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A widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out of wedlock. Hearing that two criminals had attempted to take over the restaurant from her late husband, she hires her late husband’s best friend, a private detective, to investigate.Read More »
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Yuji decides to run away from home to become an actor. Along the way, he meets Yoshio, an aspiring rock musician and Ami, an idol who, despite her success, is slowly losing popularity. All three of them begin to support each other in fulfilling their dreams of having true fame.Read More »
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The night Mari, a high school biology teacher, had a fight with her boyfriend Tamotsu, she took her dog for a walk along the Toyohira River to calm down. There, she meets a strangely dressed man who claims to be a samurai of the Tsugaru clan. Although Mari is surprised, she takes him home. His name is Koyata, and he was chased away by the Ainu during the Shakushain Rebellion that occurred in Hokkaido in the 10th year of the Kanbun era.He desperately wanted to return to his hometown, so on a full moon night in mid-autumn, he asked an old woman to cast a spell that would allow him to return for just one year. , tells Mari and her grandmother Sadako that she arrived in this era by mistake.Read More »
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The North General Hospital in the Tondo district of Manila was as busy as a battlefield. Hideyuki Harada, an intern on duty at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, worked without having time to breathe. It was six years ago that Harada decided to become a doctor. Harada, who worked at the Manila branch of a Japanese trading company, was supposed to marry a junior at the university, Masami, when she returned to Japan, but she told her that she was married to Harada’s best friend, Isomura, a sergeant at a large hospital.
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Shinjiro is the owner of a struggling small factory desperately in need of fresh capital to stay afloat. Hoping to secure a crucial bank loan, he deposits all his life savings at a bank — but at that very moment a robbery takes place. In a misguided attempt to stop the thief from escaping with all the money, Shinjiro helps by gathering up the remaining cash. Despite his intentions, the robber still makes off with Shinjiro’s savings, and Shinjiro impulsively follows him, trying to change his mind. Unfortunately, onlookers assume Shinjiro is an accomplice to the crime, and he suddenly finds himself on the run alongside the thief in a case of tragic misunderstanding. Read More »
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When 22-year-old Ikuko gets fired from her editing internship right before her college graduation instead of getting hired, she turns to her schoolteacher father for advice. Instead, he tells her, “I’ve decided to become a singer! Sort your own life out!” Confused, Ikuko gets on a boat to the town of Takarazuka, home of the musical industry, to see her classmate Mari. Mari introduces her to an accountant named Yoshie, and together the three of them move into a house they call “The Women’s House: Die Fraulein”Read More »
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A boy has a powerful gift, a war hungry government comes to use him to create a weapon. He learns the origins of his power and units the people to over throw the evil government.Read More »
This movie depicts the life of the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa, while incorporating CG animations to evoke the characters from his novels.Read More »
