A dancer girl in a touring company (Momoe Yamaguchi) meets a high school boy (Tomokazu Miura) in a port town and experiences her first love. Based on a short story by Yasunari Kawabata which has been adapted several times.

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A 16 year old girl suffers from a disease which makes sunlight deadly to her. Every day she stares out her window at a young surfer who waits at the bus stop outside her house for his friends. She develops a crush on him and the two eventually meet. Through his friendship she’s able to experience things she couldn’t have on her own.

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Four musicians start a band in a small town and struggle not to fall apart. For the first teaser, see this link. For the full trailer, see this link.

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Four musicians start a band in a small town and struggle not to fall apart. For the second teaser, see this link. For the full trailer, see this link.

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We could be buried in Yasukuni.

Um, what’s Yasukuni? A supermarket?

The Suicide Song, written by One Missed Call author Yasushi Akimoto and directed by Masato Harada, is a movie that doesn’t just belie expectations; it completely tosses them out the window.  One need look no further than the theatrical trailer to see how this was marketed as a straight-forward horror flick about a cursed song that forces people to commit suicide, but in reality it’s more of a social satire and vehicle for Jpop unit AKB48 that happens to have a horror sub-plot tying it all together. Ultimately this movie is far, far more likely to introduce people to Jpop than it is to appease horror fans. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing is up to you. Personally I had no problem with it, other than the fact that they killed off my favorite group member 6 minutes in.

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