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Adrift in Tokyo

Aka: Tenten
Director: Satoshi Miki
Release date: 2007
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Starring:
Jô Odagiri as Fumiya Takemura
Tomokazu Miura as Aiichiro Fukuhara
Kyôko Koizumi as Makiko
Yuriko Yoshitaka as Fufumi
Kumiko Asô as Mikaduki Shizuka

Synopsis:
Takemura has no friends and no family. He's a student but he doesn't have any particular ambitions. In other words, he isn't going anywhere fast. Were all this not enough, the sorry sad sack has a debt of 800,000 yen. Fukuhara, a surly debt collector with a glorious mullet, is on his case. After roughing Takemura up, he gives him an ultimatum-72 hours to pay up, or else. Takemura barely has his wits about him again when he runs across Fukuhara a second time, and this time the thug has a different proposal-a walk. That's right, in exchange for a million yen, Takemura must accompany Fukuhara on a walk across the city of Tokyo. Starting in a distant corner of the city, they begin their trek towards downtown, striking up a conversation. It's at this point that Fukuhara admits that he's recently killed his wife, and intends to turn himself in at Kasumagaseki police station-because, he says, it's the finest in town. The pair's itinerary, however, is hardly a quick and direct one. The disparate duo drift here and there, hanging out and coming across a host of eccentric personalities, creatures of the urban jungle's various habitats. As their walking, talking and trading truths continues, the arrangement between Takemura and Fukuhara starts to transform into friendship.
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Awards:
Fant-Asia Film Festival:
Jury Prize: Best Script: Satoshi Miki
Special Mention: Feature Film: Jô Odagiri and Tomokazu Miura
Kinema Junpo Awards: Best Supporting Actor: Tomokazu Miura

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April Bride

Aka: Yomei Ikkagetsu no Hanayome
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
Release date: 2009
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Romance

Starring:
Nana Eikura - Chie Nagashima
Eita - Taro Akasu
Satomi Tezuka
Misako Yasuda
Akira Emoto

Synopsis:
On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live.
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A Snake of June

Aka: Rokugatsu no hebi
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Release date: 2002
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Erotic, Mature 18+, Mystery

Starring:
Asuka Kurosawa as Rinko Tatsumi
Yuji Kohtari as Shigehiko
Shinya Tsukamoto as Iguchi
Mansaku Fuwa
Tomoko Matsumoto

Synopsis:
Rinku is a suicide-prevention counselor, living with her husband Shigehiko. He's older than she, scrubbing things constantly, sexually indifferent. They sleep apart. During Tokyo's rainy season, Iguchi, a photographer Rinku has counseled by phone, sends her pictures he has taken through her skylight: she's wearing a short skirt, masturbating. He offers her the negatives if she'll follow his instructions. She's humiliated and agrees. He tells her he's only giving her license to express her inner desires. He sends her into the night to walk on the wild side. Then, she asks a favor of him, and soon her husband receives phone calls and photographs. Where will this triangle lead?
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Awards:
Fantasporto:
International Fantasy Film Award: Best Actress: Asuka Kurosawa
International Fantasy Film Special Jury Award: Tsukamoto Shinya
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Art Direction: Shinya Tsukamoto
Venice film Festival:
Kinematrix Film Award: Feature Films: Shinya Tsukamoto
San Marco Special Jury Award: Shinya Tsukamoto

Award Nominations:
Fantasporto: International Fantasy Film Award: Best Film
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Film

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Cursed

Aka: 'Chô' kowai hanashi A: yami no karasu
Director: Yoshihiro Hoshino
Release date: 2004
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery

Starring:
Kyôko Akiba as Ryôko Kagami
Yumeaki Hirayama as DFJ News anchorman
Takaaki Iwao as Komori, the night-shift clerk
Etsuyo Mitani as Store owner's wife
Hiroko Satô as Nao Shingaki
Osamu Takahashi as Store owner

Synopsis:
Experience a new fear. Prepare for the unknown… You will see something you will never forget…Nao Shingaki has a part-time job at a mini-mart. Outwardly, it looks like any other mini-mart, but there is something unmistakably abnormal about the place. Inside, the air is choked with vengeful spirits. Outside, thebackyard reeks with a horrible smell. The owner of the mini-mart seems to be overjoyed by the severe injuries sustained by a sales rep for a majorfranchise; while his wife suffers from an unknown madness and spends all of her time staring into the security cameras. Now the spirits have claimed the souls of the night-shift clerk and several customers. Nao is now faced with the task of somehow trying to escape this demonic terror!
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Ju-On - The Grudge: Girl in Black

Aka: Ju-on: Kuroi shôjo / Ju-On: Black Ghost
Director: Mari Asato
Release date: 2009
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Horror

Starring:
Ai Kago
Koji Seto
Yuri Nakamura
Maria Takagi
Hana Matsumoto
Yuno Nakazono
Kana Tsugihara
Ryota Matsushima
Masanobu Katsumura
Kozo Sato

Synopsis:
A Nurse named Yuko (Kago) has a strange experience while taking care of a girl named Fukie. Test results show a cyst inside Fukie’s body, but that cyst is actually the leftover grudge from a baby who was unable to be born. The cyst’s grudge spreads to Fukie and everyone around her. Soon Fukie’s father goes mad and commits murder. Fukie’s sister Mariko has special spiritual power, and together with their mother they have some success driving out the evil spirit. But the worst of the grudge is yet to come.
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Ju-On: The Curse 2 (TV Version)

Aka: Ju-On 2
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Release date: 2000
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery

Starring:
Yûrei Yanagi as Shunsuke Kobayashi
Takako Fuji as Kayako Saeki
Takashi Matsuyama as Takeo Saeki
Yûko Daike as Kyôko Suzuki
Makoto Ashikawa as Tatsuya Suzuki
Yue as Manami Kobayashi

Synopsis:
Ju-on 2 is the second film in the Japanese horror series. The film was released in Japan on March 25, 2000 and was later released onto video on April 14, 2000.
Much of this sequel is a recap of the first film, nearly 30 minutes of retelling out of 76 minutes. Also the rest of the movie introduces new information on those events, and new characters, as well as briefly introducing events which would play into the two theatrical films.
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Ju-On: The Curse (TV Version)

Aka: Ju-On
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Release date: 2000
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery

Starring:
Yûrei Yanagi as Shunsuke Kobayashi
Yue as Manami Kobayashi
Ryôta Koyama as Toshio Saeki
Hitomi Miwa as Yuki
Asumi Miwa as Kanna Murakami
Chiaki Kuriyama as Mizuho Tamura
Yoriko Douguchi as Nakamura
Denden as Yoshikawa
Tarô Suwa as Kamio

Synopsis:
Jealous of his wifes love for another man, a teacher from her high school, a man brutally kills his wife and young son. Searching for the son who has missed a lot of school, the teacher enters their house, only to find the dead ghost of his mother, and consequently has a heart attack and becomes a ghost himself. The story goes on to tell of the new tenants of the house and what they experience, and an investigation by two police officers into why so many people are dissapearing. (Credit: Imdb)

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Ju-On - The Grudge 2

Aka: Ju-On: The Curse 2 / Ju-On 4 / Ju-on 2: Gekijô-ban
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Release date: 2003
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English(Soft-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Starring:
Noriko Sakai as Kyoko Harase
Chiharu Niiyama as Tomoka Miura
Kei Horie as Noritaka Yamashita
Yui Ichikawa as Chiharu
Ayumu Saitô as Masashi Ishikura

Synopsis:
While driving , the pregnant horror-movie actress Kyôko Harase and her fiancé are in a car crash caused by the Toshio's friend. Kyôko loses her baby and her fiancé winds up in a coma. Kyôko was cursed together with a television crew when they shot a show in the haunted house where Kayako was brutally murdered by her husband years ago. While each member of the team dies or disappears, Kyôko is informed that she has a three-and-a-half-month-old fetus in her womb.
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Award Nomination:
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Film

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Ju-On - The Grudge

Aka: The Grudge / Ju-on: Gekijô-ban / Ju-On 3
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Release date: 2003
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Starring:
Megumi Okina as Rika Nishina
Misaki Ito as Hitomi Tokunaga
Misa Uehara as Izumi Tôyama
Yui Ichikawa as Chiharu
Kanji Tsuda as Katsuya Tokunaga

Synopsis:
It looks like a normal, everyday house, but the atmosphere about it is anything but. Something happened here once... no, even now there is a terror here, born of a spirit that possesses this place. The various supernatural experiences undergone by the different owners of the house, unaware of the horrible events that have taken place here, mingle across time, and the true form of the terrifying, invisible "Ju-On" that nests in this house becomes clear...
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Award:
Screamfest: Festival Trophy: Best Foreign Film

Award Nomination:
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA: Saturn Award: Best DVD Release

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Andromedia

Aka: Andoromedia
Director: Takashi Miike
Release date: 1998
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Starring:
Hiroko Shimabukuro as Mai Hitomi & Ai
Eriko Imai as Yoko
Takako Uehara as Rika
Hitoe Arakaki as Nao
Kenji Harada as Yuu

