The Whispering Star / Hiso hiso boshi (2015)
Sci-Fi
A feminine android delivers packages to the scattered humans in the galaxy. With years to spare the android and us have time to contemplate what it is to be human.
Starring: Megumi Kagurazaka, Kenji Endo, Yûto Ikeda, Kôko Mori
Director: Sion Sono
Guilty of Romance / Koi no tsumi (2011)
Drama | Horror | Romance
A grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo – a love hotel district – a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko is a police officer called to investigate on this case, she will discover the story of two women who, despite appearing respectable on the outside have all manner of darkness hidden away.
Starring: Miki Mizuno, Makoto Togashi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Kazuya Kojima, Satoshi Nikaido, Ryûju Kobayashi
Director: Sion Sono
The Virgin Psychics / Eiga: minna! Esupâ da yo! (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
I am psychic! You are psychic! Everyone is psychic… but still virgin! Full of laughs and through the eyes of a virgin teenager who wishes to become a hero by saving the world with his suddenly acquired psychic power. Based on the comic "Minna! Esper Dayo!" by Kiminori Wakasugi.
Starring: Shôta Sometani, Elaiza Ikeda, Erina Mano, Makita Sports, Motoki Fukami, Reiya Masaki, Megumi Kagurazaka, Ken Yasuda
Director: Sion Sono
Land of Hope / Kibô no kuni (2012)
Drama
An elderly couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a small residential area. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents learn they must evacuate, but the elderly couple owns a farm, with the evacuation line draped across their front yard. The father wants to stay, but the son wants him to go. Meanwhile, the son's wife Izumi (Megumi Kagurazaka) learns she is pregnant.
Starring: Isao Natsuyagi, Naoko Ohtani, Jun Murakami, Megumi Kagurazaka, Hikari Kajiwara, Yutaka Shimizu
Director: Shion Sono
The Incredible Truth / Ren jian zheng fa (2013)
Horror
An artist named Jiajia promised to show her girl friend Wei Ling around in Japan but eventually fails to show up for no reason. After Wei Ling goes and gets accommodated in a family-run hot spring hotel of Shimizu, Jiajia's Japanese boyfriend, she begins her endless weired experience as if she's haunted, and the hotel even sinks into a series of horrible homicides, in which the victims are all family members of the Shimizu's without exception…
Starring: Christy Chung, Sam Lee, Yan Liu, Jun Kunimura, Megumi Kagurazaka, Denden, Tony Ho, Ikki Funaki, Haruna Yabuki
Director: Tak-Sam Leong
Himizu (2012)
Crime | Drama
Sumida and his schoolmate Keiko are 14 year old school kids living a dystopian existence where each of their parents' hopes and encourages them to die. Set in tsunami-hit areas of Japan about May 2011, which is used as a backdrop, the story follows roughly that of the manga of the same name wherein Sumida fights frequently with his father, is abandoned by his mother and tends to reject friendly advances of others. Eventually, he kills his father and then, assuming his life is ruined, attempts to improve society by killing "bad" people. Although not immediately obvious, what instead happens is that he attacks psychotic and violent characters, while he instead learns from Keiko and the Yakuza and people who befriended him that he himself has become "sick", eventually breaking free of the cycle of violence, but without a complete resolution of the issues raised during the movie before its end.
Starring: Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Makiko Watanabe
Director: Sion Sono
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Cold Fish / Tsumetai nettaigyo (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When Syamoto's teenage daughter is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Syamoto's troublesome daughter work at their fish store. Syamoto soon discovers the horrific truth of the seemingly perfect couple.
Starring: Makoto Ashikawa, Denden, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Hikari Kajiwara
Director: Shion Sono
