, 1h48 Directed byYoshihiro Nakamura GenresDrama, Comedy, Romance ActorsNishikido Ryo, Rie Tomosaka, Fuku Suzuki, Shiori Kutsuna, Hitomi Satō Roles Yoshie Hiraishi Rating69% Based on a manga by Gen Araki, the film chronicles the adventures of a samurai who accidentally travels through time from Edo-era Japan to present-day Japan where he meets a single working mother and her young son.
The story takes place in Maoka City, Karafuto, Japan (Currently Kholmsk, Sakhalin, Russian Federation) during the final year of the Pacific War. Nine telephone operators in Maoka took their own lives by taking potassium cyanide when the Soviet Union invaded the city on August 20, 1945. The TV drama is based on this incident and is partially fictional (names of the characters, etc.).
, 1h52 Directed byEiichirō Hasumi GenresDrama, Action ActorsHideaki Itō, Ai Katō, Nene Ōtsuka, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Saburō Tokitō, Ken Ishiguro Rating59% Following the decommissioning of the patrol vessel Nagare (ながれ), Daisuke Senzaki, a Japan Coast Guard (JCG) rescue diver, is posted to the 10th Region Mobile Rescue Unit, based at Kagoshima Air Station. The film's opening sequence depicts a plane crash in stormy seas, where Senzaki battles the elements to keep two victims alive. The adverse conditions prevents the dropping of additional divers to aid Senzaki, and he struggles to keep all three of them on the floating wreckage which has become their lifeboat. Senzaki is only able to hold onto an adult male, while a young boy struggles to hang on by himself. At this point, the adult lets go of Senzaki's hand; a cue for him to grab hold of the boy instead. Senzaki manages to keep the boy alive, but the heroic gesture by the other victim meant that he himself drowns. Senzaki soon becomes plagued with guilt and self-doubt due to this episode, as he had once pledged not to let anymore victims die before his eyes.
, 1h50 Directed byIsao Yukisada OriginJapon GenresDrama, Romance ActorsRena Tanaka, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Ayumi Itō, Shuji Kashiwabara, Chizuru Ikewaki, Tarō Yamamoto Roles News announcer Rating64% Un groupe d'amis se réunit chez l'un d'entre eux pour fêter son emménagement. Pendant la soirée, ils suivent en direct à la télévision l'histoire d'un homme coincé dans un mince espace entre deux immeubles, et celle d'une baleine échouée sur une plage proche.
, 1h47 Directed byKiyoshi Kurosawa OriginJapon GenresDrama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror ActorsKōji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku, Yūsuke Santamaria, Akira Emoto, Hitomi Satō, Timothy Olyphant Roles Takano Rating63% At a medical instrument manufacturing company, timid engineering scientist Michio Hayasaki (Koji Yakusho) struggles to develop a robotic chair that could mobilise a clinically paralysed person. He realises he's not getting anywhere with it. Not while his company keeps making demands and issuing deadlines on him. Highly stressed, he bitterly realises he doesn't have the courage to bite back.
, 1h32 Directed byHideo Nakata OriginJapon GenresScience fiction, Horror ThemesGhost films ActorsMiki Nakatani, Kyōko Fukada, Masahiro Motoki, Nanako Matsushima, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Hiroyuki Sanada Roles Masami Kurahashi Rating58% While inspecting the corpse of Sadako Yamamura, the forensic experts note evidence that Sadako has died only a year or two ago, meaning that she was still alive in the sealed well for almost thirty years. They later reconstruct her body and send it to Takaishi Yamamura (Yoichi Numata), Sadako's uncle, who takes it on his boat and later casts it into the bottom of the ocean.
, 1h36 Directed byHideo Nakata OriginJapon GenresThriller, Fantasy, Horror ThemesGhost films ActorsNanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani, Rikiya Otaka, Yoichi Numata, Yūko Takeuchi Roles Masami Kurahashi Rating71% Two teenagers, Masami (Hitomi Satō) and Tomoko (Yūko Takeuchi), talk about a videotape recorded by a boy in Izu which is fabled to bear a curse that kills the viewer seven days after watching. Tomoko reveals that a week ago, she and three of her friends watched a weird tape and received a call after watching. Tomoko is killed by an unseen force as Masami watches, horrified.
, 1h49 Directed byMasato Harada GenresDrama, Crime ActorsKōji Yakusho, Hitomi Satō, Jun Murakami, Yasue Sato, Shin Yazawa, Kaori Momoi Roles Jonko Rating70% Dans un Tokyo moderne et branché, des jeunes filles abordent chacune la vie de manière bien différente. Alors que certaines d’entre elles vendent leur corps naïvement, d’autres tentent de profiter de ce système ancré curieusement dans les entrailles de la capitale japonaise. Ainsi, Jonko joue un jeu dangereux : elle prétend coucher avec des hommes mûrs, mais dès que le client n’est plus sur ses gardes, elle l’assomme, lui vole son argent et s’enfuie. Elle entend ainsi profiter de ces hommes et du système en général qui veut que les petites écolières soient si prisées au Japon. La jeune Jonko rencontre bientôt Lisa, qui vient à peine de se faire voler toutes les économies qu’elle avait mis de coté afin de s’envoler pour New York. Epaulée par Raku, Jonko va user et abuser des ficelles qu’elle connaît si bien pour regagner en une nuit l’argent qui permettrait à Lisa de prendre l’avion qui doit décoller le lendemain.