Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
Nasa (Eri Tokunaga), a Japanese online columnist, ponders the question of whether men and women can be platonic friends, without romance or sexual attraction getting in the way. To that end, she books a series of sessions with a 'friend-for-rent' and writes her experiences into her column. As she and her charming paid-for friend Sota ...
Office worker Shizuka Suzuki (Ayaka Miyoshi) aspires to climb the corporate ladder in her city firm, but when she takes her niece to a street carnival hypnotist she finds herself to hypnotised. Whenever Shizuka hears music, her life transforms into a Broadway musical number. She must find the hypnotist to break her out of her ...
A family of Filipino immigrants living in Seoul have their lives thrown into disarray when their father Don (Nonie Buencamino) hits and kills a pedestrian while driving home. While Don angsts over whether or not to give himself up to police, and with a nosy neighbour (Park Se-jin) poking her nose into the family's business, ...
Keisuke Korada (Kiichi Nakai) is Japan’s all-time least popular Prime Minister. Coarse, corrupt, foul-mouthed, and sexist, his antagonistic behaviour and punitive policies have delivered him the ire of the Japanese people and an approval rating of 2.3%. When a protester hits him in the head with a rock, he is rushed to hospital - only ...
Billie (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Pete Staunton (Will Ferrell) take a vacation with their two sons to an Austrian ski resort. When an avalanche threatens to kill them over lunch, Pete runs - leaving his wife and children behind, and opening up an emotional rift in their relationship. Downhill, the first feature from Disney's newly acquired ...
Victor (Daniel Auteuil) is a retired comic book creator in his 60s. When his wife (Fanny Ardant) demands a divorce, he takes up the offer to participate in an exclusive performative experience in which a team of technicians and actors recreate the historical setting of his choosing. Most clients select famous periods of French history; ...
A man named Joe reminisces on his childhood in the early 1940s, when his extended family lived together in Rockaway Beach and radio was the king of American culture. In a series of anecdotes he recalls both the famous incidents of the local radio empire as well as his own young self (Seth Green) growing ...
