Asami Usuda

There are rundown nightclubs where the excitement is gone, but the Playboy Club in Tokyo has long since passed that phase. It's the ideal backdrop for shady deals, pathetic eroticism and loutish violence. The filmmaker captures the decline with a bizarre sense of humour. (mubi.com)

Rookie movie director Koichi (Shun Oguri) and his crew travels to the mountain village of Yamamura to film his next movie. The villagers are eventually enlisted to help film the movie and, in particular, 60-year-old lumberjack Katsuhiko (Koji Yakusho) helps against his will. (asianwiki.com)

Magazine reporter TANAKA is granted request to investigate a year old murder case gone cold, where a "perfect" family - a successful businessman, his beautiful wife and adorable child - were brutally murdered. Tanaka interviews acquaintances of the dead but gradually finds out that the family was not exactly ideal as believed, as stories of their true nature unfold. Equally disturbing are the interviewees themselves, each letting loose their own hidden nature. (imdb)

The Devil has a phone number, and if you call him on your mobile phone at midnight, he will grant your wish. In return however, he will control your life for the duration of the call. (imdb)

A struggling, unemployed musician living with his girlfriend looks to improve his life after he discovers how she's been paying the rent. (imdb)

On a gloomy Monday morning, my week begins. Although I am sleepy, I put on my make-up and I leave home for work at a bank. I take the subway crowded with passengers and get off at the nearest station.

Love on the edge, which can't get any closer than 10cm: Mitsuko, 31, who is getting used to a solo life and has a counselor named "A" in her brain, falls in love with a young man. (imdb)

This is the story of females who are labelled “write-offs” and the restaurant they have established in order for them to get out from life's abyss. They battle difficulties and search for ways to change their lives as they experience the joys of work. (imdb)

NYPD Detective So Takakura travels to Tokyo, where his by-the-book style clashes with former gang member-turned-special detective Maruo Kudo. (imdb)