7.0

Tokyo!

2008, France, Japan, South Korea, Germany

• Actors: Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito, Nao Omori, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Ken Mitsuishi, Yuno Iriguchi, Rie Minemura, Ben Himura, Kenjirô Ishimaru, Taijirô Tamura, Junya Asô, Mayu Harada, Motomi Makiguchi, Hiroko Ninomiya, Ryûsei Saitô, Tomoe Ura, Miho Iiguchi, Akira Osaki, Kayoko Fujii, Takashi Ogasawara, Shingo Ippongi, Shunji Iwai, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Sohee Park, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer, Renji Ishibashi, Toshiyuki Kitami, Kyûsaku Shimada
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
• Director(s): Joon-ho Bong
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

Tokyo is a city of transitions in three short films. A young woman who finds her life useless experiences a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution; he calls himself "Merde" and speaks a language only his look-alike attorney understands. Is he human? A recluse experiences human contact when a pizza-delivery girl faints at his door during an earthquake. He conquers fear to seek her out. A chair, a corpse, a hermit: sources of urban connection?

  6.3

Kaidan

2007, Japan

• Actors: Kumiko Asô, Takaaki Enoki, Reona Hirota, Teisui Ichiryûsai, Mao Inoue, Tae Kimura, Taigi Kobayashi, Hitomi Kuroki, Ken Mitsuishi, Shôji Murakami, Naomasa Musaka, Taeko Nishino, Kikunosuke Onoe, Asaka Seto, Yumi Shimizu, Masahiko Tsugawa, Yûrei Yanagi
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
• Director(s): Hideo Nakata
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead.

  7.6

The Thin Red Line

1997, USA

• Actors: Kirk Acevedo, Sean Penn, Penelope Allen, Adrien Brody, James Caviezel, Benjamin Green, Simon Billig, Ben Chaplin, Mark Boone Junior, George Clooney, John Cusack, Norman Patrick Brown, Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte, John C. Reilly, John Travolta, Jarrod Dean, Matt Doran, Travis Fine, Paul Gleeson, David Harrod, Don Harvey, Kengo Hasuo, Ben Hines, Danny Hoch, Robert Roy Hofmo, Jack, Thomas Jane, Arie Verveen
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Director(s): Terrence Malick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.

  7.4

Love Letter

1995, Japan

• Actors: Miho Nakayama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Bunjaku Han, Katsuyuki Shinohara, Miki Sakai, Takashi Kashiwabara, Ken Mitsuishi, Emiko Nagata, Kaori Oguri, Naoki Gotô, Toshiya Sakai, Keiichi Suzuki, Tomorowo Taguchi, Hiroshi Kanbe, Mariko Kaga, Kumi Nakamura, Sansei Shiomi, Ranran Suzuki
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Shunji Iwai
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

Hiroko Watanabe's fiancé Itsuki died two years earlier in a mountain climbing accident. While looking through his high school yearbook, Hiroko in a fit of grief decides to write a letter to him using his old school address. Surprisingly she receives a reply, not from the dead Itsuki, but from a woman with the same name whom had known Hiroko's fiancé in school. A relationship develops between the two women as they continue to exchange letters and share memories of the dead Itsuki.