Fukumi Kuroda

Anthology of three stories about the bond between fathers and sons

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

During the 1980 Gwangju uprising in South Korea, a Korean man and a second-generation Korean-Japanese woman meet during the student activist movement. Under the chaos of the time the man and woman fall in love, but the woman disappears. 30 years later, the woman keeps her past a secret and worries that her daughter Mie Matsuki (Rina Uchiyama) may pursue her Korean roots. One day, Mie who already has a fine boyfriend, introduces her mother to a Korean man named Yoo Jung-Bae (Kim Eung-Soo). Yoo Jung-Bae is the man that her mother fell in love with 30 years ago during the Gwangju uprising. During his college days, Yoo Jung-Bae was the leader of the student activist movement. Now he is transferred to an investment company in Tokyo. Mie works at the same investment company. Feeling a bond with Mie, Yoo Jung-Bae walks the streets of Tokyo with Mie every weekend and begins to learn about each other.

데이코(히로스에 료코)는 맞선으로 만난 겐이치(니시지마 히데토시)의 침착하고 정중한 모습에 단번에 호감을 느끼고 서둘러 결혼식을 올리지만 남편 겐이치는 신혼 생활을 만끽할 새도 없이 이전 근무지인 가나자와로 출장을 떠난다. 일주일 후 돌아오기로 한 남편이 끝내 돌아오지 않자 남편에 대해 아무것도 아는 것이 없던 데이코는 무작정 그를 찾아 가나자와로 향한다. 남편의 직장 동료와 거래처 사장 부인인 사치코(나카타니 미키)의 도움을 받으며 남편 행방을 수소문 해보지만 연이어 의문의 연쇄 살인 사건이 발생한다. 희생자는 모두 남편과 관련된 인물들로 밝혀지면서 파고들수록 점점 위험한 진실과 마주하게 되는데…

The sudden death of a journalist stirs up young editor Noriko's curiosity. While investigating the case, Noriko uncovers the dark secrets hidden behind the journalist's death and its relationship to a popular female novelist.

A young girl with leukemia travels a pilgrimage by skateboard.

니키마는 중학교 입학 시험을 앞둔 딸을 위해 호숫가에 있는 사교육 시설에 들어간다. 세 아이와 그들의 부모는 몇달 동안 시험공부에 몰두하거나 뒷바라지를 하게 될 것이다. 그러나 첫날밤, 니키마를 찾아온 그의 애인이 니키마의 아내와 다투다가 오두막에서 살해당한다. 시체를 앞에 둔 부모는 아이들 공부에 방해가 되지 않도록 입을 다물고 증거를 없애기로 한다.

Magazine reporter Saeko Kawamura receives a message on her answering machine from her friend Yuka asking for help... when Saeko goes to Takamatsu in Shikoku to find Yuka, she runs into journalist Ogata!

Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior high school reunion.

The Rinkaiji family, by all appearances, is a well-to-do Japanese family. The father, Nariyuki, works in an elite corporation, which gives his wife Yoshiko status in their suburban neighborhood. But the daughter Sugina, who herself has secretly stopped going to school because she is being bullied. One day, they discover that Nariyuki has quit his job. As Nariyuki decides to find a new job along with Sugina, Yoshiko, a firm believer in a life based on the company, soon finds her world falling apart.

A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains

An archery club on retreat in Hokkaido is forced to rescue their teacher who is kidnapped.

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the men who employ her, it satirizes corruption and the influence of money in Japanese politics.

A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.

This film depicts from the inside the murderous intent of a street thug who attacks a passing pregnant woman. One day, after cutting a maggot to death, the man's previously dormant madness overflows like a dam and floods him with the next carnage. A maggot, a cockroach, a small dog and a pregnant woman. The film uses black-and-white and colour to depict the mental state of the protagonist as he slowly builds up to the murder. In the last scene, the inner world of the man is symbolically expressed, and the urgency with which he searches for an answer is overwhelming. This is a highly accomplished film, both visually and thematically.

트럭운전수 고로와 그의 조수는 라면이야기를 하다 잠시 트럭을 세우고 라면집으로 들어간다. 그곳은 바로 담뽀뽀가 혼자 꾸려가는 라면집 '라이라이'다. 담뽀뽀는 물이 끓지도 않는데 면을 집어넣고 라면을 끓이고, 적당히 먹고 일어서려던 고로는 담뽀뽀를 연모하는 패거리들과 싸움이 붙는다. 그것이 인연이 되어 담뽀뽀는 고로에게 라면 스승이 되어달라고 간청하고 고로는 담뽀뽀를 도와주기로 한다. 이들은 아침마다 운동을 해 체력을 키우기도 하고, 라면집을 순회하며 미각을 강화시키는 것은 물론, 경영전략을 익히기도 한다. 면발을 연구하기 위해 쓰레기통을 뒤지고, 몰래 남의 라면 국물 비법을 훔쳐보기도 하는 등 갖은 노력끝에 담뽀뽀는 점점 자신만의 라면을 만들어 가는데...

After a Space Beast throws them off Shuttle Base, the Changeman scramble to get their ship back as Sayaka tries to protect it from the inside.

바 호스테스의 시선으로 전후 일본 사회의 현실을 그린 작품.