Kenji Sawada – MRQE

Ôsaka monogatari

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

Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakanas parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.

Makai tenshô

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.

Pisutoru opera

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

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

Yumeji

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

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

Tokimeki ni shisu

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

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the disturbing, compulsive story of a hit-man waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult, masterminded by the leader’s own deputy. But it is a story that is told in blocks, like the phrases in a child’s computer game, and what counts most is not the narrative but the spaces between the blocks-the gaps that are filled with undefined menaces as potent as anything in Lovecraft.