Love Stories Series
Six directors explore the possibilities within different kinds of love.
Fruit of Love (2014)
29 November, 2014
In order to repay the debts of her beloved husband, Mariko requests a loan from her former classmate Anzai who has become a successful entrepreneur. In return, she agrees to live with him for three months. She learns of his loneliness, and her attraction to him grows.
Maria's Breast (2014)
14 June, 2014
Masao (Kokone Sasaki) was once famous for having supernatural powers, but she now lives as a prostitute. Her special power is to know when a person will die by touching them. Masao has sex with men about to die. One day, a man named Tachibana (Shima Ohnishi) appears in front of her and expresses his wish to film her. In reality, Tachibana wants to take revenge on her. His wife killed herself after learning from Masao that she would die. Tachibana though becomes attracted to Masao.
Last Love (2014)
04 October, 2014
The touching romance between a middle-aged single guy and a woman with bipolar disorder. Iwata abandons his dream of becoming a guitarist, and works as an apartment building janitor. He spends his days living modestly as he deals with his unglamorous work. One day, he meets tenant Yumi when she returns home wasted.
Tryst (2014)
21 June, 2014
Photographer Tadashi (Shinsuke Akagi) and design company Yuko (Mariko Junko) who are working part-time are married people who have both built ordinary households. However, as they happen to meet each other, they gradually become more and more attracted to each other.
Summer When My Wife Was in Love (2014)
11 October, 2014
Imaoka Shinji, one of Japan's best-known adult film directors and The Drudgery Train scriptwriter, tells a couple's secret tale. One day, Koji (Kaneko Noboru)'s wife Kaori (Miyaji Mao) suddenly dies. He learns from the doctor that Kaori was three months pregnant, but Kenji knows it can't be him. Eventually, he discovers an unknown side of Kaori.
The Farmers Bride: I Want to See You (2014)
06 December, 2014
Mizutani Kei, who starred in the V Cinema production A Weather Woman that also gained popularity overseas, gives a delightfully humorous performance as the battling protagonist who gives up a glamorous nightclub career to take up farming. Thirty-five-year-old bar worker Yukie (Mizutani) marries customer Jotaro (Hamada Manabu), the eldest son of a farming family. She revels in the humble joy of being a farmer's wife. Then one day, a man named Mishima (Yoshioka Mutsuo) who once deceived Yukie reappears, and seeks a physical relationship with her.