Masahiro Sugiyama

Under-achievers Shiro and Keita are on their own since their peers had all left for university three years earlier. Passing the entrance exam is the main problem. Shiro, however, is more interested in finishing a super-8 movie they had begun in secondary school than studying. But Keita feels more pressure on him to pass, and can't share Shiro's enthusiasm. To further complicate Keita's life, he hears that Kyoko, his ex-girlfriend, is coming back for a visit from her studies in Tokyo. (PTP)

While butoh master Akaji Maro is in rehearsal and fashion designer Shinichiro Arakawa preparing for the Paris collection, filmmaker Sion Sono begins a movie about a high school girl who falls in love... with a restaurant cook she's never even talked to. Soon the artists' works come together in a race to help the girl's love.

The 7th installment of the omnibus horror series that visualizes the horror thread that has become a hot topic on 2ch. Includes 5 episodes: "Lullaby", "Hasshaku-sama", "I killed my mother", "Please Look for this person", and "My sister has returned to her parents' House after a long absence".

A road movie about three persons traveling in a campervan on their way to Tokyo, Hamamatsu, and Kyoto. The film is based on the story of the heroine, a young girl named Momo, who was a member of the “21 Faces of Kaijin” gang involved in the Glico Morinaga Incident, and the film’s ideas are remarkable, including the use of a tape recording of the actual incident.

When Otomo Katsuhiro saw his manga Good Weather credited as the “original novel” he burst out laughing. There’s not an iota of his book anywhere in the film. Made in the same year as Sono Sion’s A Man’s Flower Road, Hirano Katsuyuki’s Happiness Avenue (where Sono plays a role) is madder and more abandoned, in both filmmaking and content. Lovelorn Masahiro goes on an odyssey to find fulfillment of his heart’s desire, and the sea he traverses is Tokyo’s open sewage.