Joe works as a professional stand-in, posing as friends and family for clients. An occurrence at a funeral gig blurs the line between Joe's work and personal life.
Kazuo Kakei
ある大学生・雅也のもとに届いた一通の手紙。それは世間を震撼させた稀代の連続殺人鬼・榛村からだった。「罪は認めるが、最後の事件は冤罪だ。犯人が他にいることを証明してほしい」。過去に地元のパン屋で店主をしていた頃には信頼を寄せていた榛村の願いを聞き入れ、事件を独自に調べ始めた雅也。しかし、そこには想像を超える残酷な事件の真相があった―。
Sasaki Masakazu
The story of a would-be actor, his larger-than-life classmate and their friends. Unfolding their past and present, Sasaki in My Mind looks head-on at adolescent sparkle and the pathos of bygone days.
Screenplay
A writer from Kamakura named Hiraoka Eisei is researching supernatural stories but finds himself revisiting memories from a previous visit to his wife’s home town. Ogura Kako,a shy local woman, is asked to help an actor from Tokyo practice speaking with Kyoto intonation and, after the lesson, he asks her to show him around Arashiyama.
Director
A writer from Kamakura named Hiraoka Eisei is researching supernatural stories but finds himself revisiting memories from a previous visit to his wife’s home town. Ogura Kako,a shy local woman, is asked to help an actor from Tokyo practice speaking with Kyoto intonation and, after the lesson, he asks her to show him around Arashiyama.
A film by Tomonari Kamobayashi
Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile. He gradually falls for Akane, who soothes him with her positive outlook and cheerful disposition, but Akane has a boyfriend who has a limited amount of time left to live.
Sakanauri no Otoya
After the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923, a troupe of female sumo wrestlers arrive in Tokyo.
Editor
The small town of Yumetoi has been sealed off from the outside world for 20 years by a mysterious phenomenon called “Zon”. But more and more people, like Ippo and his girlfriend Remi, begin to wonder: What lies beyond “Zon”? Takuji SUZUKI’s experimental science fiction film will capture you with its surreal atmosphere, which is intensified by a unique combination of digital and analog images.
Director
The small town of Yumetoi has been sealed off from the outside world for 20 years by a mysterious phenomenon called “Zon”. But more and more people, like Ippo and his girlfriend Remi, begin to wonder: What lies beyond “Zon”? Takuji SUZUKI’s experimental science fiction film will capture you with its surreal atmosphere, which is intensified by a unique combination of digital and analog images.
Left alone by his music group, Nakanishi lands in a peaceful but strange village. He laughs and drinks with it's residents until the alcohol seems to have a supernatural effect on him ...
Oji-san
性格は正反対だがどこかウマの合う高校2年生の内海想と瀬戸小吉は、放課後にいつも河原で話をしながら暇つぶしをしている。くだらない言葉遊びや、思いを寄せる女子へのメールの内容、時にはシリアスなことも語り合う。そんな二人を見守る同級生の樫村一期に瀬戸は憧れているが、樫村は内海に好意を抱いている。
Policeman
「なにも起こらない日々」に焦りを感じながら、ビル清掃会社のパートタイマーとして働く岡田。同僚の安藤に、想いを寄せるユカとの恋のキューピッド役を頼まれて、ユカが働くカフェに向かうと、そこで高校時代の同級生・森田正一と出会う。ユカから、森田にストーキングされていると知らされた岡田は、高校時代、過酷ないじめを受けていた森田に対して、不穏な気持ちを抱くが・・・。岡田とユカ、そして安藤らの恋や性に悩む平凡な日常。ユカをつけ狙い、次々と殺人を重ねるサイコキラー森田正一の絶望。2つの物語が危険に交錯する―。
In a small town with a big red bridge, a run-down apartment, which everyone calls a haunted house, stands still. A few days before the summer break begins, two high school girls, Kaede and Azusa, find a boy living in the abandoned place by himself. Naming him "Mon", they take care of him without being noticed by anyone.
The fifth work of the "Kita-Shirakawa school movie" in which a student of Kyoto University of Art and Design, a professional film staff, and a cast team up to make a film. With a certain big disaster, people are struggling for love while holding their own circumstances, and as a result, they ask what it is to "live correctly" even in a vague and uneasy era. Ittoku Kishibe played Yanagida, the protagonist of the protagonist who created and exhibited objects that incorporate radioactive materials to create and display indiscriminate terrorism.
