Lighting Design
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.
Gaffer
Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the forest.
Gaffer
Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.
Gaffer
A washed-up former punk rocker is frustrated by his work at his grandmother's hot spring. He returns to Tokyo and finds himself entangled in a web of crime.
Lighting Director
After attending the funeral of Yu, a childhood friend, Toru gets drunk and misses the last train home. He saves a girl, Nao, after hearing her jump into the river, and finds that she was also a friend of Yu. Together, they wander the streets until morning.
Gaffer
Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine is upset when Tetsuro brings his 8 year old son Shun to live with them, while his ex-wife recovers from a car accident.
Lighting Technician
С того дня, как простой офисный служащий Нидзима нашёл труп своей 10-летней дочери, прошло долгих шесть лет... Вместе с женой они пробовали преодолеть боль утраты, сохраняя детскую комнату нетронутой и делая вид, что дочь жива... Жене казалось, что всё течёт складно, однако Нидзима в душе жаждал мести... После шести лет тайных поисков, ему наконец удаётся найти парня, который мог быть причастен к убийству его дочери. Сперва Нидзима надеется легко добиться от него раскаяния, но в конце концов пытками доводит парня до смерти...
Lighting Technician
Miyashita, a former low-level yakuza member, has tracked down and kidnapped his daughter's murderer with help of his friend Nijima. But others are soon implicated in the death, leading the pair further down a violent path of revenge.
Lighting Technician
The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.
Lighting Director
Выйдя из тюрьмы, якудза Ясуо узнаёт от бывшего соратника, что его босс убит, а банда прекратила существование. Однако Ясуо не верит товарищу и отправляется на поиски подставившего его босса, предварительно поручив старому знакомому Кэндзи заботиться о своей психически неполноценной сестре Юри. Однако, Кэндзи не всегда так спокоен и уравновешен, как кажется на первый взгляд.
Lighting Technician
The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But all is not well: the house is infested by termites and the family starts cracking up: Son Masaki is studying so obsessively for his exams that he's losing his mind; daughter Erika is oblivious of all but her forthcoming record company audition, grandfather Yasukuni starts getting World War II flashbacks and father Katsuhiko is so worried about his family's "sickness" that he thinks can only be cured by group suicide.
Lighting Technician
Как это, учиться на врача? Группа студентов выпускного курса все ближе подступает к точке завершения своей учебы. Им предстоит не только начать лечить людей, но и взять на себя ответственность за свою собственную жизнь. В юности смерть так далека, но она подкрадывается все ближе и ближе.
