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Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its refugee-status. Life becomes unpredictable and their days in Japan seem numbered. A haunting story about the balancing act of finding your place in the world.
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Режиссёра Юсукэ приглашают поставить «Дядю Ваню» для театрального фестиваля в Хиросиме. По условиям договора он не может сам водить машину, поэтому ему предоставляют девушку-водителя — молчаливую Мисаки. Проводя вместе по несколько часов в день, Юсукэ начинает переосмыслять свои отношения с женой, с которой они жили, казалось, в счастливом браке до её внезапной смерти два года назад. А Мисаки пытается разобраться с собственным непростым прошлым.
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The story of a would-be actor, his larger-than-life classmate and their friends. Unfolding their past and present, Sasaki in My Mind looks head-on at adolescent sparkle and the pathos of bygone days.
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Pursued by loan sharks, Aoyama is rescued by a mysterious man in orange overalls, and spirited away to “The Town,” where other dropouts hide out from debtors, abusive partners or the police. It’s a perpetual holiday resort where every need is catered to but hidden in it is a sinister conspiracy.
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All the people surrounding her refuse to express their feelings and emotional boundaries. The resulting everyday life is characterized by ruthlessness: Even friends reduce each other to their appearance and shamelessly take advantage of each other. Minori runs against this by attacking ignorance whenever she encounters it, whatever the consequences might be.
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Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced man comes across a woman during his working day and sparks fly.
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Хару и Рэо вместе играют в инди-дуэте. Неожиданно их музыка становится популярной. Но несмотря на успех, девушки решают больше не выступать вместе. Перед распадом они решают отправиться в тур вместе со своим техником Симой.
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Любовный треугольник, который захватывает всю магию и меланхолию лета, концентрируясь на мимолетных моментах и встречах, пережитых его тремя главными героями.
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Переехав из Токио в маленький город, в новой школе старшеклассница Харука сталкивается с буллингом. Как хорошая дочь, не желающая создавать проблемы родителям, девушка пытается не реагировать, а после и вовсе перестаёт ходить в школу. Но однажды одноклассники преступают черту и поджигают дом Харуки: её родители гибнут, а младшая сестра получает сильные ожоги. Вот теперь-то и пришло время обратить на задир внимание и расквитаться со всеми виновными.
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Ryutaro Ninomiya, 27 years old, lives a fairly simple life. He works at an auto-repair shop, reads books and drinks a few beers. One day, he receives a phone call from Yusuke, his childhood friend whose mother, Ryuko, is dying from Hepatitis C. Despite knowing for a while that Ryuko was sick, Ryutaro hasn’t visited her, but today he decides to go.
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Драматург уезжает из города, чтобы пожить тихой и спокойной жизнью. Но не тут-то было — он сталкивается с взбалмошной женщиной, которая тут же проявляет к писателю недвусмысленный интерес.
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После просмотра странной видеозаписи над двумя девушками нависает проклятье. Чтобы избавиться от него, они отправляются в заброшенный дом. Подруги провоцируют столкновение двух смертоносных демонов и становятся свидетелями их эпической схватки.
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Drama clubs from an all boys high school and an all girls high school hold a joint training camp. The schools are set to merge the following year. At the training camp, horrific and unusual events take place. Soon, the students learn that Dorome an old mountain legend is responsible.
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Nobuhiro Yamashita shoots the adaption of the City Lights manga by Hiroyuki Ohashi with three members of the Nogizaka46 idol pop band. The story is told on three levels: Documentary-style on-set where we see the film being made and the idols struggling with their roles, the resulting movie which revolves around three girls in a psychic research club discovering a classmate with super powers who turns out to be an alien and a stage adaptation of the film with the same characters.
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Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first time in ages. On the way Haji has an accident, and wakes up to find himself transported back to high school with his adult body in tact.
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Sone and Utsunomiya are best friends who share the same hobby. When Utsunomiya realizes Sone has become a target of hazing, she offers help, but Sone persistently refuses.
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A young couple's lives take a turn for the worse after a mysterious attack on the husband leaves him suffering from some bizarre after effects.
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Three stories, depicted in three different styles, unfold in three locations: "Kyoto", a lyrical improvised drama based on documentar y footage following local rappers, which is blended with fiction; "Okinawa", a documentary about intriguing characters who Yamamoto met by chance; and " Tokyo", an otherworldly love story about a man dealing with loss who drifts through life, and a woman who pretends to be his deceased wife.
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Having worked in a wide range of fields from children's TV animation scripts to 'pink' films, independent auteur Okishima Isao directs and stars in this documentary. Upon hearing that the walkway along the Tamagawa Aqueduct, one of his favorite spots, was going to be closed to make way for a new road, he gathered his crew to document the scenery. Okishima gives accounts of various painters, writers, and manga artists, as well as his personal take on Saigyo, the traveling poet and Buddhist priest of the late Heian Period.