Moeko Ezawa – MRQE

Kishiwada shônen gurentai: Chikemuri junjô-hen

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

A Takashi Miike film that is, to a degree, autobiographical– Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day, Ryoko gets a job in a hair salon, while the two boys settle down into a career of enforcement and protection.

Hebi ichigo

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

A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.

Sakuya: yôkaiden

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

The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the young daughter of a samurai killed fighting these demons, accepts a mission to travel to Mt. Fuji and defeat the evil spirits. Accompanying her on her journey are two veteran warriors who served her father, and Tar, a young kappa, or river spirit, whom she has adopted as her little brother. Along the way, the two warriors have doubts about Tars loyalties, and the young kappa himself must decide if he will stand with his own species or with the humans who have cared for him.

Nichiyobi wa owaranai

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

Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy regarding redundancy. However, Shinobu soon gets remarried to Sakamoto depriving Kazuya of a place to stay. He then meets Sachiko who works in a salon where sexual pleasure is offered to men. They promise to have a date on the next Sunday by the sea.

Minnâ-yatteruka!

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

While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru

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

A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in ’90s Tokyo.

Rônin-gai

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

Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo’s red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel from a hostile militia bent on wiping out local prostitutes.

Sengoku jieitai

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

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country’s warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.

(Maruhi) shikijô mesu ichiba

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

A strong-willed young prostitute, her developmentally challenged brother, and her aging prostitute mother attempt to survive in 1970s Osaka.

Yakuza kannon: iro jingi

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

Monk Seigen saves Misako the daughter of an area Yakuza boss from some tough guys. The two become a couple and find themselves being pursued by some criminals. Seigen plunges deeper into a life of crime and sin.