Ryoko Takizawa

...The title literally means "slit-mouth woman" and is reminiscent of the gruesome ghosts of Japanese folklore. The movie is based on a famous urban legend from the late 1970s, in which a masked woman would terrorize young children on their way home from school... (monstermovieblog.blogspot.com)

Every Monday at 6 pm a young woman is murdered in the subway. The psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to assist the police. The trail leads to another psychiatrist - Dr Rei Aku - who Setsuko used to date. As she get closer to the solution, she gets more and more convinced that Aku's deprogramming of former sectmembers is important. (imdb)

Friendships and choir singing in a Japanese Catholic boys orphanage, set during the political tumult of the 1970s

Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem. (themoviedb)

Akane moves from Tokyo to a small island where she works as a waitress serving the fishermen. People like her and glad she has made the move. Satsuki, however, is a local having grown up, married and given birth in the area. She has a foster son and after obtaining her man's permission decides to adopt him legally. Unfortunately it is the son's biological mother who has arrived on the island and is living nearby now.