Manifesting West

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his a...

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Alan Parker

Cast

Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball

Yukio is your average high school student who spends his days going to class and avoiding bullies. That is until he meets Ryusuke, a guitar prodigy. Together with Taira, Chiba, and Saku they form the rock band BECK. As their popularity increases so does the danger as Ryusuke's past catches up with him.

Runtime

2h 25m

Director

Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast

Hiro Mizushima, Takeru Satoh, Kenta Kiritani

Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a band.

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Stuart Murdoch

Cast

Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray

Zheng Xiang reunites with the members of his high school band and reminisces about their lead singer and his past love, En Pei, whose pursuit of her dreams ended in tragedy. He regrets encouraging her to join the pageant, wondering if she would have died if he hadn't done so. Drunk after the memorial, he's suddenly transported back to ...

Runtime

1h 45m

Cast

Jasper Liu, Vivian Sung, Shih Chih-tian

Haruki secretly had feelings for Akihiko for years, but Akihiko was still in a relationship with his roommate, the violinist Ugetsu Murata. Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu's love clashes and starts to move forward.

Runtime

1h

Cast

Takuya Eguchi, Masatomo Nakazawa, Shogo Yano