Takenori Sentô

Those who want to die seek refuge in a mysterious café in this feverishly strange Japanese debut.

One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul. Despite the worries of the killer's lawyer, she approaches the killer and the two start corresponding.

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.

A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected, come down with the disease, which leads to death. They have no way of fighting against this infection filled with fear and despair. The media calls the disease the "Lemming Syndrome".

湖畔の別荘に集まった3組の家族と塾の講師は、中学受験を控えた子供のために勉強合宿を行っていた。参加者の一組の並木俊介と美菜子は別居中だったが、受験のために、仲の良い夫婦を演じていた。そこへ俊介の愛人が現れ殺害される。

Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the forest.

Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko's new lover is fascinated by Eiji's power and social status... A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters "unloved".

An autobiographical docudrama about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour.

A washed-up former punk rocker is frustrated by his work at his grandmother's hot spring. He returns to Tokyo and finds himself entangled in a web of crime.

奈良県。男を作って出て行った母に代わって、姉として一緒に暮らしてきたストリッパーの恭子に育てられ、自らもストリッパーとなったあやこは、妊娠、堕胎、男との別れを経験し、今や生きる意欲を失っていた。そんな中、唯一の肉親である祖父を亡くし、天涯孤独となった陶芸家・大司と出会う。互いに欠けている物を補うように強く惹かれ、愛し合うようになるふたりだった。

It is 1980. Sadatomo is at a secondary school in a small town. His parents barely take any notice of him. The strict teacher Kobayashi has hung up a 'humanity index' in the classroom, divided into the categories 'delinquents', 'scum' and 'people'. In each category he has hung name-cards of pupils. One day Kobayashi finds out that Sadatomo and his friends have stolen some things from a shop for fun. Their fathers are informed and as punishment, the children have to write a 'self-critical' essay of no less than thirty pages. For the first time, Sadatomo is beaten by his father. Shocked, he writes a piece entitled 'I am an onion', in which the teacher thinks he can detect a first sign of humanity. That is the start of a confusing situation in which it gets hard to distinguish lies, truth, justified self-criticism and opportunist wheeler dealing, even for the boys.

A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.

Nami has been creating artwork for a new video game based on images she's been seeing in her dreams. With one of the game producers, she travels out to an abandoned house that seems to match her visions. As they explore the old mansion, Nami begins to have more visions of a forgotten childhood, until at last she comes across a photo of twin infants, labelled "Nami" and "Naomi". As Nami and the producer go from room to room, an unseen person seems to be watching them from a hidden room.

Nami has been creating artwork for a new video game based on images she's been seeing in her dreams. With one of the game producers, she travels out to an abandoned house that seems to match her visions. As they explore the old mansion, Nami begins to have more visions of a forgotten childhood, until at last she comes across a photo of twin infants, labelled "Nami" and "Naomi". As Nami and the producer go from room to room, an unseen person seems to be watching them from a hidden room.

1970年代、群馬県の山奥にある全寮制中学“独立学園”。父を亡くして転校してきた道夫は、きつ音のため、級友からのいじめに遭う。道夫はソプラノの声で歌う美しい少年、康夫に出会い、合唱団の顧問、清野に引き合わされる。清野から歌っているときは、きつ音にならないことを指摘された道夫は、合唱団に入部し、康夫と共に地区大会を目指し練習に励む。

「Helpless」の青山真治監督が、バスジャック事件で心に傷を負った人々の再生への旅を描いた人間ドラマ。2000年・第53回カンヌ国際映画祭で国際批評家連盟賞とエキュメニック賞を受賞した。九州の地方都市でバスジャック事件が発生し、多くの乗客が殺害された。生き残ったのは運転手の沢井と、中学生の直樹と小学生の梢の兄妹だけで、3人は心に深い傷を負う。2年後、家族を置いて消息を絶っていた沢井が町に戻ってくる。時を同じくして周辺で連続殺人事件が発生し、沢井に疑いの目が向けられる。そんな中、兄妹が2人だけで暮らしていることを知った沢井は、彼らの自宅を訪ね一緒に暮らし始める。さらに兄妹の従兄・秋彦も加わり、4人は沢井の運転するバスで旅に出るが……。沢井を役所広司、直樹と梢を実際の兄妹である宮崎将と宮崎あおいが演じた。2022年3月に青山真治監督が他界したことを受け、同年5月に追悼上映としてデジタル・マスター完全版を劇場公開。

『ピクニック』『砂漠の民カザック』『波』の奥原浩志監督が、スカラシップ作品として撮り上げた劇場デビュー作。ビリヤード場を舞台に、ミュージシャン河本と仲間とも恋人とも呼べそうなチャコの2人と、彼らが慕う中年男性との関わりを描いたドラマ。

『ピクニック』『砂漠の民カザック』『波』の奥原浩志監督が、スカラシップ作品として撮り上げた劇場デビュー作。ビリヤード場を舞台に、ミュージシャン河本と仲間とも恋人とも呼べそうなチャコの2人と、彼らが慕う中年男性との関わりを描いたドラマ。

Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine is upset when Tetsuro brings his 8 year old son Shun to live with them, while his ex-wife recovers from a car accident.

Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayuri, died several years ago and that Sayuri's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has gone almost insane with grief. After seeing Sayuri's ghost several times during the night, Hinako consults with some local experts on the paranormal and discovers that Sayuri's mother has something planned for her daughter...

Japanese drama set in a southern Kyushu island where dance-troupe leader Shinji (Shinji Arano) stays on as his touring troupe departs. After Shinji moves in with an old man (Nobuyoshi Tanigawa) cared for by his granddaughter (Reiko Matsuo), he becomes an apprentice to the old man's construction of a wooden boat

幼い息子を死なせて以来、自殺ばかりを考えている解剖医・安藤。ある日、彼は謎の死を遂げた高山竜司の解剖を担当することになった。安藤と竜司は学生時代の同級生だった、竜司の体を解剖した安藤は彼の胃の中から暗号の書かれた紙片を見つける。それは安藤たちが学生時代に流行った遊びで、彼は「DNA　PRESENT」という言葉を読み取るのだった。そんな折、玲子が車の事故で息子の陽一と共に死んだという情報が安藤に入っ...

某テレビ局のディレクターである浅川玲子は、都市伝説にまつわる取材の中で、見た者を1週間後に死に至らしめる「呪いのビデオ」に関わったと噂される男女が、数日前に奇怪な死を遂げた自分の姪、大石智子と同日の同時刻に死亡していることに気づく。調査を進めた玲子は、同時に死んだ智子たち4人の間には交友関係があり、彼らが1週間前に伊豆の貸し別荘「伊豆パシフィックランド」に宿泊していたこと、そしてその際に撮影されたフィルム写真上の4人の顔が不気味に歪んでいることに着目する。彼らの死の謎を突きとめようとして問題の貸し別荘を訪れた玲子は、そこで貸出されていた不審なビデオの映像を見てしまい、直後に不気味な無言電話を受け取る。これを境に、玲子自身の写真もまた死んだ4人と同様に歪んだ顔で写るようになってしまう。

Three young Japanese drop-outs are comically adrift in New York

奈良県南部の山間にある小さな村。この村に鉄道を通す計画が持ち上がって15年になるが、トンネル工事に携わっていた田村孝三は、計画の中止を知らされすっかり気力を失っていた。そしてある日、孝三は失踪してしまった。残された家族は戸惑いながらもそれぞれの選択をしていく。

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

Renji grew up in a family that runs a pelagic fishing business and vaguely thinks about becoming a fisherman in the future. He is attracted to Kyoko, a new transfer student to his fisheries school who is knowledgeable about whales, but there is a big difference of opinion between Renji, who thinks whaling is wrong, and Kyoko, who advocates whale protection.

The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.

Mogura, a shut-in former musician, falls in love with a young cellist after seeing her photo in a magazine.

新人監督の村井俊男は、カメラテストの映像にまったく別な女優が写っていることに気がついた。それから奇妙なことが次々に起こり始めて……。映画の撮影現場を舞台にした正統派ホラーの力作。「J・MOVIE・WARS3」の一作として製作され、2／3（10：00～11：35）にWOWOWで放映された。監督は本作が劇場デビューとなる中田秀夫。

1995 Japanese mystery video film.

Omnibus film, set in a fictional town at 45゜N latitude: Wonder Rubbish; Pao-san to no fukushu; Jonetsu no koya; Kaze wa, dotchi ni fuite iru

A woman follows an inner journey from island to island in search of "Pai Pati Roma"

Kaori, who can find nothing in her daily life but sex with her male friend Taro, suddenly meets a middle-aged man named Kosuke. She hopes that Kosuke will quench her thirst, but is disappointed to learn that he has a woman named Naomi. Upon learning of Kaori's feelings for him, Taro...

Five junior high school students in the city enjoy stealing as a game to pass the time. One day, a mysterious masked man suddenly appears in front of them and attacks them.

Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.

The encounter and parting of a man and woman in Hokkaido

Ami, a girl who works as a flower arranger, also works as a professional assassin

A series of short segments focusing on the relationship of a Zanichi Korean taxi driver and Filipina woman in Japan.

Tokyo Blood is an omnibus film of 4 short stories featuring various characters entrapped in Tokyo landscapes.

In four chapters, the film anatomises the chaotic life of a radio agony uncle.who is having simultaneous affairs with a sado-masochistic call-girl and the wife of an aggrieved tour-bus driver