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Movie: Love Ghost
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Director: Kazuyuki Shibuya
Writer: Junji Ito, Naoyuki Tomomatsu
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Release Date: March 24, 2001
Runtime: 95 min
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Midori has just transferred high schools and returned to the town she lived in as a young girl. When Midori arrives at school she notices that a childhood friend, Ryusuke Shibayama, is also in her class. Meanwhile, a rumor about the beautiful boy fortuneteller at the Shrine comes up among the students right about the same time. They say the mysterious young boy who wraps himself in black clothing is so beautiful that he makes girls’ hearts stop as they fall under his spell.
Cast

Kumiko Akiyoshi – Kazuko
Mao Asami – Satou Naoko
Risa Goto – Fukada Midori
Shuntaro Hani
Hirotaro Honda – A doctor
Yuki Inomata – Suzuki Tamayo
Miki Ito
Kazusa Matsuda – Yamada Sanae
Ryuhei Matsuda – Shibayama Ryuuhei
Asumi Miwa – Tanaka Suzue
Hitomi Miwa – Enomoto Haruka
Yoichiro Saito
Yosuke Saito – A teacher
Takahashi Shinji – Tejima Koutarou

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Movie: Avatar
Romaji: Abataa
Japanese: アバター
Director: Atsushi Wada
Writer: Yusuke Yamada (novel), Teruo Noguchi
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Cinematographer: Toru Hirao
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Runtime: 92 min.
Distributor: Uzumasa
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Michiko (Ai Hashimoto) lost her dad in a car accident when she was 10 years old. After the car accident, Michiko has lived with her mother Kyoko (Mahiru Konno). Michiko, now in her 2nd year of high school, gets a cell phone from her mother as a birthday present. Michiko is so excited to have her very first cell phone. Soon afterwards, she is forced into joining social networking site “AvaQ” by classmate, and queen of the classroom, Taeko Awano (Rikako Sakata).

Initially, Michiko is not interested in the site or the world of avatars as she thinks of avatars as nothing more than a doll. But by chance, she becomes hooked on decorating her own avatar. In order to collect virtual money to dress her avatar Michiko blackmails a salary worker. During the annual AvaQ contest for the best dressed avatar, Michiko wins the prize. She now becomes queen of the classroom.

Michiko sets up an avatar club of odd gas masks. She also has plastic surgery to make herself look more like her avatar and becomes prettier. Michiko’s personality also changes. Trouble soon brews for Michiko when her home room teacher Mizokuchi (Toranosuke Kato) threatens her and fellow classmate Yamanouchi (Kazuma Sano) betrays her. Meanwhile, Michiko doesn’t even blink her eyes. She starts getting revenge.

Cast

Ai Hashimoto, Rikako Sakata, Nako Mizusawa, Haneyuri, Kazuma Sano
Mizuki Sashide, Mio Otani, Kayano Masuyama, Fumika Shimizu, Mahiru Konno, Toranosuke Kato

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Maya Okano, Kasumi Suzuki, Marin, Rena Nounen, Yuki, Risa Takag, Sayuri Otomo, Taku Suzuk, Pepe Hozumi, Yoko Oshima, Kenichi Takito, Yoichi Nukumizu, Kenichi Endo

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Movie: Castle Under Fiery Skies
Romaji: Katen no Shiro
Japanese: 火天の城
Director: Mitsutoshi Tanaka
Writer: Kenichi Yamamoto (novel)
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Release Date: September 12, 2009
Runtime: 139 min
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga’s (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during the Battle of Nagashino. The next year Oda Nobunada decides to build a lavish new castle symbolizing his unification of various factions. The castle named Azuchi Castle will be built near water and high enough to be seen from the capital city of Kyoto.

