Minori Terada

This high-flying adventure begins when Pazu, an engineer's apprentice, spies a young girl, Sheeta, floating down from the sky, held aloft by a glowing pendant. Both Sheeta and Pazu are searching for the legendary floating castle, Laputa, and they vow to travel there together to unravel the mystery of the luminous crystal. But their quest won't be easy, as soon they are being pursued by greedy air pirates, the military and secret government agents, who all seek the power Sheeta alone can control.

A perky high-schooler takes on the mob in Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, a one-of-a-kind genre-bender that riffs on the yakuza film, coming-of-age drama and ‘idol movie’, inventively adapted from Jiro Akagawa's popular novel by director Shinji Somai (Typhoon Club, Wait and See), a massively influential figure in Japanese cinema whose work has been little seen outside his homeland.

Four filmmakers from completely different backgrounds bring their radically personal takes to the stories of Japan's celebrated master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, Blind Beast).

In Shinji Sômai’s bittersweet coming-of-age tale, matters of life and death are made at once whimsical and profound through the eyes of children. As a gentle bond grows between generations, simple acts of care carry a transformative effect, offering a healing balm to urban loneliness and isolation.

Beniko, a high school girl, gets the Buddha statue at her family's temple stolen and has her parents killed at the same time.