Starring

Nanoka Hara (原菜乃華)
Rena Matsui (松井玲奈)

Director

Mai Sakai (酒井麻衣)

Japan release

April 1, 2017

Since her mother’s death Nanoka has dreamed of being a famous actress just like her. But she struggles to find the time while she is at school and she lives in a small town. Then one day she gets the chance to appear in a play in the town and things begin to change and to become very strange…

Starring

Morio Kazama (風間杜夫)
Nana Katase (片瀬那奈)
Nao Oikawa (及川奈央)
Miho Shiraishi (白石美帆)
Norito Yashima (八嶋智人)

Director

Shusuke Kaneko (金子修介)

Japan release

November 11, 2017

A wealthy magnate, suddenly removed as company president, meets a singular beauty and single magazine editor. But they’re 30 years apart and they quickly start fighting. But is that a sign of chemistry?

Starring

Tomoko Tabata (田畑智子)
Takashi Yamanaka (山中崇)
Shiho Takano (高野志穂)
Machiko Kochi (東風万智子)

Director

Yusaku Okamoto (岡本雄作)

Japan release

October 7, 2017

”Music Of My Life” is a feature-length movie inspired by letters from ardent fans of SING LIKE TALKING, a Japanese band celebrating its 30th year in 2018.

Starring

Maya Okano (岡野真也)
Minori Hagiwara (萩原みのり)
Shigeyuki Totsugi (戸次重幸)
Hiroyuki Hirayama (平山浩行)
Ikkei Watanabe (渡辺いっけい)

Director

Hatsuki Yokoo (横尾初喜)

Japan release

November 23, 2017

Yukari feigns kidnapping to test her mother’s love. Rinka finds her biggest regret at her mom’s deathbed. Miwa lovingly watches over her daughter’s “big lie”. And a small miracle happens in this touching depiction of family across three generations

Starring

Anne Higashide (杏)
Yuina Kuroshima (黒島結菜)
Kentaro Sakaguchi (坂口健太郎)
Ken Mitsuishi (光石研)
Takashi Sasano (笹野高史)

Director

Toru Hosokawa (細川徹)

Japan release

November 11, 2016

Golden Orchestra is a movie about a classical music-loving female high school teacher and her adventures as leader of a local amateur orchestra whose members may have the highest average age in the world. The result is a load of laughs, tears, excitement and, yes, youthful spirit.

Starring

Juri Ueno (上野樹里)
Lily Franky (リリー・フランキー)
Tatsuya Fuji (藤竜也)

Director

Yuki Tanada (タナダユキ)

Japan release

October 8, 2016

34-year-old Aya leads a carefree life and living with a divorcee 20 years her senior, Mr. Ito, who works part-time in a supply center for school meals. One day Aya’s father suddenly appears at their door one day, and moves in to turn all of their lives upside down.

Starring

Shuhei Nomura (野村周平)
Kento Kaku (賀来賢人)
Kumiko Aso (麻生久美子)
Ken Mitsuishi (光石研)

Director

Keisuke Toyoshima (豊島圭介)

Japan release

July 9, 2016

Kiyotaka is a college student with a positive if not lackadaisical outlook on life. This summer, he resolves to get his driver’s license. And then while out one day, he gets hit by a car driven by a young yakuza, who turns out, to be a former high school classmate, Todoroki...

Starring

Tomokazu Miura (三浦友和)
Kaho Minami (南果歩)
Hirofumi Arai (新井浩文)
Ryuya Wakaba (若葉竜也)

Director

Masaaki Akahori (赤堀雅秋)

Japan release

June 18, 2016

An overbearing father. An eldest son, laid off and forsaken. A wife struggling with mental illness. A second son sentenced to death row after an indiscriminate murder. And a woman, opposed to capital punishment, who marries him in prison. One family in a shocking story.

Starring

Fumi Nikaido (二階堂ふみ)
Ren Osugi (大杉蓮)
Yoko Maki (真木よう子)
Kengo Kora (高良健吾)

Director

Gakuryu Ishii (石井岳龍)

Japan release

April 1, 2016

Although very far apart in age, a couple converse endlessly. At night, they sleep side by side like a contented married couple. But Akako is at times human and at other times a bright red goldfish, a shapeshifter whose true form is unknown to others. Disrupting the idyllic yet surreal relationship is the appearance of a ghost from the writer’s past, his former lover.

Starring

Tomoya Nakamura (中村倫也)
Hirofumi Arai (新井浩文)
Nozomi Sasaki (佐々木希)
Anne Higashide (杏)
Yoshino Kimura (木村佳乃
Yutaka Matsushige (松重豊)

Director

Show Yanagisawa (柳沢翔)

Japan release

March 5, 2016

A young man, abandoned by his mother as a child, discovers with the news of her death repressed memories of the past. The intersecting emotions of “family” members left behind unfold in a heartrending drama about feelings lost and found.

Starring

Bryerly Long (ブライアリー・ロング)
Hirofumi Arai (新井浩文)
Geminoid F (ジェミノイドF)
Nijiro Murakami (村上虹郎)

Directed

Koji Fukada (深田晃司)

Japan release

November 21, 2015

As Japan falls to ruin, an android recites poetry... to a gravely ill woman. A story about life and death for robot and human.

Starring

Satomi Kobayashi (小林聡美)
Nobuko Shibuya (渋谷昶子)
Takaya Kamikawa (上川隆也)

Directed

Akane Yamada (山田あかね)

Japan release

October 31, 2015

When I saw what reality was for dogs, I turned on my camera. A moving docudrama about nameless dogs and the people who save them.