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- You tear through rock and steel: your only hope. For between the enemy and victory lies a devastating weapon, and between you and the enemy lies Tunnel B1.
- Compilation of five short idiosyncratic films and screenplays by five men who shared one common desire, "I want to make a movie!" Includes "Kenenn," on social issues, "Shuchaku Eki no Tsugi no Eki," set on a train, "Payday," of past and present, "Remholic," filled with eclectic items, and "Two Shot," about stand-up comics.
- Yuichi Kaname (Jun Kaname) works as a time scoop hunter for the Time Scoop Company. The company exists sometime in the future and uses time travelling techniques to send its employees into the past to record how they live. Yuichi works with time navigator partner Minami Furuhashi (Anne Watanabe). The duo then travels back in time to the 16th century and monitors the Azuchi Castle, built by Oda Nobunaga and burned down 6 years later. (Source: Asian Wiki)
- When the bomb goes off in 2034 and the city is destroyed and inhabitable due to radiation the surviving children move to a southern island and lead a unique life. Hogirara is the story of 'hope gift love life.'
- Omori has worked as a mailman in Kanazawa for 30 years. Besides delivering mail, he also runs errands for elderly residents. One day, his bicycle is stolen. Mail that he was supposed to deliver was on the stolen bicycle. A young man is apprehended for stealing the bicycle, but he refuses to give the location of the bicycle and letters. Omori struggles to find the bicycle and the letters that he is supposed to deliver.
- The fourth movie in the highly successful Eko Eko Azarak series. Following the events of the second movie, Misa (this time played by TOEI poster child and Battle Royale II starlet, Natsuki Kato) discovers, along with the rest of Japan, the strength of her newly acquired powers when she and her friends are attacked in the woods.
- An illustrator from Tokyo meets the spirit of a young woman who died eight years ago.
- The making of the TV pilot 'Blackjack'.
- A girl must save a planet from being destroyed by a disembodied brains' robotic army.
- Director Marion Hänsel reflects on her admiration for the sky.
- When a visitor from the future shows up at school and instigates a reign of terror, a small group of students must find a way to stop the horror from spreading.
- A twenty-nine-year old philanderer slips while skating at a rink and is afflicted with memory loss. The salesman discovers a wedding ring in his briefcase later. He meets three women and each of them declares herself as his girlfriend. He sets up three dates to figure out whom he wants to marry. One works at a pharmaceutical company like he does, one is a tramp and one performs for children.
- A university professor's secret passion: a fetish for "blonde hair." His fantasies gradually escalate into reality.
- When a group of escaped convicts come across and old looking inn they decide to hide out there. But the guests at this inn get a new kind of room service when a mysterious potion summons a demon and causes a bloodthirsty zombies to rise from their graves in search of live prey.
- ITO Tetsuo, 22 is a senior in college working part-time at the local supermarket. One day, he meets Satoru, an attractive customer at the supermarket, taking care of her after collapsing from anemia. Soon they are dating. Satoru unemployed, she cooks and takes care of her family. Tetsuo is mysteriously drawn to Satoru and her-family her mother, Masako, a stern but attractive teacher, and Satoru's younger sister, Mitsuru, a sunny, open girl, in contrast to her withdrawn elder sister. The apparently straight laced and frail Satoru is beautiful, yet, considering that they slept together on their first date, she also seems to have a bold side. One evening, Mitsuru invites Tetsuo to a local pub, to warn him against becoming further involved with her sister, as Satoru is overly dependent on their mother and frequently uses her anemia to seduce men. Ignoring Mitsuru's warning, Tetsuo grows increasingly involved with Satoru. Apparently approved of by their stern mother, Tetsuo begins to spend time at their home. As Tetsuo grows increasingly infatuated with the enigmatic Satoru, he also senses that Satoru is spellbound by her mother in an unhealthy way. When Tetsuo advises Satoru to be more independent, Satoru coldly retorts, "My mother protects me, and I can't live without her. You don't understand the first thing about me. I need my family. I don't especially need you, "and walks away. Tetsuo is aghast. Where will their love lead? Will Satoru be able to liberate herself from her mother's spell?
