Kyôko Koizumi

The adventures of a young cat and a dog as they find themselves accidentally separated and each swept into a hazardous trek.(imdb)

A man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead; a self-absorbed ad agency creative director who comes up with one unworkably inane idea after another; a Brittish hitman who only wants to know everyone's function in life; and an unfortunate office worker and father whose brain is left scrambled after a stage hypnotist is murdered in mid-performance. Starting off as unrelated plot lines, they intertwine with each other as they continue on their respective ways. (IMDB)

The film is a family drama concerning the Kyobashi's, whose house rule is to not keep secrets from each other when asked a question directly.

Fumiya Takemura (Jô Odagiri) is over $7000 in debt. A loan shark makes him a deal where the debt will disappear if he accompanies him on a walk throughout Tokyo, at the final destination at Kasumigaseki's Police station. (whatismyname)

An anthology featuring ten dreams.

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company. (imdb)

A young boy makes a promise to his dying mother to look after his abandoned step-sister at all costs. But the love between them grows so strong and profound, it threatens to tear them apart... (YesAsia)

Ichiko is a young language student and works part-time at a music store. Her female lover Eri is studying to become a lawyer. Ichiko lives with her father who translates English novels into Japanese for a living. When she comes out as a lesbian to him, he shocks her by telling her that he also is gay and her mother was too.

"Mosquito on the Tenth Floor" centers around a police officer and his out-of-control life style. (asianmediawiki)

Alcoholic hi-flyer civil servant, his career falling apart, wakes in a Tokyo park aside hostess with whom he's impulsively made a suicide pact. Tho he's secretly now reconsidered, he will go with her to Hokkaido, where she wants to end it all - her birthplace, fled to Tokyo for independence & making a happy family. Hubby died in accident & she too loses it all. Tho similarly crushed by life the 2 are like oil & water on the surface - can they mix to redeem each other?

Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu." (imdb)

Five comedic short films about the titular quirky guys and gals.

Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as her assistant Naomi watches on with concern. Naomi is a young woman in her early twenties, who has her set of worries about love and future. Then one day, Asako meets a new cat, Gu Gu, who brings new joy and vitality to her life. What is more, she finds potential for love in a man named Seiji. Like Asako, Naomi, too, embarks on a new life plan. (imdb)

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)

Toru Hayashi lives alone with his mother. Young salaryman whose life is staggeringly banal, he is what we can call a man stuck, until a pretty young woman moves into the apartment upstairs. Rumi Kato, charming and smart, quickly sympathizes with Toru ... One day, she confesses that she is a professional robber and asks him to join her.

Matsuoi (Hiroshi Abe) and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. Matsuoi then thinks of his wife's lovers. Matsui goes to those men and informs them of Tatsuya's condition. The other women in the lives of those men are shocked and begin to re-examine their views of their men. (asianwiki.com)

A young girl, Emili, is killed by a stranger in elementary school. Although her four friends saw the suspect, they say they don't remember it. 15 years have passed and the incident is still unsolved. Emili's mother, Asako (Kyoko Koizumi), makes them do penance for it. The series focuses on the psychological repercussions on each of the four girls, 15 years later. (wikipedia)

Following the premise of the novel of the same name, Taberu Onna, the film zooms in on the ins and outs and comings and goings of the daily lives of eight women in Japan including a Western one. These women interact, eat, drink, date with abandon, have high expectations and practice materialism. (imdb)

France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.

This hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro Kiuchi. 8 years ago Brazilian mafioso Carlos had brought the Japanese yakuza organization to its knees. He breaks out of prison while being transported back to Brazil and then begins to seek to get even with the organization.

Reiko is a mother of two children and works as a cartoonist. She divorces her alcoholic husband, but when she finds out that he's seriously ill, she decides to take him back.

A comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer.

Kakunoshin, a former samurai, left the clan after being falsely accused of a crime and now lives with his only daughter in poverty. He has not given up his pride and dignity as a samurai, even though he has fallen on hard times. His honest character is reflected especially in the game of Go, which he always tries to play fair and honesty without any pretense. But one day, when the truth behind his wife's death is revealed, he vows to avenge her death. (jfdb.jp)

Each year, at the start of the fall school year in September, Japan suffers from typhoons. That same month, in a small elementary school in a mountainous region, Saburô, a new red-haired pupil has just arrived with the wind. The children of the village thought they recognized in this strange boy who came from the city the spirit that they called “Matasaburô, the wind”. During two weeks of autumn, Matasaburô and the other children will do various experiments in nature.

A financially desperate young woman gets a job tutoring a rich young boy only to get forced into a kidnapping and ransom scheme. (imdb)