Known for Acting
A city person discovers twelve paths with a different sense of time. What makes us come alive? Will we go on the same way?
Antonym is a slow-burning drama about human connection, told through the story of two women who come together to write a radio drama. Vain and self-centred Aya is forced to find a writing partner to work on the radio script she is developing. Heavily reluctant to collaborate, she partners shy co-worker Sachiko, who eagerly embraces the project. Peppered with coincidental occurrences and failed relationships, and powered by the friction and growing friendship between the women as they work on the script, Antonym is as much about the inevitability of human connection as it is about the necessity of it.
Random street attacks have been occurring in a local industrial city. No similarities among the victims, no clues for a motive or the culprit's next move except for sightings of a large figure in a raincoat. On her way home, Nami encounters an attack in progess. She sees the killer eye to eye and is attacked. Tsukishima saves her in a nick of time which brings them closer. In the same city, Detective Shintaro Matsuyama is after the killer responsible for the attacks. He sees a similarity to an unsolved street attack in which his daughter was killer 15 years ago. The city becomes depressed as people are afraid of the attacks and those who try to bring justice. Nami's life grows gloomy along with her symptoms of PTSD, despite falling for Tsukishima. Then she discovers his past. Shintaro becomes emotional with revenge and begins to derail from his police work. The killer is on the loose again.
Do you play music during having sex? Do you remember the tunes? With the nerd-techno unit Mikeneko Homeless's music, this movie makes you laugh and cry, and give you an erection! Two dowdy men make music for their threesome sex with Kaguya, a girl from the moon. This is the real "Tale of Princess Kaguya", her crime and sex!
Narumi, who has an aggressive personality, stabbed her colleague and went to prison. After serving her time, Narumi is released and goes back to her hometown where she grew up. Narumi goes to her younger brother Kei's home. At a young age, their parents died in a accident and Kei is the only one left Narumi can rely on. After Narumi sees Kei and his girlfriend Kana living together happily, Narumi decides to take her brother back. Narumi reveals a secret between her and Kei.
Akira was raised in an assassin family. Everything seemed fine until he met a girl he once saw killed 10 years ago.
At a plastic factory in the country, Ritsuko, an experienced worker, helps a new part-timer named Chinatsu, who is also pregnant. This stirs up painful memories for Ritsuko, who had a miscarriage when she was in a car accident several years ago.
The husband works as a usesd paper collector, and the wife works in a Korean barbecue restaurant. The director exhibits an exceptional ability to turn the realistic episodes of poverty one after another into comedy. A warm feeling is sure to slowly permeate the viewers' hearts.
