Cinematography: Noboru Shinoda

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Miho Nakayama · Etsushi Toyokawa · Miki Sakai

Synopsis Hiroko Watanabe's fiancé Itsuki died two years earlier in a mountain climbing accident. While looking through his high school yearbook, Hiroko in a fit of grief decides to write a letter to him using his old school address. Surprisingly she...

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Hayato Ichihara · Shûgo Oshinari · Ayumi Ito · Takao Osawa

Synopsis Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan's pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a...

Direction Isao Yukisada

Cast Takao Osawa · Kou Shibasaki · Masami Nagasawa · Mirai Moriyama

Synopsis In 1980s Kyushu, two teenagers fell in love, and exchanged their secrets and thoughts by way of sending tape recordings to each other. More than a decade later, the boy (now grown-up and bittered) rediscovers the last recording of his...

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Chara · Tadanobu Asano · Koichi Hashizume · Naomasa Musaka

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Chara · Ayumi Ito · Yôsuke Eguchi

Synopsis After a young girl's mother dies, she is cared for by Glico, a brassy hooker, who gives the girl the name "Ageha" (Butterfly). Ageha goes to work for a collection of oddballs who run a junkyard and salvage business.

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Anne Suzuki · Yû Aoi · Tomohiro Kaku · Sei Hiraizumi

Synopsis Upon entering high school, two best friends named Hana and Alice notice a boy a year older them while waiting for the train, and they both develop a pretty strong crush on him. One day while secretly following him home,...

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Takako Matsu · Seiichi Tanabe · Kaori Fujii · Rumi

Synopsis Uzuki Nireno has left Hokkaido, her small rural home in the very north of Japan, to pursue her studies at a University in Western Tokyo. Even though her transition to city life is hard, she begins to get use to...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Noriko Hayami · Minori Terada · Kiriko Shimizu · Nobutaka Masutomi

Synopsis After witnessing the rape of his wife, a man's mind snaps and he attacks a prostitute. Two years later, the man and the prostitute meet by chance.

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Etsushi Toyokawa · Tomoko Yamaguchi · Tomorô Taguchi

Synopsis Moemi is not overly pleased when Yukio brings home a couple of turtles to keep her company. Although Yukio works at home as a writer, Moemi feels neglected and desired a dog or a cat, but neither is allowed in...

Direction Katsuhiro Ōtomo

Cast Sabu · Jazz Cutz · Yûji Nakamura · Mohammed Abdul Sahib

Synopsis A Yakuza underling is given the assignment to rid an apartment of its tenants within a week. He tries a variety of desperate tactics to no avail. Soon his problems get worse as an evil spirit makes its presence known.

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Naoki Sakata · Yasutaka Oh · Ken'ichi Makino

Synopsis A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and...

Direction Kazuyuki Izutsu · Kiyoshi Kurosawa · Banmei Takahashi

Cast Yoriko Douguchi · Takashi Ebata · Renji Ishibashi · Yutaka Iwasaki

Direction Makoto Wada

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Michelle Reis · Akira Emoto · Junichi Haruta

Synopsis Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. For the next two hours, Koji and Linda...

Direction Isao Yukisada

Cast Tokiko Katô · Daijiro Kawaoka · Kaho Minami · Eihi Shiina

Direction Hidehiro Ito

Cast Sho Aikawa · Jun'ichirô Asano · Dankan · Hakuryu

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Tokujiro Namikoshi · Anna Hole

Synopsis An elderly man and a young woman is in a bar where they tenderly begin to touch each other’s hands. Soon they find themselves in a room where the woman has shiatsu massage of the man, putting her in ecstasy....

Direction Gô Rijû

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Rie Tomosaka · Shinya Tsukamoto · Miyuki Matsuda

Synopsis When Kotaro meets Kuroe, it is love at first sight. They resolve to spend the rest of their lives together. But one day, Kuroe collapses and X-rays reveal something resembling a flower budding in her lung. She refuses surgery and...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Kaori Momoi · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Mitsuru Hirata · Kimiko Yo

Synopsis Hard-core video maker Yuichi says (and demonstrates) that he’ll have sex with anyone but his wife Chikako. He also says, in Chikako’s hearing, that both wish each other dead.

Direction Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Yui Natsukawa · Michitaka Tsutsui · Chiaki Kuriyama · Toshie Negishi

Synopsis Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayuri, died several years ago and that Sayuri's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has...