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*Genra: ACTION / CGI Animation / 109min
*Director: SORI (PING PONG, Producer - APPLESEED)

From the creators of APPLESEED, comes a Full CG animation Sci-Fi Action film. 2077 - 10 years has passed since Japan had decided to leave the United Nations to go into isolation. They have completely blocked the islands with an ultra magnetic field which prevents anyone to see what is going inside, nor for people to travel in/out of the country. This was a result to opposing to a treaty which UN has passed, preventing the development of all bio and robot technology which has evolved drastically and has become a threat to the human beings. When Japan finally begins to move, the US government sends in a special force team SWORD, lead by a female commander Vexille, to investigate what is really happening inside the closed country.

*Genre: DRAMA / EPIC / 136min
*Director: Shinichiro Sawai (YAMATO, W's Tragedy)
*Starring: Takashi Sorimachi (YAMATO)
JAPAN AND MONGOLIA co-production / In celebration of the 800th anniversary of the founding of Mongolia

Genghis Khan - the man who built history's greatest Empire. People called him "The Blue Wolf". With a production budget of US$30million, four months on location in Mongolia, this Japan-Mongolia co-production reveals the mystery behind Genghis Khan's life. Assailed himself by doubts over the secret of his birth, facing conflict and betrayal by his sworn friend, and his mixed feeling of love and hatred for the son who bears the same burden... Together with the scenes such as an intense battle in which 5,000 Mongolian Army soldiers appear, and over 27,000 people mounted as extras to film this entertainment epic, the hero now emerges from the history that has concealed him for so long.

*Genre: ACTION / Fantasy / 103min
*Director: Katsuhide Motoki ("Free & Easy" series, Drugstore Girl)
*Starring: Eiji Wentz (voice -Brave Story),
Yo Oizumi (voice -Howl's Moving Castle, Sprited Away)

A popular animation adapted into live-action for the first time using cutting edge CGI from studios around the world, including Centro Digital Pictures ("Kill Bill", "Kung Fu Hustle") and starring Eiji Wentz from the popular duo, WaT. Kitaro is a half human, half creature (yokai) who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the evil attacks from another world. He finds that a magical ball that controls all powers had been brought into the human world, and stops it from falling into the wrong hands.

*Genre: DRAMA / 142min
*Director: Joji Matsuoka (Swimming Upstream, Twinkle)
*Starring: Joe Odagiri (Sway, SHINOBI), Kikikilin (Kamikaze Girls)

Based on a national best-seller auto-biography (sold over 2million copies), starring Joe Odagiri, one of the most acclaimed actor in Japan. This is the story of Mom (Okan), Me (Boku - Masaya), and sometimes, Dad (Oton). Born in the coal mining city in Fukuoka, Masaya grows up with inheriting both sides of the genes of his forever hopeless and reckless Dad and the gentle and strong Mom. After going into a complete downfall (probably succeeding the Dad's side), his life suddenly changes when Mom is found sick with cancer, and she comes to live with him under the bright lights of Tokyo...

*Genra: ANIMATION / Family / 136min
*Director: Keiichi Hara ("Crayon Shin-chan" series)

Koichi Uehara is a fourth grade student living in the suburb of Tokyo. One day, he picks up a large stone which turns out to be a fossil of a baby "Kappa"(=A Japanese mythical water creature) sleeping underground for the past 300 years, and names it "Coo". Koichi and Coo become good friends and starts living with his family. However,Coo could not adjust to the life style in Tokyo and starts to miss his family. On a hot summer day, Koichi and Coo decide to go on an adventurous road trip to find his peers. Directed by one of the top animators of the generation, Keiichi Hara, who had created numbers of box office hit feature films in Japan.

*Genre: DRAMA / 21min
*Director: Koji Yamamura ("Mt. Head" Oscar Nomination 2003, Annecy 2003 Grand Prix)

Based on famed Jewish-Czech writer Franz Kafka's short prose, "A Country Doctor" from 1919. A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.

*Genre: ANIMATION / Action / Children / 50min
*Director: Director: Junpei Mizusaki

A smash hit card game is now adapted to the big screen. Deep in a green forest,happily lives beetles and elves. The story is about MushiKing, king of beetles and a child elf, Popo who are good friends. However, their peaceful lives were getting threaten by large beetles from counties far away, brought by humans controlled by dark elf Adar. MushiKing, Popo and their friends work together to fight against these evil forces to bring back peace to the forest.

*Genre: ANIMATION / Children / 50min
*Director: Tomomi Mochizuki (Shinigami no Ballad: momo the girl god of death)

Two 14 year old girls named LOVE and BERRY are trying to enter Magic school. Their task is to make a lonely girl, Yumi happy. They teach Yumi how to dance and have fun dressing up using their magic. Introduced in 2004 as a card game for girls, the popularity has expanded spinning off to books, music CD, dance DVD and other merchandising. Now comes a feature film of this popular franchise.

