Bitter Honey
Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and adoring pet for an aging writer seeking greatness. Things quickly get complicated for the odd couple, however, when the writer's deceased former student/lover enters the picture as a ghost and helps Akako realize her own desires, activating her agency and frustrating the one-sided male fantasy the writer is so keen to continue.
Little Miss Period
Periods are depicted as pink, heart-shaped sentient beings that harass women on a monthly basis, delivering awful gut punches, but also offering a shoulder to cry on.
Au Revoir L'Ete
After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.
The Warped Forest
Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. In the end we are left, like Alice, with the Red King's conundrum: are we dreaming them or are they dreaming us?
Tezuka's Barbara
Barbara is an adult-orientated fantasy tale filled with love and the occult from Osamu Tezuka's reimagining of "The Tales of Hoffmann". Its story deals with the erotic and bizarre experiences of a famous novelist called Yosuke Mikura whose life is tossed upside down by a mysterious girl named "Barbara".
Tonde Saitama: Biwako Yori Ai o Komete
People of Saitama Prefecture, who have been persecuted by Tokyoites for a long time, stand up for their freedom. Thanks to Momomi Hakuhodo (Fumi Nikaido) and the Saitama Liberation Front, laissez-passer is abolished. The people of Saitama Prefecture can once again enjoy their peaceful daily lives, but the Saitama Liberation Front heads toward its next goal. This leads to a big case.
The Sion Sono
Directed by Arata Oshima, son of rebel filmmaker Nagisa Oshima, who had praised Sono's early work before his passing, this documentary gives insight into the man, the poet, the painter, the scriptwriter, the husband and the boy who will eventually grow up to be the Sion Sono. Lineage, history and the past meeting the present are themes in this film in which Oshima connects the dots in Sono's creative life by taking the camera to the site of his upbringing and following the production of his most recent film The Whispering Star.
The World of Kanako
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.
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Gakuryû Ishii
Director
Fumi Nikaidô
as
Akako Akai
Masatoshi Nagase
as
Fish Monger
Kengo Kôra
as
Ghost
Yôko Maki
as
Yuriko Tamura
Yoshinori Okada
as
Yuriko Hirooka
as
Sairi Itô
as
Mayu Tsuruta
as
Kie Umi
Makiko Watanabe
as
Sakuko's Aunt
Kanji Furutachi
as
Ukishi
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
as
Hiroyuki Yotsuya
Moemi Katayama
as
Maname Sugata
Gorô Inagaki
as
Yosuke Mikura
Ainosuke Kataoka
as
Akira Kashoji
Shôko Nakahara
as
Awabi
Anne Watanabe
as
Kai Kikyo
Sion Sono
as
Self
Shôta Sometani
as
Self
Megumi Kagurazaka
as
Self
Tetsuya Nakashima
Director
Ai Hashimoto
as
Emi Morishita
Miki Nakatani
as
Rie Azuma
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