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Tokyo Black Hole: Year Zero in Post-WWII Japan

World War II comes to an end. Tokyo is a destroyed place, without law, driven by hunger and greed. From over 100,000 pages of declassified CIA documents and hours of newly discovered footage, recorded by American occupation charges and private individuals, the documentary shows Tokyo during this crucial year, Year Zero. Observed from the point of view of a young man who finds himself transported in time, the NHK documentary uses color images and state-of-the-art video techniques to reveal how a desperate population is published as the foundations of today's megalopolis.

Tokyo Black Hole: Year Zero in Post-WWII Japan

NR 2017
Keita Never Die

Keita Shimabukuro, a younger brother of Aki Shimabukuro who sells her body for a living, crashes in his sister's place. An evil plot by Sachi, the daughter of the leader of the Kimura gang, ends up with Keita dumped into a river. His body is washed ashore in heaven, where he sees his father Mitsuo, with whom he has lost touch for many years. By an unexpected twist of fate, Keita is resurrected but in the body of his sister. Now they have to share the same body with each other.

Keita Never Die

NR 2017
Blazing Wind - Strategist Takenaka Hanbei -

In the world of the Warring States, where rival warlords vied to take over all of Japan, a uniquely ingenious strategist made a name for himself: Takenaka Shigeharu (nicknamed Hanbei). Hanbei’s former opponent, Oda Nobunaga, recognized his genius. When Kinoshita Tokichiro (later Toyotomi Hideyoshi) visited under Oda’s orders, Hanbei realized that he had the potential to dominate Japan—he then became his vassal and led Hideyoshi to victory in many battles. This original ‘Warring States Musical’ seeks to show Hanbei’s true character—his shy and loyal nature, as despite his military exploits he didn’t care about making himself famous or wealthy; his marital love with Seishitsu Ine (Tokugetsu-In) who had longed for and supported him since their childhood; as well as his deep bond with his fellow strategist under Hideyoshi, Kuroda Kanbei.

Blazing Wind - Strategist Takenaka Hanbei -

NR 2017
A female college student is violated as a sacrifice in Yui Aikawa’s pervert village

Yukiko has passed her university entrance exams and her relationship with her boyfriend Koji is going well. Yukiko's life changes drastically when her father suddenly dies in a car crash. To ease the grief, Koji invites her on a trip and thanks to the change of the environment, Yukiko starts feeling better. Unexpectedly, their car breaks down in the mountains and there is no cell phone reception. The couple, seeking help find themselves at the desolate village called Magata. What awaits Yukiko there is hellish fate...

A female college student is violated as a sacrifice in Yui Aikawa’s pervert village

NR 2017
A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake

Etsuko (Rinko Kikuchi) was given the post to take charge in the launch of a web media site which specifically deals with the theme “the streets and the town of Tokyo”. So her recent daily routine was to walk around town searching for materials that may be suitable for the plan. One day she runs into a sake barrel stacked in a shrine in Kagurazaka (Shinjuku District, Tokyo), and she finds herself immediately interested in sake and it’s history with the Kagurazaka area. She decides to do a research, and calls photographer and long time friend Ikeda (Yota Kawase), and starts her quest for the secret of the fascinating sake and the historical town. For Etsuko, who had been stressed out by her busy work, her idea of gathering interesting informations and meeting people for her job turned out becoming an exciting journey which eventually leads Etsuko to reconcile with her peaceful heart and mind, which had always been her nature.

A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake

NR 2017
Once Upon a Dream

For the film’s 10th anniversary, experimental filmmaker Kei Shichiri (DUBHOUSE, JAPAN CUTS 2015) presents an all-new sound and image remastering of his tour de force film (formerly translated as Before the Day Breaks). Based on a manga by Naoki Yamamoto, the film follows Aochi, who sleeps and sleeps but never feels like she has slept enough. Shichiri, who explores the limits of sound and image in his diverse body of work, presents a highly evocative dramatic film in which humans barely appear on screen. The story is told through voiceover, sound and visions of dreams and landscapes. Over the years, the film has gained fans, including contemporary auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who compared the film to those by Jean-Luc Godard. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Once Upon a Dream

NR 2017
The Two Headed Dragon

Shinjuku has descended into chaos. Former Hanayuki family members Ryushin Takeda (Mikio Osawa) and Daisuke Tsurumi (Junichi Kawamoto) murdered their own boss and wakagashira, then began recklessly invading other territories. After their casino is hit, Hozumi (Seiki Nagahara), head of the Hozumi group under the Kurohime family, moves to retaliate—but the conflict is settled when Ryutaro Dojima (Yasukaze Motomiya), head of the Doryukai and Kurohime family Wakagashira aide, takes responsibility for the fallout. Intrigued by Takeda and Tsurumi, Dojima has them share sake cups and brings them into his family. At the same time, Chifumi Iwaguma (Hidekazu Akai), head of the Iwaguma group under Japan’s largest syndicate, the Udagawa-gumi, visits Hozumi and proposes a brotherhood pact. As everyone schemes to rise to the top, a new era of yakuza conflict begins.

