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To the world, he's an amiable, fresh-faced weather forecaster. But secretly, he lives with an erotic manga artist — who must obey his every word.
Reunited with his first love after three years, Wataru must choose between protecting a lifelong friendship and risking it all for romance.
After a one-night stand, a photographer bets he can win over the heartbroken vet student, only to get entangled in the chaotic mess of his own game.
With their tumultuous relationship wiped from his ex-boyfriend's memory after an accident, Fumiya capitalizes on Okusawa's amnesia to start anew.
Based on four early novellas by Noble Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, this omnibus of four short films are by emerging directors from the second graduating class of the new Graduate School of Film and New Media at Japan’s top art school, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), where famed directors Takeshi Kitano and Kiyoshi Kurosawa teach.
High school student Ayumi falls to her death shortly after telling her friends, Satomi and Yuka, that her 'boyfriend' wants to kill her. The girls investigate her suicide and quickly link her death to a popular cellphone dating simulation game called Keitai Kareshi. The main features of the game include a 'love gauge' that determines how well the player is faring and the ability to trade boyfriends with other players. There is a rumour spreading that if the gauge hits either 100 or 0, you will die. Satomi insists on downloading Ayumi's boyfriend so they can interrogate him about her death...
Motherless boy Yujin is shunned by people around him because of his weird behavior. Only Naomi, his sister-in-law, knows Yujin's secret extraordinary ability. They have feelings for each other; however, Yujin's ability turns out to be a cursed, harmful one. He leaves home with Naomi... This unique science fiction film portrays their desperate love story spanning ten years.
Five short horror films, omnibus style of about 10 minutes each, created by Shinju Funabiki, the director of "Cellular Boyfriend", starring Umika Kawashima.
