Manami Konishi

An experienced police detective has to investigate the murder of an unknown woman dressed in a scarlet dress. All the clues he finds relate to him, which troubles him a lot. A ghost dressed in a scarlet dress soon starts appearing to him while more murders are discovered: all victims were drowned in salt water. (imdb)

As the Grim Reaper in human form, Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days, and then decide either to 'execute' or 'pass over'...Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki, 27. She works for a manufacturing company, in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It's time for the Reaper to go to work. (asiacue.com)

An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan, the love of her life eventually leaves her for her boyfriend in Tokyo. (imdb)

The film follows a young aspiring art university student who falls in love with his girlfriend's older sister. The heartrending longing and true love that the three characters pursue is pure, but almost painful. Is the person standing next to you the person that gives you true comfort and love? (myasiancinema.com)

Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her young daughter, Non-chan. However, she has a difficult time making ends meet in big city Tokyo. Her solution? Take a chance and try opening her very own bento (lunch box) shop. (Dr. Jay Trotter)

Koji, a college student and an aspiring photographer, enjoys taking pictures of families in a park in Tokyo partly because he lost his mother when he was young. Out of the blue, he receives a request to follow a client's girlfriend and take pictures of her. He takes on the job without fully understanding the circumstances, a decision leading to major changes in his life and his relationships with women. (mubi.com)

A dramedy about the relationship between an aspiring comic and his stubborn noodlemaker father. (imdb)

An urban Japanese couple decide to move to the country. (imdb)

Uchiyama Kaede and Shiina Kasumi used to be best friends. Now in high school, Kasumi grew more popular than Kaede, which has led her to continually bully her ex-best friend. One day after school, Kaede meets Kishida Takumi, a bike thief who's especially talented in picking locks. She asks him for a favor: if he could possibly open the key to the school roof. Meanwhile, the arrival of a new teacher seems to bring changes to the school.

Yuuki Kai is a senior at a university studying social welfare psychology and trying to find a job. One day, he encounters a girl, Hagio Sae, playing the violin, and becomes intrigued. (imdb)