Cast

Toshiyuki Nishida – Okabe Mataemon
Shinobu Otake
Saki Fukuda
Kippei Shiina – Oda Nobunaga
Tokuma Nishioka
Ikkei Watanabe
Taro Yamamoto
Takuya Ishida
Renji Ishibashi
Susumu Terajima
Miki Mizuno
Takashi Sasano
Hiromasa Taguchi
Shozo Endo
Isao Natsuyagi
Koichi Ueda
Ken Maeda
Asahi Uchida
Naoto Ogata
Junichi Komoto
Jyonmyon Pe
Mami Kumagaya
Seizo Fukumoto

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Movie: Where The Legend Lives
Romaji: Maboroshi no Yamataikoku
Japanese: まぼろしの邪馬台国
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Writer: Shizuka Oishi, Kohei Miyazaki
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Release Date: November 1, 2008
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Studio: Toei Company
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Yohei (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with discovering the ancient country of Yamataikoku. His obsession sprouted from a day when he discovered ancient ceramics while repairing railroad tracks.

Now completely blind, Yohei relies on his wife (Sayuri Yoshinaga) to guide him through the country and read the maps in their pursuit of Yamataikoku.

Cast

Naoto Takenaka, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yosuke Kubozuka, Toru Kazama, Mitsuru Hirata, Tomoka Kurotani, Yumi Asou, Kanako Yanagihara

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Movie Title: Marronier
Release Date: 2004

Plot:
There’s this dollmaker Iwata who after throwing the corpse of his wife in backyard pond discovers that his backyard pond has the unique ability of transforming flesh into wax. How does he discover this? Well, he retrieves his wife’s corpse after a time of ripening and then shaves her down into doll-size. So now Iwata’s got a doll of his beloved wife, eternally beautiful. So what does he do? He sells it on the open market for mega-yen and quickly becomes a renowned doll (marronnier) artisan.

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Movie: The Hovering Blade
Romaji: Samayou yaiba
Japanese: さまよう刃
Director: Shoichi Mashiko
Writer: Keigo Higashino (novel), Shoichi Mashiko
Producer: Motoki Ishida, Junichi Kozuki, Masako Nagasawa
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Release Date: October 10, 2009
Runtime: 112 min.
Distributor: Toei
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

A middle school aged girl is dragged into a car while her screams fades away into the darkness of the night. The next day, the young girl’s body is discovered along the Arakawa river. Detectives Takashi Oribe (Yutaka Takenouchi) and Shinichi Mano (Shiro Ito) arrive on the scene and discover that the girl was drugged and sexually assaulted before being brutally murdered. Shortly later, the girl’s identity is discovered. Her name is Ema and she is the only daughter of Shigeki Nagamine (Akira Terao). Shigeki Nagamine is then called in to the station to identify her body. After identifying the body of his only daughter Shigeki loses the will to live.

One day, Shigeki receives a phone call from an unidentified person. The unidentified caller leaves Shigeki the names of two young men, Atsuya Tomotaki (Kohei Kuroda) and Kaiji Sukano (Ryosuke Okada), who killed his daughter and also leaves Shigeki the address of Atsuya Tomotaki. Shigeki already frustrated with the lack of progress in the police investigation, decides to go to Atsuya Tomotaki’s home.

Shigeki enters the empty apartment of Tomotaki and discovers a video tape containing two men drugging his daughter and then brutally assaulting her. Shigeki is now enraged. Atsuya Tomotaki then enters his apartment. Shigeki stabs Tomotaki to death with a knife, but before he is killed, Shigeki finds out the whereabouts of his accomplice Kaiji Sukano.

Det. Oribe and Det. Mano receives a letter from Shigeki Nagamine confessing to the murder of Atsuya Tomotaki. He writes that because the young men were minors they would have likely gotten light sentences. No matter what, Shigeki cannot forgive the men for what they did to his daughter. The detectives must now track down Shigeki who is a wanted fugitive, while Shigeki hunts for Kaiji Sukano.

Cast

Akira Terao, Yutaka Takenouchi, Shiro Ito, Miki Sakai, Hatsuo Yamaya

Additional Cast Members:

Houka Kinoshita
Hatsunori Hasegawa
Mansaku Ikeuchi
Naoki Miyata
Kohei Kuroda – Atsuya Tomotaki
Ryosuke Okada – Kaiji Sukano
Takahiro Sato
Yuji Nakamura
Fujiko

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