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TOKYO REVENGERS 2 Part.1 (2023)
- Director
- HANABUSA Tsutomu
- Cast
- KITAMURA Takumi, YAMADA Yuki, SUGINO Yosuke
Sequel to Tokyo Revengers, a live-action adaptation of Wakui Ken's original manga. The staff and cast of the previous film re-unite, depicting the 'Bloody Halloween Arc', which is popular with fans of the original work. This is part one of two-part f...
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ICHIKO (2023)
- Director
- TODA Akihiro
- Cast
- SUGISAKI Hana, WAKABA Ryuya, MORINAGA Yuki
Film adaptation of the play "Kawabe Ichiko no tameni", the flagship production for director Toda Akihiro's Cheese Theater. Kawabe Ichiko (Sugisaki Hana) vanishes the day after Hasegawa Yoshinori (Wakaba Ryuya), the boyfriend she's been living with ...
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FLY ON (2023)
- Director
- KATO Takuya
- Cast
- KADOWAKI Mugi, TAMURA Kentaro, KUROKI Haru
This is the second film by Kato Takuya, an up-and-coming director who has attracted attention in the theater world, following his first feature film Grown-Ups. Using realistic dialogue, he depicts deeply intertwined human characters. Watako (Kadowak...
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PERFECT DAYS (2023)
- Director
- Wim WENDERS
- Cast
- YAKUSHO Koji
Maestro Wim Wenders directs Yakusho Koji in this story about a toilet cleaner. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Best Actor Award. Hirayama (Yakusho) cleans toilets in Shibuya, Tokyo. He lives in an old ...
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Go! Go! Sakura Club (2023)
- Director
- NODA Takanori
- Cast
- FUJI Tatsuya
A humanistic comedy about gateball, starring the famous actor Fuji Tatsuya. Directed, written and edited by Noda Takanori, director of Queen of Okinawa Comedy Never Dies. 76-year-old Oda Momojiro (Fuji), who has been living a lonely life after the d...
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YOKO (2022)
- Director
- KUMAKIRI Kazuyoshi
- Cast
- KIKUCHI Rinko
Road movie featuring Babel actress Kikuchi Rinko's first solo starring role in a Japanese film. Director Kumakiri Kazuyoshi delivers a sensitive portrayal of the emotional turmoil experienced by a lonely woman in her forties. Forty-two-year-old part...
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PICTURE OF SPRING (2023)
- Director
- SHIOTA Akihiko
- Cast
- UCHINO Seiyo, KITA Kana
Director Shiota Akihiko's script for this comical drama depicts the profound appeal of Shunga, a popular pastime in the Edo period known as "Laughing Pictures". This is the first ever uncensored depiction of ukiyo-e shunga in a Japanese commercial fi...
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Ohmuro family (2024)
- Director
- TATSUWA Naoyuki
- Cast
- KATO Emiri, SAITO Chiwa, HIDAKA Rina
Ohmuro-ke (大室家, , lit. "Ohmuro family") is a spin-off manga of YuruYuri written and illustrated by Namori. Consisting of three sisters: Sakurako Ohmuro (the second daughter), who is a character in "Yuru Yuri," her older sister Nadeshiko, and her yo...
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Fanfare (2023)
- Director
- YOSHINO Ryohei
- Cast
- MINAKAMI Kyoka, NOMOTO Sora, KITA Noa
Coming-of-age film depicting the wavering emotions of a woman in her twenties whose dreams have been dashed. Directed, written and edited by Yoshino Ryuhei, whose Akaboshi and Spring, Has Come were screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival. ...
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GOLDFISH (2023)
- 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...
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A Girl Named Ann (2024)
- Director
- IRIE Yu
- Cast
- KAWAI Yuumi
Ann was beaten by her mother since childhood, dropped out of school in her third year, and was forced into prostitution by her mother in her mid-teens. One day, Ann is interrogated by the police on a charge of using drug and meets Tatara, a detective...
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BUSHIDO (2024)
- Director
- SHIRAISHI Kazuya
- Cast
- KUSANAGI Tsuyoshi, KUNIMURA Jun, KIYOHARA Kaya
Kakunoshin Yanagida, a ronin, is accused of a crime he does not commit and mourns his wife. He is forced to leave his hometown, the Hikone domain, and lives with his daughter, Okinu, in a poor tenement house in Edo. Even under such circumstances, he ...
