Mame Yamada
Nacimiento : 1946-07-28, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
A married Japanese man living in the country agrees to meet with an ex-lover in Tokyo, leading him to question his life choices.
Shiro works a dead-end job cleaning the homes of the recently deceased. But when he stumbles onto the residence of his childhood idol, the great Detective Jubei Yagyu, Shiro’s life changes forever. With the help of his trusty partner Mio, Shiro is determined to honor the legacy of his fallen hero by becoming a great detective... if only somebody had a case!
Un libro de los muertos medieval es descubierto en las catacumbas que hay bajo un club de strip-tease de un pequeño pueblo. Cuando una de las desesperadas strippers pone en pie un ejército de no-muertos, el resto de ellas debe patear unos cuantos culos zombis para salvar el mundo.
Zebra City 2025 – music echoing across what used to be Tokyo from Zebra Queen marks the start of Zebra Time, a 5 minute window twice a day when the city population is free to commit any crime and the Vengeful Zebra Mini-Skirt Police and masked Zebra Police can shoot civilians at will. Zebraman wakes in the street, unable to remember the last 15 years, or his superhero past. He must rely on a band Zebra Time survivors, a man who played him in a TV show version of Zebraman and a mysterious silent girl to battle this Zebra obsession that is splitting the city in to absolutes of black and white.
Buddhist priest
Based on the Japanese legend of 15th century adventurer, Oguri Hangan Daisukeshige, Toyoda places us in a surreal world of tattooed Japanese slave workers whose real life roles serve more as symbols than actual characters. After being hired by a local despot, Daizen, to massage away a nasty venereal disease, Oguri is viley betrayed after refusing to stay longer.
Alice
Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" goes goth in Mari Terashima's screen adaptation of the children's classic. Terashima brings together Goth Loli performance troupe Rose de Reficul et Guiggles, doll maker Mari Shimizu and magician and actor-dwarf Mame Yamada (Blue Spring, 9 Souls) to create a macabre trip down the rabbit hole. The film appears animated, but the gothic characters are as real as can be.
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.
Four different worlds are connected through the "Baumkuchen Seeds of Happiness." The World of the Kawanobe's - Three brothers, Taro (Mame Yamada), Jiro (Hiroshi Yamamoto), and Hiroto (Shoichi Honda) who is a so-called NEET (short for "Not in Employment, Education, or Training) make up the Kawanobe household. The World of a Bar - Two men (Mame Yamada and Hiroshi Yamamoto) sits in a bar and discusses the Kawanobe brothers' love story. The World of Yumi - Yumi is reading a novel about the characters in the bar. The World of a Novelist - Novelist Masatoshi (Shoichi Honda) is writing a novel about Yumi. In their own worlds, in their own way, each character will find a way to arrive at their happiness.
There are many different kinds of lives in this world. When everyone is gone only the afterimage remains.Ai has only recently came to Tokyo. In this unfamiliar city she is a little bit upset. One day lead by a mysterious stray dog she finds a letter inside a hole in the tree trunk. Tomohiro who works night hours at a nursery hadleft it there. Ai being encouraged by this letter writes a letter back and leaves it in the hole. This was the beginning of their strange correspondence.
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his trusty companion Endo in tow, he sets off on a quest for the elusive insect and along the way meets the mysterious Sayoko, a former dominatrix and habitual wrist-cutter who delights in rubbing wasabi into her wounds.
Touter
"Imprint" cuenta la historia de un estadounidense (Billy Drago) en el siglo XIX, que viaja a un isla fantasmal situada en Japón, buscando una chica llamada Komomo a la que perdió años atrás y le prometio que volveria. Llega a una isla fantasmal habitada por prostitutas donde tiene un encuentro con una de las prostitutas con cierta deformidad que le cuenta que su amada Komomo habia fallecido. Mientras bebe sake con la protituta Christopher le pide que le cuente sobre su vida. La prostituta da a conocer una historia oscura y cruel sobre su vida y el triste destino de Komomo. Capítulo 13 de la primera temporada de "Masters of Horror".
El director de escuela Gozo Ozawa viola a su hija Mitsuko después de que esta viera a sus padres teniendo sexo. Su madre Sayuki es a su vez testigo de la violación. Gozo las fuerza siempre que quiere mientras la familia se descompone con incesto, suicidios y asesinatos... tal y como sucede en las novelas eróticas de la escritora paralítica Taeko. Su asistente Yuji es un joven cuya verdadera misión es descubrir qué tienen de real las historias de Taeko. Pero la pesadilla grandilocuente creada por Taeko tiene más verdad de lo que puede soportar...
Noderabô
Durante las celebraciones populares, el joven de diez años Tadashi es elegido “Jinete Kirin”, defensor de la justicia y la paz. La leyenda cuenta que el Jinete kirin debe ir a una montaña cercana y reclamar una legendaria espada, guardada por el gran Goblin para así luchar contra el malvado ejército de Yomotsumono. Cuando los niños a lo largo del país empiezan a desaparecer y terroríficos monstruos comienzan a atacar a la gente, Tadashi deberá olvidar sus miedos y con la ayuda de los espíritus del bien se embarcará en la mayor aventura de su vida para derrotar al malvado Yomotsumono y rescatar a los niños de Japón en una épica batalla...
A lonely housewife begins an affair with a man in her tenement building.
Hidemi Shiratori
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.
This is another masterpiece by Takao Nakano. A sort of mix of Ed Wood and Russ Meyer. The story ? Well, just a sort of parody of the famous manga/anime "Cutie Honey". If you have liked L.E.G.S, if think that this one will give to you a big big moment of pleasure. No english subs ? Really, I assure you that it doesn't matter at all.
Hanada
La historia de Blue Spring se desarrolla en un instituto (koukou) para chicos, concentrándose en un grupo de ellos en su último año en el instituto antes de su ingreso en la universidad, quienes van a decidir su próximo líder a través del juego de las palmadas. Agarrados a la barandilla del tejado de la escuela, quien dé más palmadas sin caerse, se convierte en líder del grupo y del instituto.