Nippon Akademi sho 2020-2029
Movies to watch awarded or nominated in the Japan Academy Prize in the '20s
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- DirectorHaruo SotozakiStarsNatsuki HanaeAkari KitôYoshitsugu MatsuokaAfter his family was brutally murdered and his sister turned into a demon, Tanjiro Kamado's journey as a demon slayer began. Tanjiro and his comrades embark on a new mission aboard the Mugen Train, on track to despair.
- DirectorTaichi IshidateStarsYui IshikawaDaisuke NamikawaTakehito KoyasuAfter the aftermath of a war, a young girl who was used as a 'tool' for war learned to live. With the scars of burns, she goes back to her past to feel the true feelings of the Major's, "I love you."
- DirectorKôtarô TamuraStarsKaya KiyoharaTaishi NakagawaMatsutera ChiemiAfter befriending a marine biology student, a sarcastic artist living with paraplegia begins to experience the world beyond her home.
- DirectorRyuichi YagiTakashi YamazakiStarsBakarhythmBrian BeacockJohnny Yong BoschNobita travels to the future to show his beloved grandma his bride, but adult Nobita has fled his own wedding. Can he ever be a good husband to Shizuka?
- DirectorYûsuke HirotaStarsMasataka KubotaMana AshidaShingo FujimoriA factory town is covered by chimney smoke, and as the townspeople haven't see the sky in centuries, they no longer believe that stars exist. A chimney sweep and a friendly monster named Poupelle decide to prove that stars are real.
- DirectorIsao YukisadaStarsNoriko KijimaRyo NaritaTadayoshi OhkuraKyoichi, a man with an indecisive personality, constantly cheats. That is, until his wife sends a P. I to investigate his affairs. But what will happen when the man she sent wants to fulfil his own desires?
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsHiromi NagasakuArata IuraAju MakitaA woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother.
- DirectorKôichirô MikiStarsRen NagaseKentarô ItôKanna HashimotoOnoda, a cheerful youth who is a manga and anime fan, discovers he has a talent for cycling.
- DirectorTakahisa ZezeIvaylo BrusowskiStarsMasaki SudaNana KomatsuFumika BabaRen Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda are both children of the 1980s having been born in 1989. They met in 2002 and got to know love and lust at that young age through each other. As it so often happens at that age they went their separate ways only to reunite at the age of twenty one. Fate repeated itself. They are thirty-one years old and meeting again. What will be different this time, or will fate reign over them as it did the previous times?
- DirectorRyô TanakaStarsMasami NagasawaMasahiro HigashideShinya KoteThe con artists: Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) attempt to steal the diamond from a member of the triad in Hong Kong, who is cold-blooded and appropriately called "Ice Princess."
- DirectorShinji HamasakiStarsSuzu HiroseRyô YoshizawaLily FrankyA pharmaceutical CEO who is pondering thefts and irregularities at his company drinks a drug that temporary suppresses his signs and gives him a deathlike state for a couple of days. Something goes wrong. His daughter, with whom he has had a rocky relationship, attempts to rescue him with help from a company employee.
- DirectorNobuhiro DoiStarsShun OguriGen HoshinoYutaka MatsushigeA newspaper reporter is working on an investigative piece regarding an unsolved mystery dating back thirty years. there was gangsterism and extortion at play. As part of his work the man comes across a riddle of a cassette tape. Alsmost at the same time a man in Kyoto comes across a cassette among his father's belongings. He hears himself.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsKazuya KamenashiNao HondaKôji SetoYamame Yamano (Kazuya Kamenashi) is an unpopular comedian. His senior informs him that "...it will air on TV, if you stay at the stigmatized property where a murder took place." That is how Yamame Yamano begins to stay at stigmatized properties. And at those stigmatized properties, he experiences various unnatural phenomena.
- DirectorYoshihiro FukagawaStarsGô AyanoKeiko KitagawaKoshi Mizukami"I'll kill you without suffering." Dr. Death, a serial killer who was asked to euthanize a person at a dark site. The Metropolitan Police Department's No. 1 combination Inukai (Ayno Go) and Takachiho (Kitagawa keiko) set out to investigate, but the bereaved family thanked the criminal and protected them with false testimony. Is Doctor Death the God of Salvation or the Bizarre Murderer? Forbidden crime suspense modeled after a real doctor who euthanized 130 patients!
