Sang-il Lee

..Town elders hope to exploit international fascination with Polynesian culture by building a Hawaiian-theme resort as bait for Japanese tourists and promoting it by training local girls as hula dancers.. Their teacher.., a hard-drinking, smart-mouthed Tokyo dancer whose very presence causes local parents to grouse that their daughters are being corrupted. In due course, the spunky teacher whips her crew of social misfits into professional artists and freethinking women. (movies.nytimes.com)

A boy named Ken, who want's to organize a film- and music festival to impress the prettiest girl in school. (imdb comments)

One night, three strangers find themselves taken hostage by a depressed and drunk salaryman on the bus home. Afterwards, the trauma of the incident brings them together in a strange series of co-incidences that eventually lead to an underground job in the revenge business. But once they start, how can they be sure they will be able to stop? (heroic-cinema.com)

An aimless young laborer has trouble getting his life together and spends his time seducing women over the internet, but when one ends up dead suspicions abound.

The man who vowed never to take sword again finds himself driven by poverty to once again join battle as a bounty hunter. Together with a former comrade, he faces those convinced in their own justice. Another cycle of violence starts anew in another new era. (Wikipedia)

A grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities. (imdb)

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers Yasunari Kawabata, Osamu Dazai, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, & Saisei Muro. (The Movie Database)

Observes the lives of three un-related characters, a son, a father and a mother, each of whom has a troubled family background. (imdb)

In a park on a rainy evening, a 19-year-old university student, Fumi, offers an umbrella to a soaking wet 10-year-old girl, Sarasa. Realizing her reluctance to go home, Fumi lets her stay in his place, where she spends the next few weeks in peace. They take each other's hands and seem to have finally found their place in the world. Fifteen years later, Sarasa has a chance encounter with Fumi who is now running a cafe... (imdb)

A spirited and brave fiction debut by Lee Sang-il, a Korean-Japanese filmmaker, that explores the taboo subject of the relations between Korean immigrants and Japanese in Japan.