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The secrets we reveal in the embrace of a stranger.

Season:
2020
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Takehiro Shindo
Cinematography:
Shigeru Tajima
Cast:
Yosuke Minokawa, Aino Kuribayashi, Iku Arai, Shinji Ozeki, Shugo Nagashima, Ikkei Watanabe
Editor:
Genta Tamaki
Producer:
Akiko Misaizu,Tsutomu Iwamoto, Kaneyoshi Suzuki, Tomotake Matsumoto
Language:
Japanese
Genre:
Comedy, Drama
Music:
Seiji Momoi

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Love penetrates the heart but doesn't satisfy physical desire. A love triangle is called a Trinity for these on-the-edge artists. Mijika encourages her girlfriend, Tomoko to lose her virginity in more ways than one. Tomoko, a germaphobic basket case, blushes, but is inspired by her new ticket-taker position at a porn film theatre. Trouble ensues when the third wheel confesses his eight-year-old love for Mijika. Tomoko's obsessive soap lathering may slip away just long enough to save Mijika and her relationship.

Season:
2019
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Hisashi Saito
Cinematography:
Isao Ishii
Cast:
Canon Nawata, En Nakagami
Editor:
Yuriko Hosono
Producer:
Naoya Narita
Language:
Japanese
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Yoshifumi Ato

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With test-writing, the feeling of how a pen writes is tested out in the corner of a piece of paper. Enchanted by these unconscious art pieces, the number one collector of 'test-writings' in the world, Hiroki Terai, has gathered over 20,000 pieces together from his best-known work to complete an MV in collaboration with RYLL from RAM WIRE! Part Of Shorts Program 6

Season:
2017
Director:
Eri Kawaguchi
Producer:
Hiroki Terai, Masayuki Kusaka

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When a Tokyo pickup girl steals her John's wallet and is caught in the act, a woman, who secretly investigates the sexual behavior of couples while hiding, may have her cover blown. Part Of Shorts Program 5

Season:
2017
Director:
Dmitry Torgovitsky
Cast:
Akiko Hiroshima

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Music: the universal language. No matter from what corner of the world you come, or color of your skin, or language you speak, at the heart of every culture lies the basis of what makes their culture: music. The Listen Project is an ongoing journey and ever-growing library of intimate and rarely seen performances of artists from every corner of the globe, as they attempt to answer the unanswerable: "What would we put into a time capsule that will be opened in 1000 years?" A narrative that spans from the beginning of time is spun through different cultures.

Season:
2017
Director:
Garry Bassin
Cinematography:
Attila Csoboth
Producer:
Garry Bassin, Tomoko Yamaguchi
Language:
Various with English subtitles
Genre:
Documentary

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The birth of the universe, and the origin of all creation - humans invented tools, discovered fire and painted murals in dark caves. Plays before the feature film Until 20

Season:
2016
Director:
Takeshi Nagata, Kazue Monno
Cinematography:
Takeshi Nagata
Editor:
Takeshi Nagata
Producer:
TOCHKA
Genre:
Animation
Music:
Atsushi Yamaji

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MOOM - Every forgotten object has a memory with its previous owner still attached. This is a story of Moom, one of those memories stuck in this world. One day, Moom meets another memory just like him. Plays before the feature film The Great Sasuke

Season:
2016
Director:
Robert Kondo, Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi
Editor:
Bradley Furnish
Producer:
Tomohiko Ishii, Genki Kawamura
Language:
English
Genre:
Animation
Music:
Zach Johnson, Matteo Roberts

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Exciting adventures in a zombie-powered Steampunk world. Ever wonder what the world would be like if the British Empire had been built upon a working class of reanimated corpses? Welcome to The Empire of Corpses. Director Ryotaro Makihara delivers a highly stylized, hold-onto-the-seat-of-your-pants, modern anime adventure where corpse reanimation technology is so successful that it threatens to topple the living population. John Watson, a brilliant medical student, has been invited to join the UK's exclusive secret society to unearth the memoirs of Victor Frankenstein himself.

Season:
2016
Director:
Ryotaro Makihara
Cast:
Yoshimasa Hosoya, Ayumu Murase, Taiten Kusunoki, Kana Hanazawa, Daiki Yamashita, Shin-ichiro Miki
Editor:
Hida Aya
Producer:
Noriko Ozaki, George Wada, Takashi Yoshizawa
Language:
Japanese
Genre:
Animation
Music:
Yoshihiro Ike

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Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai) gives a masterful performance in director Lee San-il's poetic Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning Unforgiven.

Season:
2014
Director:
Lee Sang-il
Cinematography:
Norimichi Kasamatsu
Cast:
Ken Watanabe, Akira Emoto, Koichi Sato, Yuya Yagira, Shioli Kutsuna, Eiko Koike
Editor:
Tsuyoshi Imai
Producer:
Yuji Ishida, Suguru Kubota, Shinichi Takahashi
Language:
Japanese with English Subtitles
Genre:
Action
Music:
Taro Iwashiro

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How many people does it take to arm a bomb? Ever have a day where nothing goes right? Well... that's Clara's life! But one day, even her life gets worse, when her ex-boyfriend implants her with a time bomb! If that wasn't enough, it is wirelessly connected with a metal bracelet, which will trigger the bomb if the wearer does not touch her every thirty minutes. When Tel, a useless detective, foolishly puts on the bracelet and activates the bomb, he instantly ties his own life to Clara's.

Season:
2013
Premiere status:
WORLD PREMIERE
Director:
moichi
Cinematography:
Tomomi Ito, moichi
Cast:
Minoru Teruya, Bunngyou Dann, Tomoko Hatori, Kai Isomura, Yoshinari Shimizu, Hiroki Noguchi, Satomi Watanabe, Rao Onodera, Kenichi Irizuki
Editor:
moichi
Producer:
moichi
Language:
Japanese with English Subtitles
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Yuki Fukumorita
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