©2022映画「余命10年」製作委員会

＜STORY＞

Matsuri Takabayashi (KOMATSU Nana) is 20 years old. She has decided never fall in love again. She does not want to get attached to life as a very rare, incurable disease that affects one in a million people afflicts her.

Just as she decided this, she is reunited with her former classmate Kazuto Manabe (SAKAGUCHI Kentaro) at a class reunion. When Kazuto tells her he feels living is useless, Matsuri blows up at him because his attitude to life seems incredibly selfish to her. But after this exchange, they start getting closer and closer.

A love story with a definite end in sight. If a relationship were to start, it would be incredibly painful and heart wrenching for both of them. But even then, Matsuri could not repress her feelings. She knows she should not see him again, and yet she finds herself hiding her illness, spending time and having fun with Kazuto just like any other couple in their twenties.

As happy memories multiply, their time left together gets shorter and shorter. What will become of the two of them…?

＜CAST＞
KOMATSU Nana, SAKAGUCHI Kentaro, YAMADA Yuki, NAO, KUROKI Haru,
IGUCHI Satoru,TANAKA Tetsushi, HARA Hideko, Lily Franky, MATUSHIGE Yutaka

＜STAFF＞
Music: RADWIMPS
Screenplay: OKADA Yoshikazu, WATANABE Mako
Executive Producer: SEKIGUCHI Daisuke
Producer: KUSU Chiaki, KAWAI Shinjiro, SEZAKI Hideto
Cinematographer: IMAMURA Keisuke
Lighting: HIRAYAMA Tatsuya
Editor: FURUKAWA Tatsuma
Production Designer: MIYAMORI Yui
Recording: NEMOTO Asuka

＜Info＞
Year of production：2022
Running time：125'
Country：Japan
Language:Japanese

＜STORY＞

　As night falls, Kamonmura, a small and rustic Japanese village nestled in the mountains, is enveloped in mist. A huge waste landfill site on a nearby mountainside looms over the villagers as they watch “Takigi Noh” performers carry out a mystical wood burning ritual. KATAYAMA Yu, played by YOKOHAMA Ryusei, a lifelong resident of the village, is forced to find work to pay off his mother’s debts. He signs on at the site and is seemingly locked into a never-ending cycle of hopelessness. However, his life takes an unexpected turn when his childhood friend, Misaki, returns home from Tokyo.

＜CAST＞
YOKOHAMA Ryusei, KUROKI Haru, ICHINOSE Wataru, OKUHIRA Daiken, SAKUMA Ryuto, FUCHIGAMI Yasushi, TODA Masahiro, YAJIMA Kenichi, SUGIMOTO Tetta, NISHIDA Naomi, KINO Hana, NAKAMURA Shido, FURUTA Arata

＜STAFF＞
Director/Screenwriter: FUJII Michihito
Music: IWASHIRO Taro
Production: STAR SANDS
Distributor: KADOKAWA/STAR SANDS

©綿矢りさ・新潮社／「ひらいて」製作委員会

＜STORY＞

SHUTOU Rin, affiliate of Japan’s first independent TV production company, TV Man Union, was born in Tokyo in 1995. She started making films while she was still a student in a film society connected to Waseda University. In 2016, she made a name for herself with her medium-length film “Let’s Sleep Together Again,” which was selected for the Film Fans Award and Special Jury Award at PIA Film Festival.

The release of “Unlock Your Heart” marks SHUTOU’s debut as a feature-length film director, screenplay writer, and editor. It screened internationally in Germany at the 2022 Nippon Connection Film Festival, bringing home the Nippon Visions Jury Award. Away from film, she is known for writing the screenplays for HIROKI Ryuichi’s TV drama series “Takeuchi Ryoma’s Respite” (2020) and JOJO Hideo’s “Nana Wants Some – Give Me a Bite” (2021).

＜CAST＞
YAMADA Anna, SAKUMA Ryuto (HiHiJets/Johnnys’ Jr.), IMOU Haruka, YAMAMOTO Hiroshi, KAWAI Aoba, KINOSHITA Akari, ITAYA Yuka, TANAKA Misako, HAGIWARA Masato

＜STAFF＞
Director/Screenwriter/Editor: SHUTOU Rin
Original Story: WATAYA Risa (Shincho Bunko)
Music: IWASHIRO Taro
Theme Music: OOMORI Seiko “Hiraite” （avex trax）
Production: TV MAN UNION
Production Committee: “Hiraite” Production Committee
Distributor: Show Gate

