Shimizu
One day, a boy's body is found again under the same bridge. The case is eerily similar to Masaki's case from 22 years ago. Haru has a connection with the deceased boy. Akira meets Haru while investigating the boy's death. By meeting each other again, the three men face the case from 22 years ago that they buried deep within their minds.
Banken
Shogo Kanetaka es un agente de policía que sufre un trauma tras el asesinato de su amada. Desde ese horrible momento, Shogo solo piensa en vengarse. Recibe entonces la orden de ir de incógnito como miembro de la yakuza. La policía encarga a Shogo que se pelee con Hideki Murooka, miembro de la yakuza, como trampolín para entrar en la organización. La policía tiene datos que demuestran que Shogo coincide con Hideki al 98 %. Mientras tanto, Hideki es hijo de un condenado a muerte. Tiene una condición física que le hace tener siempre hambre y comer constantemente. Además, ni él ni la yakuza pueden controlar sus emociones.
Kanichi Hasunuma
Physicist Manabu Yukawa returns to Japan from America. Detective Kaoru Utsumi visits him and talks about a case. The case is about a popular girl in a town who disappeared and, several years later, her body was found. A suspect was arrested for her murder. That suspect was previously arrested for another girl's murder, but he was released due to a lack of evidence. Detective Shunpei Kusanagi investigated the prior murder case. The same suspect was then released due to a lack of evidence for the most recent murder case. The released man returned to his town, where everybody hated him. On the day of the autumn festival parade, the man was killed. Physicist Manabu Yukawa, Detective Kaoru Utsumi and Detective Shunpei Kusanagi work together on his case.
Taizo Arai
Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed after his wife died in accident. Since that time, Yasuo, who never experienced parents' love himself, has to raise his son Akira alone.
Yoshio Yoshida
Yoshio is a man who works for the city's water department and live with his mother. He regularly visits to the SM Queen Miho, but he still cannot forget the legendary SM Queen Yukiko.
La historia gira en torno a Daisuke Tateishi, un actor encasillado en las películas de acción que, tras un incidente traumático en un rodaje, se ve obligado a vivir una vida solitaria. Un día, ayuda a Ayumi, una estudiante que es acosada por un broker chino y la yakuza.
Sawada
Set in 2020 in the Shibuya neighborhood of Tokyo, the story revolves around Hachi, a boy who fled to the Japanese capital from his hometown of Fukushima and now lives away from society as an illegal drug dealer.
Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his life targeted by underworld kingpin Kurata. Is his story fact or fiction? His editor, Nahomi Torikai, decides to verify whether his latest work is mere fiction based on real-life experiences. She looks into a family that vanished, a post office worker who went missing, a shady load of cash, the whereabouts of the doves, and the fateful encounter from that night... A series of shocking facts are revealed from Tsuda’s stories. Why did the counterfeit money end up in Tsuda’s hands? What is the “ending” that Tsuda wished to portray?
Keisuke's father
Sato e Isobe son dos adolescentes que viven sus días de colegiales en un tranquilo pueblo costero. Ambos deciden embarcarse en una relación puramente física, pero pronto se darán cuenta que dejar de lado los sentimientos resulta muy complicado. Paseando por la orilla de un mar lleno de misterios, ambos aprenderán que las cosas de dos, pueden traer graves consecuencias para terceros.
Ukichi
When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cooking and eventually became a cook. Meanwhile, Noe has become an oiran (high-ranking courtesan).
Policeman
In consequence of his professional mistakes and declining career, Shuji and his family, the Sasaya’s, are forced to leave the wealthy suburb of Tokyo. The move is slow, long and heartbreaking, and the two Sasaya children, an old teenager and a young adult, unwittingly turn the grieving process into an exuberant and unpredictable farewell party!
(segment "Muse")
21st Century Girl is an omnibus feature that is of the girls, by the girls and for the girls. The work of 15 women directors under the age of 30, each of whom contributed an 8-minute film, the package highlights a range of genres, visions and thematic concerns.
Yukina, who works as a call girl in the burbs just north of Tokyo, was sexually abused by her stepfather. Her younger stepbrother Minoru was also abused, but meanwhile he harbors feelings for her. He gets suspicious about her line of work after finding her call girl business card, but he also worries that he'll become the target of bullying at school.
