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Academy Award-winner Tommy Lee Jones and Lost's Matthew Fox star in an epic drama. Tommy Lee Jones seems he was destined to play legendary U.S. General Douglas MacArthur in director Peter Webber's (Girl with a Pearl Earring) latest. The time is August 1945. Emperor Hirohito has surrendered to Allied Forces, and the decision on his fate falls upon MacArthur. He appoints his protege General Bonner Fellers (Fox), a leading expert on Japan, to head the investigation that will determine whether or not Hirohito should stand trial.

Season:
2013
Director:
Peter Webber
Cinematography:
Stuart Dryburgh
Cast:
Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune
Editor:
Chris Plummer
Producer:
Yoko Narahashi, Gary Foster, Eugene Nomura
Language:
English, Japanese with English Subtitles
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Alex Heffes

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We're scared to show this film...because that's exactly what she would want.

Season:
2012
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Norio Tsuruta
Cinematography:
Masashi Sasaki
Cast:
Mirai Shida, Haruna Kawaguchi
Editor:
Hiroshi Sunaga
Producer:
Shinya Furugori
Language:
Japanese with English subtitles
Genre:
Horror

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Part of Shorts Program 6: DocuNation.

Season:
2011
Director:
James Lefkowitz

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In one of the oldest neighborhoods of Tokyo, a secret waits to be discovered?

The Yanaka neighborhood of Tokyo is a valley of ancient monasteries and quiet parks pervaded by history. Here once stood the famous Five-Story Pagoda, which burned to the ground in 1957. Today, a group of young people tries to find filmed records of the past, their grail being footage of the pagoda?s burning.

Season:
2010
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Atsushi Funahashi
Cinematography:
Noriyuki Mizuguchi
Cast:
Yuki Nomura, Mayu Sato, Katsuhiro Kato, Miyoko Ogawa
Editor:
Atsushi Funahashi
Producer:
Koji Ichihashi, Atsushi Funahashi
Language:
Japanese with English subtitles
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Janek Duszynski

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Inako is a young woman, leading a lonely life in a contemporary Japanese town, who finds work checking natural water sources for her uncle's company, the local government representative. She is often visited by her widowed mother, who frets over the upcoming ceremony to honor her father's death, and by her other insistent, matchmaking relatives. In the midst of this, Inako finds solace hiking through the countryside, creating her own experiments. That's where she meets Tamamiza, someone who shares her interests and who may provide an escape from her dreary isolation.

Season:
2003
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Nagao Naoki
Cinematography:
Fujii Tamotsu
Cast:
Tadano Miako, Matsuzaka Keiko, Toyokawa Etsushi
Editor:
Nagao Naoki
Producer:
Inoue Hiromichi
Language:
Japanese with English subtitles

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Ohara Koji is no ordinary Rookie. He is the Hanshin Tigers' secret weapon. Who would have thought that after two major shoulder injuries, 32-year-old Ohara could become a national sensation? Fans of the Tigers haven't a clue, however, since their favorite pitcher is the man with the mask-Mr. Rookie, Ohara's alter ego, a secret that is kept from his fans, his family, and his employer. 

Season:
2003
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Satoshi Isaka
Cinematography:
Tetsuro Sano
Cast:

Kazushige Nagashima, Mayu Tsuruta, Jun Kunimura, Mirai Yanamoto, Tamao Sato, Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Editor:
Junichi Ki
Producer:
Kei Ijichi
Language:
Japanese with English subtitles

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Haixa works the fields in Yan'an, a poor village in remote China, where her parents, who were relocated to Yan'an during the Cultural Revolution, abandoned her as a newborn 28 years ago. Determined to find her parents, she enlists the help of Huang Yuing, an accused counter-revolutionary, who was also "sent down" to Yan'an. Huang Yuing, who has still not fully recovered from the painful experience of being denounced by the Red Guard, agrees to help Haixa on her journey to uncover the truth of her life.

Season:
2003
Director:
Ikeya Kaoru
Cinematography:
Fukui Masaharu
Editor:
Yoshioka Masaharu
Producer:
Kwon Yang Ja
Language:
Japanese and Chinese with English subtitles

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How far would you go to retrieve what is rightfully yours? What price would you pay? And whose help would you accept? Making "friends" with the Devil has a terrible price. In the new world of gangsters and politics, it is always best to know with whom you're dealing, what they're offering, and what it is they really want. Composer-musician Pavel is no exception to the established rule that artists live life on the edge.

Season:
2002
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Dimitar Petkov
Cinematography:
Christo Bakalov
Cast:
Samuel Fintzi, Stefka Yanorova, Anna Papadopolu
Producer:
Dimitar Petkov
Language:
Bulgarian with English subtitles

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Director Junichi Mori employs a thoughtful hand in this stunningly lyrical first feature about healing scars from the past, finding love, and receiving second chances. Teru works at a laundromat and has seen plenty of people try to wash away both the stains on their clothes and the stains on their past. Teru is a pure-hearted, twenty-year old who dons a knit cap to cover the scar from a childhood accident that left him in intellectual stagnancy. Trapped in perpetual childhood, he watches his grandmother's coin laundry shop, keeping up with a band of interesting and comedic regulars.

Season:
2002
Director:
Junichi Mori
Cinematography:
Kozo Shibasaki
Cast:
Yosuke Kubozuka, Koyuki, Takashi Naito
Producer:
Toru Horibe, Chikahiro Ando, Keiichiro Moriya
Language:
Japanese with English subtitles

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At 17-years-old, Naomi is a typical teenage girl of modern Nagoya, with short dyed hair and cell phone attached. When Naomi's parents separate, she is sent to the country to work in her aunt's hotel. There she reacquaints herself with an aging relative, Mrs. Koide, of whom she had been very fond as a little girl. Mrs. Koide, however, suffering from Alzheimer's, doesn't remember Naomi. Yet they find they are more alike than they are different-each a mirror of the other. The growing affection between the two characters is gentle and exquisite, yet determinedly and unsentimentally portrayed.

Season:
2002
Director:
John Williams
Cinematography:
Yoshinobu Hayano
Cast:
Maho Ukai, Yoshie Minami, Tsutomu Niwa
Producer:
John Williams
Language:
Japanese with English subtitles
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