Maiko Yamada

Shigeru Kajiwara (Joe Odagiri) works part-time at a company that sells mysterious health food. One day, the other employees run off with the company's money.

Based on four early novellas by Noble Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, this omnibus of four short films are by emerging directors from the second graduating class of the new Graduate School of Film and New Media at Japan’s top art school, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), where famed directors Takeshi Kitano and Kiyoshi Kurosawa teach.

The second feature from female director Shindo Kaze (Love/Juice), Princess in an Iron Helmet (a.k.a. Korogare! Tamako) is a bright and colorful youth film about a quirky young woman's reluctant coming-of-age journey. Tamako (Yamada Maiko) is 20 years old, lives at home with her mother (Kishimoto Kayoko) and teenaged brother, and simply refuses to grow up. Ever since her father (Naoto Takenaka) left the family, she's stopped trusting people, and now lounges around in her own small, claustrophobic world. Wearing an iron helmet whenever she steps outside, she ventures only to her mom's beauty salon, the mechanic shop, and the bakery - the source of her greatest joy in life, sweet buns. Her world is static, insular, and safe, and there's no need to change - that is until her cat runs away, the bakery closes, and her mom falls in love with another man.

恋人との結婚式を数日後に控えている神崎刑事は最近、体の一部を切り取られるという猟奇殺人事件に悩まされていた。ある日、女性の他殺体が発見される。やはり、これまでと同様の手口で殺害されており、これで犠牲者は3人にのぼった。そして結婚式当日、4人目の犠牲者が出てしまう。その被害者とは、不幸にも神崎の婚約者・美奈だった。同じ頃、彼女は自分が殺されたことも気付かずに、“怨みの門”の前に立っていた。門番“イズコ”に3つの選択を迫られた美奈は、記憶を辿って殺された真相を掴むために現世へ戻る道を選ぶ。