Shûgo Oshinari

Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan's pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence. (imdb)

Three years after the failure of the original BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara. (imdb)

Another addition to the already well-populated Japanese high school genre movie. Instead of aiming for bloody carnage or ghost stories, instead it's much more of a character-driven movie, examining the dynamics of adolescent boys' power disaffection and their struggles to prove themselves as the toughest/strongest/meanest/hardest/scariest in the school. (Mandiapple.com)

Tomie has returned! An art student disappears after murdering his model, Tomie. Now his friends are being haunted by a resurrected Tomie. And every time she shows up, strange things begin to happen! (Amazon.com)

One day, when four young people- three men and one woman- wake up in the morning, they find themselves in a small room filled with white powder, naked. Why have they been brought here? What is this room meant to be? Who brought them to this mysterious room? And most of all, how can they escape? (imdb)

Two troubled young lovers - a gambler and a stripper - run off to the tranquil Japanese countryside to marry and start a new life. But their dark past follows them in the form of a veteran loan shark. (imdb)

Teenage stepsisters Yui and Ai form a close bond as a result of the neglect and abuse from their respective parents. Fearing separation from each other when their parents plan to divorce, they run away together to Tokyo and, in order to survive steal a briefcase which they later discover belongs to the yakuza. This puts them in great danger. (letterboxd)

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.

A film which looks at the modern implications of technology and the Internet and video in particular. When a person's personal video recording leaks online and becomes widely available without authorization the person experiences a severe phobia with many repercussions. The video's dissemination sens the person into hiding and agoraphobia.

Mio (Honoka Matsumoto) is 20-years-old. Her grandmother, who raised her instead of her late parents, is hospitalized. Mio leaves her hometown and goes to Tokyo to find a new job. She has a hard time adapting to life in Tokyo. Mio takes a job at a public bathhouse in an old shopping district. While working at the bathhouse, she interacts with the people in the area and begins to enjoy her time in Tokyo. Mio hears that the shopping district will be demolished. (Asianwiki.com)

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)

This is a cat-and-mouse crime movie adapted from a popular Japanese comic book about a contractor killer assassin who uses methods so smart and so difficult to solve by the police.

Yumi moves into her boyfriend's Tokyo apartment but on the night of the move, he is called away for business in New York. The couple communicates over Skype and over the course of four nights, their relationship descends into an abyss of mistrust and lies. Yumi believes there's a ghost in the room haunting her as her only connection to the outside world is Taka on the other side of the world. Taka believes she's slowly going crazy right in front of his eyes.

Misaki visits her boyfriend Koichi in Okinawa. To welcome her arrival, Koichi's friend Jinsei holds a welcoming party at his house. At the party, Misaki learns from the granny about the legend behind the bag hanging from the fig tree.

Haruko is a single mother. She has an unusual living arrangement. She lives with her son Riku, her friend Aiko, and Aiko’s boyfriend Sorao. One day, Yuko stays at Haruko’s house to attend an art institute for the summer. Yuko is the daughter of Haruko’s old friend Tomoyo. They hadn’t spoken for many years prior to Tomoyo reaching out to Haruko to ask if her daughter could stay with her for the summer. Haruko and Tomoyo have an uncomfortable past.

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