Japanese films of 2010
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Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

s produced in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 in 2010 (see 2010 in film
2010 in film
The year 2010 saw many new films released worldwide. 2010 saw a dramatic increase and prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking and film releases after the success of Avatar in the format, with releases such as Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, Jackass 3D, all animated films and...

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Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Accidental Kidnapper Hideo Sakaki
Hideo Sakaki
' is a Japanese actor. He is best known from the Japanese cult films Versus, Battlefield Baseball, and Alive...

Katsunori Takahashi, Show Aikawa, Roi Hayashi Crime comedy
After the Flowers Kenji Nakanish Keiko Kitagawa
Keiko Kitagawa
is a Japanese actress and former model. She was an exclusive model for the Japanese Seventeen magazine from late 2003 to mid 2006, and left modeling when she left the magazine. Her first acting role was Sailor Mars in the Sailor Moon live action show Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon , and after her role...

, Masahiro Komoto, Shuntaro Miyao
Costume drama
Alien vs Ninja  Seiji Chiba
Seiji Chiba
is a Japanese film director and producer.-Career:He moved to the United State in 1990 and studied various aspects of filmmaking at Los Angeles City College, ranging from directing, and screenwriting to editing. After graduating from LACC, he returned to Japan and directed/produced a self-financed...

 
Masanori Mimoto, Shuji Kashiwabara, Donpei Tsuchihira
Arrietty Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Hiromasa Yonebayashi
, nicknamed Maro, is a Japanese animator and director for Studio Ghibli. Making his directing debut with them in the film The Borrower Arrietty, he became the youngest director of a Studio Ghibli film.- Films :...

Anime
BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad  Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
is a Japanese television and film director. He began directing commercials and music promotion videos as an employee of Nihon Television. After spending time abroad, he returned and started his own production company, Crescendo, from which he works independently...

 
Hiro Mizushima, Takeru Satoh
Takeru Satoh
is a Japanese actor. His debut role was as the lead in Kamen Rider Den-O, and is known for his subsequent roles in the dramatizations of Q10 and Ryōmaden.- Career :...

, Kenta Kiritani
A Better Tomorrow
A Better Tomorrow (2010 film)
A Better Tomorrow is 2010 South Korean film is remake of 1986 Hong Kong film with same name and already based of an 1994 Indian film. It was produced by John Woo who was director of the 1986 film.-Cast:...

Song Hae-sung Ju Jin-mo
Ju Jin-mo
Joo Jin Mo , is a South Korean actor.-Career:Joo Jin Mo began his acting career in TV dramas and some minor roles in film. He was first cast as a lead in Dance Dance , for which he underwent extensive dance training...

, Song Seung-heon, Kim Gang-woo
Gangster film Japan-South Korean production
Birthright Naoki Hashimoto Sayoko Oho, Miyu Yagyu, Ryoko Takizawa Horror
Bleach: The Hell Verse
Bleach: The Hell Verse
is the fourth animated film adaptation of the anime and manga series Bleach. Directed by Noriyuki Abe. The film's theme song is "Save The One, Save The All", performed by T.M.Revolution and its screenplay was written by Natsuko Takahashi and Ookubo Masahiro, with Tite Kubo, author of the manga,...

 
Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Book Girl  Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Box! Toshio Lee Ichihara Hayato, Kengo Kora, Mitsuki Tanimura
Mitsuki Tanimura
, is a Japanese actress.-Filmography:* The Chasing World * God's Puzzle * Summer Wars * Kanikōsen * Mei-chan no Shitsuji * Mori no Asagao * Hankyū Densha as Miho...

Sports drama
A Boy and His Samurai
A Boy and His Samurai
is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura and based on a manga by Gen Araki.-Cast:* Ryo Nishikido* Rie Tomosaka* Fuku Suzuki* Hiroki Konno* Keisuke Horibe* Hitomi Satō* Shiori Kutsuna* Yūji Nakamura* Jun Inoue...

 
Yoshihiro Nakamura
Yoshihiro Nakamura
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2005 horror film Būsu or The Booth.- Life :He was born on the 25th of August 1970 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. He went to Seijo University Department of Arts and Literature...

Ryo Nishikido
Ryo Nishikido
is a Japanese actor and singer. He is a member of the Johnny & Associates boy band Kanjani Eight and was a member of boy band NEWS.- Biography :Ryo Nishikido was born in Hyogo on November 3, 1984 and raised in Osaka. He made his major debut in 2004 as an actor and a singer. Nishkido belongs to two...

, Rie Tomosaka
Rie Tomosaka
is a Japanese actress and pop star from Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, born on October 12, 1979 in Nagano-shi, Nagano.She works for Itoh Company. From 1996 to 1997, she has also released music under the name .-Profile :She is 168 cm in height....

, Fuku Suzuki, Hiroki Konno
Based on a manga
Case Closed: The Lost Ship in the Sky
Case Closed: The Lost Ship in the Sky
is the 14th film installment of the manga and anime series Detective Conan. The film was released on April 17, 2010 in Japan. This film is confirmed to have Phantom Thief Kid involved in it after his last appearance in The Private Eyes' Requiem. This film earned 3.1 billion yen in the domestic...

 
Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Caterpillar
Caterpillar (film)
is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Kōji Wakamatsu, partially drawn from Edogawa Rampo's banned short-story .The film is a critique of the right-wing militarist nationalism that guided Japan's conduct in Asia during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. The film deals with various...

 
Kōji Wakamatsu
Koji Wakamatsu
is a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film In the Realm of the Senses...

 
Shinobu Terajima  War
War
War is a state of organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political...

 
Cold Fish
Cold Fish
is a 2010 Japanese serial killer film directed by Sion Sono. The film is about a quiet and unambitious owner of a tropical fish shop who's life and family are taken over by a fellow fish entrepreneur who happens to be a serial killer...

Sion Sono
Sion Sono
is a controversial Japanese filmmaker and poet. He was born in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan, and is best known for his films as well as avant-garde poetry performances.-Early career:...

Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa Thriller
Colorful
Colorful (film)
is a 2010 Japanese animated feature film directed by Keiichi Hara. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Eto Mori, produced by Sunrise and animated by the animation studio Ascension.-Plot:...

 
Keiichi Hara
Keiichi Hara
is a Japanese director of animated films.-Biography:What started Hara on his career as an animation creator was visiting an animation film company as part of his job hunting activities after graduating from Tokyo Designer Gakuin College . He recklessly left the tour, an act normally forbidden for...

