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Yuhka MATOI（cell: +81-70-4507-0698）
Kohei MIYAMOTO（cell: +81-70-4936-5201）
NEW TITLES
©2022 "Phases of the Moon" Film Partners
PHASES OF THE MOON
(Original title:Tsuki no Michikake 月の満ち欠け)
- Production Year
- 2022
- Release Date
- 2022 Winter
- Running Time
- 128min.
- Genre
- Drama / Romance
- Director
- Ryuichi HIROKI(廣木隆一)
- Cast
- Yo Oizumi 大泉洋 (I AM A HERO, KIBA: The Fangs of Fiction)
Kasui Arimura 有村架純 (Loved Like a Flower Bouquet, Flying Colors)
Ren Meguro 目黒 蓮 (Snow Man) (Takizawa Kabuki Zero 2020 The Movie)
Ko Shibasaki 柴咲コウ (La Maison de Himiko, DORORO, Suspect X)
Like the moon, I shall die, and be reborn... This moving romance tells the story of transcendent love between a man and a woman over several decades, and the vicissitudes of fate. An epic story of star-crossed love affair and destiny, traveling through generations.
©2022 "My Boyfriend in Orange" Film Partners ©T/K
MY BOYFRIEND IN ORANGE
(Original title:Moe Kare wa Orange-iro モエカレはオレンジ色)
- Production Year
- 2022
- Release Date
- July 8, 2022
- Running Time
- 97min.
- Genre
- Drama / Romance
- Director
- Shosuke MURAKAMI(村上正典)
- Cast
- Hikaru IWAMOTO (岩本照(Snow Man))
Meru NUKUMI (生見愛瑠)
A love story between a lonely high school girl and a hot firefighter!
©2020 "The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai" Film Partners
THE PASS: LAST DAYS OF THE SAMURAI
(Original title:Touge Saigo no Samurai 峠 最後のサムライ)
- Production Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- June 17, 2022
- Running Time
- 114min.
- Genre
- Drama / Samurai
- Director
- Takashi KOIZUMI(小泉堯史)
- Cast
- Koji YAKUSHO 役所広司 (The Last Samurai, The Eel)
Takako MATSU 松たか子 (MASQUERADE HOTEL, The Little House)
Tatsuya NAKADAI 仲代達矢 (The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi, The Human Condition)
A beautiful samurai film from Takashi KOIZUMI (Assistant to Akira Kurosawa, “After the Rain”) about a samurai who lead his country to fight against the new regime with honor and dignity. The film may provide some answers to the question, “What is a Samurai?”, “What can we learn from them” in the modern era today. In order to present the texture of a samurai period, the film was mostly shot in 35mm.
© 2022 Wedding High Film Partners
WEDDING HIGH
(Original title:WEDDING HIGH ウェディング・ハイ)
- Production Year
- 2021
- Release Date
- March 12, 2022
- Running Time
- 117min.
- Genre
- Comedy / Drama
- Director
- Akiko OHKU(大九明子)
- Cast
- Ryoko SHINOHARA（篠原涼子）(The House Where The Mermaid Sleeps, BENTO HARASSMENT)
Tomoya NAKAMURA（中村倫也）(Gone Wednesday, KIBA: THE FANGS OF FICTION)
Nagisa SEKIMIZU（関水渚）(The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess-)
Takanori IWATA（岩田剛典）(EVERGREEN LOVE, The Master Plan)
Osamu MUKAI（向井理）(Paradise Kiss, Her Granddaughter)
The best day of their lives is interrupted by the unthinkable! It’s the beginning of a hectic wedding party.
© 2022 "DAIKAIJU" Film Partners
WHAT TO DO WITH THE DEAD KAIJU?
(Original title:Dai Kaiju no Atsoshimatsu 大怪獣のあとしまつ)
- Production Year
- 2022
- Release Date
- February 4, 2022
- Running Time
- 115min.
- Genre
- Comedy / Drama / Monster
- Director
- Satoshi Miki(三木聡)
- Cast
- Ryosuke Yamada（山田涼介）(The Miracles of the Namiya General Store, Assassination Classroom)
Tao Tsuchiya（土屋太鳳）(Food Luck, THE 8-YEAR ENGAGEMENT)
A different kind of KAIJU (Monster) film about the struggles on how to solve the issue of cleaning up a dead gigantic KAIJU.
©2021 “The Unnameable Dance” Film Partners
THE UNNAMEABLE DANCE
(Original title:Nazukeyononai Odori 名付けようのない踊り)
- Production Year
- 2021
- Release Date
- January 28, 2022
- Running Time
- 115min.
