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21. Japanisches Filmfestival 1. – 6. Juni 2021 NipponConnection.com
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- DirectorMari AsatoStarsKen'ichi AbeKengo KôraYûgo MikawaNaoto was ignored by other people. During his school days, Chihiro was the first person who called his name. Naoto dreams of seeing her again and tries to find her. Finally, after 11 years, he locates her, but she is a totally different person now. Naoto becomes obsessed with her. Naoto sneaks into her house and stays under her bed.
- DirectorMichihito FujiiStarsShim Eun-kyungTôri MatsuzakaTsubasa HondaIt is the job of the press to cover corporate crime, government plots and society. It is in this context that young female reporter on the beat Erika rolls up her sleeves and goes to work regarding what seems to be a government cover up. She is dealing with a government bureaucrat called Sugihara. It seems as if a clash is inevitable.
- DirectorYukiko MishimaStarsKahoTasuku EmotoShôtarô MamiyaToko Suguri is married and they have a lovely daughter. She doesn't have any major problems in her life. One day, Toko Suguri meets her former lover, Akihiko Kurata, at a friend's wedding. They haven't seen each other in ten years. Toko Suguri indulges in a sexual relationship with Akihiko Kurata.
- DirectorAkiko ÔkuStarsYasuko MatsuyukiHaru KurokiHiroya ShimizuAkiko Ohku's film follows Yoshiko as she enjoys life's simple pleasures - riding her beloved bike, indulging in a drink or two in the evening - as she narrates her thoughts through a hypnotic internal monologue.
- DirectorKeiko TsuruokaStarsHikaru YamazakiNinonRisa SudouSatoshi is only in the fifth grade at elementary school. He is unhappy with his father, his perfidy and the company he keeps. Enter transfer student Kozue who is different and exciting. She is not just any different though. She truly is from far away and has a gift for Satsohi and the townspeople. The town grow close.
- DirectorShunsuke ShinadaStarsMiyu AndôMitsuhiro FujiwaraYuriko HirookaA sentient period goes around harassing women at their time of the month.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsTadanobu AsanoTakuro AtsukiMickey CurtisThe story centers on a group of young people who travel back in time when they are in a movie theater just before closing time. They witness deaths during the closing days of Japan's feudal times and on the battlefront in China before they are sent to Hiroshima just before the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsYuichi IshiiMahiro TanimotoMiki FujimakiA man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl.
- DirectorSabuStarsNaotoAina YamadaNozomi BandôIt calls in the yakuza when the municipal office in charge of demolishing an old building and replacing it with a modern complex fails due to paranormal activity. The employee in charge seeks out a girl who can assist only to find her laying on the ground and bleeding. Soon they band together in search of a spirit who needs to be retrieved.
- DirectorMichio KoshikawaStarsShihori KanjiyaMaho YamadaMasaru NagaiAkane moves from Tokyo to a small island where she works as a waitress serving the fishermen. People like her and glad she has made the move. Satsuki, however, is a local having grown up, married and given birth in the area. She has a foster son and after obtaining her man's permission decides to adopt him legally. Unfortunately it is the son's biological mother who has arrived on the island and is living nearby now.
- DirectorKenji KatagiriStarsTamae AndôShôgo HamaKenta HamanoSaki Tadokoro's father is an alcoholic and her mother is a follower of a new religion. She sees her father's strange behavior and her mother's loneliness. Her family is collapsing, but Saki struggles to look for her future.
- DirectorIsamu HirabayashiStarsMariko TsutsuiKeisuke HoribeKaori TakeshitaNitobe and Sakamoto are friends from childhood who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. Nor do any of the lives out of it for that matter. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. With crustaceans as leitmotif, the themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters'lives.
- DirectorChihiro AmanoStarsTaichi MiyazakiTakuma NagaoCanon NawataIt all started with a single futon. A small quarrel between neighbors somehow turns into a social media sensation and news frenzy, and changes the lives of two women forever.
- DirectorRyûtarô NinomiyaStarsMinori HagiwaraYûki HiroseRieko DoteMinori is a pretty girl. She is fed up with people who care only about her appearance and themselves. She is always straight forward and angry at everyone. She is also angry at herself who cannot really change anything
- DirectorAkira OhsakiStarsNishiyama CosameNanoka HaraNanami HidakaA lonely high school girl grows into a mature individual through the many encounters she goes through while believing she has no friends.
- DirectorEisuke NaitôStarsYû UemuraGô JibikiMorris MatsumuraIt follows the story of Kira, a boy who accidentally kills his classmate Itsuki. Young Kira is found innocent because of lack of evidence, but he is guilty in the eyes of society and must face the trial of the public.
- DirectorNaoki MurahashiStarsKozo HaginoyaYuki SaitoYasufumi TerawakiOn the lot of "Warp Station Edo," a popular shooting location for historical jidaigeki (period dramas), a camera crew follows several extras as they prepare for and perform their non-speaking roles as anonymous townspeople behind sword-wielding stars. In particular, they focus on an ambitious sexagenarian who wants to follow in the footsteps of his idol Steve McQueen (specifically as a fireman in The Towering Inferno) and unintentionally causes the crew a lot of grief in the process. An exceedingly clever send-up of the Japanese film industry and a loving tribute to the work of extras, Extro is a cameo-filled mockumentary that derives its title from none other than filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi, who appears as a talking head interviewee to say, "To me, extras are - Maestros."
- DirectorTatsuyuki NagaiStarsKen MatsudairaYou TaichiAtsumi TanezakiSecond-year high school student Aoi Aioi is an aspiring musician. Her older sister Akane's ex-boyfriend Shinnosuke Kanomura is a struggling guitarist. Aoi and Akane's parents passed away in an accident 13 years ago, and Akane gave up her ambition of going to Tokyo with Shinnosuke to take care of Aoi. Since then, Aoi has felt indebted to her older sister. One day, she is invited to perform at a music festival as a session musician by a famous en singer named Dankichi. At the same time, Shinnosuke returns to Aoi and Akane's town after a long time away. Then, Shinno mysteriously appears- who is actually Shinnosuke from 13 years ago after traveling from the past to the present-and Aoi falls in love for the first time.
- DirectorTomohiko ItôStarsHaruka FukuharaMinami HamabeTakumi KitamuraA man travels in time from the year 2027 to relive his school years and to correct a bad decision.