 
Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

Confessions
Confessions (film)
is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima.-Plot:Yuko Moriguchi , a junior high teacher, announces she will resign. She reveals that her daughter, Manami, was killed by two pupils in her class, whom she dubs "Student A" and "Student B"...

 
Tetsuya Nakashima
Tetsuya Nakashima
Tetsuya Nakashima is a Japanese film director. He was born in Fukuoka, attending high school in Chikushino. Nakashima was given the Best Director award at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Kamikaze Girls....

 
Takako Matsu
Takako Matsu
, born , is a Japanese actress and pop singer/songwriter born on June 10, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan. The style of her music is often laid-back and relaxing.- Profile :* Interests: Watching movies and stage plays...

Thriller
Dancing Chaplin Masayuki Suo
Masayuki Suo
is a Japanese film director. He is perhaps best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We Dance?.According to Suo:- Life and career :...

Luigo Bonino, Tamiyo Kusakari
Tamiyo Kusakari
is a Japanese dancer for the Maki Asami Ballet Company. In 1987, she made her debut as Odette in Swan Lake.From Toshima, Tokyo, Kusakari started dancing professionally at the age of eight and won the first prize at the Japan Ballet Competition of 1987. She received the Muramatsu Award in 1988, and...

, Roland Petit
Roland Petit
Roland Petit was a French choreographer and dancer born in Villemomble, near Paris, France. He trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.-Biography:...

Documentary
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Tatsuya Ishihara
Tatsuya Ishihara
is a Japanese anime director from Maizuru, Kyoto working for the Japanese animation studio Kyoto Animation.-Series directed:*Air Series Director*Aka-chan to Boku*Clannad *Fushigi Yuugi...

, Yasuhiro Takemoto
Yasuhiro Takemoto
is a Japanese director of anime series and original video animations.-Staff in:* Air: Storyboard , Episode Director , Key Animation * Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid: Director...

 
Aya Hirano
Aya Hirano
from Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese voice actress and J-pop singer who has had roles in several anime, visual novels, and TV commercials in Japan. She was contracted to Space Craft Produce, a branch of the Space Craft Group, for her voice acting career, and for her singing career,...

, Tomokazu Sugita
Tomokazu Sugita
is a Japanese voice actor employed by Atomic Monkey. Best known for his role as Gintoki in Gintama, he also voices Kyon in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. He is also one of the three hosts on the radio show Bururaji promoting the videogame Blazblue which is produced and released on Nico Nico...

, Minori Chihara
Minori Chihara
is a Japanese voice actress who has had roles in several anime series, and a J-pop singer. As a seiyū, she works under the agency Avex Planning & Development, while in her musical career, she has been signed under King Records and is currently with Lantis...

, Yūko Gotō
Yuko Goto
is a Japanese voice actress who works for Production Baobab. In direct contrast to her cute-and-vulnerable moé typecasting, Yūko in real life is a devotee of biker culture who dresses and acts as such when not working, right down to her motorcycle...


Daisuke Ono
Daisuke Ono
is a Japanese voice actor who works for Mausu Promotion. He was born in Kōchi Prefecture. He won the 4th Seiyū Awards for best voice actor for his role as Sebastian Michaelis in Kuroshitsuji.-Anime:2002*Full Metal Panic!...

Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Based on a book
Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King
Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King
, also known as Doraemon the Legend 2010, is a 2010 Japanese film that was released on March 6, 2010. This movie is part of the celebration for the franchise's 40th anniversary and the 30th anniversary since the first Doraemon movie...

 
Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Eden of the East: Paradise Lost
Eden of the East
is a Japanese anime television series, which premiered on Fuji TV's noitaminA timeslot on April 9, 2009. Created, directed and written by Kenji Kamiyama, it features character designs by Chika Umino and animation production by Production I.G...

Kenji Kamiyama
Kenji Kamiyama
, born on March 20, 1966 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese anime director. He has worked regularly with the anime studio and production enterprise, Production I.G, such as his work on Jin-Roh, Patlabor, Blood: The Last Vampire, and for whom he has directed the Ghost in the Shell: Stand...

 
Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
Fate/stay night
is a Japanese visual novel developed by Type-Moon, which was originally released as an adult game for the PC. An all-ages version of Fate/stay night, titled Fate/stay night Réalta Nua, was released for the PlayStation 2 on April 19, 2007, and features the Japanese voice actors from the anime series...

Yuji Yamaguchi Noriaki Sugiyama
Noriaki Sugiyama
is a Japanese voice actor and television actor best known for his roles as Sasuke Uchiha in Naruto, Uryū Ishida in Bleach, Shirō Emiya in Fate/Stay Night, and England in Axis Powers Hetalia....

, Ayako Kawasumi
Ayako Kawasumi
is a Japanese voice actress and J-pop singer. She is affectionately referred to by her fellow voice actors and fans as "", "" and "". She is a skilled pianist, having practiced the piano since childhood....

, Kana Ueda
Kana Ueda
is a Japanese Seiyū employed by I'm Enterprise. She is best known as the voices of Yumi Fukuzawa in Maria-sama ga Miteru, Rin Tohsaka in Fate/Stay Night and Hayate Yagami in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's and Strikers...

Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Garo: Red Requiem
GARO: Red Requiem
is a 2010 Japanese 3-D film directed by Keita Amemiya, produced by Tohokushinsha Film, and based their tokusatsu series Garo. It was released in theaters on October 30, 2010. Ryosei Konishi reprises his role from the television series, while introducing new characters such as the one portrayed by...

Keita Amemiya
Keita Amemiya
is a prolific Japanese character designer and director from Urayasu, Chiba. Amemiya is known for his sophisticated science fiction & fantasy designs and unique directorial style, and is recognized among tokusatsu genre fans as one of the most creative, respected and successful professionals of all...

Ryosei Konishi
Ryosei Konishi
is an actor and seiyū, born on February 20, 1982 in Tokyo, Japan. Up until January 19, 2007, he was known by his birth name . He is best known for portraying Kouga Saejima/GARO, the title character from the Japanese tokusatsu television series GARO from 2005 to 2006, its 2010 film adaptation, Garo:...

, Mary Matsuyama, Yosuke Saito
Yosuke Saito
Yōsuke Saito is a is a Japanese football player.Saito is a striker who has deft dribbling skills and a good aim for goal .-J-League Firsts:* Appearance: March 17, 2007. Yokohama F Marinos 1 vs 4 Vissel Kobe, Nissan Stadium-Club career stats:...

