Atsuko Sudo

Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.

Yoneda Katsumi (Nishida Toshiyuki) is a police sergeant who exudes little presence.One day, Yoneda happens to come across an article on a cafe called Kohaku in a booklet at his regular cafe. Then he abruptly takes leave and heads to Kohaku which is located in Uozu, Toyama Prefecture by bullet train. For some reason, he has documents on an unsolved arson cum murder case which took place in Kichijoji 25 years ago.The owner of Kohaku is Arai Toshio (Terao Akira) who has seemingly sad eyes. They spend time together with his only regular customer, Hirai Sachiko (Suzuki Kyoka), a married woman who works at the port’s fisheries cooperative. Their interactions gradually start to deepen even as they sense the darkness in each other. What is the fate that awaits them?

교외에서 발생한 연속 의문사를 조사하던 신입기자 슌야는 피해자들이 죽음을 맞이하기 3일 전 어떠한 사정으로 그들과 관련된 아이들이 실종된 상태라는 공통점, 그리고 그것과 내용이 일치하는 "아이의 저주"라는 소문에 대해 알게 된다. 그리고 그의 어릴 적 친구인 콘도 소우까지도 그 사건의 피해자가 되며, 그와 관련된 어린아이가 사건 직전에 부르던 노래를 들은 슌야는 사건을 더욱 파헤치기 시작한다. 한편, 슌야의 연인인 유치원 교사 나오미는 아끼던 원생 카사하라에게 미움을 받는 일이 생기고 그 저주에 걸리고 만다. 슌야는 그 저주로 목숨을 잃는 3일 후까지 나오미를 구해야 하고 그녀와 둘이서 저주를 조사하여 그 핵심에 다가가게 되지만, 그 사건의 배후에 있던 "코도모츠카이"라는 7명의 아이 영혼이 모습을 나타낸다.

Mystery writer Kosaku Asahina scores yet another scoop in a case that occurred in the streets. He even personally conducts investigations and frequently makes these cases the basis for his own novels. It maybe because his late father was a scholar that he is cool, but brims with curiosity and action. One day, Kosaku is facing the computer in his living room and writing a new novel. The novel is based on the baffling case of a female who fell to her death in Setagaya in the past. Kosaku had personally conducted interviews and inspected the scene of her death, but still cannot get to the truth. Then a letter addressed to his father Konosuke who died more than 20 years ago, is delivered to Kosaku. The name of the sender is the female whose mysterious death from a fall, is the subject of Kosaku’s new novel.

16살 치요코(모리카와 아오이)는 10년 전, 교통사고로 엄마를 잃었다. 아빠도 고모도 함께 지내지만 자신이 가장 의지 할 수 있는 것은 자매처럼 지낸 반려견 줄리에타 뿐. 그 줄리에타도 엄마 곁으로 가버린지 반 년이나 되었다. 개가 되고 싶은 치요코는 우연히 학교 선배이자 영화부였던 마사무네(스다 마사키)와 함께 좋아하는 영화 속의 주인공처럼 여행을 하며 그들의 영화를 찍게 되는데...

The movie is based on an autobiographical book titled “Tokyo Furyou Shounen Densetsu.” The book was written by Endo Natsuki, who was once affiliated with the biker team and band COOLS that was formed in the 1970s by Tachi Hiroshi (61) and Iwaki Koichi (60). The story for the film takes place at a technical high school in the 1970s, where it is said that half of the school’s 3,000 students are juvenile delinquents. Saito plays a student named Sendo, who is aiming to be number one out of all of them. Naturally, the movie will incorporate a lot of action scenes as he brawls his way to the top.

옛친구인 켄이치로부터 전화를 받은 유사쿠. 자신들의 친구였던 유끼꼬가 사고를 당해 위독하다는 소식을 듣고 그는 청춘을 보냈던 자신의 고향마을 우스끼로 향한다. 자신을 사랑했던 유끼꼬지만, 그 사랑을 거부했던 유사쿠. 그는 28년전의 기억을 더듬어 올라간다. 지나간 시절에 어린 추억과 그에 따른 향수를 불러 일으키며, 젊은 날의 사랑과 사랑했던 인물간의 관계를 통해 삶의 의미를 추구하고 있다. 잔잔한 분위기로, 아담하고 소박한 드라마다.

This film tells three scary stories that take place in and around a school in Japan. While each of the stories can be viewed independently, they are linked by location and by the time they occur. The events are defined on the last day of summer vacation, the students contemplate the passage of their temporary freedom and the resumption of classes

Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro's wife is played by Hiromi Iwasaki, his father is played by Go Kato and Ryuzo Hayashi plays a leader of the Riot. The Riot in Gujo is called one of the biggest three riots in the Edo Period as it took almost 5 years to settle and also involved the Edo government. This movie is a period film about the riot and Gujo farmers fighting for their tenacity of purpose. The farmers had suffered enough from heavy taxes and decided to rise up in riot when the domain lord, Yorikane, issued a new act, which practically forced tax increases. Asking the lord to retract the act, they pour down to the Hachiman Castle. For once they attain the repeal deed signed by the chief retainer. However the promise is broken. Now the farmers decide to make a direct plea to the Edo Residence…This film is full tension and breathless moments.