Cinematography: Hiroshi Machida

Direction Katsuhito Ishii

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Masanobu Ando · Hikari Mitsushima · Masatoshi Nagase

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Kyôko Koizumi · Tadanobu Asano · Kumiko Aso · Akira Emoto

Plot A haunting tale of destiny and life's unpredictability: an elite bureaucrat, humbled by an incident which ruined his promising career, has a chance encounter with a glamorous hostess, heartbroken by...

Direction Katsuhito Ishii

Cast Tsuyoshi Kusanagi · Maiko · Ryo Kase · Yoriko Douguchi

Plot Tokuichi and Fukuichi are two blind masseurs plying their trade around the hot springs on the Izu Peninsula, in 1930’s Japan. The two have trained their other senses to perceive...

Direction Katsuhito Ishii

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Keisuke Horibe · Yoshinori Okada · Akemi Kobayashi

Plot Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend,...

Direction Katsuhito Ishii · Hajime Ishimine · Shunichirô Miki

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Yoshiyuki Morishita · Mariko Takahashi · Susumu Terajima

Plot Funky Forest is a series of absurdist skits—including both computer generated and hand drawn animation segments and musical interludes—sharing some common characters and situations, thrown together in a blender. The...

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Koyuki · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Takuya Ishida · Shinobu Otake

Plot The emotional story evolves in the backdrop of a small mining town from the 1960s to the 1970s.

Direction Kôhei Oguri

Cast Jô Odagiri · Miki Nakatani · Ana Girardot · Angèle Humeau

Plot Japanese artist, Foujita, is Paris' darling in the roaring twenties, loved for his delicate nudes. After leaving his 1st wife, Fernande, he meets Lucie Badoud and names her Yuki (snow...

Direction Hidenori Sugimori

Cast Ua · Tadanobu Asano · Hikaru · Yutaka Enatsu

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Yusuke Iseya · Koichi Sato · Kyôko Koizumi · Kazue Fukiishi

Plot Manabu Yazaki had left his family's home in Hokkaidō years before to go to Tokyo to earn a degree, start a company and get married. Now, divorced and pursued by...