Elvis (2022)
Biography | Drama | Music
The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Starring: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Dacre Montgomery, David Wenham, Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Director: Baz Luhrmann
The Midnight Maiden War / Mayonaka otome sensô (2022)
Drama
I is a university, who came to Tokyo from his hometown. I lives alone and doesn‘t have friends or a girlfriend. I‘s university life is boring and he doesn‘t have a dream. I supports himself by working as a day laborer at a construction site. I meets two people at a hide-and-seek club. One is his Senior and the other person is Black Suit. By meeting them, I‘s boring life changes. They start the `Midnight Maiden War,` which is their plan to destroy Tokyo.
Starring: Ren Nagase, Elaiza Ikeda, Tasuku Emoto, Yûshin Shinohara, Akinori Andô, Mayu Yamaguchi
Director: Ken Ninomiya
Wedding High / Uedingu hai (2022)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
It's the beginning of a hectic wedding party. The best day of the newlywed is interrupted by various unpredictable events.
Starring: Ryôko Shinohara, Tomoya Nakamura, Nagisa Sekimizu, Takanori Iwata, Osamu Mukai, Katsumi Takahashi
Director: Akiko Ôku
Love Nonetheless / Ai nanoni (2022)
Drama | Romance
Koji runs a second-hand bookstore. He likes female drummer Ichihana, but, suddenly, female high school student Misaki appears in front of him and keeps confesses her feelings for him.
Starring: Kôji Seto, Honami Satô, Yumi Kawai, Ayumu Nakajima, Yuka Kouri, Jôtarô Tozuka
Director: Hideo Jôjô
She Likes That / What She Likes… / Kanojo no sukinamonowa (2021)
Romance
The high student is closeted and gay. Roaming a local bookstore he comes across his female class-mate and notices that she is picking on male homoerotic fantasy graphic novels. The girl wants her taste and preference kept a secret. They agree and become close friends. She professes her love for him. They begin to date, but he is gay.
Starring: Fûju Kamio, Anna Yamada, Oshiro Maeda, Ryota Miura, Daichi Watanabe, Tôko Miura
Director: Shôgo Kusano
Lost Paradise / Paradise Lost / Shitsurakuen (1997)
Drama | Romance
Rinko, the wife of an easily irritable, reputable doctor and Sholchiro, a veteran newspaper reporter have made choices in the course of their lives so that their future seems to have been fully established. Both are stuck in a little job that appeals to the imagination and a blissful marriage. Everything changes on the day they meet by chance and fall in love immediately. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages. The fire in their hearts has been extinguished and has given way to chill. They forget all grayness in each other's arms and the more often they come together secretly, the stronger their desire becomes. The hours they can not spend together seem like days. However, the intrusive moral laws of Japanese society do not offer a place for their passion. With every kiss, the shame increases, after every banned love night the blame is greater again, until they finally have only one way left to be together.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Hitomi Kuroki, Akira Terao, Toshio Shiba, Tomoko Hoshino, Yoshino Kimura
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Cast Away (2000)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His fast- paced career takes him, often at a moment's notice, to far-flung locales – and away from his girlfriend Kelly. Chuck's manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes isolated on a remote island – cast away into the most desolate environment imaginable. Stripped of the conveniences of everyday life, he first must meet the basic needs of survival, including water, food and shelter. Chuck, the consummate problem solver, eventually figures out how to sustain himself physically. But then what? Chuck begins his personal journey. After four years, fate gives Chuck a chance to fight his way back to civilization, only to find an unexpected emotional challenge greater than all the earlier physical ones. His ability to persevere and to hope are a product of his life-changing experience. Though the conclusion of Chuck's story may not be a conventional Hollywood ending, it is, like life, full of truth, pain and promise.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Jenifer Lewis, Geoffrey Blake, Peter Von Berg
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Blank Check (1994)
Comedy | Crime | Family
After a bike accident, a young boy inadvertently gains possession of a check for $1 million and proceeds to spend it, unaware that the gangsters it belongs to are in pursuit.
Starring: Brian Bonsall, Karen Duffy, Miguel Ferrer, James Rebhorn, Tone Loc, Michael Lerner
Director: Rupert Wainwright
