Shunsuke Kubozuka

The story of a woman's life work founding a bone marrow bank for her son. (CD Japan)

Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the terrorists but finds an even more sinister plan is about to unfold. (imdb)

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals. (imdb)

After junior high each of the 3 go on to separate high schools and vow to eventually become the leader of their respective territories. Takumi takes the reigns of his school's gang fairly quickly, but when a psychopath named Jojima comes back from a school suspension and amasses an impressive army of thugs with the intention of taking over the entire area all hell breaks loose. (bt.avistaz.com)

The high school girl Chise and her classmate Shuji are in love with each other. Unfortunately, Chise is no ordinary girl but an ultimate battle cyborg developed by the Japanese government for military purposes.

A former hospital director runs an antiques shop in Ashibetsu with her family. In that shop cum residence she resides along with her grandfather who unexpectedly dies. Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of the patriarch, Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance gradually exposes wartime secrets and Mitsuo's unknown past. (Avista)

Fulfilling his filmmaking dream of 40 years, Nobuhiko Obayashi's luminous new feature "Hanagatami" delivers a timeless story of the pureness of youth beset by the chaos of war. (imdb)

For the invincible and basically happy punk lads Hiroshi and Toru, what they care about every day is to get a lot of attention from girls and to win the fights against the lads from other schools. Whenever provoked, they just go out fighting and settle the situation no matter what it costs. The kids at Aitoku's are challenged to a duel by Junichi Kikunaga, the number one in Tachibana commerce.

Nagisa, a high school girl has been given only 3 months to live. Without telling her widowed father where she's going, to the small town where she was born. She recalls her childhood memories, and her love for Satoshi. However, she is shocked to discover that Satoshi is having an affair with Eriko, a married woman. (imdb)