Kaito Yoshimura

Born in a small town in Japan, a young girl named Ai is sent to a cult commune by her religious maniac mother and lives there for seven long years. After the cult is exposed by the police, Ai starts a new stage of life, going to a normal school for the first time, but she can't find her place to fit in there. Ai drops out from the school and society, spending her life living with a rock-bottom delinquent family full of gangsters and call girls. (letterboxd)

At some point beating and ravaging others becomes a routine pastime when two kids go on a rampage. Taira picks his target of men and goes for broke, while Kitahara puts down his camera long enough to instead go after women. There is enough blood shed during the course of one night to paint a mural of red for the whole city to see. (imdb)

Mio (Honoka Matsumoto) is 20-years-old. Her grandmother, who raised her instead of her late parents, is hospitalized. Mio leaves her hometown and goes to Tokyo to find a new job. She has a hard time adapting to life in Tokyo. Mio takes a job at a public bathhouse in an old shopping district. While working at the bathhouse, she interacts with the people in the area and begins to enjoy her time in Tokyo. Mio hears that the shopping district will be demolished. (Asianwiki.com)

A large earthquake strikes a part of Japan. The shaking loosens a bolt at a nuclear power plant causing coolant to begin leaking from the pipes of a pressure control tank. A man and his colleague go to tighten the bolt, but this catastrophe will act as the trigger that throws the man's life into chaos. (JFDB)

A woman stuck in her day-to-day trot one day discovers a pitch-black oily creature in her closet whose many tentacles first give her a fright, then great pleasure. Similar critters start to appear all over the big city, offering a new perspective on this thing called life. Director Kenichi Ugana expands his eponymous short film into a complete edition, staging a tentacle fantasy as a melancholy metropolitan ballad with socio-utopian potential [...]. (Slashfilmfestival)