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- At an unusual love motel on the outskirts of Bangkok called Motel Mistress, four (human) lives intertwine and change forever.
- Kei hides her orientation, feels lonely. Befriends Naima, an Iranian student. Ai gets jealous. Kei doubts future with Ai. Naima struggles understanding Kei. Eventually, they share emotions amidst insecurities.
- An unlikely bond forms between an underground debt collector and a cai luong "Vietnamese opera" performer against the backdrop of Saigon in the 90s.
- Brilliant and extremely realistic retelling of the day in Hiroshima that the bomb dropped and following days.
- An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing daughter, Bellflower. The two follow a succession of bizarre, obscure clues, until they track down the location of the kidnappers and the daughter.
- In Tokyo, a Goth girl and an Internet voyeur connect in the post 9-11 world of surveillance and paranoia.
- In a zombie-infested Japan, Rika, an infected intern, cares for genius Rei and sister Yuna. Yuna turns a zombie; Rika and Rei flee. Rika suggests escaping abroad with Takashiba for hope; Rei wants to return home. At Rei's, they face a transformed Yuna's confession. Amid the despair, is hope alive?
- A film which looks at the modern implications of technology and the Internet and video in particular. When a person's personal video recording leaks online and becomes widely available without authorization the person experiences a severe phobia with many repercussions. The video's dissemination sends the person into hiding and agoraphobia.
- Because of her last name "Kumada" (bear + rice paddy) and her appearance, Misa's high school classmates call her "Pooh" disparagingly. She obviously has no friends and can only let down her guard around her pet parrot and the goldfish in the science room at school. But then she finds herself quickly becoming best friends with Izumi, a cute and popular classmate. Although somewhat puzzled by Izumi's interest in her, Misa is excited about having a friend for the first time ever. But Izumi's initial angelic demeanor gradually transforms into a demonic one.
- The lives of a recovering addict and her single mother change forever when they move in next door to a widowed father and his adult daughter with autism.
- A young dancer in a pit of despair that leads her towards self-destruction meets a doctor, who is bearing the infamy of a malpractice case. The beginning of a spiral in which fascination and madness squirm in a nightmarish love story, and where sex explores areas of extreme fetishism.
- A Korean-Japanese daughter tries to understand her father's sworn political loyalty to North Korea.
- Naomi (Shoko Nakahara), an actress and playwright, is writing a new play at a mountain villa she rented for the summer. Naomi, troubled by her thoughts, calls her friend, actress Mizuki (Tomomi Kono), telling her that there is something in the house. Naomi hears the screams of the children. When Naomi calls Mizuki via Zoom, they talk about the new play. It is based on a strange incident about a woman's disappearance that she saw on a TV program a while ago. The daughter claims that she saw her mother running out into the garden and disappearing without a trace. Then she finds scorch marks on the ground where she vanished..
- The newly divorced singer Kumi is not too enthusiastic about life as a single mother. She drops her son to her ex-husband, leaving her band and embarks on a crazy tour of Tokyo's shadowy side.
- Fatima, a teacher living her elite life in Karachi, shattered, when her nanny Nusrat, inexplicably disappears. Fatima travels to investigate her disappearance and finds a dangerous truth about Nusrat and her village.
- Once, Rui has aimed at a singer. However, now, she was frustrated and was doing the hostess's work in the country. When Rui goes home together with a friend's Tsunko, She met Momoko, the rival at the time of her having aimed as a singer. Momoko became an idol singer and was successful. On the grounds that Momoko has ridiculed Rui, Rui killed two friends, her and her. In order that Rui may escape a crime, She formed the idol group together with Tsunko pretending to be Momoko and others.
- A 17 year old boy from a village in the Sechuan province leaves for the big city looking for his father, who left 6 years before and has not been heard of since. The fact that his mother still receives money his father does nothing to tame his anger. He his not looking for a warm reunion, it is unconcealed revenge that drives him. Totally lost, he roams the big city with his basket of ducks on his back...
- Nana is doing some soul searching as she is about to reach the age of Thirty. Her job is the same old, same old and there is not a man in her life. Returning to her apartment one evening, she is confronted by a hand over her mouth and three bestial masked robbers. Instead of giving up or doing herself in she does fate one better and joins the gang.
- Yumi moves into her boyfriend's Tokyo apartment but on the night of the move, he is called away for business in New York. The couple communicates over Skype and over the course of four nights, their relationship descends into an abyss of mistrust and lies. Yumi believes there's a ghost in the room haunting her as her only connection to the outside world is Taka on the other side of the world. Taka believes she's slowly going crazy right in front of his eyes. The story concludes with a shocking twist that will haunt both of them forever.
- A film that takes the theme of psycho-phobia. The film visualizes a forbidden psychic experiment that is a "departing" process to a world of madness, aimed at "spiritual revolution".
- Immediately after the Second World War, sister Kiku and brother Isamu, whose mother was a prostitute and the father was a GI, live with their grandmother in the country. Because their colour, hair is different from Japanese, they'd have a hard time, being bullied or treated like unusual creatures. Unfortunately, racism and some other issues such as being different still exist in Japan but the way Kiku portrayed was quite refreshing as she's so strong and fighting against all those stupidity and cliché.
