Yoriko Sudo
Michiko used to work as a live-in part-timer at an izakaya, but suddenly lost her job and her house at the same time due to COVID-19 pandemic. There are no new jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and diners and internet cafes are closed. Michiko is at her wits' end, but there in front of her is a bus stop that stands slightly brightly in the darkness, illuminated only by the streetlights.
Urban legend horror film based on the true story of the "Ghost Apartment Incident" that occurred in Gifu Prefecture's Tomika Town in 2000.
In the silent mountains, surrounded by beautiful mountains on all sides. A man carrying an urn, Iori Kano, appears in front of Mizuki Takahashi, a beautiful woman staring at the fire of a kiln in a humble workshop. Iori is Mizuki's brother-in-law. He has come to inform Mizuki of the death of her mother, Isuzu Kano. For some reason, Mizuki had abandoned her parents' home and was now living a peaceful life with her husband, ceramic artist Tetsuro Takahashi. Iori's appearance cuts through that peace and brings her back to the dark past. Mizuki has been living her life with her past hidden away, but her guilt for Yasuo, her father-in-row, who she had driven to his death, and her love and hate for Isuzu, who she had never reconciled with, lingered deep in her heart. This sense of guilt over her own deeds eventually condemns Mizuki in the form of the ghost of Isuzu, and finally leads her down the path of destruction.
Mami Honda's mother
36-year-old bachelorette Mami achieved success with an essay she wrote 10 years ago. Mami has since lost her way, and hasn't been able to write a hit piece. Meanwhile Yukino, who leads an independent life, Ayaka who is a housewife, and Miho, who makes her livelihood as a "daddy's girl", are each facing various difficulties in their own lives.
Yasu Godai
A biographical story of Tomoatsu Godai, the influential entrepreneur of the Meiji era who laid the foundation of the modern Japanese economy.
Mari
Margaret está haciendo todo lo que está a su alcance para olvidar su hogar, y la vida nocturna exótica de Tokio, repleta de bebidas, drogas y hoteles de amor de tres horas, le permite mantener sus demonios a raya. Trabajando como especialista inglesa en Air-Pro Stewardess Training Institute durante el día y perdiéndose en un olvido sexual y narcotizado por la noche, Margaret reprime recuerdos de su dolorosa infancia en Canadá y el descenso de su hermano mayor Frank a la locura. -anónimo
Nishiyama
Konno moved to Iwate for his job. There, he meets his colleague Hiasa at work. They form a close bond while drinking together, fishing together and doing other activities. One day, Hiasa quits his job without saying anything to Konno. Shortly after, they meet again, but they cannot have that close feeling as they had before. They do not meet again. Time passes and Konno learns that Hiasa went missing. While looking for Hiasa, Konno learns a secret about Hiasa.
Yumi Shibata
Los hijos de Koharu viven cada uno por su lado sin tener relación entre ellos. Pasan los años y la familia se reúne de nuevo. Cada uno tiene su propia vida y experiencias, pero ninguno ha olvidado lo que pasó tiempo atrás.
Shizue Kasuya
A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son’s death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunders by multiple people.
Ichiko Shirakawa
Ichiko works as a private nurse for a family she almost became a part of. While Ichiko cares for the grandmother, she is also a confidant to Motoko, the eldest sister. But one day, Motoko’s younger sister disappears. And the media soon reveal the kidnapper to be Ichiko’s own nephew.
Yoko Sakamoto
Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.
Yoko's Mother
Teruko is a 28-year-old office worker. 5 months ago, she fell in love with Mamoru at first sight. Since that time, she has not cared about her work or her friends. She then loses her job and her friends look at her coldly. Yet, Teruko is happy as long as she is with Mamoru. Meanwhile, Mamoru thinks Teruko is an easy woman for him to not love. Teruko’s unrequited love grows deeper.
Kiyo Fukumoto
When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race.
