Makiko Watanabe – MRQE

Saitei.

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

Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, The Lowlife shows the stories of three women who work in Japans adult video industry.

Happyend

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

A near-future Tokyo awaits destruction as the city is rocked by a series of foreshocks that predict a larger, more disastrous quake on the horizon. With the anxiety looming over them, a group of teenage best friends and musicians get into typical teenager trouble that tests the strength of their relationships.

Keiko, me wo sumasete

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

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

Ai no mukidashi

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

The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an “up-skirt” photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that’s a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.

The Calming

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A film director wanders the world alone after breaking up with her boyfriend, finally gaining inner peace.

37 Seconds

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

In 37 Seconds, 23-year-old comic book artist Yuma, physically disabled due to profound cerebral palsy and emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overly protective mother, forges her own unusual path to sexual awakening and independence while at the same time discovering love and forgiveness.

Kimi no tori wa utaeru

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

With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults lives become intimately entangled over the course of a long summer in Hakodate, Hokkaido.

While the Women Are Sleeping

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

Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest arouse the curiosity of the couple…

Starting Over

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

Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana confronts them in her yearning for love, but the world does not give it to her. With her whole life ahead of her, Nana struggles, suffers, and begins a search for the true meaning of love.

Futatsume no mado

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

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his birth, Kyoko must come to grips with her mothers terminal illness.