Shunpei Kawagoshi

Set in 2020 in the Shibuya neighborhood of Tokyo, the story revolves around Hachi, a boy who fled to the Japanese capital from his hometown of Fukushima and now lives away from society as an illegal drug dealer.

21st Century Girl is an omnibus feature that is of the girls, by the girls and for the girls. The work of 15 women directors under the age of 30, each of whom contributed an 8-minute film, the package highlights a range of genres, visions and thematic concerns.

A young man and woman discover the beauty of Tokyo at night as they wander around the streets of the capital after the last train leaves. Winner of multiple Moosic Lab 2018 awards in the Short Movie category.

At the baseball club of Yame Kita High School in the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture, fierce competition for positions was always fought. In the qualifying that led to the spring selection tournament (Koshien), the team was beginning to get jerky due to the unexpected defeat. At that time, the main players such as Ace are ordered by the director to go to the drama club. Repulsive players. However, there is a memory of the sad scars of the unexpected seniors.

Born in a small town in Japan, a young girl named Ai is sent to a cult commune by her religious maniac mother and lives there for seven long years. After the cult is exposed by the police, Ai starts a new stage of life, going to a normal school for the first time, but she can’t find her place to fit in there. Ai drops out from the school and society, spending her life living with a rock-bottom delinquent family full of gangsters and call girls. In a strange twist of fate she finds herself back in a new and normal life, living with a middle-class family, but her troubled life continues to follow her into more deep and seedy paths.

Mitsuo Ichikawa escucha la dominante voz de alguien al teléfono diciendo: “He matado a una mujer”. Esa voz era la de su compañero de clase durante el instituto, con el que además compartía nombre. Esa voz revive viejos y olvidados recuerdos de ese hombre, que también reviven viejas pasiones. Ambos Mitsuos se reúnen como cómplices y su relación, que siempre ha sido la de amo y sirviente, comienza a cambiar a algo nuevo.

Gajirou Honda is a self-centered man who only cares about money and women. When he’s involved in a car accident, he encounters the ghosts of the deceased occupants of the other car, including the driver and three pole dancers. The four ghosts promise him a large sum of money in exchange for his help fulfilling their last wishes, thus allowing their spirits to pass over to the afterlife.

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his decision many times, but eventually after passing the training course, he is sent to Kamusari Village for a year of work experience - where he becomes assimilated with the beauty of nature and the warm-hearted people of the village.

Kanna Seto perdió a su amiga de la infancia, Haruta, en un accidente de coche cuando era estudiante de primer año en la escuela secundaria. Kanna, ya adulta, todavía arrastra el dolor emocional que le causó ese incidente. Entonces conoce a Roku Akazawa, alguien que también arrastra una experiencia dolorosa de su pasado. Cuando Roku era un estudiante de primaria, una niña que estaba con él tuvo un accidente y murió. Debido a ese incidente, Roku tiene un fuerte sentimiento de culpa. Cuando se conocen, el tiempo, congelado desde ese día, comienza a avanzar de nuevo.