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Madhouse, the studio behind such classic anime as Death Note, Paprika, and Vampire Hunter D, will be producing the upcoming anime version of the popular American television series Supernatural.

This little logo always appears next to the movie title, it’s the Eirin logo – the Japanese film classification board. The Japan Times published an overview about this system; its history, how films are classified, how it deals with sexually explicit material…

Yutaka (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines. In three months, he will marry Mitsuko (Yuriko Ishida), a relative of the airline’s founder, and though he doesn’t love her, he knows he could be CEO one day if they wed.

In Thailand, Yutaka meets a girl, Toko (Miho Nakayama), at a bar and is instantly drawn to her. His relationship with her only intensifies as the wedding date approaches but eventually decides to break up with her to proceed with his wedding.

Twenty-five years later, they bump into each other and realize their love for each other remains, but reality pulls them apart once again.

Bandage

Director: Takeshi Kobayashi

Synopsis: Asako (Kie Kitano) and Miharu (Anne Watanabe) are average students at a female high school. One day, Miharu decides to drop out of school due to parental problems. Miharu lends Asako a CD of…

Shunsuke Kitami (Etsushi Toyokawa) is once the hottest photographer and during his life in early 40s he suddenly becoming so lazy that he have not touched his camera over the last one year since a trip to Okinawa with his wife Sakura (Hiroko Yakushimaru).

Despite being persuaded by his assistant Makoto (Gaku Hamada) for him to return to work, Shunsuke’s laziness remains and his womanizing behavior continues and this prompts Sakura to file for a divorce.

One day Shunsuke tries to take advantage of an young actress, Ranko (Asami Mizukawa) after a photo session. At the same time Sakura arrives and he scrambles to look normal and ensure that nothing happens between both of them.

Sakura wants Shunsuke to take last portrait of her while their divorce is being finalized. While developing the photo inside a dark room he sees one shot of Sakura running away from the camera and saying goodbye. The picture totally touches him and he cries afterwards.

Will the divorce between Shunsuke and Sakura go ahead as planned or will Shunsuke decides to get back to Sakura once again?