Masao Nakabori

Alumni of Ibaraki High School learn that one of their classmates is killed in an accident on the tenth anniversary of their graduation, necessitating an unexpected reunion and “on-campus funeral”. They spend a strange night together, during which the secrets of his life are revealed and they rededicate themselves to his memory, with a new outlook on life.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is a hibakusha. A survivor of both atomic bomb blasts in 1945. First at Hiroshima, then again at Nagasaki. Now nearing 90, Yamaguchi finally speaks out. Breaking taboos of shame and sorrow, he responds to a call to fight for a world without nuclear weapons by telling his story, so that no one else will ever have to tell one like it again. Twice reconstructs Yamaguchi’s experiences in 1945 Japan, interviews him on the after-effects of exposure and documents the last five years of the late-blooming activist’s life.

The Harimaya Bridge is a drama about an American man who must travel to rural Japan to claim some important items belonging to his late son, from whom he was estranged. While there, he learns several secrets his son left behind.

Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.

1920年（大正9年）の東京で、不可思議な美女連続殺人事件が次々と発生していた。諜報機関からこれらの捜査の密命を受けた陸軍大尉・本郷義昭（山中峯太郎の軍事冒険小説の主人公）は、友人の平井太郎（のちに小説家・江戸川乱歩として有名になる）とともに浅草のダンテ劇場を調査中、ザビーネという日独ハーフの美女と出会う。

甘えん坊の少年シュウジは、ひょんなことから町の嫌われ者のヤクザ“鬼ケン”とその愛人アカネと知り合う。しかしその数日後“鬼ケン”が変死するという事件が起こる。

1952（昭和27）年、夏の東京。小説家の関口はちまたで広まる、産婦人科の大病院である久遠寺医院の娘・梗子が、妊娠20カ月目を迎えたのに一向に出産する気配がなく、しかも彼女の夫は1年半前に医院の密室から忽然と消え、以来、行方不明となっているという不思議な噂を耳にする。雑誌の依頼で事件を取材することになった関口は、古本屋の店主にして神社の神主でもある、博覧強記の友人・京極堂に相談を持ちかける。

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。

Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.

Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.

レストランでバイトをしているタカシは店長の石井に頼まれ、店で行なわれていて、ヤクザが八百長賭博の材料に使っている裏キックボクシングに出場するはめに。ところがタカシは勝つはずの相手ボクサーを倒してしまい、身の危険を感じたタカシと石井は逃走する。そんな騒動に、店に居合わせたサラリーマンコンビの忠志と健太、フリーターのケンジとユウジも巻き込まれ、2人ずつ3組の青年たちは命懸けの体験に放り込まれていく。

Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It’s been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she caused during a shoot for a commercial in which Kengo’s good friend, Shibata, nearly lost his life. The memory of this event weighs heavily on Rica’s conscience. One night Kengo tells Rica that he has fallen in love with a charming but „inscrutable“ woman named Hanako.

昭和二年、古本屋の女将が殺されるという事件が起きた。第一発見者が逮捕されるが、やがて他の者にも嫌疑がかかる。『屋根裏の散歩者』に続いて実相寺昭雄が監督した、明智小五郎を探偵役とする佳品。原作は江戸川乱歩の2つの短編「D坂の殺人事件」と「心理試験」。物語は真田広之演ずる贋作師・蕗屋が依頼された春画の製作を中心に、妖しくもつれた人間関係を官能的に描いていく。

幼いころに祖母が失踪するのを止められなかったゆみ子は、25歳になり、祖母の生まれ変わりだと感じた郁夫と結婚する。だがある夜、郁夫は列車に飛び込んで自殺してしまう。5年後、ゆみ子は郁夫との間に生まれた息子を連れ、奥能登の村に住んでいる民雄と再婚し、人生を再出発させようとするが、郁夫のことをまだなかなか忘れられずにいた。やがてゆみ子は家出をしようと決意するが、それでもまだ郁夫のことを忘れられなかった。

In 1923, in a cheap Tokyo rooming house, a languid young man named Goda was feeling bored with his life. One day while playing dress up with a woman’s wig and lipstick, he accidentally loosens a ceiling board in his closet. Climbing up, he discovers a dimly lit passageway under the roof leading to the resident’s other rooms. Soon he is scampering about like a ninja, making knotholes and moving ceiling boards for a better view. What he sees are the intimate acts - sadistic, criminal or vaguely mad - that reveal infinitely more about his fellow roomers than the various fronts they present to the world.

A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary.

A fantastic adventure of a brother and sister flying a ghost ship, guided by a red crow, in search for an old captain. The ghost ship was designed by Hayao Miyazaki and the red crow was done by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.

A decadent count in 1920′s Japan becomes obsessed with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from the notorious writer’s novels and recruits thieves, prostitutes and low lives to act out his fantasies on stage for the delectation of his rich, jaded friends. In search of new sensations the nobleman orders one of the actors, on pain of death, to make love to the nobleman’s wife while he watches. Unfortunately, this incursion of real life into his fantasy world will have dire consequences for the count and his divinely decadent coterie.

明治４５年。実業家の渋沢栄一は、東京の町を軍事面からだけではなく霊的にも守護する“東京改造計画”を始める。しかし、東京の壊滅をたくらむ謎の男・加藤保憲は平将門の霊を呼び覚まそうとする。大正１２年、加藤は関東大震災を起こすが、文豪の幸田露伴らの努力によって東京壊滅に失敗する。東京は渋沢らの手によって急速に復興するが昭和２年、加藤が再び東京に現われる。しかしそれを妨害しようとする面々が現われる。

Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.

Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run away to share their grief.

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.

丹波篠山の旧家の三男の淳は、家を守ることを母に言いきかせられ、忠実に働きつづけていた。実の母がお手伝いとも知らず。一方、財産の山林を手放し、自分たちの代で終わりにしようとするのが、長男・康と次男・徹。長男夫婦は、康の淡白さに妻・夏子は不満が募り、ある時、住み込みの書生とお手伝いとの情愛を目撃し、淳を誘惑していく…。

日野家の長男、正夫は親の希望に反して仏像に取り憑かれている毎日を送っていた。ある日、家族の留守中に美しい姉の百合と肉体関係を持ち、百合は妊娠した。正夫は姉を書生の岩下と結婚させ、自らは京都の仏師に弟子入りするのだったが…。