Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Becky,
Abe Tsuyoshi, Fukada Aki, Inoue Mao, Ishino Mako, Kaga Mariko, Kato Natsuki,
Kato Takako, Kitaoji Kinya, Kobayashi Susumu , Matsuda Shota, Matsumoto Jun,
Matsuoka Emiko, Nishihara Aki, Oguri Shun, Sada Mayumi, Sasaki Sumie , Sato
Megumi, Tomiura Satoshi, Tsurumi Shingo, David Ito, Fujiki Naohito
Based on the
popular Japanese comic of the same name about an average girl's high flying
romance and friendship with F4 or four handsome heirs. High school sweethearts
Tsukasa and Tsukusi are finally getting married. Tsukasa gives his fiancee a
precious family heirloom ― but only to see a robber ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Miura
Haruma, Asano Yuko, Nakamura Aoi, Owada Kensuke, Usuda Asami , Karina, Aragaki
Yui, Asari Yosuke, Aso Yumi, Fukada Aki, Haru, Koide Keisuke
Last fall,
over 3 million people were brought to tears by the movie Koizora. The original
story of Koizora, by the author Mika, was popularized on the cell phone novel
site, Mahou no Land, and since then has been turned into a novel, a movie, and
now a drama. The ...
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast:
Horiuchi Keiko, Okada Masaki, Moriguchi Yoko, Sugimoto Tetta, Nakamura Toru,
Harada Natsuki, Hosoda Yoshihiko, Inoue Mao
Takuma, a
boy who is told he will die before he’s 20, and Mayu, a girl who is in love
with him… The story begins when they are little kids. Mayu, whose father is a
doctor, meets Takuma, who is hospitalized in her father’s workplace. They
develop feelings for each ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Asano
Yuko, Eikura Nana, Komatsu Ayaka, Matsumoto Jun, Hiraoka Yuta
Yori and his
twin sister Iku used to be very close as children but lately Yori has grown
colder toward Iku and is always eager to stay away from her. Iku was confused
by Yori's attitude. Actually Yori is in love with Iku and that forbidden love
is causing Yori ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Igarashi Shunji, Kitagawa Keiko , Yamamoto Yusuke, Mukai Osamu, Kaku Kento
Yukari
Hayasaka (Keiko Kitagawa) is a high school student who has become tired of her
life of constant schooling. She then comes across a group of student fashion
designers in need of a model for their "Paradise Kiss" clothing
label. Yukari knows nothing about the fashion world and is taken ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Matsukane Yoneko, Torii Kaori, Kato Kazuko, Oonishi Asae, Mitsuo Hamada,
Ashikawa Yoshimi
After the
tears are shed, a new day begins... Adapted from the same-titled novel, 1 Litre
of Tears is based on the true story about a girl's long fight with an incurable
disease. A collection of her diary entries, chronicling her experiences and
passion and perseverance for life, were published ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Kaga
Takeshi, Hosokawa Shigeki, Kashii Yu, Aoyama Sota, Nakamura Shido, Matsuyama
Kenichi, Seto Asaka, Mitsushima Hikari, Toda Erika, Fujimura Shunji, Nakamura
Ikuji, Fujiwara Tatsuya
Light Yagami
is a university student who resents the crime and corruption in the world. His
life undergoes a drastic change when he discovers a mysterious notebook, known
as the "Death Note", lying on the ground. The Death Note's
instructions claim that, if a humans name is written within it, ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Ayase
Haruka, Ibu Masato, Endo Kenichi, Kiritani Kenta, Koide Keisuke
One day, a
beautiful cyborg girl appears in front of a dull university student. Even
though the cyborg starts to like him, she can’t truly feel emotions, so the boy
has no choice but to say goodbye to her inhuman power and ‘violence’. Missing
her, he continues his lonely existence. ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Kiritani Kenta, Takaoka Sousuke, Suzunosuke , Yabe Kyosuke, Daito Shunsuke,
Kuroki Meisa, Oguri Shun, Yamada Takayuki, Saito Hajime
Delving into
the hyper-stylized world of feuding high school gangs, Crows Zero actually
takes place before the events of the manga (hence the title), setting up the
origins and rivalries of the iconic characters. Other than the avid fanbase
that already exists for the manga, Crows Zero gets some extra ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Nakashima Mika, Maruyama Tomomi, Matsuyama Kenichi, Narimiya Hiroki, Saeko,
Matsuda Ryuhei, Miyazaki Aoi, Hiraoka Yuta, Ito Yuna, Tamayama Tetsuji,
Mizutani Momosuke, Nose Anna
Two girls,
both named Nana and of the same age, coincidentally meet on a train trip to
Tokyo. They soon find theirselves living with each other under the same roof
because of an even bigger coincidence. Even though they share the same name and
age, they differ in just about ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Aoi
Yu, Matsuyama Kenichi, Nagasaku Hiromi, Oshinari Shugo
Mirume
(Ken'ichi Matsuyama) is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with
Yuri (Hiromi Nagasaku), an almost 40 year old art teacher at his university.
Yuri isn't your typical college professor, having a quirky sense of humor and
unpredictable personality. When Yuri invites Murume to her studio, ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Koide
Keisuke, Tamaki Hiroshi, Uehara Misa, Kuroki Meisa, Aoki Munetaka, Miyazaki
Aoi, Oonishi Asae
"She
used to lie very often." Due to his inferiority complex, Makoto shies away
from other people, but Shizuru manages to make him open up to her. Because of
their friendship, Shizuru takes interest in photography and they often go to a
forest, partially hidden from the public, to take ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Maeda
Ai, Hosokawa Shigeki, Itao Itsuji, Shimizu Shin, Komatsu Miyuki, Tsugawa
Masahiko, Michiko Godai, Nakamura Shido, Seto Asaka, Fujimura Shunji, Katase
Nana, Fujiwara Tatsuya, Toda Erika, Aoyama Sota, Magii, Kaga Takeshi, Matsuyama
Kenichi
The Battle
Continues. L is still Suspicious about Light Yagami. which he believes to be
Kira and on the other Hand Light Yagami met a Girl who is believe to had a
Death God Eyes and a Death Note. Now there are two Kira. Will L Succeed in
Tracking Down ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Yuki
Saori, Ichige Yoshie, Kamenashi Kazuya, Megumi, Watanabe Ikkei, Yamane Kazuma,
Kasai Kenji, Oguri Shun, Kotani Yoshikazu, Fukiishi Kazue, Matsuda Kazusa ,
Yamaguchi Tatsuya, Uchida Asahi, Yuka, Kamiji Yusuke
A drama
about friendship that spans ages, this is based on a true story which
chronicles the life of a man who died at the age of 23 after an illness that
started with the partial collapse of his cranial bone, and a subsequent battle
with seven types of incurable ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Yamazaki Tsutomu, Daichi Mao, Iijima Naoko, Takenaka Naoto, Kato Koji,
Ishibashi Renji, Horikita Maki, Aikawa Sho, Honoka, Tayama Ryosei, Okunuki
Kaoru, Sugita Kaoru, Ichikawa Yui, Yamashita Tomohisa
Kurosagi is
a film based on the 2006 popular TV series Kurosagi.Kurosagi is about a young
man named Kurosaki who had his family destroyed by swindlers (con artists).
