Tetsushi Tanaka
A young man fights for his freedom after he is accused of groping a girl on train.
Director: Masayuki Suo
Actors: Ryô Kase, Asaka Seto, Koji Yakusho, Koji Yamamoto, Masako Motai
An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents must evacuate, but the family lives on a farm, with only half of the area designated as an evacuation area...
Director: Sion Sono
Actors: Isao Natsuyagi, Naoko Ôtani, Jun Murakami, Megumi Kagurazaka, Yutaka Shimizu
This small scale character drama follows two young women and a sex date. What follows is a classic love triangle.
Director: Isao Yukisada
Actors: Kumiko Aso, Tsugumi, Masatoshi Nagase, Hirofumi Asamoto, Kaori Kawamura
Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Momotaro, proficient in academics and martial arts becomes good friends with Hidemaro an underachieving weakling. Omito Date, former student leader, plans his revenge against his former school. Now leader of an evil army from rival Kanto Gogakuren school he fully intends on taking over Otokojuku.
Director: Tak Sakaguchi
Actors: Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Go Ayano, Shôei, Hiroyuki Onoue
The life of a student named Kanou is transformed when a tiny man informs him that Earth will soon be annihilated. Kanou decides to do just as he pleases with the time he has left, leading to strange adventures that could be real -- or just a dream.
Director: Eiji Uchida
Actors: Jyonmyon Pe, Chieko Imaizumi, Yûko Hosoe, Maki Kuwahara, Sora Tôma
Due to the high suicide rate among youths in Japan, the government implements experiments to uncover the causes behind the high suicide rate. Children are selected and placed in a YSC facility under constant surveillance. At the age of 10, the children are then give a detonator with a red switch. They are told if they press the switch they will die immediately. Most of the children under the experiment, eventually presses the switch and dies. After the completion of the experiment 6 kids remain who did not press the switch. The 6 kids are; strong-minded Masami, weak Naoto, hot-tempered Hiro, impulsive Ryota, wheelchair bound Kimiaki and Aiko who is always thinking of her parents. These 6 kids survived even though they were pressured by project manager Tsukuda to press the switch.
Director: Ryô Nakajima
Actors: Keisuke Koide, Erena Mizusawa, Kazuma Sano, Shinjiro Atae, Rio Kanno
Movie based on the Emergency Interrogation Room series.
Director: 常廣丈太
Actors: 天海祐希, Tetsushi Tanaka, Fumiyo Kohinata, 速水もこみち, 鈴木浩介
A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the truth. He goes to see serial killer Yoshiharu Urano in prison.
Director: Hideo Nakata
Actors: Yudai Chiba, Mai Shiraishi, Hiroki Suzuki, Takuma Otoo, Noriko Eguchi
"Our War" is a special drama produced by Japanese TBS TV. This is the third bomb of the war-themed TV series after the "Song of Sugarcane Field" and "Guangzhou·Showa August 6th, 20th." It is said that in 2005, young people from the end of the island, Kenji and Showa’s 19-year-old pilot, Shi Tingwu, changed their identity because of time and space, and then used their respective perspectives to look at the Pacific War and the youthful story of peaceful modern life.
Director: Fuminori Kaneko
Actors: Mirai Moriyama, Juri Ueno, Kenta Kiritani, Tetsushi Tanaka, Tetsuji Tamayama
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where he's staying, Yukawa begins to unravel the connections that tie the victim to the activist daughter of the innkeepers, and a precocious boy who first appears on a train—and keeps popping up. It's a Sherlock Holmes mystery with an environmental twist, and one that should please fans of a classic whodunnit.
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani
Actors: Masaharu Fukuyama, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Kazuki Kitamura, Anne Watanabe, Jun Fubuki
Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD.
Director: Sion Sono
Actors: Tetsushi Tanaka, Yûna Natsuo, Joe Odagiri, Jun Murakami, Miwako Ichikawa
Director: Meiji Fujita
Actors: Masakazu Tamura, Kimiko Yo, Yasunori Danta, Yuya Tegoshi, Kie Kitano
Ataru, who suffers from “savant syndrome,” has the power to discover, observe, see through, and deduct microscopic evidence of unsolved cases. Why does he always go to the criminal sites? What explains his strange behavior? Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds with Ataru and a woman named Madoka, who is a killer. The woman possesses the same extraordinary memory and deductive reasoning abilities as Ataru. Who is she?
Director: Hisashi Kimura
Actors: Masahiro Nakai, Kazuki Kitamura, Chiaki Kuriyama, Yuta Tamamori, Maki Horikita
A child disappears from home and there is no explanation. The girl's parents search for her endlessly, to no avail. One day, the mother finds a large doll on the market that helps her compensate for the pain of losing her daughter. But it’s not just any doll. When the mother becomes pregnant again, the doll shows signs of life. But the new child and the doll will form a bond that not even temple rituals can erase.
Director: 矢口史靖
Actors: 長澤まさみ, 瀬戸康史, Tetsushi Tanaka, 安田顕, Jun Fubuki
Five short stories from five different directors set ten years in Japan's future.
