INSTALL
Synopsis: After dropping school, the
seventeen-year-old Asako move to a new place with all her properties. It is in
the new environment that she encounters Kazuyoshi, a ten-year-old boy.
Conceiving that he is only a common boy, Asako is astonished after seeing his
own websites. Her view of the little boy is therefore changed and they together
work together to try to do something that they never imagined before...
ONE MISSED CALL 2
Synopsis: Amid the gloomy
rains of Tokyo in July, nursery school teacher, Kyoko, takes care of the
children in her charge. Recently, busy with her ongoing studies in child
therapy, she hasn't had time to see her boyfriend, Naoto, an aspiring
photographer. One day she decides to drop by the Chinese restaurant where Naoto
works part-time to trade a little encouragement in their mutual pursuit of their
dreams. No sooner does she arrive, than an eerie ring-tone plays on her
cell-phone. They both recognize it as the tone that heralded the "death
forecast" call scare of the previous year. They remember the incident...the
recording of one's own voice...the inevitability of the end.
It's not long
before gruesome death enters Naoto and Kyoko's world and it becomes apparent
that the curse is not ended. Reporter, Takako, has been studying the differences
between the current incident and the one of the previous year caused by Mimiko
Mizunuma's curse. Just when she thinks she's getting to the bottom of things,
she comes across Kyoko and Naoto.
Kyoko is paralyzed with fear but Naoto
promises not to let her die. Kyoko, naoto and Takako team up to find the key to
the mystery. To do so, they must plumb the deepest depths of horror and tap into
one young girl's abject misery.
SCHOLL WARS:HERO
Synopsis: A battle between
endlessly destructive students and their passionate teacher, a former member of
the Japanese national rugby team.
In 1947, a new teacher arrived at a high
school wrecked by a storm of violence. Seven years later, his rugby team pulled
itself from the abyss to become the number-one team in Japan. Behind the glory
was a story of love, tears, and daily struggles between the students and their
teacher... A true, moving story of a passionate teacher who threw his heart and
soul to rebuild a ruined school and his students who proved worthy of his
trust.
LAST QUARTER
Synopsis: On the night of her
19th birthday, Mizuki is celebrating in style at a club with her boyfriend
Tomoki. Their blissful scene is ruined by a friend who reveals that she has been
sleeping with the habitually promiscuous Tomoki, which shocks Mizuki profoundly.
After the suicide of her mother and her difficulty adjusting to her father's
remarriage, he was the only person in the world that she felt she could rely on.
Utterly dejected, she flees into the night and stumbles upon a dilapidated
estate bathed in the ethereal glow of the moon in its last quarter. Drifting on
the still air is a strangely familiar melody being played on a guitar, emanating
from somewhere inside the mansion. She follows the music inside to a darkened
room and a mysterious young man named Adam (HYDE). He claims to have written the
song especially for her even though she has never met him before. Feeling an
inexplicably strong bond to this charismatic stranger, Mizuki returns home and
collects her belongings in order to begin a new life with him but is involved in
an accident. Suddenly she finds herself back at the gates of the mansion, unable
to leave its precincts, and with no memory of what has happened or who she
is.
Hotaru, an inquisitive young girl recently discharged from hospital, is
searching for her runaway cat, followed by her reticent school friend Miura.
They enter the overgrown grounds of a deserted manor and hear piano music coming
from within, enticing Hotaru to venture inside where she discovers a solitary
young woman suffering from amnesia who claims to be awaiting the return of
someone called Adam. When Miura enters the room, they are astounded to find that
this girl can only be seen by Hotaru and is prevented by some strange force from
leaving the mansion. Together they try to discover her identity and unravel the
mystery surrounding her, and gradually come to the realization that it is all
somehow connected to the tragic past of a family who once lived in the mansion,
a rare phase of the moon that occurs only once every 19 years, and an enigmatic
musician by the name of Adam...
BEAT KIDS
Synopsis: Transfer student Eiji
Yokoyama, a young boy from the rough Kishiwada area of Osaka, is pressuredinto
the school's brass band by Nanao Kanno. Nanao is an outstanding musician, and
when she plays, she seems obsessed with creating the perfect sound. However,
there's something troubling her. Eiji is forcedinto playing the large drum, but
soon becomes a captive of its sonic boom. Nanao too is influenced by Eiji,
particularly by his big-hearted character and his natural kindness. Under
Nanao's guidance, the brass band plays well in the local competition, but soon
dissolves after Nanao comes into conflict with the band's teacher. Nqnao, who
had long been thinking about going to New York, pursues her dream and decides to
go. Inspired by Nanao, Eiji forms his own band, the BEAT KIDS. After the new
band gives an impromptu live in a park, another indie band throws down the
gauntlet...
