Makoto Ishihara

Launched in 2011 as a sister group to girl band behemoth AKB48, the Osaka-based NMB48 has become a musical force itself. With a string of No.1 hit singles and albums, not to mention sell-out performances, NMB48 continues Japan’s pop-music phenomena. Director Funahashi Atsushi, whose documentary work has previously chronicled such harrowing events as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, pulls back the curtain on the life and struggles of the band members and the workings of the idol-making industry.

When a new, smart and sweet Tokyo girl, Rumiko, starts at a rural elementary school, Akira finds himself smitten, like every other male pupil. Newcomer's popularity is contrasted with the less-tolerant treatment of scruffy Hideko, who, thanks to the arrival of a carnival freak-show in town, is nicknamed the Wolf Girl. Teachers and parents snootily consider the carny off-limits, but Akira is determined to find out whether Hideko really is a wolf girl.

해체 위기에 몰린 타다노 남자 고등학교 수영부의 부원은 수영대회에 출전한 여덟 명 중 8등을 하는 3학년 스즈키 단 한 명뿐이다. 그러던 어느 날 미모의 여교사 사쿠마 선생이 수영부를 맡게되고, 수영부에는 단번에 서른 명의 지원자가 몰려든다. 그러나 그녀의 전공은 수영이 아닌 '수중발레.' 남학교에서도 수중발레가 가능할거라 믿는 사쿠마 선생의 의욕적인 설명에도 불구하고 대부분의 학생들은 기겁하며 도망치고, 스즈키를 포함한 5명만이 얼떨결에 수영부에 남게 된다. 수영실력은 변변치 않지만 수중발레의 매력에 반해버린 스즈키, 농구부에서 왕따 당해 수영부로 들어온 사토, 깡마른 몸을 근육질로 만드는 게 꿈인 오타, 맥주병에 공부벌레인 가나자와, 여자 같은 사오토메. 이들 다섯 명이 모인 수중발레 팀 '워터보이즈'는 학교와 친구들의 놀림 속에서 그들도 무언가 할 수 있다는 걸 보여주기 위해 어려운 결정을 하는데...

주인공 사토미의 오빠가 살인을 저질렀다고 해서 동네 사람들의 표적이 되어 온갖 비난을 받게 되면서 가족 모두 집안에 틀어박혀 지내게 된다. 그러던중 사토미가 오빠의 행방을 찾기 위해 심령 탐정을 찾아가게 되는데...

Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.

Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa, a high school classmate he hasn’t seen in over ten years, shows up on his doorstep bearing a bag of clams. Though he claims to be the director of a fast-growing trading company, Aikawa crashes on Hatano’s couch for days on end. When the sleeping pills he was offered produce a strange side effect, Hatano is slowly dragged into Aikawa’s con-artist lifestyle. Soon afterward, they cross paths with the representative of a big-name publishing company and Aikawa’s ultimate scam begins to unfold.

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.