Movie
たべっ子どうぶつ THE MOVIE
Dream Animals biscuits, a long-selling snack beloved by Japanese since its launch in 1978 has been sold in more than 20 countries around the world and features the animal names written in English on the biscuits. The product has enjoyed an explosion in popularity in recent years as merchandise, especially among young people. Now for the first time, the product is given treatment as an animated movie called Dream Animals: The Movie. How will these animal biscuit characters behave and sound as they embark upon a thrilling adventure while tugging at your heartstrings with endearingly rich personalities.
Japan Release: 2025.5.1
正体
The protagonist is an 18-year-old innocent death-row prisoner.
The man who was unable to trust others gradually begins to trust others and open his heart by finding true friendship and love in various places he hides out.
A human drama depicting a long runaway after escaping from a prison to reveal one's true identity.
Japan Release: 2024.11.29
彼女のいない時間
The man lost his memory after losing his beloved wife.
This is his story of finding the meaning of life while traveling in Korea and Japan on his last journey.
Korean man, Eun Tae met Japanese woman, Mai in college and they married and built a family that is filled with happiness.
However, Eun Tae lost his memory from the shock of Mai’s death from a car accident. Unte has lost the reason for living. He went on a journey after finding a photo at home to discover more about it. At the time, he encountered a woman. Who is she?
And then, he was able to discover his beloved wife’s wishes.
ラストマイル
On the day before the Black Friday sale, a box delivered by a global e-commerce company, explodes.
The box was sent from one of the biggest warehouses, which has the three-quarter logistic shares around Tokyo.
It leads a series of mysterious bombings that terrorize whole of Japan. Elena Funado, who was just appointed as a new director of the warehouse, is forced to control this unprecedented situation with a line manager, Ko Nashimoto.
Who planted the bombs? For what purpose?
How many bombs are left? - And where are they now?
In this modern society, distribution service becomes critical need for our lives and that cannot be stopped.
Can Elena and Ko end the serial bombings without stopping blood flowed in “blood vessel”; the global logistics system like a web?
Japan Release: 2024.8.23
九十歳。何がめでたい
Aiko Sato is a 90 year-old award-winning writer, who retired from her writing job.
Since her retirement, she lived her life listlessly with her daughter and granddaughter.
One day, a geeky mid-aged editor man comes to ask Aiko to write an essay again. Aiko refuses his offer at the beginning, but the editor visits her every day with some treats...and finally, he has convinced her to agree to writing with his enthusiasm.
While the editor gets back his passion for his work again, he also faces a problem with his family. His wife wants to divorce since he works too much and keeps leaving his wife and daughter behind.
After a while, Aiko’s essay book is getting loved by many people and becomes a bestseller, although the book fills with her anger.
Aiko and the editor achieved success and became best buddies at work.
Yet, how would they cope with their own lives?
Japan Release: 2024.6.21
映画「からかい上手の高木さん」
Nishikata, a physical education teacher at a middle school he attended on a small island, receives a phone call from an ex school-mate Takagi-san, who moved to Paris in the summer of their third year of junior high school 10 years ago. Takagi-san, who is currently attending university in Tokyo, tells Nishikata, “Hey, Nishikata. I'm going back to the place I wanted to go to, along with studying painting.'' When Nishikata was attending middle school, he was always teased by Takagi-san. He hasn't seen Takagi-san since she suddenly moved, however, and hasn't been able to tease her back.
One day, Tanabe, who used to be Nishikata’s homeroom teacher and is now the vice principal of the school, appoints Nishikata to be in charge of the teacher trainee who is starting the next day. After school, when Nishikata returns to the classroom and opens the door to the cleaning supplies compartment to put a broom back, Takagi-san jumps out from inside. The place she wanted to go to again was here! From this moment, the time between the two of them, which had stopped since the summer of their third year of junior high school, begins to move…
Japan Release: 2024.5.31
帰ってきた あぶない刑事
First broadcast in 1986, “Dangerous Cops” series is a hard-boiled, comedy mixed buddy movie which continued in Japan for over 30 years. The legendary Taka and Yuji are back to the silver screen, 8 years since the previous movie!
