Screenplay: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Jô Odagiri · Jai West · Motoki Fukami · Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

Synopsis Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York. Eager to get out,...

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Shigeru Bokuda · Sumiko Mikami · Shunsuke Sawada · Toshiyuki Sugihara

Synopsis 1970s Japan, and Aizawa, leader of a small left-wing political student group has been arrested. With him behind bars, the group is taken over by Masami, his girlfriend. But when Aizawa commits suicide in jail, Masami's tenuous grip on the...

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Ryo Kase · Akemi Kobayashi · Daisuke Kizaki · Mantarô Koichi

Synopsis Yuichiro (Ryo Kase) is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their...

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Susumu Terajima · Rinko Kikuchi · Bunmei Tobayama · Shunsuke Sawada

Synopsis The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work out at the beginning but as time goes by the newly formed...

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Maki Sakai · Gen Hoshino · Shingo Tsurumi · Kanji Tsuda

Synopsis Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo, but wasn't popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help...

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Mai Hoshiko · Mitsuko Ishii · Hiroshi Ohmori · Shunsuke Sawada

Synopsis Widowed young, Masuda Etsuko runs a small-town garage/gas-station on her own. Nervous bank robber Sawada (he keeps throwing up when stressed) enters her life pretending to be a customer, and takes the meagre contents of her till at knifepoint. But...