Tasuku Emoto

In the words of Toru, Yui is a wrestling freak, Tetsuo is a studying freak and Akira is just plain freak. After a performance by popular indies group Workaholic, Toru and his group of friends set out to start their own hip-hop group to score chicks. Toru also falls in love with Nagisa, a beautiful girl he saw swim in an aquarium. (http://omgasians.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/check-it-out-yo-chekeraccho/)

A gangly, withdrawn youth is recovering from a lung ailment at his grandfather's house, while his classmates are working at a nearby war plant. When one of those classmates was fatally wounded in an air raid, Yasuo ran away instead of finding help -- and he has been wracked with guilt ever since. (japantimes.co.jp)

Inspired by a true story, Wakamatsu shows his protagonist (a largely wordless, engaging performance by youngster Emoto) biking through beautiful landscapes but discovering the ugly side of Japanese history as he is propelled towards his own catharsis. In mostly improvised scenes, Emoto meets a series of older citizens with deep and sometimes shocking experiences to recount. (Roger Garcia for SFIFF)

Hyeong-gu (Jung-woo Ha), a young Korean, visits Japan by boat three or four times a month to help with middle-aged Bo-gyung's smuggling business. It is always Tooru (Satoshi Tsumabuki), a young Japanese man, who welcomes him there. Hyung-gu and Touru sacrifice themselves for the sake of their families, money, and friendship. One day, Bo-gyung orders them to kidnap a woman named Ji-su (Su-yeon Cha) and take her to Japan, and this changes their future in an unexpected way. (AsianMediaWiki)

"Kenta to Jun to Kayo-chan no Kuni" tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a children's facility. Kenta & Jun now works as part of a demolition crew but become fed up with their jobs. The friends then decide to take a road trip up north to visit Kenta's brother at the Abashiri prison. (Asian Media Wiki)

Rui (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain attention from the mass media. After becoming involved in a car accident, Rui goes to a remote island with ex-gangster now bodyguard (Ryuhei Matsuda). On the island, Rui reveals more about his religious group, while a set of ominous events are about to occur ... (asianwiki.com)

A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a figure. The young man and the pretty figure begin to live together (asianwiki.com)

In the fictional Tokyo suburb of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada works as a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. One day in January, former classmate Haruhiko Gyoten appears unannounced. Back in their schooldays Haruhiko was a quiet person who rarely talked but now he is talkative. Both men are over 30 years old and divorced. Haruhiko suddenly asks to spend the night at Keisuke's home. He turns down Haruhiko, but Haruhiko is persistant and finally Keisuke allows him to sleep over for one night. (Asian Wiki)

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

Gonin Saga is a 2015 Japanese movie written and directed by Takashi Ishii as a followup to the two Gonin films he directed in the mid-1990s. Seiji (Masanobu Ando) is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist (Tasuku Emoto) investigates a case that occurred 19 years ago. He meets Hayato (Masahiro Higashide), Daisuke (Kenta Kiritani) and Asami (Anna Tsuchiya). (imdb)

Shuji Tokita (Eiji Okuda) is a film director and a professor at a university. He goes through a difficult time trying to film his new movie. He believes his movies reflect his own personal expriences. A female high school student, Ritsuko (Yukino Murakami), appears in front of Shuji.

Erika Ichinose, a clinical psychologist, is recruited by the National Police Agency in an attempt to stay one step ahead of a bomb terrorist. (mydramalist)

A seventy-year-old widowed man named Daikichi lives on a small island with his beloved pet cat. He is a local, a native, enjoys his home and spending time with that cat and old friends. His own son has done what many local youngsters have. The son has moved to Tokyo. However, change is eternal and friends are dying of old age, the environment is changing and old age creeps up and makes folk infirm. The old man has to contend with this change.

A young woman named Miyuki returns to her hometown, camera in hand, after a difficult breakup. As she walks and takes photographs, she meets a variety of people and begins to realize she doesn't have to go through this painful time in her life all alone. (filmaffinity)

In 1933, a young naval officer and math prodigy uncovers a conspiracy regarding the construction of Japanese warships for the ongoing World War 2.

Toko Suguri is married and they have a lovely daughter. She doesn't have any major problems in her life. One day, Toko Suguri meets her former lover, Akihiko Kurata, at a friend's wedding. They haven't seen each other in ten years. Toko Suguri indulges in a sexual relationship with Akihiko Kurata.

When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifically in Akita. He returns there in order to attend her wedding. Naoko surprises him by proposing that they have sex again. The one night stand is the new beginning.

A fictionalized depiction of the life of Inu-oh ("King Dog"), a 14th-century Japanese performer of music drama at the time of its transition from the folk art of sarugaku ("monkey music") into the formalized traditions of Noh and kyôgen.

The year is 1947, during the war-torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who was this man? Before the war, he had a bright future ahead of him as the proficient and popular rakugoka, Usagi Morinoya. However, because of an injury sustained during the war, his face is covered in bandages, and he suffers from total amnesia. As if trying to recover his memory, the man only keeps mumbling in a hollow voice his trademark...

In the bleak, disturbing, and suspenseful universe of H.P. Lovecraft, endless horrors await. From ravaging cannibals to ancient rituals coming to life, there’s no escape for these hapless souls, whether they come across the Dunwich outskirts or even the gruesome cover of the Necronomicon.

Set within the highly competitive animation industry. People in that field work hard to receive the title of "haken," which is given to the most popular animation. Saito Hitomi works on her first anime as a director.…

Takeshi Yamada arrives in a small village in the Hokuriku region. There, he begins to work at a small factory which makes shiokara (salted fish paste). Through the introduction of the CEO of the factory, he begins to live in at an old and cheap apartment building. One day, his apartment building neighbor Kozo Shimada visits Takeshi and asks to take a bath in his bathroom. Since then, Takeshi begins to make relations with the residents at the apartment building and he becomes friends with Kozo. L

A man and his female cohort attempt to annihilate the illegal organization responsible for his conversion into a mutant cyborg and stop their plans to conquer society. (Wikipedia)

Torihada 3 consists of six stories: 1. A sweet invitation is an invitation to death, 2. Causality of noise and silence, 3. The whereabouts of the disguised murderous intent, 4. Misunderstandings and truths in concepts, 5. The shiness caused by greedy love, 6. A heartless ending that deviates from common sense.

The story is about a film director, Kutani, who lives in the dying pink film industry, and an aspiring screenwriter, Iseki, and their loved one, Shoko, whose dream of a film she has clung to begins to crumble, and their lives intersect.

Yumiko Haruno works as a waitress at a cafe that has been around for a long time. She spends her days aimlessly and without a dream for her future. On an ordinary day at her job, Yumiko notices middle aged man Ichirou Haga looking intently at shunga (Japanese erotic paintings that were popular during the Edo period). He suddenly talks to her and asks her what shunga is to her. (imdb)

Several men and one woman have drifted to an uninhabited island. The only woman will try to survive by taking advantage of her own sexual attractiveness.

A young man named Akiyama Tokuzo cannot find his passion for living. One day he tasted meat cutlet for the first time and have been absorbed to learn about Western style cuisine. He set out on a journey to Tokyo and sworn to be the greatest cook in the empire of Japan. (imdb)

Ayako Mochizuki investigates a murder case. From the evidence she collects, she targets Haruto Hidaka as the murder suspect. (imdb)

Five siblings live together. They have arguments everyday and sometimes even fight with each other. Each of the siblings have their own problems like studying, finding a job, marriage, etc. There are also people connected with the siblings who either yearn for them or are their romantic interests.