Inabe

7.1

This short film takes place in Inabe City, Mie Prefecture and on a pig farm. Tomohiro is working when his suster Naoko returns after 17 years away with a baby strapped to her. The two are uneasy with each other at…

The Next Generation: Patlabor Dai 2 Sho

6.7

Labors are robots used in various industries like construction. With their introduction to Japan, a new type of crime became prevalent: Labor Crime. To combat this, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police created a unit of Patrol…

Otaku’s Daughter

Hirata, a bookshop manager is an “Idol” Otaku (virgin) but has a daughter Anna, whom an old school mate left to him. Although he’s not her own father, he cherishes her. For him, raising a girl means raising an…

SAYAMA Mienai Tejo o Hazusu Made

The Sayama Incident and the fallout from the botched police investigation is the subject of this film. After the brutal murder of a girl, Kazuo Ishikawa was framed for the crime by police who was targeted because he…

A Voyage of Bun-you: Vietnam and Okinawa

Ishikawa Bunyo is a famous reporter who was stationed in Saigon during the Vietnam war and stayed there in the aftermath, photographing battles and the transition to modern Vietnam. He has also documented the presence…

Nothing Parts 71

Sento Takenori, producer of Eureka, makes his directorial debut with this film set in Okinawa. A teacher named Tomokazu gets sent to prison after a confrontation with an American soldier results in death. When he gets…

Koudou no Kioku Tankou Eshi Yamamoto Sakube

Sakube Yamamoto was a coal miner and artist who captured the details of mining to leave memories to the descendants of the miners of Fukuoka prefecture so they can understand what life was like. There are interviews…

Ogiwara Ikuzou, Roku Juu San-sai

The story is about Ikuzo Ogiwara, a 63-year-old chef with a quiet sushi shop and a daughter. He’s suddenly head-hunted by a global sushi chain as head chef in their newest restaurant and he seems to be the ideal…

Hoso Dekinai Kindan Re Eizo: Gekijoban

The director of the awful Meatball Mmachine and even worse Slit-mouthed Woman Returns is back with a collection of horrible clips full of weirdoes, ghosts and loons. These clips aren’t suitable to broadcast on television,…