Double Town / Knitting the Song of the Alternate Place

6.7

Four youngsters who do not know each other, head to the town of Rikuzentakata. There they listen to the local people and turn their experiences of the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March, 2011 into stories. Writer SEO…

Ecstacy of the Angels

6.3

Ecstasy of the Angels is the first film Wakamatsu made in co-operation with the Art Theatre Guild Japan (ATG). The police station in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, which is blasted by a bomb in the film, later became…

Me and Future Me!?

6.6

Igarashi Raito is a city hall employee who is in his 10th year of working life. In a risky society where a big flame is just around the corner, he feels the pressure of "not to fail" and has lived a life with stability…

The Reason My Boyfriend Married My Older Sister

6.4

Everything was going well—love, work, life. Until that day arrived. Miyata Aiko works at an apparel store. Though she lost her parents young, she’s spent her days happily surrounded by her kind older sister, Saeko,…

The Summer of the Ubume

6.7

Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has been pregnant for twenty months. Sekiguchi investigates further with…

Ranmaru: The Man with the God Tongue

6.7

Based on a popular series broadcast on the TBS network July-Sept. this year, this mystery/comedy is about a shy guy (Osamu Mukai) with an unusual talent: he can solve crimes just by licking the ‘evidence’ with…

The Place Where the Sun Sits

6.3

Former high school classmates, now adults, hold jealous thoughts, hidden intentions and lust for revenge. Graduates from a high school have held reunions since they graduated 10 years ago. The high school itself is…

The Human Vapor

6.7

The film tells the story of Mizuno, a librarian at a sanatorium (implicitly for cancer), who has been given the ability to become vapor after a scientist does an experiment on him. Mizuno uses this power to engage…

Hanezu

6.7

The Asuka region is the birthplace of Japan. Here, in ancient times, there were those who fulfilled their lives in the midst of waiting. Modern people, apparently having lost this sense of waiting, seem unable to feel…

Miyamoto Yume

Miyamoto Yume is a Japanese actress, voice actress, and narrator from Fukuoka Prefecture. She is affiliated with Himawari Theatre Group. Debuting as an actress during her early childhood, she would then begin acting in television dramas, live-action films, and dubs of foreign movies. As a voice actress,…

Shinohara Tsugumi

Tsugumi Shinohara is a former Japanese actress and model. From June 2007 to April 2009, she was an exclusive model for the magazine Pichi Lemon.

Ninomiya Ryutaro

NINOMIYA Ryutaro (b. 1986, Japan) studied Film Production for a year, after which he decided to follow an acting course. He made his first feature film The Charm of Others in 2012. The film won the runner-up at the largest indie film festival in Japan, Pia Film Festival.

Katayama Ryo

Born in Sabae, Fukui Prefecture, in 1980, Katayama Ryo is an actor and director. After graduating from college in 2003, Katayama​ started his career as an actor, mainly performing in independent films. As a director, his short films received acclaim at numerous domestic film festivals, including the…

Tamori

Kazuyoshi Morita, known by his stage name Tamori (an anagram of his surname), is a Japanese television celebrity. Known for his trademark dark sunglasses, Tamori is one of the "big three" television comedians in Japan along with Takeshi Kitano (a.k.a. Beat Takeshi) and Sanma Akashiya. For more than…

Kobayashi Akira

Kobayashi attended Meiji University but left before graduating. He became an actor at Nikkatsu and made his film debut in 1956. He solidified his popularity with such films as Nangoku Tosa o Ato ni Shite (A Farewell to Southern Tosa) and starred in the "Wataridori" ("Rambler") and "Senpūji" ("Whirlwind…

Horie Kei

Horie Kei (born in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese writer, film producer, director and former actor. He is best known as Gaku Washio/GaoYellow in 2001's Super Sentai's series, Hyakujuu Sentai GaoRanger. He reprised his role on one more occasion in the Super Sentai teamup, Hurricanger VS Gaoranger. He also…

Tian Lu

Tian Lu, born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, is a Chinese actor and director. He graduated from Beijing Film Academy.

Manaki Reika

Manaki Reika is a Japanese actress and former Top Musumeyaku (female lead) of Takarazuka Revue’s Moon Troupe. She was born in Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. She is currently signed with Amuse. Her nickname, Chapi, originates from the sound of her real name. She entered Takarazuka Music School…

Natsume Masako

Raised in Naka-ku, Yokohama, while in junior college in 1976 she auditioned for the lead in Nihon TV's "Ai Ga Miemasu Ka?". Chosen from 4,000 applicants, she dropped out of school to pursue an acting career, playing the part under her real name Odate Masako. Masako's mother initially objected to her…