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- An action-thriller centered on a vampire-like woman who eats the skins and hearts of her lovers.
- The Armed Detective Agency investigates a bizarre series of suicides involving an eerie mist.
- Be-hwan is a famous Korean fashion photographer visiting Japan at the request of his friend Gil-su to take pictures of his wedding. On the day of Gil-su's wedding, however, the bride disappears, and Bae-hwan ends up filling in for her at Gil-su's studio. Ryu is a male escort who is neither male not female in his physiappearance and he visits Gil-su's studio to take new image shots for upload to a website featuring male prostitutes. While working with Bae-hwan, Ryu realizes his beauty for the first time. Bae-hwan attempts to take Ryu with him to Korea to help with with his modeling career, but in the end, they both realize that existing in each other's worlds is something they are simply, sadly, unable to do.
- Following an end-of-term school ceremony, the American boy Bobby decides to go with his friend Akkun into the mountains outside their village, to a place perfect for a secret base. On the way they stop into a mysterious amusement park. They have fun there, but are attacked and cannot leave.
- A film about adolescent girls who are amorous yet poisonous with a painful sting just like jellyfish, and their days which are fragile and cruel with warm love and jealousy.
- A captured masterless samurai has 30 days to make a grieving boy prince smile, or he must commit seppuku.
- There is a series of Buddha statue thefts in Kyoto. Beniko, a high school girl, gets the Buddha statue at her family's temple stolen and has her parents killed at the same time. Beniko hears from Enju, her parents'friend, that a robbery group called SEADDATTHA is the one who killed her parents, and feels the strong urge for vengeance. Enju offers Beniko to live with him since she has no place to go. She wanders into Enju's secret room and meets an ugly creature that looks like a fusion of her parents and Buddha statue...
- A sentient period goes around harassing women at their time of the month.
- As a child, Masaki Sata was teased and bullied because of his appearance and called "Demekin" (popeyed goldfish). He decided to fight back and eventually became unbeatable in fights. His red hair also became a trademark. Masaki Sata and his buddy Atsunari then spent their days fighting and riding motorcycles. After middle school, Masaki Sata went on to high school and Atsunari begins to work at a ramen restaurant. One day, Atsunari comes up with the idea of starting a motorcycle gang with Masaki Sata. What awaits for them are enemies.
- A love story torn by swords... In Kyoto in the last days of Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, who aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Shogun's police and city patrol. Tajuro Kiyokawa, once the master of the sword but now a depraved samurai who left his domain putting aside his past ambition, barely makes ends meet. Toyo, a woman who runs a tavern next door, feels affection for Tajuro who guards her place from nasty customers, but he never realizes Toyo's feeling... One day, Kazuma, a half-sibling of Tajuro, came to Kyoto to count on his brother. Kazuma has always looked him up and believed that Tajuro left the domain to pursue his ambition to conquer the shogunate. The city patrol finally finds Tajuro, the one marked as a subversive, and attacks him. What fate awaits for Tajuro, Toyo and Kazuma after a battle staking their lives...?
- It is the anniversary of the death of the wife and mother of an Okinawan family and the Shinjos have congregated back on the island. It is time to honour the dead by practicing the ritual bone washing, which involves the exhumation of the corpse and the washing of the bones. It is imperative to say farewell properly and come to grips with the dismal loss of a loved one. Along with the ritual comes the travails, challenges and circumstances of the family.
- Upon encountering a prostitute in an elevator, a Japanese psychologist living in the United States begins examining and questioning her in his head. The woman recounts stories of arson, being bullied at school, losing her parents, losing her husband to infidelity and matters getting out of control.
