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In Those Days / Ano koro (2021)
Drama
Mikito Tsurugi fails to enter a university. He doesn't have a girlfriend or money. There's nothing to make him happy. He watches an Aya Matsuura music video and becomes fascinated by the idols from Hello. Project. He then forms the band "Renai Kenkyukai" with people he met at an idol event. They spend their days working on their music as a band. As time goes by, the band members begin to have more important things to do than following idols and playing in their band. The band members drift apart. Mikito learns that band member Kozumin has cancer. Because of this, he meets the other band members from "Renai Kenkyukai" for the first time in a long time.
Starring: Tôri Matsuzaka, Taiga Nakano, Takashi Yamanaka, Ryûya Wakaba, Tateto Serizawa, Kentarô Kokado
Director: Rikiya Imaizumi
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Tags: Kentarô Kokado, Rikiya Imaizumi, Ryûya Wakaba, Taiga Nakano, Takashi Yamanaka, Tateto Serizawa, Tôri Matsuzaka
Posted on March 14, 2021 |
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The Brightest Roof in the Universe / Uchu de Ichiban Akarui Yane (2020)
Family
Fourteen-year-old schoolgirl Tsubame is into university student Toru. She seems him in her area and really wants to be his. She struggles with how to inform him of her love. Then her stepmother becomes pregnant and she is distracted with that development. The one reliable part of her life is the calligraphy class she attends, but then she runs into a woman.
Starring: Kaya Kiyohara, Kaori Momoi, Kentaro Ito, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Maki Sakai, Takashi Yamanaka
Director: Michihito Fujii
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Tags: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Kaori Momoi, Kaya Kiyohara, Kentarô Itô, Maki Sakai, Michihito Fujii, Takashi Yamanaka
Posted on September 18, 2019 |
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The Island of Cats / Neko to jiichan (2019)
Drama
A seventy-year-old widowed man named Daikichi lives on a small island with his beloved pet cat. He is a local, a native, enjoys his home and spending time with that cat and old friends. His own son has done what many local youngsters have. The son has moved to Tokyo. However, change is eternal and friends are dying of old age, the environment is changing and old age creeps up and makes folk infirm. The old man has to contend with this change.
Starring: Shinosuke Tatekawa, Ko Shibasaki, Kaoru Kobayashi, Yûko Tanaka, Tasuku Emoto, Guin Poon Chaw, Takashi Yamanaka, Shôno Hayama
Director: Mitsuaki Iwagô
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Tags: Guin Poon Chaw, Kaoru Kobayashi, Kô Shibasaki, Mitsuaki Iwagô, Shinosuke Tatekawa, Shôno Hayama, Takashi Yamanaka, Tasuku Emoto, Yûko Tanaka
Posted on September 18, 2014 |
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Homeland / Ieji (2014)
Drama
Jiro has come home. His tiny farming village is now deserted because it lies in the badly contaminated Fukushima zone. Nonetheless, Jiro begins cultivating his land. An old school friend helps him and together they plant rice. "It's like slow suicide", says Jiro's friend. Jiro's half-brother, Soichi, who has evacuated with his family cannot believe that Jiro has moved back into the old home. Soichi's step-mother, who is Jiro's biological mother, had never got over Jiro leaving. Suffused with grief and poetry, the images in this film describes life after the nuclear catastrophe. They also tell us what it means to go home when home will never be the same again.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Masaaki Uchino, Yûko Tanaka, Sakura Andô, Takashi Yamanaka, Yôji Tanaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Renji Ishibashi, Tôru Kizu
Director: Nao Kubota
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Tags: Ken Mitsuishi, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Masaaki Uchino, Nao Kubota, Renji Ishibashi, Sakura Andô, Takashi Yamanaka, Tôru Kizu, Yôji Tanaka, Yûko Tanaka
