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The Women

Misaki lives in a rural town situated among lush, green mountains beneath a clear blue sky. Despite graduating from a university in Tokyo, she was unable to find the job she hoped for due to the lack of employment opportunities that befell her generation. Just about everything has gone badly for her and now she is on the verge of turning 40. However, she has dreams of marrying her aging, handicapped mother Mitsuko's care worker, Naoki, who pays visits to their home. Her clandestine meetings with Naoki are one of Misaki's oases from Mitsuko's harsh day-to-day verbal abuse. The other is the bee farm run by her childhood friend Kaori. The honey Kaori diligently works to make is sweet, mild, and soothing. But then Misaki is cruelly betrayed by Naoki. And Kaori abruptly dies. These events drive Misaki's heart to the brink of bursting. "Why did she have to die? "

The Women

6.6 2021
Inside Zokki

"ZOKKI" is a unique film directed by Naoto Takenaka, Takayuki Yamada, and Takumi Saitoh. It is a live-action adaptation of a short story collection by manga artist, Hiroyuki Ohashi. The people of Gamagori City, Aichi, where the film will be shot, were particularly happy in 2020 when the production started. For the past eight years, volunteers from Gamagori, including printers, bakers, and pubs, have been working to bring the film to the city, and now the city of Gamagori has decided to get involved and fully support the film "ZOKKI"! A number of happenings occur in the once peaceful place of Gamagori. The film was shot by a gorgeous cast and staff. And a group of amateurs struggle to somehow make the film more exciting. "URAZOKKI" is a story about the "behind-the-scene" of a group of people who come together to make a film. That's what the film was supposed to be like....

Inside Zokki

NR 2021
Ordinary Romance

1. "Confession Letter" Ji Mo, a novelist with cerebral palsy, has a crush on Nok-joo, a volunteer who helps him practice handwriting. Ji Mo tries to deliver a handwritten letter to Nok-ju from her heart. 2. "Varanasi Romance" The excitement of traveling and finding romance in a new environment. Jun Ho and Hwa Yeong met in a strange land in India, attracted to each other like magnets, leaving their real problems behind. 3. "When the Wind Blows" Han Byeol, a deaf helper, will learn sign language on the condition that she teaches lip reading to a deaf student, Eun Ha. As they learn each other's language, they get closer and closer, and they are reminded of childhood memories. 4. "Interview" In an interview with a best-selling author, magazine reporter "She" reunites with her former lover "He". The two of them interviewed and exchanged memories of each other.

Ordinary Romance

5.0 2021
Be My Quarantine

When returning to Taiwan from abroad, Mika has a hard time coping with the "new normal" under the COVID-19 outbreak. Her mother is determined to fight the corona virus at all costs. The pandemic turns the household into a battlefield between Mika and her families. Confined to her tiny bedroom during the quarantine, Mika begins to notice inexplicable transformations of her body. Her absurd journey which is just like the quarantine version of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis is unfolding.

Be My Quarantine

NR 2021
Magabanashi

“Magabanashi” (真・狩場噺) is a Japanese collection of chilling tales, notorious for its “true” ghost stories that blend traditional storytelling with the dynamics of social media. Based on this, the drama “Human Story” focuses on the experiences of two members of the FEAR fan community. But is it really just a drama? Or perhaps a documentary? With an eerie intertwining of ghost stories and reality, viewers are taken on the most terrifying experience of their lives.

Magabanashi

6.0 2021
The Bargain

Liu wants to sell his unprofitable travel agency business. One day, when one of his employees falls into a coma for a dubious reason, his family and relatives come to Liu, demanding a settlement. Meanwhile, Liu's ex-wife Tao Qing, a middle school teacher, is troubled by her lover who keeps on delaying their marriage, and his teenage daughter, while her son Yi Fan, who has no experiences or skills to show for or things he wants to do, happens to befriend a group of people who illegally drive cars. Director Wang Qi, who is visiting Busan for the first time with THE BARGAIN, depicts a dense narrative of a dispersed family that is struggling in the rapidly changing modern Chinese society and the wave of capitalism. The occasional handheld camera and close-up shots placed appropriately throughout the film add powerful emotions to the sober narrative.

The Bargain

NR 2021
Short Bus: Say Goodbye

"Sad and Glad Goodbye" (12m) by Yoo Hyun II Jin Ah is breaking up with her boyfriend, Kyeong Nam, who she's been with for four years. Unable to understand the reason for the breakup, Jin Ah is reminded by her junior, Joo Hyeon. "Unprofessional" (11m) by Kim Se Hee II Hye Aeung, the vocalist of the six-year indie band Wanderlust, is about to snap on stage ahead of their last song. "DESEX" (25m) by Kim Hong Li Soo, along with her boyfriend, came to neuter their cat. At this point, they are going to end their boring relationship. Coincidentally, the veterinarian is her boyfriend's ex. In the midst of discomfort, the cat under surgery faced its end, failing to wake up from anesthesia. "She Is" (17m) by Won Eun Sun Actress Hwang Mi Yeong hasn't had a blind date in a long time, and the man he met seems uninterested. Will her blind dating journey end successfully?

Short Bus: Say Goodbye

NR 2021
Bai Yutang and Mystery of Maneater Wolf

Bai Yutang, nicknamed "Sleek Rat", is a Song dynasty knight-errant from the 19th-century Chinese novel The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants. During the peace talks between the Imperial Court and the Western Regions the four princes from the first batallion publicly paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, but they were suddenly attacked by a group of "stray wolves". Was it the revenge of the Western Regions, the instigation of the Lord and the faction, or other mysterious forces that took the opportunity to make trouble? Bai Yutang was ordered to investigate the case of "Dare Maneater Wolf". With the help of his friend Yu Mo, he quickly discovered the truth of the so-called "Dare Maneater Wolf". They were all controlled by puppetry.

Bai Yutang and Mystery of Maneater Wolf

NR 2021
Shari

For some reason, there is very little snow in the winter of 2020 on the Shiretoko Peninsula, a special place located in the northernmost part of Japan where rare wild animals coexist with humans. The typical drift ice hasn’t appeared yet, either. Although worried, the inhabitants of the village Shari continue their daily affairs: the shepherd bakes buns, a hunter prepares a dinner with venison, a fisherman picks up trash from the sea and another person observes flying squirrels in her garden.

Shari

2.8 2021
Jangah & Chichung

In the Royal Mansion near the old nuclear power plant, there are people who look ordinary but have superpowers. It is not clear how they obtained their superpowers. What is certain is that it is also not an ability that can be used easily. There is a fatal flaw in Jang-ah's superpower seal wind, which occurs for just one hour after drinking 88 Coke. After one shot, you have to rest for 10 seconds. The same goes for Chi-Cheong's superpowers. His power is healing power, but he only needs to rub his palms to the point of burning them in order to show that power. The two of them go somewhere with only the original plan that Jang-ah will attack and defend, and Chi-chung will heal him if he gets hurt. Even after they have superpowers, their hard-to-do action drama begins! Not superheroes, but foolish psychics. In fact, each of us may be making our own superheroes day by day, using our own superpowers that no one knows about.

Jangah & Chichung

NR 2021
My Voice, My Life Revisited

In 2013, My Voice, My Life followed classes of students from three high schools for underprivileged kids and one school for the visually impaired as they embarked on a voyage of self-discovery through taking part in a musical production. Six years later, what kinds of lives are they leading now? My Voice, My Life Revisited goes in search of four of those students: Ah Bok, Coby, Sio Fan and Tsz Nok, charting their transformation and how they have grown over these past few years, as well as the challenges they are facing today.

My Voice, My Life Revisited

NR 2021