Maki Nishiyama
출생 : 1984-07-31, Kyoto, Japan
태평양전쟁 직전인 1940년, 아내 사토코와 행복하게 살던 고베의 무역상 유사쿠는 사업 차 만주에 갔다가, 그곳에서 엄청난 만행의 현장을 목격 하고 이를 세상에 알리기로 결심한다. 사토코는 남편의 비밀이 그들의 완벽한 가정을 위협할 것이라 생각하여 결사적으로 유사쿠를 말리지만 결국 그의 대의에 동참하여 기꺼이 ‘스파이의 아내’가 되기로 한다.
A married Japanese man living in the country agrees to meet with an ex-lover in Tokyo, leading him to question his life choices.
자정 12시에 타인에게 원한을 품은 사람만이 접속할 수 있는 '지옥통신'이란 사이트에 접속하여 원한의 대상을 입력하면 지옥소녀가 나타난다. 그녀가 건네주는 볏짚인형의 끈을 풀면 상대는 지옥으로 보내진다.
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.
Eriko
When fourteen-year-old Yo is hospitalized she gradually develops feelings for Yayoi who is a nurse tending her. However, Yayoi leaves the nursing profession in favour of prostitution. Yo is disappointed, but turns to the older woman after she is the subject of unrequited love from her mother's man. The two grow closer and Yo is about to find out what motivates Yayoi.
가마가사키는 2차 세계 대전 이래로 일용직 근로자들과 매춘부들이 모이는 은폐된 슬럼이다. 개발업자들이 이곳으로 이주해오며 지방 당국은 갱단과 결탁해 거주민들을 괴롭히고 슬럼을 제거하려 한다. 이때 매춘부, 소매치기 그리고 간타로라는 남자아이가 가마가사키에 들어서게 된다. 간타로는 갱단이 소중히 여기던 거대 가마솥을 손에 쥐게 되는데, 이는 한때 극빈자들을 먹여 살렸던 가마가사키의 상징이다.
첫사랑 ‘바쿠’와 함께하는 모든 날이 특별했던 ‘아사코’. 설레지만 불안하고 뜨겁지만 자유로운 영혼이었던 바쿠는 어느 날, 다시 돌아온다는 짧은 말만 남긴 채 아사코를 떠나갔다. 우연일까? 운명일까? 첫사랑 바쿠와 똑같은 외모의 ‘료헤이’를 만나게 된 아사코. 겉모습만 같을 뿐 공통점 하나 없는 모습에 혼란스럽지만, 자상하고 따뜻한 료헤이의 사랑으로 아사코는 다시 설레는 사랑의 순간을 맞이한다. 그러던 어느 날, 떠나간 첫사랑 바쿠가 갑자기 나타나고 아사코는 흔들리기 시작한다.
Japanese society is without ideals - Two men and one woman, who grew up in a religious organization in , meet again and question their own ideals.
Aki Shimabukuro
Keita Shimabukuro, a younger brother of Aki Shimabukuro who sells her body for a living, crashes in his sister's place. An evil plot by Sachi, the daughter of the leader of the Kimura gang, ends up with Keita dumped into a river. His body is washed ashore in heaven, where he sees his father Mitsuo, with whom he has lost touch for many years. By an unexpected twist of fate, Keita is resurrected but in the body of his sister. Now they have to share the same body with each other.
Naomi (Makoto Nishiyama), who returned to a small town because her adoptive father was about to die, met her brother-in-law, Hiroyuki (Hideyuki Kamada), again. Both of them have a history of becoming a man and woman, and Naomi feels an uncontrollable feeling for Hiroyuki. After that, she reunited with her childhood friend Yoshio (Yuya Matsuura) who also returned to the town....