When Kurosaki grows up, he becomes a swindler named Kurosagi, so that he can
avenge his family. Ever since his family was ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Ueto
Aya, Harada Yoshio, Kaneko Takatoshi, Endo Kenichi, Narimiya Hiroki, Sakaki
Hideo , Ibu Masato, Ishigaki Yuma, Takenaka Naoto, Oguri Shun, Eita, Okamoto
Aya, Ryo, Kohashi Kenji, Sakaguchi Taku , Odagiri Joe
After the
Battle of Sekigahara, a samurai is tasked by the Ieyasu shogunate to raise a
band of assassins to finish off Toyotomi's allies and other ambitious warlords,
to prevent another civil war. Azumi, played by Aya Ueto, is discovered as a 7-8
year old girl weeping next to the ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Fukuda
Mayuko, Nanbara Kiyotaka, Takashima Masanobu, Matsuyama Kenichi, Kudoh Youki
Ken'ichi
Matsuyama reprises his role as L Lawliet from the previous Death Note films.
The film chronicles the final 23 days of L's life, as he solves one final case
involving a bioterrorist group that aims to wipe out much of humanity with a
virus with ten times the infectiousness ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Takenaka Naoto, Kaneko Takatoshi, Yoshioka Miho, Hara Hideko, Maki Onaga , Lee
Tae Sung, Lee Kyung Jin
The film
details the 26-year-old Korean student's experiences in Japan, including going
to school and his developing romance with a Japanese student (Mākii). He died
on January 21, 2001, along with a Japanese photographer, Shiro Sekine, while
both were trying to save the life of a man who had fallen ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Fukaura Kanako, Minami, Kuriyama Chiaki, Tsukamoto Takashi, Maeda Ai, Kitano
Takeshi, Aki Maeda, Yamamoto Taro, Shibasaki Kou, Ando Masanobu, Matsuzawa Ren,
Takaoka Sousuke, Fujiwara Tatsuya
The film
centers around Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a charismatic young boy
living in Kanagawa Prefecture. After his mother abandons him and his father
commits suicide, he becomes disillusioned with life. The rest of his classmates
are similarly disillusioned, and have little respect for authority. Shuya's
best friend, Yoshitoki "Nobu" ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Nagasawa Masami, Tanaka Misako, Takenaka Naoto, Miura Tomokazu, Takizawa
Hideaki, Yamashita Shinji
A female
college student meets an injured young man on the street. They fall in love,
not knowing that the girl's police detective father is in the midst of a
manhunt to find the young man's physician father, who is wanted for murder.
Based on Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet...
Japanese Movie
| under repair!
Cast: Kase
Ryo, Kohji Yamamoto, Motai Masako, Seto Asaka, Yakusho Koji
Teppei
Kaneko (Ryo Kase) is a young guy, typical of many of his generation; he works
part-time, hangs out in Tokyo and tries to figure out what life has in store for
him. He finds out the hard way. Finally getting his act together, he's on his
way to his ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Fujii
Mina, Tanaka Rena, Kase Ryo, Osawa Akane, Fukuda Mayuko, Sasano Takashi,
Takashima Reiko, Toyokawa Etsushi, Fuse Akira, Ikewaki Chizuru
One day a
puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying
hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She immediately falls in
love with the puppy and names it "Socks" after the paws which looked
like they had white socks ...
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Japanese Movie
|
Cast:
Morimoto Ryoji, Kirishima Yusuke, Oguri Shun, Matsuo Toshinobu, Suga Takamasa,
Morimoto Ryoji, Katsurayama Shingo, Katsurayama Shingo, Narumi Riko, Narumi
Riko, Kirishima Yusuke, Suga Takamasa, Matsuo Toshinobu, Oguri Shun
Seven young
men who are desperate for quick money arrive at a desolate seaside bar, called
Dog Days, to audition as "hosts." This is the highly popular
occupation of entertaining female patrons with smooth talk and a soothing smile
while offering them drinks at "host clubs." Although their previous
jobs ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Hamada
Gaku, Kuniko Asagi, Tsukamoto Takashi, Kobayashi Takashi, Toriyama Airi, Magii,
Yamazaki Hajime, Fuse Eri, Koyanagi Yu, Tanaka Sogen, Yui, Kaname Jun,
Kishitani Goro
A girl who
can only live at night and a high school student who loves to surf as the sun
rises... The two had nothing in common... Kaoru Amane, 16 years old, did not
attend school but instead sang herself away every night after dark at a square
in front ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Horikita Maki, Ishida Takuya, Kusamura Reiko , Horikita Maki, Hirata Mitsuru,
Hirata Mitsuru, Ishida Takuya, Kusamura Reiko
Minato (Maki
Horikita) was abandoned by her parents at a young age and forced to live with
her senile grandmother, a situation which traumatized her deeply. To pass the
time she starts corresponding with a pen-pal named Night, a boy of about her
age. Through her letters to Night she ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Yumi
Shimizu , Haruta Junichi, Seki Megumi, Nishida Naomi, Sakurai Sho, Nakamura
Shido, Kase Ryo, Tanabe Seiichi, Aoi Yu, Ikeda Tetsuhiro, Sakai Masato, Horibe
Keisuke
5 college
age art students become close friends as they share common interests in the
field of art. The newest member of their group is Hagu. She is the niece of an
art professor at the university and is known as a child prodigy. Immediately
two of her friends grow ...
