Chie Tsuji

Love Is Better the Second Time Around

Journalist Akihiro reunites with Takashi, his high school love, now a professor. Old emotions resurface as they navigate between professionalism and the past.

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Takeda plays a family woman whose prior experience as a Special Assault Team member comes in handy when she's called back into action to investigate a criminal organization.

Tamatsuki no Yume

All the Kindness of a Man is a Motive

Miko Uda works as an attendant for a merry-go-round at a shopping mall and as a mascot. Miko believes in people to the utmost but has been rejected by every man she has ever given herself to. Unable to become the only one for someone, Miko spends her days alone on the merry-go-round.

A Tale of the Riverside

Honey & Lemon

Sae is quite nasty towards her mother. Life is not easy during puberty. But what if something bad suddenly happened?

Hold Your Hand

Based on the manga of the same name by Mamora Goda, a manga artist known for works such as Kirakira Hikaru, this human drama depicts a father who has no interest in his daughter and a daughter who has forgotten her father.

Wish on a Cocktail

Hozumi is a widower. He meets the Kondos at a bar, and is intrigued when they make a wish before drinking their hoppy cocktails. Hozumi decides to give it a shot. He makes a beautiful wish that touches the young couple's hearts.

Cinderella Girl

Otowa had one leg amputated at the age of 12 due to illness, since then, she has been in and out of the hospital repeatedly, and was unable to attend her middle school graduation ceremony. To make up for this, her classmates threw a surprise graduation ceremony for her on the hospital rooftop, the video of the ceremony goes viral on social media, after that, Otowa began receiving modeling offers…

Watashi ga Watashi de Aru Basho

Japan has an estimated 24000 actors and talents working in the media, mostly playing nameless roles in independent films. A large portion of these actors are unrecognized by the general audiences and not even listed in the talent directories. This documentary provides an intimate look into the lives of these actors, the aspirations behind their dreams, and the challenges they face in the film industry. The subjects in this film are the actors who appeared and participated in the audition of Takaomi Ogata's movie "Cinderella Girl."

Unprecedented

It is impossible to comprehensively map the ultimate extent of the damage wrought by the waves of the corona pandemic in all the layers of the society. It does not, however, require a lot of guesswork to see the links between the steeply increased numbers of corona patients, domestic violence cases and OnlyFans users.