The Two Headed Dragon

NR 2017
Curse [Noroie] House 2

The room laundering where she was a "poor girl" is to move into a house or an accident property for a certain period of time, and to eliminate the obligation to notify the accident property ([Instruction of important matters]), and to live in that room free of charge. It is said that you can get rewards from suspicious real estate companies and owners. Kureki decided to live in the room where the murder occurred. The former resident was a woman who was an office worker and was stalked by a certain man. He seems to have consulted the police several times, but he was repeatedly stalked by a man without any proper measures, and it seems that he was finally killed. One night, about two months after he started living in the room, Kureki was finally attacked directly by a spirit.

Curse [Noroie] House 2

NR 2017
The Wild Ones:  The Unorthodox Yakuza

Asamura Kitaro (Ozawa Kazuyoshi), a young assistant head of the Toyukai, is known in Kabukicho as the one-eyed Kitaro, and is feared as a mad dog that will not stop once he loses his temper. Asamura is strong in fighting but not in making money, and together with his brother Matsuo, he forcibly takes on the business of the rival Nishinaga clan. The Nishinaga clan tries to take Asamura's sister, Yuna, a singer, hostage, but Asamura retaliates against them and kills many members of the clan. When Asamura is arrested for murder, his timing is so good that he begins to suspect a connection between the police and Nishinaga-gumi.

The Wild Ones: The Unorthodox Yakuza

NR 2017
Ten Warriors of the Underworld: Chapter 2

To crush the Kanto-based Aoi-kai aiming for national domination, Shinichi Koda (ISSA), president of Koda Construction, heads from Nagano to Tokyo. At the request of Asagiri (TJ Kayama), he helps the former Hanazono Union leader, now on the run from the Aoi-kai. Shinichi’s former mentor, Takeharu Mori (Tetsu Watanabe), president of Mori Industries, is being driven to the brink of bankruptcy due to an eviction dispute with the Aoi-kai. Seeking a trigger to start the fight, Shinichi asks Mori for his cooperation. At last, the ten brave men are assembled. With his father's banner—the Koda-gumi—raised high, Shinichi leads them into a fierce war against the mighty Aoi-kai. "Now, brave men... it's time to rise."

Ten Warriors of the Underworld: Chapter 2

5.0 2017
COLD BLOOD: Three-Way Conflict 2

In the city, the Hayashida-gumi gang, led by boss Hayashida (Kazuyoshi Ozawa), and "RED CROW," led by Akazawa (Daisuke Uematsu), are engaged in a fierce conflict. Hayashida-gumi's second-in-command, Yabuta (Yu Shinagawa), fed up with the half-gangsters, unleashes Hachisuka (Ryohei Abe), a former Hayashida-gumi yakuza, who begins systematically eliminating members of "RED CROW." However, Hachisuka's target wasn't just "RED CROW"... Yabuta's affair with the Hayashida-gumi boss's woman is exposed by someone, leaving him in a desperate situation. Hayashida-gumi member Gokita (Kazuma Yamane), who was deeply in love with Yabuta, learns the truth and, in despair, decides to take shocking action... Yagi's subordinate, Yanagida, driven by his own ambition, independently infiltrates "RED CROW," only to discover his own madness... Could all of this be part of a "city-building game" orchestrated by Yagi...?

COLD BLOOD: Three-Way Conflict 2

NR 2017
Capital Conflict 2

The largest yakuza organization in Kansai, the Tenma-kai, has broken the agreement and begun advancing into Kanto. Enomoto (Yasukaze Motomiya), the assistant underboss of the Takeda Family in Kanto, is approached by the Tenma-kai with an offer to join them, but he refuses. However, due to a scheme by the Tenma-kai, the Takeda Family’s boss, Takeda Masaki (Nishioka Tokuma), is suddenly arrested on charges of extortion. Additionally, the family’s underboss, Miyamura (Jiro Okazaki), is ambushed and murdered. Enomoto suspects there might be a traitor within the family and begins an independent investigation. The suspects that emerge are the headquarters director Ishibashi Masayuki (Kawamoto Junichi), assistant underboss Sakai Takahiro (Miyamoto Taisei), and the young boss Makabe Mitsuhiro (Takanori Higuchi). One of these three is the betrayer...

Capital Conflict 2

NR 2017