Fantasy action
GeGeGe no Nyōbō
GeGeGe no Nyōbō
is a 2008 novel by Nunoe Mura, a wife of Shigeru Mizuki. It has been adapted into a film and a television series in 2010.-Cast:*Nao Matsushita *Osamu Mukai *Takumi Saito *Kazue Fukiishi *Kankurō Kudō -External links:...

 
Takuji Suzuki  Kazue Fukiishi
Kazue Fukiishi
is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 28th Yokohama Film Festival for What the Snow Brings, Tegami and Memories of Tomorrow.-Filmography:* Sabu...

, Kankurō Kudō
Kankuro Kudo
Kankurō Kudō is a Japanese screenwriter, dramatist, director, actor and member of the theater company Otona Keikaku...

 
Based on a book
Gothic & Lolita Psycho
Gothic & Lolita Psycho
is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Go Ohara. It stars Rina Akiyama, Ruito Aoyagi, Minami Tsukui, Yurei Yanagi, Masahito Okamoto, Satoshi Hakuzen and Asami Sugiura. The film's is set in Tokyo featuring Yuki who lives with her father Jiro and mother Kayako...

Go Ohara Rina Akiyama
Rina Akiyama
is a Japanese actress, gravure idol, and tarento from Tokyo. Her most notable appearances are in two Kamen Rider Series, namely Kamen Rider Agito and Kamen Rider Den-O. She also has a cameo appearance in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in which she is featured in a poster on one of the levels...

Action
Hanamizuki
Hanamizuki
is a 2010 Japanese romance drama film inspired by the lyrics of a love song of the same name by Yō Hitoto. The film is directed by Nobuhiro Doi, and its script was written by Noriko Yoshida. The film spans the ten-year period from 1996 to 2006, and it stars Yui Aragaki as Sae, a high school student...

 
Nobuhiro Doi  Yui Aragaki
Yui Aragaki
is a Japanese idol, model, actress, singer, seiyū and occasional radio show host of Ryukyuan ancestry.She is particularly recognized for her beauty and her movie projects.- Overview :...

, Toma Ikuta
Toma Ikuta
is a Japanese talent artist part of Johnny's Jr. under the supervision of Johnny & Associates.-Career :Ikuta Toma used to be in a variety show for kids called Tensai Terebi kun. Being a member of a then all-children band called Strawberry Parfait, he was popular with the audience...

, Misako Renbutsu
Misako Renbutsu
is an actress in Japan. She has won the Grand Prix award at the Super Heroine Audition Miss Phoenix in 2005.-Dramas: - as Rieko Ishikawa - as Nanase Hida - as Hidemi Furusawa - as Yamamoto Tamiko...

Romance
Romance film
Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

 
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora
, subtitled looking up at the half-moon and also known as Hantsuki, is a Japanese romance light novel series written by Tsumugu Hashimoto and illustrated by Keiji Yamamoto centering around two hospitalized children aged seventeen and the love they begin to share...

 
Yoshihiro Fukagawa
Yoshihiro Fukagawa
is a Japanese film director. His film Into the White Night was screened in the Main Programme of the Panorama section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival....

 
Based on a light novel
Haru's Journey Masahiro Kobayashi
Masahiro Kobayashi
is a Japanese actor and seiyū from Yakumo, Futami District, Hokkaidō. He is a graduate of Yakumo-chō Ritsu Yakumochū School and Hokkaidō Hakodate Chūbu High School, and is a drop-out of the cinema course in the Nihon University College of Art. In 1995 he enrolled in the Seinenza Theater Company...

Tatsuya Nakadai
Tatsuya Nakadai
is a Japanese leading film actor.He became a star after he was discovered working as a Tokyo shop clerk by filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi during the early 1950s...

, Eri Tokunaga, Hideji Otaki
Hideji Ōtaki
is a Japanese actor. He won the award for Best Supporting Actor at the 1st Hochi Film Award for Brother and Sister, Kimi yo fundo no kawa o watare and Fumō Chitai.-Filmography:*Brother and Sister *Kimi yo fundo no kawa o watare...

Road movie
Heaven's Story
Heaven's Story
is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Takahisa Zeze. It was screened in the Main Programme of the Forum section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize....

 
Takahisa Zeze
Takahisa Zeze
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter best known for his soft-core pornographic pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the .-Life and career:...

 
Moeki Tsuruoka, Tomoharu Hasegawa, Shugo Oshinari
Shugo Oshinari
is a Japanese actor best known for his roles in the controversial Battle Royale II: Requiem and Shunji Iwai's film, All About Lily Chou-Chou ....

Drama
Helldriver
Helldriver
is a 2010 Japanese splatter film directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura. It stars Yumiko Hara and Eihi Shiina, and was written by Nishimura and Daichi Nagisa.-Plot:...

 
Yoshihiro Nishimura
Yoshihiro Nishimura
is a Japanese film director, special effects and makeup effects artist, and a screenwriter who has worked predominantly in the horror genre. Nishimura has been described as "a legendary director and effects artist" and "the Tom Savini of Japan" with "talent to burn"...

 
Yumiko Hara, Eihi Shiina
Eihi Shiina
Eihi Shiina is a fashion model and actress from Fukuoka, Japan. She got her first big break in 1995, working for Benetton, after which she represented Japan at the global Elite Model Look '95. More magazine work followed.Shiina made her film debut in 1999 with Dog-Food...

, Yurei Yanagi
Yûrei Yanagi
is a Japanese actor and tarento born 1963-04-08 in Fuchū, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Yanagi was originally a member of Takeshi Kitano's gundan. In 1990 he continued to work with Takeshi for the film Boiling Point. Afterwards, he appeared in over eight more films before meeting up with Takeshi...

Splatter
Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
is a 2010 Japanese film by Mipo Oh. It was released in Japanese cinemas on 4 September 2010.-Cast:* Shinobu Otake as Yoko Morii* Aoi Miyazaki as Tsukiko Morii* Kenta Kiritani as Kenji Hattori* Moeko Ezawa as Saku Ueno* Jun Kunimura as Akira Murakami...

 
Mipo Oh  Shinobu Otake, Aoi Miyazaki
Aoi Miyazaki
is a Japanese actress. She is best known for her pure image and roles such as in Nana and Virgin Snow. Her brother Masaru Miyazaki is an actor, and they starred together in the film Hatsukoi. She married Sosuke Takaoka on June 15, 2007, her partner since she was fifteen.-Career:Miyazaki started...

