Director: Takahisa ZEZE (Heaven’s Story, Moon Child)
Starring: Masaki OKADA (Confessions, Villain, The Lightening Tree), Nana EIKURA (April Bride)

Based on a novel by Masashi SADA (”Bizan: The Mountain of Mother's Love”, “Gege”)
Berlinale prize winning director Takahisa ZEZE sets out to picturaize the big hit novel "Antoki No Inochi" starring Masaki OKADA and Nana EIKURA.

The story starts when Kyohei Nagashima who has closed his mind after an event at high school happens to start working as a house cleaner for people who passed away alone. Despite his indifference about the job, society, or even life itself at the beginning, he gradually learns the meaning of life through facing life and death while cleaning houses where the dead used to live and where tons of belongings from their lives are left. 

Based on the Story by Yasushi INOUE (Chronicles of My Mother- Under the Flowers / Moonlight / Surface of Snow) 
Written and Directed by Masato HARADA (Kamikaze Taxi, Inugami, Suicide Song, Jubaku - Spellbound, Climber's High)
Starring: Koji YAKUSHO (13 Assassins, Tokyo Sonata, Babel, Shall We Dance - , The Eel) 
KIKI KIRIN (Still Walking, Tokyo Tower - Mom and Me, and sometimes Dad)
Aoi MIYAZAKI (Soranin, Sad Vacation, Heavenly Forest, Eureka)

"The man who was always writing something over there seemed to have died." my mother muttered. 'Mother, I am still here...' I want to say, but words do not come out. Mother could not tell who I was any longer. 
The "Author" (Koji YAKUSHO) tells his experience with his "Mother" (KIKI KIRIN) who has became senile. He senses that the aging mother will not live for long, but as she tries to embrace and hold on to the fading memories of her son, they reconcile the past of a very complex family history. A true story filled with love and humor, and the "joy and happiness of life" which Yasushi Inoue, one of Japan’s most profound author, has wrote about himself and his mother.

Director: Hiroshi KUROSAKI (First Feature Film)
Screenplay: Shizuka OISHI (notable writer for TV dramas)
Starring: Kyoka SUZUKI (The Unbroken, Blood and Bones), Hiroki HASEGAWA, Kyoko FUKADA (Yatterman, Kamikaze Girls)

Based on the screenplay by Shizuka OISHI, the NHK television drama series “Second Virgin” became a sensational social phenomenon is now a film.
Rui Nakamura (Kyoka SUZUKI), well-known throughout the publishing industry as a shrewd producer, falls madly in love with Koh Suzuki (Hiroki HASEGAWA), the head of an internet securities company.  Despite that Koh is 17 years younger than her and already married to another woman, they had managed to overcome various obstacles and the two of them had started living together, but then one day Koh just suddenly disappears from Rui’s life...

Director: Masatoshi KURAKATA (Railways - assistant director, Kung Fu Kid - assistant director) Starring: Tomokazu MIURA (The Sun That Doesn’t Set, Always, M/OTHER), Kimiko YO (Departures)

With whom do you want to share the years after retirement.
This emotionally inspiring film is for all those standing at that crossroads of life. 
Toru Takishima is a railway driver who has devoted his whole life to his job, then realizes that he has　reached the age of 59. His wife Sawako had always been supportive of him in her role as housewife, and is now 55. Toru will reach mandatory retirement after only one month, and the couple is looking forward to their retirement years. Then one day, Sawako proclaims that she will return to the nursing career that her role as housewife denied her, but Toru is unwilling and unable to understand the depth of her conviction. The two of them have a serious quarrel, and Sawako suddenly moves out of their home. The rift between them reaches the point where Sawako gives official divorce registration documents to Toru...

Directed by Junichi MIMURA
Starring: Mahiro TAKASUGI
Ayame GOURIKI

A high school boy who wants to become a violinist, forms a family quartet to try to connect the family back together. Shot during the Great East Japan Earthquake, civilian volunteers supported the completion of the film.

