- About Her Brother
(Sayuri Yoshinaga || Tsurube Shofukutei || Yu Aoi || Ryo Kase || Nenji Kobayashi || Haruko Kato || Yuriko Ishida || Takashi Sasano || Fumiyo Kohinata || Leo Morimoto) - Castle Under Fiery Skies
(Toshiyuki Nishida || Shinobu Otake || Saki Fukuda || Kippei Shiina || Tokuma Nishioka || Ikkei Watanabe || Taro Yamamoto || Takuya Ishida || Renji Ishibashi || Susumu Terajima || Miki Mizuno || Takashi Sasano || Hiromasa Taguchi || Shozo Endo || Isao Natsuyagi || Koichi Ueda || Ken Maeda || Asahi Uchida || Naoto Ogata || Junichi Komoto || Jyonmyon Pe || Mami Kumagaya || Seizo Fukumoto)
- Mai Mai Miracle (Anime)
(Voices: Mayuko Fukuda || Nako Mizusawa || Ei Morisako || Manami Honjou || Miyo Wakita)
- ALWAYS-Sunset on Third Street
(Maki Horikita || Hidetaka Yoshioka || Shinichi Tsutsumi || Koyuki || Hiroko Yakushimaru || Kazuki Koshimizu || Kenta Suga || Masaya Takahashi || Kaga Mochimaru || Toru Masuoka || Takashi Matsuo || Hiroshi Kamido || Hiroshi Kanbe || Magii || Yoichi Nukumizu || Pierre Taki || Kisuke Iida || Motosuke Iida || Yuichi Kimura || Masako Motai || Tomokazu Miura || Kuniko Asagi || Airu Shigemoto || Kaoru Okunuki || Kenjiro Ishimaru || Shigemitsu Ogi || Fumiyo Kohinata || Yasunari Kawabuchi || Hajime Okayama || Kosuke Suzuki || Eru Shigemoto || Taro Iwate || Hiroshi Kanbe)
- Parade
(Tatsuya Fujiwara || Karina || Shihori Kanjiya || Kento Hayashi || Keisuke Koide || Terunosuke Takezai || Maho Nonami || Yuri Nakamura || Misaki Momose || Bokuzo Masana || Midoriko Kimura || Renji Ishibashi || Masaki Miura || Natsumi Seto)
- Confessions (Takako Matsu || Masaki Okada || Yoshino Kimura || Mana Ashida || Makiya Yamaguchi || Yukito Nishii || Kaoru Fujiwara || Ai Hashimoto || Naoki Ichii || Kai Inowaki || Ayaka Miyoshi || Moto Hotaruno || Kasumi Yamaya || Ai Kuriki || Rena Nounen || Hiroki Nakajima || Ikuyo Kuroda || Hirofumi Arai || Kinuwo Yamada || Tsutomu Takahashi || Yuko Araki || Manami Hashimoto || Yuiko Kariya || Naoya Shimizu || Takahiro Ono || Ayuri Yoshinaga)
- Our Homeland
(Arata || Sakura Ando || Yang Ik-June || Kotomi Kyono || Tatsushi Omori || Jun Murakami || Shogo || Taro Suwa || Yoshiko Miyazaki || Masane Tsukayama)
- Rinco’s Restaurant (Kou Shibasaki || Kimiko Yo || Brother Tom || Tetsushi Tanaka || Mirai Shida || Dori Sakurada || Hikari Mitsushima || Yu Tokui || Taro Suwa || Jiro Sato || Hajime Yamazaki || Koichi Ueda || Kyoko Enami || Tomokazu Miura || Reiko Kusamura || Mao Sasaki || Miori Takimoto)
- Dear Doctor
(Eita || Tsurube Shofukutei || Kaoru Yachigusa || Kimiko Yo || Haruka Igawa || Teruyuki Kagawa || Yutaka Matsushige || Ryo Iwamatsu || Takashi Sasano || Midoriko Kimura || Tieko Itikawa || Masaya Takahashi || Kanzaburo Nakamura || Koko Mori || Sabu Kawahara || Kei Iinuma || Takao Kinoshita)
- KAMUI
(Kenichi Matsuyama || Koyuki || Hideaki Ito || Kaoru Kobayashi || Suzuka Ohgo || Ekin Cheng || Yuta Kanai || Sei Ashina || Anna Tsuchiya)
| About Her Brother (126 mins) Ototo おとうと http://asianwiki.com/About_Her_Brother In Tokyo, on a corner exists Takano Pharmacy. The owner is widow Ginko Takano (Sayuri Yoshinaga) who lost her husband a long time ago. Ginko has one daughter named Koharu (Yu Aoi) who lives with her, and also living with them is Ginko's mother-in-law Kinuo (Haruko Kato). Ginko's daughter Koharu is engaged to an elite doctor. The day before the wedding, Ginko receives a wedding invitation that she mailed to her younger brother. The invitation was returned to sender. In Osaka, Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro (Tsurube Shofukutei) works as an actor and is an alcoholic. Tetsuro has been estranged from the family since he made a drunken scene at Ginko's husband's 13th death anniversary. On the day of the wedding the mother-in-law is thankful that Tetsuro did not arrive. Ginko's older brother Shohei (Nenji Kobayashi) feels proud when