In the black marcket, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
Kazuo Kudo returns to his hometown of Hakodate with his wife because of his autonomic ataxia. Kazuo, who is not able to work and has to attend the psychiatry regularly, continues to run in the city of Hakodate for mental treatment on sunny days and rainy days. When Kazuo comes to communicate with the young people he meets on the street, something begins to change...
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.
Takeshi Hamano
Бездетные супруги усыновили младенца и получили на это согласие его биологической матери, 14-летней девушки. Но шесть лет спустя в счастливую жизнь семейства вторгается женщина, совершенно непохожая на ту милую девушку. Она утверждает, что является настоящей матерью мальчика, и хочет вернуть его. А если пара против, то её устроит и круглая сумма.
Nao, who disagrees with her boyfriend often and tends to skip class, gets offered by her father, Hirokazu, to join Aya, who is about to be his third wife, on a trip to Taiwan for a week. In contrast to Nao who is reluctant, Aya wants to get to know her future step daughter better. Eating, walking, meetng people. Will this experience change Nao?
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.
Shuji Kisaragi
When a new employee from a well-off family begins working for the first she had understood that she is walking into a fabulous working environment. This is what they call a 'white company.' Instead, she is in for a rude shock when the employer turns out to be a 'black company,' which is one with a negative environment, a rude boss, problematic co-workers, abuse and low pay. The employee's father runs a company that happens to go broke. She herself is not a model employee exactly however.
In March, 2017, at a small town, six boys and girls are selected through auditions. They work hard to prepare for a play, but the play is suddenly cancelled. These young people are disappointed at the news. One girl says "let's practice." The six boys and girls want to stand on stage no matter what.
Motoi Shimura
The story of Henri Mitowa, a 93-year old Japanese monk, who wants to make a movie based on his own life.
Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War II. Called the "god of intelligence", Makoto is an intelligence officer of the Russian service of the Japanese Army General Staff. Fluent in Russian and German and trusted by the spies of many countries because of his integrity, his office would eventually become the most important Japanese intelligence post in Europe. From the day of her arrival in Stockholm, Yuriko helps her husband's intelligence activities. She encrypts the highly classified information obtained by Makoto and sends it in coded telegrams to the General Staff Headquarters in Japan every day. Husband and wife have jointly undertaken this intelligence work for confidentiality.
Kazuyoshi Miyazaki
Ando can't accept this his daughter Kana committed suicide. Kana fell from the ledge of a school building and died. Ando attempts to find out the truth behind his daughter's death. He becomes suspicious of his daughter's former classmate, Saki. Saki isn't a typical high school student and she aspires to work in show business. She dominates her high school with her charisma.
Konoe Fumimaro
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve the breakup and privatisation of the electricity business. As a follower of Fukuzawa Yukichi, he inherited the spirit of independence, self-respect and the people. He rose up alone from the ruins of the war. It was the fight of an unconventional, stubborn old man over 70 with an indomitable will. Minister of Trade and Industry Ikeda Hayato admired Matsunaga like a father while Prime Ministers Yoshida Shigeru and Konoe Fumimaro, Shirasu Jiro (Takagawa Yuya) and others were in awe of his unfathomable passion.
Set in Tokyo, Japan near the end of World War II. 19-year-old Satoko (Fumi Nikaido) lives with her mother (Youki Kudoh) and her aunt. The war is turning more grave. Even though Satoko is near the age to get married, she can't even think of marriage due to the unstable situation. Satoko then begins to communicate with her neighbor, Ichikawa (Hiroki Hasegawa). He has avoided military service due to failing his physical test. As Satoko communicates with Ichikawa, she begins to awake as a woman.
Takumi Tsukiyama
Семнадцатилетняя Сиори мечтает стать моделью и культивирует образ «готической Лолиты». Она ведет видео-блог и общается в нем со своими немногочисленными фанатами. Одна из ее поклонниц – тринадцатилетняя Аюми – убегает из дома, чтобы быть рядом с Сиори и начинает жить вместе с ней и ее бойфрендом, режиссером-неудачником Кавасимой. Сиори тяготится таким совместным житьем и после ссоры с Кавасимой уходит из дома. Обнаружив в сети блог-дневник Аюми, она узнает, как сильно и искренне та её любит.
Takatsu
Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives herself as being worthless to others, she engages in acts of juvenile delinquency. One day, a transfer student from Yokohama named Eri introduces her to Hiroshi Haruyama, a reckless youth who’s a member of the “Nights” motorcycle gang. Kazuki finds herself increasingly drawn to Hiroshi over time, but he soon becomes leader of the Nights and gets caught up in a conflict with a rival gang.
