© マクガッフィン映画製作会社 MacGuffin fim production company

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Xiaogin transferred to the third school during his fifth year at high school. During the winter vacation, his grandparents tricked him into returning to the hotel which was founded by his parents. Xiaogin's classmates Little Princess and Lu Qun tagged along uninvited to escape being bullied at school.
While the three boys were temporarily staying at Xiaogin's family hotel, they quickly found out that the hotel was in terrible shape and was also haunted. Xiaogin and his friends have developed an extremely close friendship while they are trying to step closer to the truth. Will they find out the secret that hides underneath the steaming hot springs?

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Cast:
"Chang Ting-hu" "Hong Yan-xiang"

"Lin He-xuan " "Kuo Shu-yao"

"Law Kar-ying" "Mimi Chu"
Director:Zoe Lin Kuan-hui
Script:Zoe Lin Kuan-hui
Producer:Happy Hsu Chin-wan

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Year of production: 2018
Running time: 109’
Country: Taiwan

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Happy Hsu Chin-wan
Happy Hsu graduated from Soochow University, Major in the Department of Japanese Language and culture. She established the MacGuffin Film Production Co., Ltd. together with Director Lin Kuan-hui in 2015. Besides the producer department, she also worked in the director team and production design team of feature films. She believes that coordinating with the crew organization more perfectly, familiarizing the operation of each department and standing on the ground of each department help to improve the overall efficiency and cohesion of the work team. Her produced films include “Secrets in The Hot Spring”, “We are family”, “Cha Cha for Twins”, Film television “Mother Mother”, and short films “Time Lapse”, “Dear Mr. X”

©️2016

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The life of Fermín goes by, divided between his work as a diablero (a heaver who gets paid for carrying merchandise around with a hand truck, known in Mexico as a diablito) and the confinement he lives in within his house. Like him, other families live in a vecindad in the heart of Mexico City, each existing in the self-absorption of their own universes. One day, a company colluded with the government threatens to evict the vecindad tenants in order to build a mall. The tenants are forced to come out of their apathy and come together to defend their homes. Fermín must work with them, thus having to open doors and windows and acknowledging issues he didn’t want to see before.

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CAST
Leonardo Alonso:Fermín
Mercedes Hernández:María
Patricia Serrano:Elvirita
Santiago Fonseca:Maco
Julio Michel Bayón:Ramiro
Francisco Cortés: Don Laureano
Jonathan Perez: Pilar
CREW
Director: Iria Gómez Concheiro
Producer: Rodrigo Ríos Legaspi
Script: Juan Pablo Gómez, Iria Gómez Concheiro
Cinematographer: Sebastián Hiriart AMC
Production Disigner: Diana Saade
Sound: Pablo Tamez
Editor: Rodrigo Ríos Legaspi
Soun Design: Christian Giraud, José Miguel Enríquez
Music: Aldo Max Rodríguez

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Year of production: 2018
Running time: 103’
Country: 　Mexico / Columbia

© 2018 「Memories of a Dead End」 FILM Partners

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“What was believed to be the last love has ended”
Yumi is a 29 years old civil servant and started a long-distance relationship after her fiancé has got employed in Japan. As her fiancé did not visit Korea for a while, she decided to visit him in Nagoya, Japan, but she had to face with her fiancé’s new Japanese girlfriend.
After her fiancé’s new girlfriend proudly reveals their marriage plan, Yumi decided to walk away from everything. She could not go back to Korea easily because her family would be more angry over her fiancé’s affair. While wondering in an unfamiliar city, she visits a guesthouse at the end of a street. Yumi could slowly escape from her agony after meeting Nishiyama and other guests from the guesthouse. Will Yumi be able to overcome the long-lost wound and return home for a fresh start?

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Cast:　CHOI Sooyoung / TANAKA Shunsuke
Director:　CHOI Hyunyoung
Script:　CHOI Hyunyoung
Producer:　LEE Eunkyoung / KIMATA Junji

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Year of production: 2018
Running time: 89’
Country: Korea / Japan

©️Miles Films, 2019

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Glorious Days tells a story about five girls and a guy who become best friends during high school. They are named “Gang Bebas” （Bebas = Freedom）. A tragic accident forces them to go on their separate ways. Twenty-three years later, one of them is terminally ill and asks her dying wish to be fulfilled; which is to meet ‘Gang Bebas’ for one last time. The storyline parallels the main characters as young, rebellious students in 1995/1996 Jakarta and as adults facing life challenges today （2019）.

