Masahiro Toda

ハヴァ、ナイスデー

Kenji Yamauchi, Asako Hyuga

Sayuri Oyamada, Go Ayano

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.

イケルシニバナ

Torico

Flip-Flap, Fujiko

In this surreal, Lynchian debut feature from Japan, an unsuspecting slacker is sucked into a strange and deadly parallel universe when he starts to play a mysterious videogame that seems to kill those who play it.

磁石男

Yoichi Matsunaga, Satoru Nakajima

Osamu Mukai, Saki Aibu

56年目の失恋

Yukihiro Toda

Ayami Nakajo, Kanata Hongo

Apprentice chef Saori Nakagawa suddenly travels to Tokyo in 1964 to meet Ryuichi Kikuchi, a cook. From Kikuchi who devotes himself to cooking, Saori learns what is really important. The love of two people over 56 years.

Cure

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki

A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere...

刑務所の中

Yôichi Sai

Tsutomu Yamazaki, Теруюки Кагава

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.

カナリア

Akihiko Shiota

Hoshi Ishida, Mitsuki Tanimura

Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system.

ヴァイブレータ

Ryuichi Hiroki

Shinobu Terajima, Nao Ōmori

Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks excessively. On Valentine's Day, she meets truck driver Takatoshi. She joins him on a journey in his bumpy and shaky truck - which vibrates in tune with her uneasy soul.

害虫

Akihiko Shiota

Aoi Miyazaki, Yu Aoi

13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit suicide by slashing her wrist. Her teacher, whom she relies on heavily, leaves for northern Japan to take another job. Other students start to gossip about Sachiko and her former teacher. Sachiko then drops out of school and attempts to find herself.

ニンゲン合格

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Shun Sugata

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.

Charisma

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Koji Yakusho, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.

さよならみどりちゃん

Tomoyuki Furumaya

Sayuri Oyamada, Hidetoshi Nishijima

Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the shallow but charming Yutaka, she willingly succumbs to his lascivious advances only to discover afterward that he already has a girlfriend by the name of Midori. Even so, Yuko's feelings for Yutaka continue to grow regardless of his aloofness. Before long she finds herself reluctantly cajoled into working as a hostess in a small karaoke bar. Fatalistically accepting his dalliances with flames old and new, she perseveres not so much in hope of a more substantial relationship, but rather out of fear of losing him. There are other men out there waiting for her -- kinder, more considerate and eagerly available. But for Yuko, there is only the non-committal, yet torridly magnetic Yutaka. Why him? Not even Yuko seems to know the answer.

月

Takumi Kimizuka

Rie Imamura, Seijun Suzuki

A humanity drama set in Asakusa. Natsumi, a third-year high school student, moved to Tokyo when his grandmother died. Haruka, the flower-shaped stripper who is the mother, cannot hide the dreadfulness from the sudden appearance of her daughter. Living together is always addicted, Natsumi refuses her mother. On the other hand, Haruka is faced with a lover's debt problem.

イン・ザ・プール

Satoshi Miki

Suzuki Matsuo, Joe Odagiri

A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.

陰日向に咲く

Yuichiro Hirakawa

Junichi Okada, Aoi Miyazaki

Shinya is in debt as a result of his gambling habit. He attempts to defraud an old woman with a bank transfer scam, but the woman reminds him of his late mother and they start to relate to each other. Meanwhile, Shinya meets a girl called Hisako in town, and ends up helping her to find out the whereabouts of an unsuccessful comedian, Raita, whom her mother was in love with in her youth. Shinya's father, Ryutaro, is disowned by his son after his wife's death. When Ryutaro meets a homeless man called Moses, he starts living on the street as well. One day when the old woman dies, Moses comes to the deceased and confesses his past. Subsequently Shinya resumes communicating with his father Ryutaro.

東京ゴミ女

Ryuichi Hiroki

Mami Nakamura, Kazuma Suzuki

Miyuki doesn't need to stalk the man she's crazy about, because he lives one floor down. He's Yoshinori, a not very successful long-haired musician. Miyuki, a coffee-shop waitress, nods when they pass on the stairs, but hasn't yet dared to strike up a conversation. Instead she slips out every night and helps herself to his trash.