, Kenta Kiritani
Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
is a 2010 Japanese film by Mipo Oh. It was released in Japanese cinemas on 4 September 2010.-Cast:* Shinobu Otake as Yoko Morii* Aoi Miyazaki as Tsukiko Morii* Kenta Kiritani as Kenji Hattori* Moeko Ezawa as Saku Ueno* Jun Kunimura as Akira Murakami...

 
Mipo Oh  Shinobu Otake, Aoi Miyazaki
Aoi Miyazaki
is a Japanese actress. She is best known for her pure image and roles such as in Nana and Virgin Snow. Her brother Masaru Miyazaki is an actor, and they starred together in the film Hatsukoi. She married Sosuke Takaoka on June 15, 2007, her partner since she was fifteen.-Career:Miyazaki started...

, Kenta Kiritani
Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island
Higanjima
is a Japanese manga series by Kōji Matsumoto. It was adapted into a live action film in 2010....

Kim Tae-gyun
Kim Tae-gyun (director)
Kim Tae-gyun is a South Korean film director. His 2010 film A Barefoot Dream was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it did not make the final shortlist.-Director:...

Koji Yamamoto
Koji Yamamoto (actor)
is a Japanese Actor and singer, who was born in Tokyo, Japan.-Career:He began his career as a baby model at under one year of age. He also played Marius in the Japanese TOHO production of Les Misérables and appears on the 2003 "green" cast recording. His first major role was in 2004 in Shinsengumi!...

, Miori Takimoto
Miori Takimoto
Miori Takimoto is a Japanese actress and a former musical performer. She is best known for being a member of the disbanded Japanese idol group SweetS.- Biography :...

Horror
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

Hospitalité Koji Fukada Kenji Yamauchi, Kiki Sugino, Kanji Furutachi Black comedy
Hot as Hell: The Deadbeat March Yosuke Okuda Itabashi Shunya, Waki Katakura, Kenraku Tamura Crime comedy-drama
Hutch the Honeybee
Hutch the Honeybee
is a remake of the 1970s show The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee it was released on31 July 2010. Hutch debuted at No.6 at the Japanese Box Office.-Cast:*Ayaka Saitō*Ayaka Wilson*Naoki Tanaka*Jun Komori*Eiji Bandō*Kōichi Tsutaya*Yui Aragaki...

 
Tetsurō Amino
Tetsuro Amino
is a Japanese anime director, born on October 10, 1955 in Chiba Prefecture. In 1988, he started using his name in katakana.He has directed noted anime series as Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!!, I Love Bubu Chacha, the Macross 7 series and its continuations Macross 7: The Galaxy's Calling Me! and...

 
Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Inazuma Eleven: Saikyō Gundan Ōgre Shūrai
Inazuma Eleven (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tenya Yabuno. It is based on the Level-5 video game series of the same title. The manga has been published by Shogakukan in CoroCoro Comic since the June 2008 issue...

 
Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Into the White Night
Into the White Night
is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Yoshihiro Fukagawa. It was screened in the Main Programme of the Panorama section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival...

Yoshihiro Fukagawa
Yoshihiro Fukagawa
is a Japanese film director. His film Into the White Night was screened in the Main Programme of the Panorama section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival....

Maki Horikita
Maki Horikita
is a Japanese actress and endorser. She debuted in 2003 as a U-15 idol and has since starred in Japanese television dramas, television and magazine advertisements, and movies.- Childhood:...

, Kengo Kora, Eiichiro Funakoshi
Crime drama
Kimi ni Todoke
Kimi ni Todoke (film)
is a 2010 Japanese romance drama film based on the manga of the same name. The film is directed by Naoto Kumazawa, who also co-wrote the film's script with Rika Nezu...

 
Naoto Kumazawa  Mikako Tabe
Mikako Tabe
is a Japanese stage and film actress who is from Tokyo. She has played the role of Yaten Kou in the Sailor Moon musicals. She also starred in the comedy series Yasuko to Kenji.-Movies:*Kimi ni Todoke *Fish Story *Kowai Douyou...

, Haruma Miura
Haruma Miura
is a Japanese actor and singer. He is part of the Amuse agency, and debuted as one of the members of Brash Brats, a J-pop group. However, they are currently on hiatus, while Haruma is still active as an actor. He gained popularity with Gokusen 3 and 2007 film Koizora...

Romance
Romance film
Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

, Drama
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 
Kakera: A Piece of Our Life
Love Vibes
Love Vibes was adapted into a live action film in 2010 under the name Kakera: A Piece of Our Life. Third Window Films licensed the movie for a UK release, with a theatrical release in March 2010 and a DVD release in June 2010.-Cast list:...

 
Hikari Mitsushima
Hikari Mitsushima
is a Japanese film actress, born on 30 November 1985, in Okinawa, Japan. She began her career in 1997 as a teenage idol singer in the J-pop groups Folder and Folder 5. She made her acting debut in Rebirth of Mothra II in 1997, but did not start acting regularly until 2005...

, Eriko Nakamura 
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy
is a series of films part of the Kamen Rider Den-O franchise, particularly its Cho-Den-O Series. It was released beginning on May 22, 2010, with each subsequent chapter of the trilogy released in two week intervals. Each of the films' subtitles contains the name of the protagonist...

Osamu Kaneda, Kenzō Maihara, Takayuki Shibasaki Yuichi Nakamura
Yuichi Nakamura
is a Japanese voice actor who is affiliated with Sigma Seven.-2001:* Dennou Boukenki Webdiver , Griffion, Ligaon, Raada* The Prince of Tennis , Ginka Center member 1-2003:* Crush Gear Nitro , Hugo...

, Dori Sakurada
Dori Sakurada
, born December 7, 1991 is a Japanese actor and singer. He is known most notably for his role as Ryoma Echizen as part of the third generation Seigaku cast in The Prince of Tennis musicals, Tenimyu.- Stages and Musicals :*Bold denotes leading roles...

, Kimito Totani
Kimito Totani
is a Japanese actor from Shinagawa, Tokyo. He made his acting debut in the 2007 remake of Tsubaki Sanjuro. He is currently known for his portrayal of Daiki Kaito/Kamen Rider Diend in the Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Decade and its films....

Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate Koichi Sakamoto
Koichi Sakamoto
is a Japanese-born stunt actor, and producer for films and television. He is best known for his work as executive producer, as well as fight coordinator and frequent director, for the long running Power Rangers franchise.-Early career:...