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Director: RIRI RIZA
Script: MIRA LESMANA, GINA S. NOER
Producer: MIRA LESMANA

Cast: MARSHA TIMOTHY, MAIZURA, SUSAN BACHTIAR, SHERYL SHEINAFIA, INDY BARENDS, AGATHA PRICILLA, BAIM WONG, BASKARA MAHENDRA, WIDI MULIA, ZULFA MAHARANI, LUTESHA, SYIFA HADJU, KEVIN ARDILOVA, AMANDA RAWLES, GIORGINO ABRAHAM, BRANDON SALIM, BISMA KARISMA

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Year of production: 2019
Running time: 119’
Country:  Indonesia

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AGATHA PRICILLA
She started her career in entertainment as one of the personnel of a vocal group of four, BLINK. She then got into acting when she got a role in some TV series, such as Putih Abu-Abu and Diam-Diam Suka. Pricil brought Jessica, her role in Glorious Days, very lively. She succeeded in bringing the character in an adorable way, it made her the new Indonesian sweetheart.

Lutesha
Lutesha made her acting debut in My Generation （Upi Avianto, 2017） at the age of 23 and she was nominated by Piala Maya for Best Newcomer Actress. The following year, she starred in a drama feature film Ambu （Farid Dermawan, 2019）, and a series called Halustik. Her performance in Halustik received Asian Academy Creative Awards nomination for Best Actress in A Supporting Role. Glorious Days （Riri Riza, 2019） is her newest feature film where she elegantly brings out her best performance yet.

©2019「ソローキンの見た桜」製作委員会

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Sakurako, an assistant director of a local TV station, is filming the story about the Russian prisoners of war cemetery that has always been kept clean by the local students. Kurata, Sakurako’s boss, tells her that he is intrigued by a mysterious letter from Russian officer Sorokin to a woman named Yui Takeda, and asks Sakurako to join him for a business trip to Russia to have a look at Sorokin`s diary. Sakurako doesn`t seem to be interested much, but agrees to help Kurata.
In May 1904, Russian Navy lieutenant Sorokin and other Russian prisoners arrive in Matsuyama, where he meets Yui, a Japanese volunteer nurse. Sorokin and Yui start falling in love with each other, but both of them have difficult circumstances. Sorokin is a spy from the anti-imperialist opposition. Yui gets pressure from her parents concerning her engagement. Finally, Sorokin and Yui decide to escape together. They spend several days in Kobe waiting for the ship to France. But, Sorokin wakes up one day and finds a letter from Yui, saying that she could not go with him, and she followed him to Kobe just to help him escape.
Back in the present, Sakurako receives the diary of Yui from her grandmother, and learns that Yui is actually her great-great-grandmother. She goes to Saint Petersburg with Kurata, and learns that Sorokin had successfully come back to Russia because of Yui’s help. She also receives a telephone call from grandmother who reveals that they are Sorokin`s descendants…

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Cast: Junko Abe、Rodion Galyuchenko、Takumi Saitoh、Issey Ogata
Director・Script: Masaki Inoue
Producer: Yumiko Masuda

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Year of production: 2019
Running time: 111’
Country: Japan / Russia

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Yumiko Masuda
Born in 1961 in the city of Takayama in Gifu Prefecture, Yumiko started appearing as a reporter in news and children’s programs on NHK Gifu after graduating from Kinjo University. She then worked as a writer for a monthly magazine, Home Economics Wise. Later, she established a production company, Heisei Project Inc., in Tokyo and has been constantly producing a number of films and TV programs. She is the author of three books that tell her story of film making as a housewife.

Kazuhiko Tanaka
Kazuhiko Tanaka was born in Ehime Prefecture in 1954. He graduated from Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics in 1977. He entered Nankai Broadcasting Co., Ltd. in the same year as an announcer. He served various roles including a newscaster, an anchorman, a sportscaster of baseball or soccer and a radio personality of popular programs such as "Pops Hiko Hiko Time".
He has produced more than 30 original radio dramas with the theme of excavating history of his hometown, Ehime Prefecture, as his lifework.
He won the Arts Festival Award by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 1985 for "Revenge of the Red Shirt".
He won the Radio Grand Prix at the first Japan Broadcast Culture Awards in 2005 for "The Prisoner of Sakura".
He became the president of Nankai Broadcasting Co., Ltd. in June 2014, after serving as director general of programming bureau, director general of radio bureau and manager of the Nankai Broadcasting Co. president's office.

