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- This drama tells of the love story that develops between a surgeon and a special forces officer.
- Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.
- When a successful, but tired Tokyo-based playwright who has sworn off easy women and casual encounters takes refuge in the countryside, his plans are disrupted by a horny woman who pedals fast into his life and is unrelenting.
- Tokiko, a renowned ceramic artist, and her husband encounter Haruka, a teenage runaway, and take her into their home, where Tokiko teaches her about ceramics.
- Two teenage girls bond over drugs, partying, and music after being arrested, trying to find themselves in a difficult world.
- A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.
- Commissioned by Japan's Nikkatsu Studio to commemorate the 45th anniversary of its 'roman porno' period, the piece focuses on the has-been director who gets a variety of loose women of different means and ages to share a bed with him in order to make him feel better about himself. At the same time, his lead actress has walked out and his latest means of income is in jeopardy.
- Sakamichi Onoda, an otaku at Sohoku High School. He loves anime and games so much, that he would ride his commuter bicycle to and from Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district in a 90-kilometer (about 60-mile) round trip over steep slopes after school. Onoda's life changes when he encounters his school's cycling team, and he ends up joining the competitive sport of bicycle racing.
- A dark fantasy about life, sex, and love that depicts the tragedy of a girl who becomes a monster.
- The adventure of a young boy on board a space train, as it travels to a myriad of incredible worlds.
- There is a series of Buddha statue thefts in Kyoto. Beniko, a high school girl, gets the Buddha statue at her family's temple stolen and has her parents killed at the same time. Beniko hears from Enju, her parents'friend, that a robbery group called SEADDATTHA is the one who killed her parents, and feels the strong urge for vengeance. Enju offers Beniko to live with him since she has no place to go. She wanders into Enju's secret room and meets an ugly creature that looks like a fusion of her parents and Buddha statue...
- A kid named akagi plays mahjong for the first time and shock every one in the underworld
- A naive and passive woman's engagement to a man she meets through a matchmaking service goes awry, leading her down a spiral of confusion.
- In Osaka, three troubled young kids, Kanako, Atsushi and Kenji, are hanging out together all the time. One day Kenji who lives in an orphanage is sold to a yakuza and their friendship has to come to an end. 25 years later, Kanako is married to Atsushi who is an incompetent yakuza. They have 3 daughters. Kenji is a competent unbeatable yakuza. Atsushi, who sucks at everything, for the first time gets a dangerous mission to kill a thug who has attacked the office of his yakuza group. Kenji, who has advanced to the first lieutenant position, by mistake kills a dumb-ass son of the head of Tokyo Yakuza, which triggers a battle between Osaka and Tokyo Yakuzas. Then, Kenji meets Atsushi in 25 years.
- Call girl Saori works with handicapped customers. What initially appears as easy money becomes a very personal matter to her. THERE IS LIGHT deals with sex and physical handicaps in a very light and straightforward way. TODA's first feature film won the Grand Prix at the Yubari Film Festival.
- The Collaborator and His Family is a chronicle of family, assimilation and espionage that follows the El-Akels, a Palestinian family whose father, Ibrahim, has been a collaborator out of ideology with the Israeli security services for 20 years. Branded as traitors by Palestinians, the entire family fled to Israel seeking asylum as promised by Ibrahim's Israeli 'operator.' Over a two-and-a-half-year period, as each day passes with no progress towards citizenship, tension builds within the family. Alienated and humiliated, Ibrahim's wife Yusra, three teenage sons and two daughters bear the consequences of Ibrahim's decision while struggling to assimilate into Israeli society. Co-directors Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz gain intimate access to the hardest moments the family face, observing as each connecting thread between family members unravels. This unflinching documentary highlights the experience of the many who risk their lives to collaborate with an enemy. -
- Korean interpreter Ji-hye is still a virgin at 30, when she has to work with a randy Japanese photographer who needs translation in far too private moments. Language barriers are the source for very funny and erotic situations in this lighthearted comedy by Yuri KANCHIKU..
- Tetsu and Gumi are childhood friends. Gumi's mother believes they are a good match for her selfish reasons although they have never thought of being in a romantic relationship. Their extraordinary relationship was confirmed after the shocking event in their high school age. Since then, Tetsu traumatically has led a profligate life through giving in to women. On the other hand, Gumi helps her mother's to manage a coffee shop, and gets into chasing the perfect cup of coffee. All of sudden a lady fatefully appears and breaks their routine life.
- Takeuchi and Abe are failing TV directors. Seeking a chance to break out from their slumps they go to the Jukai. The Jukai is a vast, primeval forest that spreads out on the northwestern foot of Mount Fuji, where many have wandered in and never came back. Today it is widely known as a suicide destination. The directors stake out near the Jukai, hoping to find a prospective suicide, talk him out of it and film the whole procedure. While filming people at the abyss of life, Abe and Takeuchi both face problems at home. Through their encounters with people in the Jukai, they re-evaluate their lives and regain their confidence.
- A cowardly construction consultant and a capable yakuza enforcer reluctantly team up to uncover corruption within both the world of legitimate business and the gangster underground.