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast:
Sakuraba Nanami, Seto Koji, Tanaka Kei, Imalu, Kiritani Mirei
Transfer
student Biito “Beat” Mizorogi, talented in fashion design, bring classmates together
to stage a fashion show for the school's annual festival.
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast:
Kurotani Tomoka, Shiina Kippei, Nagasawa Toshiya, Masu Takeshi, Ishibashi
Renji, Nakama Yukie, Odagiri Joe, Sawajiri Erika, Matsushige Yutaka, Sakaguchi
Taku
Shinobi
centers on the drama resulting from the war between two ninja clans in the
early part of the Tokugawa era. In the film, Nakama Yukie portrays Oboro, the
granddaughter of Ogen (Lily), the respected Iga clan matriarch, while Odagiri
Jo plays Gennosuke, the son of Danjo Koga (Minoru Terada), ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Yoshiyuki Kazuko, Yamazaki Tsutomu, Sasano Takashi, Hirosue Ryoko, Yo Kimiko,
Motoki Masahiro
Daigo
Kobayashi, who was a cellist in an orchestra which had just been dissolved,
suddenly is thrown out onto the streets without a job and hope for life. Daigo
decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife. However, his life is
revived when he starts working as ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Koide
Keisuke, Hada Mika, Kouichi Iwaki, Katase Nana, Narumi Riko, Yachigusa Kaoru ,
Ishikawa Shinichiro, Takada Nobuhiko
Directed by
Hagishima Tatsuya, Kimi ni Shika Kikoenai (a.k.a. Calling You) is based on the
same-titled light novel series by popular writer Otsuichi. Like Otsuichi's
Waiting in the Dark, which was also recently adapted for the big screen, Kimi
ni Shika Kikoenai revolves around two lonely young people who find ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Zeny
Kwok, Hideto Takarai, Lee Hom Wang, Terajima Susumu, KôJi Chihara, Gackt ,
Yamamoto Taro
In the year
2014, Japan has collapsed economically and thus its people emigrated in large
numbers and settled in other parts of the world. In a corner in Asia, there is
a little street called Mallepa, a big melting pot where Asians such as
Hongkongers, Taiwanese and Japanese live together. ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Ishibashi Ryo, Matsuda Ryuhei, Ando Masanobu, Kubozuka Shunsuke, Ishibashi
Renji, Endo Kenichi, Shibukawa Kiyohiko
At the end
of their vacant, destructive lives, two boys meet when they are both
incarcerated for murder. With exactly opposite personalities, the two boys
share only their instincts, but this is enough for them to discover the emotion
of love. However, at the end of their love lies another ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Hanae
Kan, You, Ayu Kitaura, Yagira Yuya, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu
Based on
true events. Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment
in Tokyo. In fact, the children all have different fathers and have never been
to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the
landlord. One day, the mother leaves behind ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Aso
Kumiko, Shibasaki Kou, Harada Mieko, Harada Yoshio, Sugimoto Tetta, Nakai
Kiichi, Abe Atsushi, Gekidan Hitori, Tsumabuki Satoshi, Eita
"Dororo"
is a thriller Manga in which Dororo, a young orphan thief, falls into the
company of Hyakkimaru, a powerful demon-hunting Rounin. Before Hyakkimaru's
birth his father, a greedy feudal lord, made a pact with 48 demon gods (or
majins) and let them each take a piece of his unborn ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Koizumi Kyoko, Nagasawa Masami, Tsukamoto Takashi, Taira Tomi, Tsumabuki
Satoshi
Orphan Yota
(Satoshi Tsumabuki, WATERBOYS) is a hard-working 21-year-old who dreams of
opening up his own restaurant. He has a little step-sister, Kaoru (Masami
Nagasawa, CRYING OUT LOVE, IN THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD), who lives on an island
off Okinawa but moves in with Yota to begin college on ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Ichikawa Yui, Kyo Nobuo, Tamayama Tetsuji, Nakashima Mika, Mizutani Momosuke,
Hongo Kanata, Narimiya Hiroki, Maruyama Tomomi, Ito Yuna
Taking place
shortly after the end of the first film, Nana 2 focuses more on Komatsu Nana
(Hachi/Hachiko)and her love life. Romance develops between Hachi and TRAPNEST's
bassist Takumi as well as with the Black Stones' guitarist Nobu. Meanwhile,
Nana works hard for her band while trying to find happiness. ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Fukada
Aki, Naoko Otani, Watabe Gota, Hatsune Eriko, Otani Naoko , Itaya Yuka,
Nakagoshi Noriko, Furuta Arata, Abe Shinnosuke
A modern
ghost story which turns a love hate relationship between mother and daughter
into a tale of horror.
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Hiraoka Yuta, Motokariya Yuika, Abe Nagisa, Ueno Juri, Yukari Toyoshima,
Kanjiya Shihori
Set in
present-day Japan, Swing Girls is the story of girls who meet and are deeply
fascinated by jazz. The heroine is a very typical Japanese teenager. Her character
is suggestive of the hidden problem of today children. She lacks any special
interests or motivation and dislikes making any effort. ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Ukaji
Takashi, Kasahara Hideyuki, Komoto Masahiro, Shirai Akira , Fujiwara Norika,
Kinouchi Akiko, Sorimachi Takashi, Tanaka Rena
While
peeping up girls' skirts at a local shopping mall, Onizuka meets a girl who
agrees to go out on a date with him. Onizuka's attempt to sleep with her fails
when her current "boyfriend", her teacher, shows up at the love hotel
they are in and asks her to ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Ishigaki Yuma, Kuriyama Chiaki, Takashima Reiko, Ueto Aya, Nomura Eugene,
Kitamura Kazuki, Oguri Shun, Kai Shishido, Nagasawa Toshiya, Koyama Shigeru,
Sakaguchi Taku
It’s been
some time since Azumi and Nagara finished their grueling training as lethal
young assassins in the service of the shogun, a training that finished with the
ruthless final test – to kill their longtime training partner (in Azumi’s case,
Nachi, who could have been her first love), or ...
Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast: Ito
Misaki, Kase Ryo, Osugi Ren, Tsukamoto Takashi, Li Xiao Lu, Ichikawa Yui,
Wilson Chen
Three tales
of love set in a trio of contemporary Asian hubs: Tokyo, Taipei & Shanghai.
