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Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary-style production of a play; Then the actual full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie.

A bruised and battered corpse in Shibuya, Tokyo has the attention of the local cops. A veteran detective is assigned to the case. The last utterance of the victim is one clue that detective Imanishi has to work on. Yet, the case becomes more tangled quickly. Elsewhere, a prodigy named Waga Eiryo is composing an orchestral piece. Remake of The Castle of Sand (1974).

Yuan is a young lady that works part-time at a convenience store, saving money and dreaming of studying abroad in France.

A kung fu fighting lady detective travels the bad lands of ancient China bringing criminals to justice.

Movie directed by Shuji Kataoka and starring Hakuryu.

Four women who are having secret affairs tell their cheeky stories. Four women who haven't had much bonding since they got married, get together. They have nothing to hide from each other. They all enjoy a spa day and talk about things that they have never been able to talk about. They are all having secret affairs with their child's tutor, the screen golf trainer, the man next door and a boy twelve years younger!

A mysterious man, "Painter" is a chaser, who is always with "Driver." Driver is in a relationship with an Estonian girl, who works at the US soldier’s club. She was drifting several regions because of her father’s gambling debt. One day a soldier goes mad for their relationship, and kill her and her boyfriend in front of Painter. Being so angry Painter turns into a mad creature and mysterious power leads him to Estonia.

Kayo, a college student, is devastated when her best friend Emi steals her boyfriend. In a moment of rage, she thinks, I’ll kill her!—not realizing that this fleeting thought will set off a terrifying chain of events. Suddenly, she receives a mysterious email: You are now a slave. When she tries to resist, supernatural occurrences strike. But the consequences of disobedience are fatal. Yet, the so-called "slave commands" she receives are not for torture or punishment—they are disturbingly erotic in nature.

People with no talent will be killed – this is the rule. 29-year-old A-Teng has to take the Competency Verification when he turns 30. While facing the mounting problems in life, he meets a mysterious woman with a gun.

A light comedy urban love theme movie, through a young man who helps others to fulfill their love dreams, seeks out love and elaborates on the love concept of young men and women in modern society. The actor in the play seems to have special functions. Every girl who breaks up with him can quickly find a lover and get married as if there is some kind of curse. Pei Ziqi, who plays the female No. 2 Dong Xin in The Curse of Love, admits that in fact, fate has nothing to do with the curse. In fact, after breaking up, she knows how to cherish it. After the change of mindset, it is easy to come together again when you meet the right person. It is "the right time meets the right person".

A historical drama based in the Joseon times about a person who falls in love with his stepsister.

A grandpa finds out he is not going to live for much longer so he decides to prepare for his grandson's future with something special.

Ko Ha-na and Jeong Se-hee run a small restaurant in Okinawa, Japan, and through that experience, help heal each other.

A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to disintegrate.

Florence, Prague, Paris, Shanghai, Otaru of Hokkaido, five different love stories in five different cities.

A depressed ex-boxer (Yosuke Kubozuka) self-medicating for the injuries that ended his career finds a stray cat that brightens his day, but she is snatched up by a comical grungy mechanic (Kenji Furuya). Calling each other by the competing names they gave the cat, Maru and Lily, the odd pair is abruptly sucked into a political conspiracy with Saeko (Yui Ichikawa) and her son at the center. Witnessing another injustice in which the economic and social elite prey on the vulnerable, the two strays set off on the road to redemption, or at least peaceful cat ownership. (Fun fact: in addition to acting together in Alley Cat, Yosuke Kubozuka and Kenji “KJ” Furuya released the single “Soul Ship” in 2017. Kubozuka performs as Manji Line and Furuya in the band Dragon Ash.) -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Chiyoko's mother died when she was young. Since that time, Chiyoko has closed her heart to others. After her pet dies, Chiyoko feels loneliness. Her mother liked the Italian movie "La Strada." Due to movie study club senior, Masamune, Chiyoko is able to watch the Italian movie "La Strada," which her mother liked. Chiyoko soon acts in a movie directed by Masamune.

The four vampires tired of living try different ways to die, but they cannot. While pondering the last hypothesis that'if you sleep with a vampire, you die', Jong-su declares that he will sleep with Sun-a.

Grae, who failed to be a professional Baduk player, Young-i, who always has been lonely because of changing schools frequently, Oh Deputy department head who has been spending his life in a hurry, Dong-shik, who always has been coy about the love affairs, Baek-ki, who was so tired job applicant and Suk-yul, who engrossed father and uncles’love. Let’s see the past of characters of Incomplete Life.

