Kanji Tsuda

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

Dir. Shinji Higuchi, Hideaki Anno · With Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara

When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.

Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Megumi Okina, Misa Uehara, Yoji Tanaka

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

Dir. Takeshi Kitano · With Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi

The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his job to outsourcing to China, it's simply the beginning of a series of shattering incidents, leading to the implosion of the family unit.

Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa · With Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Kai Inowaki

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

Dir. Gen Sekiguchi · With Tadanobu Asano, Reika Hashimoto, Kyoko Koizumi

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.

Dir. Takeshi Kitano · With Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Ken Mitsuishi

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.

Dir. Arthur Harari · With Yuya Endo, Kanji Tsuda, Yuya Matsuura

A reconstructed girl is created from the pieces of a vampire girl's mini-butchery. Slaughter abounds as both of them pursue the same boy.

Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu · With Yukie Kawamura, Takumi Saitoh, Elly Otoguro