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast: Fukami
Motoki, Oguri Shun, Suzunosuke , Miura Haruma, Yabe Kyosuke, Kiritani Kenta,
Takaoka Sousuke, Daito Shunsuke, Kamiji Yusuke, Namioka Kazuki, Yamada
Takayuki, Abe Shinnosuke, Kuroki Meisa
Several
months after "Crows: Episode 0" trouble brews again when thugs known
as "The Army of Killers" from rival high school Hosen Academy
threaten Suzuran High aka the School of Crows. The ruthless Hosen gang go after
Suzuran alumni Sho Kawanishi (Shinnosuke Abe) after his released from
reformatory for killing ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Kanjiya Shihori, Kubozuka Shunsuke, Tsuda Kanji, Aki Maeda, Shibukawa Kiyohiko,
Kimura Ryo, Takuji Kawakubo
Saikano (最終兵器彼女, Saishū Heiki Kanojo?, lit. She, the Ultimate Weapon or My Girlfriend, the
Ultimate Weapon) is a manga and anime series by Shin Takahashi, creator of
Iihito and Kimi no Kakera. Saikano was originally serialized in Shogakukan's
Big Comic Spirits magazine. A live-action movie adaptation was released in
Japan ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Ishibashi Ryo, Izam , Okayama Hajime, Fujiki Naohito, Nakama Yukie, Uzaki Ryudo
A
'kidnapper' holds a girl hostage until a ransom demand is paid from her father.
In reality, the kidnapper is actually an advertiser, who has been beaten to a 3
billion deal and so takes his Rival's daughter hostage. The girl later turns
out to be more than she seems ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Kimura
Ryo, Wilson Chen, Sawajiri Erika, Aoi Yu, Yagira Yuya, Oizumi Yo, Natsuki Mari
A Tokyo
suburb with a middle American feel, the city of Fussa is home to a US military
base with its wide avenues, second-hand clothing stores peddling American
merchandise and bars catering largely to G.I.s. Shiro (Yuya Yagira) is a
17-year-old Fussa native, fresh from high school graduation, who finds ...
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast: Tanaka
Rena, Emoto Akira, Tokui Yuu, Yo Kimiko, Mita Yoshiko, Miyake Yuji, Musaka
Naomasa, Eguchi Noriko, Ibu Masato, Fujita Yumiko, Sasai Eisuke, Sugiura Naoki
Motoki
Katsuhide’s “Drugstore Girl” is a light, cute, and often pathetic comedic story
of a beautiful young pharmacology student who turns a group of middle-aged men
into raving, lecherous gits whilst starting a new life in a new town. Obayashi
Keiko (Tanaka Rena) finds her live-in boyfriend cheating on her ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Aragaki Yui, Ikuta Toma, Renbutsu Misako, Yakushimaru Hiroko, Mukai Osamu
Sae (Yui
Aragaki) is a high school student who is studying hard for her college entrance
exams. She lost her father when she was very young and so lives her mother
Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru) in Hokkaido, Japan. Her father Kemimichi (Arata)
once planted a dogwood tree in their garden after ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Eguchi
Yosuke, Nakamura Toru, Shibasaki Kou
A young
female kung fu teacher, Rin, who must take over her grandfather's dojo. In
order to prepare herself, she travels to China for 3,000 days of grueling
Shaolin kung fu training. On her return to Japan, she works to rebuild the dojo
and joins her university lacrosse club, putting ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Daito
Shunsuke, Furukawa Yuta, Matsumoto Wakana
College
student Mutou Ookawa catches a glimpse of Ametani Yuiko, his co-worker from a
former part-time job and falls immediately in love. Summoning up his courage,
he eventually confesses his feelings to her and she responds “…but I’m a
fujoshi.” Mutou not having the slight clue what “fujoshi” means, immediately
...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Komoto
Masahiro, Matsuyama Kenichi, Tezuka Satomi , Nishijima Hidetoshi, Narumi Riko
One
13-year-old piano prodigy, Uta Naruse (Riko Narumi), and her struggle with the
meaning of playing classical music. Her father (Hidetoshi Nishijima) died
mysteriously some years earlier, leaving her mother (Satomi Tezuka) poor and
obsessed with making Uta fulfill her immense promise. But Uta is not sure if
she even ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Aki
Maeda, Ibu Masato, Kubozuka Shunsuke, Kanjiya Shihori, Takuji Kawakubo
The story
begins with Shuji, a high school student in Hokkaido, walking up to an
observatory and reminiscing about his girlfriend, Chise. He finds her exchange
diaries that she purposefully left behind. The whole story is narrated by him
through flashbacks while reading Chise's diary. Chise, a fellow student in ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Kudo
Kankuro, Moriyama Mirai, Nagasawa Masami, Shibasaki Kou, Osawa Takao
In a small
regional town in 1980s southern Japan, Sakutaro "Saku" Matsumoto and
Aki Hirose, who were classmates all through junior high school, become high school
students and then fall in love with one another. They share audio diaries, go
on excursions together, and enjoy summer vacation. However, Aki soon ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Kubozuka Shunsuke, Matsuura Aya, Miyoshi Erika, Ishikawa Rika, Okada Yui, Saito
Yuki, Takeuchi Riki , Nagato Hiroyuki
A police
detective working undercover at private school Seisen Gakuen is blown to pieces
on the streets of Shibuya. The cop had been investigating students frequenting
a popular underground website named 'Enola Gay', where information on
everything from bullying to bomb-making is exchanged. One week earlier, a
strange counter on ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Sakurai Sho, Kuroki Meisa, Ohno Satoshi, Ninomiya Kazunari, Sakurai Sho,
Matsumoto Jun, Aiba Masaki, Kuroki Meisa, Matsumoto Jun, Ohno Satoshi, Ninomiya
Kazunari, Aiba Masaki
"Saigo
no Yakusoku" is described as a human suspense story involving the hijack
of a major building. The members of Arashi play five young men who happen to be
inside, and the story depicts their attempt to escape and their interactions
with the other people caught up in the incident.
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Matsumoto Jun, Tabata Tomoko , Sakurai Sho, Aiba Masaki, Ninomiya Kazunari,
Ohno Satoshi
The movie is
centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962
shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are
Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei -
the painter and Yuji – ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Fumikazu Hara, Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Tetsuya Chihiro, Tetsuya
Chihiro, Fumikazu Hara, Toshihide Onisuka, Seiichiro Okawa, Toshihide Onisuka,
Seiichiro Okawa
1942.
