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⑫『Bold As You.（邦題：ボールド アズ、君。）』
FESTIVALS :
【OFFICIAL SELECTION】
YUBARI INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL（2024）
DIRECTED BY : Takashi Okamoto
JAPAN / 2025 / 82 MIN
SYNOPSIS :
Tamaki Nanjo, a socially awkward young woman, has always found her sanctuary in a small arthouse cinema with a unique lineup that sets it apart from mainstream multiplexes. She reveres the theater’s manager, Yuichiro Izawa, whom she affectionately calls her “god.”
For Tamaki, another “savior” is Yuiko Heko, the lead vocalist of the rock band "Kagerazu," whose music has profoundly impacted her life. Tamaki, having acquired a second-hand guitar, honed her skills to the point of winning a local Super Guitar Battle. Yet, she tirelessly strives to improve, fueled by her dream of greatness. After reading an article about Kagerazu, she resolves to secure tickets to their next live concert no matter what.
One day, by chance, Yuiko Heshi visits the izakaya where Tamaki works part-time. To Tamaki's surprise, Yuiko reveals that she’s seen one of Tamaki’s “guitar cover” videos online. Inspired, Tamaki sets a new goal: to stand on the same stage as Kagerazu and personally thank Yuiko. As she pours her energy into creating more videos, Tamaki learns a devastating truth—the arthouse cinema she treasures is set to close its doors on the same day as Kagerazu’s live show…
⑪『STRANGERS』
FESTIVALS :
San Francisco Indiefest（2025）
DIRECTED BY : Kenta Ikeda
JAPAN / 2024 / 99 MIN
SYNOPSIS :
After discovering her fiancé's infidelity, Naoko is introduced to the world of dating apps by her enigmatic coworker, Saki Yamaguchi. Guided by Saki, Naoko begins meeting various men, accepting money in exchange for fleeting, superficial dates. As her lifestyle grows increasingly flamboyant, Naoko notices that her appearance and demeanor are starting to resemble Saki’s, unsettling her.
Despite her unease, she finds herself unable to stop, convincing herself that this new way of life alleviates her anxieties. However, as Naoko spirals further into this facade, she begins to lose her sense of self, plunging deeper into a whirlpool of uncertainty and despair.
⑩『Sappy』
FESTIVALS：
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Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival（2024）
Madrid International Film Festival（2024）
Harlem International Film Festival（2024）
NICE International Film Festival（2024）
Jaipur International Film Festival（2024）
Milan FFI（2023）
Japan-Filmfest Hamburg（2023）
TAMA NEW WAVE（2022）
DIRECTED BY ：Shusei Ueda
JAPAN / 2025
SYNOPSIS：
The protagonist, who is buried in the crowd and looks down on the people living in Tokyo as "those people", aspires to become a novelist in order to become "a person of value".However, his girlfriend has given up on him after receiving a scathing review of his novel, and his editor has told him that it will be difficult for him to make his debut.
One day, the protagonist, who earns money by picking up call girls, meets a call girl who feels different from "those people".Even there, he is rejected by her because of his condescending attitude toward others.
The protagonist agonizes over the stagnation between reality and creativity. His acquaintance Kobayashi, a successful novelist, gives the protagonist advice on how to complete an interesting novel. ......
⑨『FICTITIOUS POINT（邦題：フィクティシャス・ポイント）』
FESTIVALS：
【WINNER】
Osu Indipendent Film Festival－Audience Award（2024）
Osu Indipendent Film Festival－GACHINKO Film Award（2024）
DIRECTED BY ：Masakazu Hattori
JAPAN / 2024 / 68 MIN
SYNOPSIS：
"Once you start writing, someone's life begins."
Ao Kusakabe was trapped in a vision.A classroom full of light, a young man reading a book by the window, a lemon-colored bookmark with "Seiji Sazanami" written on it. None of these things were familiar to her.
However, Aoi is suddenly caught up in a series of murders involving him and the fictional Crime Investigation Bureau. Between reality and fiction, the incidents escalate in the blink of an eye, and eventually they arrive at a single truth.
What awaits them at the end of their journey beyond human knowledge?
The key to the story lies in the mysterious words "Fictitious Point".
⑧『A WOMAN（邦題：女）』
FESTIVALS：
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Kanazawa Film Festival（2024）
DIRECTED BY ：Yota Kitano
JAPAN / 2024 / 60 MIN
SYNOPSIS：
Satoru and Misa have been dating since they were college students. Satoru has been thinking of proposing to Misa.