A traditional ballad singer Hiroshi has enthusiastic middle-aged female fans. Takeru believes that by doing good things to others, he could cause a miracle to happen and cure his beloved girlfriend who is in coma. Tetsuo avenges himself on yakuza for putting him in a jail and now is chased by them. These three men's paths are somehow intertwined and drawing them toward a showdown.
Yukie Kusunoki
Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.
Yuko Sugimoto
A high-school teacher is arrested for having sexual relations with a minor. Young Hiromi finds herself in the eye of the storm when she is suspected of featuring in her teacher’s leaked sex video and her innocence is questioned by everyone around her.
Mineyo Fuchi
Kasane Fuchi es hija de una bella y legendaria actriz. Kasane también tiene excelentes habilidades de actuación, pero no es atractiva. Ella lo pasa mal debido a su falta de atractivo. Kasane tiene un lápiz labial dejado por su difunta madre. La barra de labios tiene un poder extraño. Siempre que Kasane aplica el lápiz labial y besa a alguien, toma la cara de esa persona. Mientras tanto, Nina Tanzawa es una hermosa actriz con pocas habilidades de actuación. Conoce a Kasane Fuchi y sus destinos cambian.
Having failed with his business and gone absolutely penniless, Masao (45) divorced with his wife, and is currently leading a hopeless life in Ibaraki. One day, a mysterious high school girl, going by the name Emiko, showed up before Masao. Every now and then, Masao would be toyed around by Emiko, but little by little he started taking a liking to her loveliness. As days went by, Masao started opening up to Emiko – something that he rarely did to others. However, there was just something about Emiko – something that bothered Masao - that wouldn’t go away.
Momo (segment "Kuu")
Six Stories based on Six Songs.
Yoshiko Yamashita
El chef Mitsuru Sasaki (Kazunari Ninomiya) es un prodigioso cocinero capaz de elaborar cualquier plato solo con probarlo una vez. Está obsesionado con alcanzar la perfección, pero ha perdido su pasión por seguir cocinando, hasta el extremo de estar a punto arruinar su propio restaurante. A cambio de una gran suma de dinero, una persona desconocida le pedirá recrear la legendaria receta del chef Naotaro Yamagata (Hidetoshi Nishijima), perdida en Manchuria en 1930.
Ryoko se convierte en reportero de un importante periódico luego de obtener una maestría del programa de posgrado de la Universidad de Tokio. Mientras oculta su experiencia como actriz de video para adultos durante sus días en la universidad, pasa las noches frecuentando "clubes anfitriones" con su amiga. Al mismo tiempo, ella está en una relación estimulante con su novio Rei. Ryoko busca el equilibrio emocional y, a pesar de sentir la contradicción entre su estilo de vida diurno y nocturno, espera obtener felicidad en su vida.
Satsuki Kamoshida
The body of Shinsuke Maeda, a wealthy older man, is discovered in his garden. While at first glance it appears that he missed his step while exiting into the garden and hit his forehead on a flowerbed rock, it is established that a safe installed in the living room has been emptied. It seems that, the night before, Maeda left the hospital he was staying at of his own will and came home, and was robbed immediately after returning. His daughter Yumie Nagano insists that Chikako Inui, a woman her father had been seeing, must be the perpetrator. She says that Maeda was thinking of getting married to Chikako soon. However, Chikako finds Yumie and her husband suspicious. Troubled by debts incurred by opening their ramen store, they pestered Maeda and he pushed them away. She calmly points out that Maeda gave her a will in which he left all of the 50 million plus yen hidden in the safe to her, so she had no reason to steal from him.
Noriko
Kyoko es una artista de prestigio, joven y bella, que mantiene una sádica relación con su asistente... hasta que alguien grita “¡corten!”, y la personalidad de la protagonista se escinde en varias capas de delirio. Sion Sono relee el género del roman porno, usándolo como vehículo para pergeñar un alucinante manifiesto sobre la situación de la mujer en la sociedad japonesa.
