Yūsuke Kawazu

Play it Cool is a chic and erotically charged drama starring popular Japanese singer of the day Mari Atsumi as a college girl negotiating her way through the male-dominated hierarchies of Tokyo's seductive but treacherous nightclub culture. Yumi (Mari Atsumi) is a pretty fashion student who shares a cramped home with her mother Tomi (Akemi Negishi, The Saga of Anatahan)...

Set in 1939 during the Sino-Japanese war, Red Angel follows nurse Nishi Sakura, who is assaulted by a patient, reassigned to the front, and drawn into a complex relationship with Dr. Okabe, a morphine-addicted surgeon. Amid relentless pain, their relationship develops as guilt-ridden Okabe finds solace in Sakura’s compassion, the film capturing the uneasy overlap of duty, intimacy, and survival.