Sway (Miwa Nishikawa, Japan, 2006)

Two brothers, achingly trendy Tokyo fashion photographer Takeru (Jô Odagiri) and shy homebody Minoru (Key Of Life‘s Teruyuki Kagawa) reunite at their mother’s funeral. The next day a walk across a rickety wooden bridge with Chieko (Yoko Maki), a local girl employed in the family business and a former girlfriend of Takeru’s, results in tragedy and Minoru finds … Read the rest

Key of Life (Kenji Uchida, Japan, 2012)

A broke and struggling actor named Takeshi (Masato Sakai) seizes the chance to swap his identity and home with middle-aged assassin Kondo (Teruyuki Kagawa) after an accident in a bath house leaves the latter with amnesia. As Takeshi settles into Kondo’s luxurious pad a bewildered Kondo, who’s now living in Takeshi’s hovel, begins a relationship with emotionally repressed businesswoman Kanae … Read the rest