An lonely office worker learns to recycle excess office equipment with the assistance of a beautiful ghost.
Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his Yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wings of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – and one will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of Kabuki.
When panic erupts on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph, authorities race against time to save everyone on board.
In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years.
Maruo, an independent film director, feels that he doesn't want to have sex because he loves her, and because of this, he breaks up with his girlfriend Aki. Unable to forget Aki, he tries to make a new movie based on his experience, but is stuck in writing the script. Why couldn't he hold Aki? Unable to find the answer himself, Maruo decides to meet her again to face that question. On the other hand, Aki is married to Tagashira, an office worker, but even though she wants to have children, she is worried about a sexless marital relationship. When Aki meets Maruo again after a long time, she asks him to give her some of his sperm.
In 1975, a woman reached the summit of Mount Everest: Junko, the first woman in history to reach the world's highest peak. Junko's unforgettable feat stunned the world, bringing her into the spotlight but casting a huge shadow over her friends and family. Despite being diagnosed with a terminal illness in her final years, Junko continued to challenge the mountains. What was the last thing she saw beyond the summit?
Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It's reading your opponent, the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling? At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrols, she's gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!
A girl vanishes while walking, leaving her family devastated. As months pass without clues, rumors about her mother's actions intensify online, straining her marriage.
In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive. The dwindling Japanese soldiers attempt to survive through the horrors of war.
The president of the Kunpusha publishing giant suddenly dies, triggering an internal power struggle over his successor. Trinity magazine editor Hayami is forced to contend with the magazine's possible termination by senior manager Tomatsu. Hayami grapples with publishing world ruffians in a struggle for the magazine's very existence.
A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.
Minori is a pretty server in a ramen shop. She is fed up with people who care only about her appearance and themselves. She is always straight forward and angry at everyone. She is also angry at herself who cannot really change anything.
A reclusive filmmaker, who has isolated himself for a decade after squandering his inheritance, is dragged to a theater by a concerned friend, but his life takes a twisted turn when he meets an actress whose presence reignites his dormant creativity, sparking a delusional love story that spirals into madness.
Shigeo Tokioka (Tetsu Watanabe), a lonely man who has lost his wife, sees a three-line ad for a club in the newspaper that reads, "Tea drinking friends wanted". Mana Sasaki (Rei Okamoto) along with a group of youngsters runs the club, which is actually a prostitution business specializing in arranging appointments for call girls who are over sixty-five years old. A socially-conscious ensemble drama inspired by the news of an actual 2013 prostitution club bust involving the elderly. Directed and written by Sotoyama Bunji, who made his feature film debut with Sansan.
Norio and his girlfriend, Mari Tanabe, have been dating for three years. They lived a peaceful life until one summer day, where Norio comes home to experience a peculiar sensation. The moment he sees the strong sun rays shining into his apartment, he realizes that Mari isn’t there. Instead, he finds an unfamiliar-looking woman who tells him that she is here to live with him. The eerie pale-skinned woman then introduces herself as Mari..
Marie-Lou Fontaine, director of a nursing home in the Paris suburbs, defies convention by adopting the 'Humanitude' method despite her team’s resistance. Her encounter with Mari Morisaki, a terminally ill Japanese playwright, transforms her life. Together, they turn the facility into a symbol of resistance and humanity against the system’s limits.
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The Boonboomgers' run in the Big Bang Grand Prix is violently interrupted when the universe's top-ranked monster, Universe No. 1, appears and triggers a catastrophic universe fusion, causing parallel worlds to merge into one chaotic continuum. While Taiya Hando/Bun Red is suddenly transported to Planet Shaft, he's attacked by the Bitter Demon Beast Galaxy Circuit Guruma until Hoeru Tono/Gozyu Wolf arrives to back him up. Meanwhile on Earth, the remaining Gozyugers battle Universe No. 1. Bun Blue, Bun Pink, and Bun Black return to help, but the monster overwhelms them and defeats the combined teams. Hoeru then reappears in a dramatic new evolution: Saint Gozyu Wolf, declaring his vow to "stop the battle." With a slash that cuts through space itself, he sends all eight heroes hurtling into another dimension, setting the stage for the film's multiversal conflict.
