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Sky of Love - Someone I love is there - 恋空   고이조라   戀空

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Sky of Love - Someone I love is there -,恋空,고이조라,戀空
(c) 2007“ Sky of Love” Production Committee

Mika is in her first year of high school.
While Mika accidentally met a flashily dressed boy called Hiro at school, she turns and flees. They soon fall in love each other. Their days pass happily, but trouble is coming to them...
This is the cell-phone novel that moved 20 million to tears, and the tale of an average girl’s three stormy years of high school, a saga of love, rape, pregnancy, miscarriage, parting, and reunion, is in fact a true story."

DigiCon6 ASIA

DigiCon6 ASIA

100 eps 15 min series|100 eps

DigiCon6 ASIA, which began in 2000, has grown to become Asia’s largest short movie film festival. Currently, 10 countries and regions participate including Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. All submitted works have an easily viewable running time of 15 minutes or less, running the gamut of formats from CG animation (2D & 3D) and stop motion/clay animation to live action, and spanning a wide variety of genres from children’s animation and human drama to action and science fiction. Carefully-selected works by Asia’s top film creators are presented.
Over 100 works
15 minutes or less per work
Single-story format

Forbidden Fruit

不機嫌な果実   금기의 과일   禁果的誘惑

60 min. x 11 eps.|11 episodes

Mayako, a married woman, finds her life of comfort and casual affairs thrown into disarray when she unexpectedly falls in love with a younger man. Here is a modern fable of the moral dilemmas facing today’s women, in a time where the expectations of love, marriage, and divorce from earlier generations no longer seem true.

I Just Wanna Hug You

抱きしめたい 〜真実の物語〜   안고 싶어   想擁抱

123 min.

Overcoming a tragic accident at a young age that confined her to a wheelchair and caused frequent memory loss, Tsukasa has an inspiring lust for life and energy. She plays sports and meets, then falls in love with, a young basketball-playing taxi driver named Masami. Soon, the two find themselves having to face a variety of challenges and difficulties form the world around them on their way to marriage and the dreams of building a blissful life together. This film is based on a miraculous story about an actual couple in Abashiri, Hokkaido. Tsukasa has been paralyzed on her left side since a traffic accident as a young girl, which also caused some brain damage, making her forget things easily.

I Love You Just a Little Bit

あなたのことはそれほど   당신을 그렇게까지는   我對你並没那麼

75 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 9 eps|10 episodes

Mitsu is a 29-year-old woman who married “the number 2 man in her life,” but has been unable to forget her first love, Arishima. When she accidentally encounters him after several years, she feels it is destiny calling, and the two spend one night together in secret from their spouses. Airtime himself has just begun a family of his own, with a newborn child, but he and Mitsu find themselves continuing their affair. While they at first enjoy what seems to be a no-strings at-tached affair, it gradually begets subtle changes in feeling. Mitsu’s husband, Ryota, becomes aware of the affair and ups his devotion to her to keep her. Meanwhile, Arishima’s wife, Reika, is a picture perfect mother and devoted wife, throwing this four-way relationship into an increas-ingly complicated web of mixed emotions.

Let’s Go Quintuplets!

ゴーゴー五つ子ら・ん・ど   고 ! 고 ! 다섯 쌍둥이 랜드   元氣五胎胞

30 min. x 50 eps.|50 episodes

With appearances and personalities so different, no one can believe these kids are related, much less born on the same day! Fights and arguments are par for the course, but when they are in trouble they are sure to stick together. Mom, Dad, and even the family dog are sure to get drawn into their inevitable antics which are a guaranteed source of laughter for all.

Mr. Kimpachi in Class 3B (S1-8)

3年B組金八先生 1-8   3 학년 B 반 긴파치 선생님   3 年 B 班金八老師

1: 60 min. x 23 eps. 2: 60 min. x 25 eps. 3: 85 min. x 1 ep., 60 min. x 11 eps. 4: 120 min. x 2 eps. , 60 min. x 21 eps. 5: 135 min. x 1 ep. , 120 min. x 3 eps. , 60 min. x 19 eps. 6: 150 min. x 1 ep. , 120 min. x 3 eps. , 60 min. x 19 eps. 7: 120 min. x 2 eps. , 60 min. x 19 eps. , 240 min. x 1 ep. 8: 120 min. x 2 eps., 60 min. x 20 eps.|173 episodes

A legendary television series and cultural asset that first aired 32 years ago, Mr. Kinpachi in Class B is famous for putting many social issues on the front burner of the public conscious over its long run, as filtered through the emotionally volatile lives of third year middle school students. The heartfelt relations between a devoted schoolteacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, and his unique students have won the show high praise for several decades. Whether due to the pressures of exams, family relations, teachers and friends, graduating middle school students navigate a turbulent hormonal sea of “hope” and “frustration”, constantly shaped by the social environment of the times. Standing as a beacon in the storm and emitting messages of hope for each generation is one Japanese teacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, who has come to be adored and admired by a nation through the adventures of Class 3B.

