Kazue Fukiishi

Memories of Tomorrow -- Memories of Tomorrow, a short film by Joslyn Rose Lyons starring Noah Griffin and featuring Ayanna Makalani encapsulates the heartbreaking moments between a father and daughter confronting the formers descent into dementia. Arthur, the father, played by Griffin is clearly in his own world writing poetry, blissfully unaware of and unwilling to acknowledge his own diminished capacity , not remembering his wife s death or his daughter s weekly Sunday visit. Brought back to the reality of and the reason for her presence, he quickly retreats to the poem he s been working on hoping it will ground him and focus his daughter, Melody played by Makalani, on his present reality. Undeterred in the purpose of her visit, Melody calmly and firmly, but not without emotion states her reasons as to why her father, now a widower, can no longer function on his own.

To stop a tyrant from murdering and exploiting innocent civilians, 13 samurai warriors unite and prepare to end his life. But to kill the evildoer, the assassins must contend with an army of deadly bodyguards who outnumber them by a wide margin. Directed by acclaimed and prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, this action-packed samurai remake features Yusuke Iseya, Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada and Tsuyoshi Ihara.

Cult director Takeshi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a wartorn future.

Cult director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan’s feudal era. 13 Assassins - a “masterful exercise in cinematic butchery” (New York Post) - is centered around a group of elite samurai who are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord to prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war torn future.

Unhappy with suburban life, 17-year-old Noriko (Kazue Fukiishi) spends more and more time on a Web site where she meets and chats with other teenage girls across Japan. But when she runs away from home, her new friends in Tokyo lead her into a dark world. She joins a group that gives her a new personality and family, only to find her dream life turn into a nightmare when a mass suicide of high school girls occurs.

Emiri, an everyday high schooler, is looking forward to her class trip to Korea and visiting a boy named Jinu whom she befriended through the Japan-Korea Sign Language Association. However, her excitement is slightly dampened by the fact that her friend Asuka has decided not to go due to the bullying she receives by their classmates. During the trip, one of the students receives a picture attachment of her own death in a text message, strangely date-stamped in the future, and dies in the manner depicted at that exact time.

Cult director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era. 13 Assassins - a ?masterful exercise in cinematic butchery? (New York Post) - is centered around a group of elite samurai who are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord to prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war torn future.