Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

While the leader is in jail, his leftist group is controlled by his girlfriend, but her leadership lacks conviction and perspective. When the leader commits suicide in prison, despair and confusion rule the group and revenge and violence erupts in graphic way. (imdb)

Yuichiro (Ryo Kase) is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna"... (AsianMediaWiki)

The lives of three washed-up nobodies intersect as they are all drawn together in one way or another by baseball. (HKFlix)

The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work out at the beginning but as time goes by the newly formed relationship between the tramp and the Drive-In worker starts to show the workers harmful will of possession. (imdb)

In the fictional Hokkaido shipbuilding town of Kaitan (played by real-life port city Hakodate), local residents find that, in addition to another harsh winter, they must also face the downsizing of the town's key industry due to depressed economic conditions. Episodic structure divides pic into five distinct tales set around New Year's Eve, capped by a deft, criss-crossing finale that adds fitting finishing touches to two earlier installments. (variety.com)

In the near future of a fictionalized Japan under wartime, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executioners are permitted to kill criminals by the requests from their victims. Hiroshi, 29, is hired as an assassin for his precise shooting skill and his cold calm nature. Hiroshi meets his colleague Higuchi, 24, another agent who has put a hit on a young man named Toshio as Toshio's father has committed an atrocious war crime as a scientist and killed her parents. (mubi.com)

In a rural village, there lives a man named Zoroku, with his sister, Haruko. All is well until one day, Zoroku becomes infected with a bizarre disease that blisters his skin and deforms his body. Fearing the reactions of the townspeople, his parents lock him in the house. Unfortunately, the village chief sees him, and soon, Zoroku and Haruko are mistreated by everyone in the village. Unable to watch Haruko suffer any longer, the parents decide to end Zoroku's misery themselves. (Wikipedia)

Tomoko maintains a relationship with an even-tempered older married man named Shingo at the same time she's seeing an emotional younger man named Ryota. (Eigapedia)

After losing everything in a tsunami, 10-year-old Hana is taken in by 26-year-old distant relative Jungo Kusarino. They live as father and daughter but share a profound sense of loss. In wintry Hokkaido, Jungo and Hana both desire to fill their empty, love-starved hearts as they set foot into a forbidden world. (imdb)

Kengo Yatabe's mother dies and his father is in a coma. He, like his father, was good at kendo. Those days are long gone and he now lofts around as a security guard and generally wastes time. Meeting the young Tooru Kengo is inspired and decides to shape up. (imdb)

Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo, but wasn't popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores. (imdb)

A situational thriller depicting the struggle of a man who fell into a manhole. (imdb)

An awkward burglar believes that he has taken control of a small roadside stand and the woman who runs it. She is in control most of the time, in love, and making plans for the future.

Yoko lives a reclusive life until news of her father's passing compels her to travel home. Stranded at a rest stop without means, she must hitch rides to make it to his funeral. (imdb)