Toshihiro Isomi

Sou Makimoto works in the "send-off" department at the city hall. The department's main responsibility is to hold funerals for people who die alone and bury them at a cemetery. Makimoto doesn't like to socialise with his colleagues or listen to them. By doing his job, he meets various people and slowly begins to change his life.

A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.

En la traicionera frontera de la ciudad de Samurai Town, un ladrón de bancos sin escrúpulos (Nicolas Cage) es liberado de la cárcel por un pudiente señor de la guerra conocido como The Governor (Bill Moseley) para que encuentre a Bernice (Sofia Boutella), su nieta adoptiva, que desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Para garantizar que cumpla su palabra, el ladrón es obligado a llevar puesto un traje de cuero que se autodestruirá en un periodo de cinco días. En su aventura buscará no sólo encontrar a la chica, sino también redimirse de sus pecados.

Mientras camina por los túneles de la estación de metro de Shinuku, el famoso escritor Yosuke Mikura descubre a una extraña mujer aparentemente borracha que se dedica a recitar poesía francesa. Su nombre es Bárbara. Mikura decide llevarla a casa para que pueda comer algo y asearse con tranquilidad. Antes de darse cuenta, Bárbara se convierte en la sombra que acompaña a Mikura a todas partes, salvándole de sus propias ilusiones de grandeza y de los ataques de sus enemigos. Pero del mismo modo que Mikura no es ningún santo, Bárbara tampoco es un ángel: a medida que ambos se conocen, el artista se obsesiona con conocer los secretos que ella esconde, rodeándose de ladrones, sadistas y de criaturas mitológicas. El mundo que descubre Mikura le lleva a preguntarse si ha perdido la cordura.

A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.

Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One day, they receive devastating news of their daughter falling into a coma after a near-drowning accident at a pool. The doctors declare her brain dead with no prospect of recovery and the couple must decide if they should donate her organs to others in need or to wait until her heart stops beating.

After a man accidentally leaves his smartphone in a taxi, he and his girlfriend are plagued by stalkers and cybercrimes.

Sin is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of vocal cord doping. His voice is now teetering on the edge, due to side effects from the vocal cord doping. Around this time, Sin meets Fūka, who is a street musician. When Fūka sings, her voice is so small. Due to Fūka, Sin looks back upon his past.

Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down. He runs a small restaurant named Yakiniku Dragon. He is married and has three daughters: oldest daughter Jung-Hwa, middle daughter Yi-Hwa and youngest daughter Mi-Hwa. Oldest daughter Jung-Hwa is dating Tetsuo, but they break up. Middle daughter Yi-Hwa loves Tetsuo and marries him, but Tetsuo still loves her older sister and they divorce. Youngest daughter Mi-Hwa wants to become a singer, but she is in love with a married man.

Masuda, un aspirante a periodista, está trabajando en una fábrica y sospecha que un compañero de trabajo es un asesino convicto. Piensa que un artículo debidamente escrito sobre él podría permitirle regresar al mundo del periodismo pero también podría reabrir las cicatrices de su propio pasado.

In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing stress upon expecting parents and when the baby was born, provoke the baby into mutations and develop their special abilities. The other method involved birth to babies having abilities of animals and insects. The special abilities were derived from gene manipulation. Subaru, Saya and others were born from those experiments.

Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district. In a business where money means everything Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle between rival talent scouts and the yakuza.

Cuando Kanako, hija pródiga y alumna intachable, desaparece, su madre no duda en llamar a su exmarido, un policía poco ortodoxo. A medida que la investigación avanza, la imagen idealizada de Kanako se va resquebrajando, dejando entrever que, bajo la excelencia, la chica esconde otra vida, más oscura y secreta.

The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is considered to be an icon of world cinema. Mr.X dives into the poetic and visionary world of an artist who was already a cult figure from his very first film. Punctuated by interviews and unseen footage, this documentary is most of all a fine-tuned exploration of the poetic and visionary world of Leos Carax, alias "Mr.X".

Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother and pretends to be her son. He then gets the mother to transfer money to his bank account. Soon, Hitoshi gets a lot more than he bargained for.

Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother and pretends to be her son. He then gets the mother to transfer money to his bank account. Soon, Hitoshi gets a lot more than he bargained for.

Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman works in bar and is a former prostitute. Many years ago, her father sold her to a brothel due to the family's severe financial hardships. The writer and the woman then agree to live as husband and wife until the war ends. The woman doesn't feel sexual pleasures due to her past, while the man lusts for the woman's body. Meanwhile, Ohira (Jun Murakami) fought for Japan in China. He participated in unconscionable acts against civilians in the name of war. He returns to Japan with only one arm. Ohira then begins to prey on innocent women.

