Sawa Suzuki

The films pits a gang of idle teens joined only by their shared love of karaoke against a group of middle aged women, likewise joined by a love for karaoke, in an escalating cycle of vengeance when one of the teens tries to pick up one of the women on a whim and reacts with bloody violence when he thinks she is mocking him in her rejection. (AsianMediaWiki)

The Sasaki household is unusual. Shotaro is a full-time house husband and his wife Minako is a busy career woman. It is unusual in another way as well. Minako is carrying on an affair and the [others] find out about it. Everyone is angry with everyone else and Minako leaves. But this solves nothing. Everything is eventually solved by a Brahms two-piano piece that Minako and her daughter have been practicing. They decide to go on with their recital and there, in the audience, are father and son. (pacificfilms.org)

In a nutshell, Reiko pukes up black mud as a foreshadowing of her interactions with the 1000-year-old mummy's spirit, which was preserved in the same kind of mud (and possibly drank the mud during its lifetime to preserve beauty). Makoto (the anthropologist) takes the mummy to the deserted house because it causes side-effects to those around it (Hino describes his nightmares and Makoto himself drives his car off the road). (imdb)

Drama about the exploitation and abuse of children in Thai prostitution rings.

On a regular day on her way home Junco, an average high school girl, is arrested by a train agent for the simple reason that she is using a friend's train pass illegally. Taking the opportunity that the agents were not paying close attention to her during her restraint, she decides to leave. Maybe not the best decision from her, as from that moment everything goes very wrong for her, in a totally chaotic way. (kfccinema.com)

After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them. (tiff.net)

After coming back from a night out on Tokyo, Junnosuke falls asleep on his girfriend's apartment, while waiting for her to come back from the market. He wakes up the next morning, only to find out that she never returned.

A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the ... (imdb)

The Munakata yakuza clan was almost wiped out by their rival Takeshita clan. One member, Takeshi, survived the attack and tried to take revenge but was arrested and sent to jail. 10 years later, Takeshi is released and searches for his daughter on Zeni-jima island along with the Munakata clan. The Takeshita assassins that tried to take out the Munakatas are also on their way to recover stolen drugs. Now, the two rival clans are brought back by fate as the island is overrun by zombies. (laeigafest.com)

Tantei Gakuen Q revolves around a team of genius students studying in a detective academy run by a famous detective, Morihiko Dan. (kissasian.com)

A man strives against all odds to find a way to grow apples without the use of chemicals or fertilizer. Impossible, he is told. And it seems so, for a long while.... The lessons imparted are certainly vital in this age of industrial agriculture, in the face of the need to eliminate fossil fuels from all aspects of our lives, including how we feed ourselves.

A former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan police Special Mission Task Force, Sugishita Ukyo (Yutaka Mizutani) and Kameyama Kaoru (Yasufumi Terawaki), are guarding a female Diet member, Katayama Hinako (Yoshino Kimura). The pair identifies explosives and saves her life. From the clues left at the scene, Sugishita builds up his case and finds a connection between the murder of the TV presenter and the attempted murder of the Diet member. (asianwiki)

A college student named Yu becomes friends with an married older woman named Fumie who frequents the store where he works. Over time, their relationship turns romantic and the inexperienced Yu finds himself becoming more and more preoccupied with this confident adult woman. (imdb)

Turbulent life of Kiwa, the successor of the most prominent yakuza in Osaka, the Domoto Clan. (themoviedb)

Set in a rural town near Mount Fuji, the film revolves around five high school girls who decide to participate in a calligraphy demonstration event. Through calligraphy, the students develop friendships and learn how to deal with others. On the day of the event, 1,000 people show up to witness the contest as the girls express themselves by collaboratively drawing characters on huge pieces of paper.

Torihada 5 consists of five stories: 1. Cunizing is the beginning of fear, 2. The logic of the excluded weak, 3. A Record of Cruelty Outside of Thought, 4. Unpleasant factors and conclusions to be delivered, 5. The End of Desire and Trust.

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.

In 1995, a mental hospital was erected near the Japanese Ministry of Finance, located adjacent to the grave of Taira no Masakado. A young male nurse by the name of Jin’ya Yanase is obsessed with the legend of Taira no Masakado and more importantly, the spirit of his evil subordinate Yasunori Kato. Slowly, he becomes possessed by Kato's spirit, who wants to use him as a new host to revive in the modern world.