Shinji Sōmai

Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students’ jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more ...

A government employee meets a hostess of a “pink club,” and together they set out on a journey.

A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive ...

Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by two young men. Ten years later, she crosses ...

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day ...

A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend’s father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the ...

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his ...