Ⓒ映画「青の帰り道」製作委員会

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An ensemble coming-of-age drama of seven youths, set in Tokyo and Maebashi city
in central Japan. Some have remained in their hometown while others have gone to Tokyo
in pursuit of their dreams. Their lives crisis cross one another and they each press forward into
a new future while keeping their memories in their hearts.

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Cast：Erina Mano/Kurumi Shimizu/Ryusei Yokohama/Junki Tozuka/Yuki Morinaga/Mika Akizuki/Keisuke Tomita/Takashi Yamanaka/Yasushi Fuchikami/Kyusaku Shimada/Youki Kudoh/Mitsuru Hirata
Director: Michihito Fujii
Script: Michihito Fujii/Hidenobu Abera
Producer: Chikara Ito/Masahiro Iwasaki

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Year of production: 2018
Running time: 120’
Country: Japan

©37Seconds filmpartners

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In order to escape her oppressive home life and stop working as a ghostwriter,
23-year-old Yuma, a naive comic book artist with cerebral palsy begins to illustrate erotic manga.
However, despite Yuma’s talent, Fujimoto, the editor in chief rejects her submission due her lack of sexual experience and tells her to come back once she has sex.
After a disastrous encounter at the Love Hotel, Yuma befriends Mai, a worldly sex worker and a caretaker Toshiya, leading her on an unexpected journey of painful,
but ultimately liberating truth.

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Cast: Mei Kayama / Misuzu Kanno / Shunsuke Daito / Makiko Watanabe
Yoshihiko Kumashino / Minori Hagiwara / Haruka Imou / Shizuka Ishibashi / Yuka Itaya
Director: HIKARI
Script: HIKARI
Producer: Shin Yamaguchi / HIKARI / Katsuhiro Tsuchiya / Yasuhisa Matsudaira / Tomoko Asami

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Year of production: 2019
Running time: 115’
Country:Japan

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Mei KayamaBorn in Osaka on 14th October, 1994. She became a cerebral palsy soon after her birth.Graduated from the Faculty of Social Welfare of Nihon Fukushi University, and obtained a social welfare qualification. In this film, women who have physical handicapped were recruited from all over Japan, and Hikari chose her out of about 100 applicants as the leading role. This is her first acting performance. 

©2008 「百万円と苦虫女」製作委員会

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“I will move out once I save one million yen!” Suzuko (Yu Aoi), unremarkable young teen decides to move out of a sequence of apartments for this odd reason after she was released from prison, also to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She continues to move from one place to another every time she saves one million yen. This road movie portrays a young woman’s personal growth through a wide variety of life experiences. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process. 

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Cast：Yu Aoi/Mirai Moriyama/Terunosuke Takezazi/Pierr Taki/Takashi Sasano/ Kami Hiraiwa/Sumie Sasaki and others

Director: Yuki Tanada:

Script:Yuki Tanada

Producer: Koko Maeda

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Year of production: 2008
Running time: 121'
Country: Japan

＜Guest＞
Koko Maeda
Making a debut as a film producer with Shunji Iwai's 'Swallowtail Butterfly' in 1996, continued producing 'All about Lily Chou Chou'(2001), 'Hana and Alice' (2004), produced with Iwai 'Rainbow Song'(directed by Naoto Kumazawa, 2006). Worked on a big hit TV drama 'GTO' to a feature film and produced 'Big Show' in 1999. Expanded the field of activities overseas such as Hong Kong, Taiwan and US, joined with Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong film '2046' in 2003, Taiwan's 'Silk'(Su Chao-bin) in 2006 and produced Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' in 2003 and 2004. In 2007, started up own production company Alchemy Productions to create more original films and expand activities. It's first original work '100 Yen Girl' by Yuki Tanada which was a big hit in 2008. The next original work was 'Patisserie Coin de rue' in 2011 with Yoshihiro Fukagawa. Challenged with popular TV director Yukihiko Tsutsumi for a social film 'MY HOUSE' in 2011. Tried to discover and develop talented directors from various area like theater and commercial field. Selected an acknowledged commercial director Show Yanagisawa for an original work 'Lost and Found' in 2014 which was selected to both Montreal Film Festival and Shanghai Film. Also picked out a featured stage director Toru Hosokawa to direct his first feature film 'Southern Wind Sea Maneuvers' in 2012. Continued working with Hosokawa and his second film 'Golden Orchestra' and the thrid new film 'Hikitas are expecting' was selected this year's Beijin Film Festival and released in October 2019.