Renn Kiriyama
Renn Kiriyama
is a Japanese stage and television actor from Yokohama. His debut role was as Bunta Marui in The Prince of Tennis musical Absolute King Rikkai feat. Rokkaku ~ First Service. Kiriyama is also known for his role in Shotaro Hidari, the male lead and half of the eponymous hero of the television series...

, Masaki Suda
Masaki Suda
is a Japanese actor from Osaka Prefecture. Before being signed onto the Top Coat talent agency, Suda tried out for both Amuse, Inc.'s 30th anniversary contest and the Junon Superboy Contest. His debut role is as Philip, the male lead and half of the eponymous hero of the 2009/2010 television series...

, Hikaru Yamamoto
Hikaru Yamamoto
is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. After winning the Amuse Ohimesama Audition, she was signed onto the Amuse, Inc. talent agency. She starred as the female lead in Kamen Rider W in 2009-2010.-Television:-Film:-External links:* *...

, Minehiro Kinomoto
Minehiro Kinomoto
is a Japanese stage and television actor from Shiga Prefecture. Minehiro currently portrays Ryu Terui, the Superintendent of the police force and the secondary hero of the television series Kamen Rider W.-Movies:...

, Mitsuru Matsuoka, Genki Sudo
Genki Sudo
is a retired Japanese mixed martial artist and a kickboxer who, up until December 31, 2006 competed in the Japanese fighting organization HERO'S and before that, the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Pancrase. He is notable for his elaborate ring entrances and unorthodox fighting style. His...

, Aya Sugimoto
Aya Sugimoto
is a Japanese TV personality, actress, dancer and author born in Kyoto. She also had a J-pop career in the late 1980s-early 1990s.-Early life:Aya Sugimoto grew up in Kyoto under a "strict" upbringing, making her first foray into the world of entertainment when she began modeling at age 15...

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War Core
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W featuring Skull: Movie War Core
is a 2010 film in the Kamen Rider Series, featuring the casts and characters of Kamen Rider W and Kamen Rider OOO. Originally announced in a teaser at the end of the film Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate, film was released in Japan on December 18, 2010. The catchphrase for...

Renn Kiriyama
Renn Kiriyama
is a Japanese stage and television actor from Yokohama. His debut role was as Bunta Marui in The Prince of Tennis musical Absolute King Rikkai feat. Rokkaku ~ First Service. Kiriyama is also known for his role in Shotaro Hidari, the male lead and half of the eponymous hero of the television series...

, Masaki Suda
Masaki Suda
is a Japanese actor from Osaka Prefecture. Before being signed onto the Top Coat talent agency, Suda tried out for both Amuse, Inc.'s 30th anniversary contest and the Junon Superboy Contest. His debut role is as Philip, the male lead and half of the eponymous hero of the 2009/2010 television series...

, Hikaru Yamamoto
Hikaru Yamamoto
is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. After winning the Amuse Ohimesama Audition, she was signed onto the Amuse, Inc. talent agency. She starred as the female lead in Kamen Rider W in 2009-2010.-Television:-Film:-External links:* *...

, Minehiro Kinomoto
Minehiro Kinomoto
is a Japanese stage and television actor from Shiga Prefecture. Minehiro currently portrays Ryu Terui, the Superintendent of the police force and the secondary hero of the television series Kamen Rider W.-Movies:...

, Kikkawa Koji, Shu Watanabe
Shu Watanabe (actor)
-TV series:*2010 : Flunk Punk Rumble *2010 : Kamen Rider OOO as Eiji Hino / Kamen Rider OOO-Films:*2010 : Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate as Eiji Hino / Kamen Rider OOO...

Kinako
Kinako (film)
is a 2011 Japanese film based on a true story of a dog trainer. It was released in Japanese cinemas throughout Japan on 14 August 2010.-Story:This movie is based on the true story of a female dog trainer, Kyoko Mochizuki, nicknamed "Anko", and a Labrador retriever which repeatedly fails the police...

 
Yoshinori Kobayashi  Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 
Based on a true story
King of Thorn Kazuyoshi Katayama Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Kyōfu
Kyōfu
is a 2010 Japanese horror film directed by Hiroshi Takahashi.-Cast:* Mana Fujii* Yuri Nakamura* Nagisa Katahira* Sō Kusakabe* Yōichirō Saitō* Kimika Yoshino* Yōko Chōsokabe* Tomohiro Kaku* Momoko Hatano* Chōei Takahashi* Ryō Matsushima* Kenichi Takitō...

 
Hiroshi Takahashi Mana Fujii, Yuri Nakamura, Nagisa Katahira
Nagisa Katahira
, born July 12, 1959) is a Japanese television actress with the Horipuro company.-Acting career:Later, her interest turned to acting, and now she has become known as the "Queen of the two-hour drama." She has also starred in several jidaigeki, including the title role as the vigilante Kurenai in...

 
Horror
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 
The Lady Shogun and Her Men Fuminori Kaneko Kazunari Ninomiya
Kazunari Ninomiya
, often called , is a Japanese idol, singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor and radio host. He is a member of Japanese boy band Arashi and is best known to movie audiences for his portrayal as Private Saigo in the 2006 Clint Eastwood war film Letters from Iwo Jima.Ninomiya began his career in the...

, Ko Shibasaki, Maki Horikita
Maki Horikita
is a Japanese actress and endorser. She debuted in 2003 as a U-15 idol and has since starred in Japanese television dramas, television and magazine advertisements, and movies.- Childhood:...

Costume fantasy drama
Light Novel no Tanoshii Kakikata
Light Novel no Tanoshii Kakikata
is a Japanese light novel written by Tōru Honda and illustrated by Kasumu Kirino. It was adapted into a live action film in 2010....

Kenichi Ōmori  Maasa Sudo, Hisanori Satō, Ayana Taketatsu
Ayana Taketatsu
is a Japanese voice actress from Saitama Prefecture. She is affiliated with I'm Enterprise. Like Yōko Hikasa, she had also attended Nihon Narration Engi Kenkyūjo, a voice actor training school before becoming affiliated with the current management company...

Based on a light novel
The Lightning Tree Ryuichi Hiroki
Ryuichi Hiroki
is a Japanese artist, film director, and film editor.-Biography:Ryūichi Hiroki is now one of the most prolific film directors in Japan. He is a pioneer in using digital video to shoot theatrical films in Japan...