- Popular Osaka-based, all-girls' idol group, NMB48 -- the third iteration of Yasushi Akimoto's highly successful AKB48 & 48 Family j-pop franchise billed as the largest pop-group in the world and heralded in Japan as "Idols you can meet" encompasses over half a dozen affiliated girl groups based in major cities throughout Japan and Asia with 300+ active female members (in addition to 300 "graduated" or retired members now ensconced in solo careers of their own) ranging in age from 11-28 -- has proven yet again that the 'triple threat', i.e., the idol who can sing, dance and now act -- is the veritable gamechanger and industry standard in the iffy world of Japanese idols and talento. Now, out with a movie of their own, NMB48 is out to prove their acting chops -- i.e., as long as they get to play themselves, or characters very much like themselves. For NMB48, whose ages ranged between 14-20 in this 2013 movie, that means delimiting themselves only to roles that they can pull offf convincingly with little or no effort, never mind imagination. And in the 48-Family group world, that means high school girls playing high school girls. Enter this movie, which translates to "NMB48 Entertainers! The Movie: high school comedy girls!"
- Tokunaga is an unpopular comedian. He meets a senior comedian, Kamiya, who holds a strong faith in comedy. They struggle to move forward as comedians.
- Ayumi, a morose telephone operator, suddenly gets fired and she decides to go home where her estranged father awaits her return.
- Ai Majima studies AI at a university. She needs to collect data for her graduation thesis. The theme for her thesis is "way to make women feel better according to differences of the brain between men and women." For research on her thesis, Ai begins to work part-time at a wedding hall.
- Toko works as a shrine maiden. Her days are full of joy as she would be called out by the village people to play or sometimes simply savor time with nothing spectacular to do. One day, Toko finds out that the village festival which she has been waiting with great anticipation will be cancelled due to an old superstition. Toko who wants to make the festival happen starts preparations against the advice of the villagers. Events unfold in an unexpected direction when she meets a strange little girl by the lake..
- Jo Sasaki's 2007 novel is the first in the so-called "The Hokkaido Trilogy" and was inspired by corruption in the police force governing Japan's northern island. Set in the capital, Sapporo, the pic begins with the discovery of a strangled policewoman's body in an apartment used by the force's big brass. Senior officials keep the investigation under wraps and, in short order, the dead cop's ex-lover, Sgt. Suguru Tsukui (Hiroyuki Miyasako) - due to give damning evidence in a corruption hearing in 18 hours' time - is declared the perp. Police are ordered to shoot him on sight. Disturbed by the hasty manner in which his squad was pushed off the case, Tsukui's former police partner, smooth saxophonist Sgt. Koichi Saeki (Nao Omori), summons his team to discuss an alternative plan to the sanctioned witch hunt.
- Things are not going well for Chinami who is haunted by the Hanshin earthquake of two decades ago. She has a boyfriend, but her hopes of marrying him are dashed when she catches him cheating on her. Then she also loses her job. Soon a man from Tokyo appears. Could things be looking up for her on the island?
- A "DOGEZA" is the most formal of Japanese bows. Japanese toilets have a unique shape. The boy from Indiana who joined the Japanese National Lacrosse Team gives meaning to his life by combining them.
- Ryosaku, a struggling actor, endures daily abuse from his wicked wife. One day, the janitor of his apartment gives him a 'The Pod of Good Fortune'. And his life begins to go awry. The sudden death of his abusive wife...suspicion of murder...an impulsive cover-up...same old routine on set...an unexpected visitor...and the body count rises. This film closely follows the daily life of the protagonist as the bizarre and horrific drama unfolds. When people are pushed to an extreme situation, it's also the most comical. Full of such aspects, the story reveals the secret side of the people surrounding the protagonist. Where will the 'The Pod of Good Fortune' lead this man's unfortunate life? Only the Pot can tell.
- Life is fine for the boy who loves his basketball and chicken, until a leek-lashing bandit arrives.
- Jinnai, the star Japanese comedian, performed his first LA gig at the Fonda Theater on August 1, 2016. Entirely in English, was it a brave attempt in his non-native tongue, or a foolish gamble? Behold, the 42 year-old Jinnai's challenge.
- Hitoshi Matsumoto and Masatoshi Hamada present the comical talk show about current world events with tongue-in-cheek humor.