Memories can be blocked, but they can also be invented. Psychology professor Eiko works with people who were traumatized by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. But the topic affects her more personally than she wants to admit. Narrative structures begin to intertwine, reality becomes ambiguous. Like a surgeon, SHINOZAKI dissects the human mind in this complex yet moving film.
Director
授業が終わったら、早く帰りたいと願う中学1年生の奥田克久は、ある日、不思議なうさぎを追い掛けたことがきっかけで吹奏楽部に入部。吹奏楽部は練習時間が最も長いクラブだったが、克久は次第に音楽に夢中になっていく。そして定期演奏会に向けて練習に励んできた克久は、ついにその日を迎える。
Ikumi Sakurai is a first year high school student who begins to investigate her dead mothers past.
Nakamichi
売れない映画監督・秀二（西島秀俊）の作品が映画館で上映されることはなかったが、彼は映画への情熱を持ち続けていた。そんな折、兄が借金のトラブルで亡くなったことを知った秀二は、彼の映画資金調達のため兄がやくざの世界で借金していたことを知る。兄の死に対する自責の念から、秀二は殴られ屋をすることで借金を返済しようとするが……。
Writer
良縁を願っていた29歳の布枝は、戦争で片腕を失った10歳年上の漫画家・茂とお見合いをすることに。お見合いから5日後には結婚式を挙げ、住み慣れた島根県安来から茂の暮らす東京へ出た布枝を待っていたのは、甘い新婚生活とは程遠い貧乏暮らしだった。布枝は戸惑いながらも結婚生活を始める。
Director
良縁を願っていた29歳の布枝は、戦争で片腕を失った10歳年上の漫画家・茂とお見合いをすることに。お見合いから5日後には結婚式を挙げ、住み慣れた島根県安来から茂の暮らす東京へ出た布枝を待っていたのは、甘い新婚生活とは程遠い貧乏暮らしだった。布枝は戸惑いながらも結婚生活を始める。
Kidnapper
みーくん（染谷将太）とまーちゃん（大政絢）は幼なじみで、10年前の誘拐監禁事件の被害者同士。小学生姉弟の失踪事件と謎の連続殺人事件が同時に起こっている街で、二人は10年ぶりに再会する。いまだにトラウマを抱えていた二人は心をかよわせるが、まーちゃんは乱暴でワガママで、どこか壊れた女の子だった。そんなある日、まーちゃんを主治医の精神科医（鈴木京香）に連れて行ったみーくんのもとに、事件を捜査する刑事が訪ねてくる。どうやら二人は事件の容疑者と疑われているらしい……。
A woman is waiting for a man. She deceives the man with her long hair hidden in a wig and jokes that she would go to Hiroshima.
戦後の混乱期、酒飲みで多額の借金をし浮気を繰り返す小説家。大谷の妻・佐知は、夫が踏み倒した酒代を肩代わりするため飲み屋で働くことに。生き生きと働く佐知の明るさが評判となって店は繁盛し、やがて彼女に好意を寄せる男も現れ佐知の心は揺れる。そんな中、大谷は親しくしていたバーの女と姿を消してしまい…。
Director
Haru works at a part-time job for a bookstore. Her dream is to become an illustrator and she also loves cats. One day, after a cat named Chibutomu disappears from the bookstore Haru canvasses the neighbourhood in search of Chibutomu.
Hideki Yasukawa
高校生のあかね（南明奈）が小学生のころ、司法試験に失敗した息子が一家5人を惨殺するというむごい事件が起きる。その後犯人は首つり自殺するが、彼は死の直前の自分の声と少女の声が録音されたカセットテープを遺して逝く。被害者の少女はあかねの小学生のころの親友で、ある日昔から霊感の強かった彼女の前に突然その少女が現れ……。
Koji Shiraishi is interested in an indiscriminate attack at a sightseeing resort. He interviews the survivors and starts investigating the strange events that have been happening to them.
17 year old schoolgirl Sakura visits a Samurai theme park called Survival Land with her friends where they’re supposed to go up against some cosplayers dressed as samurai but things go horribly wrong when one of the cosplayers gets infected after finding a strange flower in the theme park’s grounds and cutting it with his sword. Some black liquid sprays him in the face and the next thing we know he’s infecting the rest of his colleagues as they turn into zombies. Soon the game turns deadly as the undead cosplayers start attacking the girls with real weapons. They need to find a way to escape from the place and fast…..