- Genre
- Documentary
- Director
- Isshin INUDO(犬童一心)
- Cast
- Dancer Min Tanaka 田中泯 (The Twilight Samurai (’02), Hokusai (’21))
Min TANAKA, 76
This unique dancer and actor has reconstructed on film some of his notable performances in theaters and on streets around the world. The dancer's past and present mingle in the dance, with all he sees caught up in that groove.
Tokyo, Hiroshima, Ehime, France, Portugal, the film records dances in more than 30 locations.
LIBRARY TITLES
©2021 Kozue Amano/MAG Garden・ARIAcompany
ARIA THE BENEDIZIONE
(Original title:ARIA THE BENEDIZIONE)
- Production Year
- 2021
- Release Date
- December 3, 2021
- Running Time
- 60min.
- Genre
- Animation
- Director
- Junichi SATO(佐藤順一) / Takahiro NATORI(名取孝浩)
- Cast
- Chiwa Saito (斎藤千和）
Junko Minagawa（皆川 純子）
Mai Nakahara（中原 麻衣）
ARIA is a popular TV and feature anime series which develop a new genre "healing" anime. ARIA THE BENEDIZIONE will be the third feature film from the smash hit series.
©2021"CUBE"FilmPartners
CUBE
(Original title:CUBE Ichido Haittara Saigo CUBE 一度入ったら、最後)
- Production Year
- 2021
- Release Date
- Oct 22, 2021
- Running Time
- 108min.
- Genre
- Suspense / Thriller
- Director
- Yasuhiko SHIMIZU (清水康彦)
- Cast
- Masaki Suda 菅田将暉 (Gintama, Destruction Babies)
Anne Watanabe 杏 (Midsummer's Equation)
1997 marked the release of director Vincenzo Natali’s “Cube,” a forerunner of the close-quarters suspense genre. Today, the film boasts an enduring cult following around the world. This autumn, an array of Japan’s foremost acting talent will feature in the first-ever remake of “Cube” to receive the blessing of Natali himself.
©2021 "IN THE WAKE" Film Partners
IN THE WAKE
(Original title:Mamorarenakatta Monotachi-e 護られなかった者たちへ)
- Production Year
- 2021
- Release Date
- October 1, 2021
- Running Time
- 135min.
- Genre
- Drama / Suspense
- Director
- Takahisa ZEZE(瀬々敬久)
- Cast
- Takeru SATOH (佐藤健)
Hiroshi ABE (阿部寛)
And so, a murder occurs on the ten-year anniversary...
A string of murders by starvation. Hidden behind the bizarre case is a tragic truth, complexly intertwined with crime, punishment, and justice.
CLASSIC TITLES
PALE FLOWER
(Original title:Kawaita Hana 乾いた花)
- Production Year
- 1964
- Running Time
- 96min.
- Genre
- Action / Drama / Suspense
- Director
- Masahiro SHINODA(篠田正浩)
- Cast
- Ryo IKEBE
Mariko KAGA
Takashi FUJIKI
Chisako HARA
Koji NAKAHARA
A masterpiece from Mashiro Shinoda which represents the Shochiku New Wave in the 1960s is remastered in 4K.
GONZA THE SPEARMAN
(Original title:Yari no Gonza 鑓の権三)
- Production Year
- 1986
- Running Time
- 126min.
- Genre
- Drama / Romance
- Director
- Masahiro SHINODA(篠田正浩)
- Cast
- Hiromi GO, Shima IWASHITA, Shohei HINO, Misako TANAKA, Haruko KATO
LOVE UNDER THE CRUCIFIX
(Original title:Ogin-sama お吟さま)
- Production Year
- 1962
- Release Date
- June 3, 1962
- Running Time
- 102min.
- Genre
- Drama / Samurai
- Director
- Kinuyo Tanaka(田中絹代)
- Cast
- Ineko Arima（有馬稲子）
Tatsuya Nakadai（仲代達矢）
Ganjiro Nakamura（中村鴈治郎）
Pioneer of female directors in Japan, Kinuyo Tanaka’s 6th and final film.
DEMON POND
(Original title:Yashagaike 夜叉ヶ池)
- Production Year
- 1979
- Release Date
- Oct 20, 1979
- Running Time
- 124min.
- Genre
- Drama / Fantasy
- Director
- Masahiro SHINODA(篠田正浩)
- Cast
- Tamasaburo Bando 坂東玉三郎 (Top Kabuki actor, Tenshu Monogatari)
Go Kato 加藤剛 (The Castle of Sand, BANDITS VS. SAMURAI SQUADRON)
After 40 years, “DEMON POND” (1979) comes back to life by digitally remastered in 4K with the support of Masahiro Shinoda and Tamasaburo Bando.