Yu Uemura
Biography: Yu Uemura is an actor known for playing Kira in Eisuke Naitō's film, Forgiven Children (2020).
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Intimate Stranger
2022-03-05
Intimate Stranger
Overview: A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her, claiming to know her son.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-05
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Sayonara, Band Apart
2022-07-15
Sayonara, Band Apart
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-15
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From Dawn to Midday on the Sea
2023-08-04
From Dawn to Midday on the Sea
Overview: A man who gave up on living in despair with society and himself. Mai, a high school girl, is involved in a confinement incident caused by the man. Mai's classmate, Ujiie, who caused a violent incident and lost her whereabouts. Set in a small port town a little far from the city center, a confinement incident triggers the gears of the three characters, depicting the moment when people with difficulties in life take a step forward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-04
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Break in the Clouds
2022-10-21
Break in the Clouds
Overview: Maika, a pregnant woman, is running along a farm road at night with nothing but her clothes on her back. Her beaten face is discolored, one eye is swollen, and she is bleeding from the edge of her mouth. The headlights of a car approaching from behind frightens Maika, and she loses her balance and falls. Just as she is about to get up, her cell phone rings. It's a call from Masayoshi, her abusive husband. Out of fear, Maika knocks the phone to the ground and breaks it. Slowly, she picks herself up and continues walking down the street at night. She arrives at a love hotel hidden in the suburbs of a provincial city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-21
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She is me, I am her
2022-11-12
She is me, I am her
Overview: A socially-distanced college reunion, an unusual rapport struck between a food delivery man and a patron, a bus-stop encounter, and a blind woman scammed into thinking her brother is sick constitute the stories of Mayu Nakamura’s COVID-era quadriptych—a work that encapsulates the newfound anxieties of loneliness, insecurity and the struggle for connection within the depths of the pandemic lockdown. Tied together by the remarkable performances of actress Nahana, who embodies the various female characters across the film’s differing narratives, Nakamura’s episodic feature delves into the lives of women in COVID-era Japan, finding profundity and human connection amid the unlikely encounters of strangers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-12
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Ginji The Speculator
2022-11-23
Ginji The Speculator
Overview: A British comedy in Japanese clothes, with central character Ginji at once earnest farm boy and entrepreneurial savant, finding ingenious and entertaining solutions in a timeless tale of business and found family.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-23
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Single8
2023-03-18
Single8
Overview: In the 1970’s, a group of high-schoolers, obsessed with Star Wars, picks up an 8mm camera and attempts to make their own sci-fi film.
Genres: Comedy Romance Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-18
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Forgiven Children
2020-06-01
Forgiven Children
Overview: While fooling around with a self-made crossbow, Kira accidentally kills his classmate Itsuki. For lack of evidence, the young student is found innocent. However, his trial is widely covered by the mass media, and the following uproar from society won’t leave his family untouched.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-01
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Rain or Shine
2025-02-01
Rain or Shine
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-02-01
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