Malaya. Sgt. Yasuo Fujii, a war cameraman, is huddled in a trench, waiting to
film the Japanese 6th Army cross the Slim River on its way south to Kuala
Lumpur. An enemy mortar shell lands in the trench and, in a heartbeat, Sgt.
Fujiiis running through the jungle for ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Miura
Akifumi, Kaneko Takatoshi, Koen Kondo, Tamaki Hiroshi, Tsumabuki Satoshi
This movie
is about synchronized swimming, but men instead of women. Based on a true
story, a group of young high school boys get together to put on a show in their
local high school festival. Now, can the boys outshine the ladies in this
sport? This comedy will definitely ...
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast:
Katagiri Jin, Koizumi Kotaro, Oizumi Yo, Kawaoka Daijiro, Kaname Jun, Kohinata
Fumiyo, Kiba Katsumi, Konishi Manami, Masu Takeshi, Muro Tsuyoshi, Yusuke
Santamaria, Matsumoto Tortoise, Suzuki Kyoka
"There's
nothing here. Just udon." The story starts in a town in Kagawa Prefecture,
home to 1 million residents and 900 udon restaurants. Kosuke Matsui - an
aspiring comedian and son of an udon noodlemaker - hates his small-town life,
but hates udon even more. After a fight with his ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Great
Gidayu, Kishimoto Kayoko, Tanaka Yoji, Kitano Takeshi, Beat Kiyoshi, Yoshiyuki
Kazuko, Yuuko Daike, Maro Akaji, Yusuke Sekiguchi
Brash,
loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro hardly seems the ideal companion for
little Masao who is determined to travel long distances to see the mother he
has never met. Their excursion to the cycle races is the first of a series of
adventures for the unlikely pair which soon turns out ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Toyokawa Etsushi, Shizuyo Yamazaki, Aoi Yu, Tokunaga Eri, Ikezu Shoko ,
Matsuyuki Yasuko
The sleepy
mining town of Joban is slowly heading for the hills, so town leader Yoshimoto
decides to start a Hawaiian Centre amongst the coal mines to attract tourists.
As a further gimmick, local girls will give hula performances.He hires dance
teacher Madoka from Tokyo, and goes about recruiting dancers, ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Akiyama Ryuji, Hosoda Yoshihiko, Kato Rosa, Matsuyama Kenichi, Matsuyuki Yasuko
Negishi
Souichi (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) leaves his family's farm in Oita Prefecture for
the bright lights of Tokyo. There he is forced to swap his taste in trendy pop
music for the totally out-of-character death metal, taking on the role of
vocalist in the trio Detroit Metal City and adopting the ...
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast:
Kohinata Fumiyo, Kuninaka Ryoko, Yamada Takayuki, Tsukamoto Takashi, Nagasawa
Masami
Quiet,
earnest, and a bit nerdy, Toyama Satoshi runs a marine plants store where he
can indulge in his love for aquatic vegetation. Though he barely makes enough
money, Satoshi is determined to hold on to the store as it fulfills a promise
he made to his two best friends ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Takenaka Naoto, Kinoshita Yukina, Toyokawa Etsushi, Hatakeyama Rina, Ikewaki
Chizuru, Ishibashi Renji, Ishizuka Hidehiko, Kagawa Teruyuki, Karasawa
Toshiaki, Katase Nana, Kohinata Fumiyo, Kuroki Hitomi, Matsumoto Tamaki ,
Mitsuishi Ken, Miyasako Hiroyuki, Moriyama Mirai, Endo Kenichi, Oikawa
Mitsuhiro, Ryu Raita, Sano Shiro, Sasaki Kuranosuke, Seto Yoichiro, Taira Airi,
Namase Katsuhisa, Takeuchi Miyako, Fuwa Mansaku, Tanaka Kenji, Tokiwa Takako,
Tokui Yuu, Tsuda Kanji, Ukaji Takashi
The trilogy
of 20th Century Boys live-action films (directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi) is set
to be one of the biggest undertakings ever in the Japanese movie industry. The
project not only has a budget of 6 billion yen, but it was revealed that it
will feature a cast of 300 ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Inoue
Mao, Kunimura Jun, Toda Naho, Kuninaka Ryoko, Jonathan Sherr
"My
Darling is a Foreigner" tells the quirky story of a Japanese woman and an
American man as they enter into a relationship and eventually marry. Saori (Mao
Inoue) is a manga artist. She meets language geek Tony (Jonathan Sherr), who
has arrived in Japan after falling in love with ...
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast: Ihara
Tsuyoshi, Inoue Mao, Ishida Hoshi, Kaname Jun, Sasaki Mao, Yoshitake Reo,
Fukuda Mayuko, Matsushima Nanako
Set during
World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to
survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.yoshitake reo
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Arai
Hirofumi, Kohinata Fumiyo, Kunimura Jun, Shimada Kyusaku, Miura Akifumi,
Shibata Kyohei, Yoza Yoshiaki, Kishibe Ittoku, Mizukawa Asami, Suzunosuke ,
Tsumabuki Satoshi, Sawada Shunsuke, Murakami Jun, Hara Hideko, Hoshino Gen ,
Igawa Haruka, Kanai Yuta, Kase Ryo, Kiritani Kenta, Ando Masanobu, Mitsuya
Yoko, Ota Rina, Eguchi Noriko, Toyohara Kosuke, Kikuchi Rinko
Based on Ryū
Murakami's novel. The story takes place in 1969 in Sasabo, Nagasaki, where high
school students Ken and Adama hope to challenge traditional beliefs and rules.
Ken, in hope to catch a girl's attention, planned a festival which combines
film, theatre and rock music, and developed their project ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Ishibashi Ryo, Fukaura Kanako, Igawa Haruka, Izumiya Shigeru, Tsuda Kenjiro ,
Toyokawa Etsushi, Yo Kimiko
A guide dog
named Shiro wishes to be transformed into a man so that he may pursue a
relationship with his master. And as luck would have it, his wish is granted;
but his master may not be too excited about sleeping with an ex-dog...would you
be
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Igawa
Haruka, Miyaji Mao, Tanaka Rena, Sato Koichi, Wilson Chen
Based on a
novel by Otsuichi, Waiting in the Dark is written and directed by Tengan
Daisuke, the son of late legendary director Imamura Shohei. In his earlier
films Aiki and Asian Beat: I Love Nippon, not to mention his writing
contributions to Miike Takashi's Audition and his father's Warm ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Kikukawa Rei, Tanaka Yoshiko, Kamiki Ryunosuke, Ueto Aya, Kojima Hijiri ,
Nakamura Shunsuke
Asako is a
dreamy 17-year-old schoolgirl who is disillusioned with the mendacity of study
and her impending exams. Gradually she retreats from school and the world
around her and begins to hide out at home, unbeknownst to her divorced mother.
