Here’s a plot that sort of defies normal explanation. In Yoshihiro Nakamura’s Fish Story, an unsuccessful punk band on the verge of breaking up records a song in 1975, one year before the debut of the Sex Pistols. The song isn’t initially a hit, but somehow it manages to transcend normal spacetime, affecting people across several time periods. In the original timeline Earth should have been destroyed in 2012, but because of the effects of the song that fate can be delayed or even completely avoided.

The song used in the film was produced by musician Kazuyoshi Saito in a collaboration with Kotaro Isaka, the author of the original novel on which the film is based. Check it out in the first teaser after the break.

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In 1975 an unsuccessful punk band records the song, “Fish Story”. Initially it doesn’t sell many copies, but somehow it exceeds the boundaries of space-time and ties generations together, eventually saving the world in 2012. Features music produced by Kazuyoshi Saito.

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In long-time indie director Tomoko Matsunashi‘s latest offering, Happy Darts, Emiri Henmi plays a 30-year-old office lady named Minoko who punches out at 5 o’clock on the dot every evening and rushes over to the local darts bar to be closer to her current crush, the ever-so-dreamy Shinozuka (Kazuki Kato). One night she faces off against a darts prodigy named Hachioji (Izumi Mori in her film debut) and gets soundly thrashed by a large margin. Knowing that Shinozuka would soon be going to the U.K. to compete as a pro player, Minoko makes the bold announcement that she’s going to win the national soft-tip darts competition. Now with only a short time to prepare she has to get good enough to beat her new arch rival Hachioji. With her mind made up to accomplish her goal, Minako sets out to become the best dart-thrower she can possibly be.

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30-year-old office lady Minako (Emiri Henmi) bolts from work every day at exactly 5 o’clock to rush over to the local dart bar, simply to be near her crush Shinozuka (Kazuki Kato). One night she plays darts against an expert and gets soundly thrashed and embarrassed in the match. Knowing that Shinozuka has aspirations of going pro, Minako makes the bold prediction that she’s going to win the national soft-tip dart competition. However, in order to beat her rival (Izumi Mori) it’s going to take a lot of practice in a relatively short amount of time.

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In Komori Seikatsu Kojo Club, character actor Arata Furuta plays Komori; an ordinary, middle-aged business executive who’s recently begun to get fed up with people walking all over him. At home his wife and child make him out to be an idiot and at work his subordinates don’t respect him. One day while on a commuter train he reaches his breaking point as a woman makes false accusations about being groped, causing Komori to have his first violent outburst. From that point on he’s filled with an overwhelming sense of justice and becomes determined to completely rid his community of all crime. Before long, enthusiastic supporters start to idolize him and his work.

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