貝塚北署所轄内で、顔をつぶされ指紋も焼かれた男の死体が発見された。少ない遺留品から身元が判明、担当刑事の内海と草薙は弁当屋を営む被害者の元妻・靖子を訪ねる。だが有力容疑者と思われた彼女には完璧なアリバイがあった。捜査に行き詰まった2人は、帝都大学の物理学者、“ガリレオ”こと湯川に協力を求める。当初は興味を示さない湯川だったが、靖子の隣人が学生時代に数学の天才と認めた親友・石神であることを知り……。
Kawakami
Ryo Narushima is a student who has served prison time for killing his parents. Once he is released, he trains to become a professional kick-boxer.
Writer
Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. A compilation of 3 separate short horror films (Rattle Rattle, Hagane, The Inheritance) written and directed by Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, and Keisuke Toyoshima respectively. The first segment, “Rattle Rattle”, tells the story of a young woman who is pursued by an evil other-worldly being. The second movie, “Steel”, concerns a young man who agrees to take the sister of his boss out on a blind date, drawing him into a world more frightening than he ever dreamed possible. The third and final episode, “The Inheritance”, is a supernatural tale of a woman and her young son, scarred by abuse and psychological trauma.
Director
Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. A compilation of 3 separate short horror films (Rattle Rattle, Hagane, The Inheritance) written and directed by Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, and Keisuke Toyoshima respectively. The first segment, “Rattle Rattle”, tells the story of a young woman who is pursued by an evil other-worldly being. The second movie, “Steel”, concerns a young man who agrees to take the sister of his boss out on a blind date, drawing him into a world more frightening than he ever dreamed possible. The third and final episode, “The Inheritance”, is a supernatural tale of a woman and her young son, scarred by abuse and psychological trauma.
Kurt Hining
When good-natured Mayumi finds herself at the mercy of her sadistic, panty-crazed teachers, only one brave naked soul is capable of confronting her tormentors -- Kekko Kamen! Wearing nothing but knee-high red boots and a red leather mask, this nunchaku wielding superhero gives these perverts a dose of their own medicine. Wildly cornball and completely over the top, this will have you watching with mouth agape in utter disbelief! Two Nipples Up!
Five young men participate in an experiment drug test, which is known as a short-term, high-paying part-time job.
雨の降る公園。女子高生の梨里は、金の工面が出来なかったことで恋人に殴られていた。そのまま捨てられ、ボロボロになった彼女はゴミ捨て場に倒れ込む。やがて、物陰から男が現われ、傷だらけの梨里を担ぎ上げてその場を去っていく。その男・タケルは過去のトラウマから言葉と記憶の一部を失っていた。彼が連れて帰った洋館の屋根裏部屋で目を覚ます梨里。下着姿の彼女は自分が監禁されたと悟り、すぐさま脱走を試みるが、傷の痛みで身動き出来ない状態にあった。そこへタケルが姿をみせるのだが…。
Shinichi
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.
Ono
Witness a bizarre job interview and a dotty grandma in these five short surreal stories revolving around legendary Japanese department store Parco.
Writer
Witness a bizarre job interview and a dotty grandma in these five short surreal stories revolving around legendary Japanese department store Parco.
Director
Witness a bizarre job interview and a dotty grandma in these five short surreal stories revolving around legendary Japanese department store Parco.
Takuji
Maeda decides to have an operation to cure his color-blindness, but he becomes afraid that after the operation, his world is not going to be the same.
Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to fight back.
Man of Oden Restaurant
This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love.
いちど見たらその個性的なキャラクターゆえに誰も忘れることのできない、戦後の日本映画界になくてはならない貴重なバイプレイヤーとして活躍した殿山泰司。自らを「三文役者」と称し女と酒とミステリ小説を愛しつづけた彼のことを、みなは親しみを込めて「タイちゃん」と呼んだ。1998年4月30日にその生涯を閉じた殿山泰司の俳優人生を長年の同志、新藤兼人監督が映画化したペーソスあふれる感動ドラマ。
Director
An original video featuring four short horror stories, aimed at children.
