The story describes how youngsters struggle to cope with the gap between their ideals and reality.
Shusuke Hoshino
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Giroli
Geats, Revice, and Ryuki wage a fierce battle royale that transcends beyond the Heisei and Reiwa eras.
Sorao
Haruko is a single mother. She has an unusual living arrangement. She lives with her son Riku, her friend Aiko and Aiko's boyfriend Sorao. One day, Yuko stays at Haruko's house to attend an art institute for the summer. Yuko is the daughter of Haruko's old friend Tomoyo. They haven't spoken for many years prior to Tomoyo reaching out to Haruko to ask if her daughter could stay with her for the summer. Haruko and Tomoyo have an uncomfortable past.
Daisuke Mineuchi
Kazumichi Tsuji is a bored office worker in questionable relationships with two women at work. One day he meets the intriguing Ukiyo Hayama at a convenience store. However, having her in his life brings nothing but trouble.
Mamiya Kota
Dead bodies with eyeballs ruptured are continuously found. Their direct causes of death are heart attacks and they acted like they were possessed right before their deaths. Mizuki is a university student. Her friend dies in front of her. Meanwhile, Haruo’s younger brother dies. Mizuki and Haruo begin to investigate together. They learn that Eiko holds a key to the mystery. Soon, Eiko's eyeballs rupture and she dies by a heart attack. Before she dies, she mentions the word "Shirai-san.”
Yuu Iseki
Мио потеряла родителей еще в детстве. Ее вырастила бабушка и теперь вместе они управляют маленьким семейным отелем в Нагано. После того, как бабушка тяжело заболела, Мио переезжает в Токио, где живет у друга отца. Он владеет сэнто, традиционной японской баней. Мио начинает помогать ему в работе, но однажды становится известно, что сэнто собираются снести.
Hashimoto
A young woman discovers that a sex tape made without her knowledge is circulating online. Paranoia takes over, along with a sense of injustice. Her sudden terror of video triggers a downward spiral where she loses all social bearings.
Одним солнечным днём четверо 13-леток встречаются в токийском крематории. У всех четверых погибли родители — от рук психопата, в результате автоаварии, взрыва газа или покончив с собой из-за долгов — и ребята стали сиротами в один день. Вроде бы, дети должны скорбеть, но больше не чувствуя эмоций, они решают создать рок-группу под названием «Маленькие зомби». Из мусора, найденного на помойке, друзья по несчастью мастерят себе вычурные костюмы, вещи из дома превращаются в музыкальные инструменты, а их маленькая компания — в группу моральной поддержки.
Sakamoto Ryoma / Narasaki Umetaro
Hanpeita Takeichi, a samurai, finds that he has travelled through time to modern-day Japan. He's taken in by an old man who runs a cram school, and begins to work as a teacher there.
Tatsuya Karaki
An ex-journalist Masuda whose article caused a scandalous fatality now works at a small factory. He learns that his colleague Suzuki is a former convict who killed some children back in middle school. Trying to get back his old job, Masuda secretly starts to write a piece on Suzuki while befriending him. The more he learns about his colleague, however, the more Masuda remembers his younger self, a boy who triggered his classmate's suicide.
Kenji
После случая в старшей школе Рико Сирано больше не мечтает о принце. Девушка всё своё время тратит на романтические онлайн-игры, разработкой которых и занимается. Однажды ей предлагают стать консультантом для игры компании TIME IS. Глава этой компании, Курокава Соитиро - мечта любой женщины. Однако он совсем не понимает чувств прекрасной половины человечества, и чтобы игра стала успешной, и чтобы завоевать сердце любимой, Соитиро просит Рико помочь ему понять, чего же на самом деле хотят женщины.
Kenta
Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.
Takeshi Haneda
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.
Kohei
Based on an actual murder that took place in 1996 in Shibuya, Tokyo. One day, Emi receives a visit from her ex-boyfriend, Takumi. He tells her that her older sister, Tomomi, has disappeared after murdering her husband, Kohei. Emi is devastated. What pushed her sister to such a horrible deed?
Morita
1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years were over as the prefecture's police to be unsolved greatest stain, and statute of limitations approached it. In 2002, Yoshinobu Mikami, an ex-detective who was assigned as the investigator of the "Rokuyon" case 14years ago, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department against his will. As a newly assigned Public Relations Officer, he was troubled with the relation between the reporters, new case has occurred. And that new case traced "Rokuyon" case exactly.
