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Dolls

Japanese Movie |

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

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 ...
Nodame Cantabile The Movie I

Japanese Movie |

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

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 ...
Glory to the Filmmaker

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Kishimoto Kayoko, Suzuki Anne, Emori Toru, Yoshiyuki Kazuko, Kitano Takeshi, Matsuzaka Keiko

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Japanese Movie |

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

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, ...
LoveDeath

Japanese Movie |

Cast: Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Yoshioka Miho, Terajima Susumu, Tsuda Kanji, Takeuchi Riki , Izam , Otomo Kohei, Izumiya Shigeru, Fukaura Kanako, Watanabe Hiroyuki, Morimoto Leo, Takeda Shinji, Kitami Toshiyuki , Musaka Naomasa, Sugimoto Aya , Omori Nao, Sakaki Hideo

A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A violent man holding pure love, Sai and a stunningly beautiful playgirl, Sheila. While Sheila flees with a large sum of money, ...
Young Black Jack

Japanese Movie | under repair!

Cast: Haru, Naka Riisa, Kaku Kento, Ozawa Yukiyoshi, 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 ...
K-20: The Fiend With Twenty Faces

Japanese Movie |

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

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

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 ...
Kabei Our Mother

Japanese Movie |

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

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 ...
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 ...
The Deep Red

Japanese Movie |

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

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

Japanese Movie |

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

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 ...
Marathon

Japanese Movie | under repair!

Cast: Matsuoka Masahiro, Naitou Takashi, Tanaka Misako, Ninomiya Kazunari, Kaneda Akio, Yamazaki Hajime, Sakurai Sachiko, Yoshikawa Fumiki

A remake of the 2005 Korean movie "Marathon", this special is about an autistic boy guided by his mother and his coach in training for a marathon.
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 ...
Moonlight Jelly fish

Japanese Movie |

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 ...