Youth H
Youth H (青春H) is a series of movies created by distinctively original filmmakers on the shared theme of adolescence and love.
All Titles in Order
Making of Love
Written, edited, performed, and directed by Takeshi Furusawa.
Open title →Ghost kiss
Yasuko, an employee at a cabaret club, is currently living together with her boyfriend. For some reason, an earthquake connects their room to the other world -- the lingering ghosts tell her that her boyfriend is cheating...
Open title →The Age of Wolves
Reiko lives a luxurious life, but remains unsatisfied. Jiro is a manual laborer who works from dusk till dawn with little prospect for love. One day, Reiko and Jiro happen to meet in a corner of Tokyo.
Open title →Piranha
Natsu is unable to reveal her feelings to 'bento' (lunchbox) vendor Sone. Through the arrangement of Haruo, a man she has just met, she begins living together with Sone. But things aren't the way she expected them to be...
Open title →The smell of curry rice
Fujise, who loves curry rice, carries on relationships with several women at once. He's after the curry that his girlfriends make. Amidst it all, he ends up falling in love with a girl who hates curry.
Open title →Owatteru
Open title →ring my bell
Ayuko is left alone at home while her parents travel abroad. Her childhood friend Isao and his bandmate Utsuho show up and their limited-time only sleepover begins.
Open title →Reunion
Yoichi quits his research position at university after quarreling with his professor and works as a temporary lecturer at a cram school. He is over thirty and thinks about his next steps in life, but can't bring himself to marry his long-time girlfriend. At which point he encounters Tsukiyo, a love interest from his high school days.
Open title →Picking Up Flowers
The fifth film in the second season of the "Seishun H" series, in which up-and-coming filmmakers exhibit their originality through themes of youth and sex. Director Sato Toshiki is known as one of the masters of the erotic "pink film" genre. Asako (Wada Misa) works at a small factory. She is still troubled by her dark past, living every day thinking of nothing but dying. Wishing that someone somewhere would take her life, she takes an interest in her colleague Tamiya Kenta (Yoshioka Mutsuo) whose memory only lasts a day, ever since the death of his wife.
Open title →Zero Man vs. The Half-Virgin
Sakuragi realizes that, when he becomes aroused, he can see how many sex partners someone has had.
Open title →Greenhorn
Yuzo (Ito Takeshi) abandons his family and lives with his mistress Saeko (Masaki Sawa). Despite being on the verge of turning fifty and still in part-time employment, he prefers to chase dreams rather than face reality. One day, Saeko falls for a young man she meets on the street, and disappears.
Open title →Bad Communication
The twenty-eighth entry in the "Youth H" series, which produces works in a variety of genres from up-and-coming filmmakers that focus on coming-of-age and sexual themes. Director Oguri Haruhi, who drew attention for his Toilet and Women, depicts the growth of four young men who reunite when their close friend dies. High school graduate Chikage (Tanaka Ryuto) spends his days hanging around with his best pal Aki (Nagata Iemori) at a seaside town. One day their close friend En dies in an accident, and their old buddies Dai (Shiomi Daiki) and Beyan return from Tokyo for the funeral.
Open title →Ikareta Baby
Open title →Bikini☆Ramen
In 20 XX years, Japan was wrapped in fireworks of ramen... People were suppressed by the ramen fear politics by a group called "tiger's hole". When everyone gave up on the future, there was a woman who turned away from God and opened her own destiny! Behold! Now Pandora 's box called Donburi will be held!
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