범죄를 의도한 행위일지라도, 실현이 불가능한 경우 그 죄를 묻지 않는다. 즉 살의가 있었다 해도 입증이 불가능한 범죄, 이것을 '불능범'이라 부른다. 대도시를 무대로 연달아 변사 사건이 발생하고, 현장에는 정해진 것처럼 항상 검은 양복을 입은 남자의 모습이 있다. 그 남자는 '공중전화 부스의 남자'라고 SNS에서 화제가 된 우소부키 타다시(마츠자카 토리)로, 한 전화박스에 살인 의뢰를 남기기만 하면 반드시 실행된다고 알려져 있다. 실제로 표적은 100%의 확률로 사고 혹은 자살, 또는 질병으로 목숨을 잃게 되는데...
The 4th volume of Eros Suspense that depicts the terrible living hell that unfolds in a secret cell. Noriko, an underground idol involved in a conspiracy, is imprisoned in an isolated prison "Area ∞". It is a terrifying cell where the worst rape murderer, Yoshida 3 brothers, has been imprisoned...
Fuko
Nagano has had a sickness of the heart for 40 years and has been hospitalized at the mental hospital in Fukushima. However, during the evacuation when the Great East Japan Earthquake hit on March 11, 2011, knowing that he’s already completely healed, he makes his way back out to into the world. Having been hospitalized from when he was in his teens until his fifties, his story is like that of Urashima Taro, the Japanese fisherman who went beneath the sea as a young man and returned to an unfamiliar world. However, his heart from long ago is for the first time full of feelings to meet the woman he loved. Before long, Nagano learns that the woman has taken refuge in Tokyo and lives with her son and his wife, and sets out on a bike headed for Tokyo.
A piano teacher struggles with the dark legacy of his family: he once witnessed his father beating a man to death. Fearing a genetic inclination for violence he struggles to stay sane when he is pulled down the dark path of an illegal firm that sells revenge for hire.
2034, Japan is divided into North and South parts. In the South, people live a peaceful life, while conflicts are going on in the North. For Yoriko, a nurse in the North, her sole consolation is to visit where she can access her late daughter’s lifetime information. One day, Yoriko is abducted, but she learns that dead individual’s total memories are preserved as in the South,a nd that her daughter is still alive in that form.
1726, Sanchu, Okayama Prefecture: farmers negotiate with the feudal domain in order to seek exemption from rising taxes. Infighting leads to suppression by the samurai class, and the farmers band together for battle. It’s a moment of injustice, setting the stage for bravery and sacrifice. However those daring characters remain largely offscreen in Juichiro Yamasaki’s brilliant film. Instead, the cowardly protagonist Jihei (Naohisa Nakagaki) faces a crisis of the risks of rebellion and its aftermath that resonates with our contemporary moment. In this rare independent jidaigeki, Kenta Tawara’s beautiful digital B&W photography channels and refigures luminaries of classical Japanese cinema, boasting rapturous animated sequences by Tomomichi Nakamura and experimental score by Ayako Sasaki.
Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too!" series, which is set after FILE-02.
Sixth file installment in the Kôji Shiraishi mockumentary franchise, "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!".
Yoko
3.11 대지진이 평범한 일본인의 정신과 일상에 어떤 영향을 미쳤는지 알리는 작품. 도쿄의 자그마한 아파트. 이웃해 살고 있는 사에코와 유카코는 대지진 이후 모든 것이 불안하다. 남편에게 이혼을 요구받은 사에코는 딸이 방사능에 노출될까 걱정하고, 유카코 역시 방사능의 두려움 때문에 남편과 이사를 가자고 조른다.
Slit-Mouthed Woman
New mocumentary series from auteur Koji Shiraishi. POV style depiction of a TV crew as they cover the urban legend of "Kuchisake-Onna" or "Slit-Mouthed Woman". Director Kudo (Osako Shigeo), assistant director Ichikawa (Kuboyama Chika) and cameraman Tashiro (Shiraishi) work at a video production company, and are sent amateur footage of a supposed sighting. This leads them down a path of treacherous investigation and inventive experiments.
Kimi
Kimi lives with her boyfriend in a cold northern Japanese village on the Aomori coastline near the nuclear power station where he works. One day he becomes radioactively contaminated and leaves but the girl stays behind with her father.