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Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Drama | History | War

Sixty-one years ago, US and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. The Japanese soldiers are sent to Iwo Jima knowing that in all probability they will not come back. Among them are Saigo, a baker who wants only to live to see the face of his newborn daughter; Baron Nishi, an Olympic equestrian champion known around the world for his skill and his honor; Shimizu, a young former military policeman whose idealism has not yet been tested by war; and Lieutenant Ito, a strict military man who would rather accept suicide than surrender. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, whose travels in America have revealed to him the hopeless nature of the war but also given him strategic insight into how to take on the vast American armada streaming in from across the Pacific. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat. Almost 7,000 American soldiers were killed on Iwo Jima; more than 20,000 Japanese troops perished. The black sands of Iwo Jima are stained with their blood, but their sacrifices, their struggles, their courage and their compassion live on in the letters they sent home. From Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood comes the untold story of the Japanese soldiers and their General who defended against the invading American forces on the island of Iwo Jima.

Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidou Nakamura, Ryan Carnes
Director: Clint Eastwood

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Tags: Clint Eastwood, Kazunari Ninomiya, Ken Watanabe, Ryan Carnes, Ryo Kase, Shidou Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Ihara

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Gu Gu the Cat / Gou-Gou datte neko de aru (2008)

Drama

Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as her assistant Naomi watches on with concern. Naomi is a young woman in her early twenties, who has her set of worries about love and future. Then one day, Asako meets a new cat, Gu Gu, who brings new joy and vitality to her life. What is more, she finds potential for love in a man named Seiji. Like Asako, Naomi, too, embarks on a new life plan.

Starring: Kyôko Koizumi, Juri Ueno, Ryo Kase
Director: Isshin Inudô

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Jûryoku piero / A Pierrot / Gravity's Clowns (2009)

Drama

Directed by Mori Junichi (Laundry), A Pierrot (a.k.a. Gravity's Clowns) breaks down the modern family through an emotionally haunting suspense drama. Based on a novel by Isaka Kotaro whose Accuracy of Death was also recently adapted for the big screen, A Pierrot revolves around a family of four with a complicated past that brews mystery and trouble in the present. Kase Ryo (I Just Didn't Do It) and Okada Masaki (Halfway) form the core of the film as brothers who may be more different than anyone expected, while Kohinata Fumiyo and Suzuki Kyoka play the parents. Also co-starring Yoshitaka Yuriko (Snakes and Earrings) and Okada Yoshinori (Kisarazu Cat's Eye), A Pierrot explores the role of genetics in determining families and individuals as well as the nature versus nurture debate, giving the film's unsettling mystery an intriguing and affecting spin. On the outset, the Okunos seem like a normal happy family with father Tadashi (Kohinata Fumiyo), mother Rieko (Suzuki Kyoka), and their two bright sons, genetics researcher Izumi (Kase Ryo) and artsy Haru (Okada Masaki). When a series of arson attacks strike the neighborhood, clues left at the crime scenes all seem to be somehow related to the Okunos. Izumi tries to get to the bottom of mystery, slowly unveiling a tragic family secret that has come back to haunt them.

Starring: Ryo Kase, Masaki Okada, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Yoshinori Okada, Izumi's friend
Atsurô Watabe, Kyôka Suzuki
Director: Junichi Mori

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Tags: Fumiyo Kohinata, Izumi's friend Atsurô Watabe, Junichi Mori, Kyôka Suzuki, Masaki Okada, Ryo Kase, Yoshinori Okada, Yuriko Yoshitaka

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Paco and the Magical Picture Book / Pako to mahô no ehon (2008)

Comey | Drama | Family

There once was a hospital where patients and even doctors & nurses were all weird. Above all, Onuki, a patient who built up his company all by himself from scratch, is a super cranky old man. One day, he meets up a girl called Paco, who cannot retain memory beyond one day due to a car accident. She is reading the same picture book everyday. Onuki starts bonding with Paco after some incident, and begins to doubt his way of living. He starts wanting to do something for Paco with his remaining life, and comes up with a brilliant idea. This pleases Paco, but their fate is?

Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Ayaka Wilson, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Anna Tsuchiya, Sadao Abe, Ryo Kase, Eiko Koike
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima

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Tags: Anna Tsuchiya, Ayaka Wilson, Eiko Koike, Koji Yakusho, Ryo Kase, Sadao Abe, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tetsuya Nakashima

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Restless (2011)

Drama | Romance

Annabel Cotton is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world.

Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase
Director: Gus Van Sant

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The Sky Crawlers / Sukai kurora (2008)

Adventure | Animation | Anime | Drama

Set in an alternate future, focuses on boy and girl teenaged pilots called Kildren who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. Raised to engage in aerial battles over Europe for the entertainment of adults, the Kildren are conscious that every day could be their last because they fight a war organized and operated by adults. But as they embrace the reality they are faced with, they live their day-to-day lives to the fullest.

Starring: Rinko Kikuchi, Ryo Kase, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shôsuke Tanihara, Megumi Yamaguchi, Yukari Nishio
Director: Mamoru Oshii

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Tags: Chiaki Kuriyama, Mamoru Oshii, Megumi Yamaguchi, Rinko Kikuchi, Ryo Kase, Shôsuke Tanihara, Yukari Nishio