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SERPENT'S PATH

SERPENT'S PATH (2024)

Director
KUROSAWA Kiyoshi
Cast
SHIBASAKI Ko, Damien BONNARD

An adaptation of Kurosawa's own film "Hebi no Michi (aka Serpent's Path)" produced by Daiei in1998. In the suburbs of Paris, Albert, a freelance reporter, vows to take revenge for the brutal murder of his young daughter, while Sayoko, a Japanese fema...

Release Date
Jun, 14th, 2024
Our Last Day

Our Last Day (2023)

Director
IBAYASHI Yuka
Cast
NAKAGAWA Seina, IWAIDO Seiko, SERIZAWA Tateto

After the suicide of her kind father, her mother became addicted to a new religion and disappeared. Kiho's happy family collapses. Kiho has been living alone since entering junior high school. Unable to return to the happy past, she feels hopeless ab...

Release Date
May, 17th, 2024
Undercurrent

Undercurrent (2023)

Director
IMAIZUMI Rikiya
Cast
MAKI Yoko, IURA Arata, NAGAYAMA Eita

Live-action adaptation of Toyoda Tetsuya's same-named manga that garnered international acclaim at the 2009 Japan Expo. Helmed by Just Only Love director Imaizumi Rikiya with music by Hosono Haruomi of Shoplifters. Public bath owner Kanae (Maki Yoko...

Release Date
Oct, 6th, 2023
FPS

FPS (2024)

Director
NAGAE Jiro
Cast
MICHIMOTO Narumi, IZUMI Tomochica, YONEZAWA Narumi

A fully FPS (First-Person Shooter) Perspective Attraction-Style Horror Movie, Like Nothing Anyone's Ever Seen! Do not watch if you have a weak heart! Terror and immersion beyond your wildest imagination... Will you survive? Suzu Sato (Narumi...

Release Date
Mar, 29th, 2024
THE GIRLS

THE GIRLS (2023)

Director
UGANA Kenichi
Cast
TANABE Momoko, KOIDE Kaoru, MORITA Kokoro

Fantasy drama spun with a unique sensibility and anti-war theme by director Ugana Kenichi (Extraneous Matter - The Complete Version and Love Will Tear Us Apart), who has garnered attention at numerous international film festivals. Childhood friends...

Release Date
Oct, 20th, 2023
Voice

Voice (2023)

Director
MISHIMA Yukiko
Cast
MAEDA Atsuko, CARROUSEL Maki, AIKAWA Show

Drama dealing with sexual assault and emotional scars from director Mishima Yukiko. Portrays three people as they live on the islands of Lake Toya in Hokkaido, Hachijojima in Tokyo, and Dojima in Osaka. Maki (Carrousel Maki) lives near Lake Toya, an...

Release Date
Feb, 9th, 2024
Kadono Eiko's Colorful Life: Finding the Magic Within

Kadono Eiko's Colorful Life: Finding the Magic Within (2024)

Director
MIYAGAWA Marina
Cast
KADONO Eiko

A documentary that closely follows the daily life of Kadono Eiko, best known as the author of "Kiki's Delivery Service". Based on the NHK program of the same name that was broadcast from 2020 to 2022, directed by Miyagawa Marina, who also worked on t...

Release Date
Jan, 26th, 2024
Totto-chan the Movie: The Little Girl at the Window

Totto-chan the Movie: The Little Girl at the Window (2023)

Director
YAKUWA Shinnosuke
Cast
ONO Liliana, OGURI Shun, Anne

Anime adaptation of Kuroyanagi Tetsuko's same-named autobiographical novel about her youth, which has been translated into over 20 languages and sold 25 million copies worldwide. Japan is in the final years of World War Two. Totto-chan (Ono Liliana)...

Release Date
Dec, 8th, 2023

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Zero fighter daikusen

Zero fighter daikusen (1966)

Director
MORITANI Shiro
Cast
KAYAMA Yuzo, SATO Makoto, CHIAKI Minoru

Release Date
Jul, 13th, 1966
Black Line

Black Line (1959)

Director
ISHII Teruo
Cast
AMACHI Shigeru, MITSUYA Utako, MIHARA Yoko

Journalist Machida is trying to uncover the secrets of a call-girl organization. One day in the street he sees a girl he thinks can help him but he loses her in the crowd. A female-fortune-teller who knows her tells him of an inn where he can find he...

Release Date
Jan, 9th, 1960
I’ll Never Cry!

I’ll Never Cry! (1966)

Director
YOSHIDA Kenji
Cast
IZUMI Masako, YAMAUCHI Ken, ASHIKAWA Izumi

Sanae is released from the home for juvenile delinquents and goes to work in the home of a prominent lawyer. She hates it and does everything wrong, but what she particularly dislikes is the lawyer's sullen son, a boy crippled since infancy by polio....

Release Date
Oct, 29th, 1966
Four Young Sisters

Four Young Sisters (1964)

Director
MORINAGA Kenjiro
Cast
ASHIKAWA Izumi, ASAOKA Ruriko, YOSHINAGA Sayuri

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought s...

Release Date
Dec, 31st, 1964