A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized, however, by a car accident on a rainy day after they go out together, and wakes up with short term memory loss, where she cannot remember anything beyond the present day. Yukisuke tries to live close to her as before but the lack of collective memory starts to stagger him.
Shin Wakatake
Koyama Haruka was an office worker who lived an unremarkable life, but one day she comes across a large platter of Bizen ware on display at a department store. Little by little, even at work and on her days off, Haruka is unable to think about anything but Bizen ware. With her heart filled by an inexpressible zeal, she heads to the city of Bizen in Okayama Prefecture and excitedly visits the creator of the large platter, Osamu.
Merchant
Toichi es un barquero que transporta a los aldeanos a un pueblo al otro lado del río. Además de pilotar un bote para los aldeanos durante todo el día, apenas tiene comunicación con los demás, excepto con Genzo, un joven vecino. Aguas arriba, se está construyendo un gran puente. Todo el mundo está emocionado, pero Toichi tiene sentimientos encontrados al respecto. Un día, Toichi conoce a una misteriosa joven. Como no tiene familia ni lugar a donde ir, Toichi le deja quedarse con él, pero este encuentro comienza a traer cambios en la vida de Toichi.
Ichikawa
Un joven boxeador y una prostituta quedan atrapados en un plan de tráfico de drogas durante una noche en Tokio.
Kazuhisa Nakane, Senior Officer of Ibuki
The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and occupy parts of the Hateruma archipelago. Members of the Japan Coast Guard are detained. Under the extremely tense situation, the Japanese government sends Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and an escort fleet to the area. Ryota Akitsu is the captain of the Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and Toshiya Niinami is second-in-command. It is now 6:23 am. and Japan faces one day which they never have before.
Takemura Rintaro
Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
Dono
A 5th grade elementary school student meets a transfer student who has a mysterious charm about her. He then learns her big secret.
Yuichi
When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good care of him. She was gentle, but mentally strong. However, two years ago she was diagnosed with cancer and now it's Satoshi's turn to comfort and care for her. However, despite his best efforts, she passes away. A year after Akiko's passing, Satoshi, his father Toshiaki and his older brother Yuichi start new lives. Around that time, Satoshi receives a present from his mother.
Suga-san
Two girls dream of the same man. One remained in their hometown, went with Shiina and wants to revisit the happy times with him again. The other moved away, returned to move back in with her parents and establishes contact with Shiina and other friends. It may be that either a rivalry or a triangle is in the offing.
Kenta Ikegami
10 years after Kenta graduated from high school he becomes a manga artist and lives in Tokyo. But lately he has been on a creative crises. One day one of his old classmates calls him saying that their high school will be demolished soon. In an attempt to refresh his mind, Kenta decides to go back to his hometown. There, he meets his old friends and they share some memories
Gosenro Manabe
Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by the Kurokaze Han, but they learn that Junoshin Kake lied. Junoshin Kake is given the death sentence and he must think of an escape plan.
Takeshi
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.
Shigeyoshi
When Suei was little, his mother had an affair with a young man who lived next door. Suei's mother and the young man killed themselves by using dynamite. After Suei graduated from high school, he worked at a factory before quitting his job. He then went to Tokyo and began working in the erotic magazine industry. Suei eventually became the chief editor of a famous erotic magazine in the 1980's.
Tomoki Tada
Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of stomach cancer. At his funeral, a motley crew of fellow mahjong players, pachinko parlor employees and former drinking buddies gather to pay their respects and tell stories, revealing aspects of Masato’s life that complicate his sons’ resentment towards him.
The studio of potter Seisho Kuniyoshi is deep in the mountains, surrounded by greenery, where he devotes every day to making pottery. One day, a girl appears and begins to destroy the pottery.
Seiichi Motoya
Kako, una adolescente de 16 años, va a un mixer que simula ser 22. Mientras está allí, se encuentra con Kouta, quien al principio tiene un aura muy intimidante. Pero una vez que la salva de una situación incómoda, quiere saber más sobre él como él. Eso es hasta que descubre que no tiene 22 años. Al día siguiente, Kako se encuentra con él otra vez, pero esta vez está trabajando como oficial de policía. Kako todavía quiere acercarse a Kouta, pero no le interesa ... ¿o es así?
Tokimasa
Tatsuhiko Shiratori works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. He movies to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He comes into conflict with Masaki Taki who is the CEO of a scout company.
