Camera Japan 2022
by Leon_olsthoorn | created - 01 Sep 2022 | updated - 25 Sep 2022 | PublicAll movies of the film festival
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1. Alivehoon (2022)
121 min | Sport
A 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.
Director: Ten Shimoyama | Stars: Shô Aoyagi, Shôdai Fukuyama, Shinsuke Hiratsuka, Hirotarô Honda
Votes: 147
2. Angry Son (2022)
111 min | Drama
Jungo (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 ... See full summary »
Director: Kashou Iizuka | Stars: Kazuki Horike, Masafumi Shinohara, Tomoka Murayama, Kaori Takeshita
Votes: 13
3. Anxious Body (2021)
6 min | Animation, Short
When living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines encounter, a new direction is born.
Director: Yoriko Mizushiri
Votes: 109
4. Baby Assassins (2021)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Chisato and Mahiro are two high school girls who are about to graduate. They also happen to both be highly skilled assassins. When the organization they work for orders them to share a room, the relationship between turns sour.
Director: Yugo Sakamoto | Stars: Akari Takaishi, Saori Izawa, Mone Akitani, Yukina Fukushima
Votes: 1,010
5. Hakai (2022)
119 min | Drama, Romance
The 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.
Director: Kazuo Maeda | Stars: Shôtarô Mamiya, Anna Ishii, Yûma Yamoto, Hidekazu Mashima
Votes: 22
6. Ikuta no kita (2021)
64 min | Animation
North 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Kôji Yamamura
Votes: 74
7. The End of the Pale Hour (2021)
116 min | Drama, Romance
A young man falls in love with a woman he meets at a party, but when she leaves him, he must face some uncomfortable truths.
Director: Hana Matsumoto | Stars: Takumi Kitamura, Yuina Kuroshima, Yûki Inoue, Hitomi Takahashi
Votes: 94
8. Kimiha eienni soitsurayori wakai (2021)
118 min | Drama, Romance
Horigai 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, ... See full summary »
Director: Ryohei Yoshino | Stars: Yo Aoi, Seiichi Kohinata, Nao, Yui Sakuma
Votes: 92
9. The Eternal Breasts (1955)
106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Fumiko, 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryôji Hayama, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroko Kawasaki
Votes: 636
10. Goodbye, Don Glees! (2021)
PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
During an unusual summer vacation in Iceland, the Don Glees boys discover a treasure.
Director: Atsuko Ishizuka | Stars: Natsuki Hanae, Yûki Kaji, Ayumu Murase, Kana Hanazawa
Votes: 502
11. The Great Yokai War: Guardians (2021)
118 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Brothers 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.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kokoro Terada, Hana Sugisaki, Rei Inomata, Nanako Matsushima
Votes: 133
12. The House of the Lost on the Cape (2021)
105 min | Animation, Drama, Family
A 17-year old girl experiencing a sense of yearning and comfort in the traditional Japanese house "Mayoiga".
Director: Shin'ya Kawatsura | Stars: Mana Ashida, Sari Awano, Ben Balmaceda, Casey Casper
Votes: 317
14. Kûhaku (2021)
107 min | Drama
A teenager girl's accidental death incites a media frenzy and causes her harsh father to turn his range against those he believes are responsible.
Director: Keisuke Yoshida | Stars: Kisetsu Fujiwara, Arata Furuta, Aoi Itô, Reiko Kataoka
Votes: 591
15. It's Not My Fault (2018)
12 min | Short, Drama
After participating in a personality profile, Nadine finally faces her truest self.
Directors: Tom Schmitt, Julie Stackhouse | Stars: Tom Schmitt, Julie Stackhouse
16. Joint (II) (2020)
118 min | Crime, Drama
After 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... See full summary »
Director: Oudai Kojima | Stars: Ikken Yamamoto, Jin-Cheol Kim, Chang-bak Kim, Keisuke Mitsui
Votes: 274
17. Just Remembering (2021)
115 min | Romance
A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again.
Director: Daigo Matsui | Stars: Sôsuke Ikematsu, Sairi Itô, Kalen Anzai, Toshiki Hirose
Votes: 588
18. Hadashi de narashite misero (2021)
128 min | Drama
Naomi, 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... See full summary »
Director: Riho Kudo | Stars: Shuri Suwa, Shion Sasaki, Jun Fubuki, Kaho Ito
Votes: 52
19. Love Under the Crucifix (1962)
102 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Ineko Arima, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ganjirô Nakamura, Mieko Takamine
Votes: 273
20. Mayonaka otome sensô (2022)
113 min | Drama
Nagase 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Ninomiya | Stars: Akinori Andô, Tasuku Emoto, Elaiza Ikeda, Ren Nagase
Votes: 87
21. The Moon Has Risen (1955)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mokichi 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.
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Shûji Sano, Hisako Yamane, Yôko Sugi
Votes: 440
22. Otôto to Android to Boku (2022)
94 min | Drama
Kiryu 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Junji Sakamoto | Star: Etsushi Toyokawa
Votes: 20
23. Ido jirei wa ongakutai! (2022)
119 min | Mystery
Tsukasa 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Eiji Uchida | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Mitsuko Baishô, Matthew Chozick, Hayato Isomura
Votes: 137
24. Popuran (2022)
96 min | Comedy
An 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.
