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Dear Friends
Kazuyuki Morosawa · 2007
Rina is the it girl. She is thin, has long hair, is flaunting and dresses attractively. Every man wants to be with her and every woman wants to be like her. She also happens to be self-absorbed, mean and nasty.
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Oresama
Kondo Hiroyuki · 2004
Japanese music legend Miyavi stars as himself in this time-traveling rock 'n' roll fantasy. On the last leg of a long concert tour that's kept him busy fending off adoring fans, Miyavi falls asleep and awakens to discover that the year is 1984. Miyavi wanders the streets before meeting a local musician named Shinni (Hassei Takano) and convinces him to form a new band. Ryôta Matsushima co-stars as Miyavi's younger self.
Death Note
Shusuke Kaneko · 2006
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Shunji Iwai · 2001
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
Love Exposure
Sion Sono · 2008
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
A Blue Automobile
Hiroshi Okuhara · 2004
Richio, a young DJ, is as emotionally non-existent as no other man on the planet. He uses his tough exterior to avoid attachments to people and society.
20th Century Nostalgia
Masato Hara · 1997
A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time, taking over his body to infiltrate and study humanity in order to find the reasons why our civilization is doomed to future destruction. He replicates the spirit of another alien in a girl that he meets, and together they use their video cameras to document modern urban Japanese society.
Haru
Yoshimitsu Morita · 1996
A young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its members through back and forth e-mails.
Initial D
Andrew Lau Wai-Keung · 2005
After winning his first competition, Takumi focuses his attention on drift racing, a sport he has unknowingly perfected while delivering tofu in his father's Toyota AE86.
Linda Linda Linda
Nobuhiro Yamashita · 2005
La historia comienza con el inminente concurso que se celebra en el instituto Shibazaki y con la separación de la banda. Su cofundadora, Kei, decide pedir a la estudiante de intercambio coreana, Son, que sea la vocalista del grupo. El problema es que Son no se sabe las canciones y apenas habla japonés y sólo quedan tres días para el concurso.
Solanin
Takahiro Miki · 2010
Meiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have his band become professional.
Noriko's Dinner Table
Sion Sono · 2005
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
Love Letter
Shunji Iwai · 1995
Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to be called Itsuki Fujii.
GO
Isao Yukisada · 2001
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
Eternal Summer
Leste Chen · 2006
Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen’s sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.
Love & Pop
Hideaki Anno · 1998
Baseado num romance de Ryu Murakami, o diretor Hideaki Anno abordou o tema do "namoro por ajuda",uma realidade das colegiais de Tóquio no final dos anos noventa. O filme é único na medida em que foi filmado com uma câmera de vídeo digital e assemelha-se muito às sensações das colegiais que corriam pelas ruas de Shibuya e Harajuku, prenunciando a chegada do "próximo século" ao mundo de Anno. As novas atrizes da época, incluindo Yukie Nakama e o popular ator Tadanobu Asano, participaram no filme. Hiromi é uma adolescente do mundo novo, Ela é conhecida como uma "kogal". Um dia antes das férias de verão, vai a Shibuya com as amigas Chisa, Nao e Chieko para comprar uma roupa de banho. No entanto, está tão desesperada por um anel de topázio que encontrou lá que pede a ajuda das outras três para conseguir o dinheiro para comprá-lo até à hora de fechamento da loja. Ela decide conseguir o dinheiro por meio dos encontros, No entanto, as experiências são todas terríveis.
A Touch of Fever
Ryosuke Hashiguchi · 1993
Tatsuru and Shinichiro’s relationship shifts from casual to complicated as love and emotions blur the lines between their work and personal lives.
Bounce Ko Gals
Masato Harada · 1997
Filmed somewhat in documentary style, it follows three girls over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Jonko runs a group of high school girls involved in paid dating, Raku is a street dancer, and Togo was brought up in the US and back in Japan for one year wants to escape to New York. Their contact with the world of talent scouts and yakuza places them in danger.
Goth
Gen Takahashi · 2008
Itsuki and Yoru share a passion for the dark and death, making them the perfect choice to track down a serial killer who is roaming the streets.
Blue Spring
Toshiaki Toyoda · 2001
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.
Nana
Kentaro Otani · 2005
Two girls named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo. Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O. hopes to make it big in the music business. Despite their differences, the pair hit it off and become roommates.
Kamikaze Girls
中島哲也 · 2004
Momoko (Kyoko Fukada) es una joven solitaria que vive en su propio mundo construido sobre la época rococó francesa y que tiene una visión muy particular de las cosas. Pero su mundo de disfraces y máscaras pronto se ve trastocado por la llegada de Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya), una gamberra motorizada que, al contrario de ella, prefiere el estilo norteamericano y necesita estar rodeada de gente en todo momento. Para ello se inventa una leyenda urbana que la hará sentir importante y gracias a la cual juntará una pandilla propia con Momoko. A partir de ese momento ambas iniciarán una inseparable amistad que las hará ver el mundo de forma diferente. Adaptación de una novela de Novala Takemoto (autor de las novelas Lolita).
