Special Invitation
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STRAWBERRY SONG
- Director
- SHINTARO SUGAWARA
- Country
- Japan
Screenplay writer Yoshikazu Okada who has worked on many great films and drama,and Kazunobu Mineta of Ging Nang BOYZ create this youthful love story. Main chara・・・
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©Yoshimoto Kogyo
ERICA38
- Director
- Yuichi Hibi
- Country
- Japan/Thailand
“What is one's true self...?” There is a woman who swindled money out of men with her charm, and out of women with her stories, even after turning sixty. Some・・・
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My Father, the Bride
- Director
- Momoko FUKUDA
While going through a particularly dire patch in her career and marriage, Tohka returns to the island where she grew up to attend the second memorial service fo・・・
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The Fatal Raid
- Director
- JACKY LEE
- Country
- China
Twenty years ago, Detective Tam, Inspector Madam Fong, Blacky and a group of commandos were on a secret mission, chasing a group of gangs who were trying to cro・・・
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©sakhafilm
The Lord Eagle
- Director
- Eduard Novikov
- Country
- Russia
The film has won FIPRESCI Prize and the Russian Cinema Club Federation Diploma at 2018 Moscow International Film Festival. The same year, the movie won the Best・・・
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Sun Flower
- Director
- Zhang Luoping
- Country
- China
After Xiangyang lost his mom at the age of one and his dad (Zhang Hengyuan) remarried, he has lived with his grandma at his uncle's place. Xiangyang's grandma d・・・
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©Grandma is Okay Production Committee 2018
Grandma is Okay
- Director
- Jacky Woo
- Country
- Japan
From the producers of "Kiseki no Hagaki (The Miraculous Postcards)", which garnered Sarina Suzuki the Best Lead Actress in a Foreign Language Film award at the ・・・
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VIOLENCE VOYAGER
- Director
- Ujicha
- Country
- Japan
"Violence Voyager" is the world's first gekimation animated feature film. Ujicha, who has produced gekimation films since his school days, made his directorial ・・・
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BIKE MAN
- Director
- Prueksa Amaruji
- Country
- Thailand
"Sakkarin" is a 25 year old guy who could not find a job as his mother wishes him to be a banker. To take care and make the family happy, he has to lie by weari・・・
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©CHANG PHUONG FILMS
Daddy Issues
- Director
- Ken Ochiai
- Country
- Vietnam
The movie is a Vietnamese film adaptation of Takahisa Igarashi’s popular novel “Papa to Musume no Nanokakan”. As soon as it was released in December last yea・・・
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©2018 Myanmar National Television, Japan International Broadcasting Inc.
My Country My Home
- Director
- Kyi Phyu Shin
- Country
- Myanmar
This coming-of-age drama captures one summer in the life of a Myanmar high school girl with two homelands—Japan and Myanmar—and the identity struggle that com・・・
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©2019 Visinema Pictures
Keluarga Cemara
- Director
- Yendy Laurens
- Country
- Indonesia
This remake of a serial drama of the same name, which dominated the Indonesian airwaves back in 1996, has proved a smash hit yet again: in its first 10 days in ・・・
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My life as a Cowboy
- Director
- Boodee Keerthisena
- Country
- Sri Lanka
This film is a documentary on the lives of people living either side of the railway tracks. These low-income communities are now vanishing as Sri Lanka`s capita・・・
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We Don't Wanna....
- Director
- Yu Katsumata
This piece consists of two parts, a documentary and a short film. It is a realistic depiction of some girls aiming for their dream to become actresses! The docu・・・
Special Screening
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©2008 MOLE FILM All Rights Reserved.