Ken
Tetsuo (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against his 'artistic integrity'.
В начале 1990-х в Японии проводились тайные эксперименты по созданию сверхчеловека. В своих экспериментах учёные использовали два метода. Первый метод заключался в том, что родители будущего ребёнка постоянно находились в стрессе. Тем самым это состояние провоцировало развитие мутаций у младенцев ещё в утробе матери. Второй метод состоял в том, что путём генных манипуляций новорождённым детям внедрялись гены насекомых. В результате этих экспериментов на свет появилось несколько детей-мутантов.
Agent
Wish freedom and feel responsibility. 3days road movie of prince and a girl. It's a romantic story between prince and Levelle Kingdom on an escape journey and a girl living freely in Japanese city, with a stylish Asian taste of colorful and vivid images. The story is set in a city of beautiful mother nature, fashion, artistic architectures, and history
Masaya Hayase
This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.
Nosebleed, a formerly unpopular rock band instantly gains a cult following after the lead vocalist, Kana, recruits a zombie, Tetsuo, as their death metal vocalist, even though he is the same undead monster that killed her former band members. Meanwhile, government agents frantically search for their runaway zombie experiment…
Naoto Okabayashi
25-year-old Nanami is managing an amateur band. She is broke, cannot pay her rent, and the singer has run off. Yoshinori is 65. His wife dies the day before his retirement. Having suddenly lost everything, he becomes desperate. After the two accidentally meet, Nanami moves into Yoshinori's place and invites a few other people to become their flatmates – the beginning of an extraordinary life together.
The Ganso and Honke are two medical wholesalers which have had a long history of exchanges. They were originally a wholesaler set up by Tokiya Manemon who invented a drug. After he fell ill, he imparted the formula to his two beloved disciples. But the two were at loggerheads and the enmity between them caused a split into two factions, the ‘original’ (Ganso) and the ‘originator’ (Honke). One day, an incident finally occurred. Kiichiro (Endo Kaname), the eldest son of the Honke, launched an attack on the young master of the Ganso, Nagahiko (Oshinari Shugo).
Shuichi had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi has a fateful meeting with Yoshimi. They enjoy happy times together and Shuichi thinks about marrying Yoshimi. Then Yoshimi becomes sick. A sad truth is hidden in the lost memory of Shuichi.
Otaku guy
A new female detective joins the special investigations team and dives into some of their hardest cases in this follow-up to the series 'Unfair.' The team investigates a grisly video circulating online that asks viewers to answer 'yes' or 'no' questions with potentially deadly outcomes.
A vampire, Brado, becomes responsible for taking care of a girl, Setsuna, in exchange for his life saved by the evil that created her. The evil tells him that if she doesn't have sex for a hundred days, she'll become a full-fledged vampire, and Brado will be able to gain complete control of her. However, if he breaks the promise, both of them will die, so he reluctantly takes on the care of her. While he sleeps, Setsuna begins going to nearby town and gradually learns how precious human lives are through her observations. When she meets a young priest in a church, her affection to humans becomes stronger-- and trouble begins to brew when Brado realizes that she is falling for the priest.
In order to be with the man she loves, Kim goes back to Japan from Korea. The man saved Kim from darkness, when she was little. But he was raised by Kim's mother under the dark world. Now, he is involved in the criminal world. To protect her love, Kim makes a dangerous plan to get the man from her mother.
Reki
Yumi moves into her boyfriend's Tokyo apartment but on the night of the move, he is called away for business in New York. The couple communicates over Skype and over the course of four nights, their relationship descends into an abyss of mistrust and lies. Yumi believes there's a ghost in the room haunting her as her only connection to the outside world is Taka on the other side of the world. Taka believes she's slowly going crazy right in front of his eyes. The story concludes with a shocking twist that will haunt both of them forever.
Yoji Takashi
An elite researcher (Tatsuya Fujiwara) dreams of committing the perfect crime.
Masahiro Hamaguchi
Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.
Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouting out cherry blossoms). The young woman lived freely in the mountains after she was abducted as a young child. The couple soon fall in love under the Raiou tree, but become acutely aware of their different social positions & the ramifications it has on their relationship.
