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6.3

♡ 2

Tomoyuki Takimoto Director

Kimiko Yo as

Sansei Shiomi as Kiyoshi Saegusa

Masato Hagiwara as Masahiko Asakura

Kanji Tsuda as Toshio Yamada

Near the slopes of Mount Fuji, there is a so called suicide forest, an infamous place where people who are tires of living have their last breath of air. The four different stories of this film all revolve around this place.

The Battery

2007

6.4

♡ 3

Sport

Yôjirô Takita Director

Sansei Shiomi as Ato

Tatsuo Yamada as Kusanagi

Yûki Amami as Makiko Harada

Masato Hagiwara as Makoto Tomura

Because of his younger brother’s poor health, Takumi and his family move to a different Japanese town. There, Takumi, an incredibly gifted baseball pitcher, gradually alienates his relatives and friends by putting sports above all else in life.

Café Lumière

2003

6.8

♡ 7

90%

Hsiao-Hsien Hou Director

Tadanobu Asano as Hajime Takeuchi

Masato Hagiwara as Seiji

Kimiko Yo as Yôko no keiba

Nenji Kobayashi as Yôko no otôsan

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.

The Lion Standing in the Wind

2015

6.5

♡ 1

Takashi Miike Director

Masato Hagiwara as Katsuhiko Aoki

Kumi Nakamura as Kiyomi Akijima

Renji Ishibashi as Masayuki Murakami

Satomi Ishihara as Wakako Kusano

Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.

Hiraite

2021

6.4

♡ 2

lesbian relationship

Romance

Rin Shutô Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Homeroom teacher Okanoya

Misako Tanaka as Izumi Shindo

Miu Suzuki as Mika Takeuchi

Masato Hagiwara as Takashi Nishimura

Ai has had a crush forever on her classmate Tatoe. When she finds out that Tatoe is in a secret relationship with another girl, she sets out to sabotage their plans for the future.

The Place Promised in Our Early Days

2004

6.8

♡ 61

71%

Makoto Shinkai Director

Hidenobu Kiuchi as Arisaka

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Hiroki Fujisawa

Masato Hagiwara as Takuya Shirakawa

Kazuhiko Inoue as Tomizawa

In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A mysterious high tower rises within the borders of the Union. Three high school students promise to cross the border with a self-built airplane and unravel the secret of the tower.

Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master

2001

6.2

♡ 8

based on novel or book

Yôjirô Takita Director

Hiroyuki Sanada as Douson

Sachiko Kokubu as Fujiwara no Tadako

Masato Hagiwara as Sawara-Shin'nou

Bob Papenbrook as Tachibana no Ukon

During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on the onmyōji to keep the supernatural forces in line. But as political events become highly charged, friction within the order leads to betrayal. Now, Seimei, a talented member of the clan, must face down his master, Dōson, in the hopes of restoring peace to the kingdom.

A Class to Remember

1993

7.0

♡ 3

japanese school

Yôji Yamada Director

Takashi Sasano as

Kunie Tanaka as

Masato Hagiwara as

Keiko Takeshita as

A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.

Akihabara@Deep

2006

5.7

♡ 1

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

Adventure

akihabara

artificial intelligence

evil corporation

otaku

Takashi Minamoto Director

Hiromasa Taguchi as

Shinobu Terajima as Fujiko Watarai

Haruma Miura as Izumu

Masato Hagiwara as Naoki Ensaka

Set in Tokyo's otaku mecca Akihabara, "Akihabara@DEEP" tells the story of five otaku who drop out of society and end up founding their own successful IT venture called Crook. But Nakagomi, president of an influential electronics company called Digital Capital, will do anything to get his hands on Crook.

Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight

2022

7.3

♡ 7

Romance

Takahiro Miki Director

Shô Nishigaki as

Maho Nonami as

Riko Fukumoto as Maori Hino

Masato Hagiwara as Yukihiko Kamiya

Maori agrees to date smitten classmate Toru on the condition that they don't fall in love. After all, she can only hold on to memories for 24 hours.

Shizukana ame

2019

6.2

♡ 5

based on novel or book