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Sakura Ando and Arata Iura to star in movie adaptation of Banana Yoshimoto's "Asleep"

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Sakura Ando and Arata Iura in Asleep (2015 Japanese movie) Sakura Ando and Arata Iura will star in a movie adaptation of Banana Yoshimoto's 1989 novel Asleep (Shirakawa Yofune) directed by Shingo Wakagi. The film marks the second time the two have co-starred together, having played siblings in Yang Yong-hi's 2012 film Our Homeland. Ando will play a woman named Terako who has an affair with a married man named Iwanaga (Iura) as his wife lays in a coma. Terako's best friend Shiori (Mitsuki Tanimura) earns a living as a...

Beauty contest winner Miyu Yoshimoto to play evil schoolgirl in "Tsumi no Yohaku"

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Tsumi no Yohaku image 2 17-year-old Miyu Yoshimoto, winner of Oscar Promotion's 13th annual "Japan Bishojo Contest" will play an evil schoolgirl in Yukichi Otsuka's Tsumi no Yohaku. Yoshimoto made her starring film debut in Toshihiro Goto's Yume Haruka earlier this year, playing a 15-year-old girl who maintains her positive outlook on life in spite of being diagnosed with a brain tumor. The new film is based on a 2012 mystery novel by You Ashizawa which won the...

Full trailer for spy thriller "Joker Game" featuring new theme song by KAT-TUN

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The official website for Yu Irie's "Joker Game" starring Kazuya Kamenashi has been updated with a new 90-second trailer featuring the film's newly-announced theme song "Dead or Alive" by Kamenashi's band KAT-TUN.

Kamenashi plays a man named Kato who's recruited by former spy Colonel Yuuki (Yusuke Iseya) to join a secret intelligence agency called D Kikan during the lead-up to World War II. His first mission involves infiltrating an international Asian city and stealing a critical "black notebook" from a US Ambassador. Kyoko Fukada co-stars as a mysterious woman named Rin whom Kato crosses paths with on his mission.

"Joker Game" will be released in Japan on Jan 31, 2015.

First teaser for sci-fi action thriller "Strayer's Chronicle"

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The official website for Takahisa Zeze's upcoming action sci-fi movie "Strayer's Chronicle" (out June 2015) has been updated with a new 60-second teaser trailer.

Based on a 3-act series of novels by Takayoshi Honda, the movie revolves around two groups of young people who were the subjects of secret experiments conducted during Japan's bubble economy of the 1990s. One group were given superhuman physical abilities through a process of forced evolution and the other group was given the abilities of animals and insects by splicing their DNA.

Masaki Okada stars as Subaru, the leader of the first group who's forced to work for a politician named Kouichiro Watase (Tsuyoshi Ihara) who holds the key to the test subjects' built-in kill switch. Shota Sometani co-stars as Manabu, leader of a rival group called "Ageha" which is determined to assassinate Watase.

Teaser for romance/mystery "Initiation Love" starring Shota Matsuda and Atsuko Maeda

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The official website for Yukihiko Tsutsumi's Initiation Love (out May 23, 2015) has been updated with a new 30-second teaser trailer.

The movie stars Shota Matsuda as a job-hunting college student named Yuuki Suzuki who becomes involved in a relationship with a dental hygienist named Mayuko Naruoka (Atsuko Maeda) while living in Shizuoka in the late 1980s. However, when he later moves to Tokyo for a new job and begins spending time with a woman named Miyako (Fumino Kimura), his relationship with Mayuko begins to fall apart.

The original Kurumi Inui novel on which the film is based is famous for a sudden turn from romance to mystery in the final two lines which causes many readers to go back to the beginning and re-read it. This shift is depicted in the final 5 minutes of the film and represented by the rewind sequence of the teaser.

Mamoru Hosoda directing new animated fantasy film "Bakemono no Ko"

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Bakemono no Ko Japanese movie poster On Thursday, a press conference was held at Toho's headquarters in Yurakucho, Tokyo to announce a new animated film written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars) titled Bakemono no Ko (The Boy and the Beast). The project marks Hosoda's first animated feature film since 2012's Wolf Children. Based on an original screenplay, the film revolves around a connection between the human world in Shibuya and the bakemono (monster) world "Jutengai". When a young...

First teaser for "Biri Gyaru" starring Kasumi Arimura

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The official website for Nobuhiro Doi's "Biri Gyaru" has been updated with a new 30-second teaser trailer.

