Nori Sato

Based on a novel of by Nukui Tokuro, Hohoemu Hito tells the story of Nito Toshimi who, after graduating from Japan’s most difficult university and founding a job at a major city bank, marries Shoko and have a daughter, Amina. Nito, while leading a life that looks like the picture of happiness and being the envy of everyone, is charged with the murder of his wife and young child. At his trial, he reveals a shocking motive for the crime: “I wanted space for books.”

Leon Kaufman a révélé son talent de photographe à travers des clichés hautement provocants. Décidé à créer l'événement pour sa prochaine exposition, il est prêt à aller encore plus loin dans l'exploration des aspects les plus sombres de l'humanité. Lancé dans une quête obsessionnelle des pires aspects de l'homme, Leon s'intéresse à un tueur en série, Mahogany, qui traque les banlieusards prenant les derniers métros pour rentrer chez eux, avant de les tuer avec une sauvagerie inimaginable. La fascination de Leon pour Mahogany va le conduire de plus en plus loin dans les méandres du métro, au coeur même du mal. Sans le vouloir, il va entraîner Maya, sa petite amie, avec lui. Chaque ticket est peut-être un aller simple vers la mort...

Kaori (Nori Sato) runs a small piano studio. One of her students is Yuu (Uwa Ishibashi). On the way from a recital, Kaori is sexually assaulted by Yuu's father (Kentaro Furuyama). Kaori later learns Yuu has also been sexually abused by her father. Kaori and Yuu share each other's pain and eventually Kaori decides to fulfill Yuu's wish.

Ines, who wants to change who she is and become someone else in order to cover up her insecurities. When she accompanies her boyfriend Lucas on a business trip to Norway, Ines meets a half-Japanese tourist, Maria, who instantly fascinates her. Suddenly Maria disappears, and Ines seizes the opportunity to replace her – she declares herself dead and travels to Japan in order to take over Maria's identity. There, she will get a job at Miss Osaka, the same nightclub where Maria used to work. A game of broken boundaries, lost identities and the dangerous balance between reality and the past has begun, and Ines must abide by the new rules by avoiding the more obscure paths.

Takeshi grew up spoiled in an affluent family. One day his businessman grandfather Saburo sends him to the grasslands of Mongolia where he is to search for a daughter born out of Saburo's relationship with a local woman after the Second World War.