Osame Maruike

近い将来の話。 演劇部から盗んだ飴ガラス細工のビール瓶で互いを殴り合い、明日学校でみんなを驚かしてやろうと企むイタズ ラ高校生のユウタとコウ。するとそこに「頭突きが武器」というデコちゃんが現れ、おでこで本物のガラス瓶を割ってみせる。そのリアルさに衝撃を受け、ふたりはデコちゃんにドッキリの演出を手伝ってもらう。 その晩、ユウタとコウは、コウの母親の福子が切り盛りしている韓国家庭料理屋で晩飯を食べに行く。すると、そ こには不動産屋がご飯を食べていた…。

The Okura family has 650 years of history as performers of Japan's traditional stage art, Kyogen. One winter, Motonari Okura and his son, Yasunari, head off to undertake training in an isolated mountain resort. Motonari is determined to get Yasunari accustomed to the strict regime which includes rehearsing and cleaning. Yasunari is hurt by his father's severe attitude and almost gives up on training. One day, they are visited by an old friend and his granddaughter, Sakiko.

Minako is at the age where her father is more like an alien to her than a person. The situation is exacerbated when he comes home drunk one night and tries to climb on top of her. Minako's mother deserted them for another man when Minako was a child. Now working as a hostess, she has little time for her own six year-old daughter, Yu, Minako's half sister. Both girls are yearning for their mother's love. Minako runs into Yu at a game center in the mall and proposes they take a trip. She changes out of her school uniform and into adult clothes and the pair hops on an overnight bus out of the city.

心理カウンセラーの赤井はある日、若い女性から援助交際を申し込まれる。彼女の名は津村晴香。今年の春、女子大を卒業したフリーターで毎日UFOを探していると言う。彼女に何かを感じた赤井は晴香を診療所に連れて行き、催眠療法を試みると晴香は高校2年の秋に起きた凄まじい出来事を語り出したのだった…。

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.

Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.

A drama about a nurse starring Hiroko Yakushimaru

Yota is a total loser with girls, one day after the love of his life, Moremi, confesses her love to his best friend, he comes across a video store. He finds a video and plays it on his broken VCR, bringing Ai Amano to life. She tries to help him win Moemi's heart, but falls in love with him instead.

Via the New York Times: "The solemn, intent faces of the Japanese schoolboys playing video games in Jun Ichikawa's "No Life King" bespeak a new type of modern horror. Addicted to their favorite new game (from which the film takes its title), these children have become seriously estranged from the real world. The film's constant emphasis is on the ways in which this has been allowed to happen, and on how emblematic it is of larger attitudes in a technological society. When a young boy trying to converse with his mother must compete with a home computer for her attention, it's not hard to see why the boy has retreated into his own computer-dominated world."

DM発送会社に勤める平凡なサラリーマンの徹。ある日、彼が母親と2人で暮らすマンションに、チャーミングな女性、留美が引っ越してくる。だが、彼女はフリーのスタイリストという職業は世を忍ぶ仮の姿、本業は“ルビイ”を名乗る快盗なのだと徹に打ち明ける。成り行きから彼女の相棒をさせられることになった徹は、強盗や詐欺、果ては銀行強盗の片棒を担がされるのだが、ルビイは本当に快盗なのか計画は失敗ばかりだった。