Return the Gift

A lonely teen secretly writes a romance novel based on his popular classmate, only for the boy to read it and intensely pursue him in real life.

Yū Amagi is a slightly eccentric detective who has been assigned to the Twelfth Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division from the Lost and Found Centre. The Twelfth Section is called the "graveyard of detectives" and ridiculed as the "banishment room where hardened detectives who cannot be fired are sent." Its assembled detectives Kōsuke Samura, Takumi Yamashita, Keita Nagasawa, Tamaki Mizuta, and Masatoshi Katagiri are elite and yet oddballs. Amagi appears fixated with time which seems to have no relation with a case. Raising questions about the timelines of the perpetrator and victim derived from the estimated time of death, time of crime, time of alibi, and time limit, he searches for the meaning of "blank time" which arises from this. He obsesses over the weight of every minute and second of time because of some incident.

It tells the story of love and growth between a serious-love otaku and an idol who should never meet. What will they choose: love or dreams?

The arrogant “famous detective” Mercator Ayu, he who wears a fancy top hat and suit combination, steps in to help a famous female author who is receiving mysterious playing cards every day and suspects she might be a potential murder victim.

A romantic ensemble drama in which five men and women who worked part-time at the same izakaya when they were students are trying to find a way to overcome the quarter-life crisis now that they are all around 25 years old.

Makoto, who lives in a port town, sees a TV broadcast where Go world champion Park mentions having a rival in Japan, sparking anticipation for a possible match with Sara in a major tournament. A TV director discovers that Makoto is their childhood friend and an online champion, and encourages him to compete despite his trauma with playing in person.

From a first feature director Koichiro Oyama who worked as an assistant director for Hideo Nakata's "Kaidan" (2007), the film is about a man with crime records living with his own son without knowing their real relationship. Starring Ikkei Watanabe "Suspect X", the film won Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival's Audience Award, whose last year's winner was a smash hit zombie film "One Cut of the Dead".