In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t draw the extinct wolf well and struggles to develop the story. One winter’s day, Sosuke finds an animal’s skull while digging foundations at a construction site and takes it home. Is it a Japanese wolf’s skull?
"Utsumi is an office worker who has no idea what fun is, leading a monotonous, uninspired life. On his day off, he goes to see the cherry blossoms. There he tries to focus, but does not know how to enjoy them like the other cherry blossom spectators. On his way home, he finds a women's discarded love doll who calls himself Nishi, who begs to return to his owner. The doll declares that since being separated that he has discovered a love for his owner he had not recognized before. The story of Nishi, made for the purpose of enjoyment, causes Utsumi to search his own feelings. Utsumi wonders if this might be the fun he is looking for and decides to return Nishi back to his owner."
Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together to accumulate a small amount of money, while mixing irony and satire.
Kota hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa, a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold bar sits in the basement of the HQ of Sumita Bank. Helping Kota and Kitagawa are bank security employee Noda, a North Korean spy pretending to be a college student, Kitagawa's younger brother Haruki and a former elevator engineer. These 6 men are about to carry the boldest of schemes to bypass the bank's high-tech defense system.
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
At the suggestion of Yuri, Hiro arranges a party at his small bar in Shinjuku. Yuri's three high school classmates – Hiro, Kenji and Tamotsu – are also joined by Takeru, who went to the same university with Hiro and Yuri, but who Kenji and Tamotsu haven't met before. As the four men eagerly wait for Yuri to arrive, the various secrets related to the men's relationships to Yuri start to come to light.
This time they go on a treasure hunt in Atami and Izu.
The story centers on the daily life of college dorm roommates Yumi Irisu and Ruka Kujirai. Ruka, the older of the two, is constantly penniless despite her being active in a band. Irisu works part-time at a second-hand bookstore.
Chisato and Mahiro must pay four years of overdue fees or lose their membership in their assassin guild. They take part-time jobs, but find themselves in the middle of an armed robbery and being hunted by other assassins.
In this adventure, Kunioka saves the life of Manaka Takuya, a part-time freelance assassin who botches a big gun procurement assignment. Due to this incident, Manaka is suspended from the hitman association and his father, the former number one ranked hitman in Kyoto, drags him back to the family home to do chores. When Kunioka checks up on his former brother-in-arms, he finds Manaka has become domesticated but the reappearance of unioka reawakens Manaka’s fighting spirit and the young man challenges his father to a duel as part of his return to walking the path of an assassin. In order to defeat his father, however, Manaka will have to embark on intense training…
Absolutely not. Just don't let that thing find me...no matter what...absolutely not. Nakajima Shiori is running away from the mysterious man. She escapes to a logistics warehouse. She is saved by Mai Yazaki, who was working there, and the two decide to work together. Tormented by the shadow of the man creeping up on her, Nakajima begins to talk about her mother's murder. Inorganic objects such as cars, stairs, smartphones, and CRT televisions loom over them. The hidden things are revealed, and the strings are strung together. I want to escape, but I can't. I don't want to escape. I don't want to run away, because I will lose who I am if the bonds are removed.