Japan Film Festival 2019
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- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsShigeru AmachiNoriko KitazawaKatsuko WakasugiThe ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsKôjirô HongôMiyoko AkazaMayumi OgawaOn the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsRentarô MikuniMichiyo AratamaMisako WatanabeA collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsToshio HosokawaMidori ChikumaYuriko EjimaThe descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
- DirectorShô MiyakeStarsTasuku EmotoShizuka IshibashiTomomitsu AdachiA love triangle that captures all the magic and melancholy of a summer, concentrating on the fleeting moments and encounters experienced by its three protagonists.
- DirectorYuko HakotaStarsDendenShim Eun-kyungKahoSunada, a Tokyo-based commercial agency director, expresses dissatisfaction with her job and career while visiting her hospitalized grandmother with her friend Kiyura.
- DirectorHideki TakeuchiStarsFumi NikaidôGacktYûsuke IseyaIn a world where people are discriminated based on their birthplace, a resident of the much-reviled Saitama Prefecture embarks on a revolutionary campaign to improve things for his home.
- DirectorRikiya ImaizumiStarsYukino KishiiRyo NaritaMai FukagawaTwenty-eight-year-old office lady Teruko is head over heels with Mamoru. The sting of love is so strong that she has all but ignored her friends, home and work. Her family and friends are indifferent when she loses her job. Yet, Mamoru may not be reciprocating the feelings, but Teruko's passion is unfazed.
- DirectorKyôhei FujimuraStarsHiroshi TanahashiYoshino KimuraKokoro TeradaPro wrestling champion Hiroshi makes his debut as the gentle dad to nine-year-old Shota, whose understanding of goodies versus baddies is challenged when he discovers his father is actually the despicable heel wrestler Cockroach Mask.
- DirectorMasaaki YuasaStarsRyôta KatayoseRina KawaeiHonoka MatsumotoA surfer and firefighter meet and fall in love.
- DirectorKôsai SekineStarsTaro OkamotoTaro OKAMOTO became world-famous by designing the "Tower of the Sun" at the Expo '70 in Osaka. The ideas and problems that came with its creation, however, are intertwined with the evolution of Japanese culture - from the Paleolithic up until modern times. In his documentary debut, director Kosai SEKINE takes us on a philosophical journey that transcends the visual limits of documentaries.
- DirectorMacoto TezukaStarsShingo KubotaKan TakagiKyôko TogawaIn 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was still a film student with a few experimental shorts to his credit and who was entrusted with the mission to turn an album by Haruo Chikada into a musical film.
- DirectorGoriStarsAyame MisakiEiji OkudaMichitaka TsutsuiIt is the anniversary of the death of the wife and mother of an Okinawan family and the Shinjos have congregated back on the island. It is time to honour the dead by practicing the ritual bone washing, which involves the exhumation of the corpse and the washing of the bones. It is imperative to say farewell properly and come to grips with the dismal loss of a loved one. Along with the ritual comes the travails, challenges and circumstances of the family.
- DirectorTsutomu HanabusaStarsMinami HamabeMahiro TakasugiAoi MorikawaHyakaou Academy is an institute where the academic ranking is based on the pupils' gambling winnings. Yumeko is new to the academy. Her pretty enchantress looks are only surpassed by her voracious appetite to gamble it all and win it all.
- DirectorShinsuke SatoStarsKento YamazakiRyô YoshizawaMasami NagasawaIn ancient China, a young boy dreams of becoming the greatest general of the Qin Kingdom.
- DirectorKôjirô HashimotoStarsKatrina BourdoLeigh CarmichaelTomiko ClaireA popular high school band is scouted by a Tokyo-based record company. The band is involved in a car accident, however, shattering many hopes. The band receives a demo tape from a girl who lives on the navy base. They are reinvigorated.
- DirectorMayu AkiyamaStarsSumire AshinaAtsushi HashimotoTomoko NozakiA Japanese office girl past her prime has hopes and dreams for a career, but an unexpected twist to her job storyline brings self doubt, hurt and complex emotional turmoil; as only a young person can dream and understand.
- DirectorIsshin InudôStarsGaku HamadaGen HoshinoYutaka MatsushigeThe noble Katagiri Harunosuke is both a warrior and a scholar. He is a samurai in the employment of his lord or Daimyo and also a bookworm. His newest and somewhat surprising task is to lead the effort to relocate the lord of the land. He employs and receives assistant from Takamura and Oran to accomplish the task with care and sensitivity.
- DirectorShinobu YaguchiStarsAyaka MiyoshiYû YashiroChaySuzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is treated by a hypnotist and left under the spell. Thereafter she cannot but sing and dance whenever she hears any melody whatsoever. No matter the source, length or quality she is composed to dance along. Shizuka heads back to the hypnotist for relief, but he is nowhere to be found when he is needed the most.
- DirectorTetsu MaedaStarsChie AyadoKotone FurukawaMasato HagiwaraA man is immobile and incapacitated, but has professional and nonprofessional volunteers serve and help him. Though, he takes full advantage of the situation and uses and abuses the volunteer crew.
- DirectorMomoko FukudaStarsHonoka MatsumotoShô KasamatsuSerena MotolaTokachan is a lady in Tokyo who travels back to her hometown on the anniversary of her mother's death. She is surprised when she is introduced to a man as the latest addition to the family.