Japanese

28th Tokyo International Film Festival

Films

184 results

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All Three of Us

NOUS TROIS OU RIEN

Drama Comedy

Set in a small village in southern Iran. Hibat was born as one of many children in a large family...

Director:Kheiron

Competition/Asian Premiere

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Born To be Blue

Drama Romance Music

“Born to be Blue” is a re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's life in the 1960s. When Chet (wit...

Director:Robert Budreau

Competition/Asian Premiere

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Cold of Kalandar

Kalandar Soğuğu

Drama

Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in Black Sea. He earns his life bree...

Director:Mustafa Kara

Competition/World Premiere

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Family Film

Rodinný film

Drama

A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets cau...

Director:Olmo Omerzu

Competition/Asian Premiere

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FOUJITA

Drama

FOUJITA is Director Kohei Oguri’s first work filmed partially outside of his native countr...

Director:Kohei Oguri

Competition/World Premiere

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Full Contact

Drama Action

“Full Contact” is a contemporary tale of a man who accidentally bombs a wrong target through a re...

Director:David Verbeek

Competition/Asian Premiere

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The Girl's House

Khaneye Dokhtar

Drama

Tomorrow is Samira's wedding ceremony and Bahar and Parisa are shopping excitedly. But at night s...

Director:Shahram Shah Hosseini

Competition/International Premiere

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God Willing

Se Dio Vuole

Drama Comedy

Tommaso is a respected heart surgeon, but rather arrogant, always bragging about his brilliance. ...

Director:Edoardo Falcone

Competition/International Premiere

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The Inerasable

Drama Horror Suspense

The film The Inerasable is based on a horror novel which earned Fuyumi Ono, famous for her...

Director:Yoshihiro Nakamura

Competition/World Premiere

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Land of Mine

Under Sandet

Drama Suspense

Young German soldiers are sent to remove land mines along the Danish coast after WWII. Though onc...

Director:Martin Pieter Zandvliet

Competition/Asian Premiere

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A Monster with a Thousand Heads

Un Monstruo de mil cabezas

Drama Suspense

A sick man takes a sudden turn for the worse. His wife, who is caring for him at home, hurriedly ...

Director:Rodrigo Plá

Competition/Asian Premiere

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My Original Dream

我的青春期

Drama Youth Drama

Teenager Zhao Shanshan begins to fall secretly in love with school beauty Li Chunxia, but a bully...

Director:Hao Jie

Competition/World Premiere

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Nise - The Heart of Madness

Nise - O Coração da Loucura

Drama

Dr. Nise da Silveira arrives in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and ref...

Director:Roberto Berliner

Competition/International Premiere

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Roukli

Roukli

Drama

Some young people are living a self-contained life in a secluded spot, when the calm is broken by...

Director:Veiko Õunpuu

Competition/Asian Premiere

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Sayonara

Drama

The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative ...

Director:Koji Fukada

Competition/World Premiere

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Snap

SA-NAP

Romance Youth Drama

Pueng, daughter of a military Colonel, has planned to spend her married life with Mann, a young L...

Director:Kongdej Jaturanrasmee

Competition/World Premiere

[10/31 19:45 SCREEN7] Tokyo GradPrix

Director:

Competition

[10/31 20:05 SCREEN3] Tokyo GradPrix

Director:

Competition

The Audience Award Winning Film

Director:

Competition

WOWOW Viewer's Choice Award Winning Film

Preliminary lotteries will be held to invite 100 guests from subscribed viewers of WOWOW's broadc...

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Competition

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The Actor

Drama Comedy Romance

Takuji Kameoka is a 37-year-old bachelor whose occupation is a “miscellaneous actor”. His only in...

Director:Satoko Yokohama

Asian Future/World Premiere

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The Crescent Moon

Mencari Hilal

Drama

A journey of father and son. Mahmud, an Islamic conservative, and Heli, a young liberal, are push...

Director:Ismail Basbeth

Asian Future/International Premiere

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If Only

Kaash

Romance Youth Drama

Frustrated with his dwindling relationship, Aadil, a dreamy young photographer, spontaneously set...

Director:Ishaan Nair

Asian Future/World Premiere

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The Island Funeral

Maha Samut Lae Susaan

Drama Suspense

Laila sets out on a road trip to Pattani, one of the three southernmost Thai provinces, to visit ...

