Tetsu Sawaki

Three storylines interweave in Border Line. Kurosawa (Murakami Jun) finds himself driving a taciturn young man named Matsuda (Sawaki Tetsu) halfway to Hokkaido, after accidentally knocking him off his bike; their fragile bond can last only so long. The housewife Aikawa Misa (Aso Yumi) tries desperately to hold her family together when her husband gets laid off and her son is so frightened of bullies at school that he throws up in the car; she’s reduced to taking a McJob in a convenience store. And Miyaji (Mitsuishi Ken), who collects debts for a yakuza gang, gets into trouble when his partner Kitajima puts personal need above duty.

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

17 year old Tokyo pizza delivery boy Kosuke crashes his bike into photographer Reiko and breaks her expensive camera. He promises to deliver homemade pizza to make up for her broken camera. After discovering that Reiko has moved 1,200 km away to her hometown of Nagasaki things become trickier, but Kosuke decides to fulfill his promise anyways by borrowing a moped from his workplace.

Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious and closeted—but nothing compares to the chaos that arrives when Asako, a troubled woman with a history of psychiatric problems, abortions, and casual sex, asks Katsuhiro to conceive a child with her.

Sachiko vive com a mãe que já tentou suicídio e falhou, após o término com um namorado; o pai já havia abandonado as duas muito tempo antes. Com apenas 12 anos de idade a garota envolveu-se com um professor e o caso foi descoberto; ele fugiu para outra cidade e agora os dois trocam cartas. Agora com treze anos a estudante não consegue mais ir à escola e consegue fazer amizade apenas com pessoas excluídas da sociedade, talvez os únicos que conseguem compreende-la.

Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act of brutality keeps them extremely close together until an older couple occupy the house where their secret was buried.

The story takes place in an unnamed Japanese city, and follows five students at Shinyo Academy as they try to piece together the puzzle of a new drug and recent disappearances among the student populace. While the teachers believe them to only be runaways, the female students whisper among themselves about the urban legend Boogiepop, who is said to be a Shinigami.

Sete anos após a morte de sua esposa, Aoyama, um executivo de uma grande empresa, é convidado para fazer parte da banca de avaliação na audição para selecionar uma atriz. Folheando os currículos com antecedência, sua atenção é capturada por Yamazaki Asami, uma jovem mulher impressionante e com formação de ballet. O intuito real de Aoyama é escolher uma nova esposa, o que ele não sabe são as verdadeiras intenções sanguinárias de Yamazaki. Uma obra de arte do terror.