Noriko Eguchi

"Canary" is the troubling tale of a boy trying to survive after a terrible event involving his parents and a cult. After living several years among the cult with his mother and sister, he finds the cult suddenly in turmoil regarding the sarin gas train attacks in Tokyo. First taken to a councelling center, he then sets out with his only friend to find his sister and mother in Tokyo. (cdjapan.co.jp)

The movie revolves around Koji Chihara's (1-ichi, 9 Souls) character who becomes the towns enforcer right after highschool. Protecting small business's and helping people if they get screwed out of their money. Out of stupidity he cheats on his perfect girlfriend with a girl he knew from his childhood, which becomes a big mistake. The hardest part about his new girlfriend is she doesn't want him to fight, but that is how he makes his living. (imdb User Comments)

This flick is almost impossible to describe. On the surface it charts a lazy love triangle between three losers who are hitting 30 and haven't gone anywhere in life. But that leaves out the ghost, the quest to create the world's best haunted house, how not to open a box of Kleenex, the worst way to sell a porno magazine, the joys of used bookstores and the world's biggest, child-crushing chewing gum bubble. (youtube.com)

Yui (Yui Aragaki) is an arts student at university who falls in love for the first time with Takashi (Ryuhei Matsuda), her neighbour in the flat above her. Takashi had already had a relationship with Atsuko (Rinko Kikuchi), Yui's flat previous tenant, whom Yui sincerely admires. (AsianMediaWiki)

The story of Tsuneo, a college student who meets a young girl named Josee with Cerebral Palsy. Despite their differences, the two develop a close relationship. But will the gap between them prove to be too wide to bridge (asiacue.com)

Pharmaceutical student, Keiko, witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east or west, she don't care") and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo's remote suburbs. There, she gets a part-time job at a newly opened drugstore. What do ya know.. The local shopping district's middle-aged men all fall for the young girl's charms, and they start practicing lacrosse once they have found out that that's her favorite sport. (youtube.com)

From the mind of 'Vampire Hunter D' creator Hideyuki Kikuchi comes a new film about a group of children that dissappears, only to return one rainy day 35 years later! A reporter following the story of a child's corps that has mysteriously been rendered free of it's internal organs is drawn to a small town where he learns the story of group of elementary school students who disappeared 35 years ago. The people tell him to 'stay inside when it rains out of season, you'll get drunk in by the rain.

A reporter Mizuno (Tomorowo Taguchi) has been shunted off to a small village. Hirano (Takeshi Wakamatsu), the chief priest of a local Shinto shrine, tells him that Teruko (Sarara Tsukifune), the owner of a small bar where Mizuno has been with the chief correspondent, is involved with a cult sect and she is suspected of murders for insurance money. Eager to get a scoop so that he can return to the head office, Mizuno looks into the matter and questions Teruko directly. (AsianMediaWiki)

Yuriko, an aroma therapist, is in her 30′s and has a good job at an aroma salon. However, she is secretly in love (or let's say attracted to) a 17-year-old high school student. Things get complicated as not only is he the nephew of the salon owner, but also a female customer seems to have feelings for Yuriko and starts to get a bit too close to her. (Gonin Movie Blog)

Naive boy Tadokoro (Tasuku Nagaoka), a virginal university student and new member of an erotic creative writing club, meets too-smart-for-her-own-good pretty girl Mayama (Noriko Eguchi) who uses their liaison as fodder for her fiction. (Japan Society)

A running time of four and a half hours, a dozen main characters, a plot spanning nine years. This film from former "King of Pink" Zeze Takahisa tells the story of a revenge by proxy in truly epic scope. (Berlinale)

Murakami and his girlfriend Mitsuko start a hot air balloon club, which attracts several members, each having their own reasons to join. However, the club doesn't last long and is quickly disbanded. 5 years later, each of the members receive notice that Murakami has died in a traffic accident. This prompts them to once again gather together to throw a party in Murakami's honor. (movie.goo.ne.jp (Translated))

A young man (Yoshio Inoue) moves from the countryside to Tokyo, while experiencing hardships & happiness, in his pursuit to become a manga artist.

partly a remake and partly a sequel to his 1982 film of the same name. The film has three threads running through it, and also includes footage from the 1982 original throughout: (en.wikipedia.org)

A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aiming to become a high-calibre pastry chef, she is determined to overcome her past as well as the challenges ahead. Pastry critic Tomura is a frequent visitor. Moved by Natsume's persistence, he slowly begins to confront his own painful past - aided, of course, by mouthfuls of tasty pastries in between. (japanesefilmfestival.net)

A horror anthology series dealing with cursed antiques.

A young Japanese man works to raise money and then build an elementary school in Cambodia. (imdb)

Saburo Sugimura works for the PR department of a company which his father-in-law Yoshichika Imada runs. One day, Yoshichika Imada asks Saburo Sugimura to find out about Nobuo Kajita. A complicated story unfolds from the request. (imdb)

This is the story of three Japanese women in the glamourous world of adult film. There is Miho who is a house wife in her thirties and needs to do something new with herself. There is Ayako the teenage high school girl who still relies on her mother. There is Ayano who has moved to the big city of Tokyo.

Shūgo Hayami is an on-call substitute doctor at a nursing hospital, which was once a psychiatric hospital. One day, he suddenly finds himself confronting a vicious criminal wearing a clown mask, who demands that Shugo treat an injured university student called Hitomi. But when Hitomi is out of danger and the criminal still won’t leave, Shūgo realises that the clown’s true intentions are more complex than they initially appear. (Japanese Film Festival)

Takeshi Yamada arrives in a small village in the Hokuriku region. There, he begins to work at a small factory which makes shiokara (salted fish paste). Through the introduction of the CEO of the factory, he begins to live in at an old and cheap apartment building. One day, his apartment building neighbor Kozo Shimada visits Takeshi and asks to take a bath in his bathroom. Since then, Takeshi begins to make relations with the residents at the apartment building and he becomes friends with Kozo. L

Sixteen-year-old Kako Motoya is a high school Freshman and single. She attends an adult dating mixer under the pretense that she is older than she really is. There she meets a man and soon finds out he is a cop. He is interested. She is still interested despite his being a cop. There is a problem, however. It is not her parents. It is that the relationship is illegal. Where there is a will there is a way.

Torihada consists of seven stories: 1. When you realize it, it's the beginning of fear, 2. The conflict between the unknown and the knowledge, 3. Records on love or hatred, 4. Imagination dominates people, 5. The form of surveillance that can always happen, 6. The darkness of desire and impulse there, 7. Life expectancy diagnosis.

A highly competent small-time con artist has her life derailed after reuniting with her unreliable brother.

Kouno Etsuko joins a publishing company with her sights set on becoming a fashion editor. But she is assigned to the proofreading department which examines and fixes errors in manuscripts. (imdb)