Cinematography: Shogo Ueno

Direction Ryosuke Hashiguchi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Masaaki Taniguchi

Cast Riisa Naka · Akiyoshi Nakao · Narumi Yasuda · Masanobu Katsumura

Plot When scientist Kazuko is given an old photograph of herself with a mysterious young boy, she becomes so distracted that she gets into a serious accident. As her teenage daughter...

Direction Naoko Ogigami

Cast Hoshi Ishida · Kazuyuki Asano · Shinnosuke Miyao

Plot In a small town on the japanese countryside, where everyone knows everyone, all the children pay their respect to the middle-aged woman who runs "Barber Yoshino". An old tradition is...

Direction Kenji Nakanishi

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Kanata Hongô · Ayumi Ito · Taiga Nakano

Direction Ryosuke Hashiguchi

Cast Yoshinori Okada · Ayumi Hamasaki · Kouji Yamaguchi · Kumi Takada

Plot Fortunately this film isn't just another repetition of the Japanese highschool drama genre - even though all characters are students and a reference to bullying is not missing. Instead, we...

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Akira · Eiji Okuda · Ayumi Ito · Keiko Takahashi

Plot The story depicts death and the relationship between father, son, and people close to them. One day, Shiro (AKIRA from the band EXILE) is told that his father Tetsuji (Eiji...

Direction Ryosuke Hashiguchi

Cast Reiko Kataoka · Kazuya Takahashi · Seiichi Tanabe · Yoko Akino

Direction Tetsuo Shinohara

Cast Yuko Takeuchi · Tetsuji Tamayama · Karina · Hirofumi Arai

Plot KENTA (Tetsuji Tamayama), a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named YAMAKI...

Direction Satoshi Isaka

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Miki Imai · Masatô Ibu · Haruka Igawa

Plot A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He...

Direction Kazuyuki Morosawa

Cast Keiko Kitagawa · Avery Fane · Yuika Motokariya · Airi Toriyama

Direction Ryosuke Hashiguchi

Cast Tamae Andô · Lily Franky · Ryô Ikeda · Hana Kino

Plot Three stories about three dissatisfied people: A man who lost his wife in a random killing, an unhappy housewif,e and a gay lawyer. Their stories are largely separate, but briefly...

Direction Kiki Sugino

Cast Kiki Sugino · Munetaka Aoki · Mayu Yamaguchi · Shiro Sano

Plot The film is a reinterpretation of “Yuki-Onna”, from Lafcadio Hearn’s “Kwaidan”, a book of Japanese ghost stories. One snowy night, in a mountain hut, Minokichi, a hunter, sees a snow...

Direction Tetsuo Shinohara

Cast Sayuri Oyamada · Morio Agata · Mayumi Asaka · Goro Kishitani

Direction Ryosuke Hashiguchi

Cast Daisuke Ebara · Ellen · Ruka Fujiwara · Miki Hana

Plot An omnibus collection of six short films the stories are the result of skull sessions at workshops lead by writer and director Hashiguchi Ryosuke. The film depicts body-length tight fetishists...

Direction Hiroshi Sugawara

Cast Yukiyoshi Ozawa · Risako Sugaya · Kôji Yakusho · Mirai Yamamoto

Plot This is a story that shows the potential dreams and teaches kids to never give up

Direction Takuya Misawa

Cast Natsuko Hori · Shuna Iijima · Ena Koshino · Hayate Matsuzaki

Plot Whimsical film in which students and teachers come together during a weekend for a wedding. The film flutters back and forth between the various characters and their feelings until the...

Direction Yoichi Ogino

Cast Aiko Ikuyori · Asako Shindo · Yukihiro Udagawa · Kei Shichiri

Plot The first theatrical film by film critic Yoichi Ogino. Yayoi has a lover named Yataro, but she is not sure if its working. Strange things start to happen…

Direction Takahisa Zeze

Cast Ayumi Yamatsu · Hiroko Shimada · Moe Ishikawa · Rika Furukawa

Plot The popular and seemingly street-wise radio host Michiru proclaims to her listeners the ease and effectiveness of garnering secret facts by consulting "Kokkuri-san", a traditional Japanese form of Ouija. Three...

Direction Tetsuo Shinohara

Cast Yuka Itaya · Jun Murakami · Saki Takaoka · Gô Rijû

Plot 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...