Matiko
Aoi Kuruma (A Blue Automobile) focuses on such a character - a part-time DJ and record-store employee named Richio (Arata). With his spiky yellow hair, wrap-around shades and pale mask of a face, Richio would seem to be an icy moon circling the distant planet of his own regard. But as Okuhara shows us from the first scene, Richio has been traumatized by a boyhood horror - and still bears the physical scars on one eye, the emotional scars in dreams and visions he can neither escape nor explain away. The sunglasses and mask are there for a reason, the pain and rage are real. At the same time, he has a straightforwardness that verges on the cruel - but this is also one of his most appealing qualities.
Demon Hunting is a Japanese made-for-television horror movie. It originally aired as the second episode of Series Kyōfu Yawa in 2003. Nozomi Ando stars as Michiru, a teenager who makes a pact with a demon to kill the rival classmate who's dating the teacher she is in love with herself, Mr. Kamata (Hideo Sakaki). While she's at it, she also asks to see the world destroyed. Her memory of this pact is erased and eventually her wishes begin to come true...
Behind-the-scenes footage of Satoshi Torao's film Demon Hunting.
Tomoko
25年前の若い頃に出会った富江という名の美少女に魅せられた記憶をいまだ忘れられず、娘に登美恵と名付けてしまった父・橋本和彦。登美恵は自分の殻に閉じこもりがちで学校ではもっぱらいじめられっ子だった。そんな登美恵の前に富江と名乗る美少女が現われ、奔放な振る舞いで登美恵を魅了し二人は友だちの関係になる。ある日、富江が登美恵の家に遊びに来て初めて顔を合わせた和彦と富江だったが和彦が目にしたのは、まさに25年前の富江その人だった。