Then, one day, in an effort to make a fresh ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Morita
Ayaka, Morita Ayaka, Nakayama Takuya, Kurokawa Mei, Kurokawa Mei, Nakayama
Takuya
It is the
last year of junior high and Masaki (Nakayama Takuya), one of the most popular
boys in school makes a shocking announcement. He will be immigrating to the
U.S. at the end of the summer. He also states that he has fallen in love with
someone in his ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Daisuke Kizaki, Koike Eiko, Nonami Maho
Aspiring
actresses Nozomi (Koike) and Rana (Nonami) belong to the same talent agency,
share an apartment, and have just auditioned for the same part in a film called
Yakuza Wives. Nozomi is a country girl from Sado Island, who has come to Tokyo
with big dreams of becoming an actress, ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Eikura
Nana, Eita, Tezuka Satomi , Yasuda Misako , Emoto Akira
On April 5,
2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The
bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given
only a month to live.
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Takahashi Mayu, Omori Nao, Takahashi Katsumi, Kimura Yuichi, Ryo, Sachi Parker
Based on
Nashiki Kaho's award-winning children's novel, The Witch of the West is Dead is
another outstanding work from acclaimed filmmaker Nagasaki Shunichi, the
director of Kuro-obi, Heart, Beating in the Dark, and Christmas in August. The
subtly moving film flips gently through pastoral pastimes, adolescent
insecurities, and coming-of-age rites ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Hasegawa Hatsunori , Kora Kengo, Kondo Yoshimasa, Kasahara Hideyuki, Saito
Yuki, Ishizuka Yoshiyuki, Akanishi Jin, Kitano Kii, Suzuki Kazuma, Shibamoto
Yuki
Set in Japan
in the 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find
success amidst a flood of other bands. Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high
school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite indie rock band; a LANDS
CD, she becomes an overnight fan ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Abe
Sadao, Fukasawa Arashi , Kobayashi Ryoko, Matsuyuki Yasuko, Osawa Takao
Early spring
in Hokkaido, northern Japan. Taichi, a young boy who tends to be a dreamer, has
just arrived from the big city to live with his mother’s new boyfriend, a
veterinarian, and his daughter. One day after school, Taichi discovers the cub
of a northern fox crouching near the ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Oguri
Shun, Uchiyama Shinji, Ryogoku Hiroshi, Sawamura Ikki, Takaki Yuya, Takeuchi
Riki , Ishigaki Yuma, Utsui Ken, Waki Tomohiro, Irie Jingi, Hoshino Aki,
Ishiguro Hideo, Sato Jiro, Hirayama Aya, Enami Kyoko, Hakamada Yoshihiko, Anan
Kenji, Hayami Mokomichi, Ishii Kota, Kamenashi Kazuya, Kaneko Ken, Kiriyama
Akito, Koide Keisuke, Koike Teppei, Miura Haruma, Miura Shohei, Nakama Junta,
Nakama Yukie, Namase Katsuhisa, Narimiya Hiroki
A passionate
teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Yankumi, is now overseeing the new students
of Class 3D of Akado High School, who still have not opened up to her and are
giving her a hard time. One day, the students of 3D get harassed by street
hoodlums. Then, Reita, a leader ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Ito
Yuko, Kunimura Jun, Takeuchi Yuko, Yoshizawa Hisashi
Shogo is
left blind and mute from an accident but he is able to live a fruitful life as
a composer. He receives ongoing therapy from the hospital where nurse Kana
works. Just when their relationship is about to blossom into romance, tragedy
strikes when Shogo is killed in a ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Chiyo
Shota, Naka Riisa, Nakao Akiyoshi, Ishibashi Anna, Aoki Munetaka, Katsumura
Masanobu
Quirky high
school student Akari Yoshiyama (Riisa Naka) suddenly attains the power to leap
through time ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Hosoda
Yoshihiko, Toda Erika, Janine Chang, Vic Zhou, Eric Tsang
In Sung
dynasty, a Japanese man named Yagi... couldn't take the badgering from the male
black tea tribe and ridiculed that the male black tea was not the best tea in
the world; causing the two tribes to challenge each other in a "tea
fight"…
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Asari
Yosuke, Ichihara Hayato, Miura Haruma, Seki Megumi
One day,
apathetic high school student Yosuke meets a beautiful girl named Eri. Eri does
battle every night with an indestructible, chainsaw-wielding maniac, “Chainsaw
Man”. As Yosuke and Eri bond, he eventually joins the fight. Features CG
effects by the talents behind the “Death Note” series. Based on the
best-selling ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Kiki
Kirin, Hashimoto Satoshi, Matsushima Nanako, Suzuki Sawa, Song Seung Hun,
Ashida Mana
Nanami
Hoshino (Nanako Matsushima), a wealthy entrepreneur, marries Korean potter Kim
Jun-ho (Song Seung-heon), and they both live a seemingly happy life. Then, one
year after their marriage, Nanami is killed by a biker on her way home. This
tragedy leaves Jun-ho completely devastated. At the hospital, Nanami’s ghost
arises ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Suzuki
Honami, Ichihara Hayato, Tanaka Kei, Onoue Hiroyuki, Aida Shoko, Sakai Wakana,
Aoi Yu, Ueno Juri, Kohinata Fumiyo, Sasaki Kuranosuke
Tomoya
Kishida (Hayato Ichihara) is working as a staffer in a television studio when
he hears about the death of his close friend, Aoi Sato (Juri Ueno). This sparks
his recollection of the events in life they shared from meeting at a record
store, shooting a short film as part ...
