Hiroaki Jinno

The film offers a glimpse at a group of school girls who are very flexible in terms of gender roles, playing males both in the school play and in real life. A modern-day all girls high school traditionally celebrates its anniversary by staging Chekov's play, but this year the faculty may cancel the play because Noriko, a senior, was seen smoking in a coffee shop with students from a rival school. (imdb)

The main protagonists Yuji and Kosaku end up in a car crash with a woman, called Minako, who is shell shocked after stumbling into the aftermath of a gangster shoot-out and was given a stash of heroin by one of the blood-drenched participants. When the crime underworld comes for the stash however the quantity of drugs grows in size and the desire of the gangsters to acquire it grows as much.

Subaru Sumeragi, a young Onmyouji sorcerer, investigates a series of unusual murders with the aid of his twin sister and fellow Onmyouji Seishirô. (imdb)

The film depicts the love lives of six high school boys and girls who love to ski. Based on "Doutei Monogatari" from Gakken's "MOMOCO", this is the fourth in the series.

A pair of men and women ran off from a sanatorium where personality fusion treatment for patients with multiple personality disorders was being performed. The man had five personalities and the woman had eight personalities.

Via the New York Times: "The solemn, intent faces of the Japanese schoolboys playing video games in Jun Ichikawa's "No Life King" bespeak a new type of modern horror. Addicted to their favorite new game (from which the film takes its title), these children have become seriously estranged from the real world. The film's constant emphasis is on the ways in which this has been allowed to happen, and on how emblematic it is of larger attitudes in a technological society. When a young boy...