Keisuke Toyoshima
2021非女子図鑑
Yoshihiro Fukagawa, Renpei Tsukamoto
Rika Adachi, Jiji Bû
This is an omnibus of six short films by six different directors, whose lead characters are unconventional women. They are "Hijoshi," females who live true to themselves and their desires.
An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women
海のふた
Keisuke Toyoshima
Akiko Kikuchi, Azusa Mine
Mari is exhausted by life in the city and opens up a shop selling snow cones in the small town of Nishiizu where she grew up. The simple flavors of her cold desserts soothe the emotional wounds of her customers and Mari comes to terms with herself by spending time with a young woman with a scarred face.
There Is No Lid on the Sea
ユメ十夜
Nobuhiro Yamashita, Kon Ichikawa
Kyoko Koizumi, Suzuki Matsuo
Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.
Ten Nights of Dreams
森山中教習所
Keisuke Toyoshima
Shūhei Nomura, Kento Kaku
Kiyotaka Sato (Shuhei Nomura) is a university student. He is sociable, but he looks like he doesn't have interest in those around him. During his summer vacation, Kiyotaka Sato plans to get his driver's license to impress schoolmate Matsuda (Yukino Kishii). At this time, a yakuza boss (Ken Mitsuishi) orders Todoroki (Kento Kaku) to get his driver’s license. Todoroki doesn't show his feelings outwardly. Later, Todoroki drives a car without a driver’s license and he hits Kiyotaka Sato. To cover up the accident, Kiyotaka Sato is placed in a car and taken to away. He arrives at an unofficial driving school. The driving school is run by the Uehara family. There, Kiyotaka Sato and Todoroki learn that they graduated from the same high school. They spend their summer at the driving school.
Moriyamachu Driving School
花宵道中
Keisuke Toyoshima
Yumi Adachi, Yasushi Fuchikami
Japan around 1860: popular courtesan Asagiri will be freed soon from her service, yet she cannot imagine any other existence. Until one day at a local festival, Asagiri meets the young artisan Hanjiro by chance – an encounter that changes her destiny. With a strong performance by leading actress Yumi ADACHI and exquisite camerawork and production design, A COURTESAN WITH FLOWERED SKIN succeeds in recalling the golden age of Japanese erotic film.
A Courtesan with Flowered Skin
コワイ女
Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki
Noriko Nakagoshi, Tasuku Emoto
Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. A compilation of 3 separate short horror films (Rattle Rattle, Hagane, The Inheritance) written and directed by Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, and Keisuke Toyoshima respectively. The first segment, “Rattle Rattle”, tells the story of a young woman who is pursued by an evil other-worldly being. The second movie, “Steel”, concerns a young man who agrees to take the sister of his boss out on a blind date, drawing him into a world more frightening than he ever dreamed possible. The third and final episode, “The Inheritance”, is a supernatural tale of a woman and her young son, scarred by abuse and psychological trauma.
Unholy Women
ソフトボーイ
Keisuke Toyoshima
Kento Nagayama, Kento Kaku
High school student Noguchi learns that there isn't a single male softball team in the nearby area. He figures if he starts up a softball team, they are sure thing to go to the national tournament. He then persuades his friend Onitsuka to help him start a softball club. Once Noguchi and Onitsuka rounds up enough players, they teams preps to win one all important game in the tournament.
Softball Boys
ヒーローマニア -生活-
Keisuke Toyoshima
Masahiro Higashide, Masataka Kubota
Nakatsu was laid off at his company and now works part-time at a convenience store. One day, Nakatsu forms a vigilante group to protect his town with Toshida, who has a mysterious physical ability, Kanari, who is a female high school student with excellent information gathering abilities, and Kusaki, who wields hammers under his sleeves. As they punish evil doers, the group gains popular support and flourish.
Maniac Hero
幽霊 vs 宇宙人 03
Takashi Shimizu, Keisuke Toyoshima
Yūrei Yanagi, Takashi Yamanaka
A two-part feature directed separately by Shimizu and his colleague Keisuke Toyoshima. Unrelated to each other, both have a common goal: to bring ghosts and aliens together in pure, referential and absurdistic delirium, including neo-Nazi specters, zombie yakuzas and nasty aliens.
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Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan (Volume 3, Part 2)
Hirono Yamada, Kenji Murakami
Mei Kurokawa, Ayano Yamamoto
A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals.
Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: Volume 3, Part 2
幽霊 vs 宇宙人 02
Takashi Shimizu, Keisuke Toyoshima
Takashi Shimizu, Keisuke Toyoshima
Horror, gag, and entertainment by Keisuke Toyoshima of "Heller master Shimizu Takashi ×" Kaidan New Ear Bag Nobuhiro "!" Hellstone catching out hell "and" Alien of the table "are included.
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