Director: Kazuya NOMURA
Animation Production: Production I.G ( Ghost in the Shell) 

The theatrical version of a popular animation series, based on the video game series produced by CAPCOM (Resident Evil, Devil May Cry). Along with the 1st & 2nd series, Production I.G will be producing this high quality animation. 
Set on the stage of Sengoku / Warring States Period (around 1467-1573) where great military commanders all have one goal of conquering Japan and stand as the head of the united kingdom.

Experience the crazy world of multi-dimensioned Love Story!!
A childlike man tossed about by a mysterious woman who showed up all of a sudden before him.
An amative counselor with a sexist attitude who sharply solves young men’s troubles.
A one-eyed ronin who reaches a red light district while searching for a woman he fell in love at first sight.
This is an extraordinary love story that rushes toward its own “icon of love”; that is, “Milocrorze = Sun”.
Three stories exist independently, and at the same time, connect each other as episodes in the same time space. Each story is told in different tastes in contents and visual expression styles, such as picture-book-like fantastic visual, fashionable musical style, and artistic samurai drama. It also unfolds swiftly in high tension, with full of humour. 
It’s a film with a new feel, constructed as a feature film based on a single theme, whereas it looks like an omnibus film.

Genre: FANTASY / SAMURAI / DRAMA / 90min

Director: Daisuke TENGAN (AIKI, Waiting in the Dark, also writer for The Eel, Lukewarm Water Under a Red Bridge)
Starring: Ruriko ASAOKA (Goyokin)
Mitsuko KUSABUE (Abacus & Sword, 47 Ronin)
Mitsuko BAISHO (Kagemusha, Ballad of Narayama)

28 years after Shohei Imamura's Palm D'Or winner "The Ballad of Narayama" his son Daisuke Tengan's new 'Legend of Old Lady Mountain' is born.
50 elderly women, abandoned to die on 'Old Lady Mountain.' They form a village called "Dendera" with hope to live through.
Some wants to finish their lives peacefully, where others vow revenge to the village and the family that had left them to die in the snow covered mountain.
Living is so hard... but still you live. Why do you struggle?

From the top actresses of Japan comes a drama of women revealing their love and the strength to survive..
Kiwako sneaks into the home of Takehiro whom she is having an affair with, and kidnaps his new born baby, Erina. Kiwako endlessly moves throughout Japan while raising Erina as if she was her own daughter for the next four years. They truly lead happy life until Kiwako is finally arrested. Erina is also havingan affair with a married man and finds that she is pregnant with his baby. She decides to travel to the footsteps of the past to find herself.

Director: Junji SAKAMOTO (Face, KT, Children of the Dark, Zatoichi The Last)
Starring: Yoshio HARADA (Still Walking, Ronin-Gai, Zigeunerweisen)
Michiyo OKUSU (Zatoichi, Face), Ittoku KISHIBE (13 Assasins, Zatoichi)
Koichi SATO (KAMUI, Sukiyaki Western Django)
Takako MATSU (Confessions, Villon's Wife, The Hidden Blade, April Story)

Junji SAKAMOTO, the award-winning Japanese film director, together with one of Japan's most charismatic actor Yoshio Harada and a great ensemble casts, creates a picturesque story set in one of the most beautiful villages of Japan.
In this rural mountain village, they have the tradition of acting an amateur Kabuki performance. All troubles come out as the villagers try to make success with the
performance... Tears, laughter, and rage all unfold against the backdrop of Japan's magnificent natural beauty.
As the film progresses, Harada’s performance as an amateur Kabuki actor begins to merge with his own immensely fruitful life as an actor, instilling a unique resonance to this bittersweet comedy.

Let’s get set for a spectacular adventure of love and courage!
A loving and moving adventure animation that revolves around Hutch the Honey Bee and his friends, as he searches for his missing Queen Bee Mother whom he parted with through the surprise attack by the group of cruel Hornets. Through his travels and adventures, Hutch encounters other creatures which befriends him (even those regarded as enemies, including human beings) and starts to grow up. He discovers the wonders of nature and the true meaning of courage. The original TV animation series created in 1970s was one of the top rating series for Tatsunoko Production, a leading Japanese Animation studio and creators of popular series including “Speed Racer” and “CASSHERN.”

