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Blazing Fists (Blue Fight: The Breaking Down Of Young Blue Warriors) (Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Takashi Miike; Writer: Shin Kibayashi; Stars: Gackt, Wataru Ichinose, Nobuaki Kaneko, Koruma, Konatsu Kato, Danhi Kinoshita)
Ikuto and Ryoma meet in juvenile detention and become best friends, they pursue their dream of participating in the martial arts event Breaking Down. However, rivalries soon turn their dreams into unexpected conflicts.
ChaO (Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Yasuhiro Aoki; Stars: Oji Suzuka, Anna Yamada)
A junior designer at the leading shipbuilding company might have the key to peaceful relations between humans and merfolk. His role in achieving detente, however, suddenly becomes a lot stranger when the mermaid princess announces her intention to marry him.
I Am Frankelda (Soy Frankelda) (Country: Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: Arturo Ambriz, Roy Ambriz; Writer: Arturo Ambriz, Roy Ambriz)
Frankelda, a determined 19th-century Mexican writer, journeys into her subconscious to face the monsters she's written about. Guided by a tormented prince, she must restore the balance between fiction and reality before it's too late.
Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes Of Rage (Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Kenji Nakamura)
As a spirit seeks vengeance, the mysterious Medicine Seller returns for another adventure.
Nyaight Of The Living Cat (Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Tomohiro Kamitani)
A virus sweeping the globe, causing anyone who touches a kitty to become one themselves.
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