Director:Pimpaka Towira

Asian Future/World Premiere

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The Kids

小孩

Drama Romance Youth Drama

Bao-li has just started 8th grade, when he comes to the rescue of Jia-jia, an older girl he immed...

Director:Sunny Yu

Asian Future/International Premiere

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Lazy Hazy Crazy

同班同學

Romance Erotic Drama Youth Drama

Tracy and Chloe have been best friends since they were eight years old, while Alice befriended th...

Director:Luk Yee-sum

Asian Future/World Premiere

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Shoot Me in the Heart

내 심장을 쏴라

Drama Youth Drama

One night, Soo-myung and Seung-min meet for the first time at an asylum. Soo-myung has been in a ...

Director:Mun Che-yong

Asian Future/International Premiere

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A Simple Goodbye

告别

Drama

This film expresses feeling in a highly obscure way. It presents a seemingly desultory time perio...

Director:Degena Yun

Asian Future/World Premiere

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Stair Dad

Merdiven Baba

Drama Comedy

Mr. Fazlı is recognized as an inadequate and ineffective person by everyone, including his family...

Director:Hasan Tolga Pulat

Asian Future/International Premiere

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Young Love Lost

少年巴比伦

Comedy Romance Youth Drama

In the latter part of the last century, Lu Xiaolu has just graduated from technical school and is...

Director:Xiang Guoqiang

Asian Future/International Premiere

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areno - the wilderness

Drama Erotic Drama

“We have to kill him”, the wife and her lover thought. When three childhood friends reunite, it d...

Director:Michio Koshikawa

Japanese Splash/World Premiere

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Lowlife Love

Drama Comedy Erotic Drama

Tetsuo is a lowlife. As a film director, he had an indie hit many years back, but refuses to go a...

Director:Eiji Uchida

Japanese Splash/World Premiere

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Ken and Kazu

Drama Action

Hiroshi Shoji's feature directorial debut, based on his eponymous 2011 short. Partners in crime K...

Director:Hiroshi Shoji

Japanese Splash/World Premiere

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Their Distance

Romance

The latest unconventional romance from Rikiya Imaizumi (Sad Tea) traces the intricate conn...

Director:Rikiya Imaizumi

Japanese Splash/World Premiere

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Spring Has Come

Drama

Riko, who will begin university in Tokyo in spring, journeys there from Hiroshima in February wit...

Director:Ryohei Yoshino

Japanese Splash/World Premiere

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Her Father, My Lover

Drama Comedy Romance

“You're a sicko”. University student Taeko is appalled by her kooky friend Maya's attraction to h...

Director:Kenji Yamauchi

Japanese Splash/World Premiere

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7Days

Drama

In a farming village north of Tokyo, a man lives with his aging grandmother and works day after d...

Director:Hirobumi Watanabe

Japanese Splash/World Premiere

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Tokyo Sunrise

Drama Youth Drama

Ren has trouble accepting the death of Kaoru, his best friend growing up. When he finds a paintin...

Director:Ryutaro Nakagawa

Japanese Splash/World Premiere

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[10/22 13:30 SCREEN1] The Walk

Drama

Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man - Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) -...

Director:Robert Zemeckis

Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere

[10/22 13:10 SCREEN2] The Walk

Drama

Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man - Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) -...

Director:Robert Zemeckis

Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere

[10/22 13:50 SCREEN8] The Walk

Drama

Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man - Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) -...

Director:Robert Zemeckis

Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere

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[10/31 14:30 SCREEN2] Closing Ceremony(Live Relay) + TERMINAL

Drama

The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is no...

Director:Tetsuo Shinohara

Special Screenings

[10/31 14:30 SCREEN7] Closing Ceremony + TERMINAL

Drama

The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is no...

Director:Tetsuo Shinohara

Special Screenings

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EVEREST

Drama Action

Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highe...

Director:Baltasar Kormákur

Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere

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WOMAN IN GOLD

Drama

Oscar-winner Helen Mirren's latest starring film. An elderly Jewish lady, Maria Altman, who lives...

Director:Simon Curtis

Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere

MOZU

Drama Action Suspense

The hard-boiled MOZU police series by author Go Osaka was made into a TV series first, and now, d...