Director: Fuminori KANEKO (Kisarazu Cat’s Eye series)
Starring: Kazunari NINOMIYA (Letters from Iwo Jima, Gantz), Kou SHIBASAKI (Shaolin Girl, Dororo)
Base on the comic by Fumi YOSHINAGA (Winner of James Tiptree Jr. Award)

One female Shogun, and her 3,000 men. The secret of the inner palace unveils.
Box office success in Japan with over US$27Million.
17th Century Japan. A mysterious epidemic infecting only men decreased the number of men to one-fourth of women, which made the world ruled by women. Under the female Shogun, there was an inner chamber called O-oku, where 3,000 beautiful men were serving her. Mizuno, a poor samurai, decides to work there to make his family’s living and encounters reality of the inner palace..

To live a better life, abacus is stronger than sword!!!
Box office success in Japan with over US$15Million.
From the end of the Edo Period to Meiji Period when the way of the samurai is vanishing, Japan faces a period of upheaval. At such time, the Kaga Clan is also immersed in financial crises… A samurai is assigned to work as an accountant, involved in financial administration at the Clan. Out of necessity, he sells all the furniture and household goods to hold his family and the Clan. His clever wife supports him with his work brightly and devotedly.

Based on a best-seller comic book with full of energy and excitement!
An ordinary high school student Koyuki is bored of his life style and have nothing much of a future. One day, Koyuki meets a gifted guitar player Ryusuke Minami (Hiro MIZUSHIMA) who has just come back from New York City. Ryusuke forms a rock band BECK (named after his dog’s name) with other talented musicians. The band members became aware of Koyuki’s hidden talent as a singer and a guitar player. Maho, Ryusuke’s little sister was one of the first to discover his gifted talent, and she became the biggest supporter of Koyuki as they fall in love.

Dramatic, emotional, and aesthetically beautiful. Welcome to the last day of Kabuki theater,
For the first time ever, the camera takes you inside and backstage of the historical Kabuki-za Theater, the main home ground of the Kabuki performance in Tokyo. The Kabuki-za (the 4th generation building - rebuilt after WWII) will end its years of history on April 2010, to be closed for 4 years to be renovated to a new building. 11 main actors, who had grew up on stage of the Kabuki-za navigates us into the heart of the theater, looking back at the best performances ever, the players, the background creation of the stage, and the last day of Kabuki-za. A Kabuki version of "That's Entertainment!" this would be a documentary that would take you to the world of Kabuki like you have never experienced.

A heart-warming story that depicts a trust between a clumsy trainee police dog and an apprentice trainer that are chasing one dream.
KINAKO, a newly born Labrador Retriever had been anticipated to be a good police dog, but was actually born smaller than her brothers and sisters and is not good at exercise at all. When they encounter at the training school, Kyoko is instantly taken with Kinako’s charming eyes though Kinako seems unable to make even one good jump. They start pursuing a dream to become a professional police dog and a trainer, as partners. However,difficulties lies on their path, and Kyoko comes to think it may be better to let Kinako lead a different life… Will the partners who have parted, get to find their dreams together once again?

Inspired by a short story “Torocco” written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the writer of “Rashomon”.
Yumiko Yano, with her sons Atsushi and Toki, travel from Tokyo with the ashes of her late husband to his parents’ home in a mountain village in the south of Taiwan. Yumiko, who married against her parents’ wishes, has struggled on in stubborn determination since his death. Her son Atsushi, rebel against both the society in which he has grown up and his mother. In the rural home of his grandparents, who lived through vast changes in the political landscape and the values that prevail in society, the family rediscovers the bonds that unite it.

A little lie to fill the silence, and another to find the love once lost.
Ruriko, a cold beauty who cannot express her feelings properly, and her earnest husband Satoshi have been together for 3 years, but the seemingly perfect couple feels that their relationship is getting distant. There is only silence and polite exchange of smile between them. The tension in the household is extreme, and it is hard to breathe. When they each have an encounter with a passionate youngster who approaches them forwardly, it seems only natural that they fall for the young lovers who bring in freedom and life. From a best-selling novel from Kaori Ekuni and starring top actors of the generation, the film depicts the most fragile sensitivity in relationships and little lies that can fix one's feelings.