Yoshimasa Kondô

A 27-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tôkyô. (imdb)

A heartbreakingly stark film, Dragon Head is a brilliant look at the end of the world, or rather, the end of the known world. (Jackass Critics)

"How To Become Myself" is an introspective film centered around two main characters who appear to be normal, well adjusted girls on the outside at least. The dilemma's they face are more internalized, none of which involve the more common teen topics you may think of in teen films... (lunapark6.com)

Staff and guests at a hotel endure a heady night of chaotic festivity and scandal.

A bizarre medical exam of a nude woman by several doctors and scientists reveal that their latest subject has committed suicide before giving birth to one of the mutant creatures they had placed within her body. So, an investigative crew of scientists (along with a large human mutant cyclops creature) head out to the city streets to obtain a new donor/victim in the form of a young girl. (imdb)

Kasumi is shocked to discover that her older sister's fiance is the man she first fell in love with five years ago in high school. At the time, he was her high school teacher and ultimately quit his job racked with guilt over their relationship. Kasumi was deeply hurt and struggled for a long time to overcome her sadness. Now the two of them must come to terms with their secret past before the ones they care about in the present are hurt. (mydramalist.com)

Taro Madobe was once a wonderful elite tax inspector of the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau. However, due to a certain incident five years ago he was transferred to the Setagaya Minami Tax Office. In the series Madobe uncovers political and business corruption. This episode: A man is murdered after stealing documents from the Olympic department of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Private detective Kogoro (Kouta Kusano) receives a request from Naoko (Yuki Mamiya). She is the daughter of a family that runs a large hospital. Naoko wants private detective Kogoro to investigate her fiance Endo (Yasushi Fuchikami) and whether he is having an affair with university student Teruko (Noriko Kijima).

A soba restaurant owner dies mysteriously on D. Street. The police rule it as a suicide, but Detective Akechi Kogoro and his wife Fumiyo think otherwise and launch their own investigation. As they delve deeper, they discover relationships twisted by perverted desire and hideous affection and hatred.

A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals.