Synopsis Sachiko is a 13-year-old junior high school student with a complicated family life. Her father left when she was an infant for a young mistress. Her mother (Ryo) -- a secretive and weirdly distanced woman -- works as a hostess and a kept woman for a mysterious gangster type. Sachiko finds some modicum of solace in the arms of her sixth grade teacher, Ogata who has a brief affair with her. As a result, he quits his job and starts working for a nuclear power plant far away. When her mother makes another halfhearted attempt at suicide, Sachiko's shattered emotional life becomes too much to bear and she drops out of school. Though she continues to correspond with Ogata, Sachiko is desperately lonely and alienated, leading to her consorting with other social dropouts. When her sole school friend Natsuko urges her to return to school, Sachiko finds that her long simmering rage against the world becomes difficult to control.

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Live-action feature film adaptation of the best-selling manga "Love Complex"! Lisa Koizumi could be a bit shorter, her boyfriend could be a bit taller, and the two of them go through ups and downs during their time at Maido Gakuen! Though their eccentricitie, particularities, and tastes in food and music match, the two find trouble when boyfriend Otani meets up with his ex-girlfriend setting Lisa's heart on fire!

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3 mos ago

Synopsis Consisting of three vignettes about cross-cultural love set in three different cities (Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai), About Love is a film made by three talented directors with six fabulous young idols from Japan, Mainland China, and Taiwan. In each segment, a foreigner and a resident, both in their twenties,try to transgress cultural and language barriers and explore something About Love. Beneath the three different types of relationships, there always lie something common that all couples need to go through - moments of uncertainties, confusion, and bittersweet tenderness.

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7 mos ago

Synopsis Kyoko and Chinatsu aren't lovers, just roommates who eat, sleep, go clubbing, do dope and brush their teeth together. Chinatsu is lesbian, a photographer who seems to be working on a visual diary. Kyoko, less mature, gets a crush on Sakamoto, the taciturn boy who runs a tropical fish store nearby. She gets a job in the store, but he hardly looks up from his manga to acknowledge her existence. Both girls start working as bunnies in a hostess bar to pay the bills. When Chinatsu is dumped by a girlfriend, Kyoko tries to console her-and the two get as near as dammit to making love. And suddenly it's make-or-break time: will Kyoko become Chinatsu's lover or not?

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6 mos ago

Synopsis Meet Eun-shik (Im Chang-jung), a socially inept and amazingly unlucky 28-year old who pines for Eun-hyo (Ji-won Ha), the most popular woman on the aerobics team. But their love is not meant to be (mostly because genre convention dictates it) because she only has eyes for the Big Man on Campus. With his pathetic attempts to win her over failing miserably, Eun-shik can only watch as while Eun-hyo falls into the arms of the BMC, only to realize (inevitably) that the BMC is not worth her love. Meanwhile, Eun-shik's dorm mates are on the make with Eun-hyo's female friends. Throw in a pair of hapless thieves who keep appearing everywhere (and who masturbates at every opportunity) and we have ourselves a Raunchy Teen Sex Comedy, Korean style.

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5 mos ago

Synopsis Directional debut by the legendary Tomorowo “Tetsuo” Taguchi, once member of punk/rock band “Bachikaburi”, is a great tale about, as the title suggests, keeping your identity in a world where money and fame rules undisputed. A truly enchanting film that’s definitely one of a kind. Part rock & roll fantasy, part youth rebellion picture, part teenage love story, it’s based on a Japanese graphic novel with a strong cult following. A young, budding rock star torn between writing meaningful lyrics and churning out catchy pop hits begins to hallucinate, believing that the spirit of Bob Dylan is guiding his career and personal life. Dylan himself was so touched by the film that he gave the director permission to use his song lyrics and image in the film.

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5 mos ago

Synopsis Hana & Alice is a delicate comedy about two childhood friends who fall for the same guy. Secretly following Miyamoto (Tomohiro Kaku) after school one day, Hana (Anne Suzuki) sees him inadvertently run into a wall, and then collapse senseless on the ground. When he awakens, she convinces him that the bump on the head has given him amnesia, and that she is his girlfriend. In order to keep the fiction alive, Hana is forced to tell Miyamoto more lies, one of which leads to his falling for her best friend Alice (Yu Aoi). Caught between love and friendship, the girls’ relationship takes on a new tone as the two find themselves maturing into young adults.

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2 mos ago

Synopsis: [synesthesia / synaesthesia] (sin'is-the'zhea) n. A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. Synesthesia is "abnormal" only in being statistically rare. Synesthesia is a sensibility which cannot be understood by other people. An incident brings two lonely souls who possess this unsolved puzzle of mind to meet, leading to strange events and a serial murder cas

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12 mos ago

Synopsis: St. Michael's Academy is a pretty whimsical place where 100% reality is never an option. Thus, Arch Angels is appropriately chock full of CGI and various camera tricks to bring that unique fantasy world to life. The most obvious pitfall in a project like this with an inexperienced director is that the actors might get upstaged by the attention-grabbing scenery. The solution? Hire a cast of actors with attention-grabbing personalities. Juri Ueno was the perfect choice to play Fumio, having an eclectic enough personality to be believable as a straight-A-student, star athlete, and former newspaper delivery girl. Like Swing Girls, Arch Angels has a large cast of characters and you really need someone to be the undisputed center of attention for it to work. Ueno is once again up to the task.

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11 mos ago

Synopsis: A remake of 1981 movie and a 1982 Fuji TV drama. It follows the story of a female high school student who inconceivably becomes the leader of a group of gangsters. High school student Hoshi Izumi (Nagasawa Masami) loses her father suddenly in an accident. One day, Sakuma (Tsutsumi Shinichi), the waka gashira of a small and weak Yakuza gang in Asakusa – the Medaka Gumi – pays Izumi a visit along with the gang members. The death of their former kumicho (Boss) puts Medaka Gumi on the verge of a breakup. Therefore, Sakuma begs Izumi, the former boss’s only distant relative left, to succeed to the kumicho position. Izumi is taken by surprise and keeps refusing at first. However, she ends up becoming the 8th kumicho of the Medaka Gumi!

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9 mos ago

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7 mos ago

Synopsis Aboard the overnight Twilight Express from Osaka to Sapporo is a team of swindlers. Their attempt to reconstitute the team — with a new leader — after three years had seemed almost impossible from the beginning, but the Sapporo operation turns out successful enough to fill a suitcase with cash. Their brief euphoria turns instantly to doubt and paranoia when the suitcase goes missing. The hidden and intricate intimacies between the six make the situation even more tangled. Who’s lying? Who’s playing whom?

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10 mos ago