- 27-year-old American-born Omi Vaidya, a struggling actor in L.A., miraculously lands a dream role in the Bollywood film "3 Idiots". Curious to better understand the world of Bollywood, four of Omi's buddies armed with cameras fly to Mumbai to document his big premiere. Within a week of release, "3 Idiots" skyrockets to box office success, becoming the most successful Indian film in history and transforming Omi into an overnight megastar. But being a national sensation in India is not all glitz and glamor. Aside from the language barrier, Omi struggles with the pressure of his newly acquired fame and continuing his career momentum while trying to maintain a healthy domestic life back in Los Angeles. Set against the backdrop of Mumbai, Big in Bollywood is a film about what it is to be successful in show business, seen through the eyes of Omi's best friends, who witness his career transformation firsthand.
- TWO stories of revenge set against historic catastrophes -- Great Lisbon Earthquake(1755) and Great East-Japan Earthquake(2011), explore the human condition as they encounter similar tragedies and deja-vus.
- Yuuichi Okano is a baby boomer born and raised in Nagasaki, Japan. His bald-head looks like a pecoross, a small onion. His Mother, Mitsue has dementia that began soon after her husband, Satoru, passed away 10 years ago... The film depicts their daily life that is full of humor and sweet sorrow. The theme of this film is nursing care and dementia that take up as serious social issue in Japan; the aging of population is advancing rapidly. But the Director, Azuma Morisaki, the age of 85, he is now the oldest active film director in Japan, got through with this film as the light and heart-warming movie.
- Amamoto hasn't seen his daughter in years and only has an old child photograph of her. He believes she is now living somewhere in Osaka. Amamoto takes a trip to Osaka to meet his daughter. Along the way to Osaka, Amamoto meets a gangster type named Akane and a punkish girl named Akane, who is about the same age of his daughter. When Amamoto finally arrives in Osaka, he gets lost. By chance, he meets Akane again and she drags him off to tour Osaka together.
- After getting an impromptu lesson on LGBTQ+, a high school class grows suspicious that there is a queer student among them.
- 'Testudon', one of the most famous foolish film festivals, made a foolish anthology film about 'Japan' with 26 directors. Naturally, the directors are also foolish enough, so that you might wonder if it is really about Japan or get headache at the screening.At least, some of the 26 various works will please you. It is inevitable that the theater room will be full of laughter, hand claps, roars or booings like 'Pay back the money!'. But we won't reimburse you!
- Hikari Shintani, a trans woman who feels distanced from her cis female colleagues at work, must return to her hometown for a business trip. She gathers the courage to reconnect with an old classmate while in town, and arrives at a shocking reunion.
- Coco, a Beijing modern girl wants to spend a romantic and fancy Christmas vacation in Osaka. However the place where she gets in is Shinsekai( "New World" in English, is an old neighbourhood located next to south Osaka city's downtown "Minami " area, as known as one of the most poorest and dangerous area in Osaka.)When she arrives there, she starts feeling regret and frustrated by the encounters and the landscapes which are far beyond her expectation. Suddenly she is involved in an incident surrounds a Chinese family there, meanwhile she starts fascinated by Shinsekai through her wondering. In this short and unusual Christmas vacation, Coco discovers a "Japan " she never knows and a "China" that she is not familiar with .
- This is a simple story, yet with complicated emotions and subject matter. The relationship between the story and the film is always a subject matter that interests me. Other than the common film language, is there any other way of telling a story? Cotton is losing herself gradually, losing the threshold of being one single Ego and thus opening herself to other spirits. In the process of losing her individuality, there has been no fear, only a pleasant sensation with the guilt of peeping instead.
- In this coming of age story, a fashion editor, a photographer, a shopkeeper, and a flight attendant are explored over three countries. The lives, loves, and careers of these characters are chronicled in a tale of heartbreak, laughter and truth.
- GOMA who was famous didgeridoo performer from Japan. He developed higher brain dysfunction as a result of car accident and lost his memory of what a didgeridoo was. He looks back on his rehabilitation and recovery. A story of "past", "present" and "future" of GOMA.
- Eight years have passed from the Akihabara massacre. A pop star whose mother was killed in the incident, a teenager who left her home to Akihabara, a delivery boy who turns his directionless anger to the city. This is a story about the characters striving to grasp the string of hope within the darkness surrounding the city, the incident, and the people.
- A man falls in love with a woman he meets at a laundromat. She will change his life. Forever.
- A young woman suffering from mysterious physical ailments is horrified to discover she's descended from generations of vampires. When with her boyfriend, she struggles to control her peculiar appetite. But it's in her blood.
- La realización de un video por el medio siglo de la comunidad coreana en Argentina lleva al actor Chang Sung Kim de regreso a su tierra natal. Pero pronto el viaje deviene en un inesperado y transformador reencuentro con su familia y la cultura.
- In this film, the scars left after 10 years of the Iraq War are exposed through the lives and voices of the citizens of Baghdad. After a decade since the beginning of the Iraq War in March 2003, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have become victims of the war. Freelance journalist entered Baghdad 10 days before the attack by U.S. forces on March 20, 2003 and met with Ali . In 2004, 2006, 2007, 2013, and 2014 he visited Iraq to continue shooting and building friendships with Ali family. Some 200 hours of footage on the Iraq War was recorded. Through the images, words and experiences of usual life of them, he reveals the aftermath and the reality of the Iraq War.
- Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land. Then they have known the Japanese boys' story in China in the end of the Second Sino-Japanese war. It is a true story that 120 Japanese junior-high students were left behind as victims of the Kwantung Army on the borders of China and Soviet Union in the fires of war and fortunately helped by people who lived in a small village 'Sekitouson' in China. Keisuke and fellows relive the past the story tells and realize to link together between past and present. They finally meets an old man, lives in 'Sekitouson', who send the equipment to them and invited them. They also find out that a man is one of Japanese boys in the story....