Katsuya Okudera
The story is set in the early 21st century with the population decimated by bio terror. Two kinds of humans now exist. One is the Nokusu who were infected with a virus but survived and consequently they carry an antibody. Most are young, healthy and have high intelligence, but they have a high sensitivity to ultraviolet rays and are active mostly during the night. The other group are the Kyurio. They survived by never having the virus. The Nokusu discriminates against the Kyurio. Tetsuhiko Okudera is a Kyurio. He was born in a poor village. He isn't happy with being a Kyurio and wishes he could be a Nokusu. Yui Ikuta is Tetsuhiko’s childhood friend. She tries to revive the poor village.
Iwanishi
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.
Tokimasa
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.
Rakuhiko Inogami
Samao Daikoku’s family register was taken which keeps him from escaping the underground life that he has led. To get away once and for all, Samao Daikoku breaks into Daikichi Ebisu's coin locker to steal gold. Daikichi Ebisu is involved in a criminal organization. In the locker, Samao Daikoku finds a hard disk containing personal information on runaways, homeless people, bankrupt people and prostitutes. He hides the hard disk, but is locked up by Daikichi Ebisu. There, he sees a prostitute, Ami Nanmu and he also faces an evil gang boss, Kan Senju. Samao Daikoku is tortured by the gang boss. The mystery behind Samao Daikoku’s past is revealed.
Umenosuke
21-year-old Misora Honzawa went to Tokyo from Aomori. Misora Honzawa happens to see Kumi on TV who is a yoga Instructor and model. By chance, the two women begin to live together. At first Misora Honzawa, who is easygoing, and Kumi, who is high maintenance, do not get along with each other. Because they share interests in yoga they eventually become closer and think about happiness and life.
Shuichi Miyanaga
Chiyoko’s mother died when she was young. Since that time, Chiyoko has closed her heart to others. After her pet dies, Chiyoko feels loneliness. Her mother liked the Italian movie "La Strada." Due to movie study club senior, Masamune, Chiyoko is able to watch the Italian movie "La Strada," which her mother liked. Chiyoko soon acts in a movie directed by Masamune.
Toshio Shimizu
Set at the edge of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, with its beautiful scenic views, the film revolves around two women from different backgrounds who develop a friendship, and how they begin to influence and change each other’s lives.
Kagehisa Amemiya
"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...
AKAO
A sect is threatened to fall apart, when its leader, a young Korean woman, develops doubts regarding her alleged psychic powers.
Atsushi
Los habitantes de la isla de Amami, viven en armonía con la naturaleza, para ellos en cada árbol, cada piedra y cada planta vive un dios. Una tarde de verano, Kaito descubre el cuerpo de un hombre flotando en el mar. Su amiga Kyoko le ayudará a descifrar el misterio. Crecerán juntos, aprendiendo a ser adultos, descubriendo los ciclos de la vida, la muerte, el amor...
Mamoru
Yukio ( Masaki Okada ) es estudiante de secundaria que vive con su madre y cuatro padres diferentes.
Debido a su madre que tiene tanta experiencia en el enamoramiento, Yukio tiene cuatro padres que viven todos juntos. Los cuatro padres de Yukio son: Satoru ( Shiro Sano ), un profesor que se encarga del estudio de Yukio, Taka ( Masahiko Kawahara ), un jugador con buena intuición, Mamoru ( junio Murakami ), un ex anfitrión de club que ayuda a Yukio con la mujeres e Isao ( Daisuke Miyagawa ), un profesor de educación física de la escuela secundaria al que le gustan las artes marciales mixtas.
Moto
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.
Fujii tuvo un accidente de moto hace 4 años. Debido al accidente, perdió el último año de su memoria. Un día, en la boda de un amigo, Fujii tiene un encuentro fatídico con Kami. Disfrutan de los momentos felices juntos y Fujii piensa en casarse con Kami. Pero Kami enferma. Una triste verdad se oculta en la memoria perdida de Fujii.
A woman has an ugly face. She has been called 'monster' since childhood. A case occurs in her town that leads to her being ejected and a relocation to Tokyo. She obtains plastic surgery and begins working as a prostitute. She makes some dough and extends the plastic surgery to her entire body. She changes her name and begins a new life. The perfect body leads her to think about men and her hometown.