＜Info＞
Year of production：2021
Running time：121'
Country：Japan
Language:Japanese

＜STORY＞

　MATSUDA Anna, a headstrong reporter for Toto Shimbun, is looking into a case of corruption that stretches up to the highest levels of government. Come what may, she refuses to bow down to peer pressure, staying true to her belief that “the public has a right to know and journalists have a duty to let them know.” Her dogged approach brings her into conflict with the Prime Minister’s Office at a press conference. She dares to transcend a line; asking questions that many believe heretically cut too close to the bone, but ultimately lead to an earth-shattering scoop that rocks the very foundations of the ruling party.
　After receiving a nuanced message from the Prime Minister’s Office, The Chubu Finance Bureau sold state-owned land at a cut price to Eishin Academy, which has close links with the first lady. While MATSUDA is following up on a case of subsidy payment fraud, she gets sidelined by information about the Eishin’s land purchase.
　MURAKAMI Shinichi, a junior bureaucrat, joined the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry with a burning desire to serve the people. Appointed to the Prime Minister’s Office as secretary to the first lady, he is tasked with pushing through the sale of state-owned land to Eishin Academy. He blindly carries out his edict, believing it to be in the interest of the country, personally informing the Ministry of Finance Director General that the sale is in line with the wishes of prime minister. In doing so, he inadvertently embroils himself in the conflict that ensures. When news of the land sale reaches the public eye, the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office step in and quickly work to change the narrative, shifting blame from the upper echelons to frontline workers.
　SUZUKI Kazuya, a devoted employee at Chubu Finance Bureau, is spending a relaxing evening at home when he gets a phone call telling him to go back to work. On arrival at the Bureau, his boss instructs him to falsify documents for Prime Minster Question Time. With his back against the wall, any protests SUZUKI musters against an act that fundamentally undermines democracy are pointless. His actions weigh so heavily on his mind that they break his spirit, push him to exhaustion, and thrust him into a mental abyss so deep that he is beyond the reach of his loving wife, Mayumi.
　KINOSHITA Ryo, a student in his final year of university, is doing a paper round to pay his university fees. With no knowledge nor interest in politics, the front-page story about Eishin Academy seems like it’s happening in another world. His long-held belief that one man’s efforts cannot change the world are soon put to the test. Unable to suppress a deep sense of indignation, a feeling he has never experienced before, his path crosses with a female journalist, changing his destiny for good. 　Sacrificing staff on the frontline is an entrenched organizational strategy used to ensure survival. How can such overwhelmed individuals struggling to survive keep moving forward? How can the media, bureaucrats and the ordinary people come together to fight for justice when the truth is buried so deep, it’s all but impossible to unearth?

＜CAST＞
YONEKURA Ryoko, AYANO Go, YOKOHAMA Ryusei, YOSHIOKA Hidetaka, TERAJIMA Shinobu, FUKIKOSHI Mitsuru, TAGUCHI Tomorowo, OKURA Koji, TANAKA Tetsushi, HAGIWARA Masato, EMOTO Tokio, TSUCHIMURA Kaho, ONO Karin, HASHIMOTO Jun, DENDEN, Yusuke SANTAMARIA, SANO Shiro

＜STAFF＞
Director: FUJII Michihito
Screenplay: YAMADA Yoshitatsu, KODERA Kazuhisa, FUJII Michihito
Cinematographer: IMAMURA Keisuke
Lighting: HIRAYAMA Tatsuya Art
Director: HEYA Kyoko
Executive Producer: SAKAMOTO Kazutaka (Netflix Contents Acquision Section Director)
Producers: SATOU Junko, YAMAMOTO Reiji
Original/Plan/Produciton: KAWAMURA Mitsunobu from STAR SANDS
Distributor: Netflix

＜Info＞
Year of production：2022
Running time： 45 mim 6 episodes
Country：Japan
Language:Japanese

©2020「MOTHER 」製作委員会

＜STORY＞
"Mother" is a crime drama inspired by an actual case of a juvenile murdering his grandparents. KAWAMURA Mitsunobu, producer of “The Journalist,” and Omori Tatsushi, director of “Every Day a Good Day,” team up to dig deep into the dark secrets of the young perpetrator and his mother.
Shuhei (OKUDAIRA Daiken) tries to satisfy the distorted affection of his single-mother, Akiko (NAGASAWA Masami), who lives an ad hoc lifestyle and maintains casual relationships with men. The bond between them which develops as they gradually become isolated from society drives the grown-up Shuhei toward committing a murder.

