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- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsSôta FukushiNana KomatsuMasahiro HigashideOn the way to his university in Kyoto, a 20 y.o. man falls in love with a woman on the train. He tells her. They start dating. She has a supernatural secret.
- DirectorAkihiko ShiotaStarsMugi KadowakiNana KomatsuRyo NaritaA musical duo decides to disband.
- DirectorTsutomu HanabusaStarsMirei KiritaniKento YamazakiKentarô SakaguchiHatori is in love with her childhood friend Rita, but when Rita gets himself a girlfriend Hatoris world turns upside down.
- DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsTakako MatsuYoshino KimuraMasaki OkadaA psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.
- DirectorKeiichi KobayashiStarsShôtarô MamiyaHinako SakuraiYuri TsunematsuFollowing the comic book of the same name high school student Rei bears no interests and is listless. he is boring and bored. Rei sees his class-mate Nana bury a dead bee with care and respect. Rei becomes interested in Nana and even more so after she confides in him that she has no will to live and is harming herself.
- DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiStarsHana SugisakiMackenyuTakumi KitamuraTwelve kids go into an abandoned hospital to give up on life. In the room where they meet, a boy is already lying dead, and no one knows who he is.
- DirectorKôjirô HashimotoStarsHiroomi TosakaAyami NakajôKenta HamanoA terminally ill girl, who dreams of going to Finland to see the northern lights, falls in love.
- DirectorAkira NagaiStarsMauro CaiazzaGaku HamadaMieko HaradaYoung mailman finds out he has no time left due to a terminal disease. Suddenly he is approached by a devil that offers him to live more time if he eliminates something from the world. Young mailman then thinks about his relationship with friends, ex-partners, family.
- DirectorNaoto KumazawaStarsMikako TabeHaruma MiuraMisako RenbutsuA girl that resemble "Sadako" of the movie Ring is being feared by her classmates. She is avoided by everyone.While everyone is avoiding her, the popular boy Shota Kazehaya befriends her, and their love begins to grow.
- DirectorShô TsukikawaStarsMinami HamabeTakumi KitamuraShun OguriA dying girl meets a nonchalant boy who found out her secret. She decided to fulfill her bucket list with none-other-than the boy who couldn't care less about the world.
- DirectorNobuhiro DoiStarsKasumi ArimuraNanami AbeMorio AgataFact-based tale of a slacker high-school girl, years behind in her studies, who decides to start working hard and pass the entrance exams to a prestigious university in Japan.
- DirectorNobuhiro YamashitaStarsBae DoonaAki MaedaYû KashiiA music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival.
- DirectorShinobu YaguchiStarsJuri UenoYûta HiraokaShihori KanjiyaA tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up vitiating and replacing the schools brass band.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsYui AragakiFumino KimuraKenta KiritaniYuri Kashiwagi was once known as a genius pianist. One day, she returns to her hometown in Goto Islands from Tokyo. There, she begins to work as a temporary teacher at a middle school and an adviser of the school chorus. The chorus aims to take part at a competition. Yuri gives the chorus members an assignment - to write a letter with the title of "To myself 15 years later" upon a song that they will sing at the competition.
- DirectorShinobu YaguchiStarsFumiyo KohinataEri FukatsuYuki IzumisawaAfter a sudden worldwide power cut, a Tokyo family are caught up in the chaos as millions traverse the country in search of electricity.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsLily FrankySakura AndôKirin KikiOn the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsTatsuya FujiwaraAki MaedaTarô YamamotoIn the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsShôta SometaniNijirô MurakamiRyunosuke KamikiA group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.
- DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsKoji YakushoNana KomatsuSatoshi TsumabukiAs former detective Akikazu searches for his missing daughter, Kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life.
- DirectorShunji IwaiStarsHayato IchiharaShûgo OshinariAyumi ItoThe problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou's dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.
- DirectorRyûichi HirokiStarsFumi NikaidôKento YamazakiMegumi AbeErika captured a photo of a handsome guy and told her friends that he is her boyfriend. Upon finding this out, the boy proposed to go with her pretense as long as she acts as his pet dog.
- DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiStarsShôta MatsudaAtsuko MaedaTsurutarô KataokaAn ordinary guy falls in love with her dream girl Maya. Maya feels doubt and betray when they begin a long term relationship. Her feeling completely reverses some day.
- DirectorTakehiko ShinjôStarsKento YamazakiSuzu HiroseAnna IshiiA piano prodigy who lost his ability to play after suffering a traumatic event in his childhood is forced back into the spotlight by an eccentric girl with a secret of her own.
