Shinji Ozeki

Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

Der Film erzählt die Geschichte eines in Tokio lebenden US-Schauspielers, der auf der Suche nach einem Sinn in seinem Leben ist, bis es ihm gelingt, einen ungewöhnlichen Job an Land zu ziehen. Für eine japanische „Rental Family“-Agentur schlüpft er in unterschiedliche Rollen und spielt als Familienmitglied den Sohn, Ehemann oder Vater. Während er mehr und mehr in die Lebenswelten seiner Kunden eintaucht und ihnen hilft ihre familiären Lücken zu füllen, beginnt er echte Bindungen aufzubauen, die die Grenzen zwischen Schauspiel und Realität verschwimmen lassen. In der Auseinandersetzung mit den moralischen Aspekten seines neuen Jobs, entdeckt er den Sinn im Leben, das Gefühl von Zusammengehörigkeit und die Schönheit zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen neu.

Japan has a conviction rate of 99.9% for criminal cases that go to trial. A lawyer (Hiroki Hasegawa) is able to defeat those odds and obtain an acquittal for his client, even though there's conclusive evidence that says otherwise. Sometimes, due to minor things, good and evil can switch sides and good people can become bad people.

Ichiro Onizuka is a skilled detective who is confined to a wheelchair after being injured in an incident that occurred right before his retirement. Armed with a detailed "city of memory" in his mind, he solves modern-day cases alongside Saki Toyama and Keitaro Jin, while recalling the cases of the past.

Krimiautor Fayard trifft in Japan auf die Geisha Tamao. Tamao wird von einem ehemaligen Geliebten bedroht, der der berühmte japanische Autor Shundei Oe sein könnte. Bald schon gerät auch Fayard in Gefahr...

Juzo Murasaki is a young man traumatized by his experience of bullying at school. He returns to his hometown and takes a job on a building site with his old nemesis Toru Akai. But Juzo's trauma has created a monster; he harbors a second personality, Neighbor No. 13, a vicious, brutal and disfigured character intent on exacting a painful revenge on his bully.

In the coastal region of Shonan, a young man enlists the help of a eccentric local pet detective to search for his missing pet cat. When the man is unable to pay for the detective's help, he joins the unusual agency to pay off the debt.

A man named Isaac (Isaku) struggles with guilt following a physical altercation that left another man in a vegetative state. A vision of Jesus appears before him, telling him to return home and seek forgiveness from the family of the unconscious man. He meets the sister of the man, who now struggles to take care of both the boy and her mother by selling her body. The realizations of cascading effects of his sin only intensify his feelings of guilt, and complicate his path toward atonement.