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Alternative Title: Bandeiji | バンテイジ

Genre: Music, Romance

Film Date: January, 2010

Japanese Movie Cast: Akanishi Jin, Kasahara Hideyuki, Shibamoto Yuki , Kora Kengo, Kitano Kie

Description: Set in Japan in the 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands.Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite indie rock band; a LANDS CD, she becomes an overnight fan and sets her heart on the talented guitarist Yukiya.When they go to see them in concert, they sneak their way into the backstage area and Asako gets acquainted with some of the band's members. Natsu, the vocalist, is immediately attracted to Asako and begins bringing her along to the band's practice sessions. Though Asako enjoys it, she proves to be a distraction to the other band members and is soon ejected from the session by Yukari, their manager. But Natsu is determined to keep her around, pulling strings to make Yukari and Asako to become friends, and eventually, helping Asako to become LANDS co-manager.LANDS was formed among friends, but as the band begins to climb the ladder towards major stardom, they get in touch with the dark side of the music industry, discord surfaces, inevitable frictions emerge, and unrequited love strains their friendship, threatening to pull their bonds apart.

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Alternative Title: ワルボロ

Genre: Mystery

Film Date: September, 2007

Japanese Movie Cast: Aragaki Yui, Fukushi Seiji , Kimura Ryo, Matsuda Shota, Nakamura Toru

Description: Matsuda plays Ko, a third year junior high student during the 1980s that fights all through class and acts like a punk. One day he changes bodies with the school honor student!

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Alternative Title: Rofuto | ロフト

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Film Date: October, 2005

Japanese Movie Cast: Adachi Yumi , Toyokawa Etsushi, Nakatani Miki, Nishijima Hidetoshi , Suzuki Sawa

Description: Suffering from writer’s block, Reiko (Nakatani Miki) moves to a countryside villa at her editor’s beckoning, to quietly work on her next novel. Her new environment turns out to be anything but peaceful when she catches sight of her next door neighbor surreptitiously moving a thousand-year-old mummified corpse into his university lab for research. Though Reiko and her neighbor get off to a bumpy start, the two grow closer over time, enough so that Reiko eventually agrees to hide the mummy in her home. But the mummy isn’t the only unlikely guest within the walls, there’s someone or something else lurking in the background…

(1 vote(s), average: 8.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: ごくせん THE MOVIE | 極道鮮師

Genre: Comedy, School

Film Date: July, 2009

Japanese Movie Cast: Ishiguro Hideo, Kamenashi Kazuya, Miura Haruma, Nakama Yukie, Takaki Yuya

Description: A passionate teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Yankumi, is now overseeing the new students of Class 3D of Akado High School, who still have not opened up to her and are giving her a hard time.One day, the students of 3D get harassed by street hoodlums. Then, Reita, a leader figure of 3D, shows up and beats up the hoodlums, yelling “Keep your hands off my friends.” The next day, the guys beat up by Reita come storming into their school. Principal Sawatari berates the students for getting mixed up with a gang, and gives Kumiko an ultimatum: “You’re fired the next time a 3D student gets into trouble.” Then Reita tells Kumiko that he doesn’t want to owe her anything, and he takes off by himself to settle the score with the gang…Meanwhile, trouble was also brewing for the former 3D student who just graduated. The police are after Ren for being involved in an illegal drug transaction. Upset Kumiko tries to find him with the other former 3D students. However, they later find out from her grandfather, the head of the Oedo Family, the shocking identity of the mastermind pulling the strings of the drug deal Ren is being accused of…

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Alternative Title: Kamui | カムイ　外伝

Genre: Action

Film Date: September, 2009

Japanese Movie Cast: Ito Hideaki, Koyuki, Matsuyama Kenichi, Ohgo Suzuka , Ekin Cheng

Description: It is 17th century Japan and from a young age Kamui has been considered something of an outcast, even within his own ninja clan. Disillusioned with the laws and principles, which dictate that he must use his skills to kill others, Kamui chooses to leave his past behind him and go in search of true freedom. But for a ninja liberation comes at a price and the only way to escape the bonds of the ninja brotherhood is to die. Now a fugitive on the run from his clan, who are determined to hunt him down and eliminate him for his betrayal, Kamui finds himself constantly fighting for his life and unable to trust anyone. He eventually finds some solace when he meets an indomitable fisherman who saves his life and invites him to settle with his family. Unexpectedly, the arrangement brings Kamui face to face with a long-forgotten nemesis of his, another renegade ninja with a deadly score to settle. Meanwhile, the ninja army hunting Kamui is setting a trap from which there can be no escape…

