Mami Nakamura
Рождение : 1979-01-14, Kanagawa, Japan
Street photographer
Hikari's boyfriend is one of those killed in the Akihabara massacre incident. Suffering from the shock of her loss and unable to accept this reality, she cuts herself off from the outside world. She eventually manages to muster enough courage to visit Akihabara, the scene of the incident. There, she encounters many people who are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the incident and are still suffering from the aftereffects.
Self
Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure".
Yu's Mother
О чём мечтает подросток в самом расцвете сил? Конечно же о любви! О чём думает подросток у которого папа после смерти мамы стал священником, и теперь бедному парню нужно признаваться в своих грехах, которых он не совершал?
A gonzo black comedy with six intertwining stories set in the streets of Tokyo about the ongoing battle between the Internet generation and the older generation.
Sakiko
The experiences and relationships of five senior students at a rural high school, during the last year leading to graduation.
Haruko
Shinnosuke and Misawa are joint managers of a Bonsai shop. Suddenly Shinnosuke's childhood friend Haruko turns up. She has split up with her boyfriend and finds herself out on the streets. Shinnosuke starts to like her and really wants to cheer her up, but he can't manage to express his real feelings or stop picking up other women. Misawa is dumbfounded by Shinnosuke's behavior but also has complex feelings of love for his friend.
Sanae Otani
В начале 20-х годов из Кореи в Японию вместе с эмигрантами в поисках лучшей жизни отправляется совсем ещё молодой парень Ким Шунпеи. Но новая земля принимает чужака неласково. Пытаясь сохранить традиции, культуру своей страны, он ожесточается. Под градом жизненных неудач любовь превращается в ненависть. В бессильной ярости Ким Шунпеи ломает жизни своих детей. До глубокой старости, до последнего вздоха он пытается показать им, что значит быть настоящим мужчиной. А они страстно мечтают быть сиротами…
A mentally unstable young woman named Yoshie implores a gifted plastic surgeon (Yukiko Okamoto) to make her beautiful in this disturbing Japanese psychodrama directed by Katsuya Matsumura. Although the operation is successful, Yoshie becomes even more preoccupied with beauty -- and soon draws the doctor into a horrifying world of emotional agony and masochism. The film's supporting cast includes Asuka Kurosawa, Kota Kusano and Miki Asakura.
Five old friends meet again at a school reunion and discuss their painful memories. The friends then run into an old acquaintance who was an exchange student. The exchange student tells the friends about a new drug able to erase memories, but they have to steal it from his factory ...
Rimi Ishikawa
Working long hours in the emergency room, nurse Kana Aoshima befriends musician and frequent hospital patient Shogo Amami. Shogo's therapy visits for his muteness and blindness happen to frequently coincide with Kana's shift, which enables the nurse to get to know the handsome artist well enough to start falling in love with him. Fate intercedes, however, when Shogo is killed after being hit by a car - a development that utterly crushes Kana's will to live. Shogo's spirit is transported to heaven, where it is given the chance to return to Earth to assist Kana through her grieving and to renew her sense of faith in the world - with the only caveat being he cannot reveal his identity to Kana.
Hijiri
A look at the problems two couples, Kohei and Kinuko, and Manabe and Hijiri, have in their relationships, and the solutions they try to devise as a way out.
Shizuka (Mami Nakamura) is a young school teacher. She moves to a small village by the sea, near her own home country. The elementary school she is assigned has only 20 students. But her last assignment was not very successful and she has lost the confidence. One day, a student finds a white ship sailing on the sea, far from the school. They begin an investigation and finally identifies the ship. It's a cruiser called Rainbow Love. 'Why don't we write a letter to the captain?' Shizuka proposes. And everyone gets excited...
Togashi, the leader of Togashi-gumi, boasts enormous power. The leader of the Ryuokai is sent to prison because he distrusts him who controls the town, and a mysterious man who calls himself Takishima appears in front of Shinshiro who becomes the leader of the group.
Miyuki
Miyuki doesn't need to stalk the man she's crazy about, because he lives one floor down. He's Yoshinori, a not very successful long-haired musician. Miyuki, a coffee-shop waitress, nods when they pass on the stairs, but hasn't yet dared to strike up a conversation. Instead she slips out every night and helps herself to his trash.
Действие этой захватывающей психологической драмы происходит в Киото в 1865 году. Содзабуро, 18-летний юноша, изящный и стройный, как девушка, поступает в отряд самураев императора. Он не знает женской любви. Юноша Содзабуро бесстрашен, блестяще владеет мечом, и его принимают в самурайский "эскадрон смерти" Синсенгуми. Содзабуро ещё не знает, что для самурая любовь и смерть всегда неразделимы. Между Содзабуро Кано и его соперником, хитрым Ташизо, жаждущим главенствующей роли самурая, растёт напряжённость. Противостояние этих двоих повлияет на остальных персонажей, раскрыв давно подавленные эмоции...
Tsukiko Izumisawa
Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?
Shizuko Tanaka
14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her rescue when she really needs it.