Hidetoshi Shinomiya

Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its refugee-status. Life becomes unpredictable and their days in Japan seem numbered. A haunting story about the balancing act of finding your place in the world.

Dois anos após a morte de sua esposa, Yusuke Kafuku recebe uma oferta para dirigir uma peça num festival de teatro em Hiroshima. Lá, ele conhece Misaki, uma jovem reservada, designada para ser sua motorista. Enquanto passam tempo juntos, Kafuku confronta o mistério de sua esposa que o assombra.

The story of a would-be actor, his larger-than-life classmate and their friends. Unfolding their past and present, Sasaki in My Mind looks head-on at adolescent sparkle and the pathos of bygone days.

Pursued by loan sharks, Aoyama is rescued by a mysterious man in orange overalls, and spirited away to “The Town,” where other dropouts hide out from debtors, abusive partners or the police. It’s a perpetual holiday resort where every need is catered to but hidden in it is a sinister conspiracy.

All the people surrounding her refuse to express their feelings and emotional boundaries. The resulting everyday life is characterized by ruthlessness: Even friends reduce each other to their appearance and shamelessly take advantage of each other. Minori runs against this by attacking ignorance whenever she encounters it, whatever the consequences might be.

Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced man comes across a woman during his working day and sparks fly.

As they travel around the country, a singer-songwriter duo's love triangle with their roadie jeopardizes their unannounced farewell tour.

With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults’ lives become intimately entangled over the course of a long summer in Hakodate, Hokkaido.

The story follows Nozaki Haruka, a middle school student who transfers to a new school in a small town because of her father's work. Unfortunately, she becomes a victim of horrific bullying, but since the school will be closing in 2 months after graduation, no one is willing to help her.

Ryutaro Ninomiya, 27 anos, vive uma vida bastante simples. Um dia, ele recebe um telefonema de Yusuke, seu amigo de infância cuja mãe, Ryuko, está morrendo de hepatite C. Apesar de saber por algum tempo que Ryuko estava doente, Ryutaro não a visitou, mas hoje ele decide ir.

Kosuke foi, por algum tempo, um prolífico dramaturgo, mas preferiu abandonar o seu antigo trabalho na cidade, e passar a viver uma vida tranquila nas montanhas. Shiori trabalha como empregado num café, mas usa o seu corpo sexual para manipular o patrão. Basta um encontro casual a meio da tarde para que Shiori, com o seu inesgotável desejo sexual, entrar na vida de Kosuke. Ela envolve-se fisicamente com pessoas em redor do escritor até ele se tornar na sua nova presa.

Depois de assistir a uma gravação de vídeo amaldiçoada, Natsumi tem apenas dois dias antes de ser morta pela entidade demoníaca Sadako. Sua única esperança é colocar Sadako contra Kayako, um espírito ameaçador que habita uma casa mal-assombrada.

Drama clubs from an all boys high school and an all girls high school hold a joint training camp. The schools are set to merge the following year. At the training camp, horrific and unusual events take place. Soon, the students learn that Dorome an old mountain legend is responsible.

Nobuhiro Yamashita shoots the adaption of the City Lights manga by Hiroyuki Ohashi with three members of the Nogizaka46 idol pop band. The story is told on three levels: Documentary-style on-set where we see the film being made and the idols struggling with their roles, the resulting movie which revolves around three girls in a psychic research club discovering a classmate with super powers who turns out to be an alien and a stage adaptation of the film with the same characters.

Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first time in ages. On the way Haji has an accident, and wakes up to find himself transported back to high school with his adult body in tact.

Sone and Utsunomiya are best friends who share the same hobby. When Utsunomiya realizes Sone has become a target of hazing, she offers help, but Sone persistently refuses.

A young couple's lives take a turn for the worse after a mysterious attack on the husband leaves him suffering from some bizarre after effects.

Three stories, depicted in three different styles, unfold in three locations: "Kyoto", a lyrical improvised drama based on documentar y footage following local rappers, which is blended with fiction; "Okinawa", a documentary about intriguing characters who Yamamoto met by chance; and " Tokyo", an otherworldly love story about a man dealing with loss who drifts through life, and a woman who pretends to be his deceased wife.

Having worked in a wide range of fields from children's TV animation scripts to 'pink' films, independent auteur Okishima Isao directs and stars in this documentary. Upon hearing that the walkway along the Tamagawa Aqueduct, one of his favorite spots, was going to be closed to make way for a new road, he gathered his crew to document the scenery. Okishima gives accounts of various painters, writers, and manga artists, as well as his personal take on Saigyo, the traveling poet and Buddhist priest of the late Heian Period.