Synopsis:
Mai and her friends have an inseparable bond since childhood. But as of late, their friendship is questioned when their romantic relationships get in the way of others. But before Mai can make amends, she is unfortunately killed in a traffic accident. Distraught with her death, Mai's father implements his ongoing research of recording a person's memory into a microchip. His years of work finally pay off and Mai is alive again--through a computer. But trouble soon brews when a large corporation sends some thugs to retrieve Mai and the technology by forcible means. But before they can get to Mai, her father luckily safe havens her into her former boyfriend's laptop. Now the chase is on for the laptop and Mai's boyfriend and former friends have to run to keep her safe.
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Awards:
Awards of the Japanese Academy:
Newcomer of the Year: Issa Hentona
Newcomer of the Year: Takako Uehara
Nikkan Sports Film Awards:
Best New Talent
Hiroko Shimabukuro (as Speed)
Eriko Imai (as Speed)
Takako Uehara (as Speed)
Hitoe Arakaki (as Speed)

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Ramblers

Aka: Riarizumu no yado
Director: Yamashita Nobuhiro
Release date: 2003
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Comedy

Starring:
Keishi Nagatsuka as Tsuboi
Hiroshi Yamamoto as Kinoshita
Machiko Ono as Atsuko
Masaaki Takakura
Takeshi Yamamoto

Synopsis:
When the friend they have in common craps out on them, two young filmmakers who hardly know each other struggle to enjoy themselves without money in a wintry, deserted resort area. Ultra-quiet comedy of microscopic humiliations.
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Bounce KO Gals

Aka: Baunsu ko gaurusu / Leaving
Director: Masato Harada
Release date: 1997
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama

Starring:
Hitomi Sato - Jonko
Yasue Sato - Raku
Yukiko Okamoto - Lisa
Jun Murakami - Sap
Shin Yazawa - Maru
Kaori Momoi - Saki
Koji Yakusho - Oshima

Synopsis:
Lisa is 16. She is leaving for New York tommorow at 11 a.m. She saved some money but she would like to get some more - just in case. As she tries to make money by shooting a video for girls-in-school-uniforms-demanding men she loses everything except her ticket. She meets two highschool girls, Raku and Jonko, professional call-girls, and spends the last night with them trying to make up the money that was stolen from her. (Avistaz)

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Awards:
Blue Ribbon Awards 1998: Best Director - Masato Harada; Best Film - Masato Harada; Best New Actress - Hitomi Satô

Japanese Professional Movie Awards 1998: Best New Actress - Yasue Satô;
Kinema Junpo Awards 1998: Best New Actress - Hitomi Satô

Yokohama Film Festival1998: Best Cinematography - Yoshitaka Sakamoto; Best New Talent - Yukiko Okamoto; Best New Talent - Hitomi Satô; Best New Talent - Yasue Satô; Best Screenplay - Masato Harada

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A Gentle Breeze in the Village

Aka: Tennen kokekkô
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita
Release date: 2008
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Romance

Starring:
Kaho as Soyo Migita
Masaki Okada as Hiromi Osawa
Erisa Yanagi as Ibuki Taura
Shoko Fujimura as Atsuko Yamabe
Yui Natsukawa as Itoko Migita
Koichi Sato as Atsuko's Father

Synopsis:
A boy from Tokyo named Hiromi Osawa moves to a small town in western Japan and is immediately seen as the coolest kid in their school. Only one student has her doubts about him, a girl named Soyo Migita. Eventually she sees through his slick persona and even becomes a little intrigued by him, much to the chagrin of her father who has recently decided he hates the boy's mother.
They end up going on a field trip to Tokyo together and she gets her first glimpse at what big city life is like - noisy. The experience brings the two closer together and they even share a kiss. Now he must decide if he wants to go to high school in Tokyo or stay with his new friends out in the middle of nowhere.
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Romance of Darkness

Aka: Mizu ni sumu hana
Director: Kenji Goto
Release date: 2006
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

Starring:
Aki Maeda - Rikka Nikaidou
Katsuyo Asari
Katsunobu Ito
Keiko Kitagawa - Rikka Mizuchi
Toshiyuki Nagashima
Koji Sato
Mizuho Takasugi
Chikuzai Terunosuke

Synopsis:
It happened in the blink of an eye. Rikka's world turned upside down when her school field trip bus flipped and plummeted into a lake. Everyone inside that bus drowned... except for Rikka, but she wasn't saved by anything as simple as luck. When she was released from the hospital, Rikka was then attacked repeatedly in a series of bizarre incidents all involving water... and a sadistic aquatic beauty whose name is -- Rikka!? What does our heroine have that the sadistic Rikka wants back? What was it that saved her from drowning, and who gave it to her and why...?
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The Brass Knuckle Boys

Aka: Shonen merikensakku
Director: Kankurô Kudô
Release date: 2009
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Comedy, Music

Starring:
Aoi Miyazaki as Kanna Kurita
Yûichi Kimura as Haruo
Ryo Katsuji as Masaru
Tomorowo Taguchi as Jimmy
Hiroki Miyake as Young

