Shoichi Honda

아버지의 갑작스런 커밍 아웃으로 인해 혼란 스러운 열다섯 소년 긴 어머니의 학대와 폭력에 시달리는 열다섯 소녀 나루미 열다섯 소년, 소녀의 순수하기에 애달픈 사랑 이야기. 자기만의 상처를 안고 있는 서로가 서로에게 끌리게 되고, 그들을 둘러싼 모든 속박으로부터 벗어나고자 한다. 사랑은 아이들에게 희망을 품게 하기도 하지만 상처로 다가오기도 한다.

A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause...

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.

Originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump between 1981 and 1985, -Black Angels- was an action manga about a group of vigilantes delivering justice to evil-doers who had escaped the law. Ochiai will play the primary role as Yukito, the leader of the group. Yajima has been cast as Reira, the captivating heroine of the story.

Kumiko Hoshizaki’s “Akane Sasu Heya” is the story of Maki, a 20-something temp who is sick of her boring job and life in general. The rather bizarre solution she comes up with is to conceive a child behind her boyfriend’s back. Makoto Nagahisa offers the much more impressionistic “Frog.” The story meanders around a bunch of unrelated characters, using experimental techniques like repeated scenes, hallucinatory visuals, blurred shots and disconnected sounds. Lastly, we have “Bouquet Garni,” a much more conventional work from director Junpei Hatano. The plot is centered on a reporter, the relative of a kidnapping victim, and a woman who is obsessed with the case.

1970년대 초반 일본. 만화가 ‘아베 신이치’(미즈하시 켄지)는 여자 친구 ‘미요코 아사가야 기분’(마치다 마리)와 함께 도쿄 아사가야에서 살고 있다. 작가주의적 성향이 강한 아베는 창작에 대한 욕구가 강한 만화가이다. 뮤즈 미요코를 만나면서 그의 작품세계는 깊어져 가고, 미요코를 주인공으로 한 은 만화잡지 ‘가로’에 실리게 된다. 아베는 젊은이들의 사랑에 관한 ‘가장 아름다운 청춘의 시기’를 감각적으로 담아낸다. 그러나 유난히 자신의 은밀한 삶을 사실적으로 그려내던 아베는 곧 창작의 벽에 부딪히게 되지만... 고뇌하는 예술가 아베의 옆에는 언제나 그의 뮤즈인 미요코가 그 옆을 지킨다.

A story of reuniting twin sisters, who were seperated when young. Maiko, who lives in Hachijo Island, organizes a local festival. Just before the festival starts, she leaves the island to look for her sister Seiko in Tokyo.

Masaru, a 23-year-old who has a passive attitude toward life in general, professes himself as a “genius odd-job-man” but is screwing up all of the time. He is freeloading off his girlfriend Kiriko, who works as a tattoo artist. One day, he is offered to do a rather eccentric job from an otaku-looking public employee named Nirasawa, who claims that Masaru’s voice is necessary in activating a giant robot named Land Zeppelin. He goes on straight-faced that the Earth is about to be attacked by Saturnians, and the robot is necessary in the fight against them. At first, Masaru ignores this far-fetched story, but one day he is framed in a dangerous job he takes on together with his friend Kou, and is driven into a tight squeeze. What will happen to Masaru? Does this robot Land Zeppelin really exist?

Four different worlds are connected through the "Baumkuchen Seeds of Happiness." The World of the Kawanobe's - Three brothers, Taro (Mame Yamada), Jiro (Hiroshi Yamamoto), and Hiroto (Shoichi Honda) who is a so-called NEET (short for "Not in Employment, Education, or Training) make up the Kawanobe household. The World of a Bar - Two men (Mame Yamada and Hiroshi Yamamoto) sits in a bar and discusses the Kawanobe brothers' love story. The World of Yumi - Yumi is reading a novel about the characters in the bar. The World of a Novelist - Novelist Masatoshi (Shoichi Honda) is writing a novel about Yumi. In their own worlds, in their own way, each character will find a way to arrive at their happiness.

15-year-old Hatsuko (Higashi Ayu) lives with her elder brother in a humble town house. Their mother died when they were young, and the father disappeared. The brother (Shioya Shun) left high school before graduation to work at a factory, but spends their meager house-keeping money on adult entertainment. Hatsuko, who is poor and has no friends, finds emotional support in Mishima (Sano Kazuma), a boy in her class, who helps her with her study to go to a high school together. However, Hatsuko's brother causes trouble at the factory and gets the sack. Hatsuko gives up her dream of going to high school. In spring, the modest relationship continues between Mishima, now a high school student, and Hatsuko who works at a biscuit factory. One day, Hatsuko's long-gone father reappears. In a drunken frenzy, he sets fire to the house to go and rejoin the mother, leaving Hatsuko without a place to live. Hatsuko leaves the town on her own, drawing strength from the promise of marriage with Mishima.

During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leaving him captured. Exposed to maltreatment in prison, he slowly loses his grip on reality as he is forced to confront his ideological convictions.

This new version of Nagasaki's Yami utsu shinzô (1982) is neither a remake nor a sequel. It is both those things, and at the same time it is also a documentary, a portrait of the consequences of passing time, and an occasionally very funny reflection on what the hell the point is of all this filmmaking business anyway. Shigeru Muroi and Takashi Naito, back then young hopefuls willing to take chances, now among the most established and recognisable actors in Japan, return to play the roles they assumed in the 1982 film, each of their characters having gone their own way. Alongside, another young couple (Honda and the ever-brilliant Eguchi) find themselves in the exact same situation as their older counterparts 25 years earlier. Their paths cross, an opportunity arises: for the elder two to redeem part of their own lives, for the younger couple to find a helping hand in their darkest hour.

러브호텔’에서의 갑작스러운 살인 사건을 시작으로, 같은 시간, 다른 공간에서 동일한 사건들이 일어난다. 어렸을 때부터 살인에 대한 편집증을 갖고 있던 치명적 미모의 소유자 아스카를 중심으로 친구들이 사라지기 시작한다. 그러나 이것은 단지 시작일 뿐, 아스카가 ‘악마’라고 불리는 소녀 카즈미와 사진작가 데츠오, 그리고 형사 유스케를 만나면서 음습한 사건의 실타래는 점점 더 모호해진다. 어둡고 신비스러운 사건으로 묶여져 있는 이 네 명의 인물들이 주술적이고 광적인 의식, 좀비, 살인 그리고 죽음 속으로 엉켜 들어가면서 사건은 미궁에 빠진다.

Kyoko Sawai, a TV reporter, is making a report about an idol singer named Emi Kato. Emi and her staff are preparing the promotion of her next tune "Love Craft". And as spiritual accidents happen around her, Kyoko finds out that the woman who composed the tune died seven years before.