Director:Eiichiro Hasumi

Special Screenings/World Premiere

You're Not You

Drama

Hilary Swank, two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner for Million Dollar Baby and Bo...

Director:George C. Wolfe

Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere

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SEASONS

LES SAISONS

Documentary

Directors of Oceans create a new nature documentary. The orbit of the earth changed and th...

Director:Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud

Special Screenings/World Premiere

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LIFE

Drama Youth Drama

In the 1950s James Dean brought "real acting" to Hollywood and became a legend. The talented phot...

Director:Anton Corbijn

Special Screenings/Japanese Premiere

AJIN: DEMI‐HUMAN-Compel

Action Suspense Animation

Ajin, an undying new form of human, are hunted mercilessly by the Japanese government. The hit co...

Director:Hiroyuki Seshita (Supervising Director) / Hiroaki Ando (Director)

Panorama/World Premiere

Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live!

Documentary

Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live! follows Isabella Rossellini, as she embarks on a w...

Director:Jody Shapiro

Panorama/Asian Premiere

INGRID BERGMAN - IN HER OWN WORDS

JAG ÄR INGRID

Documentary

Year 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Ingrid Bergman's birth. Taking Hollywood's golden age by...

Director:Stig Björkman

Panorama/Japanese Premiere

WE ARE Perfume -WORLD TOUR 3rd DOCUMENT

Music Documentary

WE ARE Perfume -WORLD TOUR 3rd DOCUMENT is a first documentary film of Perfume, a Japanese...

Director:Taketoshi Sado

Panorama/World Premiere

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Go! Princess Pretty Cure the Movie Go! Go!! Gorgeous Triple Feature!!!

Animation

The movie this time around is the first for Pretty Cure: Go! Go!! Gorgeous Triple Feature!!! It'...

Director:Akifumi Zako, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Yukio Kaizawa

Panorama/World Premiere

[10/29 19:50 WALD9 Theater2] Garakowa -Restore The World-

Drama Si-Fi/Fantasy Animation

An animated film adaptation of the winning entry of the first Animeka Taisho Award. Brilliant ray...

Director:Masashi Ishihama

Panorama/World Premiere

[10/29 22:00 WALD9 Theater2] Garakowa -Restore The World-

Drama Si-Fi/Fantasy Animation

An animated film adaptation of the winning entry of the first Animeka Taisho Award. Brilliant ray...

Director:Masashi Ishihama

Panorama/World Premiere

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KAMPAI! FOR THE LOVE OF SAKE

Documentary

Sake, Japan's national beverage, has been getting global popularity over the recent years. Brewed...

Director:Mirai Konishi

Panorama/Asian Premiere

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FOODIES

Documentary

We follow some of the most influential international food fanatics on their world tours to Michel...

Director:Thomas Jackson, Charlotte Landelius, Henrik Stockare

Panorama/Japanese Premiere

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BIKUU THE MOVIE

Drama Si-Fi/Fantasy Action

Since its first telecast in 2005, the GARO franchise became a smash hit content and established a...

Director:Akira Ohashi

Panorama/World Premiere

Cherry Blossom Memories

Youth Drama Music

“Sakura no Ame” is a song viewed more than 4.2 million times in “niconico” video sharing website ...

Director:Atsushi Ueda

Panorama/World Premiere

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Joe,Tomorrow–20 years with JoichiroTatsuyoshi, a Legendary Boxing Champ

Documentary

This documentary film directed by Junji Sakamoto (debut in boxing movie Dotsuitarunen),fol...

Director:Junji Sakamoto

Panorama/World Premiere

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Dark Places

Suspense

The film adaptation of Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn's new thriller with Charlize Theron,...

Director:Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Panorama/Japanese Premiere

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Chieri and Cherry (Screened together with Cheburashka Goes to the Zoo )

Drama Si-Fi/Fantasy Animation

Chieri is a 6th grade elementary school girl. Her father died when she was little, so she lives w...

Director:Makoto Nakamura

Panorama

Something Like Something Like It

Drama Romance Youth Drama

Shinden is an overly serious rakugo comic storyteller apprentice. He encounters his senior, Shint...

