Kou Machida

August in the Water

Gakuryû Ishii

Rena Komine, Shinsuke Aoki

A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.

鏡心

Gakuryû Ishii

Miwako Ichikawa, Kou Machida

An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise.

エンドレス・ワルツ

Kōji Wakamatsu

Kou Machida, Léona Hirota

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe (Ko Machida) and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki (Reona Hirota).

やわらかい肌

Hisayasu Satô

Moeko Ezawa, Tomomi Kuribayashi

Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.

H Story

Nobuhiro Suwa

Béatrice Dalle, Kou Machida

An autobiographical docudrama about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour.

ロビンソンの庭

Masashi Yamamoto

Kumiko Ota, Kou Machida

Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the civilization she had already left.

黒い家

Yoshimitsu Morita

Seiyo Uchino, Shinobu Ōtake

A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent visits her house only to find that her young son has hanged himself. As he investigates further, more and more people connected with this family start having "accidents," and if he's not careful, he might be next.

大阪物語

Jun Ichikawa

Chizuru Ikewaki, Kôsuke Nanno

Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.

ロマンティックマニア

Toshiki Sato

Sachiko Suzuki, Kou Machida

アトランタ・ブギ

Masashi Yamamoto

Masaharu Fukuyama, Gorô Kishitani

"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.

爆裂都市

Gakuryû Ishii

Michiro Endo, Shigeru Izumiya

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.

ちょっとの雨ならがまん

Junji Yasuda

Kou Machida, Gakuryû Ishii

An in-depth and stylish look at the hardcore punk scene in Japan at the late half of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's. Features bands such as GASTUNK, THE EXECUTE, GAUZE among others.

猫町

Shojiro Urahama

Kou Machida

A fantasy world with only cats as far as the eye can see. The awe and fear a person can feel in a world that doesn't know mankind.