Shigeo Goto
Two swim-team members, a hairless boy and a hirsute girl, discover the pangs and tangles of first love.
Daisuke Mifune
Physician Kohei Taguchi and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare investigator Shiratori soon become involved in major reforms to the death investigation system of the country and localities when a letter arrives threatening the destruction of Tojo University Hospital and Kerberos Tower in 3 months. Before the pair are able to uncover the truth, an unprecedented rash of suspicious deaths occur which can’t be explained through autopsy. On the day of the AI (Autopsy Imaging) Center’s opening and introduction of a revolutionary new MRI machine called “Leviathan”, further incidents rock the medical community.
Tatsuo Ebina
Ataru, who suffers from “savant syndrome,” has the power to discover, observe, see through, and deduct microscopic evidence of unsolved cases. Why does he always go to the criminal sites? What explains his strange behavior? Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds with Ataru and a woman named Madoka, who is a killer. The woman possesses the same extraordinary memory and deductive reasoning abilities as Ataru. Who is she?
A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fans with its retro appearance and unique lineup. Unique guests visiting the theater draw a human pattern during breaks.
Screenplay
16-year-old Haruka lost the people she loved the most in a fire. Haruka is also physically and emotionally wounded from the fire, but she still dreams of becoming a pianist. She takes part in an upcoming competition. Inauspicious incidents then occur around her. Musical student Yosuke, who teaches piano to Haruka, tries to solve the case.
Director
16-year-old Haruka lost the people she loved the most in a fire. Haruka is also physically and emotionally wounded from the fire, but she still dreams of becoming a pianist. She takes part in an upcoming competition. Inauspicious incidents then occur around her. Musical student Yosuke, who teaches piano to Haruka, tries to solve the case.
Kaoru Fukutomi
Сая Тома — женщина-детектив с IQ 201. Такеру Себуми детектив-карьерист с выдающимся послужным списком. Вместе они отлавливают преступников, обладающих специальными способностями (SPEC), которые сумели ускользнуть от наказания. Тайна раскрывается, когда находят неизвестные тела на крейсере в море. Сая Тома и Такеру Себуми вовлечены в расследование по этому по делу.
Tsutomu
In a remote area of Hokkaido, two lonely high school students meet and connect through a shared love of music.
Dir of Mikasa Clinic
War photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems Yasuyuki can't give up drinking alcohol. His family gets tired. Yasuyuki is then hospitalized in an alcoholic ward. There he finds comfort living with other patients and having conversations with doctors. With the help of his family, Yasuyuki recovers mentally and physically, but his body has already paid a heavy toll.
Ishiba
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was his own death.
A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.
A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however, was not accused because he was too young. Ten years later, a series of murders occur, which target young girls only. It is the boy accused of killing the housewife who comes up in the couse of investigation, while the son of the murdered mother is the witness of a new murder. When the two families of the offender and of the victim meet again, two opposite morals conflict with each other – one is to crack down on the sin beyond the law and another is to disapprove the retaliation.
Mr. Haruhiko Miura
Kitaro is a half human, half creature who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the evil attacks from another world. He finds that a magical ball that controls all powers had been brought into the human world, and stops it from falling into the wrong hands.
Master of Teahouse
Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.
Akira's Father
When a new, smart and sweet Tokyo girl, Rumiko, starts at a rural elementary school, Akira finds himself smitten, like every other male pupil. Newcomer's popularity is contrasted with the less-tolerant treatment of scruffy Hideko, who, thanks to the arrival of a carnival freak-show in town, is nicknamed the Wolf Girl. Teachers and parents snootily consider the carny off-limits, but Akira is determined to find out whether Hideko really is a wolf girl.
Writer
In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522 embark on separate investigations that leads them both to the same beautifician.
Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic new film from a remarkably skilled cast about "the beauty of sensualism."
Haruki's father
One morning, Haruki comes to school wearing goggles. His classmates make fun of him as usual, but the goggles are meant to hide the bruises from the abuse he received from his father.
Dr. Nakai
A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to a medical school where he catches the eye of a fellow student. But it’s another who becomes his obsession…the dead woman on the cadaver table.
Screenplay
Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight years. Miyuki is back in town with her daughter Chiharu, after leaving a failed marriage.
Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss.
In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
Screenplay
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective Kayama (Ogata Ken) is assigned to transport Mizusawa to Shizuoka for questioning. On the way, Kayama receives word that the hotel where his wife and daughter are attending a party has been rigged with a time bomb. Being a "by-the-book" kind of cop, Kayama refuses to abandon his job and return to help his family. Meanwhile, the hotel is swarming with police and the bomb squad who are searching for the bomb and the culprit. Time is almost up. Mizusawa claims that he is the only who who can deactivate the bomb.