Director:Taiichi Sugiyama

Panorama/World Premiere

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PADDINGTON

Drama Comedy

A bear called Paddington comes to London to find a home from deep in the jungle. The kind Brown f...

Director:Paul King

Panorama/Japanese Premiere

Beasts of No Nation

Drama

From director Cary Joji Fukunaga, and set in West Africa, the story of Agu, a young villager, enj...

Director:Cary Joji Fukunaga

Panorama/Asian Premiere

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LAST KNIGHTS

Drama Action

This film took five years to be completed as Hollywood debut by Kazuaki Kiriya, the director who ...

Director:Kazuaki Kiriya

Panorama/Japanese Premiere

HE NAMED ME MALALA

Documentary

HE NAMED ME MALALA is an intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Talib...

Director:Davis Guggenheim

Panorama

21 Nights with Pattie

21 NUITS AVEC PATTIE

Drama Comedy

21 Nights with Pattie, directed by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu.

In high summer, Caroline, a Parisian wife and mother, arrives in a small village in southern Fran...

Director:Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu

World Focus/Asian Premiere

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The Academy of the Muses

L'Accademia delle Muse

Drama Documentary

On returning from class, a professor is questioned by his wife, who distrusts his pedagogic proje...

Director:José Luis Guerin

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

Blood of My Blood

Sangue Del Mio Sangue

Drama

Federico, a young priest, is summoned by the 17th-Century Inquisition to a convent prison in Bobb...

Director:Marco Bellocchio

World Focus/Asian Premiere

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Body

Cialo

Drama

Poland, nowadays. The intertwined stories of a criminal prosecutor, who sees dead bodies in his e...

Director:Małgorzata Szumowska

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

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Cosmos

Drama Comedy

Witold has just failed his law exams, and Fuchs has recently quit his job at a Parisian fashion l...

Director:Andrzej Zulawski

World Focus/Asian Premiere

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The High Sun

ZVIZDAN

Drama Romance

Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villag...

Director:Dalibor Matanić

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

In Jackson Heights

Documentary

Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse commu...

Director:Frederick Wiseman

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

Land and Shade

La tierra y la sombra

Drama

Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He redisco...

Director:César Augusto Acevedo

World Focus/Asian Premiere

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SCHNEIDER VS BAX

SCHNEIDER VS BAX

Drama Comedy Suspense

Schneider, a hit man, gets a call from Mertens on the morning of his birthday. He has a last-minu...

Director:Alex van Warmerdam

World Focus/Asian Premiere

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Tangerine

Drama Comedy

It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boy...

Director:Sean Baker

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

The Terrible Privacy of Mr. Sim

La vie très privée de Monsieur Sim

Drama Comedy

François Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to ...

Director:Michel Leclerc

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

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Victoria

Action Suspense

Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four young Berlin guys outside a club. Sonne and his g...

Director:Sebastian Schipper

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

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The Ark of Mr. Chow

少年班

Youth Drama

On September 3, 1998, the first day of school. 22 talented prodigies arrive at a prestigious scho...

Director:Xiao Yang

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

Frenzy

Abluka

Drama Suspense

Istanbul is in the grip of political violence. Hamza, a high-ranking police officer, offers Kadir...

Director:Emin Alper

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

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The Hijra

Guru Bangsa Tjokroaminoto

Drama

The Hijra is an anti-radicalism statement. This is particularly important considering Indo...

Director:Garin Nugroho

World Focus/International Premiere

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JAI HO - A Film on AR Rahman

Music Documentary

AR Rahman has single-handedly catapulted Indian film music to the world stage. Time Magazine has ...

Director:Umesh Aggarwal

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

O Kadhal Kanmani

O Kadhal Kanmani

Romance Youth Drama

O Kadhal Kanmani is an unconventional tale of romance mapped out in Mumbai, and weaves its...

Director:Mani Ratnam

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

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Right Now, Wrong Then

지금은맞고그때는틀리다

Drama

Film director Chun-su arrives in Suwon a day early by mistake, and kills time at an old palace. T...

Director:Hong Sang-soo

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

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River

Gtsngbo/河

Drama

Little girl Yangchan Lhamo’s shepherd father Guru has a motorbike accident. The villagers think i...

