Yû Kashii

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the perpetrator. An all out battle between the greatest minds on earth begins, the winner controlling the world. (imdb)

Crime comedy. Two young men rob a bank and stash the money in a luggage but things get complicated when a busker ends up swallowing the key to the locker. (BFI.org.uk)

A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival. (imdb)

An anthology featuring ten dreams.

Lian Song, a Taiwanese hit man, leads a double life: he carries out his assignments in Taipei, then hides out in Naha, Japan, until things cool down. He has a favorite laundromat in Naha where he goes on Saturday evenings because then a young woman named Yukiko happens to be there. Lian Song is in love with her, although he although he knows neither her name nor where she lives. (viennale)

A lighthearted character drama about four starving artists in 1960s Japan, Yellow Tears is both a commercially and artistically successful exercise in nostalgia, thanks to its idol stars and a director with the right sensibilities. (lovehkfilm.com)

Akino, Mihari, Hibiko and Azuki, the four beautiful Ninomiya sisters, have been entrusted with the management of the "Salamander Kinjiro Foundation". Their organisation receives several billion yen in grants from the government for the care of Kinjiro, a giant salamander and national treasure exhibited at the 1867 Paris World Expo by the 15th Shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshinobu.

Two childhood friends - confident, aggressive Kabu and timid Yuki - are reunited in high school. Kabu convinces his unassuming friend to join the boxing club.

Teenage stepsisters Yui and Ai form a close bond as a result of the neglect and abuse from their respective parents. Fearing separation from each other when their parents plan to divorce, they run away together to Tokyo and, in order to survive steal a briefcase which they later discover belongs to the yakuza. This puts them in great danger. (letterboxd)

A comedy about six student council members at an elite, private high school that caters to the wealthy, who start their own "Leisure Club." (imdb)

A massive earthquake strikes off mainland Japan causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically, leading to a massive storm to hit Tokyo and for it to be inundated with water. Later the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history hits Tokyo. The Tokyo Fire Department and its team of crack rescuers swing into action, and shortly after they do, a distress call arises from an underground subway station - with repeated indications of the rescue code, 252 ...

Sakaki Makio, also known as "Tornado", is a tough 27-year-old high school drop-out. By academic standards, he's pretty dumb. His father decides to force Makio to return to high school to receive his diploma, and he asks an old friend who happens to be the principal of a nearby school to admit Makio. If Makio doesn't graduate, the position of boss will be given to his younger brother, Mikio. (imdb)