Writer
У молодой красавицы Хлои никак не проходит кашель. Рентген показал, что в легком девушки зреет лилия. После мучительной операции в легком Хлои завелся ещё один цветок. Похоже, ей суждено умереть. Возлюбленный пытается скрасить её последние дни и наполнить каждый миг существования неземной красотой.
Director
У молодой красавицы Хлои никак не проходит кашель. Рентген показал, что в легком девушки зреет лилия. После мучительной операции в легком Хлои завелся ещё один цветок. Похоже, ей суждено умереть. Возлюбленный пытается скрасить её последние дни и наполнить каждый миг существования неземной красотой.
Busjack Man
Рассказ о нескольких отверженных: шофере автобуса, подозреваемом в совершении преступления, двух детях-сиротах, их кузене - случайном студенте. Судьба, однажды случайно соединившая героев в одной точке, сводит их вновь.
Tsutomu
During Muraishi's time in prison for fraud, he recalls his past and learns a power to penetrate and cure others. Upon release, he goes to Hakodate, where he can find his ex-wife, Kiriko. Though he cures a lot of people on the way and believes that he is the only one to make Kiriko happy, he is being depressed by discovering a guy together with her.
Interviewer
Tomonori is a third rate model and very unhappy with her demeaning job of handing out leaflets. Unfortunately she doesn't have too many options. One day she gets drunk and starts a fight at a party where she is working.
Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who walked off with Yoshihiko’s girlfriend Aya. In doing so, he broke up with his own girlfriend, Reiko. Now they are all back together again and old feelings begin to surface.
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
Edogawa
Сакико с детства обожала считать деньги. Окончив колледж, она устроилась на работу в банк. В окружении несметного количества денежных купюр Сакико была просто счастлива. И вдруг банк грабят, а Сакико берут в заложницы. Во время погони машина, где были девушка и грабитель, заехала в лесную чащу, опрокинулась и взорвалась. Преступник погибает, девушка чудом остаётся жнва, но после этого происшествия теряет память. … По прошествии некоторого времени Сакиио узнает из новостей, что похищенные преступником 500 миллионов иен не найдены и считаются сгоревшими вместе с машиной. В этот момент к девушке возвращается память о происшедшем. Заодно она вспоминает и о том, что чемодан с деньгами вылетел из машины во время катастрофы и наверняка спокойно лежит себе где-то в лесу. Сакико решает разбогатеть самым легким образом — найдя чемодан. Но легкий путь к большим деньгам оказывается горазд на ухабы!
Dentsu Man
"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.
Writer
When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly, a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salary-man who saw the disappeared woman and wants to meet her again is found and joins the crew. Together they follow the clues. She has an amulet, which looks like a small bag, which she always hangs from her neck. It contains a piece of the Berlin wall.
Director
When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly, a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salary-man who saw the disappeared woman and wants to meet her again is found and joins the crew. Together they follow the clues. She has an amulet, which looks like a small bag, which she always hangs from her neck. It contains a piece of the Berlin wall.
Itsuki Yosuke
At Fudo High, the principal receives threatening letters from someone called the "Afterschool Magician," who warns them to stop the plans to tear down the old school building. Scary rumours of students who died in the "Seven Mysteries of Fudo High" began to spread again, and it isn't long before Kindaichi and Miyuki gets involved when the Mystery Club asks them to help investigate. When the members of the Mystery Club turns up dead one by one and Miyuki also gets attacked, Kindaichi realizes that he must solve it before any more people are killed.
Screenplay
Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.
Director
Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.
Salaryman
Главный герой фильма японский кореец-таксист Чунънам не испытывает особого рвения в работе, его не интересует проблемы объединения двух Корей, а единственное, что его интересует это молоденькие и симпатичные девушки. Как-то раз в одном баре, которым владеет его мать, он знакомится с филипинкой Кони. Чуньнам предпринимает самые разные попытки сблизиться с девушкой, но непреклонная Кони на них никак не реагирует. В конце концов он чуть ли не силой овладевает Кони и по собственной инициативе переезжает к ней на квартиру, где они начинают жить вместе.
Salaryman
A series of short segments focusing on the relationship of a Zanichi Korean taxi driver and Filipina woman in Japan.
