, 2h22 Directed byYukihiko Tsutsumi OriginJapon GenresDrama, Science fiction, Action, Adventure ActorsToshiaki Karasawa, Arata Iura, Takako Tokiwa, Yoriko Dōguchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Takashi Ukaji Rating66% En 1969, Kenji et sa bande de copains passent leurs vacances d’été à rêver de l’exposition universelle d’Osaka et à s’inventer un scénario catastrophe de fin du monde dans leur cahier des prédictions. À cette époque, Kenji voulait devenir une rock star et sauver l’humanité. En 1997, Kenji aide sa mère dans la supérette de quartier tout en jouant la baby-sitter pour sa nièce Kanna. Ses rêves de gamin resurgissent lorsque la police le questionne sur une mystérieuse organisation dont le symbole serait identique à celui inventé dans le cahier des prédictions de sa jeunesse. Tous les indices mènent à une mystérieuse secte dont le chef se fait appeler Ami.
, 1h44 Directed byKiyoshi Kurosawa OriginJapon GenresDrama, Thriller ActorsKōji Yakusho, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Ren Osugi, Yoriko Dōguchi, Jun Fubuki, Yutaka Matsushige Roles Chizuru Jinbo Rating67% Goro Yabuike is a hostage negotiator. He attends an incident where an MP is being held at gunpoint. The captor's ransom note reads "Restore the Rules of the World". When Yabuike has a chance to shoot the hostage-taker he hesitates. The captor kills the MP, and is in turn killed by the police. Afterwards Yabuike explains that he thought he could help both men. He is suspended from duty.
, 1h35 Directed byAtaru Oikawa GenresHorror ActorsMami Nakamura, Miho Kanno, Yoriko Dōguchi, Tomorowo Taguchi, Kenji Mizuhashi Roles Dr. Hosono Rating52% The film opens with the police investigating the murder of high school girl Tomie Kawakami (Miho Kanno). They learn that in the months following the crime, nine students and one teacher have either committed suicide or gone insane. The detective assigned to the case learns that three years prior another Tomie Kawakami was murdered in rural Gifu prefecture. Other slain Tomie Kawakami's are discovered stretching all the way back to the 1860s, right when Japan began to modernize. The detective tracks down one of Tomie's classmates called Tsukiko (Mami Nakamura), an art student who is being treated for amnesia. She has absolutely no memory of the three-month period around Tomie's death, and is starting to suspect the cause has a supernatural source. Meanwhile, Tsukiko's neighbor is rearing a peculiar baby-like creature. Over the span of a couple weeks, it grows into a beautiful teenaged girl with orange eyes responding to the name of Tomie Kawakami.
, 1h55 Directed byKiyoshi Kurosawa OriginJapon GenresThriller, Horror, Crime ActorsKōji Yakusho, Anna Nakagawa, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Yoriko Dōguchi, Yukijirō Hotaru Roles Dr. Akiko Miyajima Rating74% Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho) is an emotionally repressed police detective with a mentally unstable wife. Takabe investigates a series of bizarre murders. Though each victim is killed in the same way, with a large "X" carved into their neck, the perpetrator is different each time. In every case the murderers are caught close to the scene of the crime, and although they readily confess to committing the crimes, they never have a substantial motive and cannot explain what drove them to kill.
, 2h28 Directed byShunji Iwai OriginJapon GenresDrama, Crime ActorsHiroshi Mikami, Chara, Ayumi Itō, Yōsuke Eguchi, Tomoko Yamaguchis, Nene Ōtsuka Roles Hoshino Rating74% The film is set in Tokyo at an unspecified point in the near future when the Japanese yen has become the strongest currency in the world. This attracts an influx of immigrants, legal and illegal, to work in the city. The immigrants give the city the nickname Yen Town (円都, ien taun). The Japanese natives, however, despise the nickname, and in retribution call the immigrants by the homophone Yen Thieves (円盗, ien taun), anglicised as "Yentowns" in the film's English subtitles.