Based on a novel by teacher Nobutaka Tsubota, the film stars Kasumi Arimura as 2nd-year high school student Sayaka Kudou. Sayaka is a bleach-blonde "gyaru" who's always cared more about fashion than her studies. Because of this, she's at risk of failing her classes and her scholastic aptitude is comparable to that of a 4th grader. However, a frank discussion with a cram school lecturer who recognizes that she's actually far more intelligent than she lets on motivates her to spend the next year working toward getting accepted into Keio University.

Full trailer for Shunji Iwai's first animated film "The Case of Hana & Alice"

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The official website for Shunji Iwai's The Case of Hana & Alice (out Feb 20, 2015) has been updated with a new 1-minute trailer.

Serving as a prequel to Iwai's 2004 coming-of-age film Hana and Alice, the animated feature tells the story of how the title characters first met in junior high school. Tetsuko Arisugawa, aka Alice (Yu Aoi), transfers schools and begins hearing rumors of a local murder mystery. Her subsequent investigation leads her to Hana Arai (Anne Suzuki), a supposed witness who has been absent from school recently.

The new trailer comes with the announcement of additional voice actors, including several returning members of the original live-action cast:

Ryo Katsuji as Kotaro Yuda
Haru Kuroki as Satomi Hagino-sensei
Tae Kimura as Yuki Tsutsumi
Sei Hiraizumi as Kenji Kuroyanagi
Shoko Aida as Kayo Arisugawa
Ranran Suzuki as Tomomi Mutsu
Tomohiro Kaku as Asanaga-sensei
Midoriko Kimura as Tomomi Arai

via Anime News Network


New poster visual for live-action "Attack on Titan" film reveals gigantic scale of a Titan

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Attack on Titan theatrical poster visual The official website for Shinji Higuchi's upcoming 2-part live-action adaptation of Hajime Isayama's popular manga Attack on Titan has been updated with the visual for the theatrical poster. The poster includes the simple tagline "The world is cruel." and demonstrates the immense scale of a Titan in comparison to the film's lead character, Eren (played by Haruma Miura).

Full trailer for live-action "Otoko no Isshou" film

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The official website for Hiroshi Sato's live-action adaptation of "Otoko no Isshou" (out Feb 14, 2015) has been updated with a new full trailer.

Based on a manga by Keiko Nishi, the movie stars Nana Eikura as a young woman named Tsugumi Dozono who decides to move into her grandmother's home after she passes away. However, she soon discovers a middle-aged man named Kaieda (Etsushi Toyokawa) also had a set of keys to the home and was staying in the guest house. Tsugumi is initially confused about what sort of connection this man had to her grandmother, but has no choice but to let him stay there until she's officially granted ownership. Eventually, the awkward living arrangement leads to Tsugumi and Kaieda developing an unconventional relationship of their own.

Teaser for live-action film "Poison Berry in My Brain" starring Yoko Maki

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Toho has released a new 30-second teaser trailer for Yuichi Sato's "Poison Berry in My Brain" (out May 9, 2015).

Based on a manga by Setona Mizushiro, the movie stars Yoko Maki as 30-year-old Ichiko Sakurai who experiences a moment of panicked indecision when she bumps into a younger man named Ryochi Saotome (Yuki Furukawa) whom she recently met at a party.

Ichiko's inner turmoil is depicted by a cast of five drastically different characters in her mind who voice their opinions on all of her life decisions before attempting to reach a consensus. They consist of the chairman Yoshida (Hidetoshi Nishijima), an energetic young man named Ishibashi (Ryunosuke Kamiki), a pessimistic woman named Ikeda (Yo Yoshida), a young girl in gothic lolita clothing named Hatoko (Hiyori Sakurada), and an older man named Kishi (Kazuyuki Asano) who acts as the group's record-keeper.

Trailer for live-action "Strobe Edge" movie

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Toho has released a new 99-second trailer for Ryuichi Hiroki's "Strobe Edge" (out Mar 14, 2015) featuring scenes from the film compared to similar panels from Io Sakisaka's original manga.

The movie stars Kasumi Arimura as a first-year high school student named Ninako Kinoshita who has no experience in love. One day she meets a popular boy named Ren Ichinose on a train and from that point on she starts encountering him more regularly as she gradually develops feelings for him. However, Ren already has an older girlfriend. As the relationship of these two is explored, several other people in their lives must deal with their own feelings of unrequited love.

Full trailer for "Samu Life" starring Takahiro Miura

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Bitters End has released a new 90-second trailer for Takeshi Moriya's "Samu Life" (out Feb 28, 2015).