Drama depicting two men and a woman, each with their own issues, who head for Fukui, and their maturity and rejuvenation through travel. Recently retired Nishina Kosuke goes to meet his first love, who he got to know as a pen pal 42 years ago. For Kagawa Yuika, raised by a single mother, Fukui is a place seeped with memories of her father. And, violinist Kuga Hikari is trying to break through a slump.

Una joven estudiante japonesa se prostituye en Tokio para pagar sus estudios. Inesperadamente encuentra una sorprendente ternura de parte de un cliente de avanzada edad.

Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts.

Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments. Now as a young adult Kyohei takes a new job. He works for a company that specializes in cleaning out the homes of recently deceased individuals. With his new job Kyohei meets co-worker Yuki (Nana Eikura). Yuki has also experienced a traumatizing event as a teen and has also shut herself away from the world. These two young people form a bond as they go through the homes of the recently departed people. They gradually open up to each other and in the process to the world. Yet, their fragile psyches may or may not be ready for such changes ...

On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.

Three men are possessed by the spirits of ancient samurai determined to build their master's castle, even if they must use cardboard.

A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her real father who happens to be an off-beat antique shopkeeper.

Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to manufacture counterfeit money. She initially refuses, but eventually decides to join the project for the sake of the poor children in the village and her own mentally handicapped child.

A sixth grade teacher raises a pig with his class.

Tokio es una antología de tres cortometrajes de los directores Michel Gondry (Francia), Leos Carax (Francia) y Joon-ho Bong (Corea), cada uno de los cuales ofrece una visión imaginativa y transnacional / sobrenatural de la Megapolis de Tokio.

Un día de verano, unos hijos vuelven a la casa familiar para visitar a sus ancianos padres. Los dos llegan con sus respectivas familias para conmemorar la trágica muerte del hijo mayor en un accidente ocurrido hace quince años. Aunque la casa y la comida familiar apenas han variado, el paso de los años permite observar ligeros cambios en cada uno de los miembros de la familia: el amor se mezcla con el rencor y todos guardan algún secreto.

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to life once again.

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

Shigeki vive en una pequeña residencia de ancianos. Allí se siente a gusto y feliz con los demás residentes y con el personal que les atiende. Machiko, una trabajadora social que pertenece a dicho equipo, le presta especial atención, aunque en su interior le atormenta la pérdida de un hijo. Para celebrar el cumpleaños de Shigeki, Machiko decide llevarle a dar un paseo en coche por el campo. Pero el coche se queda parado en la cuneta. El anciano se interna con decisión en el bosque, y Machiko no tiene más remedio que acompañarle...

Shigeki vive en una pequeña residencia de ancianos. Allí se siente a gusto y feliz con los demás residentes y con el personal que les atiende. Machiko, una trabajadora social que pertenece a dicho equipo, le presta especial atención, aunque en su interior le atormenta la pérdida de un hijo. Para celebrar el cumpleaños de Shigeki, Machiko decide llevarle a dar un paseo en coche por el campo. Pero el coche se queda parado en la cuneta. El anciano se interna con decisión en el bosque, y Machiko no tiene más remedio que acompañarle...

Because of his younger brother’s poor health, Takumi and his family move to a different Japanese town. There, Takumi, an incredibly gifted baseball pitcher, gradually alienates his relatives and friends by putting sports above all else in life.

En el siglo XVIII, los samuráis que llevaban a cabo actos de venganza eran compensados económicamente por los clanes a los que pertenecían. Un joven samurái que llega a Edo (actual Tokio) con el propósito de vengar a su difunto padre busca a su enemigo por toda la ciudad. El problema es que, además no saber manejar la espada, no tiene realmente ganas de ejecutar su misión. Alojado en una vivienda pobre, pero rica en relaciones humanas, aprende a apreciar de la vida y empieza a cuestionarse el sentido de la venganza.

En Japón, Kouga e Iga eran clanes ninja enfrentados durante más de 400 años. Transcurría la era Keichou, 1614, cuando Ieyasu, que entonces tenía 73 años, decidió que ya era hora de elegir a su sucesor. Ieyasu dudaba entre sus nietos: Yakechiyo, que era mayor pero estúpido, y Kunichiyo, más joven pero inteligente. Para solucionar este dilema, Ieyasu decidió enfrentar a los clanes de Kouga e Iga en una lucha. En caso de que Kouga resultara vencedor, Kunichiyo sería el nuevo Shogun. En el caso contrario, el Shogun sería Takechiyo. Los dos clanes enfrentados habían gozado de varios años de paz desde que Hattori Hanzou les obligase a llegar a una tregua. Años en los que Gennosuke, de Kouga, y Oboro, de Iga se enamoraron. Ahora, la batalla entre Kouga e Iga esá a punto de empezar, y los veinte ninjas designados irán cayendo uno tras otro.

