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- DirectorTakehiko ShinjôStarsMasami NagasawaMasaki OkadaYûki FurukawaKanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a car accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Kanna then meets Roku Akazawa, who also carries a painful experience from his past. When Roku was an elementary school student, a girl who was with him got into an accident and died. Because of that incident, Roku carries a heavy sense of guilt. Roku then tries to make Kanna feel love again.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
- DirectorShin'ichi TsujiStarsMîna TominagaBin ShimadaNachi NozawaAfter two-month-old kitten Chibi-neko is abandoned by her former owners, she is found by 18-year-old Tokio. Although his mother is allergic to cats and has a great fear of them, she agrees to let him keep the kitten because she fears he is becoming too withdrawn after failing his university entrance exams. Chibi-neko soon falls in love with Tokio. In her own mind, Chibi-neko is a small human who speaks in human words, although people only ever seem to hear her meow, and she believes that all humans were once kittens like her. A stray cat tells Chibi-neko of a paradise called Cottonland, where dreams can come true.
- DirectorShûsuke KanekoStarsEri MiyajimaTomoko ÔtakaraMiyuki NakanoSummer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend their days in the empty school. A darkness hangs over the three however: the suicide, three months earlier, of classmate Yu. Norio blames Kazuhiko for Yu's death, because it was well-known that Yu loved Kazuhiko; so Kazuhiko is cruel to Norio, and yet has bad dreams. This uneasy arrangement is exacerbated by the arrival of Kaoru, a student early for the fall - who looks exactly like Yu.
- DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsKen WatanabeTsutomu YamazakiNobuko MiyamotoA truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsNonHiroomi TosakaYoshino KimuraAbout a sad and fierce love between 14-year-old Kazuki and 16-year-old Haruyama. Kazuki lives with her mom but she doesn't like her mom's lover and feels deserted. This leads Kazuki to get into trouble.
- DirectorEisuke NaitôStarsKisetsu FujiwaraYûki FurukawaJunya IkedaNine pretty boys resist becoming ugly adults, building a robot with human intelligence to help them achieve world domination and kidnap a beautiful girl. As their robot learns what it means to be human, its creators lose their humanity.
- DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsNobuko MiyamotoTsutomu YamazakiMasahiko TsugawaIf tax evasion is an art, wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo is Rembrandt. And so, a determined taxing woman gets the tough assignment of trying to catch him.
- DirectorsHideaki AnnoShinji HiguchiStarsHiroki HasegawaYutaka TakenouchiSatomi IshiharaJapan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsFumio WatanabeAkiko KoyamaTetsuo AbeA young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsKaoru YachigusaKeiko NiitakaMasumi HarukawaA young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
- DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsNobuko MiyamotoMasahiko TsugawaRyûnosuke KanedaGoro's supermarket is not doing well; the rival "Bargains Galore" threatens his business. A chance encounter with Hanako, an energetic woman he knew in grade school, results in big retail and life changes.
- DirectorKenji YokoiStarsTomoki HiroseYûki HiyoriRin IshikawaToji is a popular high school boy who is easy to get, but difficult to keep. He will date anyone who asks him on a Monday, but is done with the person by the end of the week. Fellow student Yuzuru has broken many girls' hearts and been dumped often. Then Yuzuru becomes interested in Toji and spontaneously asks him out.
- DirectorKenji YokoiStarsTomoki HiroseYûki HiyoriRin IshikawaThe second part, the first part is Seven days Monday - Thursday. The continuation of Seryou and Shinos date week, two high school students.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsTatsuya FujiwaraAki MaedaTarô YamamotoIn the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
- StarsSairi ItôYui SakumaKentarô ItôDespite high school student Sayuri's reluctance to accept her father's fiancee and her daughter Yui, she begins to develop feelings for the girl.
- DirectorKôji KawanoStarsRei YoshiiAsami ImajukuNaomi AkimotoIchiko and Eri are two Japanese university students who are in a lesbian relationship. Ichiko comes out to her father who tells her he is also gay and her mother was a lesbian. Her best friend is gay too, though he has a female who is after him. Their liaison is very intense, but Eri suggests a temporary separation so she can concentrate on her law studies. The break from their affair is difficult for Ichiko to deal with. But Eri soon sorts out her priorities.
- DirectorKenichi YoshiharaStarsRie ImamuraLisa AkikawaMie YoshidaA fatal skin disease forces a beautiful actress to retire from the screen. She puts a sinister plan into motion to transplant her brain into her own daughter Sakura. She hears her mother's unbelievable confession of her past, tries to escape in vain. After the horrible operation, she starts a new life as a normal little girl. And she seduces the piano teacher, tries to inherit her mother's properties.... Then a police detective who is suspicious of her mother's sudden disappearance starts sniffing around her...
- DirectorKatsuyuki MotohiroStarsMika AiharaYasunori DantaMasato HagiwaraA doctor loses his family and tries to commit suicide, only to be saved by a female vampire and turned into one himself.
- DirectorHiroyuki MutoStarsKlahaManaZeykhan SoyluA silent movie with a storyline similar to Bram Stoker's Dracula. It contains Japanese and English captions as dialogue. The protagonist-like character has received a letter from the Earl of Dracula who asks him to travel to Transylvania to finalize the purchase of a manor. Klaha is engaged to Cecil but must push back the wedding. Dracula imprisons Klaha and travels to London to meet Cecil. Meanwhile, the resident Vampire in London is not happy that Dracula has gone there to hunt. He wishes to thwart Dracula's wishes but is prevented by his sister the Nun who is a minion of Dracula.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsTakashi ShimuraAkihiko HirataAkira TakaradaAfter a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsTomoyo HaradaRyôichi TakayanagiToshinori OmiA high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
- DirectorToshiya FujitaStarsMeiko KajiToshio KurosawaMasaaki DaimonA young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsTatsuya NakadaiMikijirô HiraKyôko KishidaA businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.