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Little DJ [J-Movie] (Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mayuko Fukuda, Ryoko Hirosue)
Director: Koto Nagata
Original Story by: Tadashi Onitsuka, Screenplay by: Uiko Miura / Koto Nagata,
Director of Photography: Jun Fukumoto, Lighting: Tokuju Ichikawa,
Production Designer: Noritaka Sasaki, Sound: Shinji Watanabe,
Film Editor: Tsuyoshi Imai, Music by: Naoki Sato
Ryunosuke Kamiki / Mayuko Fukuda / Ryoko Hirosue / Naomi Nishida

Summary:
Lifted by a nostalgic medley of 1970s pop hits, Little DJ transports the audience back to a simpler era with a heart-tugging story of first love. Directed by Nagata Kotoe (Shibuya Maruyama Story) and based on Onizuka Tadashi’s popular same-titled novel, Little DJ is a gentle reminisce of love, loss, and music in the 1970s. Talented child actors Fukuda Mayuko (L Change the World) and Kamiki Ryunosuke (The Great Yokai War) star as the film’s doting adolescent leads, while Hirosue Ryoko (Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust) plays the adult version of Fukuda’s character.
Radio producer Tamaki (Hirosue Ryoko) falls into a depressive slump when her late-night show gets cancelled. As she’s wallowing in unhappiness, an old song comes on over the radio, a song that brings her back to 1977 when she was 13 years old. That year she (Fukuda Mayuko) was injured in a car accident and ended up in the hospital, wrapped up like a mummy. There she befriends Taro (Kamiki Ryonosuke), one year younger and hospitalized for a blood disease. Fanatical about baseball and radio, Taro begins to DJ a music program over the hospital PA, and it becomes a big hit among the patients. First love blooms for Taro and Tamaki to the reassuring sounds of 70s J-pop, but how long can Taro keep spinning when time and illness are catching up?

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Based on the popular PS2 game series, OneChanbara brings the adventures of sexy slayer Aya to the big screen in all its katakana-wielding, zombie-slicing glory. Written and directed by Fukada Yohei, OneChanbara stars three pin-up idols in the leading action heroine roles. Up-and-coming siren Otoguro Eri (Shutter, Shaolin Girl) cuts fine form as the feisty heroine Aya, slashing her way through the movie in the character’s signature cowgirl attire – cowboy hat, cowboy boots, long scarf, and a bikini. To defend her city, she has to take on a quickly multiplying army of zombies that was raised from the dead by a mysterious scientist. Aya is joined in the fight by biker chick Reiko (Hashimoto Manami) who is out to avenge her father’s death and Aya’s half-sister Saki (Nakamura Chise, Swing Girls) who suddenly shows up in a schoolgirl uniform with a saber of her own.
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Japanese Title: Haru no Yuki (春の雪)
Release Year in Japan: 2005
Director: Isao Yukisada
Casts: Satoru Tsumabuki (Kiyoaki Matsueda), Yuko Takeuchi (Satoko Ayakura)

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Based on Yukio Mishima’s classic novel, “Snowy Love” depicts a tragic romance between a high-society young man and a young woman who is already engaged with a royal family member in Taisho era. It is often classified as an art-oriented literature film, but also can be considered as another “pure-love” film, popular genre in Japan that was brought to the main stream by “Crying Out for Love, in the Center of the World” of the same director.

The film is nominated in 9 categories in Japan Academy Awards 2006.

(December, 2006)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468753/
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