Moemi Katayama

Toru Nishikawa is a university student. One day, he picks up a gun on the riverside and takes the gun home. He is excited and thrilled by having the gun. Toru is attracted to Yuko Yoshikawa who attends the same the university. A detective suddenly visits Toru and he is driven into a corner. He makes a decision. (imdb)

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)

A non-conventional, impoverished family in Tokyo relies on petty theft to make ends meet. When they take in a young, abused girl, the deep bonds holding their makeshift unit together are tested by the arrival of the police and the exposure of painful secrets about their true, non-biological relationships.

For 50 years, no girls were born in a small village deep in the mountains. A professor, his assistant, and his female students from the university arrive in this isolated village for fieldwork. Will they make it back?

They thought they were coming to study a mysterious town hidden in the mountains of Japan. Instead, they discovered that their Professor brought them to Yasaka for a much darker purpose.

Akatsuka Detective Agency stands inconspicuously at Shimo Akatsuka in Tokyo's Itabashi ward, right above a small snack shop run by their landlord. Akatsuka's eccentric chief Kaze Kaoru founded it with her two investigators Goro and Gure in order to take on odd cases that others are reluctant to do anything about. Their motto is "to be compassionate and meddlesome", which leads them to get involved in strange situations with their clients. (imdb)

Shizuoka Miyakonojo is a middle-aged paparazzi photographer. His skills as a cameraman are good, but he gambles and is in debt. When he worked in the editorial department for weekly picture magazine 'Scoop!,' he landed numerous scoops. He now works as a freelance photographer and chases after celebrity scandals. Shizuoka Miyakonojo works with Nobi Namekawa. She is a rookie reporter for 'Scoop!' and they land a scoop. (letterboxd)