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Written and Directed by Sion Sono
Starring AKIRA, Eiji Okuda
Shiro has a secret that he cannot tell to his father, mother, or even to his fiancee... A moving story of a man who finally communicates heart to heart through the experience of caring his sick father and facing the reality of death.
DumBeast
Starring: Tadanobu Asano
Writer: Kankuro Kudo
Director: Hideaki Hosono
An editor pays a visit to the hometown of her missing award-nominated writer. In that small sumo village, she ends up meeting the writer's weird friends, revealed to his bizarre life and what actually really strangely happened to him...
halfway
Produced by Shunji Iwai, Takeshi Kobayashi
Written and Directed by Eriko Kitagawa
Starring Kie Kitano, Masaki Okada
A bitter-sweet love story of high school couples who need to face the reality of their lives as their graduation gets closer.
SNAKES AND EARRINGS
Directed by Yukio Ninagawa
Original Novel by Hitomi Kanehara
Lui is nineteen years old, beautiful, bored and unmotivated. When she meets Ama in a bar, she finds herself mesmerized by his forked tongue and moves in with him and has her own tongue pierced. Determined to push her boundaries further, she asks Ama's friend Shiba to design an exquisite tattoo for her back. But what Shiba demands as payment for the tattoo leads Lui into a brutal and explicit love triangle like no other. Then, after a violent encounter on the backstreets of Tokyo, Ama vanishes and Lui must face up to the reality of her life...
CLIMBER'S HIGH
Directed by Masato Harada
Shinichi Tsutsumi, Masato Sakai, Tsutomu Yamazaki
"A jumbo jet is disappeared?"
On August 12, 1985, the worst plane crash occurs. A story of a press reporter who finds the meaning of life through his experiences of news reporting and mountain climbing.
CYBORG SHE
Directed by Kwak Jae Yong
Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide
A beautiful girl shows up into the life of a dull university student and spends an unforgettable day with him. One year later, the same girl comes back to him, but this time, she was a cyborg turning his life upside-down. Director Kwak Jae Yong's one of the most entertaining epic of all with full of action scenes by a cute cyborg, played by a Japan's rising star Haruka Ayase.
SHAOLIN GIRL
Directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro
Executive Produced by Stephen Chow and Chihiro Kameyama, Starring Kou Shibasaki
Rin endures the martial arts training in China but what awaits her in hometown back in Japan is her dojo that lies in tatters and students who have abandoned the true discipline of Shaolin kung-fu. While struggling to restore her grandfather's school to its former glory and spread a genuine Shaolin philosophy, Rin attends university where she becomes the star member of the lacrosse team. While Rin's exceptional physical abilities bring a string of victories to the team, her teammates in turn come to her aid by helping her reestablish the dojo. Just as fortune seems to smile upon her, a dark incident from a past Rin knew nothing about rears its ugly head and throws her into a fatalistic showdown with tremendous evil. Is the Shaolin Girl up to the challenge?
700 DAYS OF BATTLE: US VS. THE POLICE
Directed by Rempei Tsukamoto
Hayato Ichihara
A gang of seven high school pranksters is putting their youths on the line and lost in their own brand of fun. The story plays out as they get into an absurd war of practical jokes with a local policeman! Based on the number 1 blog in Japan.
INTO THE FARAWAY SKY
Directed by Isao Yukisada
Ryunosuke Kamiki, Suzuka Ohgo, Yuma Sasano
Having been brought by his father, who is the leader of the group pushing for the construction of an airport in town, Ryosuke has transferred from a school and doesn not get along with the town bully, Kohei. But unexpectedly they come to be friends because of Hiharu. Her dream is to "see the UFO that abducted her father." Ryosuke and Kohei believe her story, and the three of them solidify their friendship. But the fight between the adults grows more heated day by day, and they even crush the modest dreams of their children. The two boys take their first step into adulthood in order to help the girl and save their own village...
FIST OF THE BLUE SKY
Original Comic by Tetsuo Hara, Nobuhiko Horie
Supervised by Buronson
The stage is set in Shanghai during the 1930s. Kenshiro, called the most wild, and yet severe man in the 1,800 year history of the Hokuto Shinken style, strides into the dog-eat-dog capital of sin. He is the 62nd successor of the Hokuto Shinken style, and the uncle of Fist of the North Star's Kenshiro.