Nicola, who has ascended to the throne as the queen of Planet Trickle, has decided to form an alliance with Planet Chikyu. Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger has been invited to act as witnesses. However, a remnant of the Hashiriyan named Manhole Grumer appears and steals the jewel that's been passed down in the Trickle royal family from Nicola! Furthermore, Minongan, one of Dagded's five jesters appears and steals the Ohgercalibur ZERO, which was prepared for the alliance ceremony! The Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger rushes to the scene and fights alongside the Boonboomger, but the warriors are separated by Manhole Grumer's mysterious power. Taiya and the others were scattered across the stars, each take action to escape from this dire situation. Soon, a dangerous heartbeat begins to resonate from deep underground. As a powerful evil awakens, will the two great Super Sentai be able to come together again fight together?! The battle for the three planets begins now!!
On 22 August 2018 BiSH — the six-piece Japanese group who bill themselves as "a punk band without instruments" — played the open-air THE ODAIBA Mynavi Stage in the plaza outside Fuji Television's headquarters in Odaiba, Tokyo. The set was one instalment of Mezamashi Summer Live, the free concert strand that Fuji TV's morning show Mezamashi TV ran through its summer festival "Welcome!! Wangan Summer Festival THE ODAIBA 2018". Under a hard midsummer sun, on a stage decked out with giant sunflowers and rainbows, Aina The End, Cent Chihiro Chittiii, Momoko Gumi Company, Hashiyasume Atsuko, Lingling and Ayuni D tear through seven songs — "My distinction", "Life is beautiful", "Orchestra", "My landscape", "beautiful-sa", "BiSH -Hoshi ga Matataku Yoru ni-" and "Promise the Star" — in front of a packed, roaring crowd of the fans the band calls seisouin, "cleaning staff". Fuji Television produced the recording, which aired on the satellite channel Fuji TV NEXT Live Premium on 19 October 2018.
On 29 November 2017, the day their second major-label album THE GUERRiLLA BiSH went on general sale, the six members of BiSH - the self-styled “punk band that doesn't play instruments” - went out to ambush Tokyo. Announced only that morning on NTV's breakfast show Sukkiri, the free open-air gig “THE Keyakizaka GUERRiLLA BiSH” pulled roughly 2,000 fans to Roppongi Hills Arena at a few hours' notice. Flanked by bodyguards, the group rolled up in a white stretch Hummer and walked a red carpet laid straight through the crowd before tearing into six songs from the new record: My landscape, SMACK baby SMACK, Promise the Star, FOR HiM, GiANT KiLLERS and BiSH -Hoshi ga Matataku Yoru ni-. “We came to guerrilla Roppongi tonight!” Cent Chihiro Chittiii told the packed plaza, the blue Keyakizaka winter illumination glittering behind the stage. AbemaTV streamed the set live.
One week before they disbanded, BiSH came to Miyajidake Shrine in Fukutsu, Fukuoka, and played on sacred ground. Staged on 22 June 2023 as part of KDDI's regional live project "Ongaku to Ikou" ("Let's Go With Music"), the show took its theme from the shrine's famous path of light and was streamed live to paying viewers on uP!!! and TELASA. A temporary stage was built beneath the shrine's enormous sacred straw rope, before a small audience of fans - "cleaners", as BiSH called them - drawn by lottery. Entering to a piano arrangement of "FiNAL SHiTS" and wearing the red costumes they treated as formal dress, the six members opened with their last single "Bye-Bye Show", gave "innocent arrogance" its live premiere, and dug out rarities such as "MOON CHiLDREN", "HUG ME" and "My distinction". Fourteen songs carry the evening from dusk into night, closing with "Orchestra" and "beautiful-sa" - a prayer for the Tokyo Dome farewell still to come.
BiSH SPARKS “My BiSH Forever” EPiSODE 6 records the arena show the Japanese idol group BiSH played at Osaka-Jo Hall on 21 July 2021 — the second night of a two-day stand and one instalment of BiSH SPARKS, a run of stand-alone arena concerts the group staged across 2021 but pointedly never billed as a tour. It was BiSH's second headline show at the hall and their first there since “And yet BiSH moves.” in September 2019. A catwalk ringed the entire floor, letting Cent Chihiro Chittiii, AiNA THE END, Momoko Gumi Company, Hashiyasume Atsuko, Lingling and Ayuni D circuit the arena. The set opens with “BiSH -Hoshi ga Matataku Yoru ni-” and drives on through “stereo future”, “Promise the Star” and “GiANT KiLLERS”, and “STACKiNG”, the theme to the anime Kingdom, gets its live premiere. A time-loop comedy skit in which Hashiyasume Atsuko turns into a takoyaki splits the set, and twenty-one songs end on “ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE”.
