Jam Films and its sequels are collections of short films, each by a different Japanese director.

Jam Films

Jam Films is a 2002

2002 in film

The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...

 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega

Sega

, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...

/Amuse (various production companies participated in the production of the films, e.g. Rockwell Eyes in "Arita Featuring Spencer A. Weezy").

The opening credits sequence for the collection was directed by Hanada Daizaburo.

1. "The Messenger -弔いは夜の果てで-" (Requiem for the Dead) - directed by Ryuhei Kitamura
   Ryuhei Kitamura
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2. "けん玉" (Kendama) - directed by Tetsuo Shinohara
   Tetsuo Shinohara
   Tetsuo Shinohara is a Japanese film director. His film First Love was the 3rd Best Film at the 22nd Yokohama Film Festival.-Filmography:# Ogawa no Hotori # Clearless...
   
   
3. "コールドスリープ" (Cold Sleep) - directed by George Iida
4. "Pandora - Hong Kong Leg" - directed by Mochizuki Rokuro
5. "Hijiki" - directed by Tsutsumi Yukihiko
   Yukihiko Tsutsumi
   is a Japanese television and film director. He began directing commercials and music promotion videos as an employee of Nihon Television. After spending time abroad, he returned and started his own production company, Crescendo, from which he works independently...
   
   
6. "Justice" - directed by Isao Yukisada
   Isao Yukisada
   from Kumamoto, Japan is a Japanese film director. He served as assistant director on Shunji Iwai's Love Letter, April Story, and Swallowtail Butterfly.-Director:* OPEN HOUSE * A Closing Day...
   
   
7. "Arita" - directed by Shunji Iwai
   Shunji Iwai
   is a Japanese film director/video artist, writer and documentarian.-Life and career:Iwai was born in Sendai, Japan, Miyagi prefecture. He attended Yokohama National University, graduating in 1987....
   
   

Jam Films 2

Jam Films 2 is the 2003

2003 in film

The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...

 sequel containing four shorts by different directors. Jam Films 2 is only available as a Region 2

DVD region code

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 or Region 3

DVD region code

DVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...

 DVD.

1. "机上の空論" (Kijo no Kuron) directed by Junji Kojima (小島淳二)
2. "Clean Room" directed by Eiki Takahashi (高橋栄樹)
3. "Hoops Men Soul" directed by Hidenori Inoue (井上秀憲)
4. "Fastener" directed by Kouki Tange (丹下絋希)

"Kijou no Kuron" or "Japanese Tradition" is a satirical instructional film for how to woo a Japanese woman. A second short available online, "The Japanese Tradition - Sushi", is an instructional film for sushi etiquette. Both films star a pair of actors known as the Rahmens

Rahmens

is a Japanese comedy duo consisting of Jin Katagiri and Kentarō Kobayashi . The pair first met in Tama Art University, Tokyo. They started out as a konto group in 1996. They are known in the US as Mac and PC in the Japanese "Get a Mac" advertisement. They starred in the "Japanese Tradition"...

 (ラーメンズ).

Jam Films S

Jam Films S is a 2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 collection of shorts with the theme of the letter "S

S

S is the nineteenth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.-History: Semitic Šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative . Greek did not have this sound, so the Greek sigma came to represent...

".

1. "Tuesday"
2. "HEAVEN SENT"
3. "ブラウス" (Blouse)
4. "NEW HORIZON"
5. "すべり台" (Suberidai)
6. "α" (Alpha)
7. "スーツ -suit-"

External links

• Jam Films (in Japanese)
• Jam Films 2 description at DVD Asian
• 「日本の形 - 鮨」のまとめ："Documentary on Japanese Sushi" Chronology