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Movie: Heaven Can Wait. Maybe…
Romaji: Tengoku wa matte kureru
Japanese: 天国は待ってくれる
Director: Yoshimasa Toki
Writer: Yoshikazu Okada
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Release Date: February 10, 2007
Runtime: 105mins
Distributor: Gaga Communications
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot:

Kaoru, Hiroki and Takeshi are childhood friends. Adults now, they have gone their separate ways, but still live close to each other in central Tokyo. Hiroki works for a newspaper company, and Takeshi has followed in his father#s footsteps to work at the Tsukiji fish market. Both men love Kaoru, but Hiroki is too shy to express it. Finally, Takeshi proposes to her, and she accepts. On the day of their engagement party, Takeshi crashes his car and becomes comatose. After three years, Takeshi comes out of his coma – but with no memory of his engagement.

Cast:

Yoshihiko Inohara – Hiroki Nishioki
Aya Okamoto – Kaoru Nakano
Shunsuke Kiyokiba – Takeshi Ueno
Ayumi Ishida
Ken Ishiguro
Keizo Kanie
Erika Toda – Minako

Movie: Runin: Banished
Romaji: Runin: Banished
Japanese: るにん
Director: Eiji Okuda
Writer: Izuru Narushima
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Release Date: April 6, 2005 (Method Fest Ind. Film Fest.) / January 14, 2006 (Japan)
Runtime: 149 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

In 1838, on the penal colony of Hachijojima, the ex-courtesan Toyogiku, convicted of arson in the capital, holds court over a motley assembly of criminals and corrupt officials. There are neither cells nor guards, and the only rule is that everyone is on their own to survive. Toyogiku herself exploits the only currency available for her use: her own sexuality, in give-and-take bargaining reducing life to the absolute essentials – essentials fuelled with simmering, unreleased passions. She and a new arrival, the charismatic and stoic Kisaburo, fall in love, a love which drives them to freedom – and into a tragedy of epic proportions. Hatred, desire, love, life and death, the joy and sorrow of being alive: human drama unfolds in the harshest of atmospheres on this solitary island in a distant sea.

Cast:

Mariya Ito – Kacho
Keiko Matsuzaka – Toyogiku
Jinpachi Nezu – Inaba
Kazuhiro Nishijima – Kisaburo
Eiji Okuda – Kinjiro
Mayu Ozawa – Ochiyo
Nasubi
Kazuhiko Kanayama

 

Movie: Moonlight Jellyfish
Romaji: Munraito jierifisshu
Japanese: ムーンライト・ジェリーフィッシュ
Director: Kosuke Tsurumi
Writer: Kosuke Tsurumi
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Release Date: August 7, 2004
Runtime: 113 min
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Seiji (played by Battle Royale’s Tatsuya Fujiwara) struggles to look after his younger brother Michio, who suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum – a rare disease that is fatal if exposed to sunlight. Matters are even more complicated due to Michio’s state of mind, which is equivalent to that of a six year old child. In order to support his younger brother, Seiji is forced to join the local Yakuza and work through the ranks to become a respected member. One night, Seiji saves a woman named Keiko (Aya Okamoto) from a drunken pervert. By sheer coincidence, she is also Michio’s nurse and falls in love with Seiji thanks to his courageous act. Whilst Seiji continues to see his new girlfriend, the activities of the Yakuza begin to affect their lives…

Cast:

Kan Eto
Tatsuya Fujiwara – Seiji Terasawa
Yoshihiko Hakamada – Chu Miki
Renji Ishibashi
Tetsuo Ishidate
Ryo Kimura – Michio Terasawa
Mitsuki Koga
Kaori Mizushima – Mitsuko Takada
Shiro Namiki
Aya Okamoto – Minamida Keiko
Hitoshi Ozawa
Noriko Sakai – Yukiko Terasawa
Bunmei Tobayama
Sosuke Nishiyama

Movie: Sun Scarred
Romaji: Taiyo no kizu
Japanese: 太陽の傷
Director: Takashi Miike
Writer: Toshimichi Ohkawa
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Release Date: September 2006
Runtime: 120 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Katayama is the very image of ordinariness, a blank-faced salaryman commuting home to his dear wife and little daughter after a regular day at work. Coming across a gang of teenage hooligans beating a lone man to the edge of death, Katayama intervenes forcefully –- and successfully. But the system treats him as the villain in the matter, and that’s only the beginning of Katayama’s painful lesson that crime does not pay, but standing in its way may cost you dearly.

Cast:
Sho Aikawa – Toshiki Katayama
Aiko Sato – Mayumi Takizawa
Kenichi Endo – Shopkeeper of Drugstore
Sei Hiraizumi – Taro Fukushima
Hiroshi Katsuno – Kunio Taguchi
Toru Kazama – Yohei Uchimura
Yutaka Matsushige – Katsuya Ozaki
Satoshi Morimoto – Akira Kamiki
Yasukaze Motomiya – Makoto Nitta
Chikage Natsuyama – Rain
Miho Ninagawa – Yoko Katayama
Mao Sasaki – Ayano Katayama
Koichiro Takami – Togashi
Shin Takuma
Satoshi Tomiura – Ryo
Miho Yoshioka – Kaori Katayama