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Say it ain't so… Doggie is a criminal! For the first time in 10 years, Dekaranger assembles for a crisis on Earth Station! Ten years after Dekaranger saved the planet from devastation, Ban is continuing to work for the Space Police F.S. (Fire Squad). The other members of Dekaranger have all gone their separate ways. But the illegal sale of investigation information by Earth Station Chief Doggie Kluger to the Space Mafia leads to the shocking murder of witnesses. In addition, Doggie is shot and hospitalized, remaining in a coma. The aftermath of these incidents have shaken everyone. Two new members at Earth Station, Assam and Mugi have been assigned to Dekaranger. One day, a person named Carrie whom they rescue in another case, is revealed to have been a witness of the incident involving Doggie… but she absolutely refuses to talk about it except directly to the Space Public Prosecutor’s office. The appearance of this witness forces the six original members of Dekaranger to reunite to discover the truth of the case involving Doggie! They were once said to have the best teamwork in the universe… can the six detective minds once again become a team, and fight coolly with a burning heart?

During the Ming Dynasty, the emperor sets out for Xinjiang to advocate peace. Shortly after his absence, mysterious occurrences plague the palace and Daoist Tian Mu Tong (Zhang Xiao Chen) is called to cast out demons. Together with eunuch Xiao Mo Gu (Zhang Hao Ran) and Jin Yi Wei leader Yun Xiang Rong (Lu Qing), Mu Tong uncovers deep dark secrets and conspiracies hidden within conspiracies.

“Life's more fun when you're an idiot,” says one of the characters in FINE, TOTALLY FINE and this movie is Exhibit A in the case against brains. Set in the dusty margins of Tokyo, FTF is a surreal comedy that's a spiritual successor to previous festival hits like THE TASTE OF TEA, and it charts a lazy love triangle between the world's clumsiest woman, Akari (Kimura Yoshino of Cannes hit BLINDNESS and SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO), who can't even open a box of Kleenex without setting off destructive shock waves, a tamped-down hospital administrator Hisanobu (Okada Yoshinori) and his brother, Teruo (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa), a clueless part-time park keeper who is so unconcerned with the world around him that he doesn't even realize he's working part-time (“Why do you think you have so much free time?” a co-worker asks). Teruo is obsessed with building the world's greatest haunted house, one that will terrify grown-ups but he'd rather spend his time talking about it than doing any actual work. It's a star-making performance by Arakawa who has appeared in dozens of Japanese films playing everything from a cloud of flying sperm to Vinnie Jones' translator, and who can get a laugh from something as simple as typing on his computer. Gormless and weird, his Super! Ultra! Deluxe! deadpan is this movie's stylistic touchstone. First time director, Yosuke Fujita, was a hospital janitor for eight years before making FINE, TOTALLY FINE and this movie is full of characters who are all turning 30 and going nowhere fast, and what stands between them and true happiness are the exact same things that ruin all of our lives: the magic marker that's going dry just when you really need it most, a disappointing corndog or even that horrible person who won't let you gracefully escape their boring company before three o'clock in the morning. This is a movie made by someone who is cautious about strong emotions and who treats them with a hushed respect. There isn't a big moment of emotional catharsis here, instead the closest these characters come to nirvana is when they're all sitting quietly together, listening to the rain. Life can be an unfair string of humiliating indignities, but sometimes it gives you these moments where you can't possibly imagine wanting anything more