Director
Made under the restrictions of "no zoom, pan, editing or post-sound", directors Shinobu Yaguchi and Takuji Suzuki skewer Japanese social conventions in 14 short episodes. In one segment a woman misreads an advertisement and arrives at a job interview dressed in a bunny suit. Another concerns a woman who hides to surprise her friends only to overhear their unkind appraisal of her hygiene. And another entitled "Grandpa from Hell" is a surreal yarn about a cult leader. Ranging from the humorous to the deeply bizarre, the film's static, minimalistic style makes such "Dogme 95" films as The Celebration (1998) look extravagant.
Hosoya
レンタカー屋で働く悟はある日、ヤクザの乗ったジャガーに車を追突させてしまう。無理矢理ヤクザの事務所に連れて行かれ、法外な金を要求される悟。だがその時、事務所が突然ガス爆発。奇跡的に生き残った悟は、偶然通りかかった看護婦の静子とともに、事務所にあった2億円を持って逃走する。
A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murderers. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular destination in mind.
Japanese pink film.
Hiroyuki Yanai
A black clad woman murders a man that she had just met by chance through a phone sex club.
Man asking for direction
お金が大好きな娘が、銀行強盗事件に巻き込まれたときに失われた五億円入りのスーツケースをもとめて奔走する姿を描いたコメディ。『渚のシンドバッド』につづくYESレーベル第二弾として製作された作品。
Writer
お金が大好きな娘が、銀行強盗事件に巻き込まれたときに失われた五億円入りのスーツケースをもとめて奔走する姿を描いたコメディ。『渚のシンドバッド』につづくYESレーベル第二弾として製作された作品。
Moto Abiko
手塚治虫とともにトキワ荘に暮らす、寺田ヒロオ。手塚が越した後、安孫子素雄や藤本弘ら多くの漫画家を夢見る若者たちがトキワ荘に住みつくようになる。早くから住人だった寺田は、よき相談役で兄貴分と慕われるが、後から来た若者たちが次々に売れていく中、時代に取り残されていく。しかし彼はねたみもせず、静かにみんなを応援する。
Director
Short film by Takuji Suzuki.
Out of Frame (1998) plays with your expectations and the way how we are used to “read” pictures and their framing. A woman is rubbing herself against a white wall, making the typical noises of having sex from the back, and Onishi takes his time to open the framing and then showing them in explicit positions. You don’t see the penetration but watch the rhythm of two bodies, listening to it, too. The framing by windows will allow you some rest. The man is putting on his clothes and closing the door while the woman is looking out oft he window. Onishi’s typical black inserts again, and we watch the same couple on the toilet, where he is putting her hands into hand-cuffs. After that he is showering her carefully, and she remains in hand-cuffs while they are having sex again under the shower. He is using his revolver then to free her from these metal things. And the toilet is a calm place when she comes back after strangling a young man on the street. (www.desistfilm.com)
OV version of the comic "Summer Memories" based on Naoki Yamamoto. Kawanaka (acted by Takuji Suzuki), who was arrested in another case, started talking about the murder school girls. Detective Kuroda is gradually at the mercy of Kawanaka's madness...
Screenplay
The misadventures of Junko, a schoolgirl who unwittingly sets off a catastrophic chain of events after being caught using her friend's train pass.
Producer
Takuji Suzuki began making films with a camera pointed at his own face. Whether in a room, in a classroom, or on a journey through the wild, the artist's face speaks to the camera. And then there is the interaction with his "uncle" who plays the violin like a saw. This is the endpoint of the unique act of the artist, who keeps turning the film to discover his identity. No one else can give you this taste.
Director of Photography
Takuji Suzuki began making films with a camera pointed at his own face. Whether in a room, in a classroom, or on a journey through the wild, the artist's face speaks to the camera. And then there is the interaction with his "uncle" who plays the violin like a saw. This is the endpoint of the unique act of the artist, who keeps turning the film to discover his identity. No one else can give you this taste.
Director
Takuji Suzuki began making films with a camera pointed at his own face. Whether in a room, in a classroom, or on a journey through the wild, the artist's face speaks to the camera. And then there is the interaction with his "uncle" who plays the violin like a saw. This is the endpoint of the unique act of the artist, who keeps turning the film to discover his identity. No one else can give you this taste.
A middle-aged man with a half-year to live unexpectedly starts to live with a group of young rock band members. The unlikely mixture inspires each other's lives.
