Kôji Kozumi

Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.

Американец Артур отправляется в печально известный по всему миру и реально существующий «лес самоубийц», чтобы покончить с собой у подножия горы Фудзи. Артур уже готов на последний шаг, но тут он встречает японца, который потерялся в лесу после неудачной попытки свести счеты с жизнью. Только выбраться из леса намного сложнее, чем попасть в него, и двое мужчин отправляются в непростое, полное рефлексий путешествие по «морю деревьев», чтобы найти выход — но уже не из жизни, а из леса. Дорогу домой.

High school student Aya Tsukimori becomes cursed and is unable to leave her school dormitory. Meanwhile, many students begin reporting ghost sightings at the school, while others go missing and are later discovered to have drowned mysteriously. Soon, Aya attempts to communicate with fellow student Michi Kazato, who begins investigating the disappearances of her friends.

Буддийский монах Дзёнэн служит в храме Рюундзи, расположенном в маленьком городке на северо-востоке Японии. В прошлом он мечтал стать рок-музыкантом, но утратил смысл жизни и впал в депрессию. Он даже пытался покончить с собой, прежде чем стал монахом. Внезапно его опять охватывает идущее из глубины души желание быть музыкантом. Что если его жизненное призвание – музыка, а не религия?

Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores. Her father is always in a stubborn rage, her mother is always trying to calm things down. However, Nonko’s married sister, who already has a daughter, scathingly says of Nonko, “It’s all over for her.”

Suzuki Sora is a cheerful country girl from the small town of Bie. She made a promise to her father, and following this promise applies and is accepted for a magic intership in Tokyo, where she will face the life in a big city. While training to get better with her magic, she meets a mysterious boy also practicing to become a mage. While he can not use magic that well and he seems distant and cold at first, Sora’s fate intertwines with his and the two are thrown together, learning a lot of new things about life and each other.

Судзуко всего двадцать один год, а она уже успела хлебнуть горя и разочароваться в людях. Она отправляется в путешествие, дав себе зарок – оставаться в каждом городе лишь до тех пор, пока не накопит миллион иен. Судьба забрасывает ее на приморский курорт, на персиковую плантацию в горах. Повсюду она избегает близких отношений и, достигнув своей цели, отправляется к новому назначению. Устроившись на работу в цветочный магазин в пригороде Токио, она сходится с подрабатывающим там студентом Накадзимой. Это любовь с первого взгляда, но Судзуко не готова отказаться от своего решения – уехать, как только она заработает миллион иен…

Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after, the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.

In the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executioners are permitted to kill criminals by the requests from their victims. People who are to be executed are notified of the execution time and date in advance and they are allowed to have their own guard.

Aoi Kuruma (A Blue Automobile) focuses on such a character - a part-time DJ and record-store employee named Richio (Arata). With his spiky yellow hair, wrap-around shades and pale mask of a face, Richio would seem to be an icy moon circling the distant planet of his own regard. But as Okuhara shows us from the first scene, Richio has been traumatized by a boyhood horror - and still bears the physical scars on one eye, the emotional scars in dreams and visions he can neither escape nor explain away. The sunglasses and mask are there for a reason, the pain and rage are real. At the same time, he has a straightforwardness that verges on the cruel - but this is also one of his most appealing qualities.

There has been a surge in the number of people killing themselves; a mysterious DVD is found on the bodies of the victims... Nozomi falls under the spell of a deadly cult. Yousuke, the policeman she is dating, soon realizes that the cult has something to do with the DVD. Then one day all trace of the group disappear--along with Nozomi.