Koharu states "...thank you for raising me." The atmosphere at the wedding is warm and calm, but later turns darker. Tetsuro, dressed in clean clothes, arrives at the wedding sweating. Shohei tells his younger brother "Please don't drink today." But, Tetsuro cannot help himself. With other young people at the wedding, Tetsuro starts drinking. Later, Tetsuro grabs the microphone and rambles incoherently. He then starts singing and knocks things over. Shohei can hear the groom's parents disproving comments. Shohei then tells them, "I will cut off all relations with Tetsuro ..." |  |
| Castle Under Fiery Skies (139 mins) Katen no Shiro 火天の城 http://asianwiki.com/Castle_Under_Fiery_Skies The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga's (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during the Battle of Nagashino. The next year Oda Nobunada decides to build a lavish new castle symbolizing his unification of various factions. The castle named Azuchi Castle will be built near water and high enough to be seen from the capital city of Kyoto. Notes:
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| Mai Mai Miracle (93 mins) マイマイ新子と千年の魔法 http://asianwiki.com/Mai_Mai_Miracle Shinko, a third grade elementary school student, loves to daydream about the world of one thousand years ago. Her fantasies travel far back into the days of the Heian Period (year 794-1185) ... One day a girl called Kiiko transfers from Tokyo and joins Shinko's class where they become good friends. Before long, the two of them become engulfed in a strange incident of one thousand years ago... |  |
| ALWAYS-Sunset on Third Street (133 mins) Always san-chome no yuhi ALWAYS 三丁目の夕日 http://asianwiki.com/Always:_Sunset_on_Third_Street Won 13 of Japan's 14 Academy Awards (inc. "Best Picture," "Best Director," "Best Screenplay) In 1958, with the impending completion of Tokyo's TV broadcasting tower as a symbol of Japan's escalating post-war economic recovery, rural schoolgirl Mutsuko (Maki Horikita) arrives from the provinces to begin her first job with Suzuki Auto. Initially impressed by meeting company "president" Norifumi Suzuki (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi), Mutsuko is shocked to discover her workplace is actually a shabby auto repair shop in Tokyo's down-at-heel Yuhi district. Suzuki is a bad-tempered employer but Mutsuko is welcomed by his wife, Tomoe (Hiroko Yakushimaru), and their impish 5-year-old son, Ippei (Kazuki Koshimizu). One of Ippei's favorite haunts is a five-and-dime store managed by struggling serial writer Ryunosuke Chagawa (Hidetaka Yoshioka). Regarding now-successful writers like Nobel-prize winner Kenzaburo Oe, as overrated, Chagawa wants to be more than a hack churning out sci-fi yarns and selling cheap toys on the side. When alluring newcomer Hiromi (Koyuki) opens a sake bar in the area, she gathers clientele quickly -- in dramatically compressed manga style -- but also finds herself lumbered with Junnosuke (Kenta Suga) the orphaned offspring of the bar's previous tenant. Drunk, and smitten by Hiromi, Chogawa accepts custodianship of the boy. |  |
| Parade (115 mins) パレード http://asianwiki.com/Parade_%282010-Japan%29 ”Parade" is the story of a strange living situation in a 2LDK apartment (having two bedrooms, a living-dining room, and a kitchen) in suburban Tokyo. There are five residents ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-eight: a male student with no evidence of any drive; Kotomi (Shihori Kanjiya), an out-of-work aspiring actress who longs for a celebrity boyfriend; Miki (Karina), a heavy-drinking female illustrator; Satoru (Kento Hayashi), a male prostitute with a spectator like attitude toward life; and Naoki (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a salaryman who works for a film distribution company and says strange things in his sleep. The roommates are not in any way romantically involved with one another, but one can see subtle hints of affection and friendship among them. In the end, however, none of them really know each other” |  |