Akie Suzuoka
En un discreto suburbio japonés, Toshio y su esposa Akié llevan una vida tranquila junto con su hija. Una mañana, un viejo amigo de Toshio llega a su taller, después de haber pasado diez años en la cárcel. Para sorpresa de Akié, Toshio le ofrece trabajo y alojamiento. Poco a poco, el recién llegado se va entrometiendo en la vida de la familia, enseña a la niña a tocar el harmonium y se acerca cada vez más a Akié. (FILMAFFINITY)
Eiko - Mother (segment "Love of Love")
Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US, India, and Australia. All forms of love are on display in this anthology. And all manners of feelings expressed from jubilance to depression are done so strongly.
Yoko Saito / Yuriko Kikuchi
A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death, until they reconnect over the very same dance.
Ritsuko
Yoshiro es un perdedor. El único rayo de luz en su vida es la bella Sae, aunque esta no le haga ni caso. Un día, el muchacho descubre tener habilidades telequinésicas, al igual que otras personas con un nexo en común: ¡todas ellas son vírgenes! Ahora Yoshiro debe decidir entre usar su don para dar rienda suelta a su libido o convertirse en el héroe que enamore a Sae y salve a Japón de una ola de terrorismo erótico.
Akiko Somei
Nobuko Sawaguchi is a surly, unattractive housekeeper in her mid-thirties. However, in actuality, she is a beautiful woman, but she hides this fact using her makeup because of a traumatic past experience. One day Nobuko is sent to housekeep for the Uehara family, known for its tremendous wealth. In the Uehara family, there is a massive quarrel over each member’s future succession and inheritance. In the middle of this hectic situation, Nobuko is asked by the daughter called Akemi to protect her.
Harumi Hagiwara lands in the hospital after being involved in an accident. She hits it off with her nurse, Reiko Nishimura, and the two decide to move in together after she's discharged. However, Harumi begins to witness a series of mysterious events soon after noticing Reiko's strange behavior. Additionally, she fears for her own safety when Reiko starts referring to herself as 'Mari' as if she's become an entirely different person. Before long, the situation develops into a case of murder.
Eiko Ninomiya
Una joven estudiante a enfermería, Asuka, se traslada junto con sus padres y su nuevo hermano a un nuevo inmueble. Pero, ya la primera noche, Asuka se despertará al escuchar un extraño sonido, como de uñas escarvando, que viene del piso contiguo. Al investigar, descubrirá a un anciano muerto por malnutrición que aparentemente se encontraba escarvando la pared con sus uñas para invadir su dormitorio.
Tsuyako Shindo
A friend of the detective has been is murdered. During the investigation, he comes across a source which tells him that his friend was murdered for involvement with the dark side of the political world. On top of that, a woman approaches the detective with a request.
Youko Isaka
This movie tell a story that set in a small fishing village in Shikamachi, Ishikawa Prefecture, People in this village depend on the local amateur orchestra as their favorite source of entertainment. When the conductor dies unexpectedly, the townspeople recruit the man’s granddaughter, a high school student with a talent for conducting.
Ginjiro looks after 10-year-old Ayumi. Her mother is away on staff training. The company is a criminal outfit pushing unlisted stock to the elderly.
Meiko Suzuki
Drama sobre el desastre del terremoto causado en Japón en 2011. (FILMAFFINITY)
The love of four high school students who get involved in a complicated way. A sweet and painful school love story.
Shizue Kasuya
Shima (Mirei Kiritani) is a second year high school student. She has already become the youngest ever winner of a "new writer award" for poetry. Yet, she keeps it a secret that she is a writer at school. Shima has developed feelings for fellow second year high school student Kento (Takahiro Miura). One day, Kento confesses his feelings for her and they begin to have a relationship. Shima has difficulties understanding other's emotions and can't understand Kento's feelings. Soon afterwards, Kento decides to break up with Shim...
