Kunitoshi Manda

Hiroshi, who runs a mental clinic, has never recovered from the shock of his wife’s suicide. One day, Ayako, a mysterious patient comes to his clinic….

Hiroshi, who runs a mental clinic, has never recovered from the shock of his wife’s suicide. One day, Ayako, a mysterious patient comes to his clinic….

A short film by Kunitoshi Manda

A short film by Kunitoshi Manda

TAKASHI Hasegawa is conducting unauthorized research on how to synchronize brainwaves of humans and animals. One day, he thinks he may be able to cure his mother with dementia in this way.

Kyoko feels unsatisfied with her ordinary days although she has a job and a boyfriend. One day, she meets Nishimori, a man with vacant "dog" eyes. This mysterious encounter is the beginning of her new life as Nishimori's dog. In a closed house, they get deeply absorbed in the strange relationship as "a dog" and "its owner"

Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to go in search of it.

One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul. Despite the worries of the killer's lawyer, she approaches the killer and the two start corresponding.

One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul. Despite the worries of the killer's lawyer, she approaches the killer and the two start corresponding.

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.

An exquisite-corpse-style narrative constructed by Kunitoshi Manda and his film students, beginning from a bank robbery and leading to a distortion of the space-time-continuum.

A modern Japanese family loses their youngest son in a tragedy. The mother, Misako, plunges into depression and the oldest son Akira starts blaming himself for the death of his brother.

A modern Japanese family loses their youngest son in a tragedy. The mother, Misako, plunges into depression and the oldest son Akira starts blaming himself for the death of his brother.

Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko's new lover is fascinated by Eiji's power and social status... A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters "unloved".

Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko's new lover is fascinated by Eiji's power and social status... A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters "unloved".

Hiroshi's mother asks him to let his younger brother Jun live with him when she can't support him any longer. However, Jun is rebellious towards Hiroshi, and Hiroshi gets into further trouble when he loses his job.

Hiroshi's mother asks him to let his younger brother Jun live with him when she can't support him any longer. However, Jun is rebellious towards Hiroshi, and Hiroshi gets into further trouble when he loses his job.

The story of a young woman working in a bar, trying to get men to spend extra on her services.

In the year 2046, overpopulation and exhaustion of resources has forced humanity to travel into space. A colony is established on Mars. This film is about what happens when one cargo ship traveling between Mars and Earth collides with an asteroid.

In the year 2046, overpopulation and exhaustion of resources has forced humanity to travel into space. A colony is established on Mars. This film is about what happens when one cargo ship traveling between Mars and Earth collides with an asteroid.

A pregnant woman is told by her doctor that she should maintain a calm attitude throughout her pregnancy for the health of her baby. When a man tries to rob her house in the middle of the night, she has to vanquish him without losing her calm attitude.

A pregnant woman is told by her doctor that she should maintain a calm attitude throughout her pregnancy for the health of her baby. When a man tries to rob her house in the middle of the night, she has to vanquish him without losing her calm attitude.

An old man who died and entered paradise returns to the world of the living, creating terror and confusion.

A short film based on a synopsis of Straub-Huillet's "Class Relations" that director Kunitoshi Manda made before seeing the film.

A short film based on a synopsis of Straub-Huillet's "Class Relations" that director Kunitoshi Manda made before seeing the film.

A country girl visits a college in Tokyo in search of her high school band heartthrob. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus--a constantly horny coed, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her Mr. Yoshioka who still sings but has become an elusive campus nobody. Other students also come in and out, engaged in a rather bored campus life-- flirting, having sex, joining campus group activities, running around posing as revolutionaries.

A Japanese short film

Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.

At the beginning of the film, we are presented with an ordinary story. It is the story of a student organization's internal struggle. The story begins with the protagonist taking a briefcase and the organization taking it back, along with his woman. The man who brings back the bag faces the woman. The room is somehow symmetrical. The room is somehow left-right symmetrical, with a low angle and fixed screen as in the Ozu style.

At the beginning of the film, we are presented with an ordinary story. It is the story of a student organization's internal struggle. The story begins with the protagonist taking a briefcase and the organization taking it back, along with his woman. The man who brings back the bag faces the woman. The room is somehow symmetrical. The room is somehow left-right symmetrical, with a low angle and fixed screen as in the Ozu style.