Non

Nounen Rena is a Japanese actress and fashion model from Kamikawa, Hyogo Prefecture. She is best known for her lead roles on the NHK drama series Amachan (2013). She debuted as a fashion model in 2006 and was selected as the eleventh image character for Calpis in 2012. In 2012 she was chosen in an audition of 1953 women to play the heroine in the 2013 NHK Asadora Amachan, in which she plays a high school girl who decides to become an ama, or female shell diver, as well as an idol. Amachan was a rating success, earning an average 20.6% rating over the span of the series, second amongst Asadora only to Umechan Sensei (at 20.7%) in the last decade. Nounen served as the "PR Ambassador" for the 2013 Kohaku Uta Gassen and was a featured performer on the show, singing and leading the band. In July 2016, it was announced that she changed her stage name to "Non". In August 2017, she started up the music label “KAIWA(RE)CORD” and will begin producing full-fledged music.

G'mor Evian! (2012)

"Good Morning Everyone!" revolves around a family involved in the punk music scene. Aki is a former guitarist for a punk band. She became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter named Hatsuki. The mother and daughter live together happily, but they do have different ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Toru Yamamoto
CAST:  Ayaka Miyoshi  •  Kumiko Aso  •  Yo Oizumi  •  Eiko Koike

"Good Morning Everyone!" revolves around a family involved in the punk music scene. Aki is a former guitarist for a punk band. She became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter named Hatsuki. The mother and daughter live together happily, but they do have different ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Toru Yamamoto
CAST:  Ayaka Miyoshi  •  Kumiko Aso  •  Yo Oizumi  •  Eiko Koike

By Rule of Crow's Thumb (2012)

Constantly on the run from a vicious loan shark, two small-time con artists, Take and Tetsu, plan their biggest and most complex con yet in order to get revenge and retire from a life of crime. However, things get complicated when they cross paths with Mahiro, a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tadafumi Ito
CAST:  Hiroshi Abe  •  Shôji Murakami  •  Satomi Ishihara  •  Yū Koyanagi

Constantly on the run from a vicious loan shark, two small-time con artists, Take and Tetsu, plan their biggest and most complex con yet in order to get revenge and retire from a life of crime. However, things get complicated when they cross paths with Mahiro, a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tadafumi Ito
CAST:  Hiroshi Abe  •  Shôji Murakami  •  Satomi Ishihara  •  Yū Koyanagi

In This Corner of the World (2016)

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sunao Katabuchi
CAST:  Non  •  Yoshimasa Hosoya  •  Daisuke Ono  •  Mayumi Shintani

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sunao Katabuchi
CAST:  Non  •  Yoshimasa Hosoya  •  Daisuke Ono  •  Mayumi Shintani

Confessions (2010)

A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tetsuya Nakashima
CAST:  Takako Matsu  •  Masaki Okada  •  Yoshino Kimura  •  Mana Ashida

A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tetsuya Nakashima
CAST:  Takako Matsu  •  Masaki Okada  •  Yoshino Kimura  •  Mana Ashida

Princess Jellyfish (2014)

Plain, timid and obsessed with jellyfish, Tsukimi is a far cry from her idea of a princess. Her tepid life as a jobless illustrator comes complete with roommates who harbor diehard hobbies that solidify their status as hopeless social rejects. These wallflowers run ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Taisuke Kawamura
CAST:  Non  •  Masaki Suda  •  Hiroki Hasegawa  •  Chizuru Ikewaki

Plain, timid and obsessed with jellyfish, Tsukimi is a far cry from her idea of a princess. Her tepid life as a jobless illustrator comes complete with roommates who harbor diehard hobbies that solidify their status as hopeless social rejects. These wallflowers run ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Taisuke Kawamura
CAST:  Non  •  Masaki Suda  •  Hiroki Hasegawa  •  Chizuru Ikewaki

Hot Road (2014)

Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives herself as being worthless to others, she engages in acts of juvenile delinquency. One day, a transfer student from ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takahiro Miki
CAST:  Non  •  Hiroomi Tosaka  •  Yoshino Kimura  •  Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives herself as being worthless to others, she engages in acts of juvenile delinquency. One day, a transfer student from ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takahiro Miki
CAST:  Non  •  Hiroomi Tosaka  •  Yoshino Kimura  •  Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Avatar (2011)

Michiko lost her dad in a car accident when she was 10 years old. After the car accident, Michiko has lived with her mother Kyoko. Michiko, now in her 2nd year of high school, gets a cell phone from her mother as a birthday present. Michiko is so excited to have ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Atsushi Wada
CAST:  Ai Hashimoto  •  Nako Mizusawa  •  Haneyuri  •  Rikako Sakata

Michiko lost her dad in a car accident when she was 10 years old. After the car accident, Michiko has lived with her mother Kyoko. Michiko, now in her 2nd year of high school, gets a cell phone from her mother as a birthday present. Michiko is so excited to have ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Atsushi Wada
CAST:  Ai Hashimoto  •  Nako Mizusawa  •  Haneyuri  •  Rikako Sakata

Get to the Punchline (2019)

Rumi Hayachine is a 2nd-year high school student living in Tono who loves to daydream about and draw supernatural spirits. One day, her beloved grandmother decides to move out saying, “I want to do what I want with my life.” At school, Rumi is pressured to think ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Non
CAST:  Non  •  Kaori Momoi  •  Honami Kurashita  •  Misayo Haruki

Rumi Hayachine is a 2nd-year high school student living in Tono who loves to daydream about and draw supernatural spirits. One day, her beloved grandmother decides to move out saying, “I want to do what I want with my life.” At school, Rumi is pressured to think ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Non
CAST:  Non  •  Kaori Momoi  •  Honami Kurashita  •  Misayo Haruki

