Posted by kevin at 10:33am EDT on Thursday, July 17, 2008

An ad exec named Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) is mired in depression after his girlfriend’s suicide and becomes obsessed with obtaining the same model of gun she shot herself with. In his search he crosses paths with a street gang who beat him senseless, but he’s slowly becoming preoccupied with one of their members, Chisato (Kirina Mano). Once he finally finds the gun he was looking for, he inexplicably decides to protect the gang that beat him up.
Posted by kevin at 10:24am EDT on Thursday, July 17, 2008
Filed under: Drama

With graduation on the horizon a group of high school delinquents are forced to face their impending futures. Some choose to cling on to the trappings of building up high school status while others begin to panic and choose a more drastic path. You can find the ArtsMagic trailer here.
Posted by kevin at 9:24am EDT on Thursday, July 17, 2008

Based on a 1997 television drama, Bayside Shakedown begins as a corpse is found floating in the river near Bayside Precinct. Not only that, but their own commissioner has been kidnapped. To complicate matters, The Metropolitan Police Department gets put in charge of the case over the local cops, and refuse to clue them in on any of the details of their investigation. But Aoshima (Yuji Oda) will have none of that, and forces himself into the fray; much to the chagrin of the MPD. Luckily for Aoshima, his friend Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is heading the MPD investigation, and had promised Aoshima long ago that he would do his best to use his position in the MPD to make things easier for beat cops—but will he keep his word? You can find the teaser here.
Posted by kevin at 9:05am EDT on Thursday, July 17, 2008

Based on a 1997 television drama, Bayside Shakedown begins as a corpse is found floating in the river near Bayside Precinct. Not only that, but their own commissioner has been kidnapped. To complicate matters, The Metropolitan Police Department gets put in charge of the case over the local cops, and refuse to clue them in on any of the details of their investigation. But Aoshima (Yuji Oda) will have none of that, and forces himself into the fray; much to the chagrin of the MPD. Luckily for Aoshima, his friend Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is heading the MPD investigation, and had promised Aoshima long ago that he would do his best to use his position in the MPD to make things easier for beat cops—but will he keep his word? You can find the full trailer here.