Retired as a police detective, Taka and Yuji are back to a city of Yokohama, setting up their own private investigation office. The first client was a young lady requesting them to search for her missing mother. However, every place they search, the gunfights happen…
Japanese Theatrical Release : May 24th, 2024
恋わずらいのエリー
Ellie fantasizes about her crush.
A nonstop, miraculous love story between a girl who loves to fantasize and a popular boy who actually has two sides to him.
#YaytoFantasizing
Ellie is a girl who loves to fantasize and spends her days gazing at Omi, the most popular boy at school, and posting about her fantasies about him on social media under the handle, "Lovesick Ellie.”
But one day, she discovers that the boy she thought was perfect actually is two-faced and has a foul mouth. Ellie then finds herself in a desperate situation because Omi has learned about her extremely embarrassing fantasies. But the two unexpectedly become closer through a shared secret they must keep to themselves, and the boyfriend of her dreams becomes her boyfriend in real life. What will happen to the relationship between the two awkward teens?
Japanese Theatrical Release : March 15th, 2024
おまえの親になったるで
Kentaro Kusakari is a crime victim whose sister was murdered in 2005. All he could think about was how to kill the guy who killed his sister. 8 years later, Kentaro had an opportunity to start helping ex-offenders. He employs former prisoners in his company and helps them with their rehabilitation. Even though he often was betrayed by them, he did not give up. He never wants to see another victim like his sister again.... Finally, he comes face to face with the person who killed his sister. The film closely follows 10 years of Kentaro’s life, as he wavers between victim and perpetrator.
Stolen Identity Final Hacking Game
スマホを落としただけなのに ~最終章~ ファイナル ハッキング ゲーム
Genius hacker and murderer Urano escaped from prison and fled to South Korea.
Urano was hired by a South Korean anti-government organization to set a trap targeted for the Korea-Japan summit meeting.
Sumin is assigned to watch over Urano but is intimidated by his frantic behavior.
Urano distrusts her, but gradually their feelings begin to change a little.
Japan Release: 202411.1
瞼の転校⽣
Junior high school student Yuki was born in a family of a traveling theatre trope. To match the performance schedule, he travels around Japan every month, leading a life of constantly changing schools, having no expectation to make friends or new encounters.
One day at the new school, Yuki encounters Ken, who excels academically but has struggles with school refusal. Within the limited time they have, the two become good friends and spend invaluable days together.
不死身ラヴァーズ
Rino believes that “the man of her destiny” is Jun who always disappears from her whenever he feels their love for each other. In their lifetime, they meet many times and Rino is 100% focused on him every time.
These encounters and separations are repeated in many circumstances.
What could be the miraculous result of her persistent love for him?
長谷部りのが“運命の相手”と信じて追いかけるのは、両想いになった瞬間、この世界から忽然と消えてしてしまう甲野じゅん。
二人は人生の中で何度も出会い、その度にりのは「好き」と伝え、両想いになり、じゅんが《消える》という出来事を繰り返していく。それでも諦めないりののどこまでも真っすぐな「好き」が起こす奇跡の結末とは――。
かくしごと
Chisako Satoya, a writer, and her father, Kozo, had a long-standing feud and had been living apart for a long time.
However now that Kozo, who lives alone, has dementia, so she returns to her hometown to begin taking care of him.
One day, she rescues a boy who has lost his memory in an accident and has signs of abuse on his body.
To protect him, she pretends about being his mother and starts living with the boy. Is this lie a sin or love?
Cha-Cha is an illustrator working at a design office. Her free-spirited behavior sometimes draws the ire of those around her, but she lives by the motto, "I don’t let me worry about what others think any more, just live the way I want”. One day, Cha-Cha meets Raku on the rooftop and she becomes interested in him. Although they are opposites in terms of their tastes, she gradually becomes attracted to Raku, thinking that "we two get along perfect”. What will happen to the unpredictable romance of a stray cat-like girl? A fashionable, tasteful and bizarre story.
