Akiko Monô

Kazuya is an aimless photographer in Paris who attempts suicide while visiting the city. He goes to see his half-brother Satoshi who lives there, but finds his two roommates instead and they seem to be hiding something.

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.

Anthony, um jovem nascido e criado em Tóquio pelo seu pai americano, um pesquisador bioquímico, sempre se esforçou para manter sua raiva sob controle desde pequeno. Yuriko e seu filho Tom. Porém, Yuriko está sofrendo de uma crise de ansiedade que a impede de sair de casa e faz que tenha pesadelos constantes sobre um terrível destino para seu filho. Quase que como uma premonição, um motorista deliberadamente atropela Tom e Anthony fica possuído pela ira que tentava combater, provocando uma inusitada mudança em seu corpo, transformando-o em um monstro metálico, uma verdadeira máquina de matar.

A young woman escapes from a city in the near future, where people's anger is medically controlled, and drifts away to a lonely island. It is the developer of the emotion-controlling medicine who finds her and marries her. Her memory is erased and she starts an entirely new quiet life as a different person. But an unexpected incident happens; many people get hurt; the truth is revealed; then she falls in love... And this is a comedy after all!

A middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura, disappears. Then, a hired private detective appears and ask Jinno's help to find Kimura.

Abruptamente abandonada pelo namorado, uma jovem americana (Murphy) se vê de repente em Tokyo totalmente perdida e sozinha, em meio a uma cultura completamente diferente da sua. Tentando reorganizar a sua vida, Abby de uma hora para outra se percebe frequentando o restaurante de ramen típico de seu bairro; depois de observar os mágicos efeitos que a comida do restaurante tinha sobre os seus clientes, Abby se convence de que o seu destino é se tornar uma chefe de cozinha especializada em Ramen. Ela consegue convencer o chefe japonês tirano e temperamental de onde ela trabalha a ensiná-la a arte de se fazer um bom ramen. Apesar do péssimo relacionamento entre os dois, ambos descobrem juntos o ingrediente mais importante de todos; cozinhar com amor.

Based on the comic book by Marie Abiko.

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.

The film is told in three acts, beginning with a historical background of Japan's student movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, mostly using archive footage and a narrator. The second act follows the formation of the group to their mountain training camps in the southern Japanese Alps. It emphasizes the dogmatic (and eventually hypocritical) bullying of the group by Mori and Nagata, with 12 members being killed for infractions as small as improperly cleaning a gun, wearing make-up, and kissing. The third act shows the splitting up of the group after two members run off. It follows one group of five members to Karuizawa and a hostage-taking and police standoff known as the Asama-Sansō incident.

Kamei mixes humour, drama and, in this occasion, bits of horror to visualize the physical transformation in yôkai that the three main actresses undergo. Mihiro Iwasaki (Anri Ban) is a model extremely preoccupied by how others look at and think of her. Then, her nails start growing disproportionately until they become killing weapons. Michiko Yamane (Mariko Miyamitsu) is an unsociable university student and part-time worker in her early twenties only crazy for a hobby. At night she becomes a rokurokubi (female yokai with an extremely long and flexible neck). Finally, Mana Saeki (Haruki Ichikawa) is a last year junior high school student with a very bad character and very distrustful of all her friends, who metamorphoses into a nopperabo (yokai without face).

Bob Harris (Bill Murray) é uma estrela de cinema, que está em Tóquio para fazer um comercial de uísque. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), por sua vez, está na cidade acompanhando seu marido, um fotógrafo workaholic (Giovanni Ribisi) que a deixa sozinha o tempo todo. Sofrendo com o horário, Bob e Charlotte não conseguem dormir. Eles se encontram, por acaso, no bar de um hotel de luxo, e em pouco tempo tornam-se grandes amigos. Resolvem então partir pela cidade juntos. A eles junta-se uma jovem atriz chamada Kelly (Anna Faris), com quem vão viver algumas aventuras pela cidade de Tóquio.

A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends get way in over their heads when they inadvertently lose a stash of drugs they're meant to deal to their friends.

Omnibus of six short films: Return; Ken-do star; Hana to oji-san; Adagietto Sehr, langsam; Nakayoki koto wa yoki koto ka na; Slow is Beautiful. Third installment of "SF" series produced by Hiroyuki Nakano.

Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film’s obnoxious ham of a star.

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.