Cast: Hirofumi Arai

Direction Joji Matsuoka · Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Jô Odagiri · Mansaku Fuwa · Reiko Kataoka

Synopsis An anthology of human relationship stories connected by the only open in the wee hours diner the characters frequent. Resolutions are often facilitated by the owner/chef.

Direction Takashi Yamazaki

Cast Junichi Okada · Min Tanaka · Haruma Miura · Mao Inoue

Synopsis A young man Kentaro Saeki (Haruma Miura) keeps failing his bar test and does not know what to do any more. His older sister Keiko is a freelance writer. Kentaro and Keiko begin to search for information on their grandfather...

Direction Tetsuya Nakashima

Cast Takako Matsu · Masaki Okada · Yoshino Kimura · Yukito Nishii

Synopsis In Confessions (2010), a high school teacher, Yuko Moriguchi, reveals a shocking plan to her unruly class after her young daughter's tragic death. Believing the killers to be among her students, she delivers a calculated, vengeful monologue that sets off...

Direction Isao Yukisada

Cast Yôsuke Kubozuka · Kou Shibasaki · Shinobu Otake · Taro Yamamoto

Synopsis Sugihara is a second-generation Korean immigrant in Japan. He is torn between two cultures and does not feel at home in either. Sugihara’s life is marked by violence, and his brutal father taught him boxing at an early age. When...

Direction Ryosuke Hashiguchi

Cast Tae Kimura · Lily Franky · Mitsuko Baisho · Susumu Terajima

Synopsis At work, Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, silently observes crimes and scandals of the 1990s and the decline of Japanese values. At home in joys of marriage, he quietly observes his wife’s first pregnancy. When their child dies, the couple...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ebizo Ichikawa · Eita · Kôji Yakusho · Hikari Mitsushima

Synopsis Seeking a noble end, poverty-stricken samurai Hanshiro requests to commit ritual suicide at the House of Ii, run by headstrong Kageyu. Trying to dismiss Hanshiro's demand, Kageyu recounts the tragic story of a similar recent plea from young ronin Motome....

Direction Daisuke Miura

Cast Seri Akaba · Hirofumi Arai · Tokio Emoto · Sôsuke Ikematsu

Synopsis From midnight to 5 AM, people gather at a high-end apartment in Roppongi to engage in promiscuous sexual activity. Story depicts the process of the men and women who meet for the first time there to have loveless sex.

Direction Masaharu Take

Cast Sakura Ando · Hirofumi Arai · Yôzaburô Itô · Toshie Negishi

Synopsis Kazuko (Sakura Ando) lives at her parents' home. She rarely hangs out with other people. Things change when her younger sister divorces and moves back with her child. Kazuko and her sister's relationship goes bad, causing Kazuko to move out...

Direction Toshiaki Toyoda

Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Sosuke Takaoka · Hirofumi Arai · Yusuke Oshiba

Synopsis In a school surrounded by misleadingly picturesque cherry trees in full bloom, it's the students who set the rules while uncooperative teachers are dangled from windows.

Direction Isshin Inudô

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Chizuru Ikewaki · Juri Ueno · Hirofumi Arai

Synopsis Tsuneo is a university student, while he is on the street, a baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young...

Direction Mika Ninagawa

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

Direction Miwa Nishikawa

Cast Jô Odagiri · Teruyuki Kagawa · Masatô Ibu · Keizo Kanie

Synopsis Takeru is a successful photographer living the good life in Tokyo. He reluctantly sets off to visit his hometown on the first anniversary of his mother’s death. Stopping in to see his older brother, Minoru who has taken over the...

Direction Hitoshi One

Cast Takeru Satō · Ryunosuke Kamiki · Nana Komatsu · Hirofumi Arai

Synopsis Moritaka Mashiro, a junior high student, forgets his notebook in class. His classmate Akito Takagi, notes Mashiro's drawings in it and asks him to become a manga artist to his stories. Mashiro declines. Takagi incites Mashiro to meet with Miho...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Toshiyuki Nishida · Tomokazu Miura · Ryo Kase

Synopsis The Sanno crime family has grown into a huge organization, expanding its power into politics and legitimate big business. The Sanno’s upper ranks are now dominated by young executives, and the old-guard members are penting up resentment while being pushed...

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 Yoichi Sai

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Hirofumi Arai · Tomoko Tabata · Jô Odagiri

Synopsis Blood and Bones is set during World War II and the post-war years of Japan. Kitano plays the part of Shunpei Kim, a violent Korean man, who works at a fish factory in Osaka. He is a man consumed by...

Direction Tatsushi Ohmori

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

Direction Yûichi Fukuda

Cast Ryôhei Suzuki · Yûya Yagira · Ayame Misaki · Ken Yasuda

Synopsis The film's plot will center around the continued disappearance of panties all over the world. While Ky?suke is now in college, and has taken a different path from Aiko, both stand up to face evil.

Direction Kôji Fukada

Cast Irène Jacob · Jérôme Kircher · Nijiro Murakami · Hirofumi Arai

Synopsis In the not distant future Japan has again experienced a nuclear incident and is gradually becoming uninhabitable. The entire population has to evacuate before being deluged by radiation poisoning. To achieve this a ticketing system has been implemented. Not prioritized...

Direction Yasuo Inoue

Cast Shido Nakamura · Shun Oguri · Hirofumi Arai · Yumi Yoshimura

Synopsis Jûzô Murasaki is a boy miscast in his classroom, being frequently abused, tortured, beaten and humiliated by the bully Tôru Akai and his gang of juvenile punks. After years of repression, rejection and fear without facing Akai, he develops a...