Michiko Kawai

家族4人で暮らした東京の家を取り壊す時に赤い木箱が見つかった。箱の中に入っていたのは、古い手紙と20年前に亡くなった母の台湾料理のレシピ帳だった。レシピ帳を手にした妙は、どんなにつらい時でも料理で家族や周囲の人たちを幸せな気持ちにしてくれた母の姿を思い起こす。やがて妙と妹の窈は、一青家ゆかりの地の中能登町にある母の墓前で母の小さな秘密を知り、ある思いに駆り立てられた妙は、家族のもう一つのふるさとである台湾へと向かう。

Tokyo Family Court judicial research official Akira Yamanobo is in charge of Tetsuo and Ayano Katase's divorce arbitration. Ayano, the wife, who works for a boutique company, insists her husband is involved with another woman. Supported by her employer Kotomi Saegusa, the company president, she demands a divorce as soon as possible. On the other hand, her husband Tetsuo, a trading professional, denies having a relationship with a woman. He says he will not agree to the divorce and does not plan to let his only son Kenta go, so the arbitration continues. According to Akira's investigation, Ayano gave birth to Kenta as a single mother five years ago when she was working as a hospital clerk, making him Tetsuo's stepson. Tetsuo loves Kenta as his own child, so Akira doesn't understand why Ayano is so insistent on getting a divorce. However, Tetsuo's insistence on not giving up custody of his stepson Kenta is also very unusual.

Based on the comic book by Marie Abiko.

The body of a 59-year-old male is found on the banks of a river. The stepson, Kazuo, confesses to his involvement but also implicates his estranged sister Nami. Two detectives, Okishima Keisuke and Kono Kaoru, then travel to the resort district of Beppu to stake out the house of Nami's ex-lover. They feel he may also be implicated in the murder and are certain that Nami will make contact. The detectives now wait.

セイこと七尾聖市は大阪郊外に住む小学校6年生。ある日、授業中にセイは後ろの席のキンタに突然カンチョーされて思わずチビってしまった。慌ててトイレに駆け込み確かめると、なんか変。白くてべっとりしているのだ。“これ、オシッコとちゃうやん！”。クラスのみんなより一足先にオトコになったセイは、以来、身体の変調に戸惑うばかり。ある日、セイは京都の祖父母の家に遊びに行った。そしてお使いに出た漬物屋で、ナオちゃんと呼ばれる少女に出会い一目惚れする。セイは友達にゲキを飛ばされ、再びナオちゃんに会いに京都へ行くのだが…。

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.

Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a patient there. A nurse remarks that the girl is 'Sleeping Beauty', and Yuuichi believes that a kiss from a prince will wake her, just like the story. Yuuichi returns to see Yumi every day, says 'Wake up, I'm the prince' and kisses her. Ten years later he restarts his daily ritual to see Yumi, one day she wakes up.

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.

Based on the comic by Hiroyuki Yasuda

Starring Ken Takakura, this TV special depicts a detective (Akira Hayasaka) who lives in a harsh life with pride and conviction. Minoru Akiba, Chief of the Investigation Division 1 of the Metropolitan Police Department, is a veteran detective who has passed through the shrine in numerous incidents. His wife was killed by a criminal he caught 13 years ago as revenge. There is a report that his former subordinate, Constable Murasawa, was stabbed to death under Akiba... Suzuki Kyoka plays his daughter.

A Japanese adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", directed by Konaka Chiaki (Marebito, The Big O) and starring Sano Shiro (Infection, Violent Cop)

塩野陽平は東京の大学生。ロックバンドを組み、ボーカルとして活躍していたが、実家の寺を継ぐために弟の郁生と田舎の禅寺・明軽寺に入ることになる。しかし彼を待ち構えていたのは厳しい修行の日々であった。個性あふれる先輩坊主たちに囲まれながら毎日を送る陽平の元に、かつてのバンド仲間のアツシがやって来る。そして陽平の恋人だった真朱がつきあい始めたと聞かされる。不安に陥る陽平の前に、真朱が現れる。

The love that occurs 24 hours after a man and woman in their 20s meet against the backdrop of the bubble period.

University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6 months to live.

札幌に住む予備校生の西江洸治は、以前強姦されそうになっているところを助けた村上マリ子と再会し、彼女をデートに誘う。彼女はその誘いを断るが、かつて親友だった山崎典子の行方を捜してくれたら付き合っても良いと言ってきた。さっそく洸治は調査のため小樽を訪れ、そこで典子がすさんだ生活を送っていたことを知る。マリ子はそれ以上の調査を望まなかったが、洸治は好奇心から調査を続行。ノリ子の写真を手に入れるのだったが、そこに写っていたのは…。

A group of students from the Cosmo Academy are about to take their final exam: surviving for over fifty days in a derelict ship. But when they arrive, they discover that instead of ten students, there are eleven. One of them doesn't belong there...

Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku, the exam-addled college student; Mrs. Ichinose, the drunken gossip; Kentaro, her bratty son; Akemi, the boozy bar hostess; and the mooching and peeping Mr. Yotsuya.

天才少女作家として人気を博した有栖川珠子は、スランプで筆が進まず、海辺のコテージで一人暮らし中。チンピラの中井英二は山西組の幹部である滝口に呼び出された先で、銃に撃たれ負傷した滝口と、同じく銃で撃たれ死亡している山西組長を見つける。滝口から銃の入ったバッグを預かった英二は、滝口から聞いていた組長を撃った女とまったく同じ特徴の珠子を発見し、彼女をバーに連れ込んだ。しかしそこで英二と珠子は二人の殺し屋に襲われ、訳の分からないまま夜の六本木に逃げ出した…。

ジョジョ、ブルース、辞書の中学生3人組は、ガキ大将のデブナガにいじめられてばかり。今日こそはデブナガに仕返しをしようと意気込む3人だったが、彼らの目の前でデブナガが誘拐されてしまう。そこから3人は覚醒剤絡みのヤクザ抗争に巻き込まれていき…。