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眉山
© 2004 Toho/ TBS/ Hakuhodo DY Media Partners/ SDP/ Mainichi
Sakiko’s mother is diagnosed with cancer and she returns home to care for her dying mother. What she doesn’t expect is that she will come to discover the existence of her father, a hidden truth her mother has concealed for many years. |
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| Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World 睇ed |
世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ
© 2004 Toho/ TBS/ Hakuhodo DY Media Partners/ SDP/ Mainichi
Sakutaro is at loss when his fiancee Ritsuko suddenly leaves him. By chance, he sees her on TV during a weather report and he follows her to Shikoku. |
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| Fly, Daddy, Fly |
フライ、ダディ、フライ
© 2005 FLY, DADDY, FLY Film Partners
Suzuki’s world is shattered when his teenage daughter is brutally attacked. The assailant Ishihara, son of a politician, brazenly mocks Suzuki as he throws him cover-up money. |
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| Hinokio |
ヒノキオ
© 2005 Shochiku, Image, Movie Eye, H-Partners, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Rentrak Japan, Takara, KTV, Eisei Gekijo, I & S BBDO
(Canberra only)
After an accident in which his mother dies, Satoru stops going to school, spending his days confined to his room. His sole link with the outside world is through a robot named Hinokio, which Satoru manipulates via his computer. |
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| Honey and Clover |
J ハチミツとクローバー
© 2006 “Honey and Clover” Film Partners
Takemoto, Mayama, Morita and Yamada are four young students at Hama Art College who live in the same housing complex. When new student Hagumi enrolls for the semester, it sends Takemoto and Morita reeling for her. |
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| Linda Linda Linda |
リンダ リンダ リンダ
© 2005 Linda Linda Linda Partners
Three girls form a rock band at their high school, but things go awry when the guitarist breaks her fingers and the vocalist storms out only days before their performance at the school festival.
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| Love and Honor 睇ed
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武士の一分
© 2006 Love and Honor Film Partners
Shinnojo, a young samurai employed as a poison taster for his clan enjoys a peaceful life with his beautiful wife, Kayo. His dreams of opening a Kendo school are shattered when he tragically loses his eyesight after being poisoned. |
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| Maiko Haaaan!!! |
舞妓Haaaan!!!
© 2007 Maiko Haaaan!!! Film Partners
Maiko tragic Kimihiko gets his dream come true when his company transfers him to Kyoto - maiko (apprentice geisha) central. Despite having a blog dedicated to maiko, he has never made it into an ochaya (a tea house where maiko entertain). |
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| One Stormy Night
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あらしのよるに
© 2005 Stormy Night Film Partners
A wonderful and unusual friendship begins when Mei, a goat, seeks refuge in a worn shack in order to avoid the storm. In stumbles Gabu, a wolf, also seeking shelter. |
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| Sea Without Exit |
出口のない海
© SEA WITHOUT EXIT Film Partners
As the end of WWII approaches, a lone submarine proceeds below the surface, avoiding enemy attack. |
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| Spring Snow |
春の雪
© 2005 Toho, Fuji TV, Hori Pro, S.D.P, Hakuhodo DY Media
Japan during the Taisho Era (1912-1926) faced dramatic change, as traditional values mixed with Western ideas. Spring Snow is a tragedy set in this period, between two aristocratic families struggling to find their place in the new society. |
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| Summer Days with Coo |
河童のクゥと夏休み
© 2007 Masao Kogure/ Summer Days with Coo Committee
It is summer, and fourth grade student Koichi stumbles across a dormant kappa (Japanese mythical water creature) on his way home from school. He names his new friend ‘Coo’. |
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| Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters |
立喰師列伝
© 2006 MAMORU OSHII, Production I.G / TACHIGUISHI RETSUDEN Committee
A social history of postwar Japan told through the eyes of fictional fast food criminal clan, the Grifter |
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| The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
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アヒルと鴨のコインロッカー
© 2006 “2 Ducks” Film Partners
Shiina, a university freshman, begins an unlikely acquaintance with his mysterious new neighbour Kawasaki. Their fates are brought together by a shared love for Bob Dylan’s classic “Blowin’ In the Wind”. |
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| The Mansion of the Ghost Cat |
亡霊怪猫屋敷
© 1958 International Television & Film, Inc.
When Dr. Tetsuichiro Kuzumi moves his practice to the countryside in order to allow his wife to regain her health, little does he know that an evil spirit haunts the mansion they have rented. |
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| The Milkwoman |
いつか読書する日
© 2004 Paradise Cafe
50 and unmarried, Minako lives a predictable, unassuming existence in a small town. Each day after delivering the town’s milk she works at the local supermarket. |
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| The Suicide Song |
伝染歌
Urban legend has it that an infectious Hungarian song back in 1933 caused the mysterious death of many people. |
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| The Sword of Alexander |
大帝の剣
© 2007 THE SWORD OF ALEXANDER Production Companies
It is said that hidden on earth are three sacred treasures made from a special element called ‘orichalcum’. With all three treasures, the owner will possess great power beyond imagination. |
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| Tokyo Tower- Mom & Me and Sometimes Dad |
東京タワー
© 2007 TOKYO TOWER o.b.t.o” FILM PARTNERS
Masaya has always taken his mother for granted. After graduating from high school, he successfully enters an Art University in Tokyo, a place he always dreamed to be. |
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| We Shall Overcome Someday - Pacchigi! 睇ed |
パッチギ!
© 2004 Cinequanon
Set in Kyoto in 1968, tensions arise when members of a Japanese high school karate group insult two girls from a neighbouring school for Korean students.
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