Director
Shota takes in his brother Yusaku after rehab and interviews him for a screenplay based on Yusaku’s life. Yusaku, unable to adjust to his new life, gradually begins to suffer from drug withdrawal....
Director of Photography
Phuong, An, and Nhu are Vietnamese women in their early 20s. The three become illegal residents in Japan after escaping from their workplace as technical trainees. An contacts a broker to help them find work. The broker takes them to a fisherman's ice-covered hut where they can stay in exchange for labour. They are happy because, as well as finding a job, they have also doubled their salary. As they start their work, Phuong suddenly falls, stricken with severe pain. Worried, An and Nhu take Phuong to a hospital, but they are refused admission for not having an ID card.
Director of Photography
Little Chie knows that her sister, 3 year-old Itsuki, is unlike her. Chie’s uncle, Mitsuo, is also unusual. Suntanned and adorned in a rustic-looking floppy hat he couldn’t look less like Chie’s neat and respectable father. But Chie is overjoyed when Mitsuo walks back into their lives, having spent three years in a mental institution, and Mitsuo, overwhelmed with emotion, dotes on his two little nieces. This brief harmony is short lived. Frustrated by her little sister, Chie drops her, causing fatal injuries. Unable to allow his niece to take the blame, Mitsuo claims responsibility, shouldering all the condemnation that ensues.
Mitsuo
Little Chie knows that her sister, 3 year-old Itsuki, is unlike her. Chie’s uncle, Mitsuo, is also unusual. Suntanned and adorned in a rustic-looking floppy hat he couldn’t look less like Chie’s neat and respectable father. But Chie is overjoyed when Mitsuo walks back into their lives, having spent three years in a mental institution, and Mitsuo, overwhelmed with emotion, dotes on his two little nieces. This brief harmony is short lived. Frustrated by her little sister, Chie drops her, causing fatal injuries. Unable to allow his niece to take the blame, Mitsuo claims responsibility, shouldering all the condemnation that ensues.
Cinematography
Kazuo Hara follows Ayumi Yasutomi, a transgender candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor, as she embarks on a national campaign for a seat in Japan's Upper House.
Director of Photography
In 2008, an indiscriminate killing which shocked the whole world was carried out in the street of Akihabara. Director Yûsaku Matsumoto was inspired by the Akihabira killing to look at random acts of violence occurring in Japanese society and exploring the aftermath of one such occurrence, and the building-up to another one. By following several people—perpetrators, victims and family of both alike, he tells a human story about inhumane acts.
In 2008, an indiscriminate killing which shocked the whole world was carried out in the street of Akihabara. Director Yûsaku Matsumoto was inspired by the Akihabira killing to look at random acts of violence occurring in Japanese society and exploring the aftermath of one such occurrence, and the building-up to another one. By following several people—perpetrators, victims and family of both alike, he tells a human story about inhumane acts.
Cinematography
When Shoichi learns that a former coworker is behind a publisized murder, he takes it to social media to reveal that he knows the murderer. But when he agrees to be interviewed by the media, his life is about to change.
Camera Operator
Burmese boy Kaung and his family emigrated to Japan with the hope for a better life. They have lived in Tokyo for years, but never obtained a visum. The daily strain of their illegal residence eventually starts to tear the family apart.
A shy young secretary is intrigued by her new neighbor.
Ichiro Kodaira
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.
La hija de un gran chef de sushi, intenta seguir los pasos de su padre y comienza a trabajar a sus ordenes. Incapaz de seguir sus drásticas enseñanzas, la chica huye de casa y encuentra trabajo en unas termas. Allí llegan como clientes los altos cargos de una empresa farmacéutica, para probar la especialidad gastronómica de la casa, el sushi. Pero también les sigue un antiguo investigador de la compañía que, traicionado y desfigurado por culpa del presidente, decide vengarse inyectando en el sushi una sustancia que no solo le da vida, sino que le convierte en sushi asesino!. El virus del sushi se comienza a expandir por los humanos, convirtiéndoles en zombis sedientos de sangre. La chica deberá utilizar todos los conocimientos transferidos por su padre y frenar el caos que ha creado el sushi…
Cargada de culpa por el suicidio de su hermana Ai, atormentada por los matones de la escuela secundaria, Megu acompaña a un grupo de amigos mayores en un viaje de campamento al bosque: la chica inteligente Aya, su novio drogado Také, el modelo Maki y el nerd Naoi. Las cosas empiezan a ir mal cuando Maki encuentra un gusano-parásito dentro de un pez que capturan y lo engulle con vida. Poco después, y no tan inesperadamente en situaciones como esta, aparecen zombies y comienzan a complicar las cosas aún más.
Kajiki
High school students Isaki and Hiramasa can't stand being bored. One day, while walking across town, they bump shoulders with two other people. An argument ensues and, as usual, Hiramasa is ready to fight. Hiramasa is supremely confident when it comes to fighting. An unusual thing happens though, Hiramasa gets knocked out ...
Yuichiro wants to be an film director but his widowed mother wants him to become a doctor. As radiation leaks permeate the city, he tries to clear his debts by signing up for a dangerous medical experiment...
En un futuro distópico, la policía de Tokio ha sido privatizada y se enfrenta a su peor amenaza: un grupo de mutantes que convierten cualquier herida en arma de destrucción. Ruka, una joven oficial atormentada por el asesinato de su padre, será la encargada de exterminarlos.
Yôsuke Fujii
La vida de una joven estudiante japonesa es destrozada cuando un grupo de ninjas Yakuza acaba con su familia. Tras perder su mano, la reemplazó con diferentes armas de fuego y ahora busca venganza...
Munakata has an unrelenting guilt from killing his mother when he was 15 years old. After being imprisoned for 10 years, he is released and heads to Yako, a small industrial town, to work as a machinist. Living in a tiny apartment, he is tasked with secretly creating a gun out of an old TV remote control and unknowingly destroys the fragile balance of the town.
Bizarre love triangle about a girl, Yuki who transforms into a tentacled creature that feasts on human blood. She manipulates the guilt-ridden Fumio to do her bidding, only for a strange romance to blossom between them.