*Genre: Drama / Romantic Comedy
*Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi (TRICK, Love Collage)
*Starring: Miki Nakatani (Ring, Ring 2, Memories of Matsuko) Hiroshi Abe (Trick, Survive Style 5+)

A hopeless woman and a hopeless man. A woman that loves the man whatever happens, and a man that can't exactly express his feelings and just turns over the table - out of irritation,short temper, and sometimes love. Would being together become a nightmare, or a love that will sustain them to live with happiness and hope for a better tomorrow?

*Genre: HORROR
*Director:Masato Harada (Bounce ko GALS, Inugami)
*Starring: Ryuhei Matsuda (Big Bang Love, Juvenile A, Nana, Nightmare Detective) Yusuke Iseya (Sukiyaki Western Django, CASSHERN, Sea Without Exit)

Original story by Yasushi AKIMOTO, writer of the mega hit movie One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari) series.
As the project was in development with an idea of an “infectious song (Densen-Uta)”, one of the staff called out… “There was a real Densen-Uta!” He discovers on the internet of a song back in 1933, Hungary, which caused mysterious deaths of many people. In “Densen-Uta”, high school girls get mixed up in the Japanese version of this infectious song, and with the help of third rate gossip magazine reporter, tries to solve the mystery and horror behind the song. They come to know just how real, an urban legend can become. Coming Summer 2007.

*Genre: ACTION
*Director: Izuru Narushima (Fly, Daddy, Fly, writer - An Adolescent)
*Starring: Takao Osawa (Helen the Baby Fox, Into the Sun, Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World), Yuko Takeuchi (Ring, Heaven’s Bookstore), Hiroshi Tamaki (Waterboys)

Amidst a blizzard in the Northern Alps of Japan, a battle begins that will decide the fate of 127 million people!
In the skies above the severe winter conditions of the Northern Alps, a top secret American forces’ stealth bomber known as the “Midnight Eagle” suddenly vanishes. Its payload is a “specialized warhead.” If it were to explode, the entire nation of Japan would be hurled into an unprecedented calamity. An ex-war photographer who now only takes nature photos in the mountains accidentally encounters the incident, and gets behind the scene, preventing the weapon to fall into the wrong hands. Coming Winter 2007.

*Genre: ROMANTIC DRAMA
*Director: Hiroshi Chono (debut, First assistant director for "The Grudge")
*Starring: Nao Matsushita (Adiantum Blue, XX)

A beautiful love story based on two smash hit songs from a popular band DREAMS COME TRUE, "Mirai Yosouzu" and "Mirai Yosouzu II" (meaning "a map for the future"). The story is about a young couple attending the same university believing that their love for each other will never end. However, as time goes by and they graduate, their future starts to part as they both begin moving forward to capture their own dreams. The heart-wrenching story travels from Tokyo to the beautiful setting in Barcelona, as their paths cross once again. Will they be able to find a future together that they have rendered in the past? Coming Fall 2007.

*Genre: DRAMA
*Director: Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade)
*Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tadanobu Asano (Zatoichi), Mitsugoro Bando (Love and Honor)

Tokyo, 1940.
The modest happiness in which our family lived vanished one cold morning. My father was arrested under the Maintenance of Public Order Act. My mother, my grandmother, my little sister and I were left with no sign he would be set free. That day our lives changed…

*Genre: ANIMATION / ACTION - Gothic Mystery
Running Time: 22 min x 24 episodes
*Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Zipang, Get Backers, Hunter × Hunter)
*Original Story: Tow Ubukata (FAFNER)

The story follows Chevalier (Knight) D'Eon de Beaumont, a handsome intellect who actually lived in 18th century. As D'Eon pursues the truth of his sister's death, he finds that this was not a mere murder, and the trail leads him ever deeper into a conspiracy which involves the whole European continent. His sister's soul remains in D'Eon to solve the mystery. Truth has been erased in the darkness of history - A great epic that far exceeds imagination is finally revealed in all its intricate detail.

*Genre: ANIMATION / 22 min x 13 episodes
*Director: Masashi Abe
*Cast: Kenichi Suzumura as Shindo (Gundam SEED DESTINY: voice of Shinn Asuka), Fumiko Orikasa as Sakura (BLEECH: voice of Rukia Kuchiki), Kana Ueda as Kureha (KASHIMASHI: voice of Hazumu Osaraki), Akemi Kanda as Saya (Negima!: voice of Magister Negi Magi)
Original Story based on the manga, "TOKKO", from Toru Fujisawa, the creator of the "GTO" series.

