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- DirectorJohn CairnsStarsRino HigaMax MackenzieAsami MizukawaSakura is your typical Japanese school girl that lives in a small town in the mountains. One day at school, during archery practice, her teacher and classmate start acting strange. Soon, all the men in the town turn aggressive and start attacking the women. Sakura goes on the run to find the source of the problem. Along the way she meets a mother and her son, who's been infected. She gets some supplies from the mother and soon encounters another woman, but she's not so friendly. She's holding 2 people captive. The captives aren't who they seem to be. What's the real cause of the madness?
- DirectorSabuStarsMakoto TogashiAyaka KomatsuTateto SerizawaA Japanese family acquires an undead domestic servant whose presence begins to affect their daily lives.
- DirectorTakashi YamazakiStarsShôta SometaniEri FukatsuAi HashimotoThe humanity is suffering from murders all over the globe, called "Mincemeat murders". High school student, Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, having replaced his right hand, and he might be the discoverer of truth.
- DirectorRyu KanedaStarsMotoki FukamiAkari HoshinoYukijirô HotaruA beautiful woman, Dr. Suzune Arizono, is a vet who specializes in parasites and who fights daily to end a parasitic plague on the human population. She learns that a sinister organization controls the plague that causes sexual arousal in its victims, using the parasites for the organization's own dark purpose. Suzune wakes up in a factory-like enclosed space. She has been kidnapped and imprisoned after the all-out fight at the Research Institute. In order to find her friends and escape the captors, Suzune teams up with Takaya, who has also been kept captive. The pair succeeds in rescuing their friends ... but can they find the way out?
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsSôta FukushiHirona YamazakiRyunosuke KamikiA group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsNijirô MurakamiJunko AbeMiyuki MatsudaOn a subtropical island, a teenage couple deal with the interwoven cycle of life, death and love.
- DirectorRyûichi HirokiStarsRen ÔsugiYôko HoshiJun Murakami(Japanese with English subtitles) Failed author Kurosaki tries to write cheap sadomasochistic porn for money in this sex farce directed by indie visionary Ryuichi Hiroki. Inexperienced in the world of S&M, Kurosaki hires young models to come to his home and act out various sexual scenarios. When his wife gets wind of this, she's none too pleased - and embarks on some new adventures of her own.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsHiroko ShimabukuroEriko ImaiTakako UeharaAfter her sudden death a teenage girl finds her father has uploaded her mind to computer form. With a rival corporation wishing to capture her the girl is uploaded to her boyfriend's laptop.
- DirectorHiroshi TakahashiStarsYôko ChôsokabeMina FujiiMomoko HatanoDr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian and Japanese guinea pigs that had been found in the basement of a wrecked hospital. Out of the blue, there is a white light and when they look back, they see they children Ota Miyuki and Kaori staring at the light. Years later, Miyuki vanishes from the Tama Medical University Hospital and her sister Kaori, Miyuki's boyfriend Motojima and detective Hirasawa are seeking her. However, Miyuki and the teenagers Kazochi, Takumi, Hattori and Rieko have been submitted to a nightmarish experiment by Dr. Hattori and her team with tragic results.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyûhei MatsudaMasanobu AndôShunsuke KubozukaA visually stylish tale of two male prisoners bonded by emotion, love and murder.
- DirectorYû IrieStarsKazuya KamenashiYûsuke IseyaKyôko FukadaIn Japan, Lieutenant Colonel Yuki (Yusuke Iseya) recommends the creation of spy training school "D Kikan".
- DirectorTakashi NishiharaStarsMika AkizukiNina EndôJunki TozukaNana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana confronts them in her yearning for love, but the world does not give it to her. With her whole life ahead of her, Nana struggles, suffers, and begins a search for the true meaning of love.
