Tenmasou is a long-established inn atop a mountain overlooking the sea, in a town called Mitsuse that exists between heaven and earth. The inn is run by Nozomi Tenma, the proprietress. Her younger sister Kanae works as a dolphin trainer. Their mother Keiko is the inn's elder proprietress, who is still resentful of her ex-husband that deserted his wife and family.
Shizuki Kazuha
They'll take back your uncool heart to protect peace! One day cool director Piyoshi Kurosawa offers Phantomirage a sparkling big role! That's right, if this is the case, let's make everyone's heart flutter through the movie! However, Reverse Police's SakaSama found him! The director who is busy with the shoot is turned into an Ikenaier! With that, the movie will no longer be cool!
Sachiko Nakazawa
Hitomi Takagi (Fumika Shimizu) and Akako Honda (Rena Matsui) are members of comedy duo “Akako to Hitomi.” The created the comedy duo about 5 years ago, but they are still not very popular. Everyday, they perform manzai to a regular audience in a corner of a small theater. One day, Hitomi and Akako catch a middle school student trying to steal Hitomi’s bicycle. Since then, their fate as a female comedy duo begins to change.
Ellie and Mako, two delivery sisters, solve various problems from customers! Mako, a newcomer, is bewildered, troubled, and hits a wall as a delivery sister for the first time, but with the help of Ellie, her senior, she gradually grows up.
Mashiro Shibutani and her family live in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture. She spends her days by tending to her father’s bicycle store and taking care of her pet dog. She has a minor mental disability, but it doesn't affect her daily life. One day, she visits a shrine for her older brother's wedding. There, she meets photographer Keiichi Yui who came from Tokyo. Mashiro Shibutani accidentally presses the shutter button on Keiichi’s camera, which he left with her for a short while. Keiichi is fascinated by the pictures which Mashiro took on accident. Because of this, they get closer.
Woman
Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and adoring pet for an aging writer seeking greatness. Things quickly get complicated for the odd couple, however, when the writer's deceased former student/lover enters the picture as a ghost and helps Akako realize her own desires, activating her agency and frustrating the one-sided male fantasy the writer is so keen to continue.
Ken, an AD at an infomercial company, and their program host, Tada, are both suddenly caught up in pro wrestling started by their company president, Sakaguchi. To save the fate of his company, Sakaguchi decides to start a new program, combining pro wrestling and infomercials as he sees something special in Ken's wrestling... Aoi, a coworker and Ken's girlfriend, become troubled by not being able to accept Ken's excitement over his wrestling.
Nana
In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to terms with their own impending deaths, and the fragile absurdity of life.
Haruko
A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" based on a sentence from a badly translated novel by a quack translator. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together. Thirty-seven years go by, and the song strikes a comet and saves the Earth from total destruction.
According to an urban legend, a girl named Hikiko Mori was taunted and bullied relentlessly by her classmates, eventually resulting in her accidental death. Holding a grudge against all bullies, her spirit now haunts her former school, slowly gathering the strength to exact vengeance on the living. A group of frightened school girls decide to investigate the rumors further and what they find convinces them that they have to stop the spirit of Hikiko-san before it’s too late
Get a double dose of terror with this Japanese horror compilation. In House of Bugs, an unfaithful husband believes his cheating wife is no longer human. But it's unclear whether he's right or he's slowly losing his mind. In Diet, an overweight woman is dumped by her lover. Determined to win him back, she starves herself down to the perfect size. But when she sees her boyfriend again, she's filled with a hunger that won't be denied.
(segment "Musume Gokoro")
Based on four early novellas by Noble Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, this omnibus of four short films are by emerging directors from the second graduating class of the new Graduate School of Film and New Media at Japan’s top art school, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), where famed directors Takeshi Kitano and Kiyoshi Kurosawa teach.
Kyohiko Saketome is an ordinary guy who dreams of becoming a famous guitarist some day. That plan gets turned upside-down when he meets Jaguar (Jun Kaname), a recorder enthusiast who thinks flutes are the most rocking instruments on the planet. Between his flute salesman dad and Jaguar’s overbearing presence Saketome has no choice but to get wrapped up in a non-stop barrage of flute-inspired mayhem.
Sae
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide. Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki, who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.
Yumiko
The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the painter and Yuji – the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom - being able to do what they want. In the process of pursuing their dream they learn firsthand that however ideal it may seem, its not as easy as they think.
Kondo
Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.
A diver on the university team must decide which of her two childhood friends she loves, and they're both on the swim team. High school diver Ami (Masami Nagasawa) and swimmer Keisuke (Mokomichi Hayami) don't exactly get along. Their parents run rival sweets shops and Ami is long-time friends, and maybe more, with Keisuke's freestyle rival Hiroki (Tsuyoshi Abe). Over time, however, hostile words give way to hesitant attraction, leaving Ami torn between Keisuke and Hiroki. With the national championship coming up, the young swimmers are competing for more than the title, but also their hearts.
Fumie Hayashida
Four Japanese girls, 3 totally inept at the sport, come together to form a curling team in Northern Japan. The town is famous for scallops and curling, and peoples' status in this little fishing village is based on their curling abilities. The girls do little, until a seemingly inept coach teaches them about the game, and about themselves. In the end, they pull it all together to become an adequate team. In the process, they discover the true meaning of friendship, effort, shame and puppy love.
A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and give them a breakdown of the local rules; most important: do not go outside when the island's siren starts wailing.
Teenage Mitsuko
Прикованная к инвалидному креслу Таеко — успешный автор эротических романов, живущая в роскошной квартире, на нее работает несколько молодых редакторов и ассистентов. Она пишет зловещий рассказ о кровосмесительном и жестоком любовном треугольнике (отец, мать и дочь). Новый молодой редактор, Юджи, начинает изучать ее и неожиданно обнаруживает, что Таеко только симулирует свою инвалидность. Что же она скрывает?
Okazaki
Синго, популярный ведущий радио-шоу, вынужден временно вести передачу из студии № 6, которая была заброшена с тех пор, как давно в ней покончил с собой другой ди-джей. Внезапно, Синго начинает получать странные звонки, в которых голос из трубки снова и снова шепчет ему «Лжец». Это чья-то шутка, кто-то выяснил правду о зловещем прошлом, или проклятье Студии 6 снова вырвалось на свободу? В этой студии, за все грехи придется платить.
Kawahime
Во время праздника всех святых в японской школе десятилетнего мальчика Такаши выбирают Великим Всадником Кирина. Но одноклассники смеются над ним и считают трусом и слабаком. Чтобы доказать, что он не трус, он во время летних каникул должен подняться на Великую Гору Гоблинов, где, как повествуют древние легенды, обитают духи, и достать легендарный меч… В это время по всей Японии начинают пропадать дети, ужасные монстры нападают на людей. Все это происки злых духов, ужасных настолько, насколько только может себе представить человек. Начиная свое путешествие, Такаши и представить не мог, с кем ему придется столкнуться лицом к лицу и какую схватку предстоит выдержать. Одним словом, каникулы обещают ему много опасных сюрпризов!
Yuko Suzuki
A bunch of happy students enjoying themselves at a Christmas party until a sadistic Santa Claus comes and interrupts the festivities. Spruce Green becomes blood red when the plot is different from the naughty children they please.
