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Of Love & Law

Fumi and Kazu have a lot to teach us about love. When they decide to stick their necks out and create the first LGBTQ+ law firm in Japan, they are drawn into the lives of people searching for protection and support. Despite their own relationship having no legal status, they work pro-bono for long hours, all the while foster-parenting a teenager. We meet with a colourful cast of misfits, dissidents and artists – from a delightful eccentric being prosecuted for her kitschy vagina sculptures, to a troubled outsider who, as the child of an ‘immoral woman’, has no legal identity. A saying is repeated throughout the film, that one must ‘read the air’ – conform to the tacit conservatism that forbids sexual diversity. With love, humour and serious legal chops, Fumi and Kazu do exactly the opposite.

Of Love & Law

2.7 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
The King of the Drift

Qin Hao’s car accident caused him to have an instinct for speed while concealing fear. Qin Hao made a living on a daily basis and on one day received a small shareholder of the CDF team, Liu Xiaofei, and came to a black market. The black market drift he saw rekindled his dream of racing. Under the guidance of the tutor Chen Zihao, drift technology has advanced by leaps and bounds. He has begun to work hard towards his own dreams, but he has been riddled with thorns on his dream journey. Not only does he face trials from affection, love, and friendship, he also needs to overcome his inner fears. In the end, Qin Hao chose to persist and won the champion of the National Drift Contest.

The King of the Drift

3.0 2017
The Fall of Icarus: Narita Stories

A companion piece to The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories, which dealt with the protests against the construction of Narita Airport. Depicts the lives of youth who fought alongside farmers against the nation state. Farmers launched a protest movement after the government decided to build a giant airport on the farming land of Sanrizuka in Narita City. Youth who believed in their ability to change the world supported the farmers' protests. Fifty years have gone by. The camera examines what used to be there and brings to light the past era buried beneath Narita Airport.

The Fall of Icarus: Narita Stories

NR 2017
Ten Warriors of the Underworld

The Kanto-based Aoi-kai seeks nationwide domination and sets its sights on the Nagano-based Taketomi-kai. Tokunaga (Kiyoshi Nakajo), chairman of the Aoi-kai, launches an assault to bring them under his control. Eventually, Taketomi-kai’s leader Katsuo Taketomi (Yuichi Kimura) is gunned down, forcing the group to disband. As a result, Masaki Koda (Koichi Miura), father of Shinichi Koda (ISSA), announces his retirement. Shinichi, once a civilian running a construction business, loses everything as Aoi-kai expands into Nagano. Burdened by a promise to his father, the loss of his work, and his strained relationship with his half-brother Shigekazu (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) of the Aoi-kai, Shinichi heads to Kanto to fight back. Determined to live with pride, Shinichi’s resolve draws a group of unique, fearless men around him. Together, they ignite a fierce yakuza battle that marks the beginning of an epic underworld saga.

Ten Warriors of the Underworld

6.0 2017
Not in Textbooks 3

The third work in the "Not in Textbooks!" series, which is a live-action movie of a popular love comedy manga by Kazuto Okada from "Sundome" starring Ayaka Morikawa from the former AKB48. It depicts the love pattern that the main character, a high school girl Aya Shirakaba and a homeroom teacher, Arihiko Tairaku, living together for a long time. One day, Okubo, a senior student who noticed Aya who is very popular in the school with excellent looks, abducts Aya. Tairaku heads to the rescue and falls into the worst situation. On the other hand, in the school there was an incident in which May Yayoi took the students hostage.... Morikawa played the role of Aya Shirakaba, Ryouma Baba played the role of Arihiko Tairaku, and May, an English teacher longing for Tairaku, was the debut performance of the rising gravure idol Anna Hongo.

Not in Textbooks 3

3.7 2017
City Story

Zhen Zihao and his younger sister Zhen Xiaoyun were born in Longmen and depended on each other growing up. After Xiaoyun got into a conflict with others, she was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Zihao, who was released early for good behavior, later learned that his sister had taken her own life. He visited the relevant government departments to understand the circumstances of her death, then quietly buried her ashes alongside their parents. From that moment on, he vowed to uncover and bring down Zhou Qing, the person who had lured Xiaoyun into committing the crime.

City Story

NR 2017
Bao Zun

When the demonic Seonggun steals the power of the physical realm and tries to usurp the loser's position, the heavenly emperor seals the 'power stone', the power of the physical realm, to two female babies and hides them in the human realm to prevent the plot of the demon army. Years later, Ma-gun seduces Tang Mi-myeok, a woman from the Tang Dynasty, and informs her that there is a 'boshen statue' in the human world, who has been searching for a thousand years, and even finds her soul. However, this is a ploy by the demon army to find the two princesses and obtain the 'Skill Stone', and the ' Conservation Prize' is in danger... Will Sang' be able to awaken the divine power and protect the ability stone and the two princesses?

Bao Zun

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
Hello

When you are concerned with the needed, you have to understand what they really suffer. Lok-yan is a Form Five student. She is under great pressure of studying. She always stays at home alone and has meals in convenience store. Lam Hong is homeless. One day, they come across each other in the convenience store. Lok-yan is too young for purchasing alcoholic beverage. With the assistance of Lam Hong, Lok-yan could finally enjoy her first taste of beer. They become friends. However, Lok-yan finds out that she could hardly understand the difficulties which Lam Hong is facing.

Hello

5.0 2017
The Wind in Your Heart

Video artist Ryosuke visits the suburb of Furano in Hokkaido, where his friend lives, in order to shoot a video. His car breaks down and Ryosuke decides to walk to a house and ask for a phone. The person that opens the door is his former girlfriend and first love Haruka. They meet for the first time in 23 years. Even though Ryosuke knows that she is married, he takes her to his video shooting and they get close. Ryosuke leaves Hokkaido in 2 days and he asks Haruka to spend one more day with him.

The Wind in Your Heart

8.0 2017
The Trap

Ah Yeon looks sensual in those short tennis outfits she always wears. When Min Seok, a successful prosecutor encounters Ah Yeon in a parking lot of a tennis court, he happens to provide her with help unexpectedly. He later gets contacted by Ah Yeon frequently. Although Min Seok, the married man tries to refuse her excessive hospitality towards him, it’s not easy to refuse. One day, Min Seok receives a correspondence saying he is accused of bribery and then he realizes he might lose his position as a prosecutor. While his relationship with his wife has become unstable as well, he cannot stop thinking about Ah Yeon. He after all begins the relationship with Ah-yeon he should not have started.

The Trap

4.0 2017
Let's Get Lost

Ka-long, a wanderlust graduated from the University of Hong Kong, always dreams of backpacking to many countries with his guitar. While he believes he is trapped in Hong Kong, his family thinks that he is simply wasting his life and not settling down for a better future. He is getting more uplifted after he meets Wen-wen, a girl speaks with a Taiwanese accent. While they are dating, Wen-wen makes an effort to hide her true identity from Ka-long. Can they finally resolve the undercurrent of their relationship? Let’s Get Lost ultilises the thematic motif of road movie genre – both protagonists have to embark on a journey of revealing their true identity. As a result, the film widens its scope to the geo-political differences between Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.

Let's Get Lost

3.0 2017