Osamu Shigematu

ホコリと幻想

Shigeyuki Totsugi, Minami

Lost in Translation

Sofia Coppola

Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

百円の恋

Masaharu Take

Sakura Andō, Hirofumi Arai

Slacker Ichiko gets into a fight with her younger sister and begins to live on her own, working the late shift at a 100 yen shop. On her way home, she passes a gym and meets middle-aged boxer Kano who trains there in silence...

ココニイルコト

Masahiko Nagasawa

Machiko Kochi, Масато Сакаи

After being sent away from the man she loves, Shino wanders in Osaka, waiting for him to reach out again.

青い鳥

Kenji Nakanishi

Hiroshi Abe, Kanata Hongo

Higashigaoka Junior High School is in turmoil as one of the pupils, Noguchi, who had been bullied, attempted suicide last term. On the first day of the new term, a substitute teacher arrives to take the second year class. When the teacher, Murauchi (Hiroshi Abe), introduces himself, the pupils are surprised by his stutter. He has a speech impediment. Unable to speak eloquently, Murauchi faces his pupils with ‘words of truth’. His first instruction to the pupils is to return Noguchi’s desk and chair to the original place in the classroom. Every morning Murauchi greets the empty desk, “Good morning, Noguchi.” This causes a ripple beyond the classroom and among other teachers and parents, but Murauchi will not stop doing it. Eventually the day comes when Murauchi must leave.

独立少年合唱団

Akira Ogata

Atsushi Ito, Sora Tôma

A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo (Sora Toma), convinces him to join the choir.

突入せよ! あさま山荘事件

Masato Harada

Koji Yakusho, Ryûdô Uzaki

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.

狗神

Masato Harada

Yuki Amami, Atsuro Watabe

Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.

Whiteout

Setsurô Wakamatsu

Yuji Oda, Nanako Matsushima

A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the government with a 24 hour deadline in exchange for the lives of the hostages. To make things more complicated, there was a snowstorm and no one can get in or out near the area. Fortunately, the terrorists did not capture Togashi, the dam controller, and he is the only person who can rescue those hostages from the terrorists...

高校教師 失神！

Fumihiko Kato

Rena Kuroki, Chieko Harada

A female teacher, Kumi Yamamoto, was raped by a man, Yuichi Kobayashi ,who failed to commit suicide after the crime. Kumi knows that Yuichi is driving a taxi in the city. She is about to collect the moral debt.

ミッドナイト・イーグル

Izuru Narushima

Ken Ishiguro, Takao Osawa

A stolen military aircraft with nuclear missiles on board crashes in the snowbound Northern Japanese Alps. Two teams of rangers from Japan's Defense Force must reach the craft before the enemies do.