Ken'ichi Sakurada
Nagisa is living together with handsome college professor, Kotaro.However, lately Kotaro has been particularly violent towards Nagisa during sex, even going so far as to hurt her. One day, Etsuko, a woman claiming to be Kotaro’s sister, appears at their house.Etsuko asks to stay with them for a while, however Nagisa is not convinced that she is really his sister because she is so sloppy and unlike Kotaro. It also bothers her that the two often go off to talk in secret. Nagisa later finds out that Etsuko has been secretly watching her and Kotaro having sex while masturbating.She asks Kotaro to kick Etsuko out, but he refuses to listen, and Etsuko’s antics become more and more intense. Eventually, Nagisa finds out that she is pregnant. With this new development, Nagisa thinks that she can marry Kotaro and finally be able kick Etsuko out. Little does she know, this will be the beginning of her confinement…
Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. The junior high school boy with a zeal for finding fossils discovers the history of his hometown and experiences the changes around him. This is an ambitious work that depicts the land and time by blending various drama and documentary footage.
Yoshimi Tokuno
조그마한 바닷가 마을 카마쿠라에 살고 있는 사치, 요시노, 치카는 15년 전 집을 떠난 아버지의 부고를 듣고 장례식장으로 향한다. 아버지에 대한 미움도, 추억도 어느덧 희미해졌지만 홀로 남겨진 이복 여동생 스즈에게만은 왠지 마음이 쓰이는데...
Scarecrow
On Halloween day, the Sun gives a scarecrow girl one night freedom until Sunrise. Transforming herself into human being, she gets mixed up with crowds of a Halloween matchmaking party in the big city, Tokyo. Coming from rice paddies and feeling isolated from the real human beings, the scarecrow falls in love with a real zombie. They are only real monsters among all, so the scarecrow thinks he is 'different' from others. The zombie has strong sense of justice, and he only eats bad people's bad brains for the world peace. The scarecrow starts to follow the zombie's bad brain hunting. Even though the outsiders nurture love, the time limit approaches to end their happy journey.
Assistant Director
A woman is covered with strange radiation and sometimes becomes huge. She fights an octopus that seems to know where her tits and fanny are.
Harue
In postwar Japan, Tsuyako, a factory worker and mother, must decide between duty and love, her family and her freedom.
Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Yang dynasty artifact, one of the men turns up dead with mysterious claw marks across his face. A detective takes up the case, and uncovers secrets dating back to war crimes committed during Japan’s invasion of China in WWII.
‘다이쇼 로망스’ 3부작의 첫 번째 작품으로 우치다 핫켄의 소설을 원작으로 했다. 영화는 독일어 교수인 아오치의 여정을 따라가며 현실과 환상의 경계를 허문다. 내러티브보다는 스타일 자체에 집중하는 세이준 특유의 미학이 극명하게 드러나는 작품이다.
