Michiko Ameku

With a screenplay by Aki Kajiwara and direction by Bunaki Takahashi, this is a story of “social isolation”. Itatani plays the main character, Kitabayashi Sanchiko, who sells jewelry she makes at her studio during the day and works part-time as a lodger at a yakitori restaurant at night, but loses her job and home due to the epidemic. There are no new jobs and the family restaurant and manga cafe are closed. Standing in front of the desperate Mitsuko is a bus stop illuminated by streetlights. No one can see the weakness and she becomes a homeless person who spends the night at the bus stop.Read More »

When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salaryman who saw the disappeared woman and wants to meet her again is found and joins the crew.Read More »

Virginal 19-year-old Shokichi goes to the small island Maja-jimais, to collect the bones of his father Shoji, a man he never knew, which have been left to bleach in the sun at the foot of the cliff where the sea washed them up. But Shokichi is accompanied by three hookers who take the trip as a vacation – at least, until they all go down with food poisoning, probably from eating bad pig’s liver.Read More »