Yu Uemura

社会と自分に絶望して生きることをあきらめた男。その男が起こした監禁事件に巻き込まれた女子高生・麻衣。暴力事件を起こして居場所を失った麻衣の同級生・氏家。都心から少し離れた小さな港町を舞台に、1つの監禁事件をきっかけに3人の登場人物の歯車が動き出し、生きづらさを抱えた人々が一歩を踏み出す瞬間を描く。

In the summer of 1978, Hiroshi, a high school student, is so inspired by "Star Wars" that he wants to film a giant spaceship himself, so he builds a miniature one with his best friend, Yoshio, and films it with his 8mm movie camera. Terao, a camera shop clerk, suggests turning it into a narration, so he decides to make a short film to be screened at the next school festival and asks his friend Sasaki, a film fan, to help him develop a script. As he learns that his movie camera has the ability to film backwards, he comes up with a story called "Time Reverse", in which aliens attempt to reverse time on Earth in order to redo human evolution. Natsumi, a girl from his classroom, agrees to play the heroine at the last minute, so he can finally start filming it.

A British comedy in Japanese clothes, with central character Ginji at once earnest farm boy and entrepreneurial savant, finding ingenious and entertaining solutions in a timeless tale of business and found family.

A socially-distanced college reunion, an unusual rapport struck between a food delivery man and a patron, a bus-stop encounter, and a blind woman scammed into thinking her brother is sick constitute the stories of Mayu Nakamura’s COVID-era quadriptych—a work that encapsulates the newfound anxieties of loneliness, insecurity and the struggle for connection within the depths of the pandemic lockdown. Tied together by the remarkable performances of actress Nahana, who embodies the various female characters across the film’s differing narratives, Nakamura’s episodic feature delves into the lives of women in COVID-era Japan, finding profundity and human connection amid the unlikely encounters of strangers.

暴力を受ける旦那から逃げ出してきた麻衣香（兒玉遥）が辿り着いた場所は、郊外にポツリと佇むラブホテル。誰にも知られぬよう、住み込みで働きながら娘のさくら（つむぎ）を育てて早７年、さくらは小学校に通う年齢に。しかし戸籍を取得しておらず、麻衣香は娘にどうしてあげたらいいのか分からない。そんな時彼女の背中を押したのは、世の中から「必要ない」とされている人々だった。

A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her, claiming to know her son.

While fooling around with a self-made crossbow, Kira accidentally kills his classmate Itsuki. For lack of evidence, the young student is found innocent. However, his trial is widely covered by the mass media, and the following uproar from society won’t leave his family untouched.