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Alternative Title: Ballad: Na mo naki koi no uta | BALLAD 名もなき恋のうた

Genre: Action

Film Date: September, 2009

Japanese Movie Cast: Aragaki Yui, Kusanagi Tsuyoshi , Natsukawa Yui, Osawa Takao, Tsutsui Michitaka

Description: Shinichi runs away from his problems and the people he fears. When Shinichi prays to the great Kawakami oak tree for courage, he is plunged into ancient feudal Japan. He awakens in the province of Kasuga, in the midst of a battle. It is there he meets the great warrior samurai, called the Demon Ijiri. Ijiri is a worthy adversary in battle, but he proves to be a less successful lover. He has been in love with Princess Ren since his youth. She has fiercely loved him in return, rebuking offers of marriage in the hopes of marrying for love. When the powerful Lord Takatura asks for her hand in marriage, she dares not refuse him for the safety of her kingdom. When Shinichi’s family emerges from the future to search for him, they bring stirring news to the town elders. The Kasuga province had never been recorded in history, and their enduring battles with other clans were seemingly fruitless. In light of this news, Princess Ren is relinquished of her duty to marry the formidable Lord Takatura. Ijiri is overjoyed, as is the Princess Ren. Yet Lord Takatura is unaccustomed to rejection, and his rage results in a fearsome battle.

(1 vote(s), average: 7.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: 僕の初恋をキミに捧ぐ | Boku no Hatsukoi wo Kimi ni Sasagu | 属于你的我的初恋

Genre: Romance

Film Date: October, 2009

Japanese Movie Cast: Harada Natsuki, Inoue Mao, Moriguchi Yoko, Okada Masaki, Sugimoto Tetta

Description: Takuma, a boy who is told he will die before he’s 20, and Mayu, a girl who is in love with him…The story begins when they are little kids. Mayu, whose father is a doctor, meets Takuma, who is hospitalized in her father’s workplace. They develop feelings for each other, but Mayu learns of Takuma’s grave illness and that he will die before he turns 20. The distraught children make one promise for an uncertain future.Time passes, and the girl becomes a young woman, and the boy, a young man. Mayu continues to support and love Takuma. On the other hand, Takuma, who knows his days are numbered, pushes away his feelings for Mayu and distances himself from her. He cannot stand to see her cry or hurt her more than he already has. Then Mayu meets another man who has feelings for her, and Takuma meets a woman who has the same illness, and their feelings for each other begin to waver.Misunderstandings, unsaid thoughts, the frustrations and chagrin of youth… What will become of their love while the clock keeps ticking away in Takuma’s life?

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Alternative Title: 戀愛地圖 | アバウト・ラブ | 関於愛

Genre: Romance

Film Date: April, 2005

Japanese Movie Cast: Ichikawa Yui , Kase Ryo, Tsukamoto Takashi, Li Xiao Lu, Wilson Chen

Description: Three tales of love set in a trio of contemporary Asian hubs: Tokyo, Taipei & Shanghai.

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Alternative Title: あなたを忘れない | Anata wo Wasurenai | 너를 잊지 않을 거야 | 无法忘记你

Genre: Romance

Film Date: January, 2007

Japanese Movie Cast: Hara Hideko, Kaneko Takatoshi, Yoshioka Miho, Lee Tae Sung, Maki Onaga

Description: The film details the 26-year-old Korean student's experiences in Japan, including going to school and his developing romance with a Japanese student (Mākii). He died on January 21, 2001, along with a Japanese photographer, Shiro Sekine, while both were trying to save the life of a man who had fallen onto the tracks at the Shin-Ōkubo Station in Tokyo.

(3 vote(s), average: 6.67 out of 10)

Alternative Title: Starlit High Noon | Mahiru no hoshizora | 真昼ノ星空

Genre: Romance

Film Date: February, 2005

Japanese Movie Cast: Kashii Yu, Lee Hom Wang, Suzuki Kyoka

Description: Lian Song, a Taiwanese hit man, leads a double life: he carries out his assignments in Taipei, then hides out in Naha, Japan, until things cool down. He has a favorite laundromat in Naha where he goes on Saturday evenings because then a young woman named Yukiko happens to be there. Lian Song is in love with her, although he knows neither her name nor where she lives. His sweet little romance, however, has no chance to blossom, as his boss tells him to return to Taipei immediately: The police are on the heels of the gangster syndicates. For that reason, the gang Lian Song belongs to is negotiating with its rival, whose boss Lian Song has killed. The rival gang demands that Lian Song is handed over to them as a payback.