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Movie: Haru’s Journey
Romaji: Haru tono tabi
Japanese: 春との旅
Director: Masahiro Kobayashi
Writer: Masahiro Kobayashi
Producer:
Cinematographer:
Release Date: May 22, 2010
Runtime: 134 Min
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

A retired fisherman (Tatsuya Nakadai) takes his granddaughter (Eri Tokunaga) on a road trip to visit family members and to look for a new home …

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Eri Tokunaga, Hideji Otaki, Kin Sugai, Kaoru Kobayashi

Movie: Dear Doctor
Japanese: ディア・ドクター
Director: Miwa Nishikawa
Writer: Miwa Nishikawa
Producer: Etsuhiro Kato
Cinematographer: Katsumi Yanagijima
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Runtime: 127 min.
Distributor: Asmik Ace Entertainment
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

A young medical intern student named Keisuke Soma (Eita) is assigned to work in a remote countryside village. Keisuke at first takes the attitude that this assignment is below his creditentials. His thoughts soon change.

Keisuke Soma then meets the small town’s resident doctor named Dr. Ino (Tsurube Shofukutei), who is universally beloved by the town. The town doctor works diligently around the clock, while knowing virtually everything about the residents’ illnesses and their family history. Keisuke follows Dr. Soma around and starts to learn things he never learned in medical school.

A secret then emerges about Dr. Ino and the town must come to grips with this new knowledge of the man they so admired.

Cast: Eita, Tsurube Shofukutei, Kaoru Yachigusa, Kimiko Yo, Haruka Igawa, Teruyuki Kagawa

Movie: Itsuji Itao’s King of the Escape / The King of Jail Breakers
Romaji: Datsugoku Ou
Japanese: 板尾創路の脱獄王
Director: Itsuji Itao
Writer: Shoichiro Masumoto, Itsuji Itao, Yudai Yamaguchi
Producer: Itsuji Itao
Cinematographer:
World Premiere: March 21, 2009 (Okinawa International Movie Festival)
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Runtime: 94 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Masayuki Suzuki (Itsuji Itao) is known as “Datsugoku Oh” (King of Escape) because of his incredible ability to escape from any prison. Even though his ability to escape from prison was unmatched he would normally get caught within a few hours from his escape. He is then sent to Prison Island … can he escape ?

Cast: Itsuji Itao, Jun Kunimura, Koji Ishizaka, Bonchi Osamu

Movie: Zoo
Romaji:
Japanese:
Director: Masaki Adachi, Ryu Kaneda, Hiroshi Ando, Komiya Masatetsu, Junpei Mizusaki
Writer: Otsuichi (novels)
Producer:
Cinematography:
Release Date: March 19, 2005
Runtime: 119 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Patrick Harlan – Gaijin
Yui Ichikawa – Rimiko
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Ryoko Kobayashi – Kazari and Yoko
Miyuki Matsuda
Sakamatsu Mei
Jun Murakami
Kato Rubi
Kenta Sugasaki – The child
Tetta Sugimoto – Papa
Kyoka Suzuki – Mama
Anju Suzuki
Kasumi Suzuki
Jun Matsumoto
Haruka Kinami
Nahana

 
Movie: The Kiss
Romaji: Seppun
Japanese: 接吻
Director: Kunitoshi Manda
Writer: Kunitoshi Manda, Tamami Manda
Producer:
Cinematographer
Release Date: March 8, 2008
Runtime: 108 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul. Despite the worries of the killer’s lawyer, she approaches the killer and the two start corresponding.
Cast

Eiko Koike
Toru Nakamura
Etsushi Toyokawa
Kozo Sato

Movie: Nigai Mitsu
Romaji: Nigai Mitsu
Japanese: 苦い蜜 ～消えたレコード～
Director: Yukinori Kameda
Writer: Yukinori Kameda
Producer: Yachiyo Murakami, Toshiko Okano
Cinematographer: Nobuhisa Ito
Release Date: April 10, 2010
Runtime: 103 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Cast

Noboru Kaneko – Mikage
Kimiko Ikegami – Ueda
Ken Tanaka – Wada
Mikie Hara – Izumi
Tadasuke Haranishi – Yuzuki
Pal Hazuki – Ueki
Arthur Hollands – Maeda
Kenta Kamakari – Kanou
Shinya Kokontei – Suzuki
Taro Morimoto – Sawada
Ryota Nakanishi – Kubo
Mizuho Sakata – Mizuho
Kotono Shibuya – Takigawa
Junshi Shimada – Sato
Akinori Sumiyoshi – Sakai
Hiromi Takahashi – Takagi