Cinematography: Kosuke Matushima

Direction Katsuhito Ishii

Cast Maya Banno · Takahiro Sato · Tadanobu Asano · Satomi Tezuka

Plot A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not...

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 Hajime Ishimine

Cast Kaela Kimura · Erika Nishikado · Ayaka Maeda · Ryoko Matsui

Plot On Oct. 30, 2004, acclaimed Japanese musician Okuda Tamio held a one-day-only concert at Hiroshima Stadium. The project that started as the documentary of the concert soon evolved into a...

Direction Katsuo Fukuzawa

Cast Masahiro Nakai · Yukie Nakama · Yuki Shibamoto · Masahiko Nishimura

Plot One relatively peaceful post-war day in Japan, a barber and good family man, is unexpectedly arrested by the Prefectural Police, declared a suspected war criminal, and subsequently sued for murder...

Direction Sawada Kensaku

Cast Shingo Katori · Teruyoshi Uchimura · Atsushi Ito · Eri Fukatsu

Plot On the way to India to get some holy scrolls, priest Tripitaka and his followers are led by Monkey and implored by a princess to protect her people from a...