Aoba Kawai

A drug-addicted girl from an abusive family finds hope through kind people but her grim reality strikes back just as she sees a glimmer of light. (imdb.com)

Shiba Ryoma, an elite lawyer with social anxiety, and Haruto, a genius conartist, team up to solve complex legal cases using unethical ways while dealing with developing feelings for each other. (imdb)

This anthology film is comprised of three segments focused on sudden chance and the power of imagination. The stories explore women caught between temptation and confession, including a love triangle, a failed seduction scheme, and a case of mistaken identity that leads to a deep, transformative connection.

Despite the bar's uninviting name, two sisters warmly welcome their patrons with tasty food and sake, just like their parents did before them. (imdb)

When abused children return after they went missing, their abusers find a mysterious death after 3 days. Local newspaper reporter Shunya investigates the deaths, while his girlfriend Naomi gets too close to one of the haunted children. (imdb)

Sixteen-year-old Kako Motoya is a high school Freshman and single. She attends an adult dating mixer under the pretense that she is older than she really is. There she meets a man and soon finds out he is a cop. He is interested. She is still interested despite his being a cop. There is a problem, however. It is not her parents. It is that the relationship is illegal. Where there is a will there is a way.

Sayoko has moved away from the city centre and into the suburbs. She gets her hair done at a beauty salon. When she replies to a courtesy follow-up e-mail from the stylist things take an unexpected turn involving her visiting the home of the stylist, her husband and the barber's girlfriend. (imdb)

Erotic drama

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers Yasunari Kawabata, Osamu Dazai, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, & Saisei Muro. (The Movie Database)

Nagako and Seiichi are a couple about to get married. However, Nagako has a "secret" that prevents her from affixing her seal to the marriage certificate even on the wedding day. (IMDb)

The upcoming marriage of a philosophy graduate student and a professor sets off a chain reaction of emotional turmoil among their friends. A series of uncomfortable revelations, betrayals, and heated confrontations expose the deep-seated tensions, unrequited desires, and suppressed resentments between the group.

A new romance between factory workers Yôji (Issei Takahashi) and Sachiko (Aoba Kawai) is going well -- that is, until aliens invade Earth and implant themselves into tumor-like growths on human shoulders. When Sachiko is attacked and transformed into a slave cyborg, it's up to the half-infected Yôji to rescue his lover. Co-directors Jun'ichi Yamamoto and Yudai Yamaguchi surround their tender love story with a rollickingly gross splatter-fest. (Netflix)

Kyoko is a photographer struggling to find a balance between commerce and art. In her hunt for a model, she meets Miho, a young woman who's never confronted the father that left her when she was a child. In their short time together as photographer and subject, they form a strong bond, learning just as much about themselves as they do about each other. (imdb)

Yuko Yajima (Aoba Kawai) works at a library. To her co-workers she appears as an extremely shy and introverted person who hardly lets anyone know her true feelings and never smiles. However her interest in a man living in room 202, Mamoru Kosino (Masaru Engo), leads Yuko into some risque behavior. The interest turns into obsession, as Yuko's jealousy turns into a thrilling game where she sneaks into apartments and scares tenants away, hoping to have Mamoru all to herself. (asianwiki)