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Movie: Onobori Monogatari
Romaji: Onobori Monogatari
Japanese: おのぼり物語
Director: Yasutaka Mori
Writer: Satoshi Karasuya (manga)
Producer:
Cinematographer:
Release Date: July 17, 2010
Runtime: 114 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

A young man (Yoshio Inoue) moves from the countryside to Tokyo, while experiencing hardships & happiness, in his pursuit to become a manga artist.

Cast:
Yoshio Inoue
Mika Hijii
Titi Matsumura
Midoriko Kimura
Hinako Saeki
Kenji Mizuhashi
Aoba Kawai
Fusako Urabe
Yu Tokui
Noriko Eguchi
Sho Aikawa
Norito Yashima

Title: Torso
Romaji: Toruso
Japanese: トルソ
Genre: Drama
Director: Yutaka Yamasaki
Writers: Yutaka Yamasaki, Yûki Satô
Cast: Sakura Andô, Sola Aoi, Arata, Renji Ishibashi, Makiko Watanabe, Miyako Yamaguchi
Year: 2010
Runtime: 103 min.
Company: 104
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Subtitles: none

Kore-eda’s longtime cinematographer, Yutaka Yamazaki, made his directoral debut this year with Torso. Following in the footsteps of Air Doll, Yamazaki takes on a story of a human loving a sex toy with a much different outcome than Kore-eda’s opus. Makiko Watanabe aces the role of a alienated woman “in love” with a blow-up male torso. Rising star Sakura Ando, playing her sister adds to the tension when discovers her secret desire. All in all, a taught and forgiving drama that makes loving an armless, headless, legless torso make sense.

Movie Title: Loved Gun
Japanese:
Director: Kensaku Watanabe
Writer:’ Kensaku Watanabe
Producer:
Release Date: June 19, 2004
Runtime: 111 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Loved Gun is a story about a hitman named Hayamada (Masatoshi Nagase) who carries a distinctive red gun. As the film progresses we discover the reason for his work, and how he came to be alone. His aim right now is to reach a desitination, but he’s late. Along the way, having injured himself in a vehicular accident, he runs into Miyuki (Aoi Miyazaki), who as also become alone due to tragic events within her family. As Hamayada collapses from his injuries Miyuki takes him to a hospital.

At the same time, Maruyama (Ittoku Kishibe) is asked to take on a new apprentice in the form of Taneda (Hirofumi Arai). Tenacious, naive and full of arrogance, Maruyama is not impressed, and positively destroys the young man, turning him into one without fear. Maruyama explains the distinction between the bullets that are fired, different colours representing the emotions and soul of the person firing the gun. He also happens to Hayamada’s uncle, and the man who caused Hayamada’s tragic life to transpire. the two are set to meet, to settle a score, as both come to terms with their past, in order to settle the future.

Cast:
Masatoshi Nagase – Hayamada
Aoi Miyazaki – Miyuki
Hirofumi Arai – Taneda
Ittoku Kishibe – Maruyama
Hironobu Nomura
Seiichi Tanabe
Genjiro Arato
Kumiko Tsuchiya

Movie: Hito no Sabaku
Romaji: Hito no Sabaku
Japanese: 人の砂漠
Director:
Writer: Kotaro Sawaki (novel)
Producer:
Cinematographer:
Release Date: February 27, 2010
Runtime: 121 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Cast: Shigeru Muroi, Eiko Koike, Renji Ishibashi, Mari Natsuki