One day, Satoru holds a drinking party with three old local friends. There, he shows them a picture of his girlfriend, Misa.Upon seeing the photo, one of his old friends said, "I used to be with this girl until four years ago. I was dating this girl until four years ago".
The other old friend also said, "I was in a relationship with the very same person until four years ago." Moreover, this coincided with Satoru's relationship with Misa.However, one lives in Osaka, one in rural Chiba, and Satoru in Tokyo. They are not geographically close enough to travel. Who, then, is the woman from four years ago who has the same name and appearance as Misa?
An elusive sense of distrust erodes the lives of Satoru and Misa ......
⑦『The beast hand (邦題:獣手)』
FESTIVALS :
【OFFICIAL SELECTION】
SITGES FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA FANTÀSTIC DE CATALUNYA（Midnight X-Treme／2024）
Monsters Taranto Horror Film Festival（2024）
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival（2024）
DIRECTED BY : Taichiro Natsume
JAPAN / 2023 / 77 MIN
SYNOPSIS :
Osamu Kogure, a man who spends his days poor but indifferently while doing day labor. One day in front of him who lives at the bottom of society, his senior Inui suddenly appears. When Inui goes up to Osamu's house, he calls out Koyuki, a woman who was once related to Osamu. It was dry trying to control Osamu and Koyuki with violence and make the two of them rob, but the plan failed. As a result, Osamu loses his left hand. Osamu survived by seeing a dark doctor at another place, but the lost left hand was deformed. Vowing revenge on the robbers who cut off Osamu's hands, Osamu and Koyuki leave the city where they lived...Takahiro Fukuya, the leading actor, was a former office worker who worked in the film industry, and although he was once devasted by the harsh working environment, he planned his own starring movie to regain hope again. He shot the first half of the movie with his own investment, and collected the production cost of the second half through crowdfunding to complete it. Talented actors such as Misa Wada, Yota Kawase, Yuya Matsuura, Yudai Uenishi, and Taro Suwa gathered for co-starring sublime as the ultimate violence horror. Taichiro Natsume, the director of "Well Shark" "Love Shark" served as the director.
⑥『Echoes of the Shadows（邦題:いずれあなたが知る話）』
FESTIVALS :
【WINNER】
Hysteria Film Festival－BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY（2024）
Hysteria Film Festival－BEST SCREENPLAY（2024）
【OFFICIAL SELECTION】
THE INTERNATIONAL ETREUM HORROR FILM FEST
The Sant Boi de Llobregat International Fantastic Film Festival
Hysteria Fest
DIRECTED BY : Takeshi Furusawa
JAPAN / 2023 / 68 MIN
SYNOPSIS :
Yasuko is a single mother raising her only daughter in a rundown apartment. Unable to make ends meet with her lunch box shop job, Yasuko decides to become a sex worker. One day, Yasuko returns home and discovers her daughter has been kidnapped. However, Yasuko does not choose to get Aya back. Why? Yasuko's secret routine begins.One man recognizes her actions, which no one is supposed to know.
⑤『Firing the Lighter Gun (邦題:ピストルライターの撃ち方)』
FESTIVALS :
【OFFICIAL SELECTION】
Seattle Indie Film Festival（2024）
Diamond Star International Film Festival（2024）
CAMERA JAPAN FESTVAL（2023）
DIRECTED BY :Kohei Sanada
JPAN / 2023 / 118 MIN
SYNOPSIS :
In the not-too-distant future, a nuclear accident occurs in the countryside. However, life continues without change in the neighboring town. There, Tatsuya works for the yakuza and forces decontamination laborers to work in the exclusion zone.
He tries to get on the yakuza Otaki's good side, but it doesn't work out because of his lack of ruthlessness. Tatsuya’s best friend Ryo is released from prison, and Mari, a migrant sex worker, move into Tatsuya's house. With nowhere to go, this trio gradually opens up to each other, but their relationship changes due to a suicide.
Ryo awakens to violence and is favored by Otaki and given a job. Tatsuya must make a choice.