A senseless double murder resonates eight years later in four intertwined stories.
Masaki Shingu
A cop chasing after a female cop killer, but then gets caught in a dark web of departmental corruption.
Като Шигеаки играет безработного молодого человека, который хочет стать мангакой. После ссоры с отцом он уходит из дома и неожиданно попадает в прошлое. В 1969 год, где встречает своих молодых родителей, учащихся университета.
Yuji
Образованная, целеустремленная, независимая… Ее зовут Йоко Сасаки, ей 30 лет, и скоро она станет главным редактором нового глянцевого журнала. Она не замужем и не имеет детей, но ни то, ни другое пока что не входит в ее планы — только карьера! Тем не менее, в один прекрасный день она неожиданно обнаруживает, что беременна. Неужели она пожертвует ребенком ради карьеры? Конечно же, нет!
Kitazawa
Arata Furuta plays a disgruntled saleryman fed up with being stepped on at home and at work, decides to get revenge on those who do bad things by killing them, only to gain a group of followers.
Teenage stepsisters Yui and Ai form a close bond as a result of the neglect and abuse from their respective parents. Fearing separation from each other when their parents plan to divorce, they run away together to Tokyo and, in order to survive steal a briefcase which they later discover belongs to the yakuza. This puts them in great danger. Tanida, a kind-hearted yakuza member, comes to their rescue and becomes the protective and loving parent figure they never had. But for how long will he be able to save them from harm?
Summer 2008 special of Scary True Stories (Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi).
Domoto
Mirume is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri, an almost 40 year old art teacher at his university. Yuri isn't your typical college professor, having a quirky sense of humor and unpredictable personality. When Yuri invites Murume to her studio, she playfully seduces the still naive 19 year old student. Things become more complicated when Mirume discovers that Yuri is married to a much older man....
Window cleaners Tatsuyo, Yuusuke, Kazuma, Kudou, and Hagiwara are of different ages and backgrounds, but work side by side with their heads in the clouds. The oldest of the group, 40-year-old Hagiwara is already a husband and father but hasn't given up his dream of becoming a novelist. Young aspiring musicians Tatsuyo and Yuusuke keep trying their luck with record labels, but their demos go straight to the trash can. Tatsuyo does find a receptive listener though in Kanako, a young hearing-impaired woman who falls in love with Tatsuyo and his music. Tatsuyo and group continue to move toward their dreams with small steps and big hearts until one day an accident at work completely changes their lives.
Misaki visits her boyfriend Koichi in Okinawa, the southern island of Japan. To welcome the arrival of Misaki, Koichi's friend Jinsei holds a welcoming party at his house. At the party, Misaki learns from the wise granny about the legend behind the bag hanging from the fig tree and the local demon: Kijimuna, which deeply fascinate Misaki. Jinsei then introduces Misaki to a young female writer, Kagemi, who tells Misaki the darker side of the Kijimuna legend. As the local shaman and medium to the other world, Kagemi’s knowledge in local lore gives Misaki much more to wonder about. The quiet life in Okinawa takes a sharp turn with the arrival of Jinsei’s ex-wife Sanae, which leads to a tragic accident. Soon, the parties involved begin to see a vengeful spirit and their peaceful lifes turn into a nightmare.
Box
Set in Tokyo's otaku mecca Akihabara, "Akihabara@DEEP" tells the story of five otaku who drop out of society and end up founding their own successful IT venture called Crook. But Nakagomi, president of an influential electronics company called Digital Capital, will do anything to get his hands on Crook.
Риса Кодзуми и Атсуши Отани попали в похожую ситуацию – Рисе отказал парень, в которого она влюбилась, а Атсуши отвергла девушка. И теперь и Риса и Атсуши оба разочаровались в любви. Но они учатся в одном классе, у них множество одинаковых интересов и постепенно они начинают интересоваться друг другом. Друзья и знакомые считают, что они идеальная пара и им обязательно нужно встречаться, но проблема, из-за которой смущаются оба, заключается в том, что Риса выше Атсуши на четырнадцать сантиметров. Но что они могут поделать с разницей в росте, если уже влюбились друг в друга. Самое главное теперь, это не обращать внимания на смех окружающих, не обижаться на обидные прозвища, а пытаться сохранить вспыхнувшее между ними чувство, ведь они так подходят друг другу, а так же в отношениях между Рисой и Атсуши, нужно обязательно не обращать внимания на всякие комплексы – ну что за мелочь – разница в росте, когда вспыхнула настоящая любовь и совсем не важно, что эта любовь немного выше или ниже.
