This fun twist on the classic buddy comedy starts with Chisato and Mahilo — two high school girls who happen to both be highly skilled assassins — becoming roommates. The relationship between the pair quickly turns sour. However, when they find themselves targeted by the yakuza, the girls quickly realise that they will have to find a way to work together.

This haunting, erotic, and unforgettable psychological drama is a strange take on the Sisyphus myth. When  an entomologist misses the last bus home from exploring a series of sand dunes, he is taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture alongside a young widow and forced dig the sand that they sell to nearby cities for construction.

Director Atsuko Ishizuka follows up her critically acclaimed series A Place Further Than the Universe with her first original feature film about a group of teen misfits Roma, Toto, and Drop call themselves the “Don Glees.” One day, when the trio gets blamed for a nearby forest fire, they set off into the woods to prove their innocence. As disaster strikes their expedition, tensions flare between the friends as they realize that growing up has taken them on wildly different paths in life

Veteran animator Takayuki Hirao’s new film isa rollicking, exuberant ode to the power of the movies, and the joys and heartbreak of the creative process, as a new director and his team devote their lives to the pursuit of a “masterpiece.” Pompo is a talented and gutsy producer in “Nyallywood,” the movie-making capital of the world. Although she’s known for B-movies, one day Pompo tells her movie-loving but apprehensive assistant Gene that he will direct her next script. But when the production heads towards chaos, can Gene rise to Pompo’s challenge, and succeed as a first-time director?