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1 Litre of Tears (movie)

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Matsukane Yoneko, Torii Kaori, Mitsuo Hamada, Kato Kazuko, Ashikawa Yoshimi, Oonishi Asae

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 ...
10 Promises To My Dog

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Osawa Akane, Fujii Mina, Fukuda Mayuko, Takashima Reiko, Toyokawa Etsushi, Kase Ryo, Sasano Takashi, Fuse Akira, Ikewaki Chizuru, Tanaka Rena

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 ...
13 Assassins

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Ihara Tsuyoshi, Matsukata Hiroki, Yamada Takayuki, Yakusho Koji, Sawamura Ikki

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 ...
1942

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Seiichiro Okawa, Tetsuya Chihiro, Fumikazu Hara, Toshihide Onisuka, Seiichiro Okawa, Fumikazu Hara, Tetsuya Chihiro, Toshihide Onisuka

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 ...
20th Century Boys

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Taira Airi, Ukaji Takashi, Kuroki Hitomi, Toyokawa Etsushi, Matsumoto Tamaki , Katase Nana, Moriyama Mirai, Endo Kenichi, Ishizuka Hidehiko, Ikewaki Chizuru, Kohinata Fumiyo, Sano Shiro, Miyasako Hiroyuki, Karasawa Toshiaki, Mitsuishi Ken, Kagawa Teruyuki, Kinoshita Yukina, Seto Yoichiro, Ryu Raita, Takeuchi Miyako, Namase Katsuhisa, Hatakeyama Rina, Fuwa Mansaku, Takenaka Naoto, Tokui Yuu, Ishibashi Renji, Oikawa Mitsuhiro, Tokiwa Takako, Tsuda Kanji, Sasaki Kuranosuke, Tanaka Kenji

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 ...
26 Years Diary

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Kaneko Takatoshi, Lee Kyung Jin, Hara Hideko, Maki Onaga , Takenaka Naoto, Yoshioka Miho, Lee Tae Sung

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 ...
2LDK

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, ...
46 Billion Years of Love

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Ishibashi Ryo, Matsuda Ryuhei, Shibukawa Kiyohiko, Ishibashi Renji, Kubozuka Shunsuke, Endo Kenichi, Ando Masanobu

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 ...
69

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Shibata Kyohei, Eguchi Noriko, Ota Rina, Yoza Yoshiaki, Suzunosuke , Sawada Shunsuke, Shimada Kyusaku, Tsumabuki Satoshi, Mizukawa Asami, Miura Akifumi, Hara Hideko, Kishibe Ittoku, Arai Hirofumi, Murakami Jun, Hoshino Gen , Igawa Haruka, Kase Ryo, Kanai Yuta, Kikuchi Rinko, Kiritani Kenta, Kohinata Fumiyo, Kunimura Jun, Ando Masanobu, Mitsuya Yoko, Toyohara Kosuke

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 ...
About Her Brother

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Ishida Yuriko, Kohinata Fumiyo, Aoi Yu, Kase Ryo, Kato Haruko, Kobayashi Nenji, Morimoto Leo, Sasano Takashi

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 ...
About Love

Japanese Movie | under repair!

Cast: Tsukamoto Takashi, Ito Misaki, Li Xiao Lu, Wilson Chen, Osugi Ren, Ichikawa Yui, Kase Ryo

Three tales of love set in a trio of contemporary Asian hubs: Tokyo, Taipei & Shanghai.
Akunin

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Fukatsu Eri, Mitsushima Hikari, Tsumabuki Satoshi, Shiomi Sansei , Okada Masaki

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 ...
Aogeba Totoshi

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 ...
Apartment 1303

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Itaya Yuka, Fukada Aki, Furuta Arata, Abe Shinnosuke, Hatsune Eriko, Nakagoshi Noriko, Watabe Gota, Naoko Otani, Otani Naoko

A modern ghost story which turns a love hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror.
April Bride

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.
Azumi

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Harada Yoshio, Kohashi Kenji, Odagiri Joe, Sakaguchi Taku , Oguri Shun, Ishigaki Yuma, Eita, Ryo, Endo Kenichi, Narimiya Hiroki, Ibu Masato, Takenaka Naoto, Kaneko Takatoshi, Sakaki Hideo , Ueto Aya, Okamoto Aya

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 ...
Azumi 2: Death or Love

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Sakaguchi Taku , Ishigaki Yuma, Koyama Shigeru, Nomura Eugene, Kitamura Kazuki, Oguri Shun, Takashima Reiko, Ueto Aya, Kuriyama Chiaki, Nagasawa Toshiya, Kai Shishido

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 ...
Ballad

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Takei Akashi, Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, Tsutsui Michitaka , Osawa Takao, Natsukawa Yui, 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 ...
Bandage

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Hasegawa Hatsunori , Shibamoto Yuki, Kondo Yoshimasa, Kitano Kii, Ishizuka Yoshiyuki, Akanishi Jin, Kora Kengo, Kasahara Hideyuki, Suzuki Kazuma, Saito 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 ...
Battle Royale 1 (R)

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Fukaura Kanako, Matsuzawa Ren, Ando Masanobu, Fujiwara Tatsuya, Tsukamoto Takashi, Yamamoto Taro, Minami, Maeda Ai, Aki Maeda, Kuriyama Chiaki, Takaoka Sousuke, Shibasaki Kou, Kitano Takeshi

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" ...