A coming of age film filled with emotion and beat of young kids,
accompanied by the powerful music of rock.
LETTER FROM NIRAIKANAI
Synopsis: Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in
Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a cameraman. In her childhood, her
mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has not come back,
Fuki receives birthday cards from Masami every year on her birthday. On Fuki's
fourteenth birthday, Masami promises to confess everything when Fuki becomes 20
years old. After her graduation from high school, Fuki moves to Tokyo to work as
a cameraman assistant. Fuki starts off her hectic life in Tokyo, and soon, her
nineteenth birthday comes. As usual, she receives a birthday card from Masmi. A
year later...
TORA-SAN OUR LAVEABLE TRUMP
Synopsis: Rough but
good-hearted, Tora, long out in the world, hears that his parents have died. He
returns to find that his sister, now living with her uncle and aunt, is to be
married. Tora has not thought a suitable brother-in-law and the marriage is
cancelled. Sometime later when his sister is again in love, Tora is careful to
behave himself. His real reason is that he himself has fallen in love. The young
lady does not realize this and innocently announces her plans to marry another.
Tora again leaves home. Sometime later, the girl already a happy mother, she
receives a letter from Tora just to let her know he is as rough and wild as
ever.
FINAL TAKE
Synopsis: In the early 1930s, when
silent movies were being replaced by talkies, Ogura has become famous for making
popular flickers and comedies. His young assistant, Kenjiro, despises his
practice and wishes to make art films. Ogura finds a pretty candy seller,
Koharu, and casts her as a bit player. But as she ruins take after take, she
goes home and determines never to become an actress.
Kenjiro is later falsely
charge of being a communist. He learns in prison that flickers have a genuine
appeal to the masses. After release, he returns to the studio and determines to
make a flicker, entitled "Floating Weeds". At the same time, famous arthouse
director Ogata succeeded in making an actress out of Koharu. So Kenjiro has
chosen Koharu as the lead actress when the popular actress elopes with her
lover. Production goes smoothly until the final take...
WHERE SPRING COMES LATE
Synopsis: In order to
fulfill husband's dream, the whole family departed from their peaceful island,
moving towards a distant village. Their journey was exciting while troubled.
They experienced tempting city life, met strange people, and tried many fresh
things they had never touched before. However, unfortunately their lovely
daughter died on the way and their grandpa passed away soon after they arrived
in the village. It was winter over there. Everything was gloomy, covered with
snow, and so were their moods. They were desperate and giving up hope, but the
villagers offered them warm support and generous help, making them regain their
living confidence. The spring came to this village in June. Green pastures,
sweet breeze, newly born babies, kind villagers, all these were so fresh and
fascinating. To them, this was their new hometown where spring came late, but
they enjoyed the new life over there and tasted the happiness of life.
THE HIDDEN BLADE
Synopsis: In the mid-19th
century, during the final days of the Shoguns and the Samurais:
Munezo
Katagiri's home is a modest dwelling but a place of warmth and laughter he
shares with his mother, his younger sister Shino and Kie, a pretty farm girl
working as a maid.
Three years pass, in which time Munezo's mother has died,
his sister has married Samon, and Kie has married into the Iseya, a family of
oil wholesalers, and Munezo assumes she is living happily. Encountering her out
shopping one winter's day, he notices that she has grown thin and sad, and feels
a tug at his heart as he watches her walk away through the snow. Several months
later, hearing that Kie is ill, Munezo hurry to the Iseya, finds her lying
half-dead in a dimly lit storeroom and then carries her back to his own home.
Gradually she recovers, Munezo's house once again becomes a place of gaiety and
laughter. The presence of Kie in Munezo's home makes him the subject of
criticism.
However, a plot by members of the clan in Edo against its leaders
is brought to light, and fearful that this will come to the attention of the
Shogun's government, those responsible are ordered to commit suicide. Yaichiro
is also implicated, and he is 'sent down' to the clan's domain, where he is
imprisoned in a small hut deep in the mountains. Munezo and Yaichiro were two of
the best students of Kansai Toda, former fencing instructor to the clan.
Yaichiro was actually the better of the two, but for some reason Toda chose to
impart his secret 'Oni No Tsume (devil's claw)' technique to Munezo.
The end
of the samurai's world is now in sight, but that world is not yet ready to let
Munezo go free.
The Lovable Tramp
Synopsis: Gengoro, somewhat
wild but very good-hearted, makes friends with the man's wife and son. It is
while on a walk with the latter that they discover a girl about to commit
suicide. They rescue her. She stays at the man's house and Gengoro often comes
to visit. It is obvious he has fallen deeply in love with her and is arrested.
After that no more is heard of them for a time. One day, however, the man meets
her again on a train. Shortly, her husband appears. It is Gengoro
himself.