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The Witch of the West is Dead

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Cast: Omori Nao, Takahashi Katsumi, Sachi Parker, Kimura Yuichi, Ryo, Takahashi Mayu

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 ...
Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Chiyo Shota, Nakao Akiyoshi, Ishibashi Anna, Aoki Munetaka, Katsumura Masanobu, Naka Riisa

Quirky high school student Akari Yoshiyama (Riisa Naka) suddenly attains the power to leap through time ...
Tokyo Boy

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Ishida Takuya, Horikita Maki, Hirata Mitsuru, Horikita Maki, Kusamura Reiko , Ishida Takuya, Hirata Mitsuru, 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

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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). ...
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Hirosue Ryoko, Kato Haruko, Otsuka Nene, Tanaka Yuko, Oizumi Yo

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 ...
Udon

Japanese Movie | under repair!

Cast: Muro Tsuyoshi, Katagiri Jin, Kohinata Fumiyo, Suzuki Kyoka, Kiba Katsumi, Yusuke Santamaria, Oizumi Yo, Kaname Jun, Koizumi Kotaro, Kawaoka Daijiro, Masu Takeshi, Konishi Manami, Matsumoto Tortoise

"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 |

Cast: Hamada Mari, Kato Rosa, Narimiya Hiroki, Shinohara Ryoko, Abe Sadao, Shiina Kippei

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 ...
Waiting in the Dark

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Igawa Haruka, Miyaji Mao, Sato Koichi, Wilson Chen, 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 ...
Waruboro

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Fukushi Seiji, Kimura Ryo, Matsuda Shota, Aragaki Yui, Nakamura Toru, Takabe Ai, Toda Keiko

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!
Waterboys

Japanese Movie |

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

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: Morita Ayaka, Kurokawa Mei, Nakayama Takuya, Nakayama Takuya, Kurokawa Mei, Morita Ayaka

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, Ohno Satoshi, Aiba Masaki, Sakurai Sho, Tabata Tomoko

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 – ...
Yo-Yo Girl Cop

Japanese Movie |

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

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 ...
Young Black Jack

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 ...
Yuuki

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Kotani Yoshikazu, Ichige Yoshie, Megumi, Kasai Kenji, Matsuda Kazusa , Kamiji Yusuke, Kamenashi Kazuya, Fukiishi Kazue, Yamane Kazuma, Uchida Asahi, Yuki Saori, Watanabe Ikkei, Oguri Shun, Yuka, Yamaguchi Tatsuya

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 ...