A young couple's lives take a turn for the worse after a mysterious attack on the husband leaves him suffering from some bizarre after effects.
A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals.
Memories can be blocked, but they can also be invented. Psychology professor Eiko works with people who were traumatized by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. But the topic affects her more personally than she wants to admit. Narrative structures begin to intertwine, reality becomes ambiguous. Like a surgeon, SHINOZAKI dissects the human mind in this complex yet moving film.
A humanistic drama, which candidly depicts the struggles of a woman who aspires to become a manga artist, adapted from the comic of the same name, directed by Morioka Toshiyuki of Think Again, Junpei fame. Kaho (Aoyama Yasuna), who has been submitting her work to manga magazines since high school, moves to Tokyo after graduating from high school. After her manuscript is rejected by the editor, she begins training as a manga assistant, and gradually grows as she struggles with the rigors of the industry. One day, she meets Minami (Nishinoiri Ruka), a young man who also aspires to be a manga artist, and instantly falls in love with him.
Heavily pregnant Hatsumi and her sister Chika visit a shrine to pray for a safe birth, but in a tragic turn of events, Hatsumi tumbles down the stairs and loses the baby. 6 months later, Chika's baby is safely born and when Hatsumi visits Chika she find out that Chika named her daughter Aoi, which happened to be the name Hatsumi chose for her own baby...
Taking all that was great from the first instalment, the movie aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster-paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.
Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.
2034, Japan is divided into North and South parts. In the South, people live a peaceful life, while conflicts are going on in the North. For Yoriko, a nurse in the North, her sole consolation is to visit where she can access her late daughter’s lifetime information. One day, Yoriko is abducted, but she learns that dead individual’s total memories are preserved as in the South,a nd that her daughter is still alive in that form.
High school student Kayu (Makoto Okunaka) joins the Ghost Photo Club. The club investigates and researches ghost photographs. She tries to find the truth behind ghost pictures with members Kaname (Yosuke Ito) and Riri (Yuuka Ueno). They are not aware of a murderous ghost approaching. (Description taken from AsianWiki)
Morikawa draws from his experiences as a former adult-video director for this comedy set in the make-up room of a porn film shoot. The cast features Aki Morita (Sharing) and an ensemble of mostly Japanese porn stars including Beni Ito, Nanami Kawakami and Riri Kuribayashi.
The story follows Nozaki Haruka, a middle school student who transfers to a new school in a small town because of her father's work. Unfortunately, she becomes a victim of horrific bullying, but since the school will be closing in 2 months after graduation, no one is willing to help her.
A new type of virus makes 'GIMP', the dead that eats human flesh which roams the land. In a school surrounded by fences against Gimps, seven girls; Nonoka, Moe, Emiri, Nagi, Akari, Karin, and Miyu lead school lives. They are only taught how to fight against Gimps, not knowing the world outside of the school. A zombie bites one of the girls in class one day which leads suspicions to grow between the seven girls
Mariko Hitotose (Hirashima), a large newcomer, appeared at the shooting site of popular AV actresses (Kuribayashi, Kawakami, Ito). Mariko who is dissatisfied with the change from a hot-selling idol to an AV actress is free to do anything at the shooting site. Kyoko Tsuzuki (Morita), the make-up, does his best to accommodate such a scene, but the make-up room gets even hotter with the shooting staff involved. Will the shooting end safely?!
When she moves into their new home with her parents, a girl begins to hear voices. Her parents then bring in an exorcist. During the ensuing seance, the identity of the ghost haunting the house quickly becomes clear.
While driving home from her day, a young woman witnesses another woman lying in the street covered in a strange goo and warning of a threat from space before she passes. Relaying the information to the authorities, she learns of the real nature of the incident and how several other strange disappearances around the city are related to the events she reported. Talking to her friend about the situation, he begins looking into the reported cases of women disappearing only to himself disappear during the ensuing investigation. Turning to her sister to help process the situation, they find themselves the target of strange alien-like amoebas looking to abduct human women in order to procreate with them and must team up with the Defense Ministry investigating the events in order to stop the creatures from taking over the Earth.
A young woman discovers that a sex tape made without her knowledge is circulating online. Paranoia takes over, along with a sense of injustice. Her sudden terror of video triggers a downward spiral where she loses all social bearings.
Director Toshiyuki Morioka of "Junpei, Think Again" and "Stay With Me Till The Dawn" is a sensual drama about the sadness of a beautiful prostitute and a young man who has drifted to the Yukaku. The architecture of the Taisho era is lined up, and Shigeru, an unemployed man with a large debt, comes to the Yukaku, which seems to have been left behind from the era. There, Shigeru meets a beautiful prostitute named Kazumi and chooses to live as a female teacher who cares for the woman's heart. The two fall in love in a Yukaku where the desires and tragicomedy of various people are mixed. Hitomi Wada, who is active as an actress, model, and talent, also challenges the bed scene with her body in the movie's first starring. Masaru Mizuno of "BOYS AND MEN" played Shigeru who falls in love with Kazumi.
Third movie of the makeup room series, this time we are visiting the makeup room of a horror film set starring idols.
A family moves into a house, but discover that it is haunted by a murdered girl.