FILMS ARCHIVES 2024

2024/ Length: 95min / Drama , Feature / Release date: May 11th 2024
Tokio Takenaka (48) is a scriptwriter who's lost his passion for his work, and whose relationship with his wife Madoka (37) has turned sour. He spends his days lost in a haze. One day, a girl named Yoshimi Yokoyama (21) barges into his office, saying that she's a huge fan of his work and aiming to be a scriptwriter herself. Overcome by her enthusiasm, he agrees to take her in. As they work together, he begins to sense her talent as a writer, and at the same time, comes to feel sexually attracted towards her. Soon he's writing scripts that he's proud of again, and begins to feel fulfilled in both his private and work lives. But it doesn't take long before he learns about her boyfriend and fellow scriptwriter Hideo Tanaka (20). He becomes madly jealous, but…
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2024/ Length: 90min / Romance , Feature / Release date: May 24th 2024
A gender-swapped portrayal of aesthetic novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's masterpiece "Chijin no Ai", set in modern times. A story of love and wild lust, and ultimate masochism...

Naomi is a teacher who lives with a younger man named Yuzuru. On the day they met, she found him sitting by the side of the road, alone. Naomi felt that he resembled a thrown-away cat, and decided that she couldn't just leave him there. After that, she moved into a bigger house, taught him to study, and spent her meager salary on expenses for the two of them. There was no physical relationship between the two of them. She had simply taken pity on the poor man and given him a home, and now she would watch over him as he began to mature. At least, that was what she'd thought... But even while Yuzuru's wild ways were a source of frustration to her, she found herself falling for his charms... Sometimes she looks back and wonders what she should've done on the day she met him. She wants to open up to someone, but there's no one to open up to.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki is one of modern Japan's most famous literary figures, who lived through three major eras of modern Japanese history: Meiji, Taisho, and Showa. This movie is a bold retelling of his book "Chijin no Ai", a semi-autobiographical book that delves deep into the theme of "masochism", set in modern times and with the genders reversed.
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2024/ Length: 99min / Romance , Feature / Release date: May 24th 2024
A gender-swapped portrayal of aesthetic novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's masterpiece "Manji", set in modern times. A story of homosexuality and adultery, and destructive love...

Sonoda was a Japanese salaryman who couldn't give up on his dream of becoming a painter. He quits his job and begins attending an art school, relying on his lawyer wife, Yayoi, to pay the family's bills. At school he takes an interest in a handsome young man named Hikari. He invites Hikari over to model for a painting, and the two begin a sexual liaison. Meanwhile, he lets his relationship with his own wife slide. He refuses Yayoi's advances and drowns himself in his relationship with Hikari, only to discover that Hikari has a fiancée named Kaori. Sonoda begins to tell his tale to a doctor from his bed in a cold, sterile hospital room. This is just the prelude to a story of love and hate between men and women, and the strange fate they meet...

Junichiro Tanizaki is one of modern Japan's most famous literary figures, who lived through three major eras of modern Japanese history: Meiji, Taisho, and Showa. Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's masterpieces "Manji", an unflinching depiction of the destructive love between men and women who drown themselves in adultery and homosexuality.
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2024/ Length: 108min/ Horror/ Release date: Aug 23rd 2024
"I wish you'd all just die."

The Kamiki family has finally moved into their dream home.
But before the seven of them can start to enjoy their new life, tragedies and eerie events start to befall them.

As members of the family begin to die one after another,
Norio realizes there's something wrong with the house.

The legendary horror comic by Rensuke Oshikiri, famous for its intense terror and unrivaled catharsis, is finally coming to the big screen!

Koji Shiraishi, one of Japan's finest masters of horror, brings new terror to the world.
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2024/ Length: 60min/ Horror/ Release date: Mar 2024
A fully FPS (First-Person Shooter) Perspective Attraction-Style Horror Movie, Like Nothing Anyone's Ever Seen!

Do not watch if you have a weak heart!
Terror and immersion beyond your wildest imagination... Will you survive?

Suzu Sato (Narumi Michimoto) is attempting to escape the clutches of her obsessively controlling mother (Mana Minamihisamatsu) by finding a place in Tokyo to live in. Nobuo Kawakami (Tomochika Izumi) takes her on a tour of a certain property whose last owner, Takao Yamamoto (Hihio Iwanaga) went missing after falling behind on his rent. There's something unsettling about the place, but it seems like a great option, and at Nobuo's encouragement, she takes a look around it alone. Then, guided by an unearthly voice, she opens a door to another world and finds herself dragged through. When she wakes up, she's in a massive, abandoned building. There, she meets a man who claims to be Takao Yamamoto, who tells her that this world is ruled by a monster. You can't leave, and you can't even die. It's an endless hell with no escape...
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2024/ Length: TBA/ Drama/ Release date: Jun 2024
The story of two women who find themselves living together: a shy writer named Makio Kodai (Age 35), and her niece, Asa Takumi (Age 15).

It all starts at the funeral for Asa’s parents, who died in a car accident. When Makio hears her relatives callously arguing over who’ll be forced to take the now-orphaned Asa in, she explodes with anger and says she’ll take the girl in herself.
But the shy Makio quickly has second thoughts about living with another person, and Asa starts to get worried. Living together naturally causes each of them to touch the unhealed wounds inside each other, and as time goes on they begin to face the scars from their past.

It shows us a form of kindness that the world needs right now.
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