Director: Yoji Yamada Academy Award nomination for the best foreign language film in 2003. Seibei is a reserved low-ranking samurai, but he is involved in a dispute within the clan and must take order of his lord to kill a retainer. Director: Yojiro Takita A story of a strong samurai, who kept fighting in order to support his family. Director: Takahisa Zeze Friendship between gangster and a vampire, and their struggle to live, facing trust, love and betrayal. Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi A letter arrives from ex-girlfriend who ought to be dead. It is an invitation for New York, where she has last left him. Director: Takashi Tsukinoki The old man, who has lost his wife, finds a reason to live when a white dog suddenly comes into his life. Director: Takashi Miike A family is troubled by their newly opened hotel and their strange guests who are found dead the next morning.