What is the gap between ideals and reality? How much more do we need to sacrifice to complete our dreams? And is it a saint who brings to the world a good saint; or is it just a werewolf thief in sheep's clothing?

Bo-hee, a 14 year old boy, was raised by a single mother and has always thought his father had passed away. Bo-hee hears that his father may be alive, and he sets out in search for him with his best friend Nok-yang. He finds his half sister on the way and forms a friendship with her boyfriend.

Jordan Chan plays the lead in the film and plays a chauffeur named Liu Zili who dreams of having his own BMW and gets involved in a series of crazy incidents.

The editor-in-chief of a literary magazine who is popular with women sets up a fake wife and bids farewell to his mistresses.

Twenty years ago, Chang Sun’s family was defeated by eight masters. After long-term Sun Ying and Chang Sunqing escaped from the secret path with their family martial arts, they followed the worship of the Lord Dong Bin, respectively, and they were renamed Sun Ying and Wang Taibai, and they decided to kill the eight masters. Duan Xiaofeng and Wang Feiyan continued to investigate the case and witnessed the death of Cai, and received the death of Changchun. Duan Xiaofeng, who was discouraged, returned to Sun Ying, who was pretending to be sold to Shahong, and brought him back to Yejia. When Sun Ying decided to give up killing Ye Wuji, he was about to leave, but he was discovered by Ye Wuji. Identity. The two men decided to break the battle and lost both after the war. Ye Wuji, who was seriously injured, was murdered by Wang Taibai on his way home.

The carnival of Venice, a city of water. This is a classical kind of festival, staged with extravagance. Festival-goers hide their true selves under their costumes and behind their masks. This show portrays the yearnings possessed by everyone, the excitement of the heart, and the lingering twinge of loneliness that occurs after the passage of time.

Growing up under the pressure as a witness in the parents' fights, May is doing something to piss her parents off, hoping that they can digress their hatreds on to her instead.

Jiu Bing has been stuck in the friend zone with Bo He since he was twelve. Even though he tries everything to win her heart, he fails in crossing the line. When working as a part-time pacer, Jiu Bing meets Xia Tian. They later become internet celebrities by accident.

Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuke, and elderly samurai forced to pick up his sword to protect those he loves in this adaptation of a Fujisawa Shuhei novel. As a ”Heya-zumi” (essentially a freeloader living off his family) Sanosuke has one last chance to help his grandniece escape from the cruel samurai of an arranged marriage. Nakadai proves he ”still has it,” when fate forces him into a deadly duel. This award winning samurai drama from the pen of noted author Fujisawa Shuhei is a tribute to one of the greatest actors to ever grace the silver screen!

A boy travels back in time to meet his "mom" in order to ensure that she meets his dad and falls in love.

A fledgling rock band, called “Radical”, has been on several big stage performances. However, on the eve of their biggest gig ever came Ruei’s death. And so begins the journey of Kay, Kang and Kai, who are then left with the promised trip of heading to the beach.

This film centers on an interview with Hajime Kondo, a 99-year-old veteran of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and one of the few former soldiers to publicly testify to the war crimes he committed. When asked whether he still remembers these testimonies, it becomes clear that age has largely erased his recollection of the events themselves. The interview footage is juxtaposed with performances by eleven Japanese youths, aged 16 to 26, who have memorized Kondo’s original testimony word for word. Shown as two looping sequences of different lengths, the film generates ever-changing combinations, probing how histories of violence persist—or disappear—across personal and collective memory.

The first-person protagonist is a 27-year-old freelance writer who returns to her hometown from Tokyo, and she gets together with high school friend Satsuki and cameraman Suga to see Shiina, who they all admired in high school. Along the way, vivid memories from high school replay in the protagonist's mind.

When a little spider is about to be injured by a child in the lower world she is rescued by the young monk. She follows him home and meditates in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Under the influence of Buddhism, she turned into a human form and was soon discovered by the abbot Huirui. Bunian's lively jumping caused the Sutra Pavilion to be burned accidentally. It was difficult for the temple to influence her, so she and the young monk is asked to take the "Love Sutra" down the mountain to Anyi Villa to find Master Huiming. They set out on a journey to answer the question, “What is love?”

Ryota Tanaka, a young man who was struggling to become a manga artist in Tokyo, came back to his hometown in Fukuoka, feeling the limits of his dream. It was a part-time job at the local life extension zoo that introduced Ryota, who was in the old friend's room, without relying on his parents' home. While working with the director Noda and veterinarian Aya Ishii, Ryota knew that this is a rare zoo in the world that puts emphasis on “animal welfare” that puts animal health and happiness first. However, the management of the garden is in a critical situation due to the budget reduction, and Ryota decides to draw a comic again to convey this effort with her own picture...

