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Kamenashi Kazuya, Oguri Shun, Yamaguchi Tatsuya, Yoshikazu Kotani
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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...
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Aya Matsuura, Ishikawa Rika, Miyoshi Erika, Nagato Hiroyuki, Okada Yui, Saito Yuki , Shunsuke Kubozuka, Takeuchi Riki
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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 f...
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Matsumoto Jun, Ninomiya Kazunari, Sakurai Sho, Tabata Tomoko
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The five members of Arashi appear together on the big screen again in the highly anticipated Kiiroi Namida, a.k.a. Yellow Tears. Based on the classic manga by Nagashima Shinji, this nostalgic film takes the audience back to the 1960s with a moving st...
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Kurokawa Mei, Morita Ayaka, Nakayama Takuya
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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...
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Akifumi Miura, Hiroshi Tamaki, Koen Kondo, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Takatoshi Kaneko
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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? Thi...
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Igawa Haruka, Tanaka Rena
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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...
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Konishi Manami, Yusuke Santamaria
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"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 udo...
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Hirata Mitsuru , Horikita Maki, Ishida Takuya, Kusamura Reiko
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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....
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Oomori Nao, Takahashi Katsumi
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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 mo...
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Gorou Kishitani, Takashi Tsukamoto
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A girl who can only live at night and a high school student who loves to surf as the sun rises...
The two had nothing in common...
Kaoru Amane, 16 years old, did not attend school but instead sang herself away every night after dark at a square in ...
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Aoi Miyazaki, Asae Onishi, Hiroshi Tamaki, Keisuke Koide, Meisa Kuroki , Misa Uehara, Munetaka Aoki
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"She used to lie very often."
Due to his inferiority complex, Makoto shies away from other people, but Shizuru manages to make him open up to her. Because of their friendship, Shizuru takes interest in photography and they often go to a forest, part...
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Hiraoka Yuta, Motokariya Yuika, Shihori Kanjiya, Ueno Juri, Yukari Toyoshima
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Set in present-day Japan, Swing Girls is the story of girls who meet and are deeply fascinated by jazz. The heroine is a very typical Japanese teenager. Her character is suggestive of the hidden problem of today children. She lacks any special intere...
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Ryou Kimura, Yû Aoi , Yuuya Yagira
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A Tokyo suburb with a middle American feel, the city of Fussa is home to a US military base with its wide avenues, second-hand clothing stores peddling American merchandise and bars catering largely to G.I.s.
Shiro (Yuya Yagira) is a 17-year-old Fus...
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2005
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Nakama Yukie, Odagiri Joe
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Shinobi centers on the drama resulting from the war between two ninja clans in the early part of the Tokugawa era. In the film, Nakama Yukie portrays Oboro, the granddaughter of Ogen (Lily), the respected Iga clan matriarch, while Odagiri Jo plays Ge...
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Kenichi Matsuyama , Riko Narumi
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One 13-year-old piano prodigy, Uta Naruse (Riko Narumi), and her struggle with the meaning of playing classical music. Her father (Hidetoshi Nishijima) died mysteriously some years earlier, leaving her mother (Satomi Tezuka) poor and obsessed with ma...
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Eguchi Yosuke, Kou Shibasaki, Nakamura Toru
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A young female kung fu teacher, Rin, who must take over her grandfather's dojo. In order to prepare herself, she travels to China for 3,000 days of grueling Shaolin kung fu training. On her return to Japan, she works to rebuild the dojo and joins her...
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Nagasawa Masami , Tsukamoto Takashi, Yamada Takayuki
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Quiet, earnest, and a bit nerdy, Toyama Satoshi runs a marine plants store where he can indulge in his love for aquatic vegetation. Though he barely makes enough money, Satoshi is determined to hold on to the store as it fulfills a promise he made to...
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Aki Maeda, Kanji Tsuda, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Masatô Ibu , Ryou Kimura, Shihori Kanjiya, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Takuji Kawakubo
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Saikano (最終兵器彼女, Saishū Heiki Kanojo?, lit. She, the Ultimate Weapon or My Girlfriend, the Ultimate Weapon) is a manga and anime series by Shin Takahashi, creator of Iihito and Kimi no Kakera. Saikano was originally serialized in Shogaku...
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A female college student meets an injured young man on the street.
They fall in love, not knowing that the girl's police detective father is in the midst of a manhunt to find the young man's physician father, who is wanted for murder.
Based on Shak...
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Tomoya Kishida (Hayato Ichihara) is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his close friend, Aoi Sato (Juri Ueno). This sparks his recollection of the events in life they shared from meeting at a record store, sh...