愛に乱暴
Having or not having a spouse, children, or a job. Women today have the “freedom to choose the lives they want”; and yet, they are divided by various social factors. The main character is Momoko, who quits her job upon marriage but a misfortune leaves her childless. Then her husband (Mamoru) has an affair with a younger woman (Nao) and demands a divorce. Learning that she now has no place in her home nor the society, Momoko feels lost and starts showing abnormal behaviors. While Mamoru and his mother (Teruko) are bewildered by Momoko acting strange, there are also fair and unbiased eyes watching her from an unexpected place. Feeling stressed because no one around her sees her worth; and the fear of losing her place grows when her family and the society reject her. The story follows Momoko’s journey through despair and hope.
愛にイナズマ
26 years old Hanako is on the verge of directing her first-ever feature film, achieving her childhood dream. Although she’s being hindered by an older male assistant director, she has a fateful encounter with a man named Masao, and her life at last begins to take on a whole new luster. However, the underhanded actions of an unscrupulous producer cause Hanako to have her personal project stolen. After being dumped into despair, she quietly stokes her rage, and makes a pledge to keep fighting, and never back down! Entangling Masao, her hopeless father and two older brothers (who she’s been out of touch with for over 10 years) in her obsessive quest, Hanako audaciously attempts to make her dream come true, her way!
We're Millennials. Got a problem? The Movie
ゆとりですがなにか インターナショナル
The three friends Masakazu, Yamaji, and Maribu belong to “The Yutori”, a Japanese generation that is labeled as lacking in ambition, rivalry, and teamwork.
Masakazu runs a sake brewery with his wife, but their relationship is on the rocks. The brewery faces bankruptcy after their distributor is bought out by a Korean company, but Maribu comes up with a plan to save the arrangement.
Meanwhile, elementary school teacher Yamaji is still a virgin, but he realizes his tendency of being attracted to interns and transfer students' moms. However, this year’s intern is male, and the transfer students are from Thailand and America. He gets dragged into issues like helicopter parents and LGBT acceptance.
As the three friends deal with work, family, and love, their story takes an unpredictable turn!
TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room - THE MOVIE
劇場版『TOKYO MER~走る緊急救命室~』
The 70th floor of a Yokohama skyscraper is ablaze with 193 lives trapped inside. MER rolls into action determined to save everyone.
Winning “Best Asian Drama for a Regional/Int’l Market at ContentAsia Awards 2022” and “Best Actor for 4th Asia Contents Awards”, TV series “TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room" first aired in 2021 on TBS.
The protagonist is MER ("Mobile Emergency Room"), a team of emergency professionals on wheels formed by the Tokyo governor with one mission only: to prevent a single death. Tasked with rushing to the scene of major accidents, disasters, and crimes, MER is armed with state-of-the-art medical equipment, a mobile operating room, and an elite staff ready to risk all to save lives.
★Best Asian Drama for a Regional/Int’l Market at ContentAsia Awards 2022 (“TOKYO MER” TV series)
★Ryohei Suzuki / Best Actor for 4th Asia Contents Awards (“TOKYO MER” TV series)
21世紀の女の子
15 female filmmakers, all born around 1990, contribute about 6 to 8 minutes each to this film showcasing their views of the world, society and gender issues.
バカ塗りの娘
Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture. Miyako Aoki, who lives with her father, has not found anything she wants to do after graduating from a local high school. She is working at a supermarket to help her family make ends meet. Helping her father, a Tsugaru lacquerware craftsman, is the only thing she can devote herself to. However, her father, who succeeded her grandfather, a highly respected Tsugaru-nuri craftsman, loses the will to continue the business as the industry goes into decline, and the family finds itself scattered. The mother left the family because of the poor life and the selfishness of the father, and the elder brother, a hairdresser, chose to live freely instead of taking over the family business. Miyako is unable to openly declare her desire to pursue a career in Tsugaru-nuri, but as she confronts her family and the art of lacquering, she takes on a great challenge.
#ミトヤマネ
Mito Yamane is a well-known fashion influencer who works with her young sister Miho. One day, their agency proposed a collaborative project for the digital mask filter called "Deep Face Apps," which copies Mito’s face. Soon, the apps became widespread, and images of someone with Mito’s face spread around the world. Some people use it for criminal purposes. Miho is worried about the situation; however, Mito is glad because it symbolizes her popularity. What is the unexpected and shocking ending for them?