The film tells the story of a artistic and melancholic wandering painter Yu Ming, who arrives to Guizhou Miao Village. There they live in the inn of a warm and cheerful single mother, Ji Hong. You Ming starts to paint silently everyday, depicting the life of the village.

After dying in an accident, a manga artist with a gambling problem is given one month back with his family to redeem himself — in the body of a cat.

A young woman named Izumi suffers the loss of her boyfriend Junichi, who died from a fatal motorcycle accident. The shock from her boyfriend's sudden death causes Izumi to lose her memory from the time of the accident. A lawyer named Makiko then helps Izumi to remember the final moments of her boyfriend's life.

Misa's father, the Minowa clan leader, was killed by assassins from the rival organisation Shinsui Rengo. She decides to live her life as a yakuza and together with her boyfriend Ryuji, she is building up the gang. However, the betrayal of the acting chairman, Izawa, who was a close associate of her father, is discovered. A takeover in collusion with the Shinsui Union is taking place behind the scenes.

Toka returns to the island she grew up to attend her mother's second memorial service. She finds out that her father Seiji is wearing her mother's clothes. As if that doesn't come as enough of a shock, Seiji even tells Toka that he is getting married again to a man named Kazuo. The film explores the particular incident and the life of the island people with a humorous touch.

The original team of the juvenile class fought for their lives to star in the talented young man who mutated in seconds. The special commissioner codenamed No. 403 risked his life to reveal a piece of "history" that has been hidden for a long time!

Encountering with Koi's past after 10 years, Koi and Tong go to Chanthaburi for their estranged father's funeral. While Koi wants to run away and get back to work as soon as she can, Tong wants to spend more time here making up for lost time with her father.

Xia Wuhuan, who has a dream of making movies but can only do wedding photography in Japan, accidentally offends a ninja organization and is threatened to shoot a promotional film for them with a female ninja named Yuzu. In the surprise and fright, Wuhuan sees the legendary "three ninja" unique skills, but the film shooting is involved in a conspiracy...

A middle school teacher is found in critical condition. The culprit is suspected to be a student, and science teacher Mori and Japanese language teacher Tanino secretly search the empty classrooms. Meanwhile, it becomes clear that a beautiful and talented female student, Manda, is pulling the strings...

The young woman of literature and art, Zeqing, went to middle age, and at the same time she was preparing for the exhibition in her hometown, she taught in the art class of the college entrance examination. Her erudition and intellectualism were deeply loved by students. But in the face of the complicated society and daily life, her confusion about family, love and parting has always been with her, and she was most afraid of separation when she was young.

A peace-loving soldier from Ancient China is magically transported into a world ruled by an evil nine-headed snake. Transformed into a panda, he joins forces with a flying pig to free the once-peaceful Merryland from tyranny. But first he must train to be the kingdom's most courageous panda warrior.

Ayaka and Yurie are the ace female detective duo of the Narcotics Control Division. They are complete opposites in upbringing, personality, investigative methods, and even sexual inclinations, but their perfect teamwork has caught countless criminals. As they pursue the production and distribution route of a new type of stimulant, Katsura, the man to whom Ayaka gave her virginity, comes into their line of investigation. Ayaka is torn between her duty as an investigator and her rekindled love. Meanwhile, Yurie, who has been freely dating men following her carnal desires, has a fateful encounter and the footsteps of danger...

Best, the popular boy of high school, likes flirting with various girls, including Ploy, a simple junior with a full head.

This hateful world only allows handsome guys to date! 'Below average guy' and Chinese restaurant delivery guy Kang Dae-oh was born single and solo until now. He has a crush on college girl Ye-rin whom he fell in love with at first sight but is blocked by her spec and hasn't been able to tell her his feelings yet.

Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara (Kuranosuke Sasaki). One day, film producer Koshimizu brings a movie investment proposal to yakuza leader Shimada. Shimada decide to invest in the film and he assigns Yasuhiko Kuwabara to oversee his investment in the film. Film producer Koshimizu though runs away with their investment money. Keisuke and Yasuhiko struggle to get Shimada’s money back from Koshimizu.

Jeong-soo is full of bluff because of his father's hanky-panky business. His father suggests going to Japan to study and brings home a Japanese tutor named Akita Yuri. She's dressed revealingly and she's somewhat suspicious. Her lessons get more and more erotic day by day and Jeong-soo isn't able to get out of it. Then one day, Jeong-soo is shocked to find his girlfriend is pregnant. Meanwhile, he is even more worried because Yuri wants to know everything about what he does. What will happen to them?