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- When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.
- It's a nice lovestory between sister and brother
- After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.
- Two young women and a sex date who turns out to be an alright guy. What follows is a classic love triangle, however so skillfully played that most of it comes out rather fresh.
- A group of eccentric students decide to make a movie. But, when their star suddenly quits, this witty ensemble cast begins to live the film, including murder, deception and true love. Japan. Japanese w/ Eng subtitles. Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival.
- Life in the village may seem monotonous to a junior high school student. Local bullies are trouble and parents are annoying. Then one exciting day in 1987 Takashi hears a rumour that a porn star called Kyoko is visiting the village to sign autographs at the local video store - and it happens to be the one he frequents. Takashi and his friends have something for which to be excited.
- The film stars Ken Mitsuishi as a 50-year-old single father named Miyata Junichi. Back in junior high, Junichi was bullied and made a promise to himself that he would grow up to be really cool. Junichi has been raising his two children, an unemployed 19-year-old named Toshiya (Morioka Ryu) and an 18-year-old high school senior named Momoko (Yoshinaga Jun) on his own since his wife died of cancer 15 years earlier. He works extremely hard as a truck driver to buy whatever he thinks his kids want; and even though money is tight, he never lets it show. One day, Junichi feels ill and becomes obsessed with the idea that he may be dying of cancer like his wife. Convinced his life will soon be ending, he begins putting his affairs in order and borrows tuition money from his best friend and only confidant, Sanada (Taguchi Tomorowo). However, in his never-ending attempt to be a cool adult, he refuses to burden his children with any of his problems.
- There has been a surge in the number of people killing themselves; a mysterious DVD is found on the bodies of the victims. Nozomi falls under the spell of a deadly cult. Yousuke, the policeman she is dating, soon realizes that the cult has something to do with the DVD. Then one day all trace of the group disappear along with Nozomi
- 17 year old Norio elopes with his 34 year old teacher to Tokyo. There he is supposed to prep for law school, while they both live off the teacher's savings. Unfortunately both money and Norio's scholarly abilities are running low.
- Set in Gunma Prefecture and featuring Gunma-born actor and director, the trading post is a second-hand shop whose motto and modus operandi is to accept anything and everything. However, the shop is a hub with many regulars who simply drop in as well. Then there is a foretelling that things are going to fall apart.
- You can't choose your mother but you can choose your victim.
- Takeshi not only fails at his chosen career as a film director, but also at home. Kicked out by his wife, he moves in with his ill brother. While Takeshi's wife pushes for divorce, he is dead set on saving the marriage. Even lovely Ryoko cannot divert his attention - or so he thinks. A black-and-white tale of life, love and personal growth.
- Following the 2011 tsunami, three women reunite in the family home only to rekindle tense, ruinous relationships.
- The vampires attack humans to take blood, to live, to survive. A vampire with two sons attacks humans and pays for it by dying forever leaving behind an older brother who feels responsible for his younger sibling. yet, he too has no choice, but to attack humans.
- A seventeen-year-old boy in Urayasu Chiba Prefecture dreams of becoming a film director. He carries an 8mm camera and shoots around town for fun. He and two friends get together in a park and pass time. Aware of a woman's stalker they decide to become involved. This becomes their source of excitement. Their friendship, however, ends up being on the line.
- Kadowakis' house has a fig tree in the yard. Mr Kadowaki is a construction worker who finds a job in Tokyo. Mrs Kadowaki is a housewife. He keels over and dies one day necessitating the woman to move in with their daughter and finding a job. She starts a relationship with her employer and they move back to her old house as a couple. The tree is still there yet the cast of characters are undergoing even more turbulence.
- The setting is a local port town. Shun Kosaka has a dream of becoming a novelist and lives in a byte at convenience stores at night. He happened to meet Natsuki, and his life began to change. However, they get involved in an incident related to the local mafia.
- Maiko (Ishikawa) is a 17 year old aspiring picture book writer who was abandoned by her widowed father at the age of 3 and has lived in a foster home ever since. She meets Lisa (Fujimoto), also 17, and the two quickly form a bond of understanding as they help each other work out their problems. Lisa holds a grudge against her mother for paying more attention to the men she brings home than her own daughter and Maiko begins to doubt her artistic dream will ever come to fruition after a book editor judges her writing ability harshly.