Reiko Kataoka

As if bullied by her classmates everyday is not enough, Nozaki finds her house burnt to the ground and her parents dead. Knowing that the fire is not an accident, she sneaks off to punish those responsible one by one.

Soon after the disparate yet compatible Naoya and Katsuhiro start to settle into a relationship, a slightly unhinged young woman named Asako asks Katsuhiro to father her child.

A revenge-seeking man and his foolish friends plan to rob a yakuza gang.

Twenty-eight-year-old office lady Teruko is head over heels with Mamoru. The sting of love is so strong that she has all but ignored her friends, home and work. Her family and friends are indifferent when she loses her job. Yet, M...

In the fictional Tokyo suburb of Mahoro, Tada Keisuke works as a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. One day in January, former classmate Gyoten Haruhiko appears unannounced. Back in their schooldays Haruhiko was a quie...

The story of two young hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin, and her two female friends. Everything seems to work, until the day Shin declares he's in love with Tatsuro.

Toko Suguri is married and they have a lovely daughter. She doesn't have any major problems in her life. One day, Toko Suguri meets her former lover, Akihiko Kurata, at a friend's wedding. They haven't seen each other in ten years...

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...

Aspiring journalist Masuda is working a menial job where he grows suspicious of the loner and mysterious Suzuki. Masuda decides to write an article on his co-worker and new acquaintance whom he comes to suspect is a long-lost murd...

(Japanese with English subtitles) Part revenge story, part existential meditation, Heaven's Story is 100% modern epic, gracefully threading together multiple suburban tales of lost souls seeking retribution and redemption.

Kengo Yatabe's mother dies and his father is in a coma. He, like his father, was good at kendo. Those days are long gone and he now lofts around as a security guard and generally wastes time. Meeting the young Tooru Kengo is inspi...

Whose baby? The big question is distinctly and grippingly explored through a contemporary Japanese lens.