- DirectorTakehiko ShinjôStarsKeiko KitagawaOsamu MukaiShunji IgarashiA chance encounter leads Yukari, a burnt out high school student, to a group of dedicated fashion design students. She becomes their model for their graduating exhibition and discovers her talent for modeling.
- DirectorTaisuke KawamuraStarsKento YamazakiRen KiriyamaMiho ShiraishiAoi lives in an apartment by herself. Shusei moves in next to Aoi's apartment. Shusei is a very popular student. Due to a mistake, Aoi makes the sprinkler go off in his room. Until his room is fixed, he stays with Aoi.
- DirectorNorihiro KoizumiStarsYuiTakashi TsukamotoKuniko AsagiKaoru has a sickness that hindered her to go out when the sun is up. Despite this sickness, she fell in love with a boy named Koji. If she decides to pursue her love, it will mean risking her life.
- DirectorYôjirô TakitaStarsMasahiro MotokiRyôko HirosueTsutomu YamazakiSoon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.
- DirectorShûsuke KanekoStarsTatsuya FujiwaraKen'ichi MatsuyamaAsaka SetoA battle between the world's two greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals.
- DirectorShûsuke KanekoStarsTatsuya FujiwaraKen'ichi MatsuyamaErika TodaPicking up where the first one leaves off, Light joins the task force searching for Kira in an effort to avert suspicion from himself---and get rid of L.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsKen'ichi MatsuyamaSota AoyamaShunji FujimuraA spin-out sequel to the popular Japanese thriller. This time it focuses on the character "L."
- DirectorTsutomu HanabusaStarsKento NakajimaYûna TairaYuri ChinenKarin Oriyama is 16 years old. She is in high school and about to get married.
- DirectorShô TsukikawaStarsYurina HirateMizuki ItagakiKeiko KitagawaHibiki is a precocious 15-year-old with a penchant for writing. She enters her novel to literary magazine Mokuren for nomination, but it does not satisfy conditions for their Rookie of the Year award, so it is tossed, until Editor Fumi Hanai discovers it.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsFumi NikaidôTakehiro HiraHideaki ItôA popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
- DirectorHayato KawaiStarsSuzu HiroseYûki AmamiAyami NakajôLed by a demanding coach, an unlikely squad of small town girls vie for victory in a major US cheer dance championship. Based on true events.
- DirectorHideki TakeuchiStarsHaruka AyaseKentarô SakaguchiAkira EmotoAn assistant director and film fan gets his wish come true when his favourite heroine, a princess from an old film, appears in the real world.
- DirectorTomoyuki TakimotoStarsTakanori IwataMizuki YamamotoTakumi SaitôThis film, "Last Winter We Parted" is based on a novel, "Thanks for your wishes, Kimi and Watarase", published in 2013. The main character, Kyosuke Yakumo, is an investigation researcher and writer. He has a fiancee' and they plan to get marry very soon. When he begins his research on a burned death murder case involving a beautiful blind woman for his next book, he finds out that the suspect in the case is a photographer..
- DirectorYûichi FukudaStarsMitsuki TakahataKento YamazakiNanaoTwo office workers, who are also fans of otaku culture, meet and develop a relationship.
- DirectorMasafumi NishidaStarsAtsuko HirataMasachika IchimuraAnna IshibashiHajime has a welding job and a cute girlfriend with whom he lives. It was not always this way however. He used to be a robber. The past comes to haunt him, however, when is compelled by a former associate to commit a crime again and steal. He is caught red-handed, he thinks, but instead he is not recognized as a criminal, which he desperately tries to keep intact.
- DirectorAkira NagaiStarsMasaki SudaYûdai ChibaCharles GloverTeiichi dreams of one day being the ruler of his own empire, but to get there he needs to make sure that his candidate for class president at his elite high school wins the election. This is a high school election fought with all the fervor or a nasty, national campaign. Lies, bribery, sabotage and scandal all come into play as the boys fight it out to determine who will be the next class president.
- DirectorRyûta InoueStarsYûki FurukawaYukijirô HotaruMasahiro KômotoMitsuomi Kozuka quits his job in Tokyo to return to his rural hometown for the first time in a decade. There, he meets Yamato Kumai, who convinces him to help out on his farm, where their relationship grows and changes them both.
- DirectorKôjirô HashimotoStarsKatrina BourdoLeigh CarmichaelTomiko ClaireA popular high school band is scouted by a Tokyo-based record company. The band is involved in a car accident, however, shattering many hopes. The band receives a demo tape from a girl who lives on the navy base. They are reinvigorated.
