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- DirectorKei IshikawaStarsSakura AndôMasataka KubotaYôko MakiAkira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
- DirectorTakehiko ShinjôStarsMei HataRihito ItagakiRikoMaaya Kisaragi (Mei Hata) is a second year high school student. For the first time in her life, she confesses her feelings to a male student that she likes. But, she becomes broken hearted and experiences gloomy days. At that time, Sui Chigira (Kyohei Takahashi) comes to her and suggests that they should do a pretened unrequited love play. Sui Chigira is a student at the same high school that Maaya Kisaragi attends. He is a top athlete at school and has a good appearance. He is also popular among female students. Sui Chigira and Maaya Kisaragi begin their unrequited love play, but there are rules for the play. The rules are to never like and to never get caught by people. While doing the unrequited love play, Maaya Kisaragi's broken heart gets healed by Sui Chigira and she wants to get closer to him. What are Sui Chigira's true feelings for her?
- DirectorKatsuyuki MotohiroStarsMackenyuHaruma MiuraKen'ichi MatsuyamaLike most students Aoi is a member of an extracurricular club at school and practices archery. Due to ample practice, Aoi is good at it. The members are mostly good friends. All is well until blitz and thunder hit the premises and the school and its students are not the same anymore. They are transported to a different era, one in which samurai roamed Japan. The students are not only caught in an anachronism, but they are also in the midst of a historic battle.
- DirectorYves MontmayeurStarsJacques ObadiaGergana MuskallaLaurent LedererTakeshi Kitano is an international icon known as actor and multi-award-winning filmmaker, but the former street kid from Tokyo close to the Yakuza has also an double personality as a crazy TV star and political satirist who blasted taboos.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsDaigo NishihataMizuki YamamotoYûta HiraokaMysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting between reality and the virtual world.
- DirectorMorio AsakaKotono WatanabeStarsKento KakuMinami HamabeBanjô GingaSara and Naranbayar, a princess and young man from either country who meet by chance, and find that they must act as a couple to maintain peace in their realms. Even so, they find that they slowly fall for each other.
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsJô ShishidoHiroyuki NagatoRuriko AsaokaWhen one billion yen goes AWOL, "Joe the Ace" (Shishido) spies an opportunity to get rich quick, but things soon go wrong as it turns out he isn't the only one who'll stop at nothing to get his hands on the missing cash.
- DirectorIzuru NarushimaStarsNana MoriMaki SakaiMasaki SudaMasajiro Miyazawa owns and runs a pawn shop for generations. His first son is Kenji and his daughter is Toshi Miyazawa. Kenji is supposed to take over the pawn shop as the first son, but he refuses. Masajiro is soft on his son. Meanwhile, Toshi is smart and wise. She gives advice to her father and her older brother. One day, Toshi gets sick.
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsNoboru NakayaKazuko InanoMieko NishioIchiro is obsessed with the idea that his wife had an affair with his deceased father for whom she modeled as a teenager. In search of the truth, he stumbles into an unsettling affair with Akiko and her sister. This very experimental and sexually explicit film is based on a novel by Junnosuke YOSHIYUKI, who was inspired by the Paul Klee painting of the same name. It foreshadows the Nikkatsu genre "Roman Porno", which helped Nikkatsu avert bankruptcy.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsCorey AllenRebecca WellesRichard BakalyanA planned kidnapping goes awry when the gang leader falls for the victim.
- DirectorRyo TakebayashiStarsRyô IkedaWan MaruiYûgo MikawaAkemi Yoshikawa discovers that her whole office is stuck in a time loop, repeating the same stressful work week over and over. Together with her colleagues she has to find out how to break the loop.
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsMitsuo HamadaSayuri YoshinagaMasako IzumiA delinquent, budding yakuza has a clash of sensibilities with his good girlfriend in this gritty tearjerker.
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsHideyo AmamotoTomio AokiReiko AraiThe middle-aged Shokichi, shop owner and widower, could never forget his first love. One day, Akiko, a painter, appears in the gallery with the painting titled "Woman". Shokichi surprised to find that painting is actually his first love.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsKanna HashimotoDaiki ShigeokaMinato ShougakiAfter beloved wife and mother Miyuki tragically dies, her little son chants a resurrection spell in the hope of reviving her. But something evil is pulsing underground, and a child's pure wish awakens a vengeful monster.
- DirectorNorihiro KoizumiStarsYôsuke EguchiKanata HosodaSora InoueSousuke Aoyama attends a university. His parents died in an accident and he is still unable to get pass his sadness over their deaths. While working his part-time job at an exhibition gallery, he sees ink wash paintings and becomes fascinated by the works. Standing nearby, ink wash painting master Kozan Shinoda notices Sousuke's fascination with the works. Kozan talks to Sousuke and suggests that he should become his pupil to learn how to draw ink wash paintings.
- DirectorNobuhiro DoiStarsMasaki SudaKasumi ArimuraKaya KiyoharaA love story spanning 5 years between a man and a woman. A 22-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman both miss the last train at Meidaimae Station in Tokyo and meet there. Their relationship develops romantically.
- DirectorTetsu MaedaStarsTadanobu AsanoRyunosuke KamikiShinsuke KatoA commoner inherits lordship of debt-ridden Tanjousan Bun. Officials inform him of new role and substantial debts. He learns he is son of retired Daimyo when position becomes vacant.
- DirectorTakashi YamazakiStarsYui AragakiJyo KairiRyunosuke KamikiThe forbidden book "The Haunted Book" can make any wish come true, but in order to make your wish come true, you have to go through a life-threatening ordeal. What is the ordeal...!?
- DirectorMasayuki SuzukiStarsTôma IkutaGaku HamadaKanna HashimotoTwo estranged brothers inherit a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage to their late father; the other a struggling architect as lucrative real estate for condos.