Naomi Oki

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

A naked corpse was found that had its penis amputated on a heavy rainy night. As a result of an autopsy by a medical examiner (Naomi Oki), it was determined that the criminal was the same man as the unsolved continuous murder case since last month. Detective Yajima (Masato Furuoya) and Ishigami (Koh Takasugi) immediately start an investigation, but the case goes in a surprising direction.

A romantic drama about a modern woman's thirst for romance. Sawako Fujitani has beautiful legs and is a successful "leg-talent," but on the contrary, she has a complex about them. Then there is Shinpei Yoshida, a very popular scriptwriter, who is struggling with the future development of his show and is trapped both physically and mentally. The two meet in a counseling room...

A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured. On the 25th of November 1988, four youths abducted and held Furuta Junko in the house of one of the captors. Subjected to rape, torture, and humiliation, Junko had no hope of escape as the manhunt was stalled by the captors forcing her to tell her parents that she was ok. For 41 harrowing days, Junko had to endure unimaginable suffering at the hands of these four individuals. Finally, after losing in a game of mahjong solitaire, they beat her with an iron dumbbell and set on fire with lighter fluid. She died later that day from shock. In an attempt to hide their crime they buried her in cement and thus the name 'Concrete Encased High School Murder Case' was born as Japan had to confront the horrors of this crime. The perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo.

Satomi is young woman that works in computer communication. One day she receives a strange message. And the person that sent it to her has committed suicide. As days go by, Satomi keeps receiving the messages from the spirit world....

Based on the comic book series by Mio Murao.

Flakes of Snow

The movie is an adaption from a manga with the same name written by Shungicu Uchida. It's an unique psychological suspense about a woman who is addicted to dating websites, but she ends up encountering there more than she expected and that might cause her own collapse.

Kyosuke Kozu (Masaomi Kondo), a university professor and a famous detective, is a big magic lover. He was asked to judge the Magic Competition to be held in Ito, and set out with his sister Nobuko, her lover's newspaper reporter Kenzo, and the brothers Shiro Kishibe. On the day, Shigeko Mizutani, who was supposed to play the guillotine technique, went missing, and she was found dead while her sister Yoshiko was taking her place. The suspects include Yoshiko, Shigeko's husband, Ryohei Mizutani, and her secretary, Yuriko.

古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