Risking it All: The Spirit of the Men in Orange

テレビ未来遺産 ORANGE〜1.17 命懸けで闘った消防士の魂の物語〜   ORANGE – 1.17 목숨걸고 싸운 소방관의 영혼의 이야기   Orange 1.17 拼命奮鬥的熱血消防員的魂之物語

135 min x 1 ep|1 episode

Yamakura of the Kobe Fire Department aspires to wear the vaunted “orange” uniform of an elite rescue force that only 3% of all firefighters can attain. But to do so, he and his fellow trainees must suffer through the most rigorous training. As Yamakura and his fellow trainees grit their teeth and complain, their superior officer, Sakurai, impresses upon them the lessons of the Great Hanshin Earthquake (Kobe Earthquake) 20 years ago as “the only time we ever lost.” What hap-pened on the front lines of rescue that day and in the aftermath? What raced through the hearts and minds of rescuers as they tried to get a handle on unimaginable disaster? The shocking facts pour from Sakurai’s mouth in hopes of preparing the recruits for the unforgettable event that awaits them.

SPEC~Close~incarnation / SPEC~Close~reincarnation

劇場版SPEC ~結(クローズ)~漸(ゼン)ノ篇/爻(コウ)ノ篇   SPEC ~완결~   SPEC~Close~ (SPEC~結~)

incarnation: 94 min. reincarnation: 91 min.

The much-anticipated sequel to the SPEC series, Close comes to theaters in two parts, "incarnation" and "reincarnation" and promises to deliver an ultimate conclusion to the franchise and all SPEC holders who have appeared, both new and old. The world is divided into those who possess SPEC, and those who do not. The world is beginning to waver, and a period is about to be placed on the history of mankind. A simple plan. Fatima's 3rd prophecy. Solomon's key. All mysteries hitherto unsolved will be revealed! What fate awaits Toma and Sebumi and the whole human race here at the beginning of the end?

The Crimes That Bind

祈りの幕が下りる時   기도의 막이 내릴때   當祈禱落幕時

119 min.

A woman is found strangled to death in an apartment in Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward.
The victim is Michiko Oshitani, a resident of Shiga Prefecture who worked for a home cleaning company.
What’s more, the occupant of the apartment where the murder took place, Mutsuo Koshikawa, has gone missing.
Matsumiya (Junpei Mizobata) and his fellow detectives of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Investigation Section 1 begin investigating, but hit a brick wall when they fail to find any links between Oshitani and Koshikawa.
Why was Oshitani, who lived in Shiga, killed in Tokyo?
Eventually, the detectives’ inquiries lead them to a theater director named Hiromi Asai (Nanako Matsushima).
They learn that Oshitani came to Tokyo to visit her former classmate Asai, but again come up with nothing when searching for connections between Asai and Koshikawa, and their investigation grinds to a halt.
Matsumiya has a hunch that a charred corpse found nearby the murder scene may have some relevance to the case, and subsequently discovers an item among the victim’s belongings with the names of Nihonbashi’s 12 bridges written on it.
When Kyoichiro Kaga (Hiroshi Abe) learns of this, he is deeply shaken.
It is somehow connected to his mother, who died alone...

The Family

華麗なる一族   화려한 일족   華麗一族

90 min x 2 eps / 60 min x 8 eps|10 episodes

"The Family", the program commemorating the 55th anniversary of the launch of the TBS TV station, is a social drama depicting the inside story between bureaucrats, politicians and big businesses over a bank merger revolving around the family discord between Daisuke Manpyou, the owner and president of Hanshin Bank, and his eldest son, Teppei. A program that was a big hit, "The Family" recorded average audience ratings of 23.9% in the Kanto region and 30.4% in the Kansai region.