Haruo Umekawa

Su esposo abusivo ha muerto a manos de una amiga lesbiana que haría cualquier cosa por ella. Ahora huyen para ponerse a salvo.

A low-ranking yakuza is given the mission to kill a high-ranking yakuza from a rival group. Wanting recognition, he accepts the assignment, only to meet an enthusiastic office lady.

Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she has was the time spent with her lover Kaito.

When theater director Naoko (Saori) holds auditions for the first production of her newly established all-female theater troupe, she is mesmerized by Haru (Arisa Nakamura), who barges into the old garage where they rehearse. Naoko chooses Haru to be the lead as she leverages her power as director to pursue the romantic connection that fuels her voracious creativity. However, as opening night approaches, jealous entanglements threaten the artistic and ideological aims of the project, as well as the relationship with Haru pulling Naoko from her womanizing ways. Based on her own semi-autobiographical novel Kokan, cult theater director and actress Junko Emoto makes her directorial debut in this playful drama relishing the toil and passion of a struggling creative life on and off stage. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Como manda la tradición de las brujas, al cumplir los 13 años Nicky se ve obligada a abandonar su hogar durante un año entero para desarrollar al completo sus poderes y aprender a usarlos para ayudar a los demás. Montada en su escoba voladora y acompañada por su fiel gato Jiji, Nicky pondrá rumbo a Koriko, un pequeño pueblo costero donde vivirá increíbles aventuras y hará grandes amistades. Pero también tendrá que hacer frente a las dificultades de ser una bruja y tener poderes que la hacen diferente del resto de personas.

Yu es un adolescente que se ha criado en el seno de una familia muy cristiana. Recién ordenado sacerdote, su padre le obliga a confesar sus pecados, que él comete buscando la aprobación paterna. Yu se dedica diligentemente a obrar mal, hasta que sus fotos a hurtadillas de bragas de chicas lo catapultan a la fama. Pero entonces conoce a Yoko y se ve envuelto en una misteriosa secta...

Estando en un club nocturno, la puritana Lui conoce al sensible pero problemático punk Ama. Hipnotizada por su lengua bífida, se obsesiona con la modificación corporal y pronto quiere tener la lengua igual. Después de que el muy tatuado amigo de Ama, Shiba, le perfore la lengua, Lui se encuentra irremediablemente atraida por ambos hombres, y añade un tatuaje a su creciente lista de deseos.

A cadre of backup dancers is left astray when their star singer moves on with her life and marriage. They each had their own ambition and hope, which subconsciously rested on the star power of the singer. When plan A does not work, they cling to plan B. When that does not work, in an act of desperation, they are assigned to plan C by their agency. A fight and unprofessionalism seems to put the Backdancers on permanent ice.

Jam Films S is a Japanese omnibus movie. It was released by Phantom FIlm in Japan on January 15, 2005. The movie follows 2002’s Jam Films and its 2004 sequel Jam Films 2. This time around, the overall theme is “S” which stands for succession, success, and special. There are seven shorts, all produced by Ryuhei Kitamura. Included are the shorts Tuesday by Kenji Sonoda, Heaven Sent by Ryuichi Takatsu, Blouse by Hitoshi Ishikawa, New Horizon by Ryo Teshima, Suberidai by Yuichi Abe, Alpha by Daisaburo Harada, and Suit by Masaki Hamamoto.

Dos samurai heridos de gravedad se refugian de una tormenta en un templo aislado, el hogar de un espadachín y una misteriosa joven. Un samurai se despierta para descubrir que no solo ha muerto su compañero, sino también que sus heridas se han curado milagrosamente. Descubre que el espadachín, un hombre conocido como el legendario Miyamoto Musashi, que ahora vive como el Aragami, un "dios de la batalla", le ha dado el poder de la inmortalidad.

Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.

Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student. The film is less a realistic exploration of gay life than a fairy tale of three young Japanese trying to construct an alternative to the sexual and familial roles given to them by a society turning increasingly emotionally barren.L.