カリスマインフルエンサーの山根ミトと、ミトを陰で支える妹のミホ。ある日所属事務所から、誰でもミトの顔になれるフィルター「ディープフェイクアプリ」とのコラボ案件を持ちかけられる。アプリは大人気となり、世界中の至る所にミトの顔が拡散された。一方、ミトの顔を悪用する者も次々と現れる。そんな状況すら自分の人気につながると喜ぶミト。かたやミホはそんな状況を危惧していた。姉妹が辿り着く、予想だにしない衝撃の結末とは。
女子大小路の名探偵
Daiki, who works part-time as a bartender at joshidaikoji (meaning Women's college alley), discovers a junior high school student in cardiopulmonary arrest in a park while wearing a cosplay costume. Since it was three days after the dead body of a junior high school student was found at the same place, Daiki is brought in by the police as a suspect in a serial murder case. His sister Mio, who works at a club in Yanagase, saves him from this predicament. The two sisters always quarrel whenever they meet, but in order to prove their brother's innocence, they pursue the real culprit in the case.
ラーゲリより愛を込めて FROM SIBERIA WITH LOVE
It’s 1945, and World War II has just ended. A glacial winter, reaching 40 degrees Celsius below zero... Day after endless day of merciless labor, fueled only by scarce rations. Amidst the men dying off one by one in the hellish Soviet concentration camp is Hatao Yamamoto. “You must not give up hope. The day of domoy (going home) will come,” Yamamoto implores consistently to the despairing captives.
Under the dire conditions of the camp, there are ceaseless fights among the Japanese captives. Yet come what may, Yamamoto continues to cheer the men up regardless of rank and character. His heartfelt actions and beliefs gradually warm the frozen hearts of his fellow captives. Yamamoto believes through everything that he will someday go home to be with his wife and four children.
Eight years after the war, a postcard arrives from Yamamoto’s beloved wife. In the letter, passed through rigorous censorship, is written, “I am waiting for your return.” Tears stream down Yamamoto’s face as he thinks of his wife, raising their four children on her own. Everyone felt the day of domoy was near, but meanwhile, Yamamoto is subjected to illness. His health deteriorates rapidly, but Yamamoto never gives up hope that he will one day be reunited with his family. Aching to do something for their dear friend, his comrades set out to accomplish an extraordinary feat under the scrutiny of the guards.
Octo: Mind Investigator Akari Shinno
オクトー感情捜査官 心野朱梨
Octo is a detective drama that fits the current times where crimes with ambiguous motives are increasing. Unlike existing detective stories focusing on finding criminals and working out tricks, Octo spotlights finding motives, the emotions that triggered the crimes.
An eccentric female detective who can see the color of emotions tags along with a failed-elite male detective to identify the criminals. It’s a detective story with completely a new concept.
わたし達はおとな
A film by a new upcoming filmmaker Takuya Kato, which depicts the fragile and crumbling daily life, the process of becoming a woman from a girl, the bittersweetness and frustration of sweet and sad love, and the conflicts that can only be contained within oneself, in a life-sized romantic film that pierces the heart.
Yumi is studying design at university. One day, she realizes that she is pregnant. She has a boyfriend, Naoya, whom she met when she made a flyer for a theater club she knows, but she is not confident that he is the father of her baby. Yumi feels troubled.
On the other hand, the more Naoya tries to accept the reality, the more his thoughts and feelings towards Yumi diverge...
2022 New York Asian Film Festival, Vanguards Section
12th Beijing International Film Festival, FORWARD FUTURE Section
KAPPEI カッペイ
July 1999. The world is in turmoil. Nostradamus prophecies are on everybody’s lips. Chaos, violence and fear rule the day. In crazy times, a band of special men prepare to rise to the challenge and rescue mankind from the coming Armageddon.
Flash forward to 2022. Well, the end of the world did not come. And there are no signs that it will. With no opportunity to test their highly lethal fists, the downtrodden band of specially-trained men break off their ascetic training as their master gathers them to forlornly announce: “You are dismissed.”
