A boy meeting his girlfriend's father for the first time. Visiting a hospitalized high school classmate. The last drink between a failed entertainer and his manager. Combat that ends up in a rap battle. A conversation between sisters at their mother's funeral. An encounter between two random time travelers.
Egashira
8年前に妻が家を出て以来、高校生の一人娘と暮らす水道工員の磯辺裕次郎。父親が急死して多額の遺産を手にした彼は突如喫茶店経営を思いつき、無計画にも“純喫茶磯辺”を開店させる。閑古鳥の鳴くダサい店は、美人の素子をアルバイトに雇ってから一転、クセモノばかりの常連客でにぎわい始める。
Asuka's Friend
芥川賞候補にもなった松尾スズキの同名原作小説の映画化。女性だけの閉鎖病棟で、主人公が再び生きる勇気を取り戻していく14日間を描く。監督・脚本は原作者でもある「恋の門」の松尾スズキ。出演は「監督・ばんざい！」の内田有紀、「大帝の剣」の宮藤官九郎、「フラガール」の蒼井優、「憑神」の妻夫木聡、他。
A two-part feature directed separately by Shimizu and his colleague Keisuke Toyoshima. Unrelated to each other, both have a common goal: to bring ghosts and aliens together in pure, referential and absurdistic delirium, including neo-Nazi specters, zombie yakuzas and nasty aliens.
