歓喜の歌 (2008)

若手カメラマン柴田は、黒社会の実態をルポにするというノンフィクションライターの立神とともに香港へと飛んだ。だが2人は麻薬取引の現場で犯罪組織に見つかり、命からがら逃げ出すはめに。立神は追手の目を欺くため柴田を女装させ、場末のナイトクラブへと逃げ込んだ。2人はそこでタッチ＆マギーなるマジシャンコンビとして働くことになるが、その矢先、店で働く女性シンガー、コーラがタッチこと立神に恋してしまい……。

A country boy leaves his family's apple farm and heads to the city to become a famous musician.

偽の活動弁士として泥棒一味の片棒を担ぐ生活にウンザリしていた染谷俊太郎は一味から逃亡し、とある町の映画館にたどり着く。そこで働くことになった染谷は、今度こそ本当の活動弁士になることができるとワクワクするが、そこは館主夫妻をはじめ、スターを気取る弁士の茂木貴之や酒好き弁士の山岡秋聲などくせ者ばかりだった。

A hard-up locksmith and a vengeful computer nerd meet online, adopting the monikers Key and Gun respectively. Together they hatch a perfect heist against a consulting company -- Gun's former employer. At first everything goes perfectly. Gun's expert hacking from his laptop and Key's veteran touch quickly open the safe. Unfortunately, an overzealous security guard makes an unscheduled visit. After dispatching him, the two flee to the closest elevator, only to get stuck between the eighth and ninth floors

The editor-in-chief of a literary magazine who is popular with women sets up a fake wife and bids farewell to his mistresses.

At a job interview, Makoto tries to impress the interviewer by telling a lie: "I rode around Japan on stilts. His girlfriend, Nozomi, runs out of patience with him and leaves him after trying to pass the interview with a lie. In order to get back together with Nozomi, Makoto is determined to get the job offer and creates a story about his experience on the stilts trip, which was a lie. As he sweats it out, planning his route and carrying his backpack, he begins to see what he really wants to do. ......

Hiromi is a 26-year-old single woman. She is popular with guys. Her hobby and specialty is getting men to like her using small talk and a shy persona. If a guy confesses his feelings for her, Hiromi leaves them. Hiromi's sharehouse mate Akira and her friend Aya blame Hiromi, calling her "Kakure Bitch" (a type of women who uses innocence to flirt with men). Hiromi does not care. One day, she takes an interest in Tsuyoshi, who works in the same office. She becomes to like him sincerely.

Shinjiro Watari, a former tap dancer, plays the lead as a dancer who is forced into retirement following an accident while on stage. He tries his hand at Directing, but struggles to make the transition. Shinjiro turns to alcohol to cope with his plight. But when the manager of a theater being closed down turns to Shinjiro to direct its final performance, he works with a group young dancers and in the process learns a few things about himself. The movie is very well done and worth the price of admission. A view into the Japanese dancing world, as well as Japanese society.

Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a female fan with the name of Moonlit Night's Star (Sakurako Konishi). She sends letters to Penguin. One day, the female fan appears in front of Akira Takasu and Penguin. These three somehow get involved in a battle between the yakuza.

食事制限の影響で撮影中に倒れたモデルのハルカは、帰りに寄った精肉店で店主・安春の心の声が聞こえてしまう。おびえながらもハルカは、幼いころからエスパー能力を持つ安春に少しずつ心を開く。そして二人は、仕事の悩みや妻の不倫などを互いに打ち明けるようになる。

This psychological film follows for several days a very shy young adult woman, a loner with a good heart, who has the misfortune of growing up with obsessional attraction to rubber clothing, the attraction that potentially could make her a target for social rejection. She carefully conceals from her co-workers in a food factory the fact she wears such undergarments. One day an attractive male co-worker befriends her. When they get close in her apartment he indeed reacts to her rubber fetish with rejection. But they resume dating and now strive to meet each other's need for an intimate friendship.