Aoi Nakamura

Maho Minami returns to Japan with her half brother Ryusuke,who is an ultra talented guitarist.Ryosuke then meets Koyuki and soon enough Ryosuke and Koyuki form a 5 piece rock band named "Beck". The band starts to play live shows and grow an enthusiastic following. The release of their debut CD helps to further the band's popularity. The band then endures a producer's planned conspiracy and other hardships. Beck then receives an offer to play at a rock festival, but more trouble occures... (asianmediawiki.com)

The Yamano family lives in a secluded home in a remote Tokyo residential area. Their 27-year-old daughter Haruka suffered a compound fracture in a car accident while traveling in America. Haruka returns home in a wheelchair. There to meet her is her younger brother 19-year-old Koichi. Their father is away from the Yamano resident due to a business trip abroad. Koichi is left to take of his sister for until she can walk again. Not long after, strange occurrences happen in the Yamano home. (myasiancinema.com)

Five comedic short films about the titular quirky guys and gals.

The film is a 45-minute live-action adaptation of Shigeto Yamagara's autobiographical flash animation of the same name, which has racked up over 4.8 million views since 2001. Aoi Nakamura stars as a young aspiring manga artist who's able to deal with loneliness and separation from his family through the companionship of an American Shorthair cat named Gin-o-gou (voice-over by Maaya Sakamoto). (asiancinematic.com)

You could think of My Back Page as a (very different) companion piece to United Red Army. It's based on a reputedly autobiographical novel by Kawamoto Saburo about his days as a rookie journalist from 1969 to 1972 and specifically about his closeness to a highly charismatic radical activist who preaches violent revolution. (Tony Rayns, Vancouver Film Festival site)

A whimiscal comedy from Japan that sees our eponymous protagonist - pregnant, broke, but feisty - follow a wafting cloud to whatever awaits her. Bolstered by an engaging performance by Riisa Naka, Yûya Ishii's fable follows Mitsuko as she winds up in the backwater tenement she briefly lived in as a child, and sets out to reinvigorate the forlorn, morose inhabitants. (guardian.co.uk)

Haruko loves his TV. It is old, analog and ... suddenly has the ability to transform into a man. At first, Haruko decides to leave her boyfriend-TV at home, but soon decides to take it out and normalize the relationship. (Filmaffinity)

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. (The Movie Database)

Fukada plays Mai Aida, a woman in her third year as an english teacher at a private all-girls high school. Due to declining enrollment, the school decides to admit its first male students. Those five freshmen initially feel they're in paradise, but the concerned Mai tries to help them adjust by creating a social dance club and inviting five girls. Those ten students become the focus of the drama, which is described as a story of love and adolescence. (wiki.d-addicts.com)

Half a century has passed since the country declared the coexistence of humans and monsters, an era of chaos. Aoi Izumi, a young human rights activist who appeals for the abolition of discrimination, meets a man.

A couple's relationship is threatened by an unusual problem. (imdb)