Believing that "those who fight with true conviction can change fate," Kenshiro heads to Shanghai to sweep away evil....
FIST OF THE NORTH STAR
Original Comic by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara
In the wake of a nuclear holocaust, violence rules the land. Into the desolate world comes Kenshiro, master of the Hokuto Shinken style of martieal art, to be the savior of mankind. King Raoh, his elder brother, is trying to conquer the world with the same martial art and power of fear. Brothers of Hokuto and fighters of other martial arts are fighting over to control their destiniy in a time of anarchy.
THE LETTER
Directed by Jiro Shono
Takayuki Yamada, Tetsuji Tamayama, Erika Sawajiri
Twenty-year-old Naoki had always aspired to be a stand-up comedian, until the secret is exposed that he has an older brother convicted of murder. Now he must endure severe social repercussions, even after he has begun a new life with his wife and daughter. The same agony extends to the bereaved family of the victim. One day, Naoki writes a letter to his brother... A moving story about victims of society and true justice. Based on the bestselling novel by Keigo Higashino.
NIGHT HEAD: GENESIS
Directed by Yoshio Takeuchi
Story & Screenplay by Joji Iida
Naoto and Naoya are brothers that were born with supernatural power. They escape the institution where they had been confined since childhood to find out about the secrets of their birth and the mysterious organization governing ESP. Based on the popular 1990s TV series by Joji Iida.
HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Directed by Yoshitaka Toki
Original Story & Screenplay by Yoshikazu Okada
Hiroki, Takeshi and Kaoru were childhood friends. Takeshi proposes marriage to Kaoru, but becomes comatose from a car accident on the day of their engagement party. Kaoru's heart wavers between Takeshi and Hiroki, the one she really loves. But then, one day, Takeshi comes out of his coma with no memory regarding his marriage... A new, heartbreaking love story from the writer of Be With You.
BACKDANCERS!
Directed by Kozo Nagayama
An all-female group of four backup dancers suddenly find themselves on the brink of breakup when their star singer announces her retirement due to marriage. With the helpless help of their unlucky manager and a faded rock band, they struggle to prove their dance skills by developing their own stage routine. The ultimate street dance movie from Japan!
CATCH A WAVE
Directed by Nobuyuki Takahashi
The summer has begun! A group of high#schoolers plan to spend their vacation on the beach. Encounters with surfing and love...the summer that was expected to be so average is changed into something truly special.
YUMENO
Directed by Yoshitaka Kamada
Three total strangers are on the run together. Yoshiki is a young hoodlum who unintentionally committed a murder. He has a tendency to become uncontrollably violent and is headed for a dead end. Yumeno is a high school girl whose sense of self-identity is obscured by a monotonous routine. Ryo is an elementary school boy who has already figured out that he won't amount to much. How did these three meet and end up on this overland chase? This is a road movie with three very different characters who are all on a search for the same thing. They are running, but going nowhere until there is a most unexpected outcome...
STARLIT HIGH NOON
Directed by Yosuke Nakagawa
Kyoka Suzuki, Wang Leehom
Lian Son, a hit man, was leading a double life between carrying out his "assignments" in Taipei and hiding in an apartment in Okinawa, until things cooled down. There was a laundry mat that he particularly liked because of a woman. He checked the place just to see her, and fell in love with her even though he knew nothing about her...
HATSU-KOI (FIRST LOVE)
Directed by Yukinari Hanawa
Aoi Miyazaki, Keisuke Koide
What really happened behind the perfect crime of the century - the "300 million yen affair"? Set in the chaotic days of the 1960s, Misuzu, a lonely high school girl from a troubled family, finds sanctuary with her nihilistic brother and his friends. They pass their days hanging around a shadowy cafe bar, indulging themselves in a life of sex, drugs and alcohol. Gradually, Misuzu gets drawn into a dangerous plot against society that was hatched by one of the youths, with whom she secretly falls in love. Based on the novel by Misuzu Nakahara.
WATERS
Directed by Ryo Nishimura
Shun Oguri
Seven young men try their hand at starting up their own "host club" - a nightclub where ladies are attended to by suave male companions. With the help of the owner's granddaughter (who has a heart disorder), and despite the combination of their initial confusion, personal problems and a typhoon that almost blew the place down, they gradually find the true meaning of friendship, trust and love.