A slightly different kind of coming-of-age tale unfolds about would-be world saviors rendered irrelevant by the times.
よだかの片想い
A graduate student Aiko always had a low self-esteem because of a birthmark on her face.
When her story was cinematised she fell for the director who accepted her as she is.
生まれつき顔にあるアザに劣等感を持ち、大学院での研究一筋のアイコ。
本の取材を受けたことで、日常が一変する。本の映画化が決まり、自分の顔を真っ向から肯定する監督飛坂に惹かれていく。
あつい胸さわぎ
Story is about a single mother and daughter who is just diagnosed with early- stage breast cancer.
The girl’s wavering and confused mind begins to create cracks in her relationship with her mother, along with the uncertainty of her first love.
そばかす
Since Kasumi became old enough to understand things, she didn’t know what love was and she doesn’t have any feelings of romance or attraction. Although she has worries about herself, she has lived at her own pace until she turned 30 years old.
She studied at a music university and she wanted to be professional in music, however, she returns to her hometown and works at a call center.
Due to her sister’s marriage and pregnancy, her mother often adds pressure to her, “Don’t you have a boyfriend?” or “You should try to find a steady boyfriend”.
One day, her mother arranged a formal marriage arrangement without her permission. At the meeting table, she met a man who is also seeking just a friendship.
物⼼ついた頃から「恋愛が何なのかわからないし、いつまで経ってもそんな感情が湧いてこない」⾃分に不安を抱きながらも、マイペースで⽣きてきた蘇畑佳純(そばた・かすみ)は30歳になった。⼤学では⾳楽の道を志すも挫折し、現在は地元に戻りコールセンターで苦情対応に追われる。妹の結婚・妊娠もあり、⺟から頻繁に「恋⼈いないの?」「作る努⼒をしなさい!」とプレッシャーをかけられる毎⽇。ついには無断でお⾒合いをセッティングされる始末。しかし、そのお⾒合いの席で、佳純は結婚よりも友達付き合いを望む男性と出会う…
* Hong Kong International Film Festival 2023 - Fantastic Beats
* Helsinki CineAasia 2023(Finland)
* Nippon Connection 2023(Germany) - Nippon Cinema
Shanghai International Film Festival 2023 - Japan Film Week
Film adaptation of Award-winning TV documentary
Storyline:
A tiny life takes on a life or death challenge amid the majestic grandeur of the Tateyama mountain range. Can a swan muster the courage to survive if it is unable to fly? A story sure to deepen your appreciation of life’s power and wonder.
In late autumn, over 800 swans from Siberia soar in to Toyama Prefecture in Japan’s Hokuriku region to wait out the winter months before heading back home again. In the spring of 2018, however, one particular swan with a broken wing was left behind unable to fly. It was spotted by bird watcher, Hirokazu Sawae (then 57), who has long been captivated by the grace and beauty of the swan and spends his time capturing their exploits with his video camera. Feeling for the injured swan, Sawae takes to feeding and monitoring its recovery, saying: “I want the bird to be able to rejoin his flock come next winter.” But nature is unforgiving and the law of the jungle still hold sway. Sawae had never seen a wild swan survive the sweltering heat of Toyama before. This will challenge every ounce of resourcefulness he and the swan can muster. In the process of the struggle, Sawae began to view the swan as a projection of himself. “It was as if the swan filled a hole in my heart.” “I am human, but I began to feel myself becoming a swan - one swan taking care of another.” Perhaps this allayed some of the hesitation Sawae felt about interfering with nature. Will the injured swan be reunited with his flock? Or will it take a miracle?
Awards: (TV documentary)
US International Film & Video Festival – Gold Camera
New York Festivals® TV & Film Awards - Finalist
High school student, Yo (Sara Shida), lived with her father, Nao (Arata Iura), after her mother, Sachiyo (Hikari Ishida), left the family when she was very young.
However, their life together came to an end and they started a new life as a family of four with her father's second marriage partner, Miko (Akiko Kikuchi), and her stepdaughter, four-year-old Hinata.
