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After giving up on his career as a musician, Matsumoto spends his days as an editor of OPSY, a music magazine specializing in body modification counterculture such as implants, split tongues, and the like. One day, on the company president’s orders, he makes his way to a concert by a production company-promoted band, The PEACH BOYS. However, due to how awful it is, he despairs of his life as an editor, bemoaning “what a waste of time.” After the show, he is introduced to another band by the manager. He has a shocking encounter with THE COLLECTED FREAKS, a band that burst onto the scene suddenly and without warning, unlike any other on earth. And then, “in order to love himself”, Matsumoto makes a certain decision…
Tokio Takenaka (48) is a scriptwriter who's lost his passion for his work, and whose relationship with his wife Madoka (37) has turned sour. He spends his days lost in a haze. One day, a girl named Yoshimi Yokoyama (21) barges into his office, saying that she's a huge fan of his work and aiming to be a scriptwriter herself. Overcome by her enthusiasm, he agrees to take her in. As they work together, he begins to sense her talent as a writer, and at the same time, comes to feel sexually attracted towards her. Soon he's writing scripts that he's proud of again, and begins to feel fulfilled in both his private and work lives. But it doesn't take long before he learns about her boyfriend and fellow scriptwriter Hideo Tanaka (20). He becomes madly jealous, but.
As men and women around the age of 30 struggle to reach their dreams, they also go through trial and error in love. This work, which depicts the encounter and parting of such a man and woman.
Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster.
When they find out their community is plagued by debt, three high schoolers in an old country town set out in search of some ancient buried treasure.
News of "revived people" who should have died humans come back to life was reported all over the world. Meanwhile, Tetsuo Tsuchiya wakes up in the conference room where he works, but his colleague reports that he died of suicide three years ago. However, Tsuchiya, who had a wife and a son and lived a happy life, could not commit suicide, and thought that he was actually killed, lives while pursuing the reason for his death. It depicts how you know the meaning of things, dying, and happiness. 日本語 English
Starring Rei Dan, this is the third film directed by Yutaka Mizutani. Riko Hanamura (Rei Dan) is the leader of a local amateur symphony orchestra, which has been active with members who love music very much. However, Riko is not doing well, and she finally decides to disband the orchestra after 18 years of operation. She plans to hold the last farewell concert...
Adapted from Kabei Yukako's novel of the same name. After being guided by a mysterious message from the past on a cellphone's answering machine, Umi encounters Mahiro, a delinquent at her school. They gradually come closer, but more messages appearing on the answering machine will unveil past secrets...
After abandoning his dream of becoming a shogi pro, Eichi throws himself into creating an AI based shogi computer program and finds a whole new world.
Fifteen-year-old Ako is fascinated by the paintings of her classmate Shun, and during her adolescence, when her ego begins to emerge, she becomes enamored with him. However, at 17, Shun has changed from the man she was attracted to at that time, and Ako struggles with a sense of inferiority and dislike toward herself, Shun, and others who are left behind in the past and becoming adults.