Masaki Okada
Masaki Okada
is a Japanese actor, best known for his roles as Sekime Kyogo in the drama Hanazakari no Kimitachi e and as Takuma Kakinouchi in the 2009 film Boku no Hatsukoi wo Kimi ni Sasagu.-Films:* Ahiru to Kamo no Coinlocker * Tennen Kokekkō...

, Yu Aoi
Yû Aoi
is a Japanese actress and model. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film All About Lily Chou-Chou...

, Keisuke Koide
Costume romance
Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano
Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano
is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Hisayasu Satō and based on a book by Atsuhiko Nakamura.-External links:* at Twitch Film...

Hisayasu Satō
Hisayasu Sato
is a Japanese exploitation film director. He has worked prolifically in the pinku eiga genre. His best known works are the pink film The Bedroom , and the V-Cinema splatter film Splatter: Naked Blood . He is known for his "sledgehammer" filmmaking style, and using his exploitation career to tackle...

 
Norie Yasui 
Mayu Sakuma
Drama
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 
Based on a book
Maria-sama ga Miteru
Maria-sama ga Miteru
, often shortened to , is a series of Japanese light novels written by Oyuki Konno and illustrated by Reine Hibiki. The series focuses on a group of teenage girls attending Lillian Catholic school for girls in Tokyo, Japan. Its storyline largely revolves around the lives and close relationships of...

Based on a manga
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: Awakening of the Trailblazer
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: Awakening of the Trailblazer
is an animated film set two years after the second season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, as the film sees Celestial Being against a group of hostile aliens known as ELS. It is the first Gundam series to have included aliens in any of its franchises...

Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Mutant Girls Squad
Mutant Girls Squad
is a Japanese film by Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura and Tak Sakaguchi. The film is about Rin, a sixteen-year-old mutant girl who meets a gang of rebel mutants who aim to take revenge on humans for persecuting their race...

Noboru Iguchi
Noboru Iguchi
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor. He has worked as a director in adult video as well as in the horror and gore genres.-Life and career:Iguchi was born on June 28, 1969...

, Yoshihiro Nishimura
Yoshihiro Nishimura
is a Japanese film director, special effects and makeup effects artist, and a screenwriter who has worked predominantly in the horror genre. Nishimura has been described as "a legendary director and effects artist" and "the Tom Savini of Japan" with "talent to burn"...

, Tak Sakaguchi
Tak Sakaguchi
is a Japanese actor, director, fight choreorapher, and stuntman. He is best known for his lead role in Ryuhei Kitamura's cult film, Versus. Sakaguchi is a talented martial artist, and as such, stars in films featuring copious fight scenes and performs all of his own stunts. He is known to be...

Yumi Sugimoto
Yumi Sugimoto
is a Japanese model, actress, gravure idol and singer.-Modeling career:Sugimoto began her career in modeling during elementary school, when she was chosen in a Grand-Prix semi-audition for the girls manga magazine Ribon.-Acting career:...

, Yuko Takayama, Suzuka Morita
Suzuka Morita
is a Japanese model and actress who is a 2nd generation member, number11, of Idoling!!!. She is also the 7th generation member of Hop Club. Morita is best known for playing Shinken Yellow in the TV series Samurai Sentai Shinkenger...

 
Splatter
Naruto Shippūden 4: The Lost Tower
Naruto Shippuden 4: The Lost Tower
is the seventh overall Naruto film and the fourth Naruto Shippūden film. It was released on July 31, 2010, with advance ticket sale events scheduled for April 17 and June 19. the DVD version of the movie was released on April 27th 2011. Along with film a comical short feature named will be shown...

Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Wood (film)
is a Japanese drama film directed by Tran Anh Hung, based on Haruki Murakami's novel of the same name. The film was released in Japan on 11 December 2010.- Plot :...

 
Tran Anh Hung
Tran Anh Hung
Trần Anh Hùng is a French film director of Vietnamese ancestry.He was born in Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam, and emigrated to France when he was 12 following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975....

 
Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi
Rinko Kikuchi
, born , January 6, 1981, is a Japanese actress. Kikuchi is the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. She is currently Japan's only living female Academy Award nominee in acting categories...

, Kiko Mizuhara
Kiko Mizuhara
, born Audrie Kiko Daniel, October 15, 1990, is a Japanese model and actress. She is a former exclusive model for the Japanese magazine ViVi and the Japanese edition of Seventeen....

Drama
Ōoku  Fuminori Kaneko
Otōto
Otōto (2010 film)
Otōto is a 2010 film by Yoji Yamada. The first screening of this film outside of Japan was at the closing ceremony of the 60th Berlin Film Festival in 2010...

 
Yoji Yamada
Yoji Yamada
is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy ....

 
Sayuri Yoshinaga Tsurube Shofukutei Yū Aoi
Yû Aoi
is a Japanese actress and model. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film All About Lily Chou-Chou...

Special screening at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival
60th Berlin International Film Festival
The 60th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 11 to February 21, 2010, with Werner Herzog as President of the Jury. The opening film of the festival was Chinese director Wang Quan'an's romantic drama Apart Together, in competition, while the closing film is Japanese...

Outrage
Outrage (2010 film)
Outrage is a 2010 Japanese yakuza film directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival...

 
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano
is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic...

 
Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase
Ryo Kase
is a Japanese actor. He grew up in Bellevue, Washington until he was seven. He portrayed Shimizu, one of the lower-ranked Japanese soldiers, in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima. He starred in Masayuki Suo's film I Just Didn't Do It.-Filmography:...

 
Gangster black comedy
Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night Toshikazu Nagae Aoi Nakamura
Aoi Nakamura
is a Japanese actor.-Biography:Nakamura portrays Hibiki Akagi in Boys Esté.He appears in Perfect Blue a television movie based on a novel by Miyuki Miyabe...

, Noriko Aoyama, Ayako Yoshitani
Horror
Phantom Ruler: Zoroark
Phantom Ruler: Zoroark
Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions, originally released in Japan as , is a Pokémon anime film, the thirteenth in the meta series franchise history and the fourth in the Diamond & Pearl series arc. It was released in Japan on July 10, 2010...

Kunihiko Yuyama
Kunihiko Yuyama
' is a Japanese director of anime films, television, and video series. His best-known work involves Pokémon productions. Other anime he has directed include Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning, Plawres Sanshiro, Wedding Peach, and the adult-oriented Weather Report Girl.Developing an interest...