She confides in Riku (Oji Suzuka), who belongs to the same art club as Yo, about her confusion about this new life. Yo, who has been developing curiosity for her biological mother, Sachiyo, promises to go with Riku to Sachiyo's art exhibition.
What Happened to Our Nest Egg!?
老後の資金がありません!
The 2015 best-seller novel by Miu Kakiya has been adapted to film by director Tetsu Maeda (“A Banana? At This Time of Night?”). As of April, 2020, the book has sold over 260,000 copies.
In Japan, it is said you need 20 million yen saved up for retirement. Though everyone has their worries about the future, not many openly talk about it. This film comically depicts this problem through the eyes of a respectable-looking family that’s actually a bit dysfunctional.
The main character, Atsuko, is your average housewife who believes in frugality. She has a husband, Akira, who’s quite clueless about the family budget, a daughter who works part-time, and a son in college. Though Atsuko had been saving up for retirement, she gets in an argument with her sister-in-law and her husband one day, and she ends up having to pay 4 million yen for her father-in-law’s funeral. As if that’s not enough, her husband’s company goes bankrupt, she gets fired from her part-time job, her daughter wishes for a lavish wedding with her fiancé who’s in a heavy metal band, and her big-spending mother-in-law moves in. The family’s savings dwindle by the day.
Problems between husband and wife, parent and child, wife and mother-in-law, a child’s marriage, a child moving out, caring for a parent, and funerals… These are all problems that everyone faces. As the family is hit by one dilemma after another, they struggle and torment themselves in order to overcome adversity.
Revue Starlight is a new form of entertainment that fuses musicals with anime. Ever since the project was announced, there have been a wide variety of installments from a musical, anime, comic, smartphone game, to a music group by the nine main cast members: Starlight Kukugumi. And now, a long-awaited new anime movie is coming to theaters.
The new movie will depict a completely original story that continues from the TV anime Revue Starlight that aired in July, 2018, and the reproduction compilation Revue Starlight RONDE RONDE RONDE, which was released in August, 2020.
Summer when I was 17 years old, I loved someone till my heart is torn off.
Umi is a high school girl who is grew up without parental love. Mysterious phone calls lead her to a naughty student Harukawa, and they rapidly fall in love.
When the truth of the calls is revealed, Umi and Harukawa’s love came to a shocking end.
17歳の夏。心が擦り切れそうな恋をした―
親からの愛情を知らずに育った女子高校生・有海は、“過去からかかってくる謎の電話” に導かれ、同じ境遇の不良少年・春川と出会い、急速に惹かれあう。
しかし、時を越えた留守電の真相が明らかになるとき、衝撃的な愛の結末を迎える2人……
幼児虐待、親族殺し、若者の恋愛離れ、愛の形が見えにくい現代社会に“ 本当の愛“ を問いかける青春恋愛ミステリー
花束みたいな恋をした
Missing the last train of the day on Tokyo’s Keio Line at Meidaimae Station, college student Mugi Yamane (Masaki Suda) encounters Kinu Hachiya (Kasumi Arimura). Finding they have near identical tastes in music and movies, the couple quickly hit it off and embark on a romance that has them move in together when they graduate from college. They work temp jobs as they interview for full-time employment. They pick up a stray cat. Even as the iconic Shibuya Parco store closes and the mainstay TV show, SMAP×SMAP, airs its last show, Mugi and Kinu seek a status quo. They are inseparable and spend “the best 5 years ever!” hoping they’ll always be together. The many seasons they spend together will rekindle your memories of a halcyon time when the world was full of love.
Bittersand~my high school memory~
Bittersand
High school life is a glorious page of youth and a lifelong memory for us. However, not all of us have only beautiful memories. Akito (Yuki Inoue) and Eriko (Ayane Kinoshita) were the targets of slander and slander by someone who drew a chart of personal relationship based on untrue facts in their class on the blackboard, and their daily lives took a dark turn. Seven years later, after a fateful reunion, the truth about the "blackboard incident" that caused their feelings to diverge is finally revealed.This is a straightforward and slightly bitter coming-of-age story about characters with dark pasts who clumsily but desperately try to rewrite the memories they have turned away from as adults.