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The Last Love Song on This Little Planet

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Cast: Aki Maeda, Ibu Masato, Takuji Kawakubo, Kanjiya Shihori, Kubozuka Shunsuke

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 ...
Paradise Kiss

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Cast: Igarashi Shunji, Kitagawa Keiko , Mukai Osamu, Kaku Kento, Yamamoto Yusuke

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 ...
Runway Beat

Japanese Movie | under repair!

Cast: Sakuraba Nanami, Seto Koji, Imalu, Tanaka Kei, 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.
Ghost in your Arms Again

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Cast: Ashida Mana, Kiki Kirin, Hashimoto Satoshi, Matsushima Nanako, Suzuki Sawa, Song Seung Hun

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 ...
River of First Love

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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 ...
Confession

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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 ...
Aogeba Totoshi

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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 ...
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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Cast: Horikita Maki, Matsuyama Kenichi, Watabe Atsuro, Tegoshi Yuya, Shimizu Misa

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, ...
My Darling is a Foreigner

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Cast: Inoue Mao, Kunimura Jun, Kuninaka Ryoko, Jonathan Sherr , Toda Naho

"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 ...
The Deep Red

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Cast: Kohinata Fumiyo, Mizukawa Asami, Ogata Naoto, Uchiyama Rina, Uchida Asahi

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 ...
Moonlight Jelly fish

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Cast: Hakamada Yoshihiko, Ishibashi Renji, Fujiwara Tatsuya, Kimura Ryo, Okamoto Aya

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 ...
Young Black Jack

Japanese Movie | under repair!

Cast: Haru, Naka Riisa, Okada Masaki, Kaku Kento, Ozawa Yukiyoshi

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 ...
K-20: The Fiend With Twenty Faces

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Cast: Hongo Kanata, Kaneshiro Takeshi, Matsu Takako, Nakamura Toru, Kunimura Jun

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 ...
Akunin

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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 ...
13 Assassins

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Cast: Ihara Tsuyoshi, Matsukata Hiroki, Yakusho Koji, Yamada Takayuki, 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 ...
Hanamizuki - May your love bloom a hundred year

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Aragaki Yui, Ikuta Toma, Mukai Osamu, Renbutsu Misako, Yakushimaru Hiroko

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 ...
Kabei Our Mother

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Cast: Denden, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsugoro Bando, Rei Dan, Tadanobu Asano

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 ...
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 ...
About Her Brother

Japanese Movie |

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

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

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

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