Director:Sonthar Gyal

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

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To the Fore

破風

Youth Drama Action

The success of Radiant, one of the world’s top cycling teams, is undermined when competition heat...

Director:Dante Lam

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

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Where the Wind Settles

風中家族

Drama

In the year 1949, as the long-fought Civil War in China comes to a close, three young Nationalist...

Director:Wang Tung

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

Zinnia Flower

百日告別

Drama Romance

On the same day, in the same accident, Yuwei loses his pregnant wife and Ming loses her fiancé, l...

Director:Tom Shu-yu Lin

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

Old Well [Digitally Restored Version]

老井

Drama

The film revolves around the story of several generations of farmers digging wells, reflecting th...

Director:Wu Tianming

World Focus

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Trap

Taklub

Drama

There is a time to mourn and a time to rebuild… After Super Typhoon Haiyan, which changed the cit...

Director:Brillante Ma Mendoza

CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere

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Foster Child

Drama

This is a drama centered on the state of foster care in the Philippines. Thelma, together with he...

Director:Brillante Ma Mendoza

CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere

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Service

Serbis

Drama Erotic Drama

Morality has two sides—absolute and relative. The Pineda family operates and lives in a run-down ...

Director:Brillante Ma Mendoza

CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere

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Grandmother

LOLA

Drama

Lola Sepa's grandson was killed by the sudden violence. Though devastated, she and her family are...

Director:Brillante Ma Mendoza

CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema

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Thy Womb

SINAPUPUNAN

Drama

Shaleha Sarail hails from a water-village in Tawi-Tawi, in the southernmost Philippines. Now her ...

Director:Brillante Ma Mendoza

CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere

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Balut Country

Drama

Jun, an heir to the duck farm left to him by his late father, must decide between selling the pro...

Director:Paul Sta. Ana

CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/International Premiere

BalikBayan#1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III.5 (Working Title, 1979-2015)

Documentary

Kidlat Tahimik of Perfumed Nightmare (1977) and Turumba (1983) is well-known in Jap...

Director:Kidlat Tahimik

CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere

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Invisible

Imbisibol

Drama

Invisible (Imbisibol) essays the story of four Filipino migrant workers in Japan, a crucia...

Director:Lawrence Fajardo

CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema

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Kid Kulafu

Youth Drama Action

Emmanuel lives a hand-to-mouth existence, caught between the crossfire of his family's daily stru...

Director:Paul Soriano

CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere

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Miracle [Digitally Restored Version]

Himala

Drama

Inconsequential lass Elsa (Nora Aunor) witnesses an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The village pe...

Director:Ishmael Bernal

CROSSCUT ASIA #02 The Heat of Philippine Cinema/Japanese Premiere

Our Little Sister

Drama

Three sisters—Sachi, Yoshino and Chika—live together in a large house in Kamakura. When their fat...

Director:Hirokazu Kore-eda

Japan Now

Kazoku wa Tsuraiyo (original title)

Drama Comedy

20 years since "Tora-san" series, Yoji Yamada has created a long-awaited comedy! Isao Hashizume a...

Director:Yoji Yamada

Japan Now

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Three Stories of Love

Drama

Ryosuke Hashiguchi of All Around Us and Hush! sensitively portrays three dissatisfi...

Director:Ryosuke Hashiguchi

Japan Now

Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai

Drama Animation

The untold story of O-Ei, Master Hokusai's daughter: a lively portrayal of a free-spirited, utter...

Director:Keiichi Hara

Japan Now

PIETA IN THE TOILET

Drama Youth Drama Music

The last diary of Osamu Tezuka, known as "God of Comics", has been crafted into an original movie...

Director:Daishi Matsunaga

Japan Now

FIRES ON THE PLAIN

Drama Suspense

An adaptation of Shohei Ooka’s novel that depicts itinerant Japanese soldiers in the Philippines ...

Director:Shinya Tsukamoto

Japan Now

THE BOY AND THE BEAST

Animation

Latest work after three years by Mamoru Hosoda, one of the hottest animation directors with each ...

Director:Mamoru Hosoda

Japan Now

Pink and Gray

Drama Youth Drama Suspense

Movie star Rengo commits suicide and it is his childhood friend Daiki who discovers the body. The...