From the creator of "GTO", Toru Fujisawa comes a new suspense action animation, "TOKKO".
A bloody massacre happens in the crime city Tokyo. 10 years later, Shindo Ranmaru and other survivors from the deadly massacre joins special secret police force “TOKKO” to fight against evil creatures committing brutal crimes. In order attain special power against these creatures, they make a deal with another creature called “PHANTOM” in exchange for their own lives.

*Genre: CLAY ANIMATION / 3 min x 5 episodes
*Director: Yuichi Ito

Here is the forest between the world of human beings and imaginary animals. In an underground apartment, two rabbits lead happy lives.
The story often seems heartwarming, but at the same, brings a cynical laughter.

*Genre:Drama / Samurai / 121min
*Director: Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade)
*Starring: Takuya Kimura (2046 ,Howl's Moving Castle - voice)

The third of the Samurai Trilogy. 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. The film opened in Japan with big Box Office success, projected for US$50million domestically.

*Genre: DRAMA / Samurai / 127min
*Director / Writer: Kore-Eda Hirokazu (Nobody Knows, After Life)
*Starring: Junichi Okada (Tokyo Tower, Fly, Daddy, Fly), Rie Miyazawa (The Twilight Samurai, Ashura), Tadanobu Asano (Café Lumière, 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. However, the huge problem is that he is helpless with swords. As he also finds himself enjoying the everyday life with his poor but colorful neighbors, he starts to cherish life. Stuck between the vengeance and honor of a samurai and the bright future in life, what is the final step he decides to take?

*Genre: DRAMA / WWII / 121 min
*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")
*Starring: Ebizo Ichikawa, Yusuke Iseya, Juri Ueno

A strong drama written by two of the most talented writers in the Japanese film industry. It is the end of WWII, when Japan already had a sense of losing the war,but still had to send in young soldiers to fight. The desperate Japanese Navy decides to take a plan on a special submarine attack named "kaiten"(special attack submarine or "manned torpedo"). Koji Namiki, a talented young baseball player, awaits for his fate to take his mission within the gloomy ocean depths, and remembers what has taken him out into the sea.

*Genre: HORROR / 94min
*Director / Writer: Takeshi Furusawa (writer credit for "Doppelganger")
*Starring: Erika Sawajiri (SHINOBI, Pacchigi)

"Beware of the haunted tracks." A series of mysterious incidents happen on a commuter train. People who find the same railway pass disappear one after another. A young train operator always spots a body laying on the tracks. Victims are pulled into the tracks as the speeding train arrives... This all seems to be happening around the same tunnel, where it seems to be the nest of all the nightmares. Based on the urban legend of the haunted tracks, the film takes to a dimension where evil lurks in everyday life,awaiting to take in the next victim.

*Genre: DRAMA - 60 - 75min X 6 episodes

Six sensual and luscious episodes that will take you to the sexual desire of ordinary people's un-eventful everyday life.

*Genre: DRAMA

Newspaper reporter Akiko Sasaki (30) had come to the Tateshina plateau with an item left by her deceased father. Although she intended to do research on the ancient earthen figurines found around this area, in fact she also had a hunch that she might meet someone that she was searching for - the woman that her deceased father had always loved, until that last days of his life.

*Genre: Drama / 119 min
*Director: Norihiro Koizumi(debut)
*Starring: YUI (musician), Takashi Tsukamoto (About Love, Battle Royal), Goro Kishitani (One Missed Call, Returner, All Under the Moon)

A young high school girl Kaoru, who is diagnosed with XP (Xeroderma Pigmentosum) cannot walk outside under the sun, or go to school. Her only relation to the world is her music which she performs on the streets at night, until she falls in love with Koji, a high school boy who passes her house every morning to go surfing as the sun rises. When their passes finally cross, a change in everyone’s hearts is brought. A heart warming yet passionate and beautiful love story from a 25 years old director.

*Genre: Drama / 114min
*Director: Shin Togashi
*Starring: Manami Konishi (Letter From the Mountain), Hayato Ichihara (All About Lily Chou-Chou), Erika Sawajiri (Ghost Train)

The film follows a young aspiring art university student, who falls in love with the older sister of his girlfriend. The heartrending longing and the true love that the three characters pursue, is pure, but almost painful. Is the person who stands next to you, is the person that gives you true comfort and love? Can you say that you love him/her from the bottom of your heart?

*Genre: Drama / 116min
*Director: Kozo Nagayama
*Starring: Ai Otsuka (musician), Eita (Train Man)

A very ordinary young girl heads to the metropolis, Tokyo, leaving her hometown in the countryside. She starts working at a bar called "Treasury of Dreams", somewhat an ironic name for a place full of youth not being able to find dreams. A story of love, friendship, laughter and tears, a hip portrayal of group of youth in Tokyo.

