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グレースの履歴
Who was my wife, really?
Kikuo suddenly loses his wife to an accident. The only thing that remains is Grace, her car. Noticing that the navigation system has a history of her having visited places that has nothing to do with their life, Kikuo is worried. Was she seeing someone? He embarks on a road trip tracing Grace’s navigation history. Passing through Japan’s beautiful scenic spots, Kikuo meets people that will forever change his life. What does the travel history reveal? Was Kikuo’s wife unfaithful, or…?
太陽の家
Kawasaki is a master carpenter who has a consummate skill. He looks scary but he is full of human warmth and has a weakness for women. Living with his wife and a daughter happily and as usual, he works hard, the sales woman of an insurance company passes by his work place . In fact, she is a single mother who has a son “Ryusei” who doesn’t know his real father . Kawasaki is concerned about him and thinks of building a house for them, however, his wife, daughter and his apprentice are not satisfied with his behavior. He can’t read the line around him.
While he devotes himself to build a house, the father of Ryusei appears in front of Kawasaki.
As the film portrays his care for the shy boy, the story reveals the truth about the daughter not being his biological daughter and the emotional challenge between him and his apprentice. There are some dramas with the man's family.
川崎慎吾(長渕)は神技的な腕を持つ大工の棟梁。強面風で、やんちゃな人情味厚い男だが、好みの女性には少々弱い。妻・美沙希(飯島)と娘の柑奈(山口)と幸せに暮らし、いつものように仕事に励んでいるところに保険会社の営業ウーマン・池田芽衣(広末)が通りかかる。実は彼女は、龍生(潤浩)という息子がいるシングルマザーで、父親を知らない彼を気にかける。この親子に家を作ろうと思い立つが、そんな慎吾の様子に納得がいかない、娘と妻と一番弟子の高史(瑛太)。周りの空気も気にせず、家づくりに没頭する中、龍生の父親と名乗る男が慎吾の 前に姿を現す。
ニッポンノワール-刑事Yの反乱-
I suddenly wake up in the middle of a forest. Next to me is the corpse of a female detective. In my hand is a gun. For some reason, the last several months are erased from my memory. Did I kill this woman, or was I set up? I have no clue, and I don't even know where to begin.
Is the Metropolitan Police Department's First Criminal Investigation Division the suspect, or is it me?! The evidence is destroyed, the investigation is fabricated, and I am being suspected by my fellow detectives. Almost overnight, they went from being colleagues to enemies. The only person on my side is the young son of the dead female detective. Her murder eventually uncovers the truth behind the unsolved "Ten Million Dollar Robbery."
Who is the killer? Who stole the $10 million? The doubts, lies, suspicion, and betrayal are unstoppable as one detective launches an evil mutiny in this unconventional police mystery drama where nothing goes as you predicted.
An Artist of the Floating World
浮世の画家
Who can tell where the lines are drawn?
Japan, a few years after the end of the Second World War -- Masuji Ono is an ageing painter of considerable renown, and retired life in his lavish mansion unfolds peacefully -- on the surface. But this seeming tranquility is broken when he is told that his youngest daughter's marriage talks broke down because of his past. Yes, though he doesn't like to discuss it, Masuji played a willing part in a country going to war, betraying his teacher, colleagues, and friends. But so what of it? Masuji's pride surges at the affront. Can a person be blamed for becoming caught up in the tides of history? As Masuji traces his past by visiting acquaintances, he discovers that memory is ephemeral, shape-shifting and incomplete.
Starring Ken Watanabe, this dramatization of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel of the same title brings to the screen in stunning 8K the dream-like, floating world of memories and a man's difficult journey to face his past, against the backdrop of a country gradually rebuilding after the war.
僕とシッポと神楽坂
A heartwarming drama of a young vet and beloved pets based on a long running major hit Manga by Michi Tarasawa serialized in a monthly magazine since 2012.
Ko, a young vet, is hired by a small veterinary clinic run by an old vet. Tokumaru located in Kagurazaka, Tokyo. Kagurazaka used to be famous as a Geisha district in Edo era (17th~19th century) and it is still known for its picturesque cobblestone streets and old Japanese culture. Practically every pet owner of the area of this small and close neighborhood comes to this clinic.
Ko is eager to assist and learn from Tokumaru, but he disappears with a note saying “The clinic is all yours now.” Left alone, Ko’s busy but caring vet life starts with beloved pets and their owners each with their unique lives and worries. Ko is young but his mindset is calm and caring like that of an old vet and yet his surgical skill is quick and superb. He calls his patient animals “Tails,” and as he cures the Tails he seems to be curing the hearts of the owners as well.
Nothing can be more enchanting and mind soothing than the drama filled with animals and love.