High school student Mariko sings in the choir at the all-girls school she attends, and her biggest dream right now is to go to a music college. One day on her way home from school, she accidentally drops her bookbag into the sea. A man jumps into the water and recovers the bag for her, but all of her score sheets have been ruined. From that day on, Mariko’s new acquaintance becomes her bodyguard, walking her home everyday. But for some reason, he refuses to tell her his name.

Spark

2017

Japanese

6.3

♡ 2

Action

based on novel or book

comedian

Drama

entertainment industry

hardship

japan

mentor

Itsuji Itao Director

Kenta Kiritani as Kamiya

Fumino Kimura as Maki

Masaki Miura as Obayashi

Masaki Suda as Tokunaga

Tokunaga is an unpopular comedian. He meets a senior comedian, Kamiya, who holds a strong faith in comedy. They struggle to move forward as comedians.

Undulant Fever

2014

Japanese

5.3

♡ 4

Action

Drama

Hiroshi Ando Director

Masaki Miura as

Kumi Nakamura as

Sakiko Takao as

Yui Ichikawa as Emiko

A female student falls for a senior, but the senior not really for her. He is willing to go to bed with her, but doesn’t feel love. The couple embark on a painful yet passionate experiment. Based on the legendary book by Kei Nakazawa.

Alley Cat

2017

Japanese

6.1

♡ 2

Hideo Sakaki Director

Yôsuke Kubozuka as

Ryôma Baba as

Masaki Miura as

Hiroshi Shinagawa as

A depressed ex-boxer (Yosuke Kubozuka) self-medicating for the injuries that ended his career finds a stray cat that brightens his day, but she is snatched up by a comical grungy mechanic (Kenji Furuya). Calling each other by the competing names they gave the cat, Maru and Lily, the odd pair is abruptly sucked into a political conspiracy with Saeko (Yui Ichikawa) and her son at the center. Witnessing another injustice in which the economic and social elite prey on the vulnerable, the two strays set off on the road to redemption, or at least peaceful cat ownership. (Fun fact: in addition to acting together in Alley Cat, Yosuke Kubozuka and Kenji “KJ” Furuya released the single “Soul Ship” in 2017. Kubozuka performs as Manji Line and Furuya in the band Dragon Ash.) -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Another

2012

Japanese

5.4

♡ 7

based on novel or book

Horror

japanese junior high schooler

Mystery

Takeshi Furusawa Director

Masaki Miura as Katsumi Matsunaga

Kento Yamazaki as Koichi Sakakibara

Bokuzô Masana as Ryoichi Kubodera

Kai Inowaki as Yuya Mochizuki

After a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara turns to a mysterious girl who holds the key to the dark mystery.

Small, Slow But Steady

2022

Japanese

6.9

♡ 7

100%

Shô Miyake Director

Makiko Watanabe as

Yukino Kishii as Keiko

Masaki Miura as Kobayashi

Tomokazu Miura as The Chairman

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

Blue Period

2024

Japanese

6.7

♡ 2

Kentarô Hagiwara Director

Hiyori Sakurada as Maru Mori

Noriko Eguchi as Mayu Oba

Fumiya Takahashi as Ryuji Ayukawa

Masaki Miura as Teacher Goto

Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It's an effortless performance, and, ultimately… a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst—and he's about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!

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