Hideyoshi
An anthology film consisting of three linked stories by different directors, all set on an Okinawan island. The first story, 'Aunt Reiko' concerns an opera singer who travels back to her home island to consult a spiritualist about the loss of her voice. The second story, 'Haruko & Hideyoshi' concerns an outsider to the island who is tricked into marrying an island girl after visiting the island god of fertility with her. The final story, 'Bomb Kids' concerns two kids in a punk band who set out to win (or steal) a large amount of money. Linking these stories is the ongoing search for an unexploded WWII bomb, a large model pineapple, and the possibility of a hotel development coming to the island...
Writer
Zazie, one time rock star on the move, has retired at a young age to Shibaura, the semiderelict "waterfront" area of Tokyo. Now he spends his time recording his own life on video. But he can't shake his "fans": members of his former band want a reunion concert, his ex-girlfriend Megumi won't let go, office girls and snack-bar waitresses continue to idolize him. Most disturbing, the taciturn and vaguely threatening Sunada watches him day and night. But Zazie yields to no one, commits to nothing. On the one side, mounting expectation and burgeoning fantasy; on the other, indecision, introspection and silence. Something's gotta give…
Director
Zazie, one time rock star on the move, has retired at a young age to Shibaura, the semiderelict "waterfront" area of Tokyo. Now he spends his time recording his own life on video. But he can't shake his "fans": members of his former band want a reunion concert, his ex-girlfriend Megumi won't let go, office girls and snack-bar waitresses continue to idolize him. Most disturbing, the taciturn and vaguely threatening Sunada watches him day and night. But Zazie yields to no one, commits to nothing. On the one side, mounting expectation and burgeoning fantasy; on the other, indecision, introspection and silence. Something's gotta give…
Neighbor (Male)
An artist finds and rescues a mermaid with bleeding sores and uses what oozes from her sores to paint her portrait.
Man in restaurant
Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the civilization she had already left.
Kazuma Akasaka
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.
Mishima, age 18-19 (segment "Flashbacks")
25 ноября 1970 года. Знаменитый японский писатель Юкио Мисима встал рано утром, надел военную форму и вместе с соратниками из «Общества щита» отправился на базу сухопутных войск сил самообороны в Итигая с целью призвать солдат совершить государственный переворот. По пути Мисима вспоминает свою жизнь и ее влияние на его произведения.
Deceptively real, and even described by Tony Rayns as a 'ciné-vérité essay'. Entirely in the tradition of the better mockumentary, the news crew making the film plays a decisive role. Before the grand hype of commercial reality television, Riju Go made it clear what the consequences are of penetrating too deeply into the private world of the person followed. A beautiful portrait of an absolute loner.
Screenplay
Deceptively real, and even described by Tony Rayns as a 'ciné-vérité essay'. Entirely in the tradition of the better mockumentary, the news crew making the film plays a decisive role. Before the grand hype of commercial reality television, Riju Go made it clear what the consequences are of penetrating too deeply into the private world of the person followed. A beautiful portrait of an absolute loner.
Director
Deceptively real, and even described by Tony Rayns as a 'ciné-vérité essay'. Entirely in the tradition of the better mockumentary, the news crew making the film plays a decisive role. Before the grand hype of commercial reality television, Riju Go made it clear what the consequences are of penetrating too deeply into the private world of the person followed. A beautiful portrait of an absolute loner.
Man Who Climbs Tree
Когда неожиданно умирает отец Чизуко, три дня похорон становятся тяжелым испытанием для семьи. Молодое поколение противостоит сложным ритуалам буддийской церемонии, которые стремительно отстают от современной японской жизни.
Assistant Director
Продолжительность жизни в Японии быстро растет после окончания войны. Под действием жары Дзиро Оконоги совершает неудачную попытку изнасилования. В результате он становится Министром Труда в государстве Яматаи. Ему угрожает наемный убийца и 250-тонная бомба, но он приобретает свой первый сексуальный опыт и уезжает на горячие источники в компании веселых пенсионеров.
Jiro Okonogi
Продолжительность жизни в Японии быстро растет после окончания войны. Под действием жары Дзиро Оконоги совершает неудачную попытку изнасилования. В результате он становится Министром Труда в государстве Яматаи. Ему угрожает наемный убийца и 250-тонная бомба, но он приобретает свой первый сексуальный опыт и уезжает на горячие источники в компании веселых пенсионеров.
Writer
Продолжительность жизни в Японии быстро растет после окончания войны. Под действием жары Дзиро Оконоги совершает неудачную попытку изнасилования. В результате он становится Министром Труда в государстве Яматаи. Ему угрожает наемный убийца и 250-тонная бомба, но он приобретает свой первый сексуальный опыт и уезжает на горячие источники в компании веселых пенсионеров.