drama that won the Audience Award in Competition at the 23rd TOKYO FILMeX. Director Kudo Masaaki, who attracted attention with his feature debut I'm Crazy, shot the entire film on location in Okinawa. 17-year-old Aoi (Hanase Kotone) lives wit...
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Mountain Woman (2022)
- Director
- FUKUNAGA Takeshi
- Cast
- YAMADA Anna, MORIYAMA Mirai, NAGASE Masatoshi
Drama inspired by folklorist Yanagida Kunio's famous book ‘Tales of Tono'. Directed and scripted by Fukunaga Takeshi, whose Ainu Moshir was highly acclaimed abroad. Tohoku in the late 18th century. Rin (Yamada Anna) lives in a village suffering from...
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A Spoiling Rain (2023)
- Director
- ARAI Haruhiko
- Cast
- AYANO Go, EMOTO Tasuku, SATO Honami
Film adaptation of the novel of the same title by Matsuura Hisaki, winner of the 123rd Akutagawa Prize. This love story by renowned screenwriter Arai Haruhiko is his fourth film as a director, following It Feels So Good, and incorporates a motif not ...
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Brats, Be Ambitious! (2023)
- Director
- ADACHI Shin
- Cast
- IKEGAWA Yukiya, TASHIRO Hikaru, SHIRAISHI Kiichi
A coming-of-age film based on his novel 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', a 20-year project by Adachi Shin (A Beloved Wife). The seven schoolchildren who become the protagonists are portrayed vividly through long takes. Primary school student Shun (Ikegawa Yu...
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December (2022)
- Director
- Anshul CHAUHAN
- Cast
- Shogen, MEGUMI, MATSUURA Ryo
Suspenseful social drama about juvenile crime. Directed by Chauhan Anshul, an Indian director living in Japan who gained international acclaim for his second feature film Kontora. Seven years after his daughter was murdered, Higuchi Katsu (Shogen) r...
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Baian the Assassin, M.D. (2023)
- Director
- KAWAKE Shunsaku
- Cast
- TOYOKAWA Etsushi, KATAOKA Ainosuke, KANNO Miho
Two films starring Toyokawa Etsushi adapt Ikenami Shotaro's series that rivals his "Onihei Hankacho" and "Kenkyaku Shobai" in popularity. Produced to commemorate the centennial of the great historical novelist's birth. Fujieda Baian (Toyokawa) is a ...
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maboroshi (2023)
- Director
- OKADA Mari
- Cast
- ENOKI Junya, UEDA Reina, KUNO Misaki
Animation Studio MAPPA's first original animation movie written and directed by Mari Okada, who is also known as the script writer of "anohana the Movie: The Flower We Saw That Day". Ever since a bizarre factory explosion, 14-year-old Masamune Kikui...
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Kyrie (2023)
- Director
- IWAI Shunji
- Cast
- AiNA THE END, MATSUMURA Hokuto, KUROKI Haru
A music film by director Iwai Shunji and musician Kobayashi Takeshi, their first collaboration since All About Lily Chou-Chou. The film follows Kyrie (AiNA THE END), a street musician who can only express her "voice" by singing; Natsuhiko (Matsumura...
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Totto-chan the Movie: The Little Girl at the Window (2023)
- Director
- YAKUWA Shinnosuke
- Cast
- ONO Liliana, OGURI Shun, Anne
Anime adaptation of Kuroyanagi Tetsuko's same-named autobiographical novel about her youth, which has been translated into over 20 languages and sold 25 million copies worldwide. Japan is in the final years of World War Two. Totto-chan (Ono Liliana)...
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BLUE GIANT (2023)
- Director
- TACHIKAWA Yuzuru
- Cast
- YAMADA Yuki, MAMIYA Shotaro, OKAYAMA Amane
Animated film adaptation of Ishizuka Shinichi's manga of the same name, which won the Grand Prize in the Manga Division at the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival. The film's music was composed by Uehara Hiromi and other leading players from the Japanese ...
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TOKYO REVENGERS 2 Part.2 (2023)
- Director
- HANABUSA Tsutomu
- Cast
- KITAMURA Takumi, YAMADA Yuki, SUGINO Yosuke
Sequel to Tokyo Revengers, the No. 1 live-action film at the box office in 2021. This is the second part of a two-part film depicting the 'Bloody Halloween Arc', popular among fans of the original manga. The epic battle between former best friends h...