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsKiyoshi AtsumiChieko BaishôHidetaka YoshiokaThe 50th film in Tora-san series to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo, Tora-san's nephew, who runs into Izumi, his first love, whom he had once promised to marry. The familiar faces of Kurumaya Cafe, which Tora-san's family ran in Shibamata, also return. Catching up with old friends, it is always their dearest memories of Tora-san which everyone shares on such occasions.
- DirectorJunji SakamotoStarsYôsuke EguchiAkira EmotoTasuku EmotoIchikawa pretends to be a legendary hitman. But the truth is, he's a pensioner trying to become a hard-boiled crime writer. He accepts hit jobs and passes them on to a real professional only so that he can write about them in detail. It's all fun and games for the old man until his wife starts to suspect him of having an affair, and his hitman alter ego ends up on an actual hit list.
- DirectorMahiro MaedaKatsuichi NakayamaKazuya TsurumakiStarsMegumi OgataMegumi HayashibaraYûko MiyamuraMisato and her anti-NERV group WILLE arrive in Paris, a city now red from core-ization. Crew from the flagship Wunder land on a containment tower.
- DirectorYasuhiro YoshiuraStarsTao TsuchiyaHaruka FukuharaAsuka KudôThe story of a new transfer student interested in her surroundings and a song that brings happiness to her and her classmates.
- DirectorAyumu WatanabeStarsShinobu ÔtakeCocomiNatsuki HanaeA heartwarming comedy-drama about the bonds shared by an unconventional mother and daughter in a sleepy seaside town.
- DirectorSunghoo ParkStarsChinatsu AkasakiAya EndôKana HanazawaThe prequel to Jujutsu Kaisen (2020), where a high schooler gains control of an extremely powerful cursed spirit and gets enrolled in the Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School by Jujutsu Sorcerers.
- DirectorMamoru HosodaStarsKaho NakamuraRyo NaritaShôta SometaniSuzu is a shy high school student living in a rural village. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. But when she enters "U", a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a globally-beloved singer.
- DirectorShinji HiguchiIkki TodorokiStarsTakumi SaitôMasami NagasawaHidetoshi NishijimaAs the threat of giant unidentified lifeforms known as "S-Class Species" worsens in Japan, a silver giant appears from beyond Earth's atmosphere.
- DirectorKohei YoshinoStarsRiho YoshiokaTomoya NakamuraTasuku EmotoA newcomer to the anime industry works and competes to create the best and most popular anime.
- DirectorTakehiko InoueStarsShugo NakamuraJun KasamaShinichiro KamioFollows 17-year-old Ryota Miyagi, who struggles to accomplish his late elder brother's dream of becoming a basketball star.
- DirectorMasaaki YuasaStarsAvu-chanMirai MoriyamaTasuku EmotoA cursed dancer and a musician stun society with electrifying concerts in this animated rock opera.
- DirectorMakoto ShinkaiStarsNanoka HaraHokuto MatsumuraEri FukatsuA modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.
- DirectorGorô TaniguchiStarsMayumi TanakaKazuya NakaiAkemi OkamuraUta, the most beloved singer on the planet, is known for hiding her own identity when performing. Now, for the first time, she will reveal herself to the world. All of Uta's fans, including the Straw Hats led by Luffy, await.
- DirectorFrancesca CaloKeiichi HaraTakakazu NagatomoStarsAmi TômaMana AshidaYûki KajiSeven teens discover their bedroom mirrors are portals, and they're pulled from their lonely lives to a wondrous castle filled with winding stairways and watchful portraits. A girl in a wolf mask invites them to play a game.
- DirectorMika NinagawaStarsRyunosuke KamikiKô ShibasakiHokuto MatsumuraWatanuki has a special ability to see ayakashi. One day, he is led by a butterfly to a mysterious store. There, he meets the owner of the store Yuuko. She tells him that she will grant him a wish for his most precious thing.
- DirectorShôsuke MurakamiStarsHikaru IwamotoMeru NukumiTaiyu FujiwaraAfter Moe Sasaki's father died, her family moved to her mother's hometown. At her new high school, Moe has a hard time getting along with her classmates and becomes a loner. She then meets firefighter Kyosuke Ebihara and falls in love with him. Thanks to him, Moe's personality becomes brighter. Kyosuke also slowly opens his mind to her, but their romance makes little progress.