Ken Goubara
One day, when four young men wakes up in the morning, they're all in a small room filled with the white powder, naked.Why they are gathered? What is this room mean to be? Who brought them into this room? How to escape from this room?
Based on the true story of racing horse "Haru Urara" ("Gentle Spring"), who lost every single horse race she entered since her 1998 debut.
Лето 1945 года. Хиросима и Нагасаки покрыты пеплом. В условиях строжайшей секретности японский флот получает от Германии новую субмарину — лодку, оборудованную секретным оружием «Система Лорелея». С его помощью японские подводники должны предотвратить новые атомные бомбардировки…
Tokio
Tokio (Shugo Oshinari) and his sister Sui (Shiina Eihi) fall in love.
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, over 500 of them settled in their new land under the leadership of Hideaki, husband of Shino. However, as crops fail he is to go to Sapporo to learn new techniques of farming, leaving his wife and daughter for 5 years. All this time, the new community is constantly watched by the government which choose to again uproot them from their new homes.
"Movie Hustle" collects five short films by up and coming directors and starring idols.
Mitaka
Suzu lives with Furuta, her fiance, but one day she leaves home without saying a word. She moves into the apartment of her friend Abe, but he has gone abroad and Yoko now lives in his apartment. Suzu and Yoko, who have known each other since childhood and have both always loved Furuta, thus find themselves sharing the same home.
Behind the scenes of Battle Royale II
Takuma Aoi
Прошло три года после окончания «Королевской битвы». Мир все глубже погружается в пучину насилия. Сюя и Норико, которым удалось выжить в первой битве и бежать с острова, разыскиваются как опасные преступники. Сюя возглавляет террористическую группу «Дикая семерка», объявившую тотальную войну жестокому миру взрослых, заставляющих подростков убивать друг друга. Тем временем 42 выпускника средней школы, отправившись на курорт, просыпаются в электронных ошейниках со взрывчаткой. Учитель Рики объявляет, что их класс избран для проведения «Королевской битвы II». Если они смогут высадиться на отдаленный остров и за три дня найти и уничтожить группу террористов во главе с особо опасным преступником Сюя Нанахарой, то останутся жить. Если нет — все они умрут…
В недалеком будущем планета Земля подвергается нашествию инопланетных захватчиков. Чудом выжившей горстке людей понадобится помощь суперагента, обладающего сверхъестественными возможностями и способного совершать путешествия во времени. Быстрый ум, мгновенная реакция и прекрасная физическая форма делают его непобедимым. Но теперь перед ним стоит самая сложная и опасная задача - вернуться в прошлое и изменить исход битвы за будущее Земли...
The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS
Michio
Set in a toy store specialized in antique toys, a boy works in the toy store and is obsessed with tin toys. There's one particular tin toy he loves more than the rest. In walks a girl wearing shades, and starts telling her own story, a weird and fascinating experience she had with a toy.
Shūsuke Hoshino
Жизнь школьников их же глазами не кажется такой простой. Сюсукэ Хосино и Юити Хасуми познакомились в клубе кэндо в самом начале средней школы. Юити и Хосино стали друзьями. Летняя подготовка по кэндо оказалась трудной и жёсткой, поэтому Хосино, Юити и другие мальчики из класса решили хотели поехать на Окинаву, чтобы отдохнуть. Парни воруют деньги у одного богатого мужчины на парковке и отправляются в путешествие. На каникулах на Окинаве Хосино пережил околосмертный опыт, после чего его личность сильно изменилась: ранее добродушный Хосино превращается в жестокого манипулятора. Однажды в классе Хосино потерял контроль и бросил стул в другого ученика, после чего стал издеваться над ним. С этого момента жизнь одноклассников Хосино кардинально меняется — сам Хосино вполне осознаёт свою власть и пользуется ею. Юити, одержимый творчеством загадочной певицы и ищущий спасения в её мечтательных меланхоличных песнях, подумать не мог, что его мучитель тоже любит слушать песни Лили.
Yoshimura
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.
Hideo Kamata
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground.