Camera Japan 2022
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- DirectorTen ShimoyamaStarsShô AoyagiShôdai FukuyamaShinsuke HiratsukaA new world where gamers reach high for the pinnacle of real-life drifting. Koichi Oba's blossoming technique, passion, courage and teamwork break down barriers between the virtual and the real.
- DirectorKashou IizukaStarsKazuki HorikeMasafumi ShinoharaTomoka MurayamaJungo (18), a high school student living in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture, has a Filipino mother who works at a Filipina hostess bar. His mother has never told him about his father, and the only connection he has to his father is the monthly child support payments. Jungo is homosexual and has a boyfriend, Yusuke (18). Even though Yusuke wanted to form a partnership with him, he was reluctant to do so because of his background. One day, her mother, Reina (41), brings her boyfriend home, saying she wants to remarry with him. Jungo doesn't want to live with a stranger, so he decides to find his real father.
- DirectorYoriko MizushiriWhen living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines encounter, a new direction is born.
- DirectorYugo SakamotoStarsAkari TakaishiSaori IzawaMone AkitaniHigh schoolers and teenage assassins Chisato and Mahiro must find a way to fix their relationship in the midst of finding part-time jobs and dealing with the yakuza.
- DirectorKazuo MaedaStarsShôtarô MamiyaAnna IshiiYûma YamotoThe tale of a member of the persecuted burakumin community desperately trying to protect his identity so that he can live a normal life as a teacher.
- DirectorKôji YamamuraNorth is everywhere solitary. Here is all North. This is a record of the people I met in the North. However, my memory is fragmented and does not get the point at all. Now I'm starting to wonder my efforts came to nothing. I'm just getting the occasional recognition of the existence of the world through the dull perception changes shape little by little.
- DirectorHana MatsumotoStarsTakumi KitamuraYuina KuroshimaYûki InoueA young man falls in love with a woman he meets at a party, but when she leaves him, he must face some uncomfortable truths.
- DirectorRyohei YoshinoStarsYo AoiSeiichi KohinataNaoHorigai Sayo is 22-years-old and she will soon graduate from a university. She has already been working in a child welfare job. She is 170 cm. tall and people think she is a bit eccentric, but she doesn't care what others think about her. She spends her time working part-time, attending classes, and going back to a boarding home. She meets Inogi Kusuko, who attends the same university. Kusuko has lived through a painful experience in her past. One day, Sayo's friend Suiho Nao kills himself.
- DirectorKinuyo TanakaStarsYumeji TsukiokaRyôji HayamaJunkichi OrimotoFumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and the development of a serious illness: a breast cancer, which leads her to lose her breasts. In the last stage of her life she meets a young journalist arrived from Tokyo, an admirer of her work, who want to write a story on her life. Both live a secret love history.
- DirectorAtsuko IshizukaStarsNatsuki HanaeYûki KajiAyumu MuraseTeen misfits Roma, Toto, and Drop call themselves the "Don Glees," an informal name for their backyard adventures. One day, when the trio gets blamed for a nearby forest fire, they set off into the woods to prove their innocence. As disaster strikes their expedition, tensions flare between the friends as they realize that growing up has taken them on wildly different paths in life. Director Atsuko Ishizuka follows up her critically acclaimed series "A Place Further Than the Universe" with her first original feature film. With luminescent animation and lush backdrops, "Goodbye, Don Glees!" is a tender coming-of-age story about the fearlessness of being young and the bittersweet journey of self-discovery.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKokoro TeradaHana SugisakiRei InomataBrothers Dai and Kei are summoned by peace-loving spirits to stop an angry demon from destroying Tokyo. When they become separated, Kei?s mission is to save his brother and restore harmony between human and spirit worlds.
- DirectorShin'ya KawatsuraStarsMana AshidaSari AwanoBen BalmacedaA 17-year old girl experiencing a sense of yearning and comfort in the traditional Japanese house "Mayoiga".
- DirectorAndrew EssigStarsPhedora EvermooreSeychelles Mizel
- DirectorKeisuke YoshidaStarsKisetsu FujiwaraArata FurutaAoi ItôA teenager girl's accidental death incites a media frenzy and causes her harsh father to turn his range against those he believes are responsible.
- DirectorTom SchmittJulie StackhouseStarsTom SchmittJulie StackhouseAfter participating in a personality profile, Nadine finally faces her truest self.
- DirectorOudai KojimaStarsIkken YamamotoJin-Cheol KimChang-bak KimAfter serving 2 years in prison, Ishigami Takeshi spent two years working on a construction site and building up his funds before he returned to Tokyo with the help of Yasu, his best friend. He is determined to try and go straight but before he can do that, he has to raise even more money to break free of the criminal underworld and that requires a deep dive. He enlists his Korean friend Junghi and starts a business selling data for phone fraud to his Yakuza friend Yuki. As the business grows, Takeshi can just about make escape velocity, however, his old ties are holding him back and as a split in a yakuza family signals that start of a war, Takeshi finds himself getting dragged back down to the criminal underworld.
- DirectorDaigo MatsuiStarsSôsuke IkematsuSairi ItôKalen AnzaiIn Tokyo, from their breakup to their first meeting, the love story between Teruo, a classical dancer, and Yô, a taxi driver, told in reverse. They remember their most intimate days, every year on July 26, the day they met and separated.
- DirectorRiho KudoStarsShuri SuwaShion SasakiJun FubukiNaomi, a student dropout, only believes in things he can touch. However, when he really wants to touch someone, he recoils. As is the case when he befriends Maki, a happy-go-lucky young man who lives with Midori, a blind woman who dreamily expounds about places she has never been. When Midori becomes seriously ill, Maki and Naomi send her tapes from an imaginary trip around the world. Their relationship becomes more intimate whilst recording, but they only dare engage in rough, painful horseplay.
- DirectorKinuyo TanakaStarsIneko ArimaTatsuya NakadaiGanjirô NakamuraA tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
- DirectorKen NinomiyaStarsAkinori AndôTasuku EmotoElaiza IkedaNagase Ren takes on the role of "I," a university student who moved to Tokyo and is living alone for the first time. I has no friends. I has no girlfriend. The lectures at the university were horribly boring, and I was always looking at Tokyo Tower on the way back from his laborious job. While being attracted to the ruthless, dignified and intelligent "Senior," played by Ikeda Elaiza, whom he meets in the "Hide and Seek Circle" that he secretly falls in love with. Meanwhile, I meets a man called "Black Suit," played by Emoto Tasuku, who is an extremely charismatic and mysterious person. Little did "I" know that the two people he met would bring excitement to his mundane, humdrum existence.
- DirectorKinuyo TanakaStarsChishû RyûShûji SanoHisako YamaneMokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.
- DirectorJunji SakamotoStarsEtsushi ToyokawaKiryu Kaoru is a lonely robot engineer. Ever since childhood, he felt he lived more like a robot than a man. To counteract his anxieties, he has devoted his life to developing his own android as another version of himself. One day, his half-brother shows up in the abandoned building he calls home.
- DirectorEiji UchidaStarsHiroshi AbeMitsuko BaishôMatthew ChozickTsukasa Naruse works as a detective. He is enthusiastic with his job. To catch criminals, he sometimes breaks rules that detectives should follow. Tsukasa works on a voice phishing case that targets elderly people. He targets a suspect without a warrant. Due to his, Tsukasa gets transferred to the police musical band.
- DirectorShin'ichirô UedaStarsYôji MinagawaHidenobu AberaEri TokunagaAn unidentifiable object zips through the sky. A suspicious looking man holding a net suddenly appears, trying to catch the thing that ran away from him. He must catch that high-speed "buddy" within six days or he will lose it forever.
- DirectorYoshiyuki KishiStarsKasumi ArimuraGô MoritaHayato IsomuraKaya has worked as a probation officer for 3 years, she finds her job rewarding. But one client, Makoto, an ex-murderer, suddenly disappears around the time that the police are investigating a series of murders committed by a mystery man.