Love and Other Cults
Ai's mother sends her to live with a cult commune, where she remains for seven years. After the cult is broken up by the police, Ai struggles to fit in with society.
Mumon: The Land of Stealth
Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-century mercenary. When the ninja council makes a power play to defeat the young Nobukatsu Oda struggling to step into his father’s warlord shoes as they expand rule across the country, Mumon jumps into the fray to satisfy his new bride Okuni’s demand that he make good on his promises of wealth. Yet Mumon soon finds what is worth fighting for beyond money or nation.
Blue Hour
Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom and yearnings creep in the dreamlike blue hour, transcending into a lyricism of self-realization – at once whimsical, agonizing and yet hopeful.
Princess Sakura: Forbidden Pleasures
One evening, Princess Sakura is attacked by a man. At that time, the Princess could not see his face and only sees a tattoo on his body. Because of that that night, Princess Sakura falls in love with the man. In order to find the man she gives up everything and gets the same identical tattoo. The princess then works as a prostitute. Meanwhile Gonsuke is the man who attacked Princess Sakura. He also stole a scroll and, because of that, he is chased by assassins.
Like Someone in Love
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
Seven Days of Himawari and Her Puppies
Set within an animal shelter, where if the owner of an animal doesn't claim their pet in 7 days, the animal is put to sleep. Himawari, is a female dog and a mother. She tries to desperately save her baby dogs.
The Forest of Love
A con man and a would-be filmmaking crew force themselves into the lives of two grief-scarred young women. But nothing is as it seems.
Spiral
The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
Shizukana ame
A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized, however, by a car accident on a rainy day after they go out together, and wakes up with short term memory loss, where she cannot remember anything beyond the present day. Yukisuke tries to live close to her as before but the lack of collective memory starts to stagger him.
Cold Fish
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.
A Man
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
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Eiji Uchida
Director
Sairi Itô
as
Ai Shima
Denden
as
Hisaya Kida
Katsuya Maiguma
as
Kazuharu Kitami
Yoshimasa Kondô
as
Tsunehiko Mita
Yûsuke Iseya
as
Daizen Heki
Shinnosuke Mitsushima
as
Jinbee Shimoyama
Satomi Ishihara
as
Okuni
Munetaka Aoki
as
Gonsuke
Yuki Kazamatsuri
as
Shunkin
Ryô Kase
as
Noriaki
Ryota Nakanishi
as
Student
Tadashi Okuno
as
Takashi Watanabe
Rei Dan
as
Chinatsu
Miki Nakatani
as
Miku
Masato Sakai
as
Shoji Kanzaki
Sion Sono
Director
Sei Matobu
as
Azumi Ozawa
Young Dais
as
Jay
Tôru Tezuka
as
Yokota Ikuo
Keiko Takahashi
as
Yukie Saito
Masato Hagiwara
as
Jun Murakami
as
Kanji Furutachi
as
Doctor
Makoto Ashikawa
as
Hideo Nakaizumi
as
Akio's Brother
Tetsu Watanabe
as
Takayasu TsuTsui
Miyako Yamaguchi
as
Hatsue Takemoto
Yôko Maki
as
Kaori Kido
Nana Seino
as
Misuzu Goto
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