Attempted murder, fraud and embezzlement, illicit drugs, tax evasion and even murder? Five women convinced of various crimes and a crime-loathing female warden put aside their differences to hatch a grand plot of revenge against a handsome but crooked company CEO. But the revenge plan keeps hitting snags. Written by Kankuro Kudo, all of these mature women with interesting back stories meet in a female penitentiary and band together to clear each other of unjust sentences in this blockbuster female crime story rich in laughter and tears, brilliantly merging the comedy and cheerfulness of Kankuro Kudo storytelling with serious deeper questions of why we’re all here and what constitutes true happiness.

This drama is set in an apartment block in the suburbs. The young heroine’s humorous interaction with the odd residents provides the back drop to a charming story as we follow her on her path to making major “life choices,” facing significant turning points and affairs of the heart. Unemployment, independence, change of career and romance are just some of the obstacles a 27 year-old woman experiences and the drama traces her growth as she positively overcomes each one – a tender and funny love story. Indecisive Asako learns to make a decision for the first time in her life, boldly opting to go it alone.

Noriko Ayukawa is a beautiful and dedicated, if rather conventional, teacher. A new addition to her class and “problem child”, Kento, is said to be a genius on a par with Edison. Could it be that Kento really does have boundless potential? This Edison in the making keeps Noriko off-balance by constantly asking “Why?” and “How?”

Hands appearing from out of the darkness choke a woman nightly. A nurse on a videotape stares at the high school girl watching television. A group of young women traveling hear a strange sound and begin disappearing one by one. Traveling around Japan, the producers of this chilling film have gathered the scariest true stories from around the country and brought together some of the best names in “Japanese Horror” to create this theatrical version of the hit series.

Here is a series of vignettes about love using hit J-pop songs from the 80s and 90s as the themes. In one story, a woman out to get back at her superior tries to make him fall in love with her only so she can hurt him. In another story, a woman is dumped after a long courtship, but unable to forget him, she ambushes him with a kiss at his wedding! Another tale tells of a woman having an affair ends up in a love triangle with her lover’s son. Stories of desperate love are told through various eyes.

Everyday 150,000 people pass through the Tokyo International Airport called “Big Wing.” Ever since she was a child, Kumiko Furukawa has wanted to work at Big Wing. Bright and positive, Kumiko’s only fault is her scatterbrained clumsiness which causes her to make mistakes. To many of her co-workers, Kumiko is a nuisance and an embarrassment, but she will have to use her relentless smile and boundless energy to change their minds and serve the Big Wing she loves!

This is the story of one woman finding her way back into the social scene after losing the “perfect” man she believed would marry her. Getting over her lack of trust in men won’t be easy, but with a lively circle of friends and a youthful, matchmaking mother, her road to receiving the wedding proposal of her dreams is sure to be an interesting one.

Double Kitchen is a heartwarming situation comedy about a newlywed couple sharing a house with the husband’s parents in a suburb of Tokyo. Ordinary situations become hilarious cross-generational battlegrounds, as the wife and her mother-in-law pursue vastly different images of the ideal family.

Ten years after their amicable separation, the couple meets again. Only now, Miwa is about to marry, and the man also has cultivated a relationship with another woman. This complex romance focuses on Miwa’s search for genuine happiness after enduring the stigma of a failed marriage.