Kazuko Shirakawa – MRQE

Praying Mantis (TV)

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

A man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and the woman, alive, is a hairdresser Masako. A detective in charge of an embezzlement case is tracking the whereabouts of disappeared money and suspects Masako. One year later, a real estate company president dies a suspicious death in front of Masako at her beauty salon. Was it an accidents or murder?

“Love and Life in the White”

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

Dendera

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

Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named “Dendera.” Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the villagers and their own families who left them to die.

Hikari

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

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.

Kôfuku no kane

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

Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters’ lives.

Yurisai

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sachi Hamano’s Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses seven elderly women. The film examines the ladies’ sexual desires as the man proceeds to woo each of them. Kazuko Yoshiyuki portrays one of the female residents. The film was adapted from a novel by Houko Momotani and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival.

Saraba itoshiki daichi

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

Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who lives in Tokyo, Yukio has become an amphetamine-addicted loner at odds with his family, friends and colleagues.

Danchizuma: Hirusagari no jôji

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

A working-class housewife is sexually unsatisfied by her husband. When she seeks extramarital relationships, her affairs are discovered by a brothel-owner who then blackmails the woman into working as a prostitute for her.

The Young Animals

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

Shinji, a leather jacket man on a Harley Davidson, meets Megu, who is a queen bee with followers while stopping the fight between two female groups. Megu fell in love with Shinji, but he has his eye on cute Mayo.