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Shinobi

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Cast: Nakama Yukie, Odagiri Joe

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), ...
Sugar and Spice

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Ryou Kimura, Yû Aoi , Yuuya Yagira

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 ...
Swing Girls

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Hiraoka Yuta, Motokariya Yuika, Shihori Kanjiya, Ueno Juri, Yukari Toyoshima

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. ...
Tada Kimi wo Aishiteru

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Cast: Aoi Miyazaki, Asae Onishi, Hiroshi Tamaki, Keisuke Koide, Meisa Kuroki , Misa Uehara, Munetaka Aoki

"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 ...
Taiyou no Uta

Japanese Movie | under repair!

Cast: Gorou Kishitani, Takashi Tsukamoto

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 ...
The Letters

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The Witch of the West is Dead

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Oomori Nao, Takahashi Katsumi

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 ...
Tokyo Boy

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Hirata Mitsuru , Horikita Maki, 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 ...
Tokyo Sonata

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Haruka Igawa, Kagawa Teruyuki , Koizumi Kyoko , Yokoyama Yu

Best known in the United States for bizarre and unsettling horror films like PULSE and CURE, Kiyoshi Kurosawa ventures away from that category with TOKYO SONATA. Of course, Kurosawa is incapable of directing a straightforward picture, and TOKYO SONATA is no exception. Retaining the same masterful control over mood and ...
Udon

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Konishi Manami, Yusuke Santamaria

"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 ...
Unfair - The Movie

Japanese Movie |
Waiting in the Dark

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Igawa Haruka, Tanaka Rena

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 ...
Waterboys

Japanese Movie | under repair!

Cast: Akifumi Miura, Hiroshi Tamaki, Koen Kondo, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Takatoshi Kaneko

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 ...
Way of Blue Sky

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Kurokawa Mei, Morita Ayaka, 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 ...
Yellow Tears

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Matsumoto Jun, Ninomiya Kazunari, Sakurai Sho, Tabata Tomoko

The five members of Arashi appear together on the big screen again in the highly anticipated Kiiroi Namida, a.k.a. Yellow Tears. Based on the classic manga by Nagashima Shinji, this nostalgic film takes the audience back to the 1960s with a moving story about youth, friendship, and the pursuit of ...
Yo-Yo Girl Cop

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Aya Matsuura, Ishikawa Rika, Miyoshi Erika, Nagato Hiroyuki, Okada Yui, Saito Yuki , Shunsuke Kubozuka, Takeuchi Riki

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 ...
Yuuki

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Kamenashi Kazuya, Oguri Shun, Yamaguchi Tatsuya, Yoshikazu Kotani

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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