Household X (家族X, Kazoku X) is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Kōki Yoshida. It was shown at the Forum section of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.
, 1h51 Directed byKōji Fukada OriginJapon GenresDrama ActorsMariko Tsutsui, Sōsuke Ikematsu, Mitsuru Fukikoshi Rating64% Une infirmière à domicile se retrouve suspectée de complicité après des violences commises sur la plus jeune fille de la famille où elle officie. En retraçant la chaîne des événements, une question émerge : est-elle vraiment coupable ?
, 1h35 Directed byAtaru Oikawa GenresHorror ActorsMami Nakamura, Miho Kanno, Yoriko Dōguchi, Tomorowo Taguchi, Kenji Mizuhashi Rating52% The film opens with the police investigating the murder of high school girl Tomie Kawakami (Miho Kanno). They learn that in the months following the crime, nine students and one teacher have either committed suicide or gone insane. The detective assigned to the case learns that three years prior another Tomie Kawakami was murdered in rural Gifu prefecture. Other slain Tomie Kawakami's are discovered stretching all the way back to the 1860s, right when Japan began to modernize. The detective tracks down one of Tomie's classmates called Tsukiko (Mami Nakamura), an art student who is being treated for amnesia. She has absolutely no memory of the three-month period around Tomie's death, and is starting to suspect the cause has a supernatural source. Meanwhile, Tsukiko's neighbor is rearing a peculiar baby-like creature. Over the span of a couple weeks, it grows into a beautiful teenaged girl with orange eyes responding to the name of Tomie Kawakami.
, 1h53 Directed byKinji Fukasaku GenresDrama ActorsSumiko Fuji, Kaho Minami, Masahiko Tsugawa (津川 雅彦), Mariko Okada, Takeshi Katō, Takashi Sasano Rating69% La jeune Tokiko travaille dans une maison de geisha en tant que femme de ménage, attendant le début de sa pratique de maiko (apprentie geisha). Le film dépeint en détail le mode de vie des geishas à cette époque (1950-60), montrant leurs règles, leurs amours, leurs beautés et leurs sciences humaines.
, 1h28 Directed bySabu GenresComedy, Action, Crime ActorsSabu, Tomorowo Taguchi, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Diamond Yukai, Ren Osugi, Akaji Maro Rating67% Yasuda, un homme sans cesse rabaissé, vient de se faire éconduire par sa petite amie. Aizawa, employé dans une épicerie a des rêves de stars de la musique mais tombe dans la drogue tandis que Takeda, un yakuza, rate l’occasion de se distinguer lors de l’attaque de son Boss…
, 1h30 Directed byKatsuya Matsumura GenresDrama, Horror, Crime ActorsRyōka Yuzuki, Tomorowo Taguchi Rating56% Three teenagers witness the brutal murder of a high school girl by an insane salaryman. The teenagers find themselves united by this event and become friends. Later the teenagers hold a party to take their mind off things. Their party is crashed by a local gang of thugs and one teenager finds his newly found girlfriend being raped. The teenagers deal with the thugs by using extreme violence.