- DirectorIsshin InudôStarsSatoshi TsumabukiChizuru IkewakiJuri UenoTsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage. Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josée.
- DirectorAkira NagaiStarsNana KomatsuYô ÔizumiNana SeinoAkira Tachibana is a soft-spoken high school student who used to be a part of the track and field club. Working part-time at a restaurant, she finds herself inexplicably falling in love with her manager, a divorced 45-year-old man.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsShôta SometaniFumi NikaidôTetsu WatanabeAfter two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsRyunosuke KamikiKasumi ArimuraYukiya KitamuraShinichiro is lonely for two reasons. He lost his family in an accident when he was younger. He also has an unusual and morbid ability to see through and beyond the corporal bodies of those who are about to die. His life looks to be on the upswing when he meets the cute Aoi at a shop one day. They are well on the way to happiness together when the man begins seeing through the woman.
- DirectorKei IshikawaStarsMayu MatsuokaTôri MatsuzakaWin MorisakiFour pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is a former child prodigy who stopped playing when her mother died. One is a Julliard student. One works at a music store. One is a new face and yet comes recommended.
- DirectorShô TsukikawaStarsTakumi KitamuraMei NaganoKyoko HasegawaTakuya Okada is a high school student. He visits his classmate Mamizu Watarase in the hospital. Mamizu suffers from the mysterious ailment "Luminescence disease." People who have the disease show a faint sparkle under the moonlight and the sparkle gets brighter as their death gets closer. Mamizu is not allowed out of the hospital and she will not live long enough to become an adult. Takuya offers to help her carry out her wishes before she passes away. He also tells her how he feels about her, but Mamizu's death is approaching.
- DirectorKôji ShintokuStarsKei InooMizuki YamamotoMomoko KikuchiMomo Adachi is a female high school student. She appears to be a wild girl due to her tan skin and dyed hair, but she is a actually naive and sweet student. Since her days in middle school, Momo Adachi has secretly held feelings for classmate Toji. Meanwhile, the most popular male student, Kairi Okayasu, becomes interested in her. Her friend Sae is jealous of her and tries to block Toji from Momo. Momo is conflicted with Toji and Kairi, but she has to make a decision.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsMasaharu FukuyamaMachiko OnoYôko MakiRyota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
- DirectorYukihiro MorigakiStarsMasaki OkadaJun ShisonYurina HirateTwo psychics team up to solve a string of murders, and along their investigations develop a romantic connection.
- DirectorShunsuke KariyamaStarsRyô YoshizawaHana SugisakiAmane OkayamaKaede and Hisano form a club. When Hisano vanishes, Kaede throws himself into bringing change to the club.
- DirectorEisuke NaitôStarsAnna YamadaHiroya ShimizuRinka ÔtaniAs if bullied by her classmates everyday is not enough, Nozaki finds her house burnt to the ground and her parents dead. Knowing that the fire is not an accident, she sneaks off to punish those responsible one by one.
- DirectorKan EguchiStarsJun'ichi OkadaFumino KimuraMizuki YamamotoTrained as a ruthless assassin since childhood, a mob hitman is ordered to become a normal law-abiding citizen.
- DirectorMasato HaradaStarsTakuya KimuraKazunari NinomiyaYuriko YoshitakaMogami Takeshi works at the Tokyo prosecutor's office focusing on violent criminal cases. Okino Keiichiro admires him and is happy to be assigned to work with Mogami. When a money lender is killed for his dealings with the deceased one Matsukura Shigeo is considered a suspect. He has a past involving a schoolgirl and the prosecutors strive to make the case.
- DirectorRyôta NakanoStarsKazunari NinomiyaSatoshi TsumabukiHaru KurokiWhen disaster strikes Japan in the form of a tsunami and subsequent nuclear reactor meltdown, a young photographer copes with tragedy by creating photographic portraits of his family.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsMinami HamabeTakumi KitamuraEiji AkasoThe love affairs of four schoolkids: a romantic, a pragmatist, an airhead and a lothario.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsMitsuru FukikoshiDendenAsuka KurosawaThe lives of a bored suburban couple are changed forever when a seemingly nice old man gives their daughter a job at his fish store, and soon his gruesome hobbies are brought to light.