© 2019『新聞記者』フィルムパートナーズ

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A Journalist of Tokyo newspaper reporter named Yoshioka (Shim Eun Kyung) receives an anonymous fax about a confidential construction project for a new university. Raised in the US with a Japanese father and Korean mother, she has a very personal drive in her work as a journalist, and is determined to find the truth. Meanwhile, Sugihara (Tori Matsuzaka), a bureaucrat at the Cabinet Information Research Office, finds himself torn. In contrast to his conviction to, “serve the people”, he is given the duty to control any type of news that may be inconvenient to the current administration. Approaching the day his beloved wife is set to give birth, he decides to pay a visit to a respected old boss, Kanzaki. A few days later, Kanzaki is found thrown from the roof of a building.

The young journalist struggles to find the truth. The elite bureaucrat learns about the presence of a certain darkness, and is pressed to make a decision. When their lives intersect, a shocking truth comes to light. Directly piercing through current real-world problems, this is social commentary entertainment like never seen before in Japanese cinema, in ways you may not even believe!

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Cast:Sim Eun-Kyung、Tori Matsuzaka、Tsubasa Honda、 Tetsushi Tanaka
Director:Michihito Fujii
Script:Roba Shimori 、Akihiko Takaishi、 Michihito Fujii
Producer:Akihiko Takaishi

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Year of production: 2019
Running time: 113'
Country: Japan

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Tori Matsuzaka
Born in 1988 in Kanagawa. He made his acting debut in “Samurai Sentai Shinkenjâ”(2009). He won Best New Actor of 85th Kinema Junpo Award and Best New Actor of 33rd Yokohama Film Festival with “We Can't Change the World. But, We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia.”(11) and “Life Back Then” (11). And he won Newcomer of Year in Awards of the Japanese Academy with "The Wings of the Kirin"(11),"Until the Break of Dawn"(12) and  "Love for Beginners"(12). Since then he is active in various fields of the cinema, TV drama and TV commercial etc... His filmography includes "All-Round Appraiser Q: The Eyes of Mona Lisa"(14), "Maestro! "(15), "The Emperor in August"(15),"Piece of Cake"(15),"The Last Mission"(15), "Mozu the Movie "(15), "The Top Secret: Murder in Mind"(16),"Sanada 10 Braves "(16),"Her Love Boils Bathwater"(16),"Kiseki: Sobito of That Day"(16),"Yurigokoro"(17),"Birds Without Names"(17),"Impossibility Defense "(18),"Call Boy "(18),"The Blood of Wolves"(18),"Iwane: Sword of Serenity"(19) and "Listen to the Universe"(19).

© 2016 Citrullo International, Zivago Media, Cineric, Ciné-sud Promotion. Licensed by TVCO. All rights reserved.

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Late Middle Ages. Agostino lives in poverty with his wife Nina and son Giovanni outside a small village at the foot of the mountains. An immense mountain rises like a wall, stopping the sun’s rays and thus reducing their farmland to stones and twigs. Despite all suggestions to move away for a better life, Agostino insists his family’s fate lies there between the peaks. He firmly believes that a man’s roots cannot betray him. Agostino struggles in vain to find a solution to better provide for his starving family. But their lives do not improve, and Agostino decides to challenge the ancient mountain’s immensity and power.

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Cast: Andrea Sartoretti/ Claudia Potenza /Zaccaria Zanghellini / Sebastian Eisath /Anna Bonaiuto
Director: Amir Naderi
Script: Amir Naderi
Producer: Carlo Hintermann/Gerardo Panichi/ Rino Sciarretta/ Eric Nyari

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Year of production: 2016
Running time: 107’
Country:Italy / America / France