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*Genre: Action / Samurai/ 101min
*Director: Ten SHIMOYAMA ( Otogiriso )
*Starring: Joe Odagiri (Bright Future, Out of This World ), Yukie Nakama (Ring Ø:
Birthday)
Destined for love, fated to kill.
Two ninja tribes, all with special powers to fight, are forced into a battle of life or death. However, the young leaders of each tribe are in love. The ultimate action movie created with cutting-edge visual effect. Ninja Action meets Romeo & Juliet. |
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*Genre: Suspense Thriller / 123min
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Toru MATSUURA
( debut, notable TV documentary director )
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*Starring: Yosuke Eguchi (Another Heaven), Aoi Miyazaki(Eureka, Harmful Insect), Masanobu Ando (Battle Royal, Kids Return)
[syn·es·the·sia] n.A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
When two people who possess this unsolved puzzle of mind meet, it leads to events of unsolved mystery and serial murder. |
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*CINEMA KABUKI / 110min
*Director Hideki NODA (Notable stage director / playwright)
*Starring: Kanzaburo Nakamura (Face)
A documentary record of a performance of Kabuki directed by Hideki Noda. A perfect marriage of cutting-edge technology (DLP cinema on Hi-Def projection) and traditional art, shimmers with intensity, bringing its characters and setting into vibrant life. |
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*Genre: Family
*Director Keita KONO (Tales of the Unusual:TV Series)
*Starring Takao Osawa (Crying Out Love in the Center of the World ), Yasuko Matsuyuki (Another Heaven)
A boy, Taichi, finds a deaf, blind and numb baby fox, lost from its parents in the wilderness. The vet, his soon father to be, comes to the conclusion that it is worthless to try keeping the fox alive and the kindest option is euthanasia. However, Taichi is determined. He connects his situation to the unfortunate animal, and tries to save the fox from darkness. |
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*Genre: Horror
"Do not board the haunted train..." Series of frights attack a high school girl. This electrifying and forbidden horror story, based on the urban legend of the haunted train, will take you to a nightmare dimension where evil lurks in everyday life. |
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*Genre: Drama / Samurai
*Director / Writer KORE-EDA Hirokazu (Nobody Knows, After Life)
*Starring Junichi Okada (Tokyo Tower, Fly, Daddy, Fly), Rie Miyazawa (TheTwilight Samurai, Ashura), Tadanobu Asano (Cafe Lumiere, Zatoichi)
Director Kore-eda Hirokazu, brings out his first samurai film, after his internationally praised "Nobody Knows". The story follows a young samurai, fated to avenge his father's death. Will he choose vengeance and honor, or will he choose life? |
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*Genre: Drama
*Director Kiyoshi SASABE (Half a Confession - Han ochi)
*Writer Yoji Yamada (director / writer for The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade)
*Motofumi Tomikawa (writer for The Eel)
*Based on the story by Hideo Yokoyama
*Production to start late 2005
A strong drama written by two of the most talented writers in the Japanese film industry. Koji Namiki, a talented young pitcher, injures his elbow, but keeps his hope to get back on the field with his teammates. However, the outbreak of WWII wipes out all the baseball ambitions. The teammates join the navy and undergo the severe training that prepares them for death. Fate awaits them in 'kaiten' (special attack submarine) within the gloomy ocean depths, but Koji never gives up his dream of playing baseball again. |
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*Genra: Drama / Samurai
*Director Yoji YAMADA (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade)
*Starring Takuya Kimura (2046, Howel's Moving Castle-voice) Production to start 1st quarter 2006
A follow up to the two very successful samurai dramas, "The Twilight Samurai" and "The Hidden Blade", Oscar nominated director Yoji Yamada brings another strong story of a samurai, who fights for his faith.The film depicts a strong and deep love between a young samurai, who loses his eyesight during a mission, and his wife who eventually sacrifices herself to save her husband's honor. |
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*Genre: Action / Drama / Samurai / 119min
*Director: Yojiro TAKITA ( When the Last Sword is Drawn)
*Starring: Somegoro Ichikawa (kabuki-actor), Rie Miyazawa ( The Twilight Samurai)
Rumor is out that the demons are trying to take over the human beings. The wheel of fortune starts to turn, as one strong warrior meets a girl who has the fate of turning into Ashura- the Leader of Demons, once she experiences true love. |
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*Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama / Family / 111min
*Director: Takahiko AKIYAMA (special effects director, FINAL FANTASY)
*Starring: Masatoshi Nakamura, Kanta Hongo, Mikako Tabe
A troubled boy controls a robot - HINOKIO, to go to school. Through the eyes of HINOKIO, the boy gradually opens up to others and starts to experience new life, which helps him to regain his feelings.
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48-67min×6 episodes
Top creators of Japanese horror movies unite in the collaboration, to bring the works of Japanese
horror-pioneer Kazuo Umezz’s works to life.
Episode 1 HOUSE OF BUGS (51min)
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Circuit)/ Writer: Sadayuki Murai (Steamboy, Millennium Actress)
Episode 2 THE WISH (67min)
Director: Atsushi Shimizu (The Messaiah from the Future) / Writer: Sadayuki Murai (Steamboy, Millennium Actress)
Episode 3 DEATH MAKE (53min)
Director: Taiichi / Writer: Chikazu Konaka (School Ghost Story 3)
Episode 4 THE PRESENT (49min)
Director: Yudai Yamaguchi (Battlefield Baseball, writer for Versus, Alive)/ Writer: Tamio Hayashi
Episode 5 DIET (48min)
Director: Tadafumi Ito / Writer: Hiroshi Takahashi (RING series)
Episode 6 SNAKE GIRL (49min)
Director: Noboru Iguchi/ Writer: Chikazu Konaka (School Ghost Story 3) |
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*Genre: Drama / 121min
*Director: Toshi SHIOYA (Bounce KoGALS)
A passionate coming of age film about a high school student who takes the pains of life and poverty to turn them into positive energy through music. |
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Competition- 55th Berlin International Film Festival / Opening 29th Hong Kong Film Festival
*Genre: Drama / Samurai / 132min
*Director: Yoji YAMADA (The Twilight Samurai)
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Masatoshi Nagase (Pistol Opera),
Takako Matsu (April Story) |
Follow up to “THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI”, nominated for Best Foreign Film of the year at the Academy Awards 2004, Yamada again teams up with the staff of the celebrated film and creates another period drama and portrays a moving story of love between different castes in the rapidly changing period at the end of Edo era. |
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*Genre: Fantasy / Mystery / 112min
*Director: Ken NIKAI (notable music video director / second feature film)
*Starring Chiaki Kuriyama (Kill Bill vol.1) , Hiroki Narimiya (Azumi)
Mizuki has been hurt by her flirtatious lover Tomoki. One night, under a moon in its last quarter, she encounters a young man called Adam, playing an old melody, which is surprisingly familiar to her. They are immediately attracted to one another and just as they set off together, they are involved in an accident... |
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*Genre: Drama / 118min
*Director Ikuo SEKIMOTO
*Starring Shoei, Emi Wakui, Asahi Uchida, Sayaka, Kotaro Satomi
A powerful drama, "School Wars: HERO" is based on a true story of a former Japan national-team rugby player Yoshiharu Yamaguchi who lead the no-hope rugby club of a rundown high school to national champions in just seven years. |
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