Nobuaki Kaneko

Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood between them. And the simmering embers of hatred are about to flare up again, burning away any last remnants of the truce they had so rigorously observed until now. (Pusan International Film Festival)

In the 90s there was a decade of indie rock bands in the japanese culture. Bandage tell a fictional story four boys whose friendship and musical talents are tested in the ever changing world of music industry and their experience in love and hardship in real life. (imdb)

Moteki is the story of a 31 year-old virgin Yukiyo Fujimoto, a young fellow with no money, no aspirations and no girlfriend. Leaving his temp job, he decides to finally get a life and lands a job as a writer for an Internet news site. But love continues to elude him. At the nadir of his loneliness and social isolation, comes the arrival of his "Moteki" - a period of sexual magnetism and romantic irreversibility.

Based on Kiyuchi Kazuhiro's popular manga series which ran in Weekly Young Jump from 1983, the story revolves around the lives of two rough-and-tumble high school friends Kato Hiroshi and Nakama Toru, who seemed to make a habit of getting into trouble and starting up fights. In keeping with the spirit of the manga, Toru and Hiroshi sport slicked back 50's style perms and adopted exaggerated swaggers that made them comical and yet also oddly cool. (wiki.d-addicts.com)

Tatsuhiko joins a scouting agency, recruiting girls for the hostess clubs and brothels in Shinjuku's Kabukicho district, as a turf war breaks out against a competing agency. He crosses paths with the troubled women who enter the city's seedy underbelly. As the conflict heats up, so does the rivalry between Tatsuhiko and Hideyoshi, who appear to have some history between them.

Saike, Kazuki, and Takeo were abused by their respective parents and did not go to school. They stayed together at a youth detention center. To survive, these three young men commit robbery and burglary against criminal groups. (imdb)

When a job seeker finds one through a job board she soon finds a whole lot more than for which she bargained. In fact, this job could be hazardous to her health and life. Is it a high risk position? No. She is a waitress at a restaurant. The chef and owner is a mysterious character and the clientele is comprised of outlaws who do not take kindly to unkindness. (imdb)

For the invincible and basically happy punk lads Hiroshi and Toru, what they care about every day is to get a lot of attention from girls and to win the fights against the lads from other schools. Whenever provoked, they just go out fighting and settle the situation no matter what it costs. The kids at Aitoku's are challenged to a duel by Junichi Kikunaga, the number one in Tachibana commerce.

Shirakawa Riko and Kamiya Naoki's intertwined fates lead them on a difficult journey towards love. (imdb)

Seeking a greater justice, a band of homeless assassins flays their human targets and delivers the tattooed skins as proof of a contract fulfilled. (imdb)