④『Yuzo the biggest battle in tokyo (邦題：特撮喜劇 大木勇造 人生最大の決戦)』
FESTIVALS :
【WINNER】
Another Hole in the Head Film FestivalーBest Fantasy Feature Film（2023）
Kansas City Underground Film Festivalー Best Feature Film Jury Award（2022）
【OFFICIAL SELECTION】
Pambujan International Film Festival（2023）
Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival（2022）
DIRECTED BY : Yoshikazu Ishii
JAPAN / 2022 / 88 MIN
SYNOPSIS :
In 2020, the world is threatened by COVID-19. The virus threatens not only people’s health, but also the economy. Yuzo Ooki, who has been enjoying a remote life in Tokyo, is unexpectedly fired. Managing to find a new job, Yuzo navigates the maze of crazy coworkers: the money-grubbing president, the fitness instructor with no members, the garbage thief in the name of waste recycling, the sales manager addicted to gambling, and the man who dresses as a dog! Yuzo is undaunted, yet struggles. However, he is bullied by these new workmates and dumped by his girlfriend. Then, Yuzo gives in to despair. In that moment an alien encounter changes everything as it feeds off the co-workers and melds with their madness creating an explosion of energy that plunges the town into chaos. Only Yuzo can save them from this crisis. Beaten down to the depths of despair, but now he rises to his feet. Yuzo!!
③『Distant Thunder (邦題：とおいらいめい)』
FESTIVALS :
【WINNER】
The Philip K Dick Science Fiction Film FestivalーBest Culture in Sci-Fi（2024）
Sydney Science Fiction FILM FESTIVALーSPECIAL MENTIONS（2023）
Asian Film Festival, Los Angeles HollywoodーBest Director（2022）
Indobali international film festivalーBest Feature film（2022）
【OFFICIAL SELECTION】
Melbourne Science Fiction FILM FESTIVAL（2023）
Santa Monica Film Festival（2023）
Takasaki Film FESTIVAL （2023）
SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL （2022）
Cinequest Film & VR Festival（2022）
RICHMOND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL（2022）
Polish International Film Festival（2022）
Madrid International Film Festival（2022）
Sydney Science Fiction FILM FESTIVALーSPECIAL MENTIONS（2023） Asian Film Festival, Los Angeles HollywoodーBest Director（2022） Indobali international film festivalーBest Feature film（2022）
DIRECTED BY : Takayuki Ohashi
JAPAN / 2022 / 145 MIN
SYNOPSIS :
The film encompasses two distinct yet overlapping narratives. In modern day Setouchi, three sisters are reunited after the death of their father. The reaffirmation of their shared love is crucial; in two months, a meteor will lay waste to humanity. The sisters recall their days as young girls, in the year 1999, the memories helping to strengthen their resilience and ease their anxiety as the end draws near.
From Simon Foster, Festival Director of the Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival: “Distant Thunder is one of the most beautifully meditative storytelling experiences I have ever seen. It is a breathtakingly lovely, heartbreakingly moving piece of speculative cinema.”
②『Cosmetic DNA』
FESTIVALS :
【OFFICIAL SELECTION】
Hamburg Film Festival（2022）
Yubari International Fantastic Film FestivalーHokkaido Governor's Award（2022）
DIRECTED BY :Kenya Okubo
JAPAN / 2021 / 109 MIN
SYNOPSIS :
Ayaka Tojo, an art college student who loves cosmetics, is drugged and sexually assaulted by Keisuke Shibashima, a self-proclaimed film director, who picks her up and asks her to be in his movie. Ayaka is forced to cry herself to sleep, and she becomes mentally ill, but she gradually regains her composure after meeting Satomi, a graduate student, and Yumi, an apparel store clerk. However, when Ayaka learns that Yumi is Shibashima’s next target, she kills Shibashima out of the blue. As she proceeds to dispose of the corpse, she realizes that human blood is the ideal material for cosmetics.
①『YOKOSUKA STRANGE INCIDENT (邦題：横須賀綺譚)』
FESTIVALS :
【OFFICIAL SELECTION】
Chongqing Youth Film Festival（2021）
Kanazawa Film FESTIVAL（2020）
DIRECTED BY :Shinichi Otsuka
JAPAN / 2020 / 86 MIN
SYNOPSIS :
Haruki and Chikako were lovers on the brink of marriage, but they had to part ways because Chikako's father needed care. It was a choice between his life with Chikako and his job in Tokyo, and Haruki chose the latter. Nine years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Haruki hears a rumor that Chikako, who was presumed dead due to the disaster, might be alive. Half in doubt, Haruki sets off for Yokosuka, where Chikako is said to be.
