Recap: Mari Asato's SAMURAI CHICKS, Yôichi Nishiyama's TROUBLE MAKER LUCY, Takeshi Furusawa's LOST

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Mari Asato's Samurai Chicks (Dokuritsu shôjo gurentai), a.k.a. "Samurai Chicks: Girls for Independence" - part of Euro Space's Wara Bancho Series (Wara banchô shirîzu)

Cast: Megumi Shôji, Ayano Tachibana, Chiaki Ôta, Tomomi Miyashita, R-NA, and Kanji Tsuda.

Synopsis: "Located on southernmost islands of Japan, there's a dance school 'Orion Dancers Academy'. Hiding its public identity as a training school of singers and dancers, it actually operates as a girl-warrior training school, in order to win independence of the island. Trained exhaustively by a teacher Abe (Kanji Tsuda), the girls are actually agents disguised as singers and actresses in Tokyo. Agent Yuki ([Megumi] Shoji) heads to Tokyo with three other girl agents (Ayano Tachibana, Chiaki Ota, Tomomi Miyashita). As they stand in the middle of the Scramble Crossroads in Shibuya, they watch the music video of charismatic idol Cocoe (R-NA) on a huge TV monitor, and they unlock codes from her dancing to complete missions one after another. However, the dark shadow of a rival organization slowly sneaks up on the girls and the training school on the island. Alone in the metropolis, where will the girls go?"

Yôichi Nishiyama's Trouble Maker Lucy (Inazuma Rûshî) - part of Euro Space's Wara Bancho Series (Wara banchô shirîzu)

Cast: Hitomi Satô, Kenji Mizuhashi, Masahiro Toda, Akane Imazeki, and Eri Nomura.

Synopsis: "Lucy (Hitomi Sato) is always scolded by her good younger sister because of her excessive mischief. Lucy triggers drama after drama, and this is the story of her day. A talent scout, Franky approaches Lucy. Rushing into a police station, she says that a stalker is chasing after her. As a result, Franky is put in jail. However, being extremely curious about becoming a star, she visits his talent agency using his business card. Despite of her desperate appeal, the scout doesn't pay attention to her at all. So, Lucy takes part in an audition followed by the agency's top actress, Hanako Uno (Akane Imazeki). However, Hanako's opponent wins the audition after all. Then, a fierce battle between Lucy and Hanako ensues."

Takeshi Furusawa's Lost ★ My Way (Rosuto ★ mai wei) - part of Euro Space's Wara Bancho Series (Wara banchô shirîzu)

Cast: Yutaka Matsushige, Yûichi Ueda, Naoya Yasuda, and Alex Cox (Arekkusu Kokkusu).

Synopsis: "Goro (Yutaka Matsushige), Shinpei (Yuichi Ueda), and Ryosuke (Naoya Yasuda) get together at a suburban used-motor shop called Tamiya Motors. They create a band and dream about having a worldwide major-debut. Life without money or girls, they feel like they were abandoned from the rest of the world. One day, however, Ryosuke is able to radiate destructive beams from his eyes. Once he opens his eyes, the destructive beams radiate out and wipe away everything in front of him. Due to his unusual ability, people try to take advantage of him. Goro rebukes Shinpei for his attempt to sell Ryosuke to the Yakuza, in order to pay back debts. However, it is actually Goro who sells Ryosuke to a mysterious organization. Eventually Goro realizes that what he has sold was friendship with Ryosuke. Then Goro decides to go to battle accompanied by a junior high school student Shota, hoping to get Ryosuke back."

Takahisa Zeze's Secret Journey (Yuda) - part of Euro Space's Eros Bancho Series (Erosu banchô shirîzu)

Cast: Yukiko Okamoto, Ken Mitsuishi, Kazuma Honda, Masaki Miura, and Shirô Shimomoto.

Synopsis: "I (Ken Mitsuishi), documentary video maker, saw a guy named Yuda (Kazuma Honda) in middle of Tokyo. I was curious about Yuda and begun following him around, but one day he disappeared with my video camera. A couple months later, a lady name Michi Nakamura (Yukiko Okamoto) came to my office. She had the strap of my video camera that Yuda stole from me, and said she saw the address that was on the strap, so she came here. I asked her about Yuda, and she told me that he was dead. Right after she left my office, she was hit by a car, I visited her in hospital and she begins to tell me about the mysterious story of her and Yuda."

Shin'ya Nishimura's Love Kill² (Rabu kiru kiru), a.k.a. "Love Kill Kill" - part of Euro Space's Eros Bancho Series (Erosu banchô shirîzu)

Cast: Kanji Tsuda, Ruby Aiba (Aiba Rubi), Shion Machida, and Shôichi Matsuda.

Synopsis: "Satoshi Minagawa (Kanji Tsuda), an office worker, he seems like a serious person but in real life, he is a mania for porn movie collecting. Nao Aiba (Rubi Aiba), high school student, she wanders the town with her friend Mami rather than go to school. Sayuri Maejima (Shion Machida), unemployed, very beautiful but unorganized person. She lives in a big house with her brother Kou. He gets teased from his classmates all the time, but he grows magic mushroom in his room and sell them to strangers. One day these four people who don't have any common interests tangle up in complicated relationship."

Mamoru Watanabe's Tokyo Desire (Katame dake no koi) - part of Euro Space's Eros Bancho Series (Erosu banchô shirîzu)

Cast: Risa Odagiri, Kiyoshi Taya, Shirô Shimomoto, and Yôko Satomi.

Synopsis: "Yuka is a girl who lost her mother 12 years ago and living with her father, she had a man that is in her mind. The man is a college professor, Inoue, who is a husband of Yuka's cousin, Rieko. Reiko brought Inoue to inform her father their marriage when Yuka was 9 years old; then she fell in love with him. She decided not to see him again for her hopeless love, but one day she found out that they are moving near her house. Her feelings toward him run high and a sad love story began."

Samurai Chicks trailer (Japanese w/ English subtitles; downloadable 3.3 MB MOV file)
Samurai Chicks official subsite
Eleven Arts: Samurai Chicks official webpage
Trouble Maker Lucy trailer (Japanese w/ English subtitles; downloadable 3 MB MOV file)
Trouble Maker Lucy official subsite
Eleven Arts: Trouble Maker Lucy official webpage
Lost ★ My Way trailer (Japanese w/ English subtitles; downloadable 1.6 MB MOV file)
Lost ★ My Way official subsite
Eleven Arts: Lost ★ My Way official webpage
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Secret Journey trailer (Japanese w/ English subtitles; downloadable 3.7 MB MOV file)
Secret Journey official subsite
Eleven Arts: Secret Journey official webpage
Love Kill² trailer (Japanese w/ English subtitles; downloadable 3.9 MB MOV file)
Love Kill² official subsite
Eleven Arts: Love Kill² official webpage
Tokyo Desire trailer #2 (Japanese w/ English subtitles; downloadable 2.9 MB MOV file)
Tokyo Desire trailer #1 (Japanese w/o subtitles; downloadable 12.4 MB MOV file)
Tokyo Desire official subsite
Eleven Arts: Tokyo Desire official webpage

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