Keisuke Horibe

The story of three losers brought together by fate with disastrous results. (Shooting Gallery)

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he is forced by the love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support them. In his search he joins a notorious clan, known as the Shinsengumi where he does as much as possible to get money... (imdb)

Sawaki is a postman, on one of his rounds he bumps into an old class mate who's in a bad state and now a yakuza. This visit has some significant consequences leading to Sawaki's run in with the law, evolvement with a yakuza clan, a love interest, and a hitman... (latefilm.com)

An anthology featuring ten dreams.

Set in a future-world vision of Tokyo where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the "cutter" demographic, this is the story of samurai-sword-wielding Ruka and her mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad who's mission is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as "engineers" possessing the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself. (imdb)

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. (imdb)

Middle-aged Minako is a milk woman in Nagasaki, living and uncomplicated and unhurried life delivering milk daily around the city. In their youth she and Keita were in love, but separated after his father and her mother died together causing a scandal. She never married, but Keita did and is now a city official with a terminally ill wife, Yoko. Before she dies Yoko tries to reunite the former lovers, but this disturbs and angers Minako. (ftvdb.bfi.org.uk)

Birthed in trauma, Yoko is a fifteen-year-old orphan who suddenly discovers that she isn't an abandoned child after all: her birth family are still alive and they want her back.

Kijima Yasube (Ryo Nishikido), a samurai from the Edo Period, travels through time - 180 years - to arrive in present day Japan. He then meets divorcee Hiroko (Rie Tomosaka) & her son Tomoya (Fuku Suzuki). Yasube ends up working for Hiroko as a housemaid in return for food and lodging. One day. Yasube starts to make pastries for Tomoya, which leads to Yasube become popular patissier. In the process the three become very close, but the moment they must say good bye also draws near. (asianwiki.com)

Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Tokyo Sonata) returns with this story of a man who uses an advanced neurological technology to enter the frightening mindscape of his comatose lover. (tiff.net)

In Okinawa, Ayaka Kurenai was born in the world's greatest legendary Karate family. When she was a child, her family was attacked by a mysterious gang that seeks legendary black belt. Her father Soujiro Kurenai was killed and her younger sister was taken in front of her. Time has passed. In Yokohama, she was spending her life as a normal high school girl, hiding her real name and her status as a heir of the legendary Karate family. (letterboxd.com)

A two-part feature directed separately by Shimizu and his colleague Keisuke Toyoshima. Unrelated to each other, both have a common goal: to bring ghosts and aliens together in pure, referential and absurdistic delirium, including neo-Nazi specters, zombie yakuzas, and nasty aliens. (abandomoviez.net)

Twenty-somethings Hisashi and Mai are engaged. When suddenly Mai's heart stops and she falls into a coma all Hisashi can do is remain by her side, albeit without knowing whether she might improve. Things look up when Mai finally comes out of the coma and becomes conscious again, but she has suffered brain damage and cannot remember her man. -aghaemi from IMDB

A newspaper editor (played by Shin'ichi Tsutsumi) who deals with the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123. (imdb)

Koike Minami competes to win a competition to sing with Avril Lavigne in a concert in Tokyo.

Ando (Masaaki Uchino) can't accept this, so his daughter Kana commits suicide. Kana fell from the ledge of a school building and died. Ando attempts to find out the truth behind his daughter's death. He becomes suspicious of his daughter's former classmate, Saki (Miyu Yoshimoto). Saki isn't a typical high school student and aspires to work in show business. She dominates...

A series of murders of beautiful girls occur in Tokyo not long after the end of the war. Also, the daughter of a retired actress, Yuzuki Yoko, has gone missing. In the meantime, a religious cult that claims to shut away misfortunes in a box has been gaining popularity, displaying an eerie aspect. Yoko's daughter is alleged to have been run over by a train, and taken into a research institute situated in a gigantic box-shaped building. A private detective Enokizu, a writer Sekiguchi...

After buying a defaulted loan on the cheap, a loan shark is at odds with himself when he discovers his former lover is married to the missing debtor.

Two ruthless yakuza gangs interrupt the shooting of an action flick at an abandoned factory. The action star isn't too pleased. One hundred yakuza against one? Pfff, too easy.