- DirectorKôji KawanoStarsRei YoshiiAsami ImajukuNaomi AkimotoIchiko and Eri are two Japanese university students who are in a lesbian relationship. Ichiko comes out to her father who tells her he is also gay and her mother was a lesbian. Her best friend is gay too, though he has a female who is after him. Their liaison is very intense, but Eri suggests a temporary separation so she can concentrate on her law studies. The break from their affair is difficult for Ichiko to deal with. But Eri soon sorts out her priorities.
- DirectorHirobumi WatanabeStarsSatoshi HaneishiMisao HirayamaKaoru IidaTakashi Hirayama, an unemployed, apathetic man, lives alone with his grandmother in Otawara City, Tochigi Prefecture. With no power or will to change his lazy lifestyle, he wastes his days away until one day, a girl comes to visit him, claiming to be the daughter of his dead father.
- DirectorRyûsuke HamaguchiStarsShôta SometaniKiyohiko ShibukawaHôshi IshidaWhen a boy loses his father he moves in with his older half-brother. The older sibling and is girlfriend are indeed kind and helpful and treat the boy well. Still, he is lonely and finds consolation in his love for dancing with his male friend. However, many strange occurrences are happening in town and the dance is taking an almost metaphysical dimension.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsArata IuraShinobu TerajimaShinnosuke MitsushimaIn 1970, famed Japanese writer Yukio Mishima commits suicide after leading a failed coup.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsKen YoshizawaRie YokoyamaYuki AresaA revolutionary faction steals some hand bombs. While escaping, several soldiers are killed. The movement's highest authority deems October unfit and sends the leader of another faction to take the remaining bombs.
- DirectorYûji TajiriStarsRinako HirasawaMutsuo YoshiokaMinami AiyamaHiroshi schemes to meet single mom Haruka by spilling her son Yuichiro's crickets. He bonds with Yuichiro over cricket wrestling while pursuing Haruka romantically. Rivals are Anzai, who desires Haruka, and Haruka's ex-husband Taro.
- DirectorTakashi IshiiStarsNaoto TakenakaKimiko YoJinpachi NezuA private investigator takes on an odd job to retrieve a lost Rolex, only to find himself lured into a case filled with violence and sex by his mysterious employer.
- DirectorGakuryû IshiiStarsEri AokiKôta FudauchiKeisuke HasebeFrom cult director Gakuryû Ishii, the apocalyptic story begins largely around a college campus and beyond where everyone is suffering horrible deaths in the most unusual and gruesome ways imaginable. Then more people die. Then people the dead came across die too. Is there an explanation for the deaths and what does it all portend?
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsShin'ya TsukamotoYûko NakamuraCoccoWhen a single mother suffers a nervous breakdown, she is suspected of child abuse and her child is taken away. Her mental suffering escalates as she succumbs to her darkest fantasies.
- DirectorSaiji YakumoStarsAkari HayamiAnna IshibashiAsuka KudôMiyazaki asks Noboru and Momose to pretend they are dating to stop bad rumor about him. Both begin to act like a couple in front of others and soon he begins to develop feelings for Momose, who is still in love with Miyazaki.
- DirectorYoshihiro NakamuraStarsMao InoueGô AyanoNanaoA young woman who works at cosmetic company becomes the prime suspect after her beautiful co-worker is murdered.
- DirectorShun NakaharaStarsSakiko TakaoMasaki MiuraMasashi EndôSayaka is a housewife living in an apartment complex. Her husband Yuji is always busy with work and they rarely have communication, let alone sex. Sayaka is surrounded by various neighbors such as the old man living by himself, a nagging woman and mischievous children. She feels uncomfortable and bored. One day Sayaka meets Teppei, a water filter salesman who seduces her. Naturally they make passionate love. In the daytime, they make love in various places including the kitchen, on the sofa in the living room, in the bedroom where she sleeps with her husband. Teppei got divorced a long time ago and he brings up his child alone. He indulges his passions as if he is running away from his stressful life and work. On the other hand, Sayaka gradually feels a pang of guilt. And one day she makes up her mind... Besides plethora sex scenes, this film depicts the loneliness and sadness that lurk in daily life. This is a remake of a film first produced in 1971 by Shogoro Nishimura.