Yu Uemura

A man who gave up on living in despair with society and himself. Mai, a high school girl, is involved in a confinement incident caused by the man. Mai's classmate, Ujiie, who caused a violent incident and lost her whereabouts. Set in a small port town a little far from the city center, a confinement incident triggers the gears of the three characters, depicting the moment when people with difficulties in life take a step forward.

In the summer of 1978, Hiroshi, a high school student, is so inspired by "Star Wars" that he wants to film a giant spaceship himself, so he builds a miniature one with his best friend, Yoshio, and films it with his 8mm movie camera. Terao, a camera shop clerk, suggests turning it into a narration, so he decides to make a short film to be screened at the next school festival and asks his friend Sasaki, a film fan, to help him develop a script. As he learns that his movie camera has the ability to film backwards, he comes up with a story called "Time Reverse", in which aliens attempt to reverse time on Earth in order to redo human evolution. Natsumi, a girl from his classroom, agrees to play the heroine at the last minute, so he can finally start filming it.

A British comedy in Japanese clothes, with central character Ginji at once earnest farm boy and entrepreneurial savant, finding ingenious and entertaining solutions in a timeless tale of business and found family.

A socially-distanced college reunion, an unusual rapport struck between a food delivery man and a patron, a bus-stop encounter, and a blind woman scammed into thinking her brother is sick constitute the stories of Mayu Nakamura’s COVID-era quadriptych—a work that encapsulates the newfound anxieties of loneliness, insecurity and the struggle for connection within the depths of the pandemic lockdown. Tied together by the remarkable performances of actress Nahana, who embodies the various female characters across the film’s differing narratives, Nakamura’s episodic feature delves into the lives of women in COVID-era Japan, finding profundity and human connection amid the unlikely encounters of strangers.

Maika, a pregnant woman, is running along a farm road at night with nothing but her clothes on her back. Her beaten face is discolored, one eye is swollen, and she is bleeding from the edge of her mouth. The headlights of a car approaching from behind frightens Maika, and she loses her balance and falls. Just as she is about to get up, her cell phone rings. It's a call from Masayoshi, her abusive husband. Out of fear, Maika knocks the phone to the ground and breaks it. Slowly, she picks herself up and continues walking down the street at night. She arrives at a love hotel hidden in the suburbs of a provincial city.

A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her, claiming to know her son.

중학교 1학년생 키라와 4인조 패거리는 막 나가는 아이들이다. 어느 날 키라는 이츠키라는 소년을 괴롭히다가 죽음에 이르게 하지만, 형사재판에서 증거 불충분으로 불처분 결정을 받고 풀려난다. 집단 괴롭힘 문제를 정면으로 다루는 의 본격적인 이야기는 이제 시작된다. 키라는 소셜미디어와 유튜버의 표적이 되고 학교는 전학을 권하며 키라의 아버지는 해고까지 당한다. 그리고 6개월이 흘러 키라는 다른 곳에 살게 됐지만 그의 삶은 평정을 찾지 못한다. 키라도 초등학교 때 집단 괴롭힘 피해자였다는 사실이 알려주듯, 이 영화는 끊어지지 않는 집단 괴롭힘의 순환 구조를 보여주는 지옥도에 가깝다.