Kôji Kozumi

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.

Un estadounidense (McConaughey) y un japonés (Watanabe) se conocen en el tristemente famoso "bosque del suicidio", un lugar al que la gente va para quitarse la vida. Tras entablar conversación, abandonan sus proyectos de suicidio y juntos emprenden un viaje a través del bosque.

La estudiante Aya Tsukimori queda maldita, y es incapaz de salir de su habitación en la escuela. Mientras tanto, muchas estudiantes empiezan a informar de avistamientos de fantasmas en la escuela, mientras que otras desaparecen, apareciendo luego ahogadas de manera misteriosa. Aya intentará comunicarse con la estudiante Michi Kazato, que empieza a investigar las desapariciones de sus compañeras. (FILMAFFINITY)

Former punk rocker Jonen, now a Buddhist priest, seems to have lost the meaning of his life. His manic depression handicaps him further. Music seems to be the only solution for him to exorcise his demons, against all obstacles and sound volume controllers.

Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores. Her father is always in a stubborn rage, her mother is always trying to calm things down. However, Nonko’s married sister, who already has a daughter, scathingly says of Nonko, “It’s all over for her.”

Suzuki Sora is a cheerful country girl from the small town of Bie. She made a promise to her father, and following this promise applies and is accepted for a magic intership in Tokyo, where she will face the life in a big city. While training to get better with her magic, she meets a mysterious boy also practicing to become a mage. While he can not use magic that well and he seems distant and cold at first, Sora’s fate intertwines with his and the two are thrown together, learning a lot of new things about life and each other.

Tras haber salido de prisión y cansada de los cotilleos del vecindario sobre ella y su familia, Suzuko Sato, una joven de 21 años, decide vagar por todo Japón, estableciéndose en un lugar hasta que ahorra un millón de yenes, momento en el que se marcha a otro destino para vivir nuevas experiencias y conocer a otras personas.

Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after, the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.

In the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executioners are permitted to kill criminals by the requests from their victims. People who are to be executed are notified of the execution time and date in advance and they are allowed to have their own guard.

Un DJ a tiempo parcial y empleado de una tienda de discos llamado Richio (Arata). Con su cabello amarillo puntiagudo, gafas de sol envolventes y una máscara pálida de rostro, Richio parecería ser una luna helada que circunda el planeta distante de su propia mirada. Pero como nos muestra Okuhara desde la primera escena, Richio ha sido traumatizado por un horror de la infancia, y todavía tiene las cicatrices físicas en un ojo, las cicatrices emocionales en sueños y visiones de las que no puede escapar ni explicar. Las gafas de sol y la máscara están ahí por una razón, el dolor.

There has been a surge in the number of people killing themselves; a mysterious DVD is found on the bodies of the victims... Nozomi falls under the spell of a deadly cult. Yousuke, the policeman she is dating, soon realizes that the cult has something to do with the DVD. Then one day all trace of the group disappear--along with Nozomi.