Director: Yusuke Kinoshita
Actors: Satoru Kawaguchi, Jun Kunimura, Hana Sugisaki, Chizuru Ikewaki, Taiga Nakano
TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with his life and a patient who has been told he has little time left to live, as they travel around the world in search of answers to the eternal questions of what people live for and what they leave behind.
A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his son Tamio, are unable to mature, unable to break the parent-child roles, have no sense of responsibility, and keep holding on to the past. The pair is overwhelmed by all the colorful characters around them telling them what to do. They go to strenuous and humorous efforts to make Tamio’s wedding an event to remember.
Director: Ryo Iwamatsu
Actors: Joe Odagiri, Kumiko Aso, Kaoru Kobayashi, Manami Fuji, Kyuzo Kawabe
After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that her husband had lived a double life. Struggling between her anger and the chance to begin a new chapter for herself, she finds her life moving into unchartered waters as she faces her 60th birthday.
Director: Junji Sakamoto
Actors: Jun Fubuki, Yoshiko Mita, Haruko Kato, Tetsushi Tanaka, Akira Terao
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Actors: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yoko Maki, Lily Franky, Keita Ninomiya
Kaburagi (Ryusei Yokohama) was arrested as a suspect in a brutal murder case, but he escapes. He continues to hide and move all around Japan. During this time, he meets Sayaka (Riho Yoshioka), Kazuya (Shintaro Morimoto) and Mai (Anna Yamada). Detective Matanuki (Takayuki Yamada) is on the trail to capture Kaburagi. He interrogates the people who met Kaburagi, but they all describe Kaburagi differently from each other. Kaburagi has been missing for 488 days. Who really is Kaburagi? What is his plan?
Kae Horii (Erika Sawajiri) moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a inconspicuous mirror. In that compartment, Kae finds a notebook, that turns out to be a diary belonging to the previous tenant. Later that evening Kae starts to read the diary. The writer of the diary is Ibuki Mano (Yuko Takeuchi), a young lady about to embark on her first year as an elementary school teacher. Ibuki is also in love with a man named Takashi, who may or may not hold similar feelings for Ibuki. The diary immediately resonates with Kae, as she plans to become an elementary school teacher herself. Ibuki’s experiences also works as an inspirational instructional guide for Kae’s own personal life. Kae is also in love with an aloof illustrator/artist (Yusuke Iseya), who may or may not hold similar feelings for Kae.
Director: Isao Yukisada
Actors: Erika Sawajiri, Yusuke Iseya, Yuko Takeuchi, Yuka Itaya, Masaya Kikawada
The movie consists of 4 stories each telling how people survive on life-death choice. The story titles are: Cheering Girls, Boy? meets girl., Claim Night! and The House Full Of 'Abandoned' Businessmen.
Director: Gen Sekiguchi
Actors: Nanami Sakuraba, Emiko Kawamura, Kumiko Shiratori, Tomoya Nakamura, Seminosuke Murasugi
New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they have seen new transfer student Kanji in a dream. Yuiko Koto also had a night mare. In her nightmare, a boy that looks transfer student Kanji appeared as a prince. Ayami Mutoi tries to keep that to herself. She actually likes the prince in her dream.
Director: Noriyoshi Sakuma
Actors: Keiko Kitagawa, Manatsu Kimura, Gackt Camui, Kenji Anan, Shiho Fujimura
After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own, it is four years before the authorities catch up with her and the young child.
Director: Izuru Narushima
Actors: Mao Inoue, Hiromi Nagasaku, Eiko Koike, Yôko Moriguchi, Tetsushi Tanaka
Shing is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of vocal cord doping. His voice is now teetering on the edge, due to side effects from the vocal cord doping. Around this time, Shing meets Fuuka who is a street musician. When Fuuka sings, her vice is so small. Due to Fuuka, Shing looks back upon his past.
Director: Satoshi Miki
Actors: Sadao Abe, Riho Yoshioka, Yudai Chiba, Kumiko Aso, Eiji Kotoge
The ST team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department consists of eccentric members. Some members do not cooperate with others and others do not reveal themselves in front of others. With Samon as the leader of the ST team and young Inspector Tomohisa tasked with managing the team, the ST (Scientific Task Force) attempt to solve the most difficult of cases.
Director: Tôya Satô
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Masaki Okada, Mirai Shida, Sei Ashina, Masataka Kubota
Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls’ bar. Shinji is blind in one eye and ekes out a living as a construction worker. Young and grown-up at the same time, they both lead a lonely existence, but somehow their paths keep miraculously crossing under the Tokyo sky. Can loneliness be experienced together?
Director: Yuya Ishii
Actors: Shizuka Ishibashi, Sosuke Ikematsu, Ryuhei Matsuda, Mikako Ichikawa, Tetsushi Tanaka
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Actors: Erika Toda, Ryô Kase, Raita Ryu, Kazuki Kitamura, Chiaki Kuriyama
A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has died and is now confined to a realm of restless spirits.
Director: 藤井道人
Actors: 長澤まさみ, 坂口健太郎, 横浜流星, Nana Mori, Tetsushi Tanaka
A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.
Director: Nobuhiro Doi
Actors: Kasumi Arimura, Shūhei Nomura, Atsushi Ito, Yo Yoshida, Tetsushi Tanaka