Masterpieces by Popular Japanese Actors & Directors

Struggling with writer’s block, screenwriter Yuji Yokota receives an anonymous email mentioning “regressive sleep.” Using this, he travels 30 years back to inspire his younger self to become successful. Though surprised by how different he is from his ideal self, young Yokota follows his future self’s advice. With help from theater friends Minei and Nakamura and fan Asami, he starts down a new, branching path. By letting his past self choose roads not taken, the story moves beyond reflection toward a dramatic climax. Can Yokota change his future?

Hajime Motegi, a real estate worker, lives with his wife Mitsu; they have no children. One day he spots her in town dressed unlike herself, yet she later insists she never went out. Doubt takes hold, and Hajime installs hidden cameras at home. As unsettling encounters with those around him blur his judgment, he begins to justify the surveillance. When he decides to follow Mitsu, a strange boy starts tailing him—and Hajime soon sees a woman who looks just like her meeting someone…

Since entering university, Yamato Inada has quietly harbored feelings for Hina Shabana. Mustering his courage, he finally confesses to her—but little does he know, that confession will open the door to a world beyond his imagination. Hina, as it turns out, is a yokai hunter—one who protects humans from supernatural creatures. Yamato is suddenly pulled into this dangerous realm, where attacks by death gods and yokai are part of everyday life. Along the way, they encounter others from this strange world, including the money-hungry yokai hunter Subaru Ikami and a fox shrine maiden. Thus begins the extraordinary adventure of Yamato and Hina.

Painter Michio Enomoto has never found success and makes a living working part-time as a garbage collector, yet he’s content with his life. After a chance meeting, Sachi Tomita tells him she loves his paintings, and the two begin a relationship. Their happiness awakens in Michio a desire for artistic success he’s never felt before, but his work still won’t sell. One day, overwhelmed by frustration, he goes out on his garbage route and discovers a discarded abstract painting—wild and aggressive, nothing like his own style.

Actors Bob Suzuki and Masatoshi Kihara are senior and junior at the same agency. Bob, a seasoned actor with countless credits, watches former peers find success and begins to question where he stands now that he’s past fifty. Wanting to change, he realizes he doesn’t even know how. Kihara, though praised for his acting, is only cast in low-budget productions. When his wife asks, “When will you make it?” he has no answer, and time quietly slips by. Despite the age gap, the two share the same frustration and struggle side by side, yet nothing changes. Life goes on, indifferent to their efforts.

Under the blazing summer sun of Oshima, Izu, novelist Kazuki unexpectedly takes charge of a guesthouse. When he welcomes Tokyo tourists Reiko and Yuka at the harbor, he’s instantly drawn to Reiko, who uncannily resembles his ex. At the same time, Yuka makes her interest clear, openly flirting with him.

Ami leaves for Tokyo, vowing not to return home until a film she stars in is shown in Fukui. But the city wears her down, her acting dream remains out of reach, and she eventually drifts back to her hometown.

Hitomi ends up preparing for a girls’ night with Ai and Rui. When Rui doesn’t show up, Hitomi complains, only for Ai to tell her Rui is right there. Hitomi, who’s been ignoring Rui, can no longer see her. Left behind when Ai goes shopping, Hitomi is forced to prepare alone with the invisible Rui, growing increasingly uneasy that she might be getting set up for revenge.

The company, once thriving with around 200 young employees, fell apart when doubts arose. Driven by fear and despair, the staff carried out a mass suicide. Hoichi, one of the few survivors, was placed under police protection and forced to take part in the city’s exorcisms. With no memory of life before the incident, he is guarded by a colleague who is also his attached spirit, protecting him from a mysterious female ghost obsessed with him — all while questioning their own relationship. Will this “undercover investigation” ever end…?

A story about the black-and-white world created by a man.

A story of a couple on a certain holiday. The work was created with the hope of depicting the delicate and soft parts of the heart that each person carries, like a scene from an old landscape. Through the beautiful waterside scenery, the audience is invited to feel the "difficult-to-put-into-words emotions" that can be glimpsed between their casual exchanges.

The girls' punk band "Punk Strike," abbreviated as "Panst," is a four-member group formed by childhood friends who grew up in Chichibu. Ten years after forming, their audience size has grown steadily, and while traveling for their first national tour, they get lost on a mountain road. A quarrel over which direction to take soon shifts into a discussion about differences in the band's vision, putting the band on the brink of breaking up...! A coming-of-age film about a youthful punk band approaching their thirties.