Passion

Passion 2008

6.10

In the middle of the celebration party for a newlywed couple where their friends get together, its exposed that the groom had an affair in the past.

2008

Love Is Possession

Love Is Possession 2014

1

This three-part omnibus spins tales about love featuring surreal characters like ghosts and eccentrics.

2014

Drop Anchor

Drop Anchor 2008

1

Motherless boy Yujin is shunned by people around him because of his weird behavior. Only Naomi, his sister-in-law, knows Yujin's secret extraordinary ability. They have feelings for each other; however, Yujin's ability turns out to be a cursed, harmful one. He leaves home with Naomi... This unique science fiction film portrays their desperate love story spanning ten years.

2008

00:08

00:08 2014

5.20

This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the passage of time. 8 seconds becomes that much more luxuriant.

2014

Our Little Pond

Our Little Pond 2021

1

I'm the only one who can't live without an oxygen tank in the underwater world. No matter how suffocated I feel, I preserve peace and harmony by pretending the selfish girl and my friends with complicated family backgrounds don't bother me.

2021

My Milk Cup Cow

My Milk Cup Cow 2014

6.50

The father tells his daughter Nunu a lie that there is a cow in her milk cup. She believes it and drinks up milk, but there isn't any cow. Her father tells her a variety of lies, which Nunu finds increasingly difficult to believe.

2014

A Lush Life

A Lush Life 2009

4.00

The story involves an aloof thief, a young man who turns to God after his father’s suicide, a manipulative marriage councilor, a man who recently lost his job, and several others whose lives become intertwined in various unexpected ways.

2009

Whistling after Dark

Whistling after Dark 2009

1

Kuroshi Mayama, age 14, lives alone with his mother Namiko. Though he was just under the age of one when he came to this town with his mom, he remembers everything from that day: Gettings on the bus in his mom's arms, an old woman who spoke some words to him, and the encounter with a poet... One night, with Kuroshi's birthday approaching, Father shows up unexpectedly. He insists that he and Kuroshi's mother had made an arrangement – that Kuroshi was to live with his mother until his 15th birthday and then live with his father. As Kuroshi's world gets turned upside down, his family, the people around him and even himself start to change.

2009

Coping Mechanism

Coping Mechanism 2021

1

No doubt negative enery is going to accumulate in my body today, tomorrow and the day after. When that happens, I'll have my own way of release.

2021

The Yellow Ball

The Yellow Ball 2015

1

A mysterious yellow ball falls down into the present city across time and space. It involves many people and unfolds various dramas.

2015

Munashiidake

Munashiidake 2013

1

A story of a married couple, Koji and Shizuko. They have purchased a piece of land to build their new home after being married for five years. Despite Koji's excitement. Shizuko stays calm. One day, Koji receives word that Shizuko has been in an accident. She was found with an unknown man when she was supposed to be traveling with her friends...

2013

藝大の怪談

藝大の怪談 2021

1

In a situation where location shooting was difficult due to the Corona pandemic, four omnibus horror films that could be shot in the school were planned as the graduation project for the technical area students. Four horrific events with completely different themes and stories take place.

2021

Beyond the Night

Beyond the Night 2019

1

Brooding outsider Mikiro catches Sotoko just as she reaches a breaking point in her claustrophobic rural life. Their encounter introduces an eroticism with a violent edge that threatens to slash apart her toxic marriage with the abusive Atsuya and his web of small town corruption.

2019

A brightening life

A brightening life 2010

6.00

It’s an underground world. Up on the ground there are many people coming and going. There lives a garbage bag. . . underground. He has no work, no home and no family. This is a story in which a dirty black garbage bag gains a new life through. . . various experiences.

2010

Shing Shing Shing

Shing Shing Shing 2012

6.00

High school student Tomoyuki (Hoshi Ishida), his father (Kazuhiro Sano), and Yuki (Miwako Wagatsuma), a girl that Tomyuki likes, gather together as a family and performs road shows out of their truck. A sense of loss, farewells, and relations are all brought out.

2012

Killing the Violet

Killing the Violet 2023

1

On a normal day, a stranger breaks into Sumire's apartment and assaults her. Sumire reacts incredibly calmly to the incident, but she still feels the dangers and uncertainties creeping upon her. All that seem to be peaceful and ordinary start to collapse. As everything slips toward the unexpected, Sumire starts writing again, and reinvestigating the relationships around her.

2023

Beautiful New Bay Area Project

Beautiful New Bay Area Project 2013

6.00

While inspecting a wharf, young Amano, president of an urban planning company, meets beautiful laborer Takako and falls in love at first sight. However, she does not return his affections, so he steals her ID card and goes on the run from the infuriated Takako.

2013

Destiny

Destiny 2021

1

Yui has become estranged from her boyfriend, who doesn't even wish her happy birthday. Her friend Aya introduces a fortune teller said to be the real deal. What does destiny hold for them? This is a romantic comedy made during self-quarantine.

2021

Invisible Monster

Invisible Monster 2013

1

Random street attacks have been occurring in a local industrial city. No similarities among the victims, no clues for a motive or the culprit's next move except for sightings of a large figure in a raincoat. On her way home, Nami encounters an attack in progess. She sees the killer eye to eye and is attacked. Tsukishima saves her in a nick of time which brings them closer. In the same city, Detective Shintaro Matsuyama is after the killer responsible for the attacks. He sees a similarity to an unsolved street attack in which his daughter was killer 15 years ago. The city becomes depressed as people are afraid of the attacks and those who try to bring justice. Nami's life grows gloomy along with her symptoms of PTSD, despite falling for Tsukishima. Then she discovers his past. Shintaro becomes emotional with revenge and begins to derail from his police work. The killer is on the loose again.

2013