Asuka Kurosawa

When a screenwriter named KAORU dies suddenly, she leaves behind a tangle of relations who are all pulled together for the final act in her life: performing her funeral. The chief mourner is her ex-husband, Jun. A failed actor, he drifts around Tokyo as a driver for callgirls. He has to clean himself up to lead the ceremony down in the small village in Okayama that KAORU came from. There, he meets a host of eccentric characters, TV people, and KAORU ’s daughter, all of whom have complicated feelings for the recently departed. As can be guessed, the funeral becomes chaotic as people quarrel and fight but the fact that KAORU was loved is not in doubt as nostalgia, bitterness, and affection for the woman come out from each mourner in comic confrontations.

A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death.

Jin is a temporary elementary school teacher on his way to a permanent position when a traumatic event plunges him into a terrifying deep darkness. Three months later, a mysterious man named Kai provokes Jin's memories and feelings regarding the past experience through rapping. Why is Kai obsessed with Jin? How does Jin confront his own "darkness"? Conflicts and battles for men who have been deeply injured inspire healing. And does true love exist on the other side?

Shuhei passes the telephone booth installed on the side of the railway and goes home. It was a family reunion once a week, but an odd couple who moved in close to me visited me and started saying and acting as if to stir up the family.

A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her, claiming to know her son.

Mio came to Tokyo with her sights on becoming a singer/songwriter, but that dream was dashed by a scandal without her ever becoming successful. She returns heartbroken to her hometown of Shimokawa where connecting with her parents, her former classmates, and the rich natural surroundings help her emotionally recover.

Tras la aparición de una misteriosa caja surge una maldición que comienza a extenderse por todas partes. Parece que la fuente de todo está en el poblado Jukai, escondido en medio del bosque Juka, donde si entras nunca volverás a salir...

Akihiko Kobe, a first-year high school student with a stutter, is a target of bullying in his class and spent his days depressed. Akihiko lives at home with a face that can not endure anything and kills God in his brain every day. One day, I accidentally see a classmate, a brilliant and intelligent girl student, Mitsuri Nanao killing a cat. Kuri was inspired by the blood she saw during her period and had a desire to see the blood of others. Kuri then tells Akihiko that she has a desire for murder and proposes to kill the bullying group. The two begin to kill, and go east to escape, killing them. New generation youth splatter road movie

Margaret está haciendo todo lo que está a su alcance para olvidar su hogar, y la vida nocturna exótica de Tokio, repleta de bebidas, drogas y hoteles de amor de tres horas, le permite mantener sus demonios a raya. Trabajando como especialista inglesa en Air-Pro Stewardess Training Institute durante el día y perdiéndose en un olvido sexual y narcotizado por la noche, Margaret reprime recuerdos de su dolorosa infancia en Canadá y el descenso de su hermano mayor Frank a la locura. -anónimo

University students Yuri and Masato accept a peculiar invitation to a campground party, but things turn deadly when a cursed doll starts to attack.

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.

Kakame, the evil mud through which a frustrated artist filled his revenge spirit, returns to the charge in this direct continuation of Vampire Clay.

Kasuga Takao es un chico que ama leer libros, en especial Les Fleurs du mal, de Charles Baudelaire. Saeki Nanao, una estudiante que asiste a su misma escuela, es la chica de la cual Kasuga esta enamorado, pero él solo la admira desde la distancia. Un día, olvida su libro en su clase y vuelve por él. Allí encuentra además de su preciado libro, el uniforme de gimnasia de Saeki y lo roba en un arrebato de locura.

En un tranquilo pueblo del Japón rural, una figura de barro cobra vida para atormentar a los habitantes de la localidad.

A middle-aged housewife's frustrations with her boorish husband "pile up" until she can take it no more.

A young man who's failed the Tokyo University of the Arts exam five times is jealous of a talented high school artist who eventually helps him unlock his hidden potential. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet again and their love story continue.

Dos sacerdotes jesuitas, Sebastião Rodrigues y Francis Garrpe, viajan al Japón del siglo XVII que, bajo el shogunato Tokugawa, prohibió el catolicismo y casi todos los contactos extranjeros. Allí son testigos de la persecución de los cristianos japoneses a manos de su propio gobierno que desea purgar Japón de toda influencia occidental. Eventualmente los sacerdotes se separan y Rodrigues viaja por el campo, preguntándose por qué Dios permanece en silencio mientras Sus hijos sufren.

Kaori (Nori Sato) runs a small piano studio. One of her students is Yuu (Uwa Ishibashi). On the way from a recital, Kaori is sexually assaulted by Yuu's father (Kentaro Furuyama). Kaori later learns Yuu has also been sexually abused by her father. Kaori and Yuu share each other's pain and eventually Kaori decides to fulfill Yuu's wish.