Breathless
- Director
- Yang Ik-june
- Country
- Korea
One day, Sang-hoon, who lives at the bottom of society, filled with intense anger and hatred for his father, meets the mischievous high school girl Yeon-hee, wh・・・
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The Magnificent Nine
- Director
- Yoshihiro Nakamura
- Country
- Japan
Set in the Edo Period, 250 years ago, director Yoshihiro Nakamura delivers this humorous film that tells the secret story of miracles and inspiration of the tow・・・
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©︎Tajuru Jun Aki Film Production Committee
LOVE’S TWISTING PATH
- Director
- Sadao Nakajima
- Country
- Japan
After a 20 year hiatus, this is the latest feature film from Sadao Nakajima, known as one of the masters in the Japanese film industry. Based on showcasing the ・・・
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©2018 Yoshimoto Kogyo/ Team Okuyama
Nekkyo Sengen
- Director
- Kazuyoshi Okuyama
- Country
- Japan
The movie focuses on a charismatic company director with early-onset Parkinson's disease, who, through his declaration of passion, drove his business to become ・・・
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Senkotsu
- Director
- Toshiyuki Teruya
After his success with his first long movie as a film director "FURIMUN IN OKINAWA" (09), director Toshiyuki Teruya (Garage Sale Gori) has been actively releas・・・
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©Yoshimoto Kogyo/NTT Plala
Kokusan Yoga Gekijo "ROKUKI"
- Director
- Daisaku Fujino
- Country
- Japan
Banished from the Sumo world, former popular wrestler Rokujo loses himself to the underworld of sumo. Suddenly Rokujo gets an opportunity...
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©Yoshimoto Kogyo/NTT Plala
Kokusan Yoga Gekijo "The Ship and the Iceberg"
- Director
- Daisaku Fujino
- Country
- Japan
Otani Maru, the "unsinkable ship" makes its maiden voyage from Hamamatsucho to the new world, Chiba. Upper class girl Barako is on board with her mother and fia・・・
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©Yoshimoto Kogyo/NTT Plala
Kokusan Yoga Gekijo "Crash"
- Director
- Daisaku Fujino
- Country
- Japan
The hero passes a pickup truck. This is something that can be seen on any public road. But the pickup truck keeps following him. The hero gradually begins to fe・・・
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©Yoru Sumino/Futabasha Publishers Ltd 2015 ©Your Pancreas Anime Film Partners
I want to eat your pancreas
- Director
- Shinichiro Ushijima
- Country
- Japan
Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a book in a hos・・・
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Mitchiri Neko
- Director
- Kyo Yadate
Mitchiri Neko, a popular comic book character is a cat-like creature. Now you can see them chillaxing on screen. Starring, among others is Mitchy who loves to ・・・
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HAKATAMENTAI PIRICARAKOCHAN
- Director
- Taketomo Ishikawa
Ready for a wild romp down a mysterious shopping street where the Hakata vibe is strong—but just a mirage—and "food porn" runs rampant? This zany film follows・・・
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©SMK company・Yoshimoto・Sadayoshi Shimane
BAD DRAWN
- Director
- Sadayoshi Shimane
- Country
- Japan
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© 「Kimino Egaoni Aitakute」Film Production Committee
Missing Your Smile
- Director
- Nakaba Ueda
- Country
- Japan
TV DIRECTOR'S MOVIE
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"Extro" NHK
- Director
- Naoki Murahashi
This powerful documentary dives deep into the tragicomic world of the "townspeople" stand-ins working at Warp Station Edo, a popular shooting location for samur・・・
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"How to bring women back into a good humor" NTV
- Director
- Shunsuke Arita
- Country
- Japan
The serialization and movie of the original bestseller "How to bring women back into good humor" by AI researcher Ihoko Kurokawa of "Tsuma no Torisetsu" fame. T・・・
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©YOSHIMOTO KOGYO CO.,LTD.