A local government worker with a registrar section, Motomiya witnesses a man burying a black bag while he enjoys his hobby, bird-watching, in a mountain. Later on, a woman who visits the office to have her marriage registered rides on the car of the guy. Motomiya starts keeping an eye on the woman's daily life with his gradually grown bursting imagination about the incident.
Akemi Aida
The story takes place in a new residential area in the outskirts of Tokyo. A family photograph adorns the living room of the Hashimoto family. It is a heartwarming shot of the three family members from when they first moved here, finally having bought their own home that they had wanted for so long. Wife Michiko hangs the laundry everyday. Husband Ken-ichi leaves for work without a word. Son Hiroaki has a part-time job, returns home early and disappears into his room. The Hashimoto Family no longer eats meal together at the dining table or spends time together in the living room. Michiko yearns for a different relationship with her family and is gradually overcome by loneliness. While feeling pressured from the trifling matters that occur within the residential community, Michiko tries to fill the emptiness that she hides in her heart.
The story involves an aloof thief, a young man who turns to God after his father’s suicide, a manipulative marriage councilor, a man who recently lost his job, and several others whose lives become intertwined in various unexpected ways.
Haru Kuramochi
La obsesión de un joven con el arte lo deja sin un centavo hasta que su esposa alejada lo ayuda.
Hayato, a boy in the 6th grade, hides the secret that he can't swim. Every summer, he pretends to be sick, so he could avoid school swimming tournaments. But, as it is the last year in the elementary school, he can't escape from swimming practice and is forced to participate.
Marchioness Kirino
Kinbara
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide. Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki, who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.
Jun, a 16-year-old teen, refuses to stand while the national anthem is being played at his graduation ceremony. This event will totally change his life, as he involuntarily becomes the new hero of a rebel anti-system youth. Singer Muy's pop music and his friend, Nozomi, with whom he shares his sadness and hatred for the society that surrounds them, help him bear his terrible loneliness.
Miyuki is a single mother with a 10-year old boy Keiji. She is eager to make him a child model. Eventually, Keiji begins to get jobs rather constantly. But Keiji himself doesn't like the job much. He only does it because it pleases his mother, who hates empty pages in the schedule book. One day they attend a big audition. While Keiji wins first stages of the audition, he begins to feel distance from the mother. It makes things worse for him when she has a new boyfriend..
Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.
Kyoko Kuramochi
Tadao Kuramochi, an ordinary salaryman, decides one day to reach for his dreams and start his own wrestling federation. Tadao must succeed to save his family on the verge of collapsing.
Marie Mizunuma
Una joven estudiante de universidad, Yumi Nakamura (Kou Shibasaki), ve cómo sus amigos mueren uno a uno víctimas de una extraña “maldición” que parece tener su origen en el teléfono móvil. Todo empieza cuando Yoko, la mejor amiga de la protagonista, recibe una llamada a su móvil con un extraño tono que no había oído antes. En la pantalla aparece un mensaje: “Tienes una llamada perdida”. Cuando lo escucha, no sólo parece venir de su propio número, sino que también contiene un terrible grito que suena exactamente igual que la voz de Yoko. Además, la llamada está fechada tres días después. Tres días más tarde, Yoko muere. Las coincidencias empiezan a acumularse mientras se amplia el círculo de avisos de muerte a través de los móviles. Hasta que un día, el móvil de Yumi comienza a sonar...
The birth of outlaw violence, depicts the passionate and fierce way of life of men that chose the path of Shura.
An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsubei discovers the body of a man whose face has been crushed and his fingerprints erased. Tetsubei describes the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the body, including his own theory, and is angered by Lieutenant Yukari. That night, Tetsubei visits the shop of Kanako, whom he has a secret crush on. There, Mizutani, Kanako's husband, who has been missing for seven years, appears.
A collection of works written and directed by Shungicu Uchida that deal with a wide range of horror.
A supernatural arthouse drama.