Based on an autobiographical novel by "SamuGaku" school founder Hidetaka Nagaoka, the movie stars Takahiro Miura as a former high school teacher who becomes disillusioned with the traditional education system. He works at a shot bar to earn enough money to fund his own non-profit school dedicated to self-motivated, goal-oriented learning as he teams up with a group of like-minded teachers played by Mayu Matsuoka, Masaki Kaji, Reiya Masaki, and Ryosuke Yamamoto.

Full trailer for "Kuchibiru ni Uta o" starring Yui Aragaki

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The official website for Takahiro Miki's "Kuchibiru ni Uta o" (out Feb 28, 2015) has been updated with a new 97-second trailer.

Based on a novel by Eiichi Nakata (a pen name of Otsuichi) which itself was inspired by Angela Aki's song "Tegami ~Haikei Juugo no Kimi e~", the movie stars Yui Aragaki as a genius pianist and part-time teacher named Yuri Kashiwagi. When her former colleague Haruko goes on maternity leave, Kashiwagi temporarily takes over her position as choral advisor at a middle school in Nagasaki Prefecture. When Kashiwagi arrives, her first assignment for her students is to write a letter to themselves 15 years in the future. The letters they write eventually reveal their secret worries and concerns about reaching adulthood.

Trailer for indie film "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" starring Rinko Kikuchi

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kumiko-the-treasure-hunter A trailer for has been released for David and Nathan Zellner's "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" via Yahoo! Movies. The atmospheric indie film stars Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi (Pacific Rim, Babel) as a lonely, jaded young woman from Tokyo who, after finding a hidden copy of the Coen Brothers' 1996 movie Fargo on VHS, becomes convinced that the case of money hidden in the movie is real. Believing that she's discovered a treasure map to the location of the money, Kumiko travels to rural...

Teaser trailer for live-action "Yokokuhan" movie starring Toma Ikuta

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The official website for Yoshihiro Nakamura's "Yokokuhan" (out June 6, 2015) has been updated with a 30-second teaser trailer.

Based on a manga by Tetsuya Tsutsui, the movie stars Toma Ikuta as a man named Gates who heads a mysterious group called "Shinbunshi". Shinbunshi wear newspaper masks and post internet videos informing the public of crimes they plan to commit in the name of vigilante justice. Erika Toda co-stars as Erika Yoshino, an elite inspector from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's cyber crime division who's attempting to track down the members of Shinbunshi, even as they begin to win over the support of the general public.

Two new trailers for Yukihiko Tsutsumi​'s "The Mourner"

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The official website for Yukihiko Tsutsumi's The Mourner has been updated with two new theatrical trailers.

Based on a Naoki Prize-winning novel by Arata Tendo, the movie stars Kengo Kora as a man named Shizuto who's spent years roaming from place to place mourning for the recently deceased, even though he has no personal connection to them.

Shizuto eventually catches the attention of a cynical magazine reporter named Makino (Kippei Shiina), a mother named Junko (Shinobu Otake) who was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and a woman named Yukiyo (Yuriko Ishida) who was recently released from prison for murdering her husband. After witnessing Shizuto mourning her late husband, Yukiyo begins following him on his journey.

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Trailer for Kei Horie's "Forget Me Not"

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A new trailer has been added to the official website for Kei Horie's "Forget Me Not" (Wasurenai to Chikatta Boku ga Ita, out Mar 28, 2015) featuring the movie's newly-announced theme song, 2LDK by CreepHyp.

Based on a fantasy romance novel by Mizuho Hirayama, the film stars Nijiro Murakami as a high school senior named Takashi Hayama who falls in love with Azusa Oribe (Akari Hayami) as soon as he meets her. However, one day Azusa makes a strange confession, telling Takashi that people forget she exists within a few hours of being with her. Takashi doesn't believe her at first, but when he realizes that his memories of her really are slipping away, he begins documenting their time together by taking notes and recording video.

Teaser for live-action "Jinuyo Saraba" starring Ryuhei Matsuda

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The official website for Suzuki Matsuo's "Jinuyo Saraba: Kamuroba Mura e" (out April 4, 2015) has been updated with a new 51-second teaser trailer.

Based on a manga by Mikio Igarashi which was originally serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic from 2007-2008, the movie stars Ryuhei Matsuda as a bank employee who suddenly develops a crippling phobia of money. Because of this, he moves to a poor village in the Tohoku region where he attempts to live a money-free life by bartering with the bizarre locals for everything he needs.

Additional co-stars include Sadao Abe, Takako Matsu, Fumi Nikaido, and Hairi Katagiri.

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