THE 1st JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL

• Year: 2022
• Duration: 151′
• Genre: Fiction

A town of Koreans in Ikuno, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
The funeral of Omoni (Okan), whom was a substitute for everyone’s mother, was being held.
Her eldest son, Yong-gi, who disappeared 15 years ago, does not show up. The three siblings, except Yong-gi, are at their wit’s end as they are burdened with debts from the store that Omoni started many years ago. Then, Yong-gi returns home…
The siblings are bewildered by the change of the eldest brother.
What is family?
With the thoughts and feelings of various people crossing paths, can family bonds really be restored through great love?

• Script/Director/Producer: Tetsuhiro Sai
• Producer: Wataru Ito
• Line producer: Eri Nukui
• Director of photography: Yuji Nukui
• Photo: Yusuke Tamura, Kenyuki Onishi

• Year: 2011
• Duration: 101′
• Genre: Fiction

This is a local movie set in Endoji shopping street that actually exists in Nagoya City’s Nishi Ward, Japan. Although the number of empty stores in the Entonji shopping street, which still retains its old-fashioned atmosphere, is increasing, the street is still bustling with daily life. Kantaro, a dry-cleaner who has been chosen as the leader of the shopping arcade youth group, plans the “Universe’s Most Nosy Mission” with the members of the shopping arcade to reunite Shige, the stubborn shopping arcade chairman, with his best friend with whom he had a falling out in order to impress Shige on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Shige’s clog shop. …….

Starring Jun Idoda of the comedy duo Speedwagon. Matsui Jurina and Yagami Kumi from the popular Nagoya-based idol group SKE48 make their first appearances in a film.

• Director: Yo Kohatsu
• Producer: Hatsue Nakagawa, Yuzo Endo, Koichi Ikeda
• Executive Producer: Sang-Mi Lee
• Screenplay: Kohatsu Yo, Kawate Fukino

• Year: 2021
• Duration: 112′
• Genre: Fiction

Set in the Tobe-cho, a town known for its pottery in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. This human drama depicts a broken family that reconnects through pottery making. Ryusei, an up-and-coming ceramic artist who runs a small pottery in Tobe Town and pursues a new style of Tobe pottery, wins a town-wide design competition for an Olympic torch stand, but the winning design is something he has no memory of. The design was secretly submitted by Ryusei’s daughter, Moe, under his name, but it required the skills of her father, Ryumi, an old rival potter, to make it a reality. Then Ryusei’s older brother, Tatsuya, returns to town for the first time in 10 years, rekindling a father-son relationship that has been linked to the “death of the mother. Atsushi Ito plays the lead role, with Rina Uchiyama as his wife Sachiko, Nene Otsuka as his late mother Noriko, Hidetaka Yoshioka as his brother Tatsuya, and Isao Hashizume as his father Ryumi.

• Director / Original Story / Screenplay: Kenichi Omori
• Producer: Kenichi Omori, Hiroaki Ohashi, Kazuaki Arima
• Executive Producer: Masumi Hirose, Hidemasa Iwashita, Takayuki Hirano

• Year: 2023
• Duration: 62′
• Genre: Documentary

Mr. Hokiichi Hanawa was a Japanese national scholar active in the Edo period (1603-1868), whose goal became the goal of Helen Keller as well.
At a time when there were no Braille signs, Hokiichi Hanawa, who was totally blind, collected a vast amount of valuable classical Japanese literature and miscellaneous historical materials from all over Japan.
He compiled and published Gunsho Ruishu, a massive collection of some 670 volumes of Japanese national history and literature, in an effort to pass it on to future generations.
There is no other person in the world who has done such a great work while totally blind.
His life mission was for the sake of the world, for the sake of the future. Even in Japan today, so few people know about Hanawa Hokiichi today. However, once you learn about his life, you cannot not be amazed.

• Director: Masato Osato
• Producer: Hiroko Emori
• Executive Producer: Hiroshi Yoshino
• PR Director: Masaru Nishio
• Production: Universal Vision Inc.

• Year: 2022
• Duration: 83′
• Genre: Anime

The Urashima Tunnel – if you enter that tunnel, you can get anything you want. In exchange, however, you will get ……
Kaoru Tohno, who seems to have an elusive personality but is still traumatized by a past accident, and Anzu Hanashiro, who struggles with the difference between her idealistic image and the one she has behind her strong-willed demeanour. The two form a partnership to investigate a mysterious tunnel and obtain what they want.
This is an unforgettable story of nostalgia and speed that takes place in a rural area.

The novel “Natsu e no Tunnel, Sayonara no Deguchi” (Tunnel to Summer, Goodbye Exit) by Maze Hachime, whose debut novel won both the “Gaga Award” and “Judges’ Special Award” at the 13th Shogakukan Light Novel Award, will be released as a theatrical animation on September 9, 2022.
The animation film “Natsu e no Tunnel, Sayonara no Exit” is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi, an animation director with an established reputation for his visual expressions (“Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution” (20), “Akudama Drive”), and the original character designs and illustrations are by Kukka, who is known for his exquisite and dramatic illustrations. (D_CIDE TRAUMEREI), known for its exquisite and dramatic illustrations, and production by CLAP, an up-and-coming production company that has produced “Eiga Daisuki Ponpo-san” (21).

• Original Story: Hachime Maze
• Director / Screenplay: Tomohisa Taguchi
• Character Design: Tomomi Yabuki
• Music: Harumi Tomiki
• Production: CLAP

• Year: 2021
• Duration: 30′
• Genre: Fiction

Musician Ryota’s contract with the record label was cancelled. Because of this, he has to do part-time jobs. He gradually lost his passion for music. 
Ryota’s girlfriend, Yuka, was worried about him and started talking about stage music. Yuka’s wish is for Ryota to continue with music creation. However, Ryota, who cannot escape from the trauma of the past and fails to return to music. 
A mysterious hero, Aterui, appears in front of Ryota. Aterui asked a confused Ryota “What will be your fate?” 

• Script/Director/Producer: Yuichi Kikuchi 
• Photo: Yoshihito Takahashi 
• Cinematography: Tomohisa Ikeda 
• Hair and makeup: Kaiharu Imori 
• Fencing: Hiroshi Kashiwazaki 
• Editing: Akira Matsuki 
• Music: Taka Takashi 
• Mixer: Kazuhiro Uramoto 
• Sound Design: Chikako Kobayashi 
• Production person: Eri Nukui 
• Assistant director: Tomoki Sano 
• Character Collaboration: Action Club Hayate 
• Visual effects: Nippon Effect Center Co., Ltd. 
• Planning and production: Sengawa Eidan