Tokio Emoto

Director Yuki Tanada offers a frank depiction of sexuality at 17 in her brilliant adaptation of Saso Akira's coming-of-age manga. Charging forward with all the stagnant urgency and high-strung awkwardness of adolescence, Ain't No Tomorrows weaves three episodes of high school angst and sexual awakening. Sex-obsessed virgin Hiruma desperately pursues a sickly classmate. His buddy Mine becomes the unlikely savior for a naive schoolgirl, and chubby Ando unexpectedly scores with the class beauty. (Yesasia)

The Seaside Motel of the title, incidentally surrounded by mountains with no water in sight, hosts the oddest group of guests: a salesman who deals bogus cosmetics and a call girl; a businessman with erectile dysfunction and his bored wife; an indebted gambler, his girlfriend, and his debt collector... They may be strangers with their own bizarre problems staying in different rooms, but their paths intertwine into an unsolvable knot on a somewhat eventful night. (japansociety.org)

Convicted of an unknown crime, a disgraced samurai has 30 days to make a sad lord's son smile or he will be sentenced to seppuku.

Gu ( Shota Matsuda ) is a hard-nosed Korean-Japanese hoodlum living in Shimonoseki, Japan. When friends "accidentally" kill the grandmother of a ruthless North Korean-Japanese thug, a whirlwind of violence and revenge is set to explode. In the process, Gu, having no fear, pisses off a string of other criminal gang members and Korean-Japanese thugs who all want him dead. There's also Detective Fujita ( Atsuro Watabe ) lingering in the shadows looking for Gu, but where is Gu? (maydrama.com)

From midnight to 5 AM, people gather at a high-end apartment in Roppongi to engage in promiscuous sexual activity. Story depicts the process of the men and women who meet for the first time there to have loveless sex. (imdb)

"Heita is an ordinary high school boy with a kind heart but no real interest in romance. His class is joined by a transfer student named Q10 (pronounced "kyu-to," the same as "cute"), who looks like a girl but is actually a robot. Together, the two end up causing trouble at school, and Heita even begins falling for Q10." (mydramalist.com)

A cook opens a restaurant that only serves from midnight till dawn. One day, he discovers an obituary urn. Follow the stories of his regulars tangled astound this urn.

A stay-at-home nerd's dream comes true when he unearths a strange breastplate and awakens a sexy monster hunter named Dogoo, who brings him along her adventure with wacky monsters. (imdb)

Miyuki (Kumi Takiuchi) works at the Fukushima City Hall. She lost her mother to 2011 tsunami and now lives with her father (Ken Mitsuishi) at a temporary house. On the weekends, Miyuki travels to Shibuya, Tokyo by express bus and works there as a prostitute. (AsianWiki.com)

Set on an island a little offshore from the main Japanese landmass. Film is located in a small town serving a coal mine. Life is grim as mining is hard but the industry is dying. Film follows the lives of two disparate families focusing on 2 male children as they grow from 10'ish to young adults, also their schoolmates. The kids are the link between the two families both of which are damaged by the harsh times. (My summary)

In July 1945, the war condition deteriorates beyond measure. Even civilians who were told that they would not be picked by the military if they joined settlement groups are drafted into the army. Many women as well as children are left in these groups. In a change of course, the Japanese army is made to move its line of defence southward. (myanimelist)

Masaatsu Naito (Kuranosuke Sasaki) successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by peasants has taken place in his hometown of Yunagaya. Masaatsu Naito knows that it is a counterattack by Matsudaira. He returns to Yunagaya, but finds that his castle is gone. (imdb)

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku region is a small han. But at the han, there is a gold mine. Suddenly, Masaatsu Naito of Yunagaya Domain receives an order to perform Sankin-kotai within 5 days. Sankin-kotai is a custom that requires the daimyo to visit the shogun in Edo. Unfortunately, the time needed to visit the shogun in Edo for Masaatsu Naito is 8 days. Masaatsu Naito also learns he received the order because a high... (imdb)

Young Yoshio's young life has not begun well. He has lost his father, has an unkind mother and even worse schoolmates. He is not all alone however. Ike-chan is there for him. She is not quite real however. Well, she is real to him. He is not all alone after all. (imdb)

An isolated Japanese teenager seeks consolation from his problems and worries by repairing a found boat. (imdb)

While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale of her own. After overcoming her initial reluctance to open up to the writer, Emi talks about her busted leg and her childhood friendship with the chronically ill Yuka. (letterboxd)

In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu (Hiroshi Tamaki) wants to avoid useless bloodshed and sends a peace envoy to Takamori Saigo, but Katsu Kaishu is unable to get a response from Takamori Saigo. One day, Katsu Kaishu meets high school teacher Mikako (Satomi Ishihara) and her student Masaya who is captivated by the shogunate. Mikako and her student Masaya tells Katsu Kaishu that they are from the future. Katsu Kaishu ta

Following the manga series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced man comes across a woman during his working day and sparks fly. (imdb)

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world. (Avistaz)

Torihada 4 consists of six stories: 1. Fear is always by your side, 2. Tragedy due to the difference between heart and appearance, 3. Overdone love record, 4. The result of curiosity exceeding suspicion, 5. The courtship method that is always used up, 6. The terrible human nature that everyone has.

A mystery centered on a remote conversation with six classmates in high school during the period of the coronavirus.

The student council places 5 male students in a prison on charges of peeping on the girls in the showers, and they struggle to escape. (imdb)