Acting
In 1958, as a deadly typhoon approaches, a young boy embarks on a perilous journey to a haunted mountain pool, determined to calm a sorrowful spirit whose grief has cursed the village with devastating floods.
Nagoya, 1983: Legendary filmmaker Koji WAKAMATSU decides to open a cinema – not least to show his own films. The Cinema Skhole quickly turns into a hot spot for local cinephiles. Junichi INOUE tells an empathetic and almost true story about motion picture enthusiasts in this loose sequel to Kazuya SHIRAISHI’s DARE TO STOP US.
Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of Shibuya, Ai dreaming of a model, Mizuho working for the editorial department of a magazine, and musician Erika live together. This story is about the modest cohabitation of the three.
Tatsuya Kawakami's mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband commits suicide, and makes a large donation to the organization. Her three children are forced to live in poverty, and her eldest son, who is blind in one eye due to illness, takes his own life. Kawakami comes to believe that the religious group has ruined his life, so he creates a homemade gun and carries out an assassination plot against former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who has close ties to the religious group, which has been accused of siphoning off money from its members.
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Doughnuts MORI is a small doughnut store in Kagurazaka, Tokyo. The main character, Kimiko, works part-time at the donut shop in addition to her job as an illustrator. The customers who visit the store are all eccentric people. Kimiko's curiosity leads her to meddle in their lives, helping them and being reminded of them. Through her interactions with them, Kimiko comes to face herself.
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.
Three high school students at the Robocon Research Club learned that an UFO will destroy the earth from Akane, a mysterious new student, who suddenly appeared in the area of Hayama and Iijima. They gather junk to save the Earth by building a three-body-combined robot and stand up to the enemies.
Three girls - Miwa, an introvert who's best friend is her turtle, Saori, a rich girl from a celebrity family, and Koyuzu, a member of a revenge agency - wind up in a complex rivalry with one another.
This is Mabataki Made
In the winter of her second year of high school, Fuko was asked by her art club classmate Alan to pose for him. She did so in the classroom early one morning, but for some apparent reason she experienced a climax and fainted. The homeroom teacher who happened upon the scene misread the situation which resulted in Alan’s expulsion, thus estranging the two. Eight years later, Fuko cannot by any means forget the orgasmic sensation of that day. She pays Alan a visit and compels him to once again draw a picture with her as the model.
In the summer of 2001, Ryo Hagio, a high school student living in a country town by the sea, is spending his last summer vacation in high school with his classmates Manabu, Kosugi, and Hotta. One day, he meets Wang Jia-ling, a foreign exchange student from Taiwan who dreams of becoming a dolphin trainer. Ryo, who hates dolphins and the ocean, is at odds with Ling, but when he learns of her true feelings about coming to Japan, they begin to have a heart-to-heart talk...
Mai, who has been withdrawn since her mother's death, spends her days playing games and sleeping. Her father is worried about his daughter's habits but he doesn't know how to deal with it and asks for advice online.
Over the course of 24 hours, five characters will face dilemmas suffocating through another day in their dead end worlds. Their lives will intersect as the story builds to a tragic climax for some and liberation for others.
A debt collector is forced to confront his inner child when assigned a sweet but mentally challenged new recruit, who mirrors all his actions.