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.

Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss.

En Tokyo, la imprudente madre soltera Keiko se muda a un pequeño apartamento con su hijo de doce años Akira Fukushima y, ocultos en maletas, sus hermanos Kyoko, Shigeru y Yuki. Los niños tienen diferentes padres y no van al colegio, pero llevan una vida feliz con su madre. Cuando Keiko encuentra un nuevo novio deja a los niños solos, dándole algo de dinero a Akira para que se encarge de sus hermanos. Cuando el dinero se acaba, Akira se las apaña para encontrar formas de sobrevivir con los pequeños sin electricidad, gas o agua en casa, y con el dueño pidiendo el alquiler.

A young man writes a novel about his forbidden love with his sister, who works overtime in the office on a holiday. Based on the manga of the same name by Naoki Yamamoto, and covering the manga's inspiration source, Juro Kara's "Anjuko's Shoes" and Ogai Mori's "Sansho Dayu".

Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna".

Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.

Los secuaces de "El Arca de la Verdad", una secta apocalípitica, provocan una masacre que deja más de cien muertos. Tres años después, los familiares de los asesinos se reúnen como cada año en el lago donde vivían las víctimas, para conmemorar su muerte. Pero no podrán volver a la ciudad sin antes pasar por la casa, donde antaño sus parientes habían planeado los atentados. Allí encuentran a un joven que formó parte de la secta, pero que en el último instante desertó para no participar en la matanza.

13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit suicide by slashing her wrist. Her teacher, whom she relies on heavily, leaves for northern Japan to take another job. Other students start to gossip about Sachiko and her former teacher. Sachiko then drops out of school and attempts to find herself.

Un joven aficionado a las mascotas exóticas y a tocar la guitarra eléctrica, esconde un poder sobrenatural desde que de pequeño lo alcanzó un rayo al escalar una torre eléctrica. Ahora, ya adulto, un misterioso personaje lo perseguirá hasta entablar un épico combate de alto voltaje.

After attending the funeral of Yu, a childhood friend, Toru gets drunk and misses the last train home. He saves a girl, Nao, after hearing her jump into the river, and finds that she was also a friend of Yu. Together, they wander the streets until morning.

In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a broadcasting center responsible for all of Japan's entertainment.

A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones.

A mitad de camino entre el Cielo y la Tierra, los que acaban de morir son recibidos por unos guías que les ayudan a examinar sus recuerdos con el fin de rememorar un momento decisivo de sus vidas. Cada uno de los muertos debe escoger un único recuerdo para que sea plasmado en una película y poder así llevarlo con ellos cuando vayan al Cielo.

Junk Food consists of four intertwining stories. The first and fourth sections show the morning routine of an blind, old Japanese woman, waking up, buying bread and milk, praying at the family alter; however, it is the second segment where the true story begins.

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

Renji grew up in a family that runs a pelagic fishing business and vaguely thinks about becoming a fisherman in the future. He is attracted to Kyoko, a new transfer student to his fisheries school who is knowledgeable about whales, but there is a big difference of opinion between Renji, who thinks whaling is wrong, and Kyoko, who advocates whale protection.

Dos jóvenes, Yu y Kei, comparten apartamento, y es en éste donde viven momentos de placidez y complicidad aunque la presión de la vida cotidiana provoque auténticos estallidos, donde aparece lo peor de cada uno.

Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.

Yasuo is a gangster just released from jail. Believing his boss double-crossed him, enraged Yasuo is on his way to find the boss. But before setting out for the dangerous trip, Yasuo asks Kenji to take care of his mentally challenged sister, Yuri, and a mysterious black bag.

Masayuki meets Nanami, who is on a journey with a refrigerator named Ullie. Nanami's Iranian friend Amir is helping her haul the refrigerator which contains Nanami's dead boyfriend. Masayuki joins the journey.

Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.

Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.

A swindler returns to her hideout at night and finds a stranger.

When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly, a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salary-man who saw the disappeared woman and wants to meet her again is found and joins the crew. Together they follow the clues. She has an amulet, which looks like a small bag, which she always hangs from her neck. It contains a piece of the Berlin wall.

The day before summer vacation. Yoko who tastes Tallow of the third year high school student will move to Hokkaido. However, with my grandpa's selfishness, she returned from the station and decided to live at the house next to Tallow! To the feeling that should have been sorted out, the fire is put on again.