| Confessions (106 mins) Kokuhaku 告白 http://asianwiki.com/Confessions_-_Japanese_Movie Middle school teacher Yoko Moriguchi's (Takako Matsu) life comes crashing down after the murder of her 4 year old daughter. Eventually Yoko Moriguchi suspects some of her own students to have been responsible for her daughter's death. An elaborate plan for revenge then ensues, including forcing students to drink HIV tainted milk |  |
| Our Homeland Kazoku no Kuni かぞくのくに http://asianwiki.com/Our_Homeland Sung-Ho (Arata) arrives in Japan, but his stay is only temporary. 25 years earlier, as a 16-year-old boy, he left Japan for North Korea with only a one way ticket. His father is an ethnic Korean living in Japan and sympathetic to the North Korea cause. Believing in the North Korean government's promises, Sung-Ho's father sent Sung-Ho to live in North Korea. Now, Sung-Ho is back in Japan. His stay is for only 3 months and he has arrived with other Japanese-North Koreans who have serious medical conditions. Sung-Ho is to receive medical treatment in Japan and he can also see his family during his stay. All the while, Sung-Ho is watched over constantly by North Korean compatriot Mr. Yang (Yang Ik-June). Sung-Ho knows any behavior that maybe construed as unsympathetic to his adopted country of North Korea could affect his wife and son back in North Korea. Meanwhile, his sister Rie (Sakura Ando) and mother (Yoshiko Miyazaki) bask in the return of normalcy of their family unit, even if its just temporary. “Our Homeland" is selected as Japan's submission to the 2012 Academy Awards "Best Foreign Language Film”. |  |
| Rinco's Restaurant (119 mins) Shokudo Katatsumuri 食堂かたつむり http://asianwiki.com/Rinco%27s_Restaurant A young woman (Kou Shibasaki) in her mid 20's becomes so heart broken she loses her voice. To recover, the woman decides to go back to her hometown and stay with her free-spirited mother whom she has not been very close to in the past. The young woman then decides to open a restaurant which accepts only one customer a day, allowing for thoughtful preparation for that customer. |  |
| Dear Doctor (127 mins) ディア・ドクター http://asianwiki.com/Dear_Doctor A young medical intern student named Keisuke Soma (Eita) is assigned to work in a remote countryside village. Keisuke at first takes the attitude that this assignment is below his creditentials. His thoughts soon change. Keisuke Soma then meets the small town's resident doctor named Dr. Ino (Tsurube Shofukutei), who is universally beloved by the town. The town doctor works diligently around the clock, while knowing virtually everything about the residents' illnesses and their family history. Keisuke follows Dr. Soma around and starts to learn things he never learned in medical school. A secret then emerges about Dr. Ino and the town must come to grips with this new knowledge of the man they so admired |  |
| KAMUI Kamui Gaiden カムイ 外伝 http://asianwiki.com/Kamui Kamui (Kenichi Matsuyama) is a ninja on the run in search of true freedom. However, he is burdened with the fate, where ninjas are not allowed to take the secret of their powers outside of the tribe -- if you are born as Ninja, you must die as Ninja. This brings Kamui to constantly fight for his life against other ninjas who tried to kill him and keep their secrets within. Kamui does not trust, and he does not love. Showing weakness leads to immediate death. An incident brings him to an old fisherman's village, where he finally starts to feel trust and affection towards other people. However, his pursuers are just minutes away from setting up a huge trap on Kamui. |  |
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