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast:
Higuchi Kanako , Kato Rosa, Watanabe Ikkei, Ninomiya Kazunari, Asano Kazuyuki,
Kashiwabara Shuji, Nakajima Hiroko, Kaneda Akio, Horibe Keisuke
Door-to-door
is a sales technique in which a salesperson walks from one door of a house to
another trying to sell a product or service to the general public. A variant of
this involves cold calling first, when another sales representative attempts to
gain agreement that a salesperson should visit. ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Abe
Hiroshi, Ayase Haruka, Nakatani Miki, Tamaki Hiroshi, Emoto Akira
8-year old
boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother,
surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her
husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly,
on her own. Shimpei's childhood sweetheart, Sayuri, is deaf, but ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Ihara
Tsuyoshi, Matsukata Hiroki, Yakusho Koji, Sawamura Ikki, Yamada Takayuki
In late Edo
period of Japan, a vassal of the Akashi Domain named Tosho Mamiya (Masaaki
Uchino ) commits suicide in front of the gate of Roju, the family of Lord Doi
(Mikijiro Hira). By his suicide, he accuses the lord of Akashi Domain,
Naritsugu Matsudaira (Goro Inagaki), with committing ...
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast: Kamiji
Yusuke, Ogata Ken, Muroi Shigeru, Oizumi Yo, Sano Shiro, Sasaki Mao, Sasano
Takashi, Tanaka Rena, Brother Tom , Terajima Shinobu, Wentz Eiji , Yanagisawa
Shingo, So Ji Sub, Kitano Kii, Komoto Junichi
Half-yokai
Kitaro returns with his friends to investigate recent disappearances occurring
under suspicious circumstances. They discover that they have something to do
with a forbidden love which was shared between a yokai and human male
approximately 1,000 years earlier and an evil yokai is responsible. Kitaro and
his companions must ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Segawa
Eiko, Okumura Yuki
Middle
school teacher Yoko Moriguchi’s (Takako Matsu) life comes crashing down after
the murder of her 4 year old daughter. Eventually Yoko Moriguchi suspects some
of her own students to have been responsible for her daughter’s death. An
elaborate plan for revenge then ensues, including forcing students to drink HIV
...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Yamada
Yu, Eita, Ueno Juri, Koide Keisuke, Becky, Mizukawa Asami, Wentz Eiji , Tamaki
Hiroshi
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Kagawa
Teruyuki, Koide Keisuke, Yusuke Santamaria, Tsukaji Muga, Oguri Shun
One year
after the suicide of C-list model Miki, five of her fans come together for a commemorative
meeting: fan club leader Iemoto (Oguri Shun), Oda Yuji (Yusuke Santamaria),
Snake (Koide Keisuke), Yasuo (Muga Tsukaji), and Ichigo Musume (Kagawa
Teruyuki). Sitting down together for the first time, they reminisce about ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Ito
Hideaki, Ekin Cheng, Matsuyama Kenichi, Kobayashi Kaoru, Ashina Sei, Koyuki,
Ohgo Suzuka, Sato Koichi, Kanai Yuta
It is 17th
century Japan and from a young age Kamui has been considered something of an
outcast, even within his own ninja clan. Disillusioned with the laws and
principles, which dictate that he must use his skills to kill others, Kamui
chooses to leave his past behind him and ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Yoshiyuki Kazuko, Yamamoto Taro
Set in a
rural village in southern japan in the late 1950s, the film tells the story of
"gabai“ (or "super“) Granny and her grandson Akihiro, who ends up
living with her for eight years. Granny is full of power and an expert at
Yamamoto Taro, Suzuki Yôma, positive thinking. ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Mizukawa Asami, Kato Haruko, Tani Kei, Kishibe Ittoku, Namioka Kazuki,
Hiraizumi Sei, Shioya Shun, Fujiwara Tatsuya, Toyohara Kosuke
Keiko who
leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of
the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men kidnapping a
middle-aged man in the parking garage. Goro records the man on his cell phone
without knowing he could be in ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Hamada
Mari, Shinohara Ryoko, Shiina Kippei, Abe Sadao, Kato Rosa, Narimiya Hiroki
She’s a
single mother and a cop with the best criminal arrest record in the force. But
while Tokyo Metropolitan Police Detective Natsumi Yukihira is an over-achiever
and an arresting beauty, she’s a pariah to the force. As if being a woman in a
male-dominated occupation wasn’t enough to alienate ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Natsukawa Yui, Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, Osawa Takao, Takei Akashi, Tsutsui Michitaka
, Aragaki Yui, Nakamura Atsuo
Shinichi
runs away from his problems and the people he fears. When Shinichi prays to the
great Kawakami oak tree for courage, he is plunged into ancient feudal Japan.
He awakens in the province of Kasuga, in the midst of a battle. It is there he
meets the great warrior ...
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast: Arai
Hirofumi, Ikewaki Chizuru, Ueno Juri, Eguchi Noriko, Itao Itsuji, Tsumabuki
Satoshi
Tsuneo is a
university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the
customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage
through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate,
and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Eguchi
Noriko, Suzuki Sawa, Nakatani Miki, Nishijima Hidetoshi, Osugi Ren, Kato
Haruhiko, Adachi Yumi, Toyokawa Etsushi
Suffering
from writer’s block, Reiko (Nakatani Miki) moves to a countryside villa at her
editor’s beckoning, to quietly work on her next novel. Her new environment
turns out to be anything but peaceful when she catches sight of her next door
neighbor surreptitiously moving a thousand-year-old mummified corpse into his
...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Ishida
Yuriko, Kohinata Fumiyo, Kase Ryo, Kato Haruko, Aoi Yu, Morimoto Leo, Sasano
Takashi, Kobayashi Nenji
In Tokyo, on
a corner exists Takano Pharmacy. The owner is widow Ginko Takano (Sayuri
Yoshinaga) who lost her husband a long time ago. Ginko has one daughter named
Koharu (Yu Aoi) who lives with her, and also living with them is Ginko's
mother-in-law Kinuo (Haruko Kato). Ginko's daughter Koharu ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Fukushi Seiji, Takabe Ai, Toda Keiko, Kimura Ryo, Aragaki Yui, Matsuda Shota,
Nakamura Toru
Matsuda
plays Ko, a third year junior high student during the 1980s that fights all
through class and acts like a punk. One day he changes bodies with the school
honor student!