Synopsis:
A record company office worker named Kanna Aoi Miyazaki discovers a punk rock band called Shonen Meriken Sakku (Brass Knuckle Boys) through the internet and subsequently decides to represent them on behalf of her company. What Kanna did not know was that the Brass Knuckle Boys consists of all middle aged men.
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Sugar and Spice

Aka: Sugar & spice: Fûmi zekka
Director: Isamu Nakae
Release date: 2006
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Romance

Starring:
Yûya Yagira as Shiro Yamashita
Erika Sawajiri as Noriko Watanabe
Mari Natsuki as Fujiko, Grandma
Yô Ôizumi as Gas Station Guy
Bo-lin Chen as Mike

Synopsis:
Recently graduated from high school, 17-year-old Shiro (Yagira Yuya) decides to put off college and work at a gas station instead. Shy and introspective, Shiro understands he is at a turning point in his life, but is unsure of what lies ahead. Though his parents disapprove of his decision, he has the support of his flower-child grandmother (Natsuki Mari) who declares that a gas station is a romantic place for life’s drifters. Surely enough, soon a new co-worker, college student Noriko (Sawajiri Erika), drifts into Shiro’s life. He falls headfirst into a bittersweet first love that ushers him into the world of adulthood.
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New Red Room: The Broken Dolls

Aka: Red Room 2 / Shin akai misshitsu (heya): Kowareta ningyô-tachi
Director: Daisuke Yamanouchi
Release date: 2000
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mature 18+

Starring:
Miyuki Katô
Yukio Kokago
Salmon Sakeyama
Yûka Takahashi
Yuuken Yoshida

Synopsis:
The sequel to the underground goretastic Red Room, Red Room 2 will leave you gasping for air in its over-the-top, grueling portrayal of what people will do for money. Up for grabs is another million dollars as four more contestants enter into the Red Room. Locked there, they must play the King game, a card game where each hand makes the loser participate in whatever the winner wants or desires. The game is played until there is only one survivor left. How much abuse can one person handle? How far will the contestants go for hard earned cash? How far will you be able to watch the contestants in the Red Room?
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Red Room: The Forbidden King Game

Aka: Akai misshitsu (heya): Kindan no ôsama geemu
Director: Daisuke Yamanouchi
Release date: 1999
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mature 18+

Starring:
Hiroshi Kitasenju
Sheena Nagamori
Mayumi Ookawa
Yuuki Tsukamoto

Synopsis:
How low would you go to win a million dollars? Just how desperate are you for the cash? Desperate enough to enter the Red Room? In this latest and most vicious game show to emerge from the Japanese underground, four contestants (a husband and wife on the edge of divorce, and two sisters) are locked in the Red Room to draw cards in the "king game." Whoever draws the king selects two others to enter a cage where one performs the most outrageous acts upon his or her unlucky victim. The game is played to the death. Survivor takes all, and the losers go home in body bags!
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Dragon Head

Aka: Doragon Heddo
Director: Joji Iida
Release date: August 30, 2003
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Starring:
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Sayaka
Takayuki Yamada
Naohito Fujiki
Yoshimasa Kondo

Synopsis:
Mochizuki's Dragon Head manga series was featured in Weekly Young Magazine from September 1994 to December 1999. The story is an intense mystery about Teru Aoki (Tsumabuki) who is returning home on the bullet train from a class trip with his teacher and classmates. While the train is passing through a tunnel, the train runs off the tracks and crashes. Everyone aboard the train except Teru seems to have died in the accident.
However, while Teru stumbles around through the darkness and the rubble, one of his female classmates, Ako Seto (SAYAKA) grabs his ankle. Apparently she is one of the rare survivors of the crash. When they finally escape the dark and deadly tunnel, they discover a world of mass destruction. Unaware of what happened or the cause of the destruction, they must struggle to survive in an unforgiving enviroment, which resembles an apocalyptic Tokyo.

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Vanished

Aka: Oyayubi Sagashi
Director: Naoto Kumazawa
Release date: 2006
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Starring:
Ken Miyake as Takeshi
Ayumi Ito as Chie
Ken'ichi Matsuyama as Tomohiko
Runa Nagai as Aya
Hiroyuki Onoue as Nobuhisa

Synopsis:
According to an urban legend, there is a young girl with a missing index finger, and anyone who finds her index finger will be granted a wish. Just for fun, six elementary school students play an eerie spirit game to search for the finger, only to find one person missing at the game’s completion. Eight years later, the remaining five members meet again at their student reunion, still guilt-ridden over the events of the past. They decide to play the spirit game once more in order to find their friend. This time, everyone starts disappearing, one by one…
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