Yuya Takahashi

A respected teacher’s life unravels after a brutal assault and a public humiliation. Now, he must choose between silence and revenge.

During the one-year memorial of his late beloved father, a soon-to-be father (Hoshi Ishida) struggles to reconcile his feelings of loss and receives support from his mother, sister and wife. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

In his latest film, Shirome, Stardust Promotion's relatively new pop idol unit Momoiro Clover star as a group of girls who enter an old abandoned school hoping to have their wishes granted by a spirit called Shirome. The girls initially had no clue they were being filmed for a movie at all. Instead, they were told that they were being filmed for an upcoming television show exploring haunted locations. The result is a faux documentary style in the same vein as "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity".

The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.

Three men are possessed by the spirits of ancient samurai determined to build their master's castle, even if they must use cardboard.

A beauty expert travels back to her high school days, determined to transform her past and rewrite her romantic destiny after a devastating teenage rejection.

Takashiro Naoya is a handsome salaryman who works for a top company. However, he is also a notorious playboy with a bad taste in women. By chance, he ends up becoming the live-in muse for Fukunaga Akane, an erotic fiction writer who has little experience in love.

On her 17th birthday, Ozaki Karin suddenly lost her childhood friend and first love, Soma Jun. Ten years later, on her 27th birthday, Karin happens to find a film camera left behind by Jun and the photos he took of her. This causes her to remember all the feelings she had for Jun. Unable to control her emotions, Karin burns all the photos and is transported back in time to the day the photo was taken 10 years ago. As Karin travels back and forth between the past and present to stop Jun's suicide, she slowly discovers the shocking truth behind her childhood friend's death.

Two trauma-scarred individuals start a casual romantic arrangement to avoid commitment, but their deepening feelings clash with their fear of true intimacy.

A charming restaurant owner meets a relocated, divorced office worker in Osaka, sparking an instant first-sight love affair.