"The Girl I Like" TBS
- Director
- Shinya Tamada
- Country
- Japan
This film by up-and-coming director Shinya Tamada is a full-length adaptation of "Boku no suki na onnanoko", a love-fantasy essay that Akutagawa Prize-winning w・・・
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"Seiri-chan" CX
「 "Why does it suck? Because I can't blame everything that sucks on my period." If you're a woman, you have to deal with your "monthly visitor"—your period—w・・・
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"Gargling with Sweet Sake" EX
- Director
- AKIKO OOKU
Jiro (Sissonne) has been playing the representative character of "Yoshiko Kawashima" for many years. This is the movie version of "Gargling with Sweet Sake", th・・・
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"kiss cam! ~come on, kiss me again~" TX
- Director
- Hana Matsumoto
Here is a romantic comedy of kisses, by kisses, for kisses. TV TOKYO stretched to new grounds by taking on a new genre hoping viewers will want to kiss someone ・・・
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© Yaunpe! Production Committee
"YAUNPE!" YTV
- Director
- Ryo Miyawaki
- Country
- Japan
A cute girl told us that "What I need right now is a Yaunpe. There's nothing I want more". The four old men replied "Got it. We will find it!" The four men, mem・・・
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"It's painful to be with my father who gets drunk and becomes devil" MBS
- Director
- Kenji Katagiri
"Now, I finally know that I didn't grow up in a normal family," the protagonist of this film says, realizing that having grown up with an alcoholic father and・・・
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"A SHITTY FILM" ABC TV
- Director
- Satoshi Shiba
The script for this film was written by Akira Ishida, of comedy duo NON STYLE. He possesses the comic abilities that saw him take the M-1 Grand Prix championshi・・・
Comedy of Japan / Comedy of World
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The Crazy Family
- Director
- Sogo Ishii
- Country
- Japan
A mother and father manage to escape a crowded housing complex and buy their own home, enjoying peaceful and happy days while struggling to raise a son and a da・・・
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Horse Feathers
- Director
- Norman Z. McLeod
- Country
- USA
The four Marx brothers Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo star in this super-charged operetta of chaos at a prestigious university! Upon its release in 1932, this・・・
Sakurazaka Film University
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©2018 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Village Roadshow Films (BVI) Limited and RatPac-Dune Entertainment LLC. All rights reserved.
Ready Player One
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Country
- USA
“Oasis”, a new generation VR world where all your dreams can come true with a pair of goggles. Unprecedented action and drama unfold while switching back and ・・・
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© 1999 REVERSE ANGLE LIBRARY GMBH
Buena Vista Social Club
- Director
- Wim Wenders
- Country
- Germany, U.S., U.K., France and Cuba
A moving music documentary of Wenders' fascination with Cuban music featuring Ry Cooder. The album "Buena Vista Social Club", which Ry Cooder created with legen・・・
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©2017 Broad Green Pictures LLC
Buena Vista Social Club:Adios
- Director
- Lucy Walker
- Country
- England
18 years from the legendary masterpiece “Buena Vista Social Club”, the five current members, with an average age of 73, embark on a Farewell World Tour. The c・・・
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©Small Island Big Song
Small Island Big Song
- Director
- Tim Cole
- Country
- Islands of the Pacific & Indian Oceans
Small Island Big Song, an uplifting feature musical documentary. From Taiwan to New Zealand, from Madagascar to Rapa Nui/Easter Island. The filmmakers spent thr・・・
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©GEETHA ARTS, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Magadheera
- Director
- S. S. Rajamouli
- Country
- India
Praise the Hero (Dhivara)! An action adventure of love and revenge over time and space from the same director and staff that produced the two-part Baahubali. ・・・
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ABUNAI DEKA
- Director
- Yasuharu Hasebe
- Country
- Japan
The first theatrical release of the popular TV series that received overwhelming support since its broadcast in 1986. Taka and Yuji investigate a murder at a d・・・
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NIKUTAI NO MON
- Director
- Hideo Gosha
- Country
- Japan
Set in post-war ruins comes this energetic game of survival where courageous women have nothing to keep them alive but their own bodies. This is one of the trul・・・
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Furimun’s Paradise
- Director
- Gori
- Country
- Japan
Eisho, who lives and plays around in Koza, falls for a pole dancer at a bar. He makes a bet to fight with a US soldier for her! A high-tension battle for love e・・・
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ORION
- Country
- Japan
The second title of drama series planned and directed by Kukki of Yasei Bakudan, with his own unique perspective. Ko-chan takes child acting lessons hoping to m・・・
Okinawa Historical Movie
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Okinawa with 8 mm film revived digitally
- Director
- Yasuo Endo etc.
The return of this popular event. Watch the 8 mm videos of the incredibly nostalgic landscape of various sites around Okinawa, taken by townspeople in the 1950s・・・
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Child of the Sun
- Director
- Kirio Urayama
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, and their grade-school daughter, [Fuuchan]. The movie depicts the warm interaction betwe・・・
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Dear Summer Sister
- Director
- Nagisa Oshima
Nagisa Oshima’s fresh and youthful film made with the backdrop of the return of Okinawa to the mainland in 1972. This fine work woven with humor and irony base・・・
Local Origination Movies
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Morioka, Iwate Prefecture "ALL FOR ONE"
- Director
- Atsushi Watanabe
This film delves into the rugby world, a timely topic as the 2019 Rugby World Cup approaches, in hopes of generating some extra excitement about the World Cup m・・・
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Yamagata,Yamagata Prefecture "How Many Miles to the Sea?"