Ohira
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.
Haji
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.
Yoichi Ono
Drama sobre el desastre del terremoto causado en Japón en 2011. (FILMAFFINITY)
Akira
Professional killer Ken (Hirofumi Arai) is trying to break away from the yakuza. Taking up work at a local motorcycle shop, he forges a new life under the motherly eye of Yoko (Jun Fubuki), an older woman who owns the shop. However, Ken's dark past isn't letting him go that easily. Akira (Jun Murakami), Ken's ruthless mentor and himself an assassin, has been coming around and pressuring Ken to return to the family. Together with orphaned teenager Tsuyoshi (Niinobu Ryomei), Ken decides to take to the road and settle matters in the only way he knows - by the trigger of his gun. Featuring music by Snake on the Beach, a solo project of legendary singer and guitarist Yusuke Chiba, A Road Stained Crimson takes viewers down the high-octane expressway of bikes, guns and rock 'n' roll.
Ken Igarashi
"Blazing Famiglia" centers around a family of former teenage gangsters. Tetsu Hino (Yoshimi Tokui) was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle gang in the Kanto area. Now, Tetsu Hino is middle-aged man who is looked down upon by his rebellious son Shuhei (Kento Hayashi). One day, Tetsu and his old biker gang gather together again after the daughter of a member is assaulted. Tetsu, worried about his day to day life, nevertheless regains the passion from his biker days. Tetsu then finds out that Ken Igarashi (Jun Murakami) is the man behind the attack. Ken Igarashi has had a grudge against Tetsu for a long time.
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just a short period. For the first time in 25 years, Sonho is reunited with his family in Tokyo after being allowed to undergo an operation there. Sonho’s younger sister Rie is at the centre of the film, and is not hard to recognise as the director’s alter-ego. In her documentaries DEAR PYONGYANG and SONA, THE OTHER MYSELF, Yang Yonghi told the story of her own life, and how, at age six, she experienced the departure of her three older brothers, who left their family for Pyongyang.
Yama
In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to terms with their own impending deaths, and the fragile absurdity of life.
Tanimura
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.
Ito
Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.
Three stories, depicted in three different styles, unfold in three locations: "Kyoto", a lyrical improvised drama based on documentar y footage following local rappers, which is blended with fiction; "Okinawa", a documentary about intriguing characters who Yamamoto met by chance; and " Tokyo", an otherworldly love story about a man dealing with loss who drifts through life, and a woman who pretends to be his deceased wife.
Tetsu
Después de perder sus extremidades en un enfrentamiento violento, un exasesino reemplaza sus partes perdidas con un arma y un lanzacohetes.
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his family's gas business, but things aren't going well in his new endeavor and he becomes increasingly frustrated.
Morimoto
Korean photographer Baehwan and gay japanese hotel employee Ryu work together on a series of photographs. Their relationship crosses uneasily between friendship and love, while they also battle their own internal scars. Their salvation comes by their photographs which helps them find the meaning of their lives.
Shiro Kanauchi
A woman from rural Japan marries a struggling cartoonist in Tokyo. Their life is difficult before he finds success, but at least they're together.
Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouting out cherry blossoms). The young woman lived freely in the mountains after she was abducted as a young child. The couple soon fall in love under the Raiou tree, but become acutely aware of their different social positions & the ramifications it has on their relationship.
A senseless double murder resonates eight years later in four intertwined stories.
Driver Nosaki
The story takes place in a new residential area in the outskirts of Tokyo. A family photograph adorns the living room of the Hashimoto family. It is a heartwarming shot of the three family members from when they first moved here, finally having bought their own home that they had wanted for so long. Wife Michiko hangs the laundry everyday. Husband Ken-ichi leaves for work without a word. Son Hiroaki has a part-time job, returns home early and disappears into his room. The Hashimoto Family no longer eats meal together at the dining table or spends time together in the living room. Michiko yearns for a different relationship with her family and is gradually overcome by loneliness. While feeling pressured from the trifling matters that occur within the residential community, Michiko tries to fill the emptiness that she hides in her heart.
