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Under Professor Furuchi, Kawano has been engaged in the development of a new vaccine against the unidentified substance which fell from outer space. People infected with it begin to attack other human beings for blood. The one and only way to prevent the attacks of the infected people is getting vaccinated and becoming one of them. Kawano has volunatrily chosen to be infected for absorbing in the research. His girlfriend Taeko is worried about him and visits the laboratory. She tries to rescue Kawano in cooperation with his friend Sawamura, a medical practitioner in town: meanwhile, the mysterious black substance has started pouring down from the sky...
Oct 2007
One day a girl notices a distortion in her surrounding environment, which prompts her to start searching for her own connection with the world. But, the distortions become even more extreme. She wonders if the deviation is happening within her, or in the outside world.
Feb 2019
How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.
Mar 2021
At the waterside surrounded by factories and waste lives a white frog. It loves a goldfish who also lives in the neighbourhood. Recently the goldfish appears to be in poor health, which worries the frog.
Mar 2014
Once we used to be happy and grateful for the pure act of eating.
Mar 2017
There's a young couple, Haruka and Kenji. One day, Haruka gets disappointed in Kenji, and runs away with their son, Takuya. They forward to Kenji's friend, Mitsuru's house. Yet, Haruka asks her mother, Kiyoko to take care of Takuya, and starts her job hunting, since she can't get along with Mitsuru. On the other hand, there is another young couple, Takuma and Kana. Even though, they look happily married for two years, Takuma hides a secret from Kana. One day, Takuma's co-worker, Akita comes to Takuma's house. Akita suddenly tells one secret to Kana while Takuma is not around. Shocked Kana attempts to reveal the secret on Takuma's way home.
Mar 2012
It consists of only woman who keeps caressing a resisting cat.
Mar 2015
Story of a girl’s imagination. ‘Googuri Googuri’ is a made up word, a secret word shared by a girl and her grandfather. For the granddaughter, her grandfather is at times like a mountain, at times like a tree, at other times like an ocean, and her thoughts take wing into her imagination endlessly.
Jan 2010
Self-replicating entities that have evolved on different planets merge and proliferate exponentially. In search of more energy sources, they consume other stars.
Shot while the director was still in college, the film is a remake of the Russian film of the same name. The man's dead ex who had committed suicide appears in front of him. The ghost has a cross-like scar on her wrist.
Jan 2007
Mari's quiet everyday life falls apart when she meets a mysterious boy. Her uncle returns after a long absence and tells her that earth is under alien control and that Mari is half human and half alien, while the strange boy confesses that he is trying to escape because he has stolen the key to liberate human beings from Mari's alien uncle. Mari, who only half believes their stories, meets her sister though she is not supposed to have one. Where is Mari heading for in her upside-down life?
Dec 2008
The story about a Palestinian girl who feeds animals at the zoo.
How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.
Various visions of life and death, as seen from an operation table. Did the operation succeed ? Is the patient still alive ?
Yui has become estranged from her boyfriend, who doesn't even wish her happy birthday. Her friend Aya introduces a fortune teller said to be the real deal. What does destiny hold for them? This is a romantic comedy made during self-quarantine.
A young couple's announcement of their engagement to their friends is followed by a series of interactions and conflicts that forces everyone to reflect on their lives.
Nov 2008
In a land where there are no enemies or allies is a lone soldier. He spends his days sculpting wood with his bayonet. And then one day, out of the blue, an enemy stands before him.
‘Mrs. KABAGodZILLA had a daughter whose feet and arms looked just like her own.’ Mother and child were always together, but the mother's hospitalization makes the daughter remember the past, and think a little about what lies ahead.
A subtle and softened x-ray tinted journey through an opaque, undescribed stratosphere.
One day a girl and a boy set off to reach their ideal place. However, the girl comes to realize that the place they had arrived was not what she had really wanted. As the scenery around them changes, they find their minds too exist in gradations.