On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently...

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes...

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior...

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to...

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling...

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect...

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the...

Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami live different lives in Tokyo, Japan: Hojo is the leader of a small but rising Yakuza clan, while Asami is a politician...

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.