Stardust Over The Town (2020)

Story of the struggling chorus group "Yamada Osamu and the Hello Nights", who gain an unexpected new member in the young Ai, who pursues her dream of becoming a singer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Taiichi Sugiyama
CAST:  Non  •  Tetsu Watanabe  •  Saburô Taihei  •  Yoshiki Arizono

Story of the struggling chorus group "Yamada Osamu and the Hello Nights", who gain an unexpected new member in the young Ai, who pursues her dream of becoming a singer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Taiichi Sugiyama
CAST:  Non  •  Tetsu Watanabe  •  Saburô Taihei  •  Yoshiki Arizono

Hold Me Back (2020)

Mitsuko Kuroda is 31-years-old and single. She enjoys her life as a single woman. A big reason why she enjoys her single life is that she has counsellor "A" in her mind, which is her other self. Whenever she does not know what do, "A" gives her the right answers. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Akiko Ohku
CAST:  Non  •  Kento Hayashi  •  Hairi Katagiri  •  Tomoya Maeno

Mitsuko Kuroda is 31-years-old and single. She enjoys her life as a single woman. A big reason why she enjoys her single life is that she has counsellor "A" in her mind, which is her other self. Whenever she does not know what do, "A" gives her the right answers. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Akiko Ohku
CAST:  Non  •  Kento Hayashi  •  Hairi Katagiri  •  Tomoya Maeno

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DIRECTION:  Junichi Ishikawa  •  Yasushi Ueda
CAST:  Tamori  •  Jingi Irie  •  Marie Iitoyo  •  Mickey Curtis

The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 (2020)

An actor who has lost his job due to the coronavirus buys capsule monsters online and begins to raise them.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shunji Iwai
CAST:  Takumi Saitoh  •  Shinji Higuchi  •  Moeka Hoshi  •  Non

An actor who has lost his job due to the coronavirus buys capsule monsters online and begins to raise them.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shunji Iwai
CAST:  Takumi Saitoh  •  Shinji Higuchi  •  Moeka Hoshi  •  Non

Himawari -Okinawa wa Wasurenai, Ano Nichi no Sora o- (2013)

After an American helicopter crashes into a classroom in Okinawa International University, student Ryuichi is compelled to write a report on a similar accident 52 years ago, in 1959, when an American jet fighter crashed into his grandfather's elementary school. He ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoshihiro Oikawa
CAST:  Kyōzō Nagatsuka  •  Kenta Suga  •  Non  •  Saki Fukuda

After an American helicopter crashes into a classroom in Okinawa International University, student Ryuichi is compelled to write a report on a similar accident 52 years ago, in 1959, when an American jet fighter crashed into his grandfather's elementary school. He ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoshihiro Oikawa
CAST:  Kyōzō Nagatsuka  •  Kenta Suga  •  Non  •  Saki Fukuda

Ribbon (2022)

The year is 2020, the middle of the corona crisis. Art student Itsuka has her graduation exhibition canceled and must take home the piece which she had been working on for a year. In a whirlpool of emotions she clashes with her worried parents, her little sister ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Non
CAST:  Non  •  Rio Yamashita  •  Daichi Watanabe  •  Daikichi Sugawara

The year is 2020, the middle of the corona crisis. Art student Itsuka has her graduation exhibition canceled and must take home the piece which she had been working on for a year. In a whirlpool of emotions she clashes with her worried parents, her little sister ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Non
CAST:  Non  •  Rio Yamashita  •  Daichi Watanabe  •  Daikichi Sugawara

The Fish Tale (2022)

"Meebo" is an elementary school student and loves fish. His life is indeed "fish-a-holic". Meebo stares at the fish, draws the fish and eat the fish every day. His father worries that he is a little different from other children but his mother always encourages and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shuichi Okita
CAST:  Non  •  Yuya Yagira  •  Kaho  •  Hayato Isomura

"Meebo" is an elementary school student and loves fish. His life is indeed "fish-a-holic". Meebo stares at the fish, draws the fish and eat the fish every day. His father worries that he is a little different from other children but his mother always encourages and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shuichi Okita
CAST:  Non  •  Yuya Yagira  •  Kaho  •  Hayato Isomura

In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (2019)

In this expanded version of the award-winning film, a teenage bride in Hiroshima adjusts to her new life in the midst of an ever-worsening war.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sunao Katabuchi
CAST:  Non  •  Daisuke Ono  •  Kana Hanazawa  •  Mayumi Shintani

In this expanded version of the award-winning film, a teenage bride in Hiroshima adjusts to her new life in the midst of an ever-worsening war.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sunao Katabuchi
CAST:  Non  •  Daisuke Ono  •  Kana Hanazawa  •  Mayumi Shintani

The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn (2022)

Tenmasou is a long-established inn atop a mountain overlooking the sea, in a town called Mitsuse that exists between heaven and earth. The inn is run by Nozomi Tenma, the proprietress. Her younger sister Kanae works as a dolphin trainer. Their mother Keiko is the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ryûhei Kitamura
CAST:  Non  •  Mugi Kadowaki  •  Oshima Yuko  •  Kengo Kora

Tenmasou is a long-established inn atop a mountain overlooking the sea, in a town called Mitsuse that exists between heaven and earth. The inn is run by Nozomi Tenma, the proprietress. Her younger sister Kanae works as a dolphin trainer. Their mother Keiko is the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ryûhei Kitamura
CAST:  Non  •  Mugi Kadowaki  •  Oshima Yuko  •  Kengo Kora