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Tamayama Tetsuji, Fukikoshi Mitsuru, Tanaka Yoji, Washio Machiko , Yamada
Takayuki, Yamashita Tetsuo, Fukiishi Kazue, Hotaru Yukijiro, Kazama Morio,
Kobayashi Susumu , Matsuzawa Kazuyuki , Onoue Hiroyuki, Sawajiri Erika, Sugiura
Naoki
How have you
been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother,
Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime that he had
committed to save his brother. But the crime's aftereffect extends to Naoki,
and, branded as a "murderer's brother," Naoki is ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Like most
other Japanese businessmen, Sasaki Hiroyuki - Dad - commutes to work every day
on crowded Tokyo trains. Married to housewife Megumi - Mom - he leaves early
and comes home late. This lifestyle does little to promote a bond with his two
sons, Taka (18) and Kenji (11). ..
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Shimizu Shogo, Kanno Miho, Tsuda Kanji, Fukada Kyoko, Kishimoto Kayoko,
Nishijima Hidetoshi, Osugi Ren, Sato Mayumi
Takeshi
Kitano's 'Dolls crosses between dream like and highly stylized realism, the
film opens in the traditional bunraku doll theater and then cross-cuts between
three modern love-tragedies - a daring tragic triptych on the nature of
unrequited love and abandonment - which span the four seasons and cover much of
...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Koide
Keisuke, Tamaki Hiroshi, Eita, Ueno Juri, Wentz Eiji , Mizukawa Asami
Chiaki
Shinichi (Hiroshi Tamaki) wins he prestigious Platini International Music
Competition and becomes the new orchestra conductor for the Le Marlet
Orchestra. Chiaki then goes with Frank (Eiji Wentz) to observe the orchestra
and is astonished by their poor performance. It seems due to lack of funding
the orchestra lost ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Kishimoto Kayoko, Kitano Takeshi, Emori Toru, Yoshiyuki Kazuko, Suzuki Anne,
Matsuzaka Keiko
Takeshi Kitano
plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through
a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Horikita Maki, Matsuyama Kenichi, Shimizu Misa , Tegoshi Yuya, Watabe Atsuro
If Naomi had
picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go
back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps.
She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would
have remembered her boyfriend, ...
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Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Terajima Susumu, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Tsuda Kanji, Watanabe Hiroyuki, Yoshioka
Miho, Otomo Kohei, Izam , Izumiya Shigeru, Kitami Toshiyuki , Fukaura Kanako,
Morimoto Leo, Musaka Naomasa, Omori Nao, Sakaki Hideo , Sugimoto Aya , Takeda
Shinji, Takeuchi Riki
A man and a
woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your
life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A violent man holding
pure love, Sai and a stunningly beautiful playgirl, Sheila. While Sheila flees
with a large sum of money, ...
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast: Haru,
Naka Riisa, Ozawa Yukiyoshi, Kaku Kento, Okada Masaki
The drama
will be an original story about the past of the brilliant mercenary doctor
Black Jack, during his days as a medical student. In particular, the story will
address questions such as why Black Jack does not have a medical license, why
he seeks such expensive fees for his ...
· 
Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Hongo
Kanata, Kaneshiro Takeshi, Matsu Takako, Kunimura Jun, Nakamura Toru
Story takes
place in the 1940’s, in a fictional Japan, where the country is dominated by
the upper class and the country suffers from a huge income disparity between
the rich and poor. During this time, an evil masked villain named “K-20” roams
around Japan stealing priceless artifacts. Always on ...
· 
Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Fukatsu Eri, Mitsushima Hikari, Okada Masaki, Shiomi Sansei , Tsumabuki Satoshi
Yuichi
Shimizu (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is a young man who takes care of his grandparents
in a decaying fishing village in Nagasaki. His grandparents raised Yuichi
instead of his mother. Yuichi now works as a civil employee. He is a lonely
man. One day, Yuichi meets Yoshino Ishibashi (Hikari Mitsushima) an ...
· 
Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Denden, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Rei Dan, Tadanobu Asano, Mitsugoro Bando
Set in Tokyo
in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the
father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo
works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up
her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's ...
· 
Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Kashii
Yu, Lee Hom Wang, Suzuki Kyoka
Lian Song, a
Taiwanese hit man, leads a double life: he carries out his assignments in
Taipei, then hides out in Naha, Japan, until things cool down. He has a
favorite laundromat in Naha where he goes on Saturday evenings because then a
young woman named Yukiko happens to be ...
· 
Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Kohinata Fumiyo, Mizukawa Asami, Uchiyama Rina, Uchida Asahi, Ogata Naoto
With a title
that means a deep red in Japanese, Shinku is certainly an appropriate name for
the movie considering its bloody subject matter. Boasting a screenplay by the
late novelist Nozawa Hisashi (who committed suicide in 2004) and based on his
identically titled book, Shinku is a compelling drama ...
· 
Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Hirosue Ryoko, Kato Haruko, Tanaka Yuko, Oizumi Yo, Otsuka Nene
For Masaya,
the last happy memory with his parents together, is his hopelessly drunk Dad
forcing him to eat yakitori chicken bars… and being hit by Mom… Masaya was 3
years old at that time. Mom and Masaya left Dad and started living in a town
famous for coal mining.Mom ...
· 
Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Ezawa
Moeko
“Aogeba
Totoshi” deals with the issues of mortality and death through the eyes of a
lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His
teacher, Koichi (played by popular TV personality and media commentator Terry
Ito) is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he ...
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Japanese
Movie | under repair!
Cast:
Matsuoka Masahiro, Sakurai Sachiko, Tanaka Misako, Yamazaki Hajime, Yoshikawa
Fumiki , Kaneda Akio, Ninomiya Kazunari, Naitou Takashi
A remake of
the 2005 Korean movie "Marathon", this special is about an autistic
boy guided by his mother and his coach in training for a marathon.
· 
Japanese
Movie |
Cast:
Hakamada Yoshihiko, Ishibashi Renji, Fujiwara Tatsuya, Okamoto Aya, Kimura Ryo
Seiji
(played by Battle Royale’s Tatsuya Fujiwara) struggles to look after his
younger brother Michio, who suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum – a rare disease
that is fatal if exposed to sunlight. Matters are even more complicated due to
Michio’s state of mind, which is equivalent to that of a six ...
· 
Japanese
Movie |
Cast: Fukuda
Mayuko, Kikawada Masaya, Wada Soko, Miura Tomokazu, Nagase Tomoya
"Heaven’s
Door” starts off with rugged Katsuhito Aoyama (Tomoya Nagase) getting canned
from his job as a car mechanic. While leaving work, he suffers from a migraine
that causes him to nearly pass out. Katsuhito then visits the hospital to
receive some ultra-heavy news: the cause of his migraines is .
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