Gorô Inagaki

Toshiaki Nagashima is a biologist who is doing major research on mitochondria. When his beautiful young wife is tragically involved in a car accident which leaves her brain dead, in desperation he steals her liver from her body in order to recieve the mitochondria from it to resurrect his wife from the dead. The killer mitochondria takes the form of his assistant who then uses the biologist for the host of a terrifying new species that is threatening to take over the world. (imdb)

The StrawHat crew salvage a treasure chest from a sinking wreckage during a raging storm, but it turns out to be an old lady hiding inside it. To get the Straw Hat Pirates to take her home, she promises them the treasure of a golden crown on her island, Mecha Island. The island is impossible to get to by Log Pose. So instead they got there by Kame Pose. Which contain a small turtle pointing to the island... (imdb)

In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways. (imdb)

A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord. (imdb)

Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception... (imdb)

Two melancholic high school students struggle to find meaning in their lives.

The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. (1) Fujiko is running as fast as she can, being chased after by a creepy masked man called Mad Dog. They meet ... (2) A mysterious relationship between a little girl, Utagui, who eats songs to live, and an artist who can't... (3) A married couple sets off on a journey to find the right arm of their dead son. They finally reached a beach in Okinawa... (imdb)

Barbara is an adult-orientated fantasy tale filled with love and the occult from Osamu Tezuka's reimagining of "The Tales of Hoffmann". Its story deals with the erotic and bizarre experiences of a famous novelist called Yosuke Mikura whose life is tossed upside down by a mysterious girl named "Barbara". (imdb)

Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Kao wo Nusumareta (My Face was Stolen) - starring Inagaki Goro 2. Rental Love - starring Iijima Naoko 3. Oikaketai (I want to Chase [Him/Her]) - starring Kyono Kotomi 4. Chozeikin Taisaku Satsujin Jiken (Countering Excessive Taxation Murder Case) - starring Nishimura Masahiko 5. Kage no Kuni (The Country of Shadows) - starring Sakurai Sachiko.

Based on a 2021 novel of the same name by Ryo Asai, the film looks at the impact that a fetish for spouting water has on the lives of two former classmates. Along the way, it delivers nuanced takes on the tolerance of difference, empty diversity gestures and social isolation. Titillation is notable for its absence. An unexpected turn in the denouement brings the sympathetically portrayed fetish into contact with undeniably abnormal desires, muddying the moral waters. (hollywoodreporter.com)