Aoba Kawai

Asai Takuma is a fourth year college student who is having a hard time finding a job and is desperate for the sake of his future with girlfriend, Shintani Risa. One day, he was asked out by his childhood friends Eiichi and Mamiko to dig out a time capsule that was buried 10 years ago. The time capsule contains a letter from Takuma himself in the past. However, Takuma also receives a letter from himself 10 years later with a "shocking future". He decides to collaborate with the future him to change his life.

Ai has had a crush forever on her classmate Tatoe. When she finds out that Tatoe is in a secret relationship with another girl, she sets out to sabotage their plans for the future.

Contada en tres movimientos, es una colección de historias protagonizadas por personajes femeninos que trazan las trayectorias entre sus elecciones y arrepentimientos. Un triángulo amoroso inesperado, una trampa de seducción fallida y un encuentro que resulta de un malentendido.

Aunque admirada en la escuela por su amabilidad y destreza académica, la estudiante de preparatoria Kyouko Hori ha estado escondiendo otro lado de ella. Con sus padres a menudo fuera de casa debido al trabajo, Hori tiene que cuidar de su hermano menor y hacer las tareas del hogar, sin tener tiempo para socializar fuera de la escuela. Mientras tanto, Izumi Miyamura es visto como un inquietante otaku que usa anteojos. Sin embargo, en realidad es una persona amable e inepta para estudiar. Además, tiene nueve piercings escondidos detrás de su largo cabello, y un tatuaje a lo largo de su espalda y hombro izquierdo. Por pura casualidad, Hori y Miyamura se cruzan fuera de la escuela, ninguno luciendo como el otro lo esperaría. Estos polos aparentemente opuestos se convierten en amigos, compartiendo un lado que nunca le han mostrado a nadie.

Iwao Shishido has found a wife. After paying three million yen for a bridal tour to the Philippines, he comes home with Irene, who is promptly confronted by Tsuru—Iwao’s freshly widowed mother, who’s infuriated her loser son has married a woman she’s never met.

Reon Takanashi es abandonada por su novio y despedida de su trabajo. Reo Asahina es un CEO y goza mucho de las mujeres. Los dos se involucran en un accidente de tráfico. Reon y Reo descubren que han cambiado cuerpos.

After Isao has reached retirement, he receives a phone call from an ex- elementary school classmate Norio inviting him to a reunion. During the reunion, none of them can claim to have had a wonderful life since graduating from primary school and have their respective problems now. It leads them to rethink that their lives are far from over and that there is still hope for them even at this stage of their lives. They encounter many unexpected happenings during the journey which reminds them of the excitement they experienced as kids and find new hope in their bleak lives.

Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.

Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.

En un pequeño pueblo donde los niños han estado desapareciendo y los adultos cercanos a ellos, mueren de manera sospechosa tres días más tarde de la desaparición. La investigación sobre las desapariciones recae sobre el periodista local Shunya Ezaki que comienza a investigar las misteriosas muertes. Mientras tanto, la novia de Shunya Ezaki, Nahomi Harada, trabaja en una escuela de kindergarten. La madre de un niño no lo recoge en la escuela y Nahomi Harada lo lleva con ella. Entonces aparece un hombre misterioso y el niño bajo el cuidado de Nahomi pronto desaparece.

The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with.

Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by lectures about French writer Sophie Calle and begins to follow her neighbor Ishizaka. Tama soon discovers that her neighbor Ishizaka is having an affair. She becomes excited about discovering his secret. Her relationship with her boyfriend Takuya and her professor Shinohara changes.

A failed director is trying to get his next movie off the ground, while dealing with his cranky brother and his estranged wife.

Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou appears in front of them.

"Kabukichô Love Hotel" es un drama cargado de erotismo que traza las historias cruzadas de un grupo de empleados y visitantes a un famoso “Love Hotel” durante 24 horas...