Director:Isao Yukisada

Japan Now

La La La at Rock Bottom

Comedy Youth Drama

Shigeo (29), an underdog who gets beaten into amnesia, goes through a desperate struggle to remem...

Director:Nobuhiro Yamashita

Japan Now

LOVE & PEACE

Drama Romance Si-Fi/Fantasy

Ryoichi Suzuki works for a company. A failed rock musician, his life is frustrating and miserable...

Director:Sion Sono

Japan Now

0.5㎜

Drama

Since finding elderly men with some problems and meaning habits, Sawa, a helper does housework an...

Director:Momoko Ando

Japan Now

KAMIKAZE TAXI

Drama

Since his lover was killed by yakuza, Tatsuo has feared his own life and being forced to live as ...

Director:Masato Harada

Japan Now

Climber’s High

Drama

On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes and 520 passengers are killed. The local press reporters ...

Director:Masato Harada

Japan Now

Chronicle of My Mother

Drama

Based on an autobiographical novel by a literary giant of the Showa era, Yasushi Inoue. This is H...

Director:Masato Harada

Japan Now

KAKEKOMI

KAKEKOMI

Drama

Set in 1841. Jogo, a blacksmith wanting a divorce, and O-Gin, a concubine of a wealthy merchant f...

Director:Masato Harada

Japan Now

The Emperor in August

Drama

Toward the end of the Pacific War, the Allies demand that Japan accept the Potsdam Declaration. T...

Director:Masato Harada

Japan Now

RAN [4K Digitally Restored Version]

Drama Action

Akira Kurosawa said at the production announcement in December 1983, "RAN is my lifework. ...

Director:Akira Kurosawa

Japanese Classics/Japanese Premiere

Conflagration [4K Digitally Restored Version]  (Screened together with “Japan and the Japanese” "Yowamushi Chinsengumi”)

Drama Suspense

Conflagration [4K Digitally Restored Version]
Goichi starts working as an apprentice ...

Director:Kon Ichikawa

Japanese Classics/Japanese Premiere

Giant Monster Mid-Air Battle: Gamera vs. Gyaos [Digitally Restored Version]

Si-Fi/Fantasy Action

Monster Gyaos is awakened by unusual volcanic activity on Mt. Fuji. It goes on a violent rampage,...

Director:Noriaki Yuasa

Japanese Classics

Gamera—The Guardian of the Universee [4K Digitally Restored Version]

Si-Fi/Fantasy Action

A fierce duel of supersonic. The guardian Gamera must defeat Gyaos for future of children! Follow...

Director:Shusuke Kaneko

Japanese Classics

Gamera 2—Assault of the Legion [4K Digitally Restored Version]

Si-Fi/Fantasy Action

Countdown to mankind catastrophe. Is it Japan or Legion to die off? New monster Legion attacks th...

Director:Shusuke Kaneko

Japanese Classics

Gamera 3—Revenge of Iris [4K Digitally Restored Version]

Si-Fi/Fantasy Action

The war for existence of Earth begins! The end of the century, the mass generated Gyaos appear in...

Director:Shusuke Kaneko

Japanese Classics

THEY WHO STEP ON THE TIGER'S TAIL

Drama Comedy

Musical comedy based on the Kabuki "Kanjincho" and the Noh "Ataka". Akira Kurosawa wanted to make...

Director:Akira Kurosawa

TIFF2015 presents Special Night Event at Kabukiza Theatre

Throw Away Your Books, Let’s Go into the Streets

Throw Away Your Books, Let’s G0 into the Streets is the film adaptation of a documentary-c...

Director:Shuji Terayama

TERAYAMA FILMS

Pastoral Hide and Seek

Pastoral Hide and Seek is an original feature film based on a collection of poetry antholo...

Director:Shuji Terayama

TERAYAMA FILMS

Labyrinth in the Field

A young man is haunted by the lyrics of a “temari ball” song sung to him by his mother when he wa...

Director:Shuji Terayama

TERAYAMA FILMS

Farewell to the Ark

Set in a fictional small village, Farewell to the Ark is an epic story that charts the ups...

Director:Shuji Terayama

TERAYAMA FILMS

Japanese Yakuza

Drama Action

TOEI’s Japanese Yakuza series determined Ken Takakura’s popularity. The outlaw group starts to do...

