Cast: Nao Omori

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Kanako Higuchi · Yûrei Yanagi · Kumiko Aso

Synopsis Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura

Cast Gaku Hamada · Atsushi Ito · Kengo Kora · Mirai Moriyama

Synopsis Fish Story centres around a rock band from 1975 who decide to break up having had no success, they record one last song before the band splits up. Decades later that song will have a profound effect on peoples lives,...

Direction Masayuki Suo

Cast Ryo Kase · Asaka Seto · Koji Yamamoto · Masako Motai

Synopsis Teppei Kaneko is a young guy, typical of many of his generation; he works part-time, hangs out in Tokyo and tries to figure out what life has in store for him. He finds out the hard way. Finally getting his...

Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura

Cast Yuko Takeuchi · Nao Omori · Teruyuki Kagawa · Masato Sakai

Synopsis When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day...

Direction Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast Shinobu Terajima · Etsushi Toyokawa · Akira Emoto · Matsuoka Shunsuke

Synopsis Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Living in Kamata Town, Yuko divides her time between a variety of men friends, each with his own peculiarities. Her...

Direction Bong Joon-ho · Leos Carax · Michel Gondry

Cast Yû Aoi · Yosiyoshi Arakawa · Jean-François Balmer · Julie Dreyfus

Synopsis Tokyo is a city of transitions in three short films. A young woman who finds her life useless experiences a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution; he calls himself "Merde" and speaks...

Direction Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast Shinobu Terajima · Nao Omori · Tomorô Taguchi

Synopsis Rei Hayakawa (Shinobu Terajima) is a freelance writer that doesn't fit the description of the typical Japanese woman. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks excessively. On Valentine's Day, she meets - and...

Direction Hiroshi Ishikawa

Cast Aoi Miyazaki · Hidetoshi Nishijima · Hiromi Nagasaku · Eita

Synopsis Two kids meet near a floodgate after school. Yu is a shy 17 year old girl who sits down next to Yosuke as he plays his guitar. Yosuke recently gave up playing sports and has devoted himself to playing the...

Direction Mika Ninagawa

Cast Erika Sawajiri · Kaori Momoi · Anne Suzuki · Kiko Mizuhara

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Nao Omori · Shinya Tsukamoto · Pauline Suen

Synopsis The boss of the Anjo clan has disappeared, and his crazy masochistic subordinate Kakihara is desperately searching for clues. His suspicions centre on the mysterious Ichi, the rubber-suited killer who is responsible for the enthusiastic slaughter of an increasing number...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Masataka Kubota · Shôta Sometani · Nao Omori · Jun Murakami

Synopsis Set over one night in Tokyo, the film will follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call girl and an addict but still an innocent. Little does Leo know, Monica...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sôta Fukushi · Hirona Yamazaki · Ryunosuke Kamiki · Jingi Irie

Synopsis A group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.

Direction Takashi Yamazaki

Cast Shôta Sometani · Eri Fukatsu · Ai Hashimoto · Kazuki Kitamura

Synopsis Earth is quietly invaded by alien parasites which have the ability to crawl through people’s nostrils or ear canal to access their brains, eventually taking full control of their body. Shinichi Izumi manages to partially escape this fate because he...

Direction Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast Shôta Sometani · Atsuko Maeda · Roy 5tion · Asuka Hinoi

Synopsis Over one day at this love hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo - where guests have the choice of staying for a short time or overnight - the dreams and desires of these characters intersect while aspiring for something greater.

Direction Tatsushi Ohmori

Cast Hirofumi Arai · Mansaku Ikeuchi · Arata Iura · Yoko Maki

Direction Hitoshi Matsumoto

Cast Nao Omori · Mao Daichi · Hitoshi Matsumoto · Shinobu Terajima

Synopsis An ordinary man with an ordinary life joins a mysterious club. The membership lasts for one year only and there is one rule: no cancellation under any circumstance. The man enters into a whole new exciting world he never before...

Direction Toshiki Sato

Cast Nao Omori · Ayaka Maeda · Masahiro Toda · Makiko Watanabe

Direction Akio Jissoji · Atsushi Kaneko · Hisayasu Sato · Suguru Takeuchi

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Yuko Daike · Chisako Hara · Masami Horiuchi

Synopsis This horror anthology takes its cue from the short fiction of writer Taro Hirai, better known by his nomme du plume Edogawa Rampo - wordplay on the name of legendary writer Edgar Allan Poe. Acclaimed MV director Takeuchi Suguru begins...

Direction Katsuhiro Ōtomo

Cast Jô Odagiri · Makiko Kuno · Reia Moriyama · Yû Aoi

Synopsis Since the nineteenth century, Japanese artists have experimented with forms of the graphic novel (or manga), transcending the literal and entering the realm of speculation and metaphor. Adapted from Yuki Urushibara's widely celebrated manga, Bugmaster transports us into a visually...

Direction Keishi Ohtomo

Cast Masatô Ibu · Mikako Ichikawa · Tomomi Maruyama · Shûhei Nomura

Synopsis A serial killer wearing a frog mask is terrorizing the city of Tokyo with his crimes, both cruel and elaborate at the same time. Inspector Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, will try to decipher what motivates this...