Director: Shin'ichirô Ueda | Stars: Yôji Minagawa, Hidenobu Abera, Eri Tokunaga
Votes: 216
25. Prior Convictions (2022)
133 min | Crime, Drama
Kaya 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.
Director: Yoshiyuki Kishi | Stars: Kasumi Arimura, Gô Morita, Hayato Isomura, Ryûya Wakaba
Votes: 196
26. Ribbon (II) (2021)
115 min | Drama
It is the winter of 2020, and a graduation project that had taken a year to complete can no longer be showcased at its planned venue because of COVID-19. She has time at home, but she no ... See full summary »
Director: Non | Stars: Non, Misayo Haruki, Karin Ono, Daikichi Sugawara
Votes: 60
27. Riverside Mukolitta (2021)
120 min | Drama, Family
Takeshi Yamada arrives in a small village in the Hokuriku region. There, he begins to work at a small factory which makes shiokara (salted fish paste). Through the introduction of the CEO ... See full summary »
Director: Naoko Ogigami | Stars: Noriko Eguchi, Tasuku Emoto, Daisuke Kuroda, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Votes: 324
28. Salaryman (I) (2021)
80 min | Documentary, Drama
Documentary on Tokyo's work culture through the salaryman, an anonymous cog in Japan's immense labor force, via interviews analyzing their role.
Director: Allegra Pacheco
Votes: 31
29. Ame ni sakebeba (2021)
101 min
A young up and coming film director is making an exploitation film, during the summer of 1988. She is constantly running into walls, and being undermined by people on the set who don't take her seriously.
Director: Eiji Uchida | Stars: Marika Matsumoto, Maeko Ôyama, Serena Motola, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Votes: 38
30. Small, Slow But Steady (2022)
99 min | Drama, Sport
A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.
Director: Shô Miyake | Stars: Yukino Kishii, Masaki Miura, Shinichirô Matsuura, Himi Satô
Votes: 1,115
31. Summer Ghost (2021)
40 min | Animation, Short, Drama
An urban legend speaks of a summer ghost, a spirit girl who appears when fireworks are set off.
Director: Loundraw | Stars: Kyla Carter, Clifford Chapin, David Errigo Jr., Megan Taylor Harvey
Votes: 1,884
32. They Say Nothing Stays the Same (2019)
137 min | Drama
Why does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body of water and a bridge does not exist. The village high in the hills has a ferryman, but a bridge is in the works. ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Odagiri | Stars: Akira Emoto, Ririka Kawashima, Nijirô Murakami, Masatoshi Nagase
Votes: 243
33. Tokyo Kurds (2021)
103 min | Documentary
In the 1990s, fearing persecution from the Turkish government, about 2,000 Kurdish refugees of Turkish nationality came to settle in a suburb of Tokyo. Here live Ohzan (18), Ramazan (19) ... See full summary »
Director: Fumiari Hyûga
Votes: 24
34. Hiraite (2021)
121 min | Drama, Romance
Ai has had a crush forever on her classmate Tatoe. When she finds out that Tatoe is in a secret relationship with another girl, she sets out to sabotage their plans for the future.
Director: Rin Shutô | Stars: Anna Yamada, Ryûto Sakuma, Haruka Imô, Yuka Itaya
Votes: 190
35. Ruten no ôhi (1960)
102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A film adaptation of the autobiography of Aishinkakura Hiro, who lived a tumultuous life as the consort of Fuketsu, the younger brother of Emperor Puyi of Manchukuo.
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Eiji Funakoshi, Atsuko Kindaichi, Chieko Higashiyama
Votes: 220
36. Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuo Saitô, Harurô Takeda
Votes: 662
37. Yonaguni (2021)
78 min | Documentary
Naho, Genki, Mau, Mimi and Ichika live in Yonaguni, a Japanese island that looks like a rock, about a hundred kilometers from Taiwan. They are fifteen years old and in a few months, they ... See full summary »
Directors: Anush Hamzehian, Vittorio Mortarotti
Votes: 6
38. Bad City (2022)
118 min | Action, Crime
Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor and starts eliminating opponents from the rival mafia, a former police captain serving time... See full summary »
Director: Kensuke Sonomura | Stars: Hitoshi Ozawa, Akane Sakanoue, Katsuya Takagi, Masanori Mimoto
Votes: 484
39. The Making of Crime Scenes (2022)
22 min | Short, Drama
A film producer, an assassin, and a patriot. These aren't three characters in this film but three ways of describing Wu Dun, a member of the United Bamboo Gang who murdered the ... See full summary »
Director: Hsu Che-yu
Votes: 10
40. Polycephaly in D (2021)
23 min | Short
Informed by an underlying sense of anxiety and anguish, Michael Robinson's Polycephaly in D nestles fragments of narrative within a collage of sound, image, and text that oscillates between the elegant and the discordant.
Director: Michael Robinson
Votes: 18
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