Director:Masahiro Makino

Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening

Abashiri Prison

Drama Action

Abashiri Prison series, along with TOEI's Japanese Yakuza series, are blockbuster Ken Takakura st...

Director:Teruo Ishii

Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening

Brutal Tale of Chivalry Part 2

Drama Action

Starring Ken Takakura, this is one of his representative series along with Japanese Yakuza and Ab...

Director:Kiyoshi Saeki

Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening

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HOT PURSUIT

Action Suspense

This movie was the first foreign movie released in China after the Cultural Revolution, and it be...

Director:Junya Sato

Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening

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The Yellow Handkerchief

Drama

A masterpiece of Pete Hamill is made into a movie starring veteran actors Ken Takakura, Chieko Ba...

Director:Yoji Yamada

Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening

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Proof of Wildness

Drama Action

Kadokawa Shoten made the film of a novel by Seiichi Morimura written for film adaptation as reque...

Director:Junya Sato

Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening

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A Distant Cry From Spring

Drama

The film is inspired by the main song for Shane (1953), "A Distant Cry from Spring". The s...

Director:Yoji Yamada

Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening

STATION

Drama

Various relationships are portrayed in this masterpiece, set in Mashike town, Ohuyu Misaki cape a...

Director:Yasuo Furuhata

Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening

POPPOYA -RAILROAD MAN-

Drama

Facing an abolishment of the local line in Hokkaido, a hardcore man, who has been proudly living ...

Director:Yasuo Furuhata

Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

Drama

A man travels alone to China for his son, whom he hasn't heard from for a long while. The film sh...

Director:Zhang Yimou, Yasuo Furuhata

Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM II SOLDIERS OF SORROW

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM III ENCOUNTERS IN SPACE

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT Z GUNDAM A NEW TRANSLATION - HEIRS TO THE STARS

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT Z GUNDAM A NEW TRANSLATION - LOVERS

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT Z GUNDAM A NEW TRANSLATION - LOVE IS THE PULSE OF THE STARS

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM CHAR'S COUNTERATTACK (Screened together with MOBILE SUIT SD GUNDAM )

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM F91 (Screened together with MUSHA KNIGHT COMMANDO: SD GUNDAM SCRAMBLE )

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

GUNDAM RECONGUISTA IN G (#1-#3、#26) (Screened together with RING OF GUNDAM )

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

TURN A GUNDAM I EARTH LIGHT

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

TURN A GUNDAM II MOON BUTTERFLY

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: THE ORIGIN I BLUE-EYED CASVAL

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 1 DAY OF THE UNICORN

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 2 THE SECOND COMING OF CHAR

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 3 THE GHOST OF LAPLACE

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 4 AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GRAVITY WELL

Animation

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MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 5 BLACK UNICORN

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 6 TWO WORLDS, TWO TOMORROWS

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 7 OVER THE RAINBOW MX4D Screening

Animation

MediaMation MX4D™ Screening
Ticket Price: MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN episode 7 OVER TH...

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: THE 08TH MS TEAM MILLER'S REPORT

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 00 THE MOVIE -A WAKENING OF THE TRAILBLAZER-

Animation

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THE WORLD OF GUNDAM

This Is Orson Welles

Documentary

Welles' career in films in America, from Citizen Cane to Touch of Evil, is concisel...

Director:Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg

Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown

Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles

Documentary

On his centenary, this film seeks the truth of Orson Welles thru his works and comments from the ...

Director:Chuck Workman

Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown/Japanese Premiere

The Immortal Story

Une histoire immortelle

Suspense

Director:Orson Welles

Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown

The Lady from Shanghai

Suspense

Director:Orson Welles

Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown

The Third Man

Suspense

Director:Carol Reed

Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown

Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report

Suspense

Director:Orson Welles

Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown

The Trial

Suspense

Director:Orson Welles

Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown

Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight)

Suspense

Director:Orson Welles

Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown

F for Fake

Documentary

Director:Orson Welles

Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown

The Unknown Welles 1

Suspense

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Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown

The Unknown Welles 2

Suspense

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Orson Welles: The Known and the Unknown

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Masters of J-Horror "Ghost Theater" "Don't Look Up" "Cure" "Ju-on"

Horror

Ghost Theater
Before Nakata’s seminal J-Horror masterpiece Ringu, he terrified ...