*Genre: Drama / 85 min
*Director: MIIKE Takashi (The Great Yokai Wars, Ichi the Killer)
*Starring: Ryuhei Matsuda (Gohatto), Masanobu Ando (Battle Royal, Kids Return), Ryo Ishibashi (The Grudge, Audition)

JJapan’s busiest and most world renowned film director depicts a beautifully sensual world of troubled young men like audiences have not yet seen before.
A murder occurs in jail, and there is a suspect who confesses that he had killed the man. However, there is no physical evidence. What is the truth that is hidden behind the incident? Is it hope or despair what they see on the other side of their iron-barred cells?

*Genre: Family / 109 min
*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)

Taichi, a little boy, finds a deaf, blind and numb baby fox, lost from its parents in the wilderness. He brings the poor animal to the vet, his soon father to be, but the doctor comes to the conclusion that it is worthless to try keeping the fox alive and the kindest option is mercy killing. However, Taichi is determined. He connects his situation to the unfortunate animal, and tries to save the fox from darkness.

*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.
Destined for love, ordered to kill. The ultimate action movie created with cutting-edge visual effect technology. The Koga and Iga Ninjas are two Ninja family ordered to fight for each others lives. However, the young leaders of each group are in love.
A fast pacing Ninja Action meets Romeo & Juliet.

*Genre: Suspense Thriller / 123min

*Director:

Toru MATSUURA
( debut, notable TV documentary director )

*Starring: Yosuke Eguchi (Another Heaven), Aoi Miyazaki(Eureka, Harmful Insect), Masanobu Ando (Battle Royal, Kids Return)

“Synesthesia” is a sense of mind where one sense inspires another causing them to see, hear, smell, taste things which no one else is able to feel. It is a sensibility which cannot be understood by other people. An incident brings two lonely souls who possess this unsolved puzzle of mind to meet, leading to strange events and a serial murder case. Can they solve the mystery to pursue a peaceful life?

*CINEMA KABUKI / 110min
*Director Hideki NODA (Notable stage director / playwright)
*Starring: Kanzaburo Nakamura (Kabuki-actor)

A documentary record of a live KABUKI performance directed by Hideki Noda.
A perfect marriage of cutting-edge technology (DLP cinema Hi-Def projection) and traditional art, shimmers with intensity, bringing its characters and setting into vibrant life.

*Genre: Action / Drama / Samurai / 119min
*Director: Yojiro TAKITA ( When the Last Sword is Drawn)
*Starring: Somegoro Ichikawa (kabuki-actor), Rie Miyazawa ( The Twilight Samurai)

Art Direction by Yuji Hayashida (CASSHERN), Ending Theme “My Funny Valentine” by Sting
17th century Japan - it is late Edo period. The city of Edo appears calm, but down below, a string of ghastly incidents is shaking the town. The demons, usually out of the human eye, are on the rampage. The cause is a rumor among them that Ashura, a legendary devil queen, has returned: “If Ashura is back, then this world can all be ours!” The fight between the demon slayers and the demons trying to take over the human world is in place, as one slayer meets a beautiful girl, who realizes that she has the fate of turning into demon once she experiences true love.

*Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama / Family / 111min
*Director: Takahiko AKIYAMA (special effects director, FINAL FANTASY)
*Starring: Masatoshi Nakamura, Kanta Hongo, Mikako Tabe

Twelve-year-old Satoru has gone into withdrawal following the death of his mother in a car accident. The story begins with him steering HINOKIO, a two-legged remote control robot his scientist father has invented, to school. It is through operating Hinokio from his room that Satoru gradually opens up to others. A remake deal currently in place with a Hollywood Studio.

*Genre: DRAMA / 100 min
*Director: Yoichi Sai (Doing Time, MARKS, All Under the Moon)
*Starring: Kaoru Kobayashi (Secret, Like Asura) Kippei Shiina (GONIN, Jubaku: Spellbound) Teruyuki Kagawa (Sway, Doing Time, Heaven's Bookstore

50-60min×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. Don’t believe what you see!

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)

*Genre: Drama / Samurai / 129min
*Director: Yoji Yamada (The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor)
*Starring: Hiroyuki Sanada (The Last Samurai, The Promise)
Rie Miyazawa (HANA)

Competition- 55th Berlin International Film Festival / Opening 29th Hong Kong Film Festival
*Genre: Drama / Samurai / 132min
*Director: Yoji YAMADA (The Twilight Samurai)
*Starring: 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.

Pale Flower (1964)
The Assassin (1964)
Samurai Spy (1965)
and more...

An Affair at Akitsu Spa (1962)
The Affair (1967)
The Impasse (1967)
and more...

Naked Youth (1960)
The Sun's Burial (1960)
Night and Fog in Japan (1966)
Violence at Highnoon (1966)
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