30-year-old office lady Minako (Emiri Henmi) bolts from work every day at exactly 5 o’clock to rush over to the local dart bar, simply to be near her crush Shinozuka (Kazuki Kato). One night she plays darts against an expert and gets soundly thrashed and embarrassed in the match. Knowing that Shinozuka has aspirations of going pro, Minako makes the bold prediction that she’s going to win the national soft-tip dart competition. However, in order to beat her rival (Izumi Mori) it’s going to take a lot of practice in a relatively short amount of time.

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In Komori Seikatsu Kojo Club, character actor Arata Furuta plays Komori; an ordinary, middle-aged business executive who’s recently begun to get fed up with people walking all over him. At home his wife and child make him out to be an idiot and at work his subordinates don’t respect him. One day while on a commuter train he reaches his breaking point as a woman makes false accusations about being groped, causing Komori to have his first violent outburst. From that point on he’s filled with an overwhelming sense of justice and becomes determined to completely rid his community of all crime. Before long, enthusiastic supporters start to idolize him and his work.

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Here’s some info on the latest film by Eiji Uchida, Bokura no Hoteishiki. The story involves a misunderstanding which leaves a group of students trapped in their school in the middle of the night, surrounded by police. A shy train otaku named Shinpei (Yuichi Nakamura) has been working on a model train with his two best friends, Tomio (Hiroki Aiba) and Yuuki (Shun Kaneko), in preparation for a railroad club contest being held the next day. However, Shinpei is completely distracted. He finally worked up the courage to send a love letter to the girl the three train geeks collectively refer to as “Princess Tsubaki” (Aoi Nakabeppu), the most beautiful girl in their school.

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Train otaku Shinpei (Yuichi Nakamura), his two geeky friends, three jocks, and the school “princess” Tsubaki (Aoi Nakabeppu) are trapped in a school together as police, led by Tsubaki’s dad, mistake the boys for kidnappers. Meanwhile, the true culprit orchestrates this tense situation from afar.

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When some bank robbers are betrayed and left stranded by one of their own, they hijack an ordinary salaryman named Kenichi Asakura (Shinichi Tsutsumi) and force him to drive after the stolen loot. However, the uptight Asakura is unwilling to go over the speed limit or disobey the rules of the road, even when threatened with death.

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