RokkÅ Toura – MRQE

The Winners

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

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.

Nihon no ichiban nagai hi

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

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor’s civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.

Natsu no imôto

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

Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.

Rakuyôju

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

Zeroka no onna: Akai wappa

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

Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician’s daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang. Agent Zero is let out of prison with the mission of going undercover to find the politician’s daughter and return her safely. Using her deadly red handcuffs, she disposes of the criminals one by one.

Hiroku kaibyô-den

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

This period thriller concerns a very famous cat known as the “monster cat of Nabeshima”. This cat, a symbol of vengeance in human disguise, takes revenge for the death of its master as well as for the corruption in the feudal system.

Mekurano Oichi midaregasa

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.

Shinjuku dorobô nikki

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

This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.

Kuroneko

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

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onry ghost.

Kôshikei

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

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

RokkÅ Toura – MRQE

The Winners

Nihon no ichiban nagai hi

Natsu no imôto

Rakuyôju

Zeroka no onna: Akai wappa

Hiroku kaibyô-den

Mekurano Oichi midaregasa

Shinjuku dorobô nikki

Kuroneko

Kôshikei

RokkÅ Toura – MRQE