BiSH SPARKS “DAYDREAM NATiON” EPiSODE 2 records the headline show the Japanese idol group BiSH played at the Makomanai Sekisui Heim Ice Arena in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on 16 October 2021 — one night of BiSH SPARKS, a run of arena concerts staged across the second half of 2021 that the group pointedly never billed as a tour. Cent Chihiro Chittiii, Aina The End, Momoko Gumi Company, Hashiyasume Atsuko, Lingling and Ayuni D appear at the back of the floor during “BiSH -Hoshi ga Matataku Yoru ni-” and run the catwalk to the main stage, then pile on “GiANT KiLLERS”, “DEADMAN” and “ZENSHiN ZENREi”. A comedy interlude built on Hokkaido’s jingisukan mutton barbecue splits the set, the early rarity “Pirapiro” resurfaces, and “beautiful-sa” closes the main show. The encore gives “I have no idea.” its live premiere, Hokkaido-born Ayuni D is in tears at the last MC, and twenty-one songs end on “ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE”.
On 2 June 2019 BiSH — the six-piece Japanese group who bill themselves as "a punk band without instruments" — took the LOVE STAGE at 15:30 on the second day of LOVE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2019, held at Makuhari Event Hall in Chiba. The festival is staged by Love music, Fuji Television's music programme, and had grown to two days for its second edition. This 21-minute broadcast, carried by the satellite channel Fuji TV NEXT Live Premium, follows the set from an opening "GiANT KiLLERS" through "Tsui ni Shi", "I am me." and "beautiful-sa" to a closing "Promise the Star", the festival's DAY2 LOVE STAGE caption sitting in the corner of the screen throughout.
At eight in the morning on 24 December 2021, BiSH streamed a surprise show, free and live, on their official YouTube channel from heavysick ZERO — a black-walled basement room in Nakano, Tokyo that holds barely a couple of hundred people. It is where the group played their first headline concert, "THiS is FOR BiS", on 31 May 2015; the new title changes a single letter. Aina The End, Cent Chihiro Chittiii, Momoko Gumi Company, Hashiyasume Atsuko, Lingling and Ayuni D arrive in black pinstripe suits, standing on the floor among a few dozen masked fans, and open by singing "BiSH -Hoshi ga Matataku Yoru ni-" three times in a row, the way they once had to when they barely had a setlist. Sixteen songs follow, almost all of them early ones. Then, in the last MC, Cent Chihiro tells the room and everyone watching that BiSH will disband in 2023, and reads out four promises for the year ahead. An ending announced on Christmas Eve, in the smallest room they know.
BiSH SPARKS “the FiNAL BATTLE of REVENGE” EPiSODE 3 records the arena show the Japanese idol group BiSH played at Marine Messe Fukuoka Hall A on 5 December 2021 — the second night of a two-day stand and the closing instalment of BiSH SPARKS, a run of stand-alone arena concerts the group staged across 2021 but pointedly never billed as a tour. Playing Marine Messe Fukuoka had long been a stated ambition for the six members, and this two-day stand closed out the whole BiSH SPARKS run. After an opening film, Cent Chihiro Chittiii, AiNA THE END, Momoko Gumi Company, Hashiyasume Atsuko, Lingling and Ayuni D drive through “BiSH -Hoshi ga Matataku Yoru ni-”, “GiANT KiLLERS” and “DEADMAN”, then deliver the brand-new “Beginning, End and Beginning”, premiered only the night before. “Orchestra”, “Promise the Star” and “beautiful-sa” carry the late set, a long and tearful MC precedes the end, and twenty-two songs close on “ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE” and “NON TiE-UP”.
Tormented and bullied people can access a special website, run by a Hell Girl who will enable them to take revenge on their torturers. The price for such a service is only that the person must join their torturer in damnation.
On the last day of the Heisei era, Teru visits Reika to make a life-changing choice. As friends around them choose what to carry into Reiwa, Teru must finally decide what to give up and what to keep.
