Hotaru

Erotic work about the love sought by a love-struck young lady. Orica, a young lady living in a mansion, is a romantic who cannot live without the person she loves. She is undeniably beautiful and at first loves a man who is a magician, but when she loses him, Orika loses her heart too. Eventually she met a man who was a lumberman, but he also left her, and next Orika fell in love with a doctor. Orica sacrifices her ego to serve the doctor.

At the quiet Sirius Theater in the countryside, struggling filmmaker Fukuyama works amid mounting debts while nurturing his passion for film. The theater’s owner, Inuzuka—fearing impending blindness—sees Fukuyama as his potential successor. Meanwhile, unspoken affections complicate matters when long-time admirer Tamaki and the mysterious film star Hitomi (later revealed as Ayame Nakanishi) enter the picture, intertwining their fates in unexpected ways.

Nami Matsushima, prisoner #701 is sent to a Woman's Prison for attempted murder. Nami is brought into Number 2 community cell, where suicides and unnatural deaths occurred one after another. In the punishment cell, Nami begins to look back in her past. After dealing with her horrible experiences, Nami seeks to escape from prison. Who will survive?

Mizawa remarries following a tragedy with his previous family. His new wife has a daughter, Mikayo. The three of them take a trip to Okinawa... [Exists in two versions : a R18+ version ("Hentai kazoku: Aoi umi ni idakarete") and a R15+ version ("Yearning no shima")]

After divorcing her husband after he murdered the woman he was having an affair with, Reimi returns to her hometown and her family home. Her younger sister Mitsuki is missing, her father has passed away, and she lives alone in the house, with only her aunt as her only relative. Her former boyfriend, Tatsuo, is dating Kanna, a hostess, but he persistently pressures Reimi to get back together with him. Meanwhile, her estranged father's twin brother, Kazuo, appears in town. Reimi suspects that there may be some connection between her sister's disappearance and Kazuo's appearance... (R15+ version premiered at the OP PICTURES+ Festival 2025).

Daijoji is an ordinary office worker. One day, when he returns home from a business trip, he witnesses his wife Miki having an affair with a stranger. The next morning, he finds divorce papers on the table and his wife has left home. Meanwhile, at work, he is in charge of restructuring in the HR department, and today he is once again feeling embarrassed as he announces the dismissal of his fellow employees. Covered in both personal and professional pain, Daijoji heads to a jazz bar on his way home to soothe his soul. There, he meets a refined woman named Chiharu, and they hit it off over a conversation about jazz, leading to a night together...

Erika works at a popular "reconciliation agency." Her main job is to help separated couples remarry or get back together. She approaches her target, blends into their life, and gradually makes them remember their ex... with a 100% success rate. However, when the client's husband turns out to be a senior colleague Erika admired, personal feelings get involved...

Three years have passed since Akane lost her husband, but she still hasn't been able to forget him and lives a lonely life. Her father-in-law and mother-in-law encourage her to remarry, a college junior confesses his love to her, and even her husband's lover shows up...

After her husband's death, Michiko takes a live-in job as a housekeeper for a university professor named Igarashi. One day, while she is indulging in masturbation before her husband's mortuary tablet, the ghost of her late husband, Hiroaki, appears.

Oar and Miho, who live in a seaside town, go back and forth between each other's houses, and their parents are childhood friends. Oar, who was in charge of managing the canning factory, decided to go to Tokyo to receive training that looked ahead to the future. On the last night before the departure, Oar and Miho are fiercely seeking each other. The next morning, they talked about the future while walking along the beach and made a promise such as calling once a day. However, Oar who is worried about unfamiliar sales work and human relationships. Miho also discovers her father's illness, is exhausted by her nursing and long-term care, and she can no longer keep the phone once a day. Eventually, Oar was forced to leave the office after witnessing his boss's infidelity and being dressed in his embezzlement. Oars who cannot speak honestly cannot return to their hometowns, and they pass each other and become estranged.

Released from prison after serving a 10-year sentence for murder, Yoshii visits Yoko, a self-sacrificing volunteer who has devoted her life to helping former convicts. Disfigured by a hideous scar on her face, Yoko encourages Yoshii to start his life anew. During Yoshii’s long absence, his lover Fujiko has been working at a brothel and taking care of “something” in a suitcase while awaiting his return from prison. Finally reunited, Yoshii and Fujiko seemingly make up for lost time as they make love and vow to get married. For the sake of his future with Fujiko, Yoshii tries to cut ties with his shady past, but the organization he was once part of comes knocking with a new murder request.

This anthology film brings together a diverse group of directors at the call of actress Hotaru, who also works as a film director. It consists of five short films.

A boy and a girl are about to graduate from high school and head off down separate paths, but they are entangled as if they are trying not to waste even a moment...

Shuhei collapses at the factory where he works and is taken to the hospital where he is told he has only a short time left to live. Treated as a nuisance by his younger brother and his wife, who are after his inheritance, he lives in despair until he accidentally meets his former colleague, Miki, who has become a prostitute for a call girl.

Newly married Kazuo is troubled by the word "Takaraboin" that his wife Chiharu muttered in her sleep. One day, Kazuo learns from his uncle Kenji that "Takaraboin" is a sexual position. When Kazuo finds out that Chiharu had been dating Kenji before they were married, he decides to take revenge together with Kenji's wife.

Kinoshita Megumi is a high school girl who lives with her man-crazed mother Yoshiko and her wheelchair-bound brother Taichi, who has a different father. One morning, Megumi bumps into a young man named Izumi as he comes out of Yoshiko's room. He attacks her, and she desperately runs out of the house. Megumi wanders the streets, and before she knows it, it's already dark outside...

While his wife Reiko was away on a trip, Koichi brought his lover home. When Reiko returned home, she was so angry that she punched Koichi, and the injury left Koichi in a wheelchair. Since then, Reiko has been straddling Koichi every night, but...

After a happily married couple running a hot spring resort are awakened to their sadomasochistic desires, their relationship will never be the same.

One summer day, high school student Keito, recently widowed Na, and the couple Takeshi and Raika are on a crowded train, engaging in a sexual harassment game. Soon, the harassers' hands close in on Keito and Na…

A story of finding a place to root yourself when life’s obstacles have dispirited you. Chang-su, a former equestrian athlete for the South Korean national team, was forced to give up on his dream early. He finds himself working at a quarry in the rural town of Minawa in western Japan, where he lives with Minami and her infant daughter. Yamabuki, a teenage girl, begins to stage silent protests that blossom into community action, much to the dismay of her policeman father. The quiet surface of this rural town is gradually peeled off to reveal frustration and loneliness that, once given a voice, begin to connect people.