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PENALTY LOOP (2024)
- Director
- ARAKI Shinji
- Cast
- WAKABA Ryuya, ISEYA Yusuke, YAMASHITA Rio
Second feature film by director Araki Shinji, who made his feature film debut with The Town of Headcounts, again using an original screenplay. The film depicts the conflict of a protagonist who repeatedly commits murder in a time loop. Iwamori Jun (...
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ROADSIDE FLOWERS AND GRASS (2023)
- Director
- KOSHIKAWA Michio
- Cast
- SAKUMA Mayu, YUYA Shintaro
Nazuna lives with a violent man Kitamura. Her mental balance is unstable, and she constantly clashes with Kitamura. One day, out of emotional entanglement, Nazuna had a fierce fight with Kitamura and ran out of his place. And she rolls into Kotaro...
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WITH YOU AGAIN (2023)
- Director
- HANA Kosei
- Cast
- ITO Saki, HIRAI Amon
I don't want to have sex because I love her... Maruo is an independent film director who still hasn't been able to forget his ex-girlfriend Aki, whom he broke up with because of this reason. He tries to make a new film based on his own experiences,...
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A Foggy Paradise (2023)
- Director
- KOTSUJI Yohei
- Cast
- OKUTSU Yuya, LEE Masatoshi, YASHIMA Yasumi
Feature film directorial debut for Kotsuji Yohei, who takes an improvisational approach to filmmaking from scriptwriting through direction. This road movie was an official selection for the competition in the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival. ...
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Girls Drive (2023)
- Director
- MIYAOKA Taro
- Cast
- OGURI Yui, YAMAUCHI Mizuki, KURANOO Narumi
Koharu is a senior in high school who devoted her youth to athletics and worked hard in a small town. She is a sprinter who has been attracting attention, but her three years of training have been ruined unexpectedly. In the midst of grief, another m...
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GREAT ABSENCE (2023)
- Director
- CHIKA-URA Kei
- Cast
- MORIYAMA Mirai, FUJI Tatsuya, MAKI Yoko
Distanced from his father Yohji for twenty years, Takashi is brought back home by a jarring police call–Yohji has disconnected from reality due to dementia, and his second wife Naomi is missing. Asked where she is, the old man replies that she commit...
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52-HERTZ WHALES (2024)
- 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...
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SILENT LOVE (2024)
- Director
- UCHIDA Eiji
- Cast
- YAMADA Ryosuke, HAMABE Minami, NOMURA Shuhei
A love story spun from his own original screenplay by Uchida Eiji, director of Midnight Swan, which won the Best Film Award at the 44th Japan Academy Prize. Hisaishi Joe, who has worked on numerous Studio Ghibli works, composed the music. Aoi (Yamad...
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Keep Your Left Hand Down (2023)
- Director
- IGUCHI Nami
- Cast
- NAGOYA Megumi, KITAGUCHI Mia, MATSUMOTO Kei
The era of childish perversions and violence, the children's police are arresting left-handed people. Yet, at universities old-fashioned film seminars are given leisurely, at cafes lovers are dating, a mysterious female fortuneteller predicts future ...
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Spring in Between (2022)
- Director
- KATSU Rika
- Cast
- MIYAZAWA Hio, KONISHI Sakurako
This is the commercial film debut of Katsu Rika, who has worked on numerous drama adaptations as a manga editor while continuing to produce independent films. Magazine editor Komukai Haru (Konisihi Sakurako), who is having trouble with work and love...
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The Women in the Lakes (2024)
- Director
- OMORI Tatsushi
- Cast
- FUKUSHI Sota, MATSUMOTO Marika
A 100 year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him alive suddenly malfunction, or was he murdered? A young detective on the case meets a woman caregiver. The investigation runs into a dead end, but the...
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How to Find a Lover (2023)
- Director
- MAEDA Koji
- Cast
- KURA Yuki, IMOU Haruka
Director Maeda Koji, who made his theatrical film debut with Cannonball Wedlock, and screenwriter Takada Ryo team up again after making You're Not Normal, Either! together, for this quirky love story. Towa (Kura Yuki), who works in a gardening shop,...
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The Beast of Comedy (2024)
- Director
- TAKIMOTO Kengo
- Cast
- OKAYAMA Amane, KATAOKA Reiko, MATSUMOTO Honoka
Film adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Tsuchiya Takayuki, a writer obsessed with the world of comedy. It is the commercial film debut of director Takimoto Kengo, who has directed many TV dramas and commercials. After six years of coming up...
