Masataka Kubota

A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord. (imdb)

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people -- a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself and his senile grandmother -- whose intersecting lives yield both sorrow and a fragile, yet enduring, hope for a brighter future. (tiff.net)

An elementary school student named Masashi finds flat cardboard boxes at a home in which he just moved in. A strange creature like jellyfish comes from the cardboard. Masashi names the strange, but cute creature "Kurage Bo" and they become friends. Masashi places Kurage Bo in a bag and takes the creature with him to school his new school. The other students and adults can not see Kurage Bo.

TV single 11-episode season adapting Death Note manga. Light Yagami, an ordinary university student, receives a death note which changes his life. The death note awakens his warped sense of justice and genius. (imdb)

A young Japanese man works to raise money and then build an elementary school in Cambodia. (imdb)

A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a superpowered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a fugitive on the run. (imdb)

A stay-at-home nerd's dream comes true when he unearths a strange breastplate and awakens a sexy monster hunter named Dogoo, who brings him along her adventure with wacky monsters. (imdb)

The Yorozuya gang returns to protect the country's shogun when the Shinsengumi police force finds itself in a crisis. (imdb)

Taking place over one night in Tokyo, Leo, a down-on-his-luck young boxer meets his 'first love', Monica, a call girl and an addict but who is still an innocent. Monica unwittingly gets caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, and the two are pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, Leo's nemesis and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads.

There is a town surrounded by a wall that stands 4,000 meters tall. Because the town is full of chimneys, the air is always full of smoke. No one in the town knows what the sky looks like. On one night of the town's Halloween festival, a deliveryman accidentally drops the heart he is supposed to deliver. He cannot find the heart in the smoke and gives up. The heart continues to beat where it fell in the town of chimneys. (MyAnimeList)

A sketchy ghoul named Gourmet invites a college student named Kaneki to dine with him at a special restaurant where the young man may find himself on the menu.

Tomoyo Shiino is an office lady. One day, she watches the news on TV and learns that her friend Mariko Ikagawa killed herself. They graduated from the same high school and Tomoyo knows that Mariko was abused by her father for a long time. To save her soul, Tomoyo steals her remains from Mariko's family. While recalling memories with Mariko, she goes on a trip with her remains.

Rie, devestated by a marriage breakup, is chatted up in her (?) store by a total stranger. She falls for him and he for her. She is happily (re)married for 3 odd years, having his daughter, her preteen son likes "dad" as well. One day hubby is killed in an accident. When a relative comes to mourn it's discovered that dead hubby is a complete unknown. She hires a lawyer to solve the mystery. The lawyer is dedicated but has identity problems of his own. (me)

Stories of Unnatural Death Investigation, a Japanese non-governmental organization as they work on unnatural death cases and try to reveal the truth behind the deaths. (imdb)

A medical procedure allows the developmentally disabled to become geniuses. It follows the patient who is experimented on and his new relationships. (imdb)

Asahi Mikuriya who works at a photo studio located near the sea dreamed of becoming a famous photographer, but now he works as a cameraman for weddings and school events. He was also in love with a woman, but she suddenly left him. (imdb)