Hiroko Matsuda

Shibuya Haruko is a high school student living in Tokyo. One night, she is instantly smitten by Kanagawa Kenichi, who is lying prone on a bridge. But Kenichi becomes far more interested in a girl he impulsively hits on, Mayumi, over the high-spirited Haruko.

Just before the end of World War II, the Yalta Conference was held by the “Big Three” Allied leaders: Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the United States, Winston Churchill of Britain, and Joseph Stalin of the USSR. Japanese theater company Seinendan reimagines their conversations about postwar rule and power as a darkly humorous satire.

プロテスタントの牧師である佐伯は、教誨師として月に2回、拘置所を訪れ、死刑囚たちと面会しては彼らの話に耳を傾けていた。彼が向き合うのは、気のいいヤクザの組長である吉田、おしゃべり好きな中年女性の野口、大量殺人を犯した自己中心的な若者の高宮など、各自、性格も出自もまるで異なる個性的な6人の死刑囚たち。彼らと対話を重ねるうち、佐伯自身も心の奥底に封印していた自らの後ろめたい過去と向き合うことになる。

3年間行方不明となっていた夫の優介がある日ふいに帰ってきて、妻の瑞希を旅に誘う。それは優介が失踪してから帰宅するまでに関わってきた人々を訪ねる旅で、空白の3年間をたどるように旅を続けるうちに、瑞希は彼への深い愛を再確認していく。やがて優介が突然姿を現した理由、そして彼が瑞希に伝えたかったことが明らかになる。

浪人生の朔子は叔母の海希江の提案で、旅に出た伯母の家で２週間過ごすことに。彼女は海希江の幼なじみの兎吉やその娘の辰子、福島から避難してきたおいの孝史らと出会う。のどかな場所で、朔子は仕事に集中する叔母をよそに短い夏休みを満喫していた。

Theatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the world of Oriza Hirata, Japan's leading playwright and director, and his theatrical company, Seinendan. By depicting them, the film leads the audience to revisit fundamental but timely questions: What is theatre? Why do human beings act?

Former punk rocker Jonen, now a Buddhist priest, seems to have lost the meaning of his life. His manic depression handicaps him further. Music seems to be the only solution for him to exorcise his demons, against all obstacles and sound volume controllers.

Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to go in search of it.

Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system.

Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna".

Each year, at the start of the fall school year in September, Japan suffers from typhoons. That same month, in a small elementary school in a mountainous region, Saburô, a new red-haired pupil has just arrived with the wind. The children of the village thought they recognized in this strange boy who came from the city the spirit that they called “Matasaburô, the wind”. During two weeks of autumn, Matasaburô and the other children will do various experiments in nature.

In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi. He searches for violent ways to reactivate his life, she dreams of escaping abroad; both volunteer to test a new drug which may provide a cure.

Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He gives no explanation of his absence and his family asks no questions. It is only through the questions that a young writer named Asakura, who is secretly in love with Hisako, poses of local shop owners, that we learn that Hamanaka's disappearance may be related to the fact that the woman everyone thought he would marry, Tami - who runs the cafe across the street from the Hamanaka electric store - had ended up tying the knot with another man who died soon thereafter.