Cinematography: Hiroshi Takase

Direction Mamoru Hoshi

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Goro Inagaki · Tae Kimura · Masao Komatsu

Synopsis Set in 1940, a young playwright, Tsubaki Hajime comes up against a government censor, Sakisaka Mutsuo. The censor's job is to prevent anything political or taboo from getting into the pre-war media, but this censor has a thing against comedy,...

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 Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Tatsuya Fujiwara · Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Shigeki Hosokawa · Erika Toda

Synopsis Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the perpetrator. An all out...

Direction Daizaburo Hanada · Jôji Iida · Shunji Iwai · Ryûhei Kitamura

Cast Natsuko Akiyama · Hirofumi Arai · Haruka Ayase · Ryoko Hirosue

Synopsis "The Messenger" is a mysterious woman who appears to a mobster hiding underground to tell him about his ultimate fate. A bag with a "Kendama" ball and string toy gets mixed up with a bag of onions, and leads a...

Direction Jôji Iida

Cast Yôsuke Eguchi · Miwako Ichikawa · Takashi Kashiwabara · Yukiko Okamoto

Synopsis A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite...

Direction Shunsaku Kawake

Cast Yûya Yagira · Takako Tokiwa · Katsumi Takahashi · Yû Aoi

Synopsis Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. This prompts him to leave for Chiang Mai in Thailand to become Japan¡¯s first elephant trainer. Having found his place in the world, Tetsumu develops into...

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Kuranosuke Sasaki · Muga Tsukaji · Miyuki Nakajima · Takako Tokiwa

Direction Masayuki Suzuki

Cast Shingo Katori · Rena Tanaka · Gori · Yuri Chinen

Synopsis Kanzo Hattori, an apprentice Ninja, leaves his home town of Iga for his final training. He must go to the city of Edo (Tokyo), and the first person he meets shall be his master, whom he must protect with his...

Direction Tetsu Maeda

Cast Shinya Taniuchi · Kyohei Kaneko · Keita Furuya · Teru Kagimoto

Direction Mamoru Hoshi · Masayuki Ochiai · Hisao Ogura · Masayuki Suzuki

Cast Kazuyuki Aijima · Izumi Inamori · Renji Ishibashi · Takashi Kashiwabara

Synopsis A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group. These include tales of...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Hiroyuki Ikeuchi · Kiyoshiro Imawano · Suzuki Matsuo · Hiroshi Sakuma

Synopsis Former boxer Iwano, teamed up with Sada and Maru, who live in the same apartment building, makes his daily living as a punching bag for drunken businessmen in some corner of the amusement quarters. The three have continuously avoided putting...

Direction Tetsuo Shinohara

Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Kayoko Kishimoto · Hiroyuki Ikeuchi · Yoichiro Saito

Synopsis One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer ..... and it escalates!

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Kyoka Suzuki · Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Ittoku Kishibe · Naoki Sugiura

Synopsis Stage actor Masaki Shibata Shinichi Tsutsumi has murdered a man and his wife. He confesses his crime; he says his motive was that the woman, who is five months pregnant, criticized his one-man show. It could be an open-and-shut case...

Direction Shosuke Murakami

Cast Takao Osawa · Miki Nakatani · Ryûta Satô · Juri Ueno

Synopsis Hopeless romantic Sayuri (Miki Nakatani) yearns for her dream man to sweep her off her feet and take her to July 24th Avenue in Lisbon, Portugal, her idealised paradise from her favourite manga. When she runs into her old high...

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Yûji Oda · Takeshi Kaga · Kazuya Kosaka · Mayu Tsuruta

Direction Naosuke Kurosawa

Cast Hiroshi Ito · Ryûji Katagiri · Takanari Michimata · Yôko Natsuki

Synopsis An unprecedented murderer appears. The first victim is a young woman. Her breasts had been cut off. After witnessing her autopsy, Kyoko Mizuki, a female autopsy officer, begins to feel strange signs around her. The second and third murders occur...

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Eri Fukatsu · Seiyô Uchino · Sei Hiraizumi · Noriko Kojima

Synopsis Two young individuals meet online and become interested in each other after e-mailing everyday. Secrets are confessed and the two finally decide to meet in person.

Direction Sadaaki Haginiwa

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Renji Ishibashi · Nagare Hagiwara · Daijirô Harada

Synopsis A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for...

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Hitomi Kuroki · Akira Terao · Toshio Shiba

Synopsis Based on the bestselling novel by Junichi Watanabe, is about the fated love affair between Shoichiro, a middle-aged man who has come to regret devoting his whole life to his work, and Rinko, a beautiful woman trapped in a married...