Takashi Yamanaka

An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.

Several seemingly unrelated but surprisingly intertwined tales reveal how a Japanese band that independently invented punk rock in 1975 is, 37 years later, connected to a comet that is about to destroy the world.

Ami, a Japanese backpacker, and Jimmy work together at a KTV. They bond over work and adventures, but Ami leaves suddenly. Eighteen years later, Jimmy finds a postcard from Ami, sparking a journey to Japan to find closure and reco...

An earth-quake causes a nuclear crisis in a fictive Japanese prefecture. In wake of the disaster, the members of the Ono family who reside just outside the border of the mandatory evacuation zone face uncertainty.

Hanako is looking for stability with her man. She gets dumped instead. She begins dating. Miki studied and worked hard to get to where she is and is holding down a job. They are introduced through an intermediary man

Detective Yuji Kudo drives his car to see his mother, who is hospitalized with a serious health condition. Yuji then accidentally hits a man with his car and that man dies. At the hospital, Yuji tries to cover up the death of the ...

Four orphans meet at a funeral home and none of them are sad about the recent deaths of their parents. They decide to become friends and live on their own.

The year is 2021 and years of mismanagement have left Japan a broken society riddled with poverty and underemployment. Kenji is visibly disabled and has an inferiority complex. Shinji is released from prison and has time in his ha...

In the sequel to the first part, which was released simultaneously to this film, Shinji and Kenji join a boxing club. The former is just released from a prison for young offenders. The latter has a speech disability and suffers bo...

Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a dark...

When abused children return after they went missing, their abusers find a mysterious death after 3 days. Local newspaper reporter Shunya investigates the deaths, while his girlfriend Naomi gets too close to one of the haunted chil...

Fourteen-year-old schoolgirl Tsubame is into university student Toru. She seems him in her area and really wants to be his. She struggles with how to inform him of her love. Then her stepmother becomes pregnant and she is distract...

A young man falls in love with a woman he meets at a party, but when she leaves him, he must face some uncomfortable truths.

Koji Akashi's father committed suicide. His father was a whistleblower, involving a large corporation. Koji's family now faces ruin. Kenichi Kitamura works at an orphanage. He approaches Koji. To protect the children, Kenichi does...

A couple are perfectly happy to not breed and procreate. Thus their life is a content and unselfish one. He writes and admires his wife. However, she informs him that she wants a child. They try and try, but alas are not successfu...

Young Japanese architect Tsubame has to face his family history: His Taiwanese mother took his brother Ryushin back to her home country during their childhood. In order to follow the last wish of his father, Tsubame hesitantly tra...