Hitomi Kuroki – MRQE

Môryô no hako

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A series of murders of beautiful girls occur in Tokyo not long after the end of the war. Also the daughter of a retired actress, Yuzuki Yoko, has gone missing. In the meantime, a religious cult that claims to shut away misfortunes in a box has been gaining popularity, displaying an eerie aspect. Yoko’s daughter is alleged to have been run over by a train, and taken into a research institute situated in a gigantic box-shaped building. A private detective Enokizu (Abe Hiroshi), a writer Sekiguchi (Shiina Kippei), a journalist Atsuko and a police detective Kiba each pursues their own case, and Chuzenji (Tsutsumi Shinichi), an owner of a secondhand bookshop, “Kyogoku Do” suspects that all cases are linked to the box-shaped research institute.

Hasen no marisu

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Japanese director Satoshi Isaka spins this taunt thriller about an ultra-ambitious reporter who soon finds herself on the receiving end of tabloid dirt. Popular television actress Hitomi Kuroki stars as Yuko, an ice-queen TV news editor who is approached by a mysterious man from the PTT Ministry. The man offers her proof, on videotape, that a major university is bribing a particular government official to overlook a massive media merger. The secret transaction has already resulted in the death of one investigator. Yuko promptly broadcasts the damning footage, and high-ranking bureaucrat Aso (Takanori Jinnai) is forced out of office.

Shoutai

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Keiichi Kaburagi is arrested as a suspect in a murder case and sentenced to death. He escaped from prison during the transfer, but while fleeing, he rescues the people he meets in his hiding place from the predicament. And when the rescued people realize that Kaburagi is a wanted death-row prisoner, they begin to wonder, “Is he really a murderer?”

When Marnie Was There

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there – a girl who may or may not be real.

“GTO”

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Through the introduction of his friend Danma Ryuji, Onizuka Eikichi, the former legendary bike gang member, visits Meishu Academy to tend to the trees in the garden as a part-time gardener. Learning that Yoshikawa Noboru, a student in teacher Fuyutsuki Azusas class is being bullied by Uehara Kyoko and other classmates, Onizuka befriends and saves Yoshikawa. Seeing Onizukas unprecedented but visceral, powerful response to problem solving, the schools president and principal, Sakurai Yoshiko, overrides resistance from her vice principal Uchiyamada Hiroshi and makes Onizuka a teacher. Onizuka goes on to tackle many issues as the teacher in charge of the most problematic class, Class 2-4.

20-seiki shônen: Dai 2 shô – Saigo no kibô

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

Set 15 years after “Twentieth Century Boys,” Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an attempt to stop Friend’s increasing influence over the world and continued plans to eliminate humanity, as detailed in the New Book of Prophecy.

Honogurai mizu no soko kara

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.

Sada: Gesaku · Abe Sada no shôgai

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on real-life events, this erotic thriller tells the sad and sadistic tale of a Japanese geisha whose behavior spiraled out of control.