Directorial debut by Kiridoshi Risaku, an accomplished film and cultural critic and author of "Miyazaki Hayao no ‘sekai'" and "Kaiju tsukai to shonen: Ultraman no sakka tachi". Mikoto (Mikoto) and Takashi (Sumori Ryubun) graduated from the same high school. Now in their twenties, they meet by...
Action - 'Testudon', one of the most famous foolish film festivals, made a foolish anthology film about 'Japan' with 26 directors. Naturally, the directors are also foolish enough, so that you might wonder if it is really about Japan or get headache at the screening.At least, some of the 26 various...
In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an emergency landing on Sado Island. The residents on the island have heard stereotypes of the British soldiers and have mixed feelings about the their new "guest."...
Momiji (Hoshimi Rika) is an ordinary student attending a cram school. She has a boyfriend who is also a fellow student, but she is still a virgin. The man she is in love with is her unrelated older brother, Akihiko, who is not related to her by blood, but who has remarried after being taken into...
#29 in the King of Minami series. Manda and his associates follow a debt-laden detective to Hiroshima, where they plan to collect from his former employer for engaging in wrongful termination, under the intentionally vague label of "restructuring."
In a near-future Japan, the "National Safety Act," aimed at preventing crime, is enforced. Three women—Maiko, Kayo, and Kimika—whose quantified mind levels were deemed abnormal, are detained in a psychiatric ward as dangerous individuals. However, the facility is nothing more than a slave...
#32 in the King of Minami series. When the failed president of a recruitment company turns to offering fake job titles for a fee, he is targeted by the yakuza and forced to borrow money from Ginjiro Manda. Despite his attempts to escape his debts by declaring bankruptcy, Manda has other plans.
In a near-future Japan, where wearing "AI glasses" has been made mandatory, individuals whose "mind levels" are deemed abnormal under the "National Safety Act" are confined to psychiatric wards. The director and his team begin horrifying "human experiments" on Ryoko, an undercover investigator...
Kumiko, a DJ of a popular radio program, and her advisor, Tsunoda, introduce horror stories received from listeners on the program... Includes episodes 1 "Merc" to 3 "Letters".
This delightful short is a world away from Tomomatsu's later works. It's a lovely story, told well. The reason that I tracked it down is because I'm quite a fan of Alice Sailor's music. She fronts new wave band Amaryllis and I was curious to see her acting. She has frequently supplied theme songs...
Sugiyama, a middle-aged salaryman who lives as a straight man, meets a young man called Hiroki at a gay bar. Hiroki looks just like someone Sugiyama had an affair with when he was younger...
