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How To Date An Otaku Girl

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 ...
April Bride

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Eikura Nana, Eita, Emoto Akira, Yasuda Misako , Tezuka Satomi

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.
Nodame Cantabile The Movie I

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Koide Keisuke, Eita, Mizukawa Asami, Wentz Eiji , Ueno Juri, Tamaki Hiroshi

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 ...
Nodame Cantabile The Movie II

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Eita, Ueno Juri, Koide Keisuke, Yamada Yu, Becky, Tamaki Hiroshi, Mizukawa Asami, Wentz Eiji
Dolls

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Tsuda Kanji, Kanno Miho, Kishimoto Kayoko, Fukada Kyoko, Osugi Ren, Nishijima Hidetoshi, Shimizu Shogo, 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 ...
Bandage

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Kitano Kii, Hasegawa Hatsunori , Ishizuka Yoshiyuki, Kasahara Hideyuki, Kora Kengo, Shibamoto Yuki, Akanishi Jin, Suzuki Kazuma, Saito Yuki, Kondo Yoshimasa

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 ...
Waruboro

Japanese Movie |

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

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!
Loft

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Eguchi Noriko, Osugi Ren, Nishijima Hidetoshi, Adachi Yumi, Toyokawa Etsushi, Nakatani Miki, Kato Haruhiko, Suzuki Sawa

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 ...
Gokusen: The Movie

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Nakama Junta, Hayami Mokomichi, Sato Jiro, Anan Kenji, Ryogoku Hiroshi, Hoshino Aki, Koike Teppei, Ishiguro Hideo, Uchiyama Shinji, Irie Jingi, Miura Shohei, Namase Katsuhisa, Kamenashi Kazuya, Kiriyama Akito, Takeuchi Riki , Nakama Yukie, Oguri Shun, Koide Keisuke, Sawamura Ikki, Hakamada Yoshihiko, Hirayama Aya, Kaneko Ken, Ishigaki Yuma, Enami Kyoko, Takaki Yuya, Ishii Kota, Narimiya Hiroki, Utsui Ken, Waki Tomohiro, Miura Haruma

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 ...
Kamui gaiden

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Ito Hideaki, Sato Koichi, Kobayashi Kaoru, Matsuyama Kenichi, Ohgo Suzuka, Ashina Sei, Kanai Yuta, Koyuki, Ekin Cheng

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 ...
Ballad

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, Tsutsui Michitaka , Nakamura Atsuo, Aragaki Yui, Natsukawa Yui, Osawa Takao, Takei Akashi

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 ...
I Give My First Love to You

Japanese Movie | under repair!

Cast: Horiuchi Keiko, Hosoda Yoshihiko, Okada Masaki, Nakamura Toru, Moriguchi Yoko, Harada Natsuki, Inoue Mao, Sugimoto Tetta

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 ...
About Love

Japanese Movie | under repair!

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

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

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Kaneko Takatoshi, Maki Onaga , Takenaka Naoto, Lee Tae Sung, Yoshioka Miho, Hara Hideko, 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 ...
Starlight High Noon

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 ...
Saigo no Yakusoku

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Kuroki Meisa, Ninomiya Kazunari, Ohno Satoshi, Ninomiya Kazunari, Matsumoto Jun, Kuroki Meisa, Aiba Masaki, Matsumoto Jun, Aiba Masaki, Sakurai Sho, Sakurai Sho, Ohno Satoshi

"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.
Tokyo Sonata

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). ...
Kitaro and The Millenium Curse

Japanese Movie | under repair!

Cast: Wentz Eiji , Kamiji Yusuke, Ogata Ken, Komoto Junichi , Sano Shiro, Terajima Shinobu, Oizumi Yo, Brother Tom , Sasano Takashi, Kitano Kii, Tanaka Rena, Sasaki Mao, Yanagisawa Shingo, Muroi Shigeru, So Ji Sub

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 ...
Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish

Japanese Movie | under repair!

Cast: Arai Hirofumi, Ueno Juri, Eguchi Noriko, Ikewaki Chizuru, 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...
Chameleon

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Kato Haruko, Namioka Kazuki, Mizukawa Asami, Kishibe Ittoku, Shioya Shun, Hiraizumi Sei, Tani Kei, Toyohara Kosuke, Fujiwara Tatsuya

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 ...