Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me? TBC

Middle-aged Fumi lives a quiet life in a small seaside town, spending time with friends and colleagues. When Fumi meets a man and experiences a premonition of love, she begins to wonder whether happiness can be hers once again. A delicate and charming story starring Satomi Kobayashi.

This suspenseful psychodrama follows university student Masaya, whose monotonous life is given a terrifying jolt by an unexpected letter from convicted serial killer Haimura, who admits guilt for eight murders but insists he didn’t commit the ninth.

Saburo (Eiji Okada), a student in Tokyo, meets Keiko (Yoshiko Kuga), an illustrator of propaganda posters, in a bomb shelter during a WWII air raid on the city and becomes infatuated with her. After several chance encounters romance blossoms, but when Saburo is called up to the front to fight in Japan’s imperial army, the lovers’ fate becomes uncertain – will they ever meet again?

Five strangers join forces to steal a large sum of money from a group of gangsters who operate a laundering racket. The thieves all go back to their own lives, but before long they find themselves being hunted by the gangsters, police and politicians, not knowing who is friend or foe.

17-year-old Urara has no friends – her only pleasure is reading Boys Love (BL) manga. Working part-time at a book shop, she meets Yuki, an elderly woman who has lived alone since the death of her husband. A heart-warming story about the intergenerational bond between two lonely women.