Lord Tabu Ukyou
A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his clan after only one year of imprisonment. Following his return, Kanemi is faced with the death of his wife, Mutsue. Thereafter, Kanemi lives with and cares for his wife's niece, Satoo, who has secret affections for Kanemi and expresses them by helping change his bleak outlook on life. Meanwhile, Kanemi's develops his unique "bird-catching" sword technique which he will soon put to test in battle for the first time against the fearsome swordsman, Hayatonosho Obiya.
Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share: books.
Two filmmakers have to deal with a rogue mascot.
Takeo Kawaguchi
Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her young daughter, Non-chan. However, she has a difficult time making ends meet in big city Tokyo. Her solution? Take a chance and try opening her very own bento (lunch box) shop.
The third volume of the appointed drama starring Jun Murakami. It was a short run that was enlivening'Tokyo Mahouya'with his friends, but his friends were killed by the strategy of Yamaryu Gumi Wakato Iwagami. Meanwhile, Ginya Yabuki returns to Kabukicho and begins to struggle again to obtain his utopia.
Kiyota Hashimoto
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.
Yabuki Ginya and a short run who jumped out of the Sanryu group and became stubborn in order to stick to their own goodwill. As they disappear and those who are fascinated by the darkness expose their desires, an organization called "Tokyo Mahouya" that raises funds through its own route emerges. A short run that suddenly appeared in front of Shibamon, who remained alone and rebuilt the group. Guided by Ginya's will, he will build "Tokyo Mahouya" with his compatriots who carry a sad fate, and will survive Kabukicho again. However, the monsters who nest in the darkness cannot leave the route where huge wealth sleeps... Toru Minegishi, the real last appearance. Praying Meifu...
La historia, ambientada en el período Kamakura, trata sobre un monje budista, que cumpliendo los últimos deseos de su madre, dedica su vida a la meditación, divulgándola entre los japoneses.
A drama presented by Jun Murakami. Shimon and Short Run, who started walking on the road of the yakuza in Tokyo, were waiting for Yabuki Ginya. Ginya, who grew up together in his hometown, stabbed a local yakuza and entered the juvenile training school because of Tsuruoka, who he admired as a man. He entrusts his sister Ryoko, who is the only relative, to his friends... In Kabukicho, Shinjuku, the men meet again, and the legend of the demons who nest on a sad night begins here!!
Monk
A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.
Aoyama
Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki. She works for a manufacturing company in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s time for the Reaper to go to work.
the story of a vagrant (Ishibashi) who arrives in a town in Hokkaido. With only a threadbare suit, an old pair of sneakers and a bag containing all his worldly possessions the proprietors of a local convenince store (played by Jun Murakami and Akemi Sakurai) taske pity on the man and bring him in.
J
Amy and Sonny are two girls with contrasting personalities. Their "secret hideout" is an antique shop. One day, Amy falls in love at first sight with an older man named 'J'
Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.
Masami Akiba
Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic new film from a remarkably skilled cast about "the beauty of sensualism."
Battle Motion Coordinator
Esta película generada íntegramente por ordenador, es la continuación del videojuego de Square Enix; Final Fantasy VII y forma parte de una estrategía de la propia compañía para completar la historia de la saga. El argumento nos sitúa dos años después de Final Fantasy VII. Cloud Strife, el protagonista, vive solo en la iglesia de Aeris y está afectado por una extraña enfermedad, el GeoStigma, un virus que lo está matando poco a poco dejándole sin energía...
Kenji
Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD.
Cinco directores diferentes adaptan las obras del autor japonés Otsuichi en esta colección de cortos de animación en vivo y no convencionales. Una mujer es asesinada bajo extrañas circunstancias en la película del título, "Zoo"; Las hermanas gemelas son tratadas de manera diferente en "Kazari y Yoko"; Dos hermanos se encuentran atrapados en "Siete Habitaciones"; un sobreviviente aprende sobre la vida y la muerte en "When the Sun Shines"; y los padres pierden la capacidad de verse unos a otros en "Hasta ahora".
Yakuza
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.
Seiji Hayami
When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.
Behind the scenes of the 2004 film "Cutie Honey". Extra on Blu-ray Box.
Akira Amano
Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge between the tenor saxophonist, a disillusioned ex-soldier, and a bitter GI whose brother was killed in the war. And when the band plays the prohibited "Danny Boy" during a birthday bash for a sergeant whose son Danny had died a year ago, everyone must confront a past they'd rather forget.
B
When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom she calls A. B and C) keep shifting in ways that redefine power and sex.
Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks excessively. On Valentine's Day, she meets truck driver Takatoshi. She joins him on a journey in his bumpy and shaky truck - which vibrates in tune with her uneasy soul.
Three storylines interweave in Border Line. Kurosawa (Murakami Jun) finds himself driving a taciturn young man named Matsuda (Sawaki Tetsu) halfway to Hokkaido, after accidentally knocking him off his bike; their fragile bond can last only so long. The housewife Aikawa Misa (Aso Yumi) tries desperately to hold her family together when her husband gets laid off and her son is so frightened of bullies at school that he throws up in the car; she’s reduced to taking a McJob in a convenience store. And Miyaji (Mitsuishi Ken), who collects debts for a yakuza gang, gets into trouble when his partner Kitajima puts personal need above duty.
Pervert
Seventeen-year-old Ako works part-time in a cabaret club late at night. Because of this, she falls asleep in school every day. In the new semester, she becomes enamored with her classmate Ryou, who is repeating a year despite her good grades.
Older Man
Kayako Kirishima del tercer año en una escuela secundaria siente una sensación de aislamiento en la vida escolar y una vaga admiración e inquietud en el futuro. Un día se hace amiga de Endō, que está aislado de su entorno porque permaneció en la misma clase durante otro año. Kayako se siente fuertemente atraída por Endō, quien le muestra un mundo que ella no conocía.
Omnibus of six short films: Return; Ken-do star; Hana to oji-san; Adagietto Sehr, langsam; Nakayoki koto wa yoki koto ka na; Slow is Beautiful. Third installment of "SF" series produced by Hiroyuki Nakano.
A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.
Boxing Gym Man
Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her internatioanl family who live in Okinawa. They live in a run down old hotel called Hotel Hibiscus with only one room for rent.
Jun Murakami
In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are sketchy at best, yet no one has any answers. When she starts having hallucinations involving his ghost, however, she seeks some psychological help, eventually uncovering some things that she may have wished she'd left covered.
Another psychodrama, this time revolving around an SM club.
Aokage
Un trío de aprendices ninjas son enviados por su maestro a ejecutar peligrosas misiones secretas. La amistad, forjada durante sus años de entrenamiento, les previene de cualquier problema entre sí. Pero, tras un trágico e inesperado acontecimiento, dos de ellos seguirán caminos diferentes antes de regresar para la más peligrosa e imposible misión.
A successful businessman and his alcoholic wife attempt to piece together their unhappy lives and shattered marriage. Little do Nagai and Akira know that their precarious relationship will soon be transformed by a stranger, the enigmatic Keechie.
Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film’s obnoxious ham of a star.
Seijuro Sakamoto
A washed-up former punk rocker is frustrated by his work at his grandmother's hot spring. He returns to Tokyo and finds himself entangled in a web of crime.
Bicycle Man
A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.
Kawada
Kurosaki is an erotic novelist who uses his editor and a hired model to act out scenarios in his living room to use for inspiration in his writing. His wife Shizuko calls him a pervert but on the inside, she feels physically neglected. She tries to make him jealous, while also going after what she desires with someone else.
Toru
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 this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a short temper and no visible means of support. Amour fou blooms between them, and a year later they're living together, with Mami taking part as Tomo abducts, tortures, and kills one of their neighbors. Eventually the cycle of crime goes too far for Mami and she leaves Tomo, but several years later, he arrives at her home to disrupt her life with her new husband. Hysteric was directed by Takahisa Zeze, who previously received critical acclaim for the film Kokkuri. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Fukunosuke
Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako's ferry arrives, it is also carrying Nabbie's former lover, who has returned to Aguni after a long absence.
Young Patient
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
Japanese action film directed by Hiroshi Ando.
Alien
Alien
Sap
Filmed somewhat in documentary style, it follows three girls over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Jonko runs a group of high school girls involved in paid dating, Raku is a street dancer, and Togo was brought up in the US and back in Japan for one year wants to escape to New York. Their contact with the world of talent scouts and yakuza places them in danger.
A youth film depicting society in the late 90's through the eyes of lethargic young adults.
Toru
Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages.
Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.
Based on the manga of the same name by Buronson (Yoshiyuki Okamura).
The story of a young man who volunteers to join the air force for selfish reasons, but grows through rigorous training and interaction with his friends.
