Ryô Iwamatsu

Fumiya Takemura (Jô Odagiri) is over $7000 in debt. A loan shark makes him a deal where the debt will disappear if he accompanies him on a walk throughout Tokyo, at the final destination at Kasumigaseki's Police station. (whatismyname)

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers. (imdb)

Katakura Suzume (Ueno Juri) is a really bored housewife. Her most important job is to feed her husband's turtle. Desperate for something else, she answers a secret ad that she accidently finds for a..spy agency. Suddenly, she's working for one of the weirdest couples you've ever seen. Come to find out, she's not the only spy in the neighborhood. The mission they giver her; act normal and do not act suspicious. (http://community.livejournal.com/asian_movies/)

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk. (imdb)

A small town doctor disappears mysteriously after having earned the trust of the locals.

A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his trusty companion Endo in tow, he sets off on a quest for the elusive insect and along the way meets the mysterious Sayoko, a former dominatrix and habitual wrist-cutter who delights in rubbing wasabi into her wounds. (imdb)

23-year-old Sawako is stuck in Tokyo with a dead-end job, a deadbeat boyfriend, and no passion for life. Her wake-up call is a request to return to her provincial hometown and take over her terminally ill father's shellfish packing business. But that means facing up to all the problems she has been running away from.

Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD. (imdb)

Izumi is married to a famous romantic novelist but their life seems just a simple repetition without romance. One day, she decides to follow her desires and accepts to be a naked model that fakes sex in front of the camera. Soon she meets a mentor and starts selling her body to strangers but at home, she is still the wife she is supposed to be. One day a brutally murdered body is found in the love hotels district. The police tries to understand what happened. (MUBI)

The life of a student named Kanou is transformed when a tiny man informs him that Earth will soon be annihilated. Kanou decides to do just as he pleases with the time he has left, leading to strange adventures that could be real -- or just a dream. (Netflix.com)

Hitoshi Nagano (Kazuya Kamenashi), who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother and pretends to be her son. He then gets the mother to transfer money to his bank account. Soon, Hitoshi gets a lot more than he bargained for. (Asian Wiki)

In 1995, five serial murder cases took place. Wataru Makimura took charge of the murder cases and tried to catch the serial killer. Due to the killer's trap, Wataru Makimura's superior was killed. The serial murder case has been unsolved to this date. 22 years later, a murder memoir "Watashi ga Satsujinhan desu" ("I am a Murderer") is published. The author describes himself as the killer responsible for the five unsolved serial murder cases. (KG)

Follows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the horror inherent in daily life. (The Movie Database)

Family members gather at their grandfather's funeral.

Shing is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of vocal cord doping. His voice is now teetering on the edge, due to side effects from the vocal cord doping. Around this time, Shing meets Fuuka who is a street musician. When Fuuka sings, her voice is so small. Due to Fuuka, Shing looks back upon his past. (imdb)

Suekichi runs a small liquor store. He finds that someone has stolen canned crab from his store. But he reports that a large amount of money was stolen also. He is forced to make up stories one after another...

Yuuichi Okano is a baby boomer born and raised in Nagasaki, Japan. His Mother, Mitsue has dementia that began soon after her husband, Satoru, passed away 10 years ago.

An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When they hear 'in India one can live without working' they take it seriously. They begin to raise the money to go to India by doing anything but working, such as ripping off stamps from others' letters to sell, robbery at the bank which itself went bankrupt, etc. (imdb)

A love story spanning 5 years between a man and a woman. A 22-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman both miss the last train at Meidaimae Station in Tokyo and meet there. Their relationship develops romantically.

The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo, a popular greengrocer who lives in a city near Tokyo. His life, and that of his wife, Michi and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters Li, a poor college student from China. (imdb)

With Saitama no rappa 2 (AKA 8000 Miles 2 – Girls Rapper), Yu Irie tells the story of amateur girl rappers who dream of a small big-time. The film opens with Saitama 1 B-boys, Ikku and Tom coming to town. They run into young Ayoma (Maho Yamada), inspiring her to gather her girlfriends and work up their rap routine.

Hi no Sakana (火の魚, Fish of the Fire) is a Japanese novel by Murō Saisei; it was first published in 1960 and was later adapted into a single-episode TV drama that was broadcast on NHK Hiroshima in 2009. The story describes the interactions between an elderly author and a young staffer from a publishing company as they collaborate on a book cover design for the author's latest novel.

The story is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22-year-old man.

Kiriyama Shuichiro works as an information management officer in the prefectural police station. He is very observant and has interest in the unresolved cases which have gone past the legal time frame, he investigates the cases without permission with the aim of "confirming" the culprit only. Some characteristics of this character would be his dark green spectacles, his wallet containing 20,000 yen at all times and he likes udon and nyuumen. (imdb)