Cinematography: Yuichi Nagata

Direction Hideaki Anno

Cast Shunji Iwai · Ayako Fujitani · Jun Murakami · Shinobu Otake

Plot A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video...

Direction Shinobu Yaguchi

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Chikara Yamamoto · Naoto Takenaka · Yuji Suzuki

Plot The swimming team of Tadano High School is in big trouble, the only active member; Suzuki is giving up any hope that the team will survive until the next Tadano...

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Seiichi Tanabe · Asahi Uchida · Kai Shishido · Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

Plot The story of Aku Yu, one of the most popular Japanese songwriters from the 1970's through 1980's.

Direction Banmei Takahashi

Cast Ryudo Uzaki · Keiko Takahashi · Misako Watanabe

Plot Already slipping into crime as a potential career when still a teenager, Akio Takeda determines that he will do something "really big" before the age of 30. As a first...

Direction Kaizô Hayashi

Cast Morio Agata · Kenji Endo · Fujiko Fukamizu · Moe Kamura

Plot An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing daughter, Bellflower. The two follow a succession of bizarre, obscure...

Direction Masayuki Suo

Cast Ren Osugi · Miki Yamaji · Kei Shuto · Shirô Shimomoto

Plot The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other...

Direction Ryudo Uzaki

Cast Yuya Uchida · Masahiro Motoki · Takeshi Kitano · Kei Sato

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Kinji Fukasaku · Yoshiho Fukuoka · Yoshio Harada · Hiroki Hayashi

Direction Kaizô Hayashi

Cast Kikunosuke Onoe · Izumi Inamori · Yôsuke Saitô · Matsuoka Shunsuke

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Tomorô Taguchi · Panta · Taka Okubo · Jôji Kajiwara

Plot During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions and he is captured. Exposed to maltreatment in prison he slowly loses his...

Direction Kaizô Hayashi

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Shiro Sano · Kiyotaka Nanbara · Yang Haiping

Plot Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a...

Direction Kaizô Hayashi

Cast Shiori Doi · Michiko Furumoto · Shiro Sano · Hana Konoe

Plot Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage years to adult life.

Direction Itsumichi Isomura

Cast Kumiko Takeda · Kazuya Takahashi · Natsue Yoshimura · Kunihiko Ida

Plot A beautiful exotic dancer vanishes after being struck by a car. The driver, an engaged businessman named Amane, tracks down the victim at a transvestite club, where an unexpected passion...

Direction Toshiyuki Mizutani

Cast Kyôzô Nagatsuka · Mie Nakao · Chiharu · Mitsunaro Hashimoto

Plot It was a dark and rainy night. Momentarily distracted, salaryman Motomura runs over a young lady on a bicycle, panics and flees the scene. In discussion with his family, they...

Direction Kaizô Hayashi

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Moe Kamura · Michiru Akiyoshi · Yuki Asayama

Plot Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside working as a con-man. After a...

Direction Itsumichi Isomura

Cast Rena Tanaka · Mami Shimizu · Wakana Chizaki · Kirina Mano

Plot Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life.

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Ryudo Uzaki · Joe Yamanaka · Kei Sato · Genjiro Amato

Plot Set in Paris, the plot (despite the title, not even dangerously close to Laclos as has been suggested elsewhere) concerns a low-key private detective agency run by Rie and her...

Direction Masayuki Suo

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Honami Suzuki · Ken Osawa · Hiromasa Taguchi

Plot Yohei, a punk rocker, has to become a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Yohei though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline learns to adjust. Then...