Yu Aoi – MRQE

Tokyo Taxi

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

One day, taxi driver Koji Usami is tasked with driving 85-year-old Sumire Takano from Shibamata, Tokyo to a senior care facility in Hayama, Kanagawa. Sumire asks Koji to make some detours. Gradually opening up to her, Sumire begins to tell the story of her grand past…

Miyori no mori (TV)

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

After being deserted by her parents, 11-year old Miyori shuts her heart from the rest of the world and denies any form of human relationships. She was entrusted in the care of her grandmother who lives near a forest. Miyori will take a walk in the forest where she felt a strong sense of loneliness in the forest which seems to have nothing. However, she soon encounters unbelievable things…

Azumi Haruko wa yukue fumei

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

While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a template which is painted on each wall of a small suburban town.

Wife of a Spy

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

Its 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect hes up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a game in which she enigmatically conceals her intentions.

Romance Doll

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

It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then. Well, perhaps not. Each holds a secret that even the binds of matrimony cannot untie. Sonoko does not know that Tetsuo makes sex dolls or Dutch wives. Sonoko has a secret too. She is about to tell Tetsuo what she has been hiding. Their marriage is already sexless. Will they make it?

Aru Sendo No Hanashi

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

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barely communicates with anyone except Genzo, a young neighbour. Upstream, a large bridge is being constructed. Everyone is excited, but Toichi has mixed feelings about it. One day, Toichi meets a mysterious girl. Having no family and no place to go, Toichi lets her stay with him, but this encounter starts to bring about changes to Toichi’s life.

Kaijû no kodomo

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

Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora’s special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys’ power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.

Penguin Highway

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

A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.

Tsuma yo bara no yô ni: Kazoku wa tsuraiyo III

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.

Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi

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

An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death and who has mysteriously disappeared.