A girl considers committing suicide on an island. A murderer on the run from the law happens upon her and violent sexual impulses quickly take over. Somewhere between artsy student film and simple sexploitation,…
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A prostitute gives birth to twins—the result of an affair with a powerful marquis named Katsuragawa (Eimei Esumi). Because twins are considered a bad omen, it is decided that they should be separated…
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One evening a man on a train suddenly starts to cry as five other passengers look on. In the group are a young man (Shunsuke Daito), an office worker (Naho Toda), the train conductor (Yoshihiko Hakamada),…
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Here’s the first teaser for Nakumonka, the second collaboration between Nobuo Mizuta and screenwriter Kankuro Kudo—the first being 2007’s Maiko Haaan!!!. As Tokyograph reported back in…
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Here’s the full trailer for Nakumonka, the second collaboration between Nobuo Mizuta and screenwriter Kankuro Kudo—the first being 2007’s Maiko Haaan!!!. Plot: Abandoned by their father…
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Full trailer for Kentaro Otani’s live-action adaptation of Nana. Based on the popular Ai Yazawa manga, Nana tells the story of two girls who cross paths on their way to Tokyo and become close…
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Taking place shortly after the end of the first movie, Nana 2 focuses on the two protaganists love lives. Nana Komatsu is caught in a love triangle between Trapnest’s bassist Takumi and the Black…
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The first teaser has been released for Kazuya Konaka’s Nanase Futatabi, an adaptation of a science fiction novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Paprika) which was first announced…
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A new trailer has been released for Kazuya Konaka’s Nanase Futatabi, an adaptation of a science fiction novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Paprika). This was originally slated…
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Trailer for Naomi Kawase's Nanayo, which was released in Japan on November 1, 2008. Plot: A woman named Saiko (Kyoko Hasegawa) has a some sort of miscommunication with her taxi driver while in Thailand…
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When track athlete Yusuke Iki (Haruma Miura) was a child his father died saving a girl named Naoko Shinomiya (Juri Ueno). One day the two are brought together again when she is named manager of his track…
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Here’s the trailer for Natural Woman, a new film adaptation of Rieko Matsuura’s 1987 novel and the directorial debut of veteran gravure photographer Seiichi Nomura. Ayano Oami stars as Yoko,…
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Asmik Ace Entertainment has released the trailer for Shi Shirakawa’s NECK, an upcoming horror/comedy based on a story by Otaro Maijo which was originally printed in “esora” vol. 6. Adapted…
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Trailer for Tatsuhiko Takimoto's Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge, which premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 25, 2007. Plot: Chronic underachiever Yosuke (Hayato Ichihara) has…
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Three criminals hold a group of people hostage in a hospital as investigators try to figure out what their motives are. The story unfolds from several different perspectives until their motivations are…
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Here’s the very TV drama-y first teaser for Hidekazu Matsuda’s The Negotiator: The Movie, a theatrically-released continuation of TV Asahi’s highly-rated “Koshonin -…
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The official website for Hidekazu Matsuda’s The Negotiator: The Movie has been updated with a full trailer that features some of the actors that were announced as co-stars back at the end of…
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Trailer for Yasuo Inoue’s 2005 film The Neighbor No. Thirteen. Plot: After being bullied by Toru Akai (Hirofumi Arai) for years as a child, Juzo Murasaki (Shun Oguri) now lives in the apartment directly…
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A former cat-model named Taisho that runs away from home and gets taken in by a ramen shop owner. The man later becomes his mentor as he trains to become a ramen chef himself. Kazuki Kato plays a customer…
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A strict personnel manager at an IT company named Onizuka (Ren Osugi) finds a helpless stray kitten and caring for it changes his outlook on life.
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