- Small-time con man, Jiro (Shunsuke Matsuoka), makes his living tricking small businesses out of large sums of money. In the process he acquires a helpmate Kumiko, a refugee from her stepfather's sexual abuse. But things start to get out of control when yakuza boss Kamewada (Shohei Hino), muscles in on the action.
- A lady doctor and three nurses fight off a number of men attackers, in a confuse plot about pills who have strange effects on women's self-determination and sexual behaviour.
- Three high school students decide to challenge the legendary surf at Shonan Beach.
- An isolated Japanese teenager seeks consolation from his problems and worries by repairing a found boat.
- Izumi Yamazaki had a dream of making people laugh and she wanted to become a comedian. To achieve her dream, she went to Tokyo from her hometown of Fukui. She formed a gag comedy duo there, but the duo failed to attract a following. She became unhappy with her situation and she decided to give up on her dream. Izumi goes back to Fukui. When she attends a friend wedding there, she meets Keisuke Ochi who is the CEO of railway company. Keisuke scouts Izumi as a potential train attendant.
- 'Rockers' is an inconspicuous provincial rock band which could brag of empty halls and a single fan only. Jin (group soloist) desperately dreamed of a rock star career instead of a carpenter family business. Bassist Gaku-chan so much wanted to fly since childhood that has serious problems with the use of every possible types of psychotropic substances. Momo-chan (drums) have no luck in love, and every new failure only leaves crossed out tattoos on his body. Ko-chan (guitar) is a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their make-up skills. The band would drag to a bleak existence, until they forced to look for an additional guitar player and crazy talented and charismatic guitarist Tani joins them. Now when the group found its soul and the engine, they intend to fly to the top and reach all their dreams: to become professional musicians and stars, have a lot of fans, women and drugs.
- Living in an old Tokyo district, Kenichi works at a second-hand bookshop to support his sister, Yoko, a high school student. When Yoko graduates, she starts work at a photo shop. By the time, Kenichi's girlfriend has decided to marry someone else as she is tired of waiting for him. When Yoko starts dating Kenichi's best friend, Makoto , he is strangely resentful, but when Makoto is involved in a fatal accident, brother and sister resume their routine life. Until one day...
- Seven young Tokyoites get scammed into working as hosts for "Dog Days" bar. Will they be able to overcome their individual differences and keep the club open?
- Owing to an invention and machine, Akira and Nanako exchange bodies and inhabit one another's bodies and lives now. The machine is destroyed, but Manzou gives them an ultimatum to raise enough money to reassemble a machine in order to reverse the switch and what has happened. While they seem to succeed the money is diverted to pay off other obligations and the two re-engage with their effort pending Manzou's return.
- Ip Cheung and her husband, a senior police inspector, had been happily married for 18 years. One day, Ip runs into her neighbour, a Taiwanese woman. As they are talking, three men suddenly appeared and tried to kill them. The Taiwanese woman is killed but Ip and the kid, Yen, managed to escape. At the same time, Ip's husband commits suicide. His superior suspected him of corruption. Ip finds out that the Taiwanese woman was her husband's mistress and Yen, his illegitimate son. Ip is given custody of Yen but they are unable to get along. However she will save his live when the gang go after him.
- A young man has graduated from college and already secured a job. With his free days fast dwindling he opts to put his available time to good use by bicycling around Japan. The trip is interrupted when he crashes his bicycle into a lorry only to be taken to a local establishment for on-site treatment. Told from the vantage point of an older man's memory, the journey recalls the meeting, the locals, their relationships and environment.
- Based on the Japanese manga series "Ginga -Nagareboshi Gin-" by Takahashi Yoshihiro, this stage musicals follow the story of an Akita dog Gin, the son of the mighty hunting dog Riki. In order to take revenge on the ferocious killer bear Aka-Kabuto for his family, Gin joins the army of Ohu who also chases Aka-Kabuto. Together, they embark on an adventure to look for new comrades and fight against the killer.