- DirectorKatsuo FukuzawaStarsHiroshi AbeJunpei MizobataRena TanakaMichiko came to Tokyo to visit Hiromi, but is instead found murdered. The renter of Michiko's place is missing. The police is having a hard time finding clues and solving the case. There are not any clues and a connection between the dead and absent is not forthcoming. The only hint is an item found near the corpse, but it complicated the matters because it makes the file personal to one of the detectives assigned to the murder.
- DirectorMasayuki SuzukiStarsTakuya KimuraMasami NagasawaFumiyo KohinataA serial (3) killer leaves a GPS code of his next target with each victim - this time Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. A detective goes undercover as hotel staff - haircut, manners etc.
- DirectorHitoshi YazakiStarsTamiyasu ChôMasaya KatôTakumi KitamuraThree siblings share a home with their parents living a happy life. The oldest one is good-looking guy, which is something of a contrast from his younger brother who is at school. The youngest one is the girl and has two brothers to protect her. Unfortunately an accident knocks out the oldest sibling. It is not a happy time.
- DirectorNobuhiro DoiStarsYûko TakeuchiShidô NakamuraAkashi TakeiA young woman returns from the dead to her guilt-ridden husband and son, but she cannot remember them.
- DirectorKôichirô MikiStarsSôta FukushiMitsuki TakahataNanaNana is the cutest girl. She is also smart and aware of her talents. She has paws and purrs. Her father Satoru cannot take of her anymore and must give her up. He searches for someone to take care of Nana and begins visiting people who may be good candidates. As Nana and her father take trips in their car Satoru meets old friends, meets new friends and his own story unfurls in the process.
- DirectorYoshiyuki KishiStarsMasaki SudaYang Ik-joonDendenThe year is 2021 and years of mismanagement have left Japan a broken society riddled with poverty and underemployment. Kenji is visibly disabled and has an inferiority complex. Shinji is released from prison and has time in his hands. They both coincidentally sign up at a club for boxing and soon become friends.
- DirectorYoshiyuki KishiStarsMasaki SudaYang Ik-joonAkari KinoshitaIn the sequel to the first part, which was released simultaneously to this film, Shinji and Kenji join a boxing club. The former is just released from a prison for young offenders. The latter has a speech disability and suffers both physically and psychologically as a result. They meet and form a bond as Japanese society of 2021 breaks down around them due to the sins of capitalism and shortsightedness.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsMika AkizukiTokio EmotoMotoki FukamiAfter receiving a cosmic blast while masturbating, a virginal teenager gains psychic powers and joins a group of ESP virgins in order to defend the world from evil psychics.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsTakao HandaArata IuraKenta KiritaniMeiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have this band become professional. They ultimately fail when their CDs are rejected by the record companies. Realizing he has to return to his menial profession and have failed in his dream, Taneda speeds through a red light on his motorcycle and dies in a traffic accident. After his death, Meiko takes over Taneda's position in the band to find the meaning of life. After performing a small gig, the plot concludes with Meiko taking up a new job and the other band members returning to their daily regimen.
- DirectorNorihiro KoizumiStarsTakeru SatohMasataka KubotaTakashi SorimachiA love story between a famous 25-year-old songwriter, who keeps his identity hidden from the public, and a 16-year-old high school student who possesses a gifted voice.
- DirectorKôjirô HashimotoStarsTao TsuchiyaKento YamazakiRyô RyûseiA girl mysteriously receives advice from her future self and as a result her group of friends, along with a newly arrived, troubled classmate, learn how to be better friends and a better community.
- DirectorIzuru NarushimaStarsSôta FukushiShin'ya HamadaNarushi IkedaAoyama Takashi, a depressed salesman, is convinced his monotonous life is not worth living when he is saved by cheerful Yamamoto. As Aoyama's life begins to turn around, Yamamoto's mysterious identity unravels, revealing the truth.
- DirectorRyôhei WatanabeStarsKeito AkutsuAya AyanoCocoKoharu holds down a public sector job and does it well. Then disaster strikes. Her family and home are stricken. She is personally affected when her man lusts after other women including a co-worker of his. A white knight appears who is willing to be with her, love her and marry her. What happens next is no Cinderella story however.
- DirectorYûichi FukudaStarsKanna HashimotoYûko ArakiTakanori IwataWhile at the royal ball with Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood finds herself in the middle of a mystery. Can she solve the case before midnight strikes?
- DirectorArai ToshioStarsMayu HottaYoshihiko HosodaKenta IzukaTamaki who becomes a surrogate mother for the sake of her elder brother, Satoshi, who is gay by going through artificial insemination using his partner Keito's sperm with her egg and the siblings wanting to reveal the truth to their parents after her pregnancy passes the first trimester.