 
Rica Matsumoto
Rica Matsumoto
is a Japanese voice actress and J-pop singer who was born in Yokohama, Japan. Her name is also sometimes romanized as Rika Matsumoto. She was one of the original members of the popular vocal group JAM Project. After the way of the stage, she embarked on voice acting and a singing career...

, Megumi Toyoguchi
Megumi Toyoguchi
is a voice actress, born on January 2, 1978 in Machida, Tokyo, Japan. She is employed by the talent management firm 81 Produce.-Trivia:* Toyoguchi is the only seiyū to have the distinction of appearing in every anime in the Saturday 6 p.m...

, Yūji Ueda
Yuji Ueda
is a popular Japanese seiyū.He is most known for the roles of Sagara Sanosuke , Akito Tenkawa , Takeshi , Horohoro , Johannes Krauser II and Keitaro Urashima ....

, Ikue Ōtani
Ikue Otani
is a Japanese actress and voice actress from Tokyo, most famous as the voice of Pikachu in the Pokémon anime series and products and the voice of Tony Tony Chopper in the manga and anime series One Piece. She is currently attached to Mausu Promotion...

Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Railways  Yoshinari Nishikori  Kiichi Nakai, Reiko Takashima
Reiko Takashima
Reiko Takashima is a Japanese actress.Active in television series, movies, and commercials, her roles have included ninja in jidaigeki such as Abarembō Shōgun and Abare Hasshū Goyō Tabi, the wife Oeyo of the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, Lady Fujitsubo in a special with characters based on The Tale of...

 
Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 
Redline
Redline (2010 film)
is a 2009 science fiction auto racing anime film produced by Madhouse and released in Japan on October 9, 2010. The directorial debut feature of Takeshi Koike, it features the voices of Takuya Kimura, Yū Aoi and Tadanobu Asano, and an original story by Katsuhito Ishii, who also co-writes and sound...

 
Takeshi Koike Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Samurai Sentai Shinkenger vs. Go-onger: GinmakuBang!!
Samurai Sentai Shinkenger vs. Go-onger: GinmakuBang!!
is a Japanese film released in theaters on January 30, 2010, featuring a crossover between the Samurai Sentai Shinkenger and Engine Sentai Go-onger casts and characters. The heroes of Tensou Sentai Goseiger also make a cameo appearance in the film. The catchphrase for the movie is . It opened at #5...

Shōjirō Nakazawa Tori Matsuzaka, Hiroki Aiba
Hiroki Aiba
is a Japanese actor, dancer and singer. He is best known for his role as Shusuke Fuji in The Prince of Tennis musical series, Tenimyu, and the live film adaptation. He was also part of a young men's 3-member streetdancing group called Brights, which was disbanded in 2004...

, Rin Takanashi
Rin Takanashi
is a Japanese actress, and former teen model from Chiba Prefecture. She starred in the 2007 film adaptation of the Japanese novel Goth as one of the lead characters, Yoru Morino. She starred in the 2009 Super Sentai series Samurai Sentai Shinkenger as one of the lead characters, Mako...

, Shogo Suzuki, Suzuka Morita, Keisuke Sohma, Mitsuru Karahashi
Mitsuru Karahashi
is a Japanese actor for TV Asahi who has had small roles in various tokusatsu series. He was born May 30, 1977 in Fukushima Prefecture.-Filmography:*Kamen Rider 555 as Naoya Kaido/Snake Orphnoch;...

, Gorou Ibuki
Gorou Ibuki
is a Japanese actor. He is known for his parts in jidaigeki film, but is known as part of the cast of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger as Hikoma Kusakabe.-Television:*Samurai Sentai Shinkenger - Hikoma Kusakabe...

, Yasuhisa Furuhara
Yasuhisa Furuhara
' is a Japanese actor, best known for the leading role of Sousuke Esumi/Go-On Red in the 2008 tokusatsu series Engine Sentai Go-onger.-Filmography:Television* Nobuta wo produce as Takuzo Wakui...

, Shinwa Kataoka
Shinwa Kataoka
' is a Japanese actor, who began his acting career as Renn Kōsaka/Go-On Blue in the 2008 tokusatsu series Engine Sentai Go-onger. He is currently featured in television advertisements for Takara Tomy's children's game Kurohige Kiki Ippatsu ....

, Rina Aizawa
Rina Aizawa
is a Japanese actress & gravure idol signed under Box Corporation. Her debut role is Saki Rōyama/Go-on Yellow in the 2008 TV Asahi's tokusatsu series Engine Sentai Go-onger.She is ranked 249th out of 422001 people according to Oricon Style's page....

, Masahiro Usui
Masahiro Usui
' is a Japanese actor and the second-youngest of the acting group D-BOYS, produced by .-Biography:Usui joined D-BOYS through the 4th D-BOYS open audition, held on May 28, 2007...

, Kenji Ebisawa
Kenji Ebisawa
' is a Japanese actor, best known for the role of Gunpei Ishihara/Go-on Black in the 2008 tokusatsu series Engine Sentai Go-onger.-Filmography:Television* Mirai Souzoudou as Kazuo Watanabe...

, Akiko Nakagawa
Akiko Nakagawa
is a Japanese voice actress who was born on in Sapporo. She is married to InuYasha music composer Kaoru Wada.-Notable voice roles:*Sota Higurashi in InuYasha*Anne in Little Snow Fairy Sugar*Miss Goldenweek in One Piece*Miyuki Nanase in Kindaichi Case Files...

, Hidenori Tokuyama
Hidenori Tokuyama
is a Japanese actor and singer from Tokyo. A fan of tokusatsu, Tokuyama has had a role in several series, most notably Sou Yaguruma/Kamen Rider TheBee/Kamen Rider KickHopper in Kamen Rider Kabuto and Hiroto Sutō/Go-on Gold in Engine Sentai Go-onger....

, Yumi Sugimoto
Yumi Sugimoto
is a Japanese model, actress, gravure idol and singer.-Modeling career:Sugimoto began her career in modeling during elementary school, when she was chosen in a Grand-Prix semi-audition for the girls manga magazine Ribon.-Acting career:...

, Nao Oikawa
Nao Oikawa
born April 21, 1981 in Hiroshima, Japan is a Japanese actress, TV Personality and was also a former AV idol who was very popular in early 2000s.- Life and career :...

Sankaku
Sankaku
is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Keisuke Yoshida.-External links:*...

Keisuke Yoshida
Keisuke Yoshida
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Raw Summer won the Fantastic Off-Theatre Competition Grand Prize at the 2006 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.-Filmography:*Raw Summer *Tsukue no Nakami...