Director:Ghost Theater, Don't Look Up : Hideo Nakata
Cure : Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Ju-on : Takashi Shimizu

The Scariest Night of Japan ~ The Advent of Japanese Horror

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All Night Screening Celebrating "CINEMA STUDIO" 200th Episode

“Drive” USA|2011|101min
“Drive” is an action crime film directed by a Dan...

Director:
“Drive” Nicolas Winding Refn
“A Woman Under the Influence” John Cassavetes
“Any Day Now” Travis Fine “All for Cinema ver.1”
“All for Cinema ver.2”
“All for Cinema Director's Cut” Kensaku Kakimoto

All Night Screening celebrating "CINEMA STUDIO" 200th Episode

Special Collaboration with PFF 2015 PFF Award-Winning Film Screening "A Road"

The protagonist loved catching lizards when he was in grade school. Now he has entered an art uni...

Director:Daichi Sugimoto

PFF Award - Winning Film Screening

Children of Iron

Rikutaro and Mariko are forced to become brother and sister by the recent remarriage of their par...

Director:Koki Fukuyama

Screening of SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL 2015

Minato Screening Program A

"ANIMANIMALS" | 2015| Germany | 4min
Director: Julia Ocker
When a zebra bumps into a tree...

Director:
"ANIMANIMALS" Julia Ocker
"Shimajiro: A World of WOW!" Hiroshi Kawamata
"Mr. Hublot" Laurent Witz
"Thomas & Friends" Wilbert Awdry
"Shaun the Sheep" Richard Starzak
"Bunny New Girl" Natalie Van Den Dungen

Minato Screening

Minato Screening Program B

"Reflections" | Israel|2013| 6min
Director:Bosmat Agayoff, Alon Ziv
This is the story ...

Director:
"Reflections" Bosmat Agayoff, Alon Ziv
"Home Sweet Home" Pierre Clenet, Alejandro Diaz, Romain Mazevet, Stéphane Paccolat
"Shaun the Sheep" Richard Starzak
"Boogaloo and Graham" Michael Lennox
"Ice Cream" Serhat Karaaslan

Minato Screening

Minato Screening Program C

Les Oiseaux de Passage

"Les Oiseaux de Passage"
Margaux, a girl on a wheelchair is chosen as the mo...

Director:
Les Oiseaux de Passage
Olivier Ringer

Minato Screening

The Birth of Life, Creation of the Endangered Japanese Killifish

Japanese Killifish was designated as an endangered species by Ministry of the Environment in 2003...

Director:Sadao Toyooka

Bunka-cho Film Week 2015

Walking with My Mother

Having lost her daughter and husband, a lonely and desperate old woman becomes mentally confused....

Director:Katsumi Sakaguchi

Bunka-cho Film Week 2015

Tracing the Future

Naoya Hatakeyama is an acclaimed photographer, who had lost his mother and home in the 3.11 tsuna...

Director:Yohei Hatakeyama

Bunka-cho Film Week 2015

BON LIN

College student Natsuko, who loves BL (boys' love), anime and games, and her childhood friend Rin...

Director:Keiichi Kobayashi

Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award Film Screening and Symposium

SHANE [HD Remastered Edition]

Everlasting great acting by Alan Ladd and Jack Palance and the touching scene in the end…a Wester...

Director:George Stevens

Japan Premiere of SHANE [Digital Remastred] Presented by STAR CHANNEL & SKY Perfect TV! Movie Team/Japanese Premiere

The 5th Japan Student Film Festival

”GYRØ” Japan|2014|7min
The everyday life of an elephant and his wife. Thei...

Director:
”GYRØ” MADOKA
“Ketchup Kid” Patrick Vollrath
“A Cat in the Rumor” Moeko Tanisaka
“King of Fools” Yutaro Nakamura
“Choices” Hosaki Tanaka
“Why Did Komura Cry?” Ken Ninomiya, Keisuke Kondo, Yoshihiro Nagata

The 5th Japan Student Film Festival

KEIRIN.JP
The 28th Tokyo International Film Festival will be held with funds provided by Japan Keirin Association.
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