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TodoiF continues to provide streaming service specializing in Japanese independent films since June 2022. We are pleased to announce the launch of our subscription service beginning May 2023. You can enjoy the new service for $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year. The three new releases this month are “Closet”, “Arano”, and “And Again We are Going Up”. In addition, “Noise,” which has only been available in Asia excluding Japan, is now available in response to audience demand. The film can be viewed from anywhere except Japan, France, Dom-Tom, Monaco, Benelux, and Switzerland.

Later this month, we will start streaming Asato Watanabe’s A Dobugawa Dream, which was selected to Raindance Film Festival 2019.

Watch our films through PC and mobile browsers. iOS and Android apps Coming Soon!

In addition to streaming Japanese independent films, todoiF supports filmmakers by creating English subtitles, selecting appropriate overseas film festivals, and submitting to those film festivals on their behalf.

The story revolves around four people, whose lives come very close in Minami, Osaka, during Christmas. Sherine is a fashion-magazine editor based in Hong Kong, who has been tasked with an article regarding the shopping district in Minami. However, a little before she arrives, the magazine’s photographer bails out. Having no other solution, she takes up the proposal of her contact in the city, to hire an amateur photographer. His name is Tatsuya, and he is a college student. The three of them spent a lot of days working together, and eventually, something romantic seems to form between Tatsuya and Sherine.

Seol-a is a S. Korean flight-attendant who has a relationship with a married man named Shinsuke. She arrives in Minami to spent time with him, and demands that he stays with her during New Year’s Eve, since “his wife had him for Christmas”. Her demands grow bigger and more frequent,...

If Kenji Kohashi seems like a familiar face to you that's because he probably is. As an actor, he's appeared in numerous TV dramas in Japan, and is probably best known to Western audiences as Hyuga in Ryuheu Kitamura's 2003 manga to live action adap. Azumi. Taking time away from the spotlight, Kohashi stepped back into the film world when he had an opportunity to document the journey of Cap, a wheelchair-bound motorcycle enthusiast, whose dream it was to travel across Route 66. Our correspondent, The Lady Miz Diva had a chance to sit down with Kohashi and talk about the experience of making his first feature, in this, our final dispatch from Japan Cuts 2012. This interview is being cross-published at Diva's site, The...