- Director
- Ryuichi Hiroki
This short film on youth focuses on the stories and human drama of the people left behind in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake—and how each・・・
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Chikuma , Nagano Prefecture "Mystic Shrine Maiden"
- Director
- Takeshi Sone
Toko works as a shrine maiden. Her days are full of joy as she would be called out by the village people to play or sometimes simply savor time with nothing spe・・・
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Katsushika-ku, Tokyo "This Town and Me"
- Director
- Kazuo Nagai
Miki Murata (23) just started working at a production company which produces variety TV programs. She worked as an assistant director on the 30-minute late nigh・・・
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Ayase,Kanagawa Prefecture "roots"
- Director
- Yu Shibuya
“This year’s speech theme will be about roots” The Japanese class is full of enthusiasm ahead of the upcoming speech presentations at the Ayase International・・・
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Hikone,Shiga Prefecture "I Don’t Wanna Meet Nobody"
- Director
- Masaaki Kanamori,Eikichi Soma
This is the story of a wonderland where people turn into "phantoms" when withdrawn. The hero is Umizu, a senior in high school. Filled with bullying by friends,・・・
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Sumoto,Hyogo Prefecture "Old-fashioned Man"
- Director
- Yasutaka Otsugi
Born and raised on Awajishima. Regular office worker Tsuyoshi Yamamoto has never been off the island in this film which depicts half of his life up to marrying ・・・
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Tawaramoto,Nara Prefecture "I"
- Director
- Shinsuke Tatsukawa
Ai Sakai made her way from the town of Tawaramoto in Nara Prefecture to the pinnacle of comedy, the Namba Grand Kagetsu Theater while living an unusual life as ・・・
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©YOSHIMOTO CREATIVE AGENCY CO.,LTD.
Matsue, Shimane Prefecture "Izanagi"
- Director
- Nozomu Kasagi
The port that is closest to God. Mihonoseki, at the eastern end of Shimane Peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides and has been known as the sacred c・・・
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©YOSHIMOTO KOGYO CO.,LTD
Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture "BENTHOS"
- Director
- Tekko Nogami
In the Takashima area, Takashima is the only island of the four islands of Takashima, Hashima (Gunkanjima), Nakanoshima and Tobishima which are inhabited. The t・・・
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©Okinawa Prefectural Government. All Rights Reserved.
Onna Village,Okinawa "NAGISA"
- Director
- Toshiyuki Teruya
- Country
- Japan
Onna village is located on the western side of the central part of the main island of Okinawa, and is one of the most famous resorts in Japan. Large resort hote・・・
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Aguni, Okinawa "born, bone, boon."
- Director
- Gori
- Country
- Japan
Hitoshi returns home to Agunishima to introduce his new bride Yuko, but when he tells her the real reason for their returning, she is furious. She shouts "I'm g・・・
A Great Gathering of Films about Okinawa
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©2012 Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau, CMC, All rights Reserved.
"Ai and Ai" Indigo love
- Director
- Sachiko Judy Fukumoto
- Country
- Japan
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Goat on a Walk
- Director
- Ryugo Nakamura
- Country
- Japan
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THE CHOSEN ONE
- Director
- Gori
- Country
- Japan
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©kukuruvision
Katabui, In The Heart Of Okinawa
- Director
- Daniel Lopez
- Country
- Japan, Switzerland
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Am I a Hero or a Villain? The Revival of Katsuren Castle
- Director
- Yoshikazu Sugiyama
- Country
- Japan
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Island Cat Movie "Nyaha!"
- Director
- Choji Nakahodo
- Country
- Japan
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Hello Zombie
- Director
- Soichi Takayama
- Country
- Japan
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©2010 Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau, All rights Reserved.
Mother of the groom
- Director
- Tsukasa Kishimoto
- Country
- Japan
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©2011 Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau, All rights Reserved.
The Deer in Me
- Director
- Kenji Tabuchi
- Country
- Japan
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YACHIMUN
- Director
- Soichi Takayama
- Country
- Japan
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Kitanaka Sketch
- Director
- Tsukasa Kishimoto
- Country
- Japan
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Challenged
- Director
- Masakuni Nakamura
- Country
- Japan