Masahiro Harada

Shiwasu's mother left their home when Shiwasu was a little girl. Shiwasu does not understand why. She is a woman now and working at a Shinto shrine as a shrine maiden under her father who is a priest. She is listless until she finds a little boy alone on the shrine's grounds. The boy's mother shows up and retrieves her son a couple of days later. That is not the end of it however. The boy is back soon and has marks and bruises on his body. In the meantime, there was petty theft going on.

Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury. Day after day, (fictional) Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums want to kick his ass. While working multiple dead-end part-time jobs, he cruises around town on his scooter in search of gangland trouble: leaping across rooftops with irate hordes of punks in hot pursuit, running off with a fetching belle in a sailor suit, rescuing a schoolgirl from being gang-raped at a glue-sniffing orgy…

Kanjuro Nomi es un samurai sin espada, solo conserva su funda. Tras abandonar por completo la violencia y embarcarse en un viaje con su hija Tae, ahora está en busca y captura como desertor. Su única opción de salvar la vida es hacerle recuperar la sonrisa al principe, triste desde la muerte de su madre. Para ello dispondrá de 30 días: si no lo logra, deberá cometer sepukku. (FILMAFFINITY)

Ume y Kame son dos hermanas ya viejas que han vivido toda la vida en la misma casa. Su día a día consiste en levantarse, desayunar y salir por el vecindario a buscar objetos peculiares en papeleras y contenedores, que acumulan y catalogan ordenadamente dentro de la casa. Un día se encuentran una cesta con ovillos de lana roja que las maravilla y se los llevan a casa sin darse cuenta de que con ellos también se llevan otra cosa muy especial. (