Nozomi Ando

Gurozuka

A fun getaway turns into a journey to Hell for some teenage girls visiting an isolated house to rehearse and perform a play for their private movie club. Taking the trip with an adult chaperone, the girls learn a previous club member supposedly went missing in the house, and another insane! Shortly after they arrive, a mysterious videotape is found with footage of a violent killer wearing a Japanese “deigan” mask. Is this footage real or fake? Soon, their food and equipment disappears and one of the girls is haunted by ghostly visions of the masked demon. Someone or something is in the house, and gruesome death awaits those who cannot escape!

The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage

There has been a surge in the number of people killing themselves; a mysterious DVD is found on the bodies of the victims... Nozomi falls under the spell of a deadly cult. Yousuke, the policeman she is dating, soon realizes that the cult has something to do with the DVD. Then one day all trace of the group disappear--along with Nozomi.

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris

With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.

Tomie: Forbidden Fruit

When a lonely high school girl befriends a strange, mysterious and beautiful girl, it is soon becomes clear that the two girls' meeting was not purely accidental.

Touch

Twin brothers, Tatsuya and Kazuya, grew up with their next door neighbor Minami like siblings. Minami's dream is that her school's baseball team will participate in the national Koshien High School Baseball Tournament. The twin brothers make a pact that they will take Minami to the tournament.

Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons

The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the young daughter of a samurai killed fighting these demons, accepts a mission to travel to Mt. Fuji and defeat the evil spirits. Accompanying her on her journey are two veteran warriors who served her father, and Tarō, a young kappa, or river spirit, whom she has adopted as her little brother. Along the way, the two warriors have doubts about Tarō’s loyalties, and the young kappa himself must decide if he will stand with his own species or with the humans who have cared for him.

L'amant

When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom she calls A. B and C) keep shifting in ways that redefine power and sex.

Norio's Room

A coming-of-age drama depicting the innocent love of a young man caught up in his girlfriend’s lies. Starring the talented young actors Sosuke Takaoka (Blue Spring) and Tsugumi (Moonlight Whispers). Directed by Yoshihiro Fukagawa (Bicycle and High Heels), a promising talent in the independent film scene, this marks his full-length theatrical debut.

Gurozuka

A fun getaway turns into a journey to Hell for some teenage girls visiting an isolated house to rehearse and perform a play for their private movie club. Taking the trip with an adult chaperone, the girls learn a previous club member supposedly went missing in the house, and another insane! Shortly after they arrive, a mysterious videotape is found with footage of a violent killer wearing a Japanese “deigan” mask. Is this footage real or fake? Soon, their food and equipment disappears and one of the girls is haunted by ghostly visions of the masked demon. Someone or something is in the house, and gruesome death awaits those who cannot escape!

The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage

There has been a surge in the number of people killing themselves; a mysterious DVD is found on the bodies of the victims... Nozomi falls under the spell of a deadly cult. Yousuke, the policeman she is dating, soon realizes that the cult has something to do with the DVD. Then one day all trace of the group disappear--along with Nozomi.

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris

With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.

Tomie: Forbidden Fruit

When a lonely high school girl befriends a strange, mysterious and beautiful girl, it is soon becomes clear that the two girls' meeting was not purely accidental.

Touch

Twin brothers, Tatsuya and Kazuya, grew up with their next door neighbor Minami like siblings. Minami's dream is that her school's baseball team will participate in the national Koshien High School Baseball Tournament. The twin brothers make a pact that they will take Minami to the tournament.

Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons

The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the young daughter of a samurai killed fighting these demons, accepts a mission to travel to Mt. Fuji and defeat the evil spirits. Accompanying her on her journey are two veteran warriors who served her father, and Tarō, a young kappa, or river spirit, whom she has adopted as her little brother. Along the way, the two warriors have doubts about Tarō’s loyalties, and the young kappa himself must decide if he will stand with his own species or with the humans who have cared for him.

L'amant

When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom she calls A. B and C) keep shifting in ways that redefine power and sex.

Norio's Room

A coming-of-age drama depicting the innocent love of a young man caught up in his girlfriend’s lies. Starring the talented young actors Sosuke Takaoka (Blue Spring) and Tsugumi (Moonlight Whispers). Directed by Yoshihiro Fukagawa (Bicycle and High Heels), a promising talent in the independent film scene, this marks his full-length theatrical debut.

The Face Burglar

I want to be this girl! Momoko Kamei has the mysterious ability to mimic any woman's face while imitating what she wears and the way she speaks. Not knowing such a secret, Takafumi, who was fed up with Momoko's relentless stalking, said, "Go out with me!"

IKUSA: The 2nd War

Things have never been the same for the local Yakuza ever since Issa Mido invented the famous curry-squeezing device Shiboru-kun. Despite his invention being a big hit, he seems to have completely dropped off the map. The smaller families see Issa as an important tool in order to overthrow the head of the gang, and begin searching for him far and wide.

Fight Girls

Youth Sports film directed by Ataru Oikawa

Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel

Ichiro Hanada is a mischievous boy who gains the ability to see and talk to ghosts after a near-death experience. (live-action adaptation of the manga )

Flic

Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.

World's End / Girl Friend

Shinnosuke and Misawa are joint managers of a Bonsai shop. Suddenly Shinnosuke's childhood friend Haruko turns up. She has split up with her boyfriend and finds herself out on the streets. Shinnosuke starts to like her and really wants to cheer her up, but he can't manage to express his real feelings or stop picking up other women. Misawa is dumbfounded by Shinnosuke's behavior but also has complex feelings of love for his friend.

The Suicide Manual

After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.

Throws Out My Hometown

Aiko and Meri are best friends. But they are to be apart in the next spring, because Aiko is going to Tokyo to attend the university there. In their home town, they meet various people. A bus driver looking for his runway daughter. A young man who can not decide what he should do about his job and marriage. A middle-aged housewife who doesn't see the meaning of their marriage life anymore..

Damned Files 6

This is the sixth volume of a serial horror drama series of complete stories based on rumored haunted spots, actual stories, and accidents that have occurred in Nagoya and other areas in the Tokai region.

Anata no tonari no kamigakushi

In a joint project with the mystery magazine "Mu," idols Nozomi Ando and Mariya Yanagisawa dissect "Kamikakushi" (Spirited Away) and other "Kamikakushi" stories from multiple perspectives in an intellectually entertaining and in-depth report of facts not generally known to the public.

Onmyōji Abenoseimei

After the millennium time, the truth of revealed now. You can understand all of the mysterious! She goes on a journey across the thousand year’s space-time to learn the truth of the greatest mystery of Japanese history [the legendary cloud]. "Sakuya Youkai" The super-mystery experience drama starring Nozomi Ando.

Kibakichi

A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who feed on human flesh.

15 Second Cinderellas

Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 4 - The Fire Chapter

Sarutobi Sasuke’s army is attacked by the enemy and after returning to the hideout with a broken duplicate and a false sword, the real Muramasa can only be the stolen one. Now, after so many casualties, fighting the declining morale, and with only three days left until the final battle, the invasion of Osaka castle, the need to recover it grows, and they will do it by any means possible. Final movie in the Sarutobi Sasuke Series.

Young Thugs: Chinatown Romeo and Juliet

Making-of Demon Hunting

Behind-the-scenes footage of Satoshi Torao's film Demon Hunting.