Hanako Takigawa

Japan around 1860: popular courtesan Asagiri will be freed soon from her service, yet she cannot imagine any other existence. Until one day at a local festival, Asagiri meets the young artisan Hanjiro by chance – an encounter that changes her destiny. With a strong performance by leading actress Yumi ADACHI and exquisite camerawork and production design, A COURTESAN WITH FLOWERED SKIN succeeds in recalling the golden age of Japanese erotic film.

In the past, Kurumi Usushima (Yuto Nakajima) wanted to become a ballerino, but he is now a detective. Kurumi Usushima and his senior detective, Takao Washio (Masahiro Takashima), solve a case by using the hypnosis technique past life regression.

The members of Girls Bar, which is also the strongest female detective agency, confront the evil, and a movie of the same name novel by Fuyuki Shindo. Women who work at the girls bar "W Lounge" at night while working as office ladies, underground idols, teachers, etc. The "W Lounge" had another face, the strongest female detective agency fighting female enemies. A university student, a bud's friend, Airi disappears while leaving a debt of 3 million yen, and Airi's debt guarantor, Bud decides to work at "W Lounge" to repay the debt. According to a survey by the manager, Mona, who heard about the situation from the buds, and colleagues in the store, Airi gets information about being in a secret club called "Ruby Soul."

This film is about a train departing Osaka Station at midnight to an unknown destination. The people on this train all have some difficulties in their lives, and they end up on this train. Hanoko is suicidal, Yuka has caught her boyfriend with another woman, Michiru is aimless, Mr. Wakabayashi has just been fired, and one other man just lost his wife. They take the train to Kazumachi, a small village. They decide to stay and enter a small world of discovery about themselves, courtesy of the inhabitants of the village, all of whom are engaging.

Reiko Akutsu works for a residential construction company. She plans a lunch matchmaking meeting to find love with someone in the same company. New employee Yuika Amano offers to join the matchmaking event. Yuika Amano and Reiko Akutsu hold the luncheon and meet two men. During their lunch, Yuika Amano and Reiko Akutsu hear a story filled with riddles by the two men. Yuika Amano can't help but to solve the riddles. Going forward, during their lunch matchmaking meetings, Yuika Amano hears various stories involving things like ghosts or missing people and she attempts to solve the mysteries.

À Tokyo, le reporter américain Jake Adelstein, âgé de 24 ans, intègre le service police et justice du « Yomiuri Shimbun », le plus grand quotidien japonais. Alors qu’il collabore avec la police locale, il est contacté par la mafia. Il devient un interlocuteur des yakusas tout en continuant d’être un informateur de la police. Mais cette position ambivalente n’est pas sans danger.