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A renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.

Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.

A Japanese merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism. His subsequent actions cause misunderstanding, jealousy and legal problems for his wife.

Six months passed since the horrible zombie attack. Chinatsu lost her voice after the incident and she now works as a waitress in Hollywood and is about to start a new life. However, real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew in Hollywood.

Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary style production of a play; Then the actual full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie.

Directors, relationships, romance, death and lives. Yuichi Kajiwara is a film director in Tokyo and struggling. He is at an impasse when he receives a requisition to shoot a music video. Aoba Harada is an actress who is dating a film director. She watches him commit suicide and stashes the body. Taro Imaizumi is a landscaping contractor and has not seen his brother in years. He receives a call from a girl who says she is dating the brother.

Haru is living a disintegrated married life with her then high school teacher, Yuichiro. After Yuichiro's sudden death, Haru meets his mistress, Shiori, who was also one of his students. Fueled by jealousy, unexpected events begin...

Director Higurashi is once again recruited to make another ambitious project: a true crime drama filmed completely remotely whilst in social isolation.

Minori is a pretty girl. She is fed up with people who care only about her appearance and themselves. She is always straight forward and angry at everyone. She is also angry at herself who cannot really change anything

Akiko who's being abused by her boyfriend, Takagi. One day, tells him that she wants to take an acting workshop to become an actress, but he calls her ugly and crazy to think of this, and continues his abuse. After the abuse has passed, she receives an email on her cell phone with the subject line "Workshop Information". Akiko takes the money she has been saving for the workshop to become an actress, and heads to the place designated in the e-mail. There, the instructor, Eno, gathers other participants besides Akiko, and they are to take part in a "hands-on" workshop where they will train for three days and two nights to make sure they kill the person they want to kill.

The youthful staff of a call girl club that caters to the elderly, said club's mature female escorts, and the ladies' lonely male retiree clients.

Like a noise rock Brave New World with echoes of Alphaville, this gorgeous black and white vision of Japan after a nuclear disaster pits chaos against control and secret agents against an oppressive government agency.

The romantic ensemble piece revolves around a filmmaker who wants to stop cheating on his girlfriends, a fan who continues to pine for an idol, and a former idol who goes to meet him, while also contemplating the true meaning of 'proper love.'

What if you could return to your loved ones after you die - but as an inanimate object?

Chapter 1: Pop idol Sakura's fanbase is steadily growing. She dreams of being the next big star. But Sakura has a problem: she is pregnant and there is no definitive father in sight. Chapter 2: Young singer Hanako is pregnant with her manager Naruse's child. She wants to keep it, he tries to push her into abortion. How will she decide? Are these seemingly unrelated chapters connected after all?

Haruko is a twenty-eight-year-old woman working at a company. She is single and longing for a man. She spends her private time at home scrolling on her mobile and drinking beer. She attends dating mixers, but makes a fool of herself and makes no progress. Her co-worker is also single and cannot offer her tips until one day she suggests Haruko download a fantasy app. The character from the app materializes in her room.

While Tokyo is selected to host for the Olympics in 2020, Shinichi, who still lives in a small town, is suddenly obsessed with the delusion of his death. He tries everything left undone but ends up with nothing. Meanwhile, his best friend returns home and knows his mother has only few months to live. The two team up for making a heroic rescue story of a fake coffee shop highjack. On action, the escape journey of Shinichi and 3 unexpected companions begins. The destination is Fukushima.