Maki Nishiyama
Рождение : 1984-07-31, Kyoto, Japan
1940 год. Юсаку управляет торговой компанией в Кобе. Он женат на Сатоко. Находясь в командировке в Маньчжурии, Юсаку узнает страшную государственную тайну. Чтобы восстановить справедливость, он решает сообщить всему миру о своем открытии. Сатоко верит Юсаку, которого теперь обвиняют в предательстве, и клянется быть с ним независимо от последствий.
A married Japanese man living in the country agrees to meet with an ex-lover in Tokyo, leading him to question his life choices.
Tormented and bullied people can access a special website, run by a Hell Girl who will enable them to take revenge on their torturers. The price for such a service is only that the person must join their torturer in damnation.
Друзья детства Нитобэ и Сакамото работают в капсульном отеле. Нитобэ увлекается философией и ракообразными. Сакамото одержим идеей самоубийства. В отеле появляются разные постояльцы, включая женщину из Финляндии, потерявшую ребёнка, беженку, учёного, исследующего дафний. Их жизни никак не пересекаются. Они существуют, но не взаимодействуют, как пеналы в капсульном отеле. Темы жизни и смерти исследуются через мозаичную картину судеб персонажей.
Eriko
When fourteen-year-old Yo is hospitalized she gradually develops feelings for Yayoi who is a nurse tending her. However, Yayoi leaves the nursing profession in favour of prostitution. Yo is disappointed, but turns to the older woman after she is the subject of unrequited love from her mother's man. The two grow closer and Yo is about to find out what motivates Yayoi.
Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When the local gang has its treasured cauldron stolen, a war to find it begins involving the thugs, a 12 years old kid, a prostitute and a pickpocket, including the giant cauldron used to feed the destitute: The symbol of Kamagasaki.
21-летняя Асако встречается со свободолюбивым молодым человеком Баку. У них вроде бы всё хорошо, но однажды тот неожиданно исчезает. Через 2 года, уже в Токио, девушка встречает парня точь-в-точь похожего на её бывшего бойфренда. Только зовут его Рёхэй, работает он на обычной работе и обладает спокойным характером. Асако влюбляется в нового знакомого.
Japanese society is without ideals - Two men and one woman, who grew up in a religious organization in , meet again and question their own ideals.
Aki Shimabukuro
Keita Shimabukuro, a younger brother of Aki Shimabukuro who sells her body for a living, crashes in his sister's place. An evil plot by Sachi, the daughter of the leader of the Kimura gang, ends up with Keita dumped into a river. His body is washed ashore in heaven, where he sees his father Mitsuo, with whom he has lost touch for many years. By an unexpected twist of fate, Keita is resurrected but in the body of his sister. Now they have to share the same body with each other.
Naomi (Makoto Nishiyama), who returned to a small town because her adoptive father was about to die, met her brother-in-law, Hiroyuki (Hideyuki Kamada), again. Both of them have a history of becoming a man and woman, and Naomi feels an uncontrollable feeling for Hiroyuki. After that, she reunited with her childhood friend Yoshio (Yuya Matsuura) who also returned to the town....
Прошлоё наёмного убийцы Тадаси Усобуки покрыто пеленой мрака – такой же чёрной, как его костюм. Заказы от полных ненависти клиентов он выполняет безукоризненно, профессиональный почерк киллера – сила внушения, благодаря которой убийство практически неотличимо от самоубийства.
The 4th volume of Eros Suspense that depicts the terrible living hell that unfolds in a secret cell. Noriko, an underground idol involved in a conspiracy, is imprisoned in an isolated prison "Area ∞". It is a terrifying cell where the worst rape murderer, Yoshida 3 brothers, has been imprisoned...
Fuko
Nagano has had a sickness of the heart for 40 years and has been hospitalized at the mental hospital in Fukushima. However, during the evacuation when the Great East Japan Earthquake hit on March 11, 2011, knowing that he’s already completely healed, he makes his way back out to into the world. Having been hospitalized from when he was in his teens until his fifties, his story is like that of Urashima Taro, the Japanese fisherman who went beneath the sea as a young man and returned to an unfamiliar world. However, his heart from long ago is for the first time full of feelings to meet the woman he loved. Before long, Nagano learns that the woman has taken refuge in Tokyo and lives with her son and his wife, and sets out on a bike headed for Tokyo.
A piano teacher struggles with the dark legacy of his family: he once witnessed his father beating a man to death. Fearing a genetic inclination for violence he struggles to stay sane when he is pulled down the dark path of an illegal firm that sells revenge for hire.
2034, Japan is divided into North and South parts. In the South, people live a peaceful life, while conflicts are going on in the North. For Yoriko, a nurse in the North, her sole consolation is to visit where she can access her late daughter’s lifetime information. One day, Yoriko is abducted, but she learns that dead individual’s total memories are preserved as in the South,a nd that her daughter is still alive in that form.
1726, Sanchu, Okayama Prefecture: farmers negotiate with the feudal domain in order to seek exemption from rising taxes. Infighting leads to suppression by the samurai class, and the farmers band together for battle. It’s a moment of injustice, setting the stage for bravery and sacrifice. However those daring characters remain largely offscreen in Juichiro Yamasaki’s brilliant film. Instead, the cowardly protagonist Jihei (Naohisa Nakagaki) faces a crisis of the risks of rebellion and its aftermath that resonates with our contemporary moment. In this rare independent jidaigeki, Kenta Tawara’s beautiful digital B&W photography channels and refigures luminaries of classical Japanese cinema, boasting rapturous animated sequences by Tomomichi Nakamura and experimental score by Ayako Sasaki.
Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too!" series, which is set after FILE-02.
Sixth file installment in the Kôji Shiraishi mockumentary franchise, "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!".
Yoko
Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who is in a divorce, is worried that her daughter is exposed to radiation. Yukako is also afraid of radiation and tries to convince her husband to move. The two become friends after Yukako tries to save Saeko after a suicide attempt.
Slit-Mouthed Woman
New mocumentary series from auteur Koji Shiraishi. POV style depiction of a TV crew as they cover the urban legend of "Kuchisake-Onna" or "Slit-Mouthed Woman". Director Kudo (Osako Shigeo), assistant director Ichikawa (Kuboyama Chika) and cameraman Tashiro (Shiraishi) work at a video production company, and are sent amateur footage of a supposed sighting. This leads them down a path of treacherous investigation and inventive experiments.
Kimi
Kimi lives with her boyfriend in a cold northern Japanese village on the Aomori coastline near the nuclear power station where he works. One day he becomes radioactively contaminated and leaves but the girl stays behind with her father.