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- Toru Nishikawa is a university student. One day, he picks up a gun on the riverside and takes the gun home. He is excited and thrilled by having the gun. Toru is attracted to Yuko Yoshikawa who attends the same the university. A detective suddenly visits Toru and he is driven into a corner. He makes a decision.
- Following an end-of-term school ceremony, the American boy Bobby decides to go with his friend Akkun into the mountains outside their village, to a place perfect for a secret base. On the way they stop into a mysterious amusement park. They have fun there, but are attacked and cannot leave.
- In the not distant future Japan has again experienced a nuclear incident and is gradually becoming uninhabitable. The entire population has to evacuate before being deluged by radiation poisoning. To achieve this a ticketing system has been implemented. Not prioritized is an immigrant to Japan whose closest friend to begin with in the dying country is not even alive.
- Grade-school student Yusuke's winter break is neither typical nor of what every teenager his age dreams. Having been raised and lived in the city, his father's suggestion that he spends the school break with grandparents on the farm in a village is daunting. It is all so different, new and difficult. Is there a valuable or lasting lesson here for his family and him?
- It is the anniversary of the death of the wife and mother of an Okinawan family and the Shinjos have congregated back on the island. It is time to honour the dead by practicing the ritual bone washing, which involves the exhumation of the corpse and the washing of the bones. It is imperative to say farewell properly and come to grips with the dismal loss of a loved one. Along with the ritual comes the travails, challenges and circumstances of the family.
- Kouta Noda is a 2nd grade high school student at a village. A transfer student, Tendo, from Tokyo becomes Kouta's classmate. Tendo has a mysterious mood. The two teens becomes friends and spend time having fun, but, one day, one of Kouta's friends disappears. There is a local village legend that one kid will disappear every 100 years.
- Takako is a beautiful designer in her thirties and has been in love before only to get burned. She is intent on marriage and registers herself on a site for marriage. Keiko takes an interest in Takako's aspiration and intent, but is having relationship problems too. Takako and Keiko end up quarreling. The film is inspired by the comic series.
- They seem to be a perfectly happy family...but it's not.
- A love story that depicts love with artificial intelligence, filmed with smartphones. Haruka Hoshino, a dreamer who wants to have her own store, continues to apply for recruitment at a well-established Western confectionary shop, but only notification of rejection is received. One day, a spam mail arrived, Haruka invited by the phrase "Your dreams come true" that was written there, installs AI (artificial intelligence) equipped call type application.
- Family restaurant employee Norio Yamakawa is a 45-year-old virgin. He has a hard time adjusting to society and he keeps himself in his own world. He is a big fan of AV actress Rio Onda. She appears in front of him.
- Nori moves to Gunma Prefecture and begins attending a new high school. At his new school he is teased by his classmates who love their hometown. One day, he falls in love with Kyo.
- Keitaro is the leader of the Masuyama Psychic Bureau. His team and he deploy their special powers to solve riddles and tackle crime. Atsushi, who is one of the psychics, comes across Aoba when he is handing out flyers one days and it is love at first sight. Aoba also has psychic powers unbeknownst to him. The woman, however, is soon connected to crimes and falls under suspicion.
- Upon encountering a prostitute in an elevator, a Japanese psychologist living in the United States begins examining and questioning her in his head. The woman recounts stories of arson, being bullied at school, losing her parents, losing her husband to infidelity and matters getting out of control.
- Set following the Fukushima nuclear disaster of Japan Watabe is a university student studying law. He cannot adapt to university, campus life, is weak and not determined. He is, however, followed by a fat girl who herself is having issues. She is being teased and bullied. Then Watabe chances upon Nako and his heart flutters at her appearance and demeanour.
- Masayoshi, a first Maxman, is working in New York City in USA. He and Hiro, the grandson of the Maxman author meet and return to Japan. They meet the second Maxman. Elsewhere, Kaho's father is arrested due to a nefarious plot, which forces her to step away from her superstar activities. She is about to renounce her father when she herself is kidnapped.
- 60 year old single woman Yoshie Sano is arrested on the charges of murdering three men. The three dead men were good looking men in the 20s, 30s and 40s. Yoshie claims that the three men loved her, and killed each other due to their entanglement in a four-way affair. New lawyer Ayako, who is in charge of the case, doesn't believe her defendant at first, but with repeated interviews she notices a strange charm.
- An abandoned school has become a film set. There is a rumor that various strange phenomena occur there due to the curse of a student who was harassed, locked in the basement and disappeared without a trace.
- Aboard a cruise ship heading from Taiwan to Ishigakijima, a young Taiwanese man (Yenda Chen) is staring at a letter as he ponders to himself, "Am I the chosen one?" Set in Ishigakijima, Okinawa Prefecture, one of the "Top 3 Star-gazing Sites" in Japan, this film is a heartwarming comedy of how an insecure young man's destiny begins to change because of a message found in a bottle by the seaside.
- Hold My Hand is the last script that actor / playwright Masayuki Imai wrote before he passed away of cancer on May 28th, 2015. The script almost prophesied his imminent death as he had originally written it with him going to Heaven. It was his wish for his mentor Yoko Narahashi to direct this film on his behalf. They discussed the film before his passing and decided to keep the main character alive. So with the help of all those he was friends with, we entered principle photography on Sept. 25, 2015. It is actually a cameo filled film of many artists who have offered to pitch in. We intend to release it in Japan on May 28th in commemoration of his first memorial.
- Popular Osaka-based, all-girls' idol group, NMB48 -- the third iteration of Yasushi Akimoto's highly successful AKB48 & 48 Family j-pop franchise billed as the largest pop-group in the world and heralded in Japan as "Idols you can meet" encompasses over half a dozen affiliated girl groups based in major cities throughout Japan and Asia with 300+ active female members (in addition to 300 "graduated" or retired members now ensconced in solo careers of their own) ranging in age from 11-28 -- has proven yet again that the 'triple threat', i.e., the idol who can sing, dance and now act -- is the veritable gamechanger and industry standard in the iffy world of Japanese idols and talento. Now, out with a movie of their own, NMB48 is out to prove their acting chops -- i.e., as long as they get to play themselves, or characters very much like themselves. For NMB48, whose ages ranged between 14-20 in this 2013 movie, that means delimiting themselves only to roles that they can pull offf convincingly with little or no effort, never mind imagination. And in the 48-Family group world, that means high school girls playing high school girls. Enter this movie, which translates to "NMB48 Entertainers! The Movie: high school comedy girls!"