| JUST COMPLETED | IN POST-PRODUCTION | IN PRODUCTION | IN PRE-PRODUCTION | IN DEVELOPMENT| Director: Yoji Yamada Director Yoji Yamada of the Academy nominated “THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI” teams up the creators of the celebrated film and comes back to the screen with another samurai drama which portrays the moving story of love between different castes in the rapidly changing period at the end of the Edo era. Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of world-renowned director Yasujiro Ozu, an homage by Hou Hsiao Hsien is created. Depicting the everyday of modern Japan from his own perspective, Hou succeeds brilliantly in bringing back the spirit of Ozu. “Twenty-First Century of Tokyo Tokyo Story” Director: Ken Nika The moon only shows the same face once every nineteen years and under its last quarter takes place the mysterious incident. Starring Chiaki Kuriyama, the knock-out Go-Go Yubari in Qentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill: vol.1”. Director: Ikuo Sekimoto Based on a true story, where former Japan national rugby player Yoshiharu Yamaguchi leads the no-hope rugby club of a rundown school to national victory in just seven years. Director: Masahiro Okano 1. PRAYER BEADS / 2. VENDING MACHINE WOMAN / 3. IT’S ME / 4. REAL /5. MUSHROOM HUNTING / 6. EDDIE / 7. ECHOES / 8. CAT’S PAW / 9. APARTMENT Everyday life can easily runs into everyday horror… Director: Yojiro Takita A stunningly beautiful cyber-period action film depicts a fantastic love story set in a limbo between heaven and hell. Director: Toru Matsuura [syn·es·the·sia] n. A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.  When two people who possess the unsolved puzzle of mind meet each other one day, it leads to events of unsolved mystery and serial murder. Director: Takahiko Akiyama A two-legged remote control robot, Hinokio, come to life on screen, to depict human feelings, life and death, which makes a moving story with a positive and powerful message. Director: Shun Shioya A passionate coming of age film about a high@school student who takes the pains of life and poverty to turn them into positive energy through music. Story retold of the fate of two lovers split by the wheel of fortune. A fast pacing Ninja Action meets Romeo & Juliet. A high school girl and her friends encounters with vast numbers of evil and restless spirits generated daily by a commuter train. Live action feature, horror film of a haunted train. Written by Takeshi Furusawa who wrote Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Doppelganger”. (Principle photography to start early 2005) A half human, half monster kid, “Kitaro”, fights the evil to save human beings.  Live action, based on a popular horror animation series and characters created by Shigeru Mizuki in 1950s and have been repeatedly shown on TV afterwards. (Production to start late 2005) A boy finds a deaf, blind and numb baby fox, lost from its parents in the wilderness of Hokkaido prefecture.   The baby fox only survives for a month but receives care and love from the boy and a vet. Based on a true story, originally a documentary written by an actual vet. (Production to start 2005) The original of all fantasy novels in Japan, “Nanso Satomi Hakkenden” as the structure of the film, the story is set in the latter half of the 14th century, the age of rival warlords and warring states. Director: Kazuaki Kiriya Live action based on a 70s animation. A young man reborn as a “bio-engineered being” is involved in a bitter struggle between humankind and androids. Director: Junji Sakamoto After WW2, young musicians employed to play at the US occupation army bases find relationship they had never dreamed of during the war. Director: Tetsuo Shinohara An unfinished piano suite, and fireworks that was never launched. Miracles happen for parted lovers, when heaven and earth meet. Director: Yoichi Sai Quill, a Labrador retriever settles in with his partner and begins his life as a seeing-eye dog. Touching family drama based on a true story. Huge hit in Japan and in Hong Kong. Director: Hisashi Toma Time has stopped - until one love brought him back to life. Hawaii International Film Festival 2005. Director: Isao Yukisada A debut feature of Isao Yukisada ("Go") which finally unveils after 5 years. A young woman starts living together with a guy who has nowhere to go and a dog who forgets to bark.