Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, ...

A man, who is planning to emigrate from the country, has reached agreement with his wife to be separ...

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Ham...

It is the Edo Period. Younosuke, Nami, and Koutaro of the Hayate School and Ikkaku and Ikki of the I...

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Rajashekhar earns the enmity of his business partners when he opposes their illegal plans. Circumsta...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

As a noted filmmaker’s infidelity becomes a media firestorm, his fractured family privately navigate...

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

It’s summer, the heat is overwhelming and the weather is out of whack. A group of friends are enjoyi...

Steve Thompson is losing himself, one memory at a time. Plagued with amnesia after getting a concuss...

A young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in bot...

> Story 1: "Missing" > Story 2: "Miss Ringo" (ミスりんご) > Story 3: "Tea Brewer" (お茶をつぐ) Raita is a d...