A high-school boy with telekinesis kills himself after being bullied and beaten by his classmates. The boy had been secretly storing his special power in his pet cactus. After the boy's death, the cactus is passed onto his mother who inherits his power and vows to avenge his death.

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.

Natsumi (Kie Kitano) moves to Tokyo to enter a fine arts university. In Tokyo, Natsumi meets Ryosuke and they soon become a couple. Ryosuke is a good person, but he doesn't have a job. Every day he just loafs around. To pay for her living expenses, Natsumi begins work at bar. Natsumi and Ryosuke become estranged from each other. They decide to break up. Natsumi's book is finally published.

En el Japón de hoy en día, el pequeño Masashi se desplaza de un centro de evacuación a un pueblo pequeño. Allí descubrirá que cada niño posee la facultad de comunicarse con una criatura fantástica, pero estas están siendo usadas en un plan maligno para recolectar la energía negativa de los niños.

Cinta sobre un joven obsesionado con llevar una vida normal y corriente. Cuando el mundo a su alrededor comienza a desmoronarse intenta seguir adelante mirándolo de manera positiva, pero cuando las columnas que aguantaban su "normalidad" acaban por derrumbarse, y los malos pensamientos comienzan a aflorar, tiene que resistir las malas tentaciones.

Shamoto tiene una pequeña tienda de peces tropicales que le permite una aburrida pero estable vida. Su segunda esposa Taeko, no se lleva muy bien con su hija Mitsuko, y eso le preocupa. Además, él también se siente de algún modo incompleto e insatisfecho con la vida que tiene. Un día, Mitsuko es sorprendida robando en un almacén. Allí se encontrará con un amable hombre llamado Murata que la ayudará a calmar las cosas entre ella y el director de la tienda. Murata también es dueño de una tienda de peces, y entre ellos nacerá una amistad. Mitsuko empezará a trabajar para Murata y vivir en su casa para evitar conflictos con su madrastra. Todo parece perfecto, pero Shamoto hará un sorprendente descubrimiento que puede cambiarlo todo.

A child suddenly disappears in a small village and his mother desperately searches for clues.

Matsuko fue asesinada a los 53 años cerca de un río próximo a su apartamento. Un sobrino suyo investiga el caso y va reconstruyendo los episodios de la desgraciada vida de su tía. Estuvo nominada a nueve premios de la Academia de Cine Japonesa (director, actriz, sonido, banda sonora, iluminación, dirección artística, guión, montaje y fotografía) y obtuvo tres: mejor actriz (Miki Nakatani), mejor montaje (Yoshiyuki Koike) y mejor BSO (Gabriele Roberto & Takeshi Shibuya).

Minako is at the age where her father is more like an alien to her than a person. The situation is exacerbated when he comes home drunk one night and tries to climb on top of her. Minako's mother deserted them for another man when Minako was a child. Now working as a hostess, she has little time for her own six year-old daughter, Yu, Minako's half sister. Both girls are yearning for their mother's love. Minako runs into Yu at a game center in the mall and proposes they take a trip. She changes out of her school uniform and into adult clothes and the pair hops on an overnight bus out of the city.

Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.

When a television producer visits the home of a brother and sister to interview them for his series on paranormal phenomena, what first appears to be a simple case of psychopathology turns into a full-blown epidemic of demonic manifestation. To his horror he realizes that he is not only a witness to the blossoming insanity, filming each scream and horrific expression, but that he and his technology have been intricately tied to the cause and conduit of its spread…

A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless pals, he makes his living by selling his paintings on the street. His paintings, dynamically exploding on pieces of cardboard, catch the eyes of Kyoko, an art dealer. He can feel alive only if he keeps painting, but unable to find something to fill his void inside, he tries to drown himself in alcohol. Drawn to Jouji, Kyoko commissions him to paint for her. The two travel to a secluded mountain-side, and there Jouji becomes inspired both by the natural surroundings and Kyoko herself.

A mentally unstable young woman named Yoshie implores a gifted plastic surgeon (Yukiko Okamoto) to make her beautiful in this disturbing Japanese psychodrama directed by Katsuya Matsumura. Although the operation is successful, Yoshie becomes even more preoccupied with beauty -- and soon draws the doctor into a horrifying world of emotional agony and masochism. The film's supporting cast includes Asuka Kurosawa, Kota Kusano and Miki Asakura.

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Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.

Ayaka and Echika are asked to locate a woman who makes harassing phone calls to a popular DJ, but...