Photo courtesy of Nikkatsu. ©2025 NIGHT FLOWER Film Partners Source: Nikkatsu CorporationOfficial Site: https://movies.shochiku.co.jp/nightflower/ (Japan)Special Thanks to Mai Mino   Nikkatsu Corp. and Shochiku have provided information and photos from their new crime drama NIGHT FLOWER (ナイトフワラー, Naito Fuwarā). The film was written and directed by Eiji Uchida, director of the Japan Academy Award-winning MIDNIGHT SWAN (ミッドナイトスワン, Middonaito Suwan, 2020), and stars Keiko Kitagawa (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT, THE PROMISED NEVERLAND, STOLEN IDENTITY).  NIGHT FLOWER had its World Premiere at the 2025 Tokyo International Film Festival, Gala Selection. Shochiku will release the film in Japanese cinemas on Friday, November 28th. Nikkatsu is handling international sales.   Photo courtesy of Shochiku. ©2025 NIGHT FLOWER Film Partners Photo courtesy of Shochiku. ©2025 NIGHT FLOWER Film Partners STORY By day, a devoted mother; by

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Photo courtesy of Shochiku Co., Ltd. ©️2025 THE FINAL PIECE Film Partners Source: Shochiku Co., Ltd. Official Site: https://movies.shochiku.co.jp/banjyo-movie/ (Japan)   What is it that enables us to say we are truly alive? This mystery begins with a man's corpse found on a mountain, holding a bag of valuable shogi pieces. What gradually unravels is a startling truth and a painful and sad ‘life choice’.   Shochiku has provided information and photos for their new film, THE FINAL PIECE (盤上の向日葵, Banjo no Himawari), based on the 2017 bestseller The Sunflower on the Shogi Board by author Yuko Yuzuki. The films stars Kentaro Sakaguchi (SIGNAL THE MOVIE, PARADES) and Ken Watanabe (THE LAST SAMURAI, INCEPTION , GODZILLA, KOKUHO).    THE FINAL PIECE opens in Japan this Friday, October 31st.   Japanese poster. Photo courtesy of Shochiku Co.,

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Jiro Sato and Yuki Yamada star in the thriller, SUZUKI=BAKUDAN. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Japan.©Katsuhiro Go/KODANSHA Ltd. All Rights Reserved. ©2025 BAKUDAN Film Partners. All Rights Reserved. Source: Warner Bros. Pictures Japan Official Site: https://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/bakudan-movie/ (Japan)   Warner Bros. Pictures Japan has provided press notes and photos for their new thriller,  BAKUDAN (爆弾, meaning "bomb"), which opens in Japanese cinemas this Friday, October 31st.  International sales agents Fuji Television Network and Pony Canyon are marketing the film outside Japan with the title SUZUKI=BAKUDAN.   Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Japan.©Katsuhiro Go/KODANSHA Ltd. All Rights Reserved. ©2025 BAKUDAN Film Partners. All Rights Reserved. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Japan.©Katsuhiro Go/KODANSHA Ltd. All Rights Reserved. ©2025 BAKUDAN Film Partners. All Rights Reserved. Introduction    2025—The greatest shock of the Reiwa era is

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Photo courtesy of Nikkatsu. ©2025 HOKUSAI'S DAUGHTER Production Committee Source: Nikkatsu CorporationOfficial Site: https://oioui.com (Japan)Special Thanks to Mai Mino Theatrical poster. Photo courtesy of Nikkatsu. ©2025 HOKUSAI'S DAUGHTER Production Committee Nikkatsu Corp. has provided information and photos from the historical drama HOKUSAI’S DAUGHTER (おーい、応為, O ̄ i, ōi). The movie "Hokusai's Daughter" is the first Japan film to depict the life of O-Ei (Katsushika Oi), the daughter of Katsushika Hokusai, the legendary painter who created "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji" and "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa".  It was released theatrically in Japan on October, 17th, 2025. Nikkatsu Corporation is now handling international sales. HOKUSAI’S DAUGHTER was written and directed by Tatsushi Omori (THE WHISPERING OF THE GODS, MOTHER), and is based on the biography The Life of Katsushika Hokusai by Koshin Iijima and the manga Miss Hokusai by Hinako Sugiura. The latter was previously adapted as the anime film SARUSUBERI: MISS HOKUSAI 

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