Shuchū nikki

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of stomach cancer. At his funeral, a motley crew of fellow mahjong players, pachinko parlor employees and former drinking buddies gather to pay their respects and tell stories, revealing aspects of Masato’s life that complicate his sons’ resentment towards him.

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

The punk shop run by single mother Mahir (Yoko Yazawa) is full of crazy customers. Her ex-husband who always comes to Mahir for money with her crazy head. She is a high school girl who fell in love with a yakuza. SM girl who hates her father. Mahir looks at her clothes that suit her, singing rock with her extraordinary affection to her souls who have nowhere to go. She is a rock confronting the human ego and stagnation. A rock movie that challenges the fight with laughter in a rotten world is now being dropped!

An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube . In the first segment, Tsube encounters a dotty old man named Ri after renting a tumble-down cottage in the country. The following day, Ri, his equally weird wife, and his two squalid children move into his house. Soon the wife is stealing the cucumbers in his garden while the two kids devour all the food in the house.

A.D. 2015: A virus spreads in many cities globally, a suicidal disease infected by pictures. Once infected, the diseased will soon meet death. They have no way of fighting back, filled with fear and despair. The media calls it the 'Lemming Syndrome'.

Ryosuke runs a used car dealership in the sticks, some way outside Tokyo. He inherited the business, and doesn’t enjoy running it. When a girl is dumped by the driver of a car on the road outside his forecourt, his life starts to turn upside-down.

Koji Shiraishi interviews the survivors of an indiscriminate attack at a sightseeing resort and starts investigating the strange events that have been happening to them.

A woman is being sexually assaulted by a pair of thugs, when out of the fog appear the High Heeled Cats – a trio of avenging angels, masked and dressed in black. These beautiful vigilantes make a living running a coffee shop by day, and kicking misogynist criminals in the balls by night. Their boss is an elderly lady offering a payback service to women who have been mistreated by men. The cops can’t be seen to allow this kind of behavior, but they are increasingly frustrated with the lack of clues that might lead to the identity of the trio – despite the fact that the two detectives on the case visit the coffee shop daily, to flirt with and grope the waitresses, and drink the occasional cup of coffee. The high heeled honeys eventually bite off more than they can chew when they get on the bad side of a ruthless gangster, who sets a creepy assassin on their trail.

Aiko and Hashimoto discovere a VHS videotape called "A Guide to Surviving Zombies From". This is a video with a set of instructions that will help them cope with the invasion of the undead living in Japan.

This is the second volume of a horror variety series with Junji Inagawa, the master of ghost stories, as the host.

A sci-fi comedy action film in which a Space Police officer who has arrived from outer space to fend off man-eating aliens and a good-for-nothing young man race against time to save the Earth. Directed by Kazushi Watanabe, whose debut film *19* was acclaimed at numerous international film festivals. Starring Shugo Oshinari (Blue Spring), alongside Yuki Meguro, who is making his first film appearance in ten years. The cast also includes Soji Itao and Minoru Torihada.

Indie film by Fujiwara Sho, 2001.

Eye-popping digital moving image work with an equally arresting soundtrack from noise music heavies.