Love and Honor(original title: Bushi no Ichibun)
Directed by Yoji Yamada
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Director: YOJI YAMADA (The Twilight Samurai)
Starring: Takuya Kimura (2046, Howel'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
Running time: 121min |
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LOVE AND HONOR
Screening schedule |
| Feb 9 (Fri) 9:30 @ CinemaxX 2 (Market)
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| Feb 9 (Fri) 11:00 @ CinemaxX 3 (Press & Industry)
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| Feb 9 (Fri) 19:00 @ Zoo Palast 1(Panorama Special Opening) |
| Feb 10 (Sat) 10:30 @ CinemaxX 7 (Panorama Screening)
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| Feb 10 (Sat) 19:45 @ CinemaxX 2 (Market) |
| Feb 11 (Sun) 19:30 @ Martin-Gropius-Bau (Eat, Drink, See Movies Opening)
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| Feb 14 (Wed) 22:30 @ Cubix 7 & 8(Panorama Screening) |
| Feb 15 (Thu) 14:30 @ International (Panorama Screening) |
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GENGHIS KHAN - To the Ends of the Earth and Sea
JAPAN AND MONGOLIA co-production / In celebration of the 800th anniversary of the founding of Mongolia
Directed by Shinichiro Sawaki |
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Director: Shinichiro Sawaki (YAMATO,W's Tragedy)
Starring: Takashi Sorimachi (YAMATO)
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: DRAMA / EPIC |
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GENGHIS KHAN - To the Ends of the Earth and Sea
Promo Screening schedule |
| Feb 10 (Sat) 17:00 at CinemaxX Studio 17 |
| Feb 12 (Mon) 15:45 at Marriott 2 |
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SUMMER DAYS WITH COO (working title)
(original title: Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi)
Directed by Keiichi Hara |
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Director: Keiichi Hara ("Crayon Shin-chan" series)
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: ANIMATION / Family |
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SUMMER DAYS WITH COO
Promo Screening Schedule |
| Feb 10 (Sat) 17:00 at CinemaxX Studio 17 |
| Feb 12 (Mon) 15:45 at Marriott 2 |
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VEXILLE
(original title: Vexille)
Directed by Fumihiko Sori |
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Director: Fumihiko 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: ACTION / CGI Animation |
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VEXILLE
Promo Screening Schedule |
| Private Promo Screening |
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HANA (original title: HANAYORI MO NAHO)
Directed by Kore-Eda Hirokazu |
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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 / Samurai
Running time: 127min |
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HANA
Screening schedule |
| Feb 12 (Mon) 9:30 at CinemaxX Studio 13 |
| Feb 13 (Tue) 11:15 at Arsenal 2
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SEA WITHOUT EXIT
(original title: Deguchi no nai Umi)
Directed by Kiyoshi Sasabe |
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Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe (Half a Confession - Han ochi)
Writer: Yoji Yamada (director / writer for "The Twilight Samurai" "The Hidden Blade")Motofumi Tomikawa (Tokyo Tower,Fly,Daddy,Fly)
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: DRAMA / WWII
Running time: 121min |
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SEA WITHOUT EXIT(original title: Deguchi no nai Umi)
Screening schedule |
| Feb 8 (Thu) 17:15 at CinemaxX Studio 13 |
| Feb 10 (Sat) 13:15 CinemaxX Studio 13 |
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GHOST TRAIN
(original title: Otoshimono)
Directed by Takeshi Furusawa |
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YOGOTO NO YUME
Directed by Mikio Narusa |
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NASANU NAKA
Directed by Mikio Narusa |
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KITARO (working title)
Directed by Katsuhide Motoki |
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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: ACTION / Family |
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KITARO (working title)
Promo Screening schedule |
| Feb 10 (Sat) 17:00 at CinemaxX Studio 17 |
| Feb 12 (Mon) 15:45 at Marriott 2
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TOKYO TOWER - Mom & Me, and sometimes Dad
(original title: Tokyo Tower - Okan to Boku to Tokidoki Oton)
Directed by George Matsuoka |
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Director: George 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... |
| Genre: DRAMA |
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TOKYO TOWER - Mom & Me, and sometimes Dad
Promo Screening Schedule |
| Feb 10 (Sat) 17:00 at CinemaxX Studio 17 |
| Feb 12 (Mon) 15:45 at Marriott 2 |
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FRANZ KAFKA'S A COUNTRY DOCTOR
(original Title: Kafka Inaka Isha)
Directed by Koji Yamamura |
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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: DRAMA |
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FRANZ KAFKA'S A COUNTRY DOCTOR
Promo Screening schedule |
| Feb 10 (Sat) 17:00 at CinemaxX Studio 17 |
| Feb 12 (Mon) 15:45 at Marriott 2 |
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AI NO UTA (original title)
Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi |
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Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi (TRICK,Love Collage)
Starring: JMiki 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: Drama / Romantic Comedy |
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LOVE AND BERRY (working title)
(original title: Love and Berry)
Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki |
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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: ANIMATION / Children |
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MUSHIKING (working title)
(original title: Mushi King)
Directed by Junpei Mizusaki |
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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 / Action / Children |
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KABEI (Japanese working title)
Directed by Yoji Yamada |
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Director: Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade)
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga
A story of a family's struggles through a dark time,taking place in Tokyo during the 1940s. Yamada comments,"You can say this film is a period drama,but in a sense,this is more so a historical investigation. The staff has been studying very hard. I would like to make this film with homage to all of the tender mothers who held her family tight in her thin but strong arms and lived through the hard times." |
| Genre: DRAMA |
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Le Chevalier D'Eon
(original title: Le Chevalier D'Eon)
Directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi |
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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 / ACTION - Gothic Mystery
Running time: Running Time: 22 min x 24 episodes |
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Genre: Drama 
