Insurance salesperson Miho feels cozy living with her boyfriend Yuya who, refusing to give up on his musician dreams, lives a self-indulgent lifestyle. But she wonders to herself if things will be OK like this. One day, an e-mail exchange between Yuya and his co-worker Shuri leads to an argument resulting in Miho throwing Yuya out of the house. Yuya has no place to go; Miho is all alone. After living together for seven years, the couple will spend this night apart.
This is Hakubune
Professional boxer Sota Kusunoki has gained popularity for his fighting style, where he goes headlong into his opponents. However, years of fighting have taken their toll on his body, and he is forced to retire by a doctor's stoppage. He takes the opportunity of his retirement to marry his girlfriend, Sachiko, and start a new life, but he is completely useless in society and is made acutely aware of the harsh reality of his situation. One day, a mysterious man who claims to be a fan of Sota's receives an offer to fight in an underground martial arts tournament, where he will fight for a large sum of money and where his desires are thriving... The prospect of fighting once again revives his almost forgotten excitement, and his adrenaline surges as if to fill the emptiness in him. Will the madness and honesty of a man obsessed with fighting have a happy ending or a bad one?
Mr. Fujinaga
꺼림칙한 사건으로 인해 절망의 늪에 택시 기사 후지나가는 최고의 제물로 불릴 만한 여성을 죽이고 나서 자신도 죽는다는 위험한 소망을 갖게 된다. 검은색 택시를 타고, 검은색 장갑을 착용하고 일하던 그는 자신의 욕망을 충족시킬 만한 여성 승객을 마침내 찾아낸다.
In 1985, in Japan, which was about to enter the bubble economy, there was a region where contradictions in the world seemed to gather. Nishinari Ward, Osaka. Origins, prejudices, school violence, sloppy homes ... There were many children who dreamed of a better tomorrow in a harsh environment, worried, suffered, and stubbornly sought their way of life. A moving story that depicts the way of life of a real teacher, Kaba Masuo, who faced them and collided head-on.
다큐멘터리 감독 유코는 3년 전에 있었던 학교폭력과 그로 인한 연쇄 자살에 대한 다큐멘터리를 만들면서, 틈틈이 사설 입시학원을 운영하는 아버지 마사시를 도와 강의를 한다. 다큐 작업이 진전될수록 유코는 감춰졌던 진실과 그 진실로 고통 받는 가족들의 삶에 깊숙이 개입하게 된다. 한편, 사랑 받는 선생님이자 친구 같은 아버지인 마사시가 치명적인 잘못을 저질렀다는 사실을 알게 된 유코는 자신의 삶 전체가 흔들리는 충격을 받는다.
On the bus passing through a quiet countryside, picks up a weird woman dressed man who turns out to be a cutthroat starting to kill the passengers one by one aiming to achieve the love from the guy on board whom he had a crush on.
Atsushi limps and escapes from a closed facility for drug addicts. He has only one goal: to kill his wife. Straying around, he is hit on a country road at night. When the driver gets out to check on him, Atsushi takes the opportunity and steals his car. Completely surprised, he notices the middle school student Nanako in the passenger seat. Actually on the way to a hotel room with her customer, the young girl desperately clings to her key ring: the only thing she has left of her mother. Deeply wounded by life, the unequal couple embarks on a journey into the unknown.
A married Japanese man living in the country agrees to meet with an ex-lover in Tokyo, leading him to question his life choices.
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.
Brooding outsider Mikiro catches Sotoko just as she reaches a breaking point in her claustrophobic rural life. Their encounter introduces an eroticism with a violent edge that threatens to slash apart her toxic marriage with the abusive Atsuya and his web of small town corruption.
학점이 모자라 아버지에게 잔소리를 들으며 하루하루가 우울한 대학생, 료. 어느 날 충동적으로 친구들과 대마를 피우다 떨어져 훔치기로 한다. 그렇게 세 친구는 금고에 대마가 가득하다는 클럽에 잠입하는데
Dumpling clerk #1
Konoko wakes up on the beach and goes looking for a barber to take out the bug stucking on her head. Doi, who will soon be a father, goes to make gloves for her wife as a gift, Kazuko wakes up at the theater, and goes home where she finds a blue monster. She goes to a shop to get rid of the monster.
Fukusan
10년째 마술사의 조수로 일하는 29살의 아키는 오디션에서 프로듀서의 눈에 들어 마침내 스타가 된다. 하지만 그게 정말일까? 과거와 현재, 현실과 망상과 악몽이 뒤섞인 아키의 현실은 카오스가 된다. 2015년 유바리영화제에서 심사위원 특별상을 받은 중편을 셀프 리메이크한 장편 데뷔작.
(2018년 제22회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)
Ryutaro Ninomiya, 27 years old, lives a fairly simple life. He works at an auto-repair shop, reads books and drinks a few beers. One day, he receives a phone call from Yusuke, his childhood friend whose mother, Ryuko, is dying from Hepatitis C. Despite knowing for a while that Ryuko was sick, Ryutaro hasn’t visited her, but today he decides to go.
A road trip with a rebellious son, a reckless brother, and an uncontrollable pet turtle goes crazy.
Daisuke
Memories can be blocked, but they can also be invented. Psychology professor Eiko works with people who were traumatized by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. But the topic affects her more personally than she wants to admit. Narrative structures begin to intertwine, reality becomes ambiguous. Like a surgeon, SHINOZAKI dissects the human mind in this complex yet moving film.
2041 - The west of Japan was destroyed in an earthquake. In between the slums within the rubble autonomous areas form with their own currency and administration. In the third communal district, known as Slum-Polis, criminals terrorize the poor population. In the daily struggle for survival the three friends Asu, Joe and the young prostitute Anna search for a little bit of security, but ultimately their strong bond is put to trial.
