Cast: Yukiya Kitamura

Direction Miwa Nishikawa

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Taiga Nakano · Masami Nagasawa · Isao Hashizume

Synopsis A middle-aged former yakuza is released from prison after thirteen years where he was placed for murder. He is struggling to adapt to society and freedom, find a job and communicate normally, but he is also preoccupied by the quest...

Direction Michihito Fujii

Cast Gou Ayano · Naoyuki Fernandez · Hayato Ichihara · Hayato Isomura

Synopsis Kenji Yamamoto's father died from using a stimulant drug. His life fell into desperation. Kenji then joined a crime syndicate. There, he meets the gang's boss Hiroshi Shibasaki. Hiroshi reaches out to Kenji and they developed a relationship like father...

Direction Genki Kawamura

Cast Mieko Harada · Masaki Suda · Masami Nagasawa · Yumi Kawai

Synopsis Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them. One in particular, when he believed she had disappeared, haunts him terribly.

Direction Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Jô Odagiri · Yû Aoi · Shôta Matsuda · Yukiya Kitamura

Synopsis Yoshio Shiraiwa (Joe Odagiri) is dumped by his wife and goes back to his hometown of Hakodate. He then enrolls at a vocational school, while receiving unemployment payments. At the vocational school, he meets Kazuhisa Daishima (Shota Matsuda). One day,...

Direction Michihito Fujii

Cast Masami Nagasawa · Kentarô Sakaguchi · Ryûsei Yokohama · Nana Mori

Synopsis It's a story about the heroine who passed away leaving behind her regrets, participates in a parade where the dead gather once a month to find the person they wanted to meet.

Direction Yasuharu Ishii

Cast Yamashita Tomohisa · Sho Aikawa · Maki Horikita · Mao Daichi

Direction Hideta Takahata

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Kazunari Ninomiya · Hirofumi Arai · Tokio Emoto

Synopsis When 17-year-old high school student Danshun is acquainted by the doodling and drawing art, known as Rakugaki, of Tatekagwa who is at the school for an educational session, he determines that he has found what he wants to do. Danshun...

Direction Tetsu Maeda

Cast Suzu Hirose · Riku Ohnishi · Kengo Kora · Ami Tôma

Synopsis High school student Naotatsu travels to live at his uncle's house. In the pouring rain, he is picked up at the nearest station by a strange adult woman named Sakaki who guides him to an unexpected share house where a...

Direction Tadaaki Hôrai · Hajime Takezono

Cast Sawako Agawa · Fumi Dan · Ryô Ikeda · Mio Imada

Synopsis Semi is a cicada insect, born under a garden by an apartment building. After living underground for a long time, he finally emerges to the surface.

Direction Toshiaki Toyoda

Cast Tatsuya Fujiwara · Ryuhei Matsuda · Tasuku Emoto · Mayu Harada

Direction Yoshiyuki Kishi

Cast Kasumi Arimura · Go Morita · Hayato Isomura · Makita Sports

Synopsis Kayo is a probation officer who forges ahead with her job. Continuing to work closely with ex-convicts, she is assigned to Kudo who had committed murder. As she endeavors to rehabilitate him, Kudo suddenly disappears and emerges as a suspect...

Direction Hidenori Inoue

Cast Makoto Awane · Tatsuya Fujiwara · Arata Furuta · Jun Hashimoto

Synopsis Two souls were drawn to each other without any possible escape from their doomed fates. It was in an era when the country was divided in the north and the south.

Direction Futoshi Sato

Cast Yukiya Kitamura · Kenji Anan · Sota Aoyama · Yoshihiko Hakamada

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Naoto Ogata · Miki Fujitani · Tetta Sugimoto · Minoru Tanaka

Direction Eiji Uchida · Shinzô Katayama

Cast Sairi Itô · Yukiya Kitamura · Shôhei Uno · Yutaka Takenouchi

Synopsis Mariko (Sairi Itoh) works as a bartender at a small bar in the alleyways of Shinjuku Golden Gai, Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo. She also works as a private detective. One day, she receives a request from an organization. Their request is...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Akira Terao · Naomi Hosokawa · Nagiko Tono

Synopsis A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime suspect in the biggest mass-murder case of the decade.

Direction Yasuharu Ishii · Daisuke Yamamuro · Katsuhiko Ikeda

Cast Tôma Ikuta · Shun Oguri · Juri Ueno · Yo Yoshida

Synopsis Orphans who live in a shared home for such children attend the same elementary school and witness their teacher slayed. The police take note of their accounts. The case remains unresolved into the boys' adulthood where the two, now on...

Direction Ryota Nakano

Cast Kazunari Ninomiya · Satoshi Tsumabuki · Haru Kuroki · Masaki Suda

Synopsis Masashi is a young photographer who forms a family with is older brother and parents. Disaster strikes Japan in the form of a tsunami and subsequent nuclear reactor meltdown and the country is in turmoil. He does what comes to...

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Jun Hashimoto · Hana Hizuki · Hyunri · Misuzu Kanno

Synopsis Set in the Edo period during a time when the divorce rate was actually 2x higher than the present day. A thrift ordinance has been announced by the government and the lives of common people get worse. During this time,...

Cast Juri Ueno · Masako Miyaji · Honami Suzuki · Rie Miyazawa

Synopsis Gou: Hime-Tachi no Sengoku aka Princess Go tells the story of a most remarkable outspoken princess who really lived during the Sengoku Jidai - The Warring States Period of Japan. Narrated by her mother Lady Ichi (Honami Suzuki) the sister...