Hanae Kan – MRQE

Akumu tantei 2

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A story of the unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave victims psychologically devastated.

My Small Land

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its refugee-status. Life becomes unpredictable and their days in Japan seem numbered. A haunting story about the balancing act of finding your place in the world.

Seihokusei

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Kei works at a cocktail bar, while Ai works as a model. Fearing she’ll be ostracized by society, Kei chooses not to admit her sexual orientation to anyone, and, as a result, she becomes distressed and lonely. One day, Kei gets close to Naima, an Iranian student studying art in Japan.

Kemonomichi

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Born in a small town in Japan, a young girl named Ai is sent to a cult commune by her religious maniac mother and lives there for seven long years. After the cult is exposed by the police, Ai starts a new stage of life, going to a normal school for the first time, but she cant find her place to fit in there. Ai drops out from the school and society, spending her life living with a rock-bottom delinquent family full of gangsters and call girls. In a strange twist of fate she finds herself back in a new and normal life, living with a middle-class family, but her troubled life continues to follow her into more deep and seedy paths.

Yamato (California)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sakura is a moody teenage girl who lives close to the US military base in the city of Yamato, Japan. She is struggling everyday to become a rapper like the American rappers she admires, but always gets stage fright when she sings in front of an audience. One day, her mother’s American soldier boyfriend’s daughter REI comes from California to visit her family.

Shiranai, futari

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Reon is a young Korean man. He avoids contact with other people and works as an apprentice shoemaker. One after, he sees a woman Sona passed out and sleeping on a bench in the park. Reon doesn’t know why, but he can’t get her out of his mind. Meanwhile, Kokaze works in the same shoe shop with Reon and has feelings for him.

Kiiroi namida

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke – the manga artist, Shoichi – the singer, Ryuzo – the novelist, Kei – the painter and Yuji the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom – being able to do what they want. In the process of pursuing their dream they learn firsthand that however ideal it may seem, its not as easy as they think.

Shissô

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.

Jam Films 2

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jam Films 2 features 4 short films by different Japanese directors.

Dare mo shiranai

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.