Shinji Aoyama

This beautifully composed black & white film explores a transcendent story of redemption. On what seemed to be a normal morning in southwest Japan, a crazed killer, apparently without motive, hijacks a city bus. In the ensuing carnage only three people survive - the driver, a schoolgirl and her older brother. (The Shooting Gallery)

A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected, come down with the disease, which leads to death. They have no way of fighting against this infection filled with fear and despair. The media calls the disease "the Lemming Syndrome" (imdb)

Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old friend in jail and a young illegal immigrant. But his life reaches a turning point when he happens to meet Chiyoko, his long lost mother. She is now married to Mamiya, the owner of an express package delivery service. They also have a teenage son, Yusuke. (imdb)

About two punks living on the edge of the Japanese yakuza underworld

Desert Moon focuses on a successful internet entrepreneur Nagai (Hiroshi Mikami), whose wife Akira (Maho Toyota) and young daughter Kaai (Yukiko Ikari) left him because he neglected them for his business. A young hustler Keechie (Shuji Kashiwabara), who has emotion problems concerning his own father, becomes involved in the family's drama. (Wikipedia)

As Miyaki, a Tokyo embalmer, works on an apparent suicide patient, she finds a needle that suggests there might be more to the death than the police and family suspect. When the corpse's head is decapitated and stolen from her facility, trying to find it leads her down a trail of live organ harvesting, incest, drug experimentation, radical cults and madness...

The film opens with mobster Yasuo (Ken Mitsuishi) getting out of jail only to learn that his gang's don is dead, and that his own future is in doubt. Seething from the bad news, he sees his old high school friend Kenji (Tadanobu Asano). (allmovie.com)

Remake of the movie Stray Dog. After being shot, Detective Saga has his gun stolen by a terminally ill leukemia patient, and the gun is later used in a murder.

An ex-boxer working for a game parlor owner gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn't understand. Before long he's caught between two yakuza bosses and a mysterious thief who motivation is unknown. Add in the boss' daughter who has a crush on him and watch him struggle to make sense of it all and come out alive. (imdb)

A detective down on his luck is sent to retrieve a girl from a mysterious resort-cum-cult-commune.

Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that she has killed his mistress... (imdb)

Koji, a college student and an aspiring photographer, enjoys taking pictures of families in a park in Tokyo partly because he lost his mother when he was young. Out of the blue, he receives a request to follow a client's girlfriend and take pictures of her. He takes on the job without fully understanding the circumstances, a decision leading to major changes in his life and his relationships with women. (mubi.com)

In a coastal cottage with a view of the setting sun, Kaoru, a wealthy woman who is gradually losing her youth, has retired from city and lives a quiet life. She looks after an old, blind and dumb man as if he were an insect or a domestic animal, or a child. As he can do nothing for himself, she feeds him and takes him for walks. (mubi.com)

Fujio Rika (Kurita Rei) is a bright young woman so set on marrying her ideal (i.e., rich, tall and handsome) boyfriend Ono Seiichi (Sekiguchi Tomohiro), an up-and-coming executive, that she descends into an almost neurotic state of shock when he suddenly dumps her. Drunk one night, she begins calling people randomly on her cell phone, until one, Kono Shingo (Arata), finally responds. (mubi.com)

Using stark black-and-white imagery and a raw, digital aesthetic, Cut tells the story of Shuji (Hidetoshi Nishijima), an unknown filmmaker who craves great cinema like a junkie dying for a fix. The only problem, he figures, is that great films are dead -- unless he can find a way to make them himself.

Set in 1989 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, 17-year-old Toma (Masaki Suda) lives with his father and his father's lover. Toma witnesses his father's sadistic behavior towards his lover and, soon, Tooma finds himself following in his father's footsteps. (asianwiki.com)

Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the Seventies, but for her it is not just something that belongs to the past. She decides to find something that will allow her to act and which, she claims, is owed to her. (mubi)

A detective and his partner track down a call girl with information about a drug cartel. After taking her into custody, they are attacked by cartel members. The detective and the woman manage to escape, but they are soon hounded by a professional hitman hired to eliminate them and recover the heroin stolen by the woman.