Tras perderlo todo en una catástrofe provocada por un tsunami, la niña de diez años Hana es adoptada por un pariente lejano de 26 años de edad, Jungo Kusarino. La pareja vive como padre e hija compartiendo un profundo sentimiento de pérdida. Entre las profundas nieves de Hokkaido, Jungo y Hana tratan de llenar sus vacíos corazones hambrientos de amor entrando en un mundo prohibido.

Living in Tokyo, Keisuke Fujii never really considered the colour of his skin; but when he and his mother move to rural Japan, the other kids assume that he is of African descent and therefore must have AIDS. Unsure of how to address these prejudices, Keisuke sets out to find answers and confront the cruel rumours once and for all.

After the death of his father, Chihiro goes to live with his older half-brother Togo and his girlfriend Satomi. Togo and Satomi greet him with open arms, but Chihiro feels loneliness. He attends his friend Naoya's interpretive dance practice-- and becomes more and more interested in Naoya's personal matters.

Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first time in ages. On the way Haji has an accident, and wakes up to find himself transported back to high school with his adult body in tact.

Yuri, Moeko, and Ai are best friends from high school. Though their twenties were about to end, they believed their eternal world would remain forever. In spite of their will, some misfortunate events such as love, betrayal, memory, regret, and one book with its secret exam their friendship. Those girls get lost in the unveiled story, which is filled with meeting and parting. Scattered life = scattered story will move on any further? A little journey begins now.

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

A young man moves from the countryside to Tokyo, while experiencing hardships and happiness, in his pursuit to become a comics artist.

While the wedding day should be blissful for the bride, Eiko, there is a secret that she can’t tell her fiance...

Una pareja está a punto de casarse. En plena fiesta, delante de todos los invitados, sale a la luz que el novio tuvo un affaire en el pasado. Esa noche no estuvieron juntos... En esta película, somos testigos de una historia de amor frívola y fugaz, protagonizada por hombres y mujeres de unos veinte años, que se desarrolla en una noche en Yokohama; o quizás se trate de un estudio metafísico del amor. ¿Qué aportarán sus conclusiones al final? ¿Serán sorprendentes o ridículas? Ópera prima de Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Hasegawa is writing a sequel to his previous novel, based on a true character who murdered 9 people on the street, with the premise that the killer had a brother. The main character in his new novel, Harumi, drops out of high school and leads a quiet life, unable to understand his brother. He is scared that the same blood runs in his veins but is also enraged by the fact that his brother’s life is consumed as material for novels by many writers. A novelist, Hasegawa faces limitations in making being able to make fiction as real and cruel as it is in reality. Hasegawa hears from a witness how a murder happened but he cannot be sure if it is a true event or from her imagination. One day, Hasegawa encounters Harumi… This is an obscure yet attractive film that extends its style from Kurosawa Kiyoshi to David Lynch. The title, A Bao A Qu, comes from a shapeless being that earns its shape as the pilgrim of a true heart near him featured in Indian religion and The Arabian Nights.

Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.

Yuko Yajima works at a library. To her co-workers she appears as an extremely shy and introverted person who hardly lets anyone know her true feelings and never smiles. However her interest in a man living in room 202, Mamoru Kosino, leads Yuko into some risque behavior. The interest turns into obsession, as Yuko's jealousy turns into a thrilling game where she sneaks into apartments and scares tenants away, hoping to have Mamoru all to herself.

Despite the fact that Kyoko's a girl herself, approaching women on the streets and asking them to pose nude for her proves to be quite a chore. At first she accosts every pretty girl that walks by, until Miho catches her eye. Feeling that she has that certain something special, Kyoko insists that Miho pose for her. Her own life floating rudderless after the separation of her parents, Miho accepts, half entertaining the idea to get back at her father, who has gone on to form a new family and who hasn't been in touch with her in years. The two girls walk around town, Kyoko snapping pictures and listening to Miho's stories. Gradually the two young women begin to sense a mutual attraction. When the time comes to get down to the nitty gritty of the nude shots, the girls' defences come down along with their clothes.