Yukiko Okamoto

Kumiko Hoshizaki’s “Akane Sasu Heya” is the story of Maki, a 20-something temp who is sick of her boring job and life in general. The rather bizarre solution she comes up with is to conceive a child behind her boyfriend’s back. Makoto Nagahisa offers the much more impressionistic “Frog.” The story meanders around a bunch of unrelated characters, using experimental techniques like repeated scenes, hallucinatory visuals, blurred shots and disconnected sounds. Lastly, we have “Bouquet Garni,” a much more conventional work from director Junpei Hatano. The plot is centered on a reporter, the relative of a kidnapping victim, and a woman who is obsessed with the case.

荒野を歩き続けていた男の意識が、やがて錯乱の淵へ堕ちていく悪夢譚、「火星の運河」。殺人事件の現場に残された和鏡の謎を追う、美青年・透と明智小五郎の物語「鏡地獄」。廃墟でひっそりと暮らす、胴体だけの夫とその妻の奇行を、一人の男が屋根裏から監視し記録する「芋虫」。恋焦がれる女優を殺害した運転手の、異常な執着を描く「蟲」。4つの物語は、やがてひとつの大きな流れへと向かっていく。

売れないシナリオライターの草野崇文。彼はある日、ふと魔が差して、知り合ったばかりのかわいい女の子と寝てしまう。サラリーマン時代から付き合っている恋人・有希子がいるというのに。当然、その女子大生・雪乃とは一度きりの関係のはずだった。しかし、草野が真剣に付き合っている恋人の存在を明かすと、雪乃は“2番目でいいから付き合ってほしい”と懇願してくるのだった。本気にならないドライな付き合いをしてみたいとのあまりに都合の良すぎる雪乃の提案に不安を覚えつつ関係を続けてしまう。

I (Ken MItsuishi), documentary video maker, saw a guy named YUDA (Kazuma Honda) in middle of Tokyo. I was curious about Yuda and begun following him around, but one day he disappeared with my video camera. A couple months later, a lady name Michi Nakamura (Yukiko Okamoto) came to my office. She had the strap of my video camera that Yuda stole from me, and said she saw the address that was on the strap, so she came here. I asked her about Yuda, and she told me that he was dead. Right after she left my office, she was hit by a car, I visited her in hospital and she begins to tell me about the mysterious story of her and Yuda.

A mentally unstable young woman named Yoshie implores a gifted plastic surgeon (Yukiko Okamoto) to make her beautiful in this disturbing Japanese psychodrama directed by Katsuya Matsumura. Although the operation is successful, Yoshie becomes even more preoccupied with beauty -- and soon draws the doctor into a horrifying world of emotional agony and masochism. The film's supporting cast includes Asuka Kurosawa, Kota Kusano and Miki Asakura.

けい子は引っ越しの際、子供は12歳の長男の明だけだと嘘をつく。実際子供は4人いて、彼らは全員学校に通ったこともなく、アパートの部屋で母親の帰りを待って暮らしていたが……。 　 ＜解説＞　 主演の柳楽優弥が史上最年少の14歳という若さで、2004年度カンヌ国際映画祭主演男優賞に輝いた話題作。『ディスタンス』の是枝裕和監督が実際に起きた、母親が父親の違う子供4人を置き去りにするという衝撃的な事件を元に構想から15年、満を持して映像となった。女優初挑戦の、YOU扮する奔放な母親と子役達の自然な演技も秀逸。母の失踪後一人で弟妹達の面倒をみる長男の姿は、家族や社会のあり方を問いかける。

Kyuu, a Japanese boy comes to Hawaii, looking for a place to bury a surfboard of his late friend Arata. Arata often said 'There's no sea in Heaven.' His death has a huge impact on Kyuu's life. But with therelationship with local people, music, legends, he slowly regains positive attitude to his future.

Each time Lulu is heartbroken small stones come out of her body. The doctor diagnosed Lulu with Kidney stone. She collected the stones in memories of love.

A human drama by director Ryôta Sakamaki which realistically depicts the daily lives of three men and women suffering from heart illness.

Four boys from Okinawa Island have been friends since their childhood. Together with Rin, who is also from their hometown, and who has always been the girl of their dreams, all of them set out on a journey to let Rin see beyond the world of Okinawa. However, after they hitchhike a ride from a truck and encounter the world of adults, their journey starts to change drastically.

The teenaged children of various wealthy businessmen are being kidnapped and extorted for huge sums of money. The police have no clues and things are getting desperate. Enter in the elite crime fighting unit "PG"(Private Government) or more affectionately called "Playgirl".

依頼者からの情報をもとに闇の取引現場に潜入し、ブラックマネーを奪還、そして寸分無く依頼者にその金を送り戻す“リターナー”ミヤモトは少年時代に親友を殺した日本人の犯人を捜している。やがて親友を殺した男・溝口を見つけ出したものの、激しい銃撃戦の末、溝口を取り逃がしてしまう。だが、その現場に居合わせた謎の少女ミリから地球の存亡にかかわる“重大なモノ”の奪還を依頼される。

Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Mushi Game (Ignore the Game) - starring Uchiyama Rina 2. Okashina Machi (Funny Town) - starring Yanagiba Toshiro 3. Tokage no Shippo (Lizard's Tail) - starring Kashiwabara Takashi 4. Yogisha no Otoko (Man's Night Train) - starring Osugi Ren 5. Manhole - starring Kagawa Teruyuki

A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group. These include tales of a group stranded in the mountains and haunted by guilt over a death they inadvertantly caused, an emotionally broken chessmaster pressed into playing a real-life game for an eccentric millionaire, a wandering medieval samurai who finds a modern-day cell phone on the ground and a person on the other end asking questions about the past, and a young couple who agree to try a computer simulation of what their future as husband and wife would be like.

The story of a young man and woman who set out to revenge the death of her mother. The lovers enter a mysterious world where space and time are twisted, where love is more dangerous than death.

Filmed somewhat in documentary style, it follows three girls over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Jonko runs a group of high school girls involved in paid dating, Raku is a street dancer, and Togo was brought up in the US and back in Japan for one year wants to escape to New York. Their contact with the world of talent scouts and yakuza places them in danger.