 
Sousuke Takaoka
Sousuke Takaoka
is a Japanese actor, who currently lives in Tokyo.Takaoka has often tackled powerful supporting roles, playing conflicted young men on the fringes of society...

, Tomoko Tabata
Tomoko Tabata
-TV:*Watashi No Aozora - Nazuna *Shinsengumi! - Kondo Tsune, Kondo Isami's wife-References:...

, Erena Ono
Erena Ono
, is a former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48. She was in Team K and her talent agency was Ohtapro. She was also part of subgroups "Honegumi from AKB48", and "ICE from AKB48"...

 
Sketches of Kaitan City
Sketches of Kaitan City
is a 2010 Japanese film by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri. It was released in Japanese cinemas on 18 December 2010.-Cast List:* Mitsuki Tanimura as Honami Ikawa* Pistol Takehara as Futa Ikawa* Ryo Kase as Haruo Meguro* Masaki Miura as Hiroshi Hagiya...

Kazuyoshi Kumakiri  Mitsuki Tanimura
Mitsuki Tanimura
, is a Japanese actress.-Filmography:* The Chasing World * God's Puzzle * Summer Wars * Kanikōsen * Mei-chan no Shitsuji * Mori no Asagao * Hankyū Densha as Miho...

, Pistol Takehara, Ryo Kase
Ryo Kase
is a Japanese actor. He grew up in Bellevue, Washington until he was seven. He portrayed Shimizu, one of the lower-ranked Japanese soldiers, in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima. He starred in Masayuki Suo's film I Just Didn't Do It.-Filmography:...

 
Based on a collected short story series
Solanin
Solanin
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It was serialised in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday from 2005 to 2006. The manga is licensed and published in English by Viz Media, in French by Kana and in Taiwanese by Taiwan Tohan. The manga was nominated for the 2009 Eisner Award for...

Takahiro Miki Aoi Miyazaki
Aoi Miyazaki
is a Japanese actress. She is best known for her pure image and roles such as in Nana and Virgin Snow. Her brother Masaru Miyazaki is an actor, and they starred together in the film Hatsukoi. She married Sosuke Takaoka on June 15, 2007, her partner since she was fifteen.-Career:Miyazaki started...

 
Based on a manga
Space Battleship Yamato Takashi Yamazaki
Takashi Yamazaki (film director)
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and visual effects director. He won the Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at the Japanese Academy Awards in 2006 for Always Sanchōme no Yūhi...

 
Meisa Kuroki
Meisa Kuroki
, better known by her stage name , is a Japanese actress, model and singer born in Nago, Okinawa, Japan. She is represented by the agency Sweet Power and is signed to Sony Music Japan. She made her acting debut in 2004. She has modeled for the popular Japanese fashion magazine JJ, among others, and...

 
Tensou Sentai Goseiger: Epic on the Movie
Tensou Sentai Goseiger: Epic on the Movie
is the title of the film edition of the 34th Super Sentai Series Tensou Sentai Goseiger. It was released on August 7, 2010, double-billed with the Kamen Rider W film W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate. The film follows the Goseigers as they try to save the Earth from Warstar's surviving...

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man is the third film in Shinya Tsukamoto's cyberpunk film series, and the first to be filmed in English.-Plot:Anthony is a man with an American father and a deceased Japanese mother living and working in Tokyo. One day his son is run over and killed by Yatsu, this film's version...

Shinya Tsukamoto
Shinya Tsukamoto
is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.-Biography:Tsukamoto started making movies at the age of 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera. He made a number of films, ranging...

 
Eric Bossick, Akiko Monō, Shinya Tsukamoto
Thirteen Assassins
Thirteen Assassins
is a 2010 Japanese-British jidaigeki film directed by Takashi Miike.A samurai epic based on a true incident, the film was produced by Toshiaki Nakazawa, who also produced the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Departures...

Takashi Miike
Takashi Miike
is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions...

 
Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada
Takayuki Yamada
is a Japanese actor and singer. He has two elder sisters and one son. At age 15, he was discovered by talent agency and made his debut in his acting career in the TV drama Psychometrer Eiji 2 in 1999....

, Yusuke Iseya
Yusuke Iseya
is a Japanese actor.He was born in Tokyo, Japan. With his modeling career , Yūsuke is known for Loreal , Men's Nonno magazine, Prada , and Asahi Aqua Blue....

 
Costume martial arts Japan-UK co-production
Ultraman Zero The Movie: Super Deciding Fight! The Belial Galactic Empire
Ultraman Zero The Movie: Super Deciding Fight! The Belial Galactic Empire
is a 2010 Japanese film in the Ultra Series to celebrate the franchise's 45th anniversary. It serves as a sequel to Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie. The catchphrases for the movie are and ....

Yuichi Abe Yu Koyanagi, Tatsuomi Hamada, Tao Tsuchiya
Welcome to the Space Show
Welcome to the Space Show
is a 2010 anime science fiction film.-Plot:Welcome to the Space Show, whose story "surpasses Star Wars in its scale" according to its producers, tells of the four adventures of five schoolmates and an alien dog in space during summer vacation....

Koji Masunari  Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 
Premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...

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Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time  Shunsuke Kazama
Shunsuke Kazama
is a Japanese actor and singer affiliated with Johnny's Entertainment.-History:As a Johnny's Junior he was member of .He is also a member of TU→YU along with V6's Hiroshi Nagano, NEWS's Takahisa Masuda, Hey! Say! JUMP's Hikaru Yaotome and actor Tatsuya Takeda...

, Kenn, Yuya Miyashita
Yuya Miyashita
is a Japanese vocalist and actor currently part of the J-pop group Run&Gun. He was born in Osaka. He was part of the casts of Musical Air Gear with his fellow band members and is a seiyū for Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.-Stage:* Musical Air Gear...

, Atsushi Tamura
Atsushi Tamura
is a famous Japanese comedian from Hiko Island near Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.He and his partner, , form the known as . Though the two share the same surname, there is no family relation. The pair started their career by performing comedy on the streets of Tokyo.-Early life:Before...

 
Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

Zebraman: Vengeful Zebra City
Zebraman: Vengeful Zebra City
is the 2010 sequel to the 2004 film Zebraman, to be released on May 1, 2010. The film features Show Aikawa reprising his leading role from the original, and also stars Riisa Naka and Masahiro Inoue. The film's tagline is...

Takashi Miike
Takashi Miike
is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions...

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