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A depressive man and his unexpected niece went on a holiday vacation to New York. The trip was intended to be the man's final vacation before his suicide, but his niece found out his intention and helped him to choose not to end his life.
The coming-of-age romance is set during the Nagaoka Festival Grand Fireworks Show, one of Japan's three major fireworks shows that draws several hundred thousand visitors to Niigata Prefecture every year. What connects Makoto (a Tokyo high school boy without social skills or self-confidence) and Aki (a popular high school girl and class president with beauty and talent) is a drawing of a fireworks display. At the mercy of the drawing's mystery and fate itself, the two have to make a choice in a limited amount of time.
Film reconstructs the historic match Argentina vs England at the 1986 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals, famously remembered for the the hand of God goal by Maradona. Also exploring the sporting, political, and cultural dimensions of the encounter, in the background of the recent deadly Falklands War between the two countries.
Yugly, an irresistibly ugly dog, is determined to compete in the World's Best Dog Show, rallied by a bunch of flamboyant strays.
Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.
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Olya lives with her grandmother, who loves to tell her magical stories. Her parents are always busy and are rarely at home. The girl quarrels with her family and accidentally ends up in the mirror kingdom from her grandmother's stories, where she meets her reflection - Yalo. In this world, all people are too absorbed in mirrors, because in them they see ideal versions of themselves. These magic mirrors were invented by Korshun to subjugate the entire kingdom to his power, and Olya will have to believe in a miracle and save the fairy-tale world.
A deep-space exploration team aboard the Spiritus Mundi pick up a strange, recurring signal from a remote planet. Captain Elena Voss leads the mission to investigate, only to discover a bizarre alien artifact that starts warping time, reality, and the crew’s minds.
Ye, who had always had the same dreams, begins having diverse dreams after accidentally discovering a mysterious dictionary. Realizing that she was receiving signals from someone every time she opened the dictionary, Ye discovers that her dreams were actually signals from Rainy.
Adapted from comicbook with the same title, set in Batavia that follows the rebellion of outlaws against the Dutch colonizers, led by figures like Si Pitung.
With Baba (Akihiko Kuwata) acting as Kyowakai chairman and Sakota (Hideo Nakano) leading the Marugami-kai, both groups begin a new chapter. Kyowakai finalizes long-delayed executive appointments: Hayashida (Ehara Shu) replaces the retired Nakajima as Shikoku block leader, while Hirakawa (Hitomi Matsuda) becomes Tohoku block leader by Baba’s nomination, easing concerns from Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), and Ueki (Daisuke Nagakura). While drinking in Kobe, Baba drunkenly orders Himuro and others to “crush Marugami,” and the remark quickly spreads to Marugami and investigators. Baba then orders a manhunt, but Hirakawa objects and questions why the “Adachi-kai,” a group of delinquent gangs that fled Kyowakai’s control and formed in Tohoku, had been ignored. After being calmed by Himuro, Hirakawa heads to Tohoku to handle the group himself—setting the stage for new tensions involving Baba, Hirakawa, and the Adachi-kai.
When a man leading a double life is murdered during a secret affair, a troubled detective investigating the case must navigate lies, jealousy, and betrayal to uncover the woman who framed the perfect crime.
