Setchin Kawaya

The semi-autobiographical story of a underground comedian in Tokyo, with a cast that features acts performing in the underground circuit today.

Um vigarista e uma suposta equipe de filmagem se forçam a entrar na vida de duas jovens com profundas cicatrizes. Mas nada é o que parece.

Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a housing project in the suburbs of Osaka. However Hinako (Naomi Fujiyama) and Seiji (Ittoku Kishibe) couldn't care less. Having moved in just six months ago after the closure of their herbal medicine shop, the old couple is reluctantly putting their life back together. But when Seiji disappears, the apartment rumor mill churns: divorce, murder, dismemberment? As the story spins out of control, and a mysterious man with a parasol puts in a tall order of natural remedies, the truth turns out to be even more fantastic than gossip. Ranging from incisive comedy of errors to absurdist adventure to moving late life romance, "The Projects" is one of the biggest surprises of the year.

Aos quinze anos, Sumida (Shota Sometani) é deixado sozinho para cuidas dos negócios da família e afastar as crises de violência do seu pai. Sumida vê seu sonho simples para um futuro comum evaporar rápido diante de seus olhos. Quem compartilha da mesma humildade é sua colega de classe Keiko Shazawa (Fumi Nikaidou), que também passa a ter uma grande paixão por ele, apesar de Sumida parecer profundamente irritado com sua presença.

A história gira em torno de Yu, um garoto cujo pai é um católico obcecado por pecados e confissões. O único jeito de Yu chamar a atenção de seu pai é se tornando um pecador, e assim ele se torna um especialista em tirar fotos por debaixo da saia de mulheres. Desse modo ele conhece Yoko, uma menina que sofrera abuso do pai, por quem se apaixona...

Fujio e Mitsuo, dois perdedores, que trabalham numa fábrica de extintores e passam os dias discutindo e desperdiçando tempo. A dupla sonha em se tornar campeã em jiu-jitsu e passam muito tempo treinando. Um dia acabam matando seu chefe por engano e o enterram numa montanha que mal sabem ser um depósito de lixo tóxico onde são desovadas hordas de zumbis comedores de carne.

Sex Machine tells of the affable but simple Hiroshi, who during one sweltering summer in a small, parochial town, moves in with his girlfriend, Haruka. Their lovemaking is as athletic as it is bizarre but a dark storm comes looming when Haruka's ex boyfriend comes knocking at the door.

On her 18th birthday, Ami Nonomura wants to meet her father and brother who live far away. While searching for her brother's house, she is attacked by a thief, but is helped by Hiroshi Tazaki. They fall in love but discover that they are siblings.

Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss.

Yuki is a sought-after hooker, who also has a special ability: she can see ghosts! Yuki is very distraught by the ghost images, and it starts affecting her performance at work. One of the ghosts makes an attempt to communicate with her and ask her for help. Yuki tries to find out what he's attempting to say and assist him, with the hopes that this will allow her to stop being troubled by what she sees.

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.

A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?

Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.

Pink film by Hiroyoshi Takishima.

O detetive Nishi tem sua vida abalada após descobrir que sua mulher tem uma doença terminal; seu parceiro é baleado e ficará para sempre em uma cadeira de rodas. O policial começa a se sentir responsável pelo sofrimento dos dois e decide sair da polícia e pegar um grande empréstimo com a máfia para dar um pouco de conforto aos que estão à sua volta. Para pagar o empréstimo, Nishi arquitetará um plano que mudará o curso de sua vida.

Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families. This is the first of Kurosawa's films to pay homage to 1970s American gunslingers like Dirty Harry and reinvent them for modern Tokyo.