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- A young woman's desperate search for her twin sister brings her to a ghost-filled stretch of wilderness known as the 'Suicide Forest.'
- A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Soon he finds an unlikely protector in a crotchety man and the two have a series of unexpected adventures along the way.
- A recently divorced writer is reunited with the ghosts of his parents who died when he was a boy. However, every time he sees them he loses more life energy. Now, he must choose between starting a new life or staying forever in the past.
- The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.
- Tatsu (Hiroshi Tamaki) is 38 years old. He was once a legendary yakuza and was known as "Immortal Dragon" because he was so feared. He quit the yakuza and married Miku. Tatsu then became a househusband. He buries himself in housework.
- A stern young girl who yearns for romance, finds herself involved with a celebrity whose image reveals a hidden persona.
- Love on the edge, which can't get any closer than 10cm: Mitsuko, 31, who is getting used to a solo life and has a counselor named "A" in her brain, falls in love with a young man.
- Separated mother Kaoruko awaits the graduation of their daughter for the divorce proceedings to begin and subsequently be finalized. Tragedy strikes when the daughter will never graduate. She is comatose and brain dead due to an accident.
- Shinobugawa depicts the emerging love of a student, identified only as "I", for a young waitress named Shino.
- An owner of an upscale flower shop enjoys his single life and one day, a married customer approaches the shop owner to confess her feelings for him.
- Three sisters earn money by being street musicians. A number of loosely linked episodes ensue as the sisters who have different characters, variously become involved in the world of criminals, sacrifice themselves and find love.
- Story 1 : "The Thirteenth Night". Seki turns up at her parents' house in the dead of night, where she breaks down and says she cannot continue to live with her husband, a rich man to whom the family is indebted. After a tearful and long discussion, they convince her to return. On the way home, the rickshaw driver turns out to be an old school friend, and they reminisce about the old days. .... Story 2 : "The Last Day Of The Year". Mine is a hard-working maid in the house of a miserly, slave-driving old woman who is burdened by a wastrel son, who pesters the old woman and her new husband for money to pay off gambling debts. Mine's uncle is her only surviving relative, and the man who raised her, who is very ill and needs money to repay a loanshark. Mine promises to borrow the money from her employer but, although the old woman initially agrees, she breaks that promise on the due date, New Year's Eve. Can honest Mine resist the temptation to steal ? ..... Story 3: "An Inlet of Muddy Water". The trials and tribulations of a group of young to middle-aged whores. All the women in this particular bawdy house look up to and admire the stunning O-Riki. But O-Riki is nevertheless troubled. Gen, a shabby coolie, hangs around and pesters her, despite having a long-suffering wife and a young son, who calls O-Riki "The Demon". One night, desperate for clients, several of the girls lunge at and literally drag some passers-by inside. One of these men is cultured and gentlemanly, and becomes O-Riki's regular client. She looks forward to his visits and hopes he will marry her. Meanwhile, Gen's wife alternates between solicitousness and harassment, and home life becomes tough.
- An author has special insight, which he uses to write his novels and give them colour and depth. Consequetlly, he can identify troubled people by recognizing sings and patterns in them. He is typically correct when he encounters a suicidal person. His friends and he spring into action to try to mitigate suicides.
- UNDERCOVER X is a psycho-thriller. It tells the story of Detective Truck Baker (Scott Shaw) who inadvertently discover an Asian crime ring when he is seduced by a female member of the family.
- Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taking in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence.
- Sento-loving Nono moves into a place with a sento. She meets Kukiko, the owner's granddaughter, and Alissa, a foreign student who is ashamed to get naked at a sento.
- This Traveltalks entry looks at pre-World War II Tokyo, highlighting the influences of Western culture.
- Historically, Japanese wedding ceremonies were performed in Shinto Shrines. Intimate ritual calls attention to the unreserved popularity of the sensibility or "mode of being" which is characterized as perverted by theater.
- Chris Jiménez follows Sanae Nagashima with his camera in her journey from the crowded streets of Asakusa to the ancient castle of Tsuchiura.
- Fourth film in the "Shôwa Zankyôden" series. This expression means duty, obligations, and rules obeyed by gangsters and outlaws in the pre-Shôwa era.
- A desperate cry of sadness and sorrow emerges from deep inside a city's outskirts old hotel. A bone-chilling mystery hides behind the door of the 301 room.
- First documentary shot by Chris Jiménez in Japan, where he visits the most distinct and enthralling places, from the crowded streets of Shinjuku to the Shinto Meiji-jingu in Shibuya through the quiet and inconspicuous city of Moriya (where he would shoot his other documentary "Moriya, my City") or the great Senso-ji in Asakusa.
- Why the Fools Dance is a documentary exploring a group of performers who use a 17th century Japanese dance to express themselves and invoke their culture.
- Legendary man, Tenkai Kanou, is back to Asakusa (a.k.a Enko) after being sent into exile for 3 years. Through the good-old Sumida river on the board, he meets this mysterious girl, Ami, who's dreaming to debut as singer in the United States with Enka-Song. With the fellows who admire Tenkai, he keeps expanding his territory by despoiling casinos and the others. And a little help from old-friend Reiji, the executive of Kokubu Group, Takashi, the Comedian. As rampant as Tenkai is, he has always worried about his father who's at the top of Kokubu Group. Tenkai tricks TV producer in order to push comedian, Takashi. But he ends up being arrested. He has crossed the line he never should've. Now Tenkai and co are being targeted by Kokubu Group, even his own father is after him. The fellows are being killed one after one ... now is the time for Tenkai to show why he is the legendary man ...
- Europe performs in the music video "Let the Good Times Rock" from the album "Out of This World" recorded for Epic Records. The music video begins with shots from East Asia. Europe performs on stage with Joey Tempest singing for an enthusiastic crowd.
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