Yôichi Nukumizu

A young girl named Mitsuki receives a ticket for a bus tour from her uncle. The tour appears to be normal (except that everyone appears to be quite somber), but Mitsuki learns its true purpose. All passengers and the tour manager have a suicide pact to send the bus over a cliff so that the families can collect the insurance money. (imdb)

Katakura Suzume (Ueno Juri) is a really bored housewife. Her most important job is to feed her husband's turtle. Desperate for something else, she answers a secret ad that she accidently finds for a..spy agency. Suddenly, she's working for one of the weirdest couples you've ever seen. Come to find out, she's not the only spy in the neighborhood. The mission they giver her; act normal and do not act suspicious. (http://community.livejournal.com/asian_movies/)

"GS Wonderland" is about the 1960's Group Sounds bands - A Japanese pop movement inspired by the Beatles and other mid-1960's Brit Pop. Three young men set out to start their own band "The Diamonds" when they are signed to a recording contract during their very first rehearsal. Things turn for the unexpected when their agent brings Mick (Chiaki Kuriyama) into the group as their keyboarder. All of them believe Mick looks remarkably like a girl! (AsianMediaWiki)

Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD. (imdb)

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)

In Hanari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is interrupted by the appearence of a bautiful femaile college student, Momoko (Suzuki Kyoka), who comes to visit her aunt. After catching a glimpse of Momoko, both Tatsuya (Takenaka Naoto) and Nobuyuki (Akai Hidekazu) can't stop thinking about her. Since then, the small town is not so quiet anymore... (KG)

A teenager becomes a wrestler thanks to the superpowers contained in a tiger mask.

Ichiko (Ai Hashimoto) lived in a big city, but goes back to her small hometown Komori, located on a mountain in the Tohoku region. She is self-sufficient. Ichiko gains energy living among nature and eating foods she makes from seasonal ingredients. Based on the popular manga series "Little Forest" by Daisuke Igarashi. (AsianWiki)

Ichiko lived in a big city, but goes back to her small hometown Komori, located on a mountain in the Tohoku region. She is self-sufficient. Ichiko gains energy living among nature and eating foods she makes from seasonal ingredients. (imdb)

An unscheduled late night train arrives at Tokyo station on 15 August, the anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. Boarding the train are spirits of great men who died honourable deaths in the war more than 60 years ago. They have come to the modern world to see their homeland as a peaceful country and to tell the lingering spirits of the war dead about the current conditions. (The Movie Database)

Katsu is now an old woman who even at seventy three has not lost her penchant for being sardonic and dissatisfied. Upon visiting a photography studio her life and body are transported to that of a twenty-year-old girl giving her the opportunity to make up for missing out on her earlier dreams of becoming a singer, a more harmonious family member and to have more fun than life generally afforded her. (imdb)

An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When they hear 'in India one can live without working' they take it seriously. They begin to raise the money to go to India by doing anything but working, such as ripping off stamps from others' letters to sell, robbery at the bank which itself went bankrupt, etc. (imdb)

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A massive earthquake strikes off mainland Japan causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically, leading to a massive storm to hit Tokyo and for it to be inundated with water. Later the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history hits Tokyo. The Tokyo Fire Department and its team of crack rescuers swing into action, and shortly after they do, a distress call arises from an underground subway station - with repeated indications of the rescue code, 252 ...

A student in high school obtains a rare avatar on a social networking site and the boundary between her real and online identities becomes blurred.

A big secret is intertwined with 5 murders that occur at different times & locations. Firstly a shooting at an apartment. When senior officer Kizaki (Takahashi Issei), rushes over upon hearing gunshots, his senior Omura (Murakami Jun) is already there. Suspects are narrowed down through legwork & forensics, but Kizaki feels that there is more. Before long, a girl (Kaho) with some sort of connection to the case emerges. This is only ep1, from there it gets ever more complicated (DramaWiki & me)

After seeing her husband off to work, the young author identified only as Yoshiko sets off to read the large collection of letters she received from other young authors. These are often letters containing samples of their work for critique. One large envelope contains a letter. The letter-writer does not provide his name. The letter is a confession of crimes. The letter-writer has no family or friends, and claims to be "ugly beyond description".

Fans of Kamaitachi no Yoru gather to shoot a film based on the game until one of the cast members is killed.

Hideo Aiba (Atsuji Ninomiya) is a reserved and obedient high school student, who has never had any girlfriend. He spends all his energy on masturbating, his true reason for living. His life and his solitary activities will take a radical change when a new transfer student, the sexy Kurumi Sahana (Akane Suzuki), joins his class.

This series revolves around a group of peculiar detectives in a new division created to fight against an increase in atrocious crimes. Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "boss" of this division. But despite her intelligence and capabilities, she can never understand a man's heart, so she remains unable to find a husband. (imdb)