Running on Empty

Former punk rocker Jonen, now a Buddhist priest, seems to have lost the meaning of his life. His manic depression handicaps him further. Music seems to be the only solution for him to exorcise his demons, against all obstacles and sound volume controllers.

Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better person. He is a good communicator with the death-row convicts assigned to solitary cells. Saeki agonizes over whether his words really touches the prisoners and whether he is doing the right thing. Saeki also faces his past which he wants to forget. --asianwiki

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

Middle age divorced man in Tokyo falls in love with Hostess club girl and his assistant.

A surprising and humanistic drama that questions the meaning of happiness through the strange fate of one man who caused an accident. One night, a taciturn and clumsy man working at a scrap iron factory in the suburbs of Tokyo, causes an irreparable accident with his colleague. The two try to hide the incident but the man’s fate takes a turn for the worse and his colleague and family are faced with threats to their survival. A psychologial thriller that reveals the ills of Japanese society along with the darknesses of the human heart based on a script full of surprises written by the director Dai Sakō. Tomomitsu Adachi, who plays the lead role, exudes an eerie charm, and is flanked by many of Japan's best supporting actors such as Yutaka Matsushige and Shohei Uno.

Haruhiko Nakayama is vice principal at a Japanese school, where he takes care of everything and dreams of finally becoming principal. But after a teacher no longer turns up for lessons, Nakayama has to teach a primary school class again after more than 20 years. He encounters such great challenges that he soon begins to doubt his profession.

"Kiss me at dead of night" A story about a man and a woman who cause an irreversible situation at a family restaurant in the middle of the night. "Imitation Yakuza" A tale of an unknown actor who, while attempting to audition for a Yakuza movie, mistakenly enters a real yakuza office, finding himself in deep trouble. "In our own little world" A black comedy set against the backdrop of two irreconcilable classes: a romance workshop and a self-defense workshop. These are short stories about men and women who find themselves caught up in desperate, life-changing adventures.

A description of a selection of eight male and female auditors for the examination of the subject matter in the journal.

Based on the popular comic of the same name by Tetsumi Doko, who is known for drawing such as "Dochinpira", Tashiro, a man who swings between Katagi and gangsters. A chivalrous entertainment depicting Monjiro's way of life is born.

Two men have driven to the seaside. As darkness falls, they decide to head back to where they parked the car, but when they arrive, the car is nowhere to be seen. They search their pockets, only to find they don’t even have the car keys. Did they really park there? Was there even a car to begin with? With their scattered memories and wavering attention—nothing is clear—the men wander aimlessly, searching for the car. In the night-time streets, where people—just like the two men—wander about like ghosts, their purposes and motives equally unclear, the audience is gradually drawn into the blurred boundary between what ‘is’ and what ‘is not’.

A coming-of-age road movie that sometimes humorously and sometimes seriously depicts two men's journey to their hometown in a provincial city.

A man who found a gun on the beach. He went to a friend’s house to seek advice, but for some reason, his friend wouldn’t take him seriously. ‘I suppose I’ll just have a bite to eat,’ he thought, letting his guard down—and at that very moment, a gunshot rang out and a body fell to the ground. Wherever the man went, gunshots rang out, bodies fell, and the number of figures inserted kept increasing. But at one point, as if he’d miscounted, the numbers skipped a beat, and the roles of the body and the person who found it were reversed. At the end of this repetition of the same gunshot, the cause transformed into the consequence, and the consequence into the cause.