Hinako Saeki

Junior high school student Yuki, a member of a travelling theater troupe, changes schools every month for performances. Because of this, he does not expect to meet people at any of his schools and does not try to make friends. However, when he attends a new school, his homeroom teacher asks him to deliver something to a classmate who hasn't been coming to school, but has excellent grades. By chance, he becomes friends with him, and Ken's ex-girlfriend Maya joins them. (letterboxd.com)

A young man (Yoshio Inoue) moves from the countryside to Tokyo, while experiencing hardships & happiness, in his pursuit to become a manga artist.

Three women are transported to the virtual world of Avalon F, where they must test their fighting skills against monsters known as Sand Whales.

Akihiko Shiota's deliciously perverse "Gips" charts the relationship between two women, the submissive stenographer Kazuko and the dominant Tamaki, who has interesting ways of enslaving members of both sexes. (VIFF)

Documentary Directed by Takashi Shimizu

In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. He seems unaware of her presence and she thinks no more of it. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possesed with different forms of spirals, one student seems to be mutating into a snail, another's hair becomes strangely medusa-like. The entire town becomes possesed. (imdb)

A family is haunted by a Hebi Onna, a fabled demonic undead Snake Woman.

A sacrificial ceremony performed under the guise of a harmless girl school play threatens to put an evil wizard in control of an army of the undead in this tale of terror from director Katsuhito Ueno. When 17-year-old witch Misa Kuroi discovers a partially destroyed stage play script, she can't help but feel that something terrible is about to happen.

A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit. (imdb)

A pair of men and women ran off from a sanatorium where personality fusion treatment for patients with multiple personality disorders was being performed. The man had five personalities and the woman had eight personalities.

Maya, a useless high school girl who's passionate about acting, accidentally meets Tsukikage Chikusa, a famous but retired actress who's looking for her successor to play the main role in the legendary play "The Crimson Goddess".

When a visitor from the future shows up at school and instigates a reign of terror, a small group of students must find a way to stop the horror from spreading.

Based on the 1995 novel by Itami's brother in law and Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe, this film adaptation centers on the exploits of Iiyo (Atsura Watabe), a mentally challenged, but musically gifted teen, and Maa (Hinako Saeki), the boy's artistic younger sister who is put in charge of caring for her sibling after their parents go to Australia. Loosely based on the real life experiences of Kenzaburo's Oe's handicapped son. (myac.asia)