＜CAST＞
NAGASAWA Masami, OKUDAIRA Daiken, ABE Sadawo

＜STAFF＞
Planning: KAWAMURA Mitsunobu
Director/Screenplay: OMORI Tatsushi
Screenplay: MINATO Takehiko
Cinematography: TSUJI Tomohiko
Music: IWASHIRO Taro

＜Info＞
Year of production：2020
Running time：126'
Country：Japan
Language:Japanese

©2021 リング・ワンダリング製作委員会

＜STORY＞

Sōsuke has his heart set on becoming a manga artist. He decides to write a series about the now extinct Japanese wolf. Unfortunately, a seemingly insurmountable obstacle stands in his way; he’s not good at drawing wolves. One day, while working at a construction site, he meets a mysterious girl, Midori. She enters the site to look for her dog but falls and injures herself. Sōsuke takes her home. However, when they arrive at the photo studio run by her family, he notices something strange about the Tokyo scenery. It no longer looks familiar… The story that unfolds is both tragic and fantastical, intertwining both the past and present.

＜CAST＞
KASAMATSU Show, ABE Junko, YASUDA Ken, KATAOKA Reiko, SHINAGAWA Toru, TANAKA Yoji, HASEGAWA Hatsunori

＜STAFF＞
Cinematographer: FURUYA Koichi
Lighting Technician: YOSHIKAWA Shintaro
Sound Operator: IWAMA Tsubasa
Sound Mixer: HWANG Yong-Chang
Art Director: HEYA Kyoko
VFX Superviser: TAKAHASHI Koya
Manga by MORIIZUMI Takehito
Music: TOMIYAMA Yuko
Screenplay: KANEKO Masakazu, YOSHIMURA Genki
Producer: SHIOTSUKI Takashi, KONOIKE Kazuhiko

＜Info＞
Year of production：2021
Running time：103'40''
Country：Japan
Language:Japanese

Original Film © 2003 "Josee, the Tiger and the Fish" Film Partners. All Rights Reserved.

＜STORY＞
Yeon Seok, a student in his final year at university, finds a woman lying on the side of the road. He helps her get home. To show her gratitude, she invites him in for dinner. The woman, a paraplegic, is called Josee. She lives alone with her grandmother, has a unique sensibility, her own worldview, and learns what she can from books. Josee’s personality appeals to Yeon Seok. 
Yeon Seok starts to call on Josee, slowly learning about her past, about the loss of her parents, how she ran away from a children’s home, how she was taken in by her grandmother, and how she retreated into her own shell. The more he learns, the more infatuated he becomes, propelling him to ask a female university friend to help her gain city subsidies to renovate her accommodation. However, Josee suspects that Yeon Seok and the woman are more than friends, causing her to push him away…

＜CAST＞
HAN Ji-min, NAM Joo Hyuk

＜STAFF＞
Script/Director: KIM Jong - kwan

＜Info＞
Year of production：2020
Running time：117'
Country：Korea
Language:Korean language

Angeliki Antoniou Filmproduktion

＜STORY＞

“The Unknown Athenians” is a documentary following the daily routine of stray dogs struggling in the center of Athens and the people who take care of them over a period of six exhausting years of austerity. A hidden world emerges from the routes of the unknown Athenians and unveils the unexpected face and the heart of Athens, a city in the midst of change.

＜CAST＞
Achileas ADAM, Spiros ASPIOTIS, Katerina KASTANARA, Pavlow GIANNOPOULOS
Cast of Stray Dogs: Fotoula, Sophocles, Sokrates, Orfeus & Constantine and many others....

＜STAFF＞
Director: Angeliki ANTONIOU
Producer: Angeliki ANTONIOU
Cinematographer: Angeliki ANTONIOU
Editor: Hronis THEOHARIS
Sound: Kostas FYLAKTIDIS, Angeliki ANTONIOU
Color Correction: Manos HAMILAKIS

＜Info＞
Year of production：2020
Running time：75'
Country：Germany / Greece
Language:Greek/English

Just Real

＜STORY＞
Miguel, a sarcastically pessimistic radio host of a show named “The Ship,” is submerged in an endless routine. Miguel's life turns upside down after receiving a call from an amazing seven-year-old kid who asks him to help fulfill his last wish before he dies: To travel in “The Ship” to see the ocean for the first and last time. Miguel will have to use his imagination and step out of his comfort zone in order to grant this extraordinary request before it's too late.

＜CAST＞
Pablo CRUZ-GUERRERO, Maya ZAPATA, Héctor JIMENEZ, Lucía URIBE BRANCHO, Paloma ARREDONDO, Andrés ALMEIDA, Santiago BELTAN Y, Rodrigo MURRAY

＜STAFF＞
Director: Sebastian BATAN SILVA
Script: Pablo CRUZ-GUERRERO
Producers: Pablo CRUZ-GUERRERO / Alejandra CARDENAS

＜Info＞
Year of production：2020
Running time：85'
Country：Mexico
Language:Spanish