Akiko Kikuchi

Arrogance and Virtue (2024)

The story centers on Kakeru Nishizawa and Mami Sakaniwa, two people who find each other through a dating app, and decide soon after to get engaged. After their engagement, Mami suddenly disappears. In trying to find her, Kakeru must confront a side of Mami ...

Otona Najimi (2023)

Aoyama Haru and Kagaya Kaede have been friends since they were 4 years old, when they began living next door to each other. They are now 24-years-old and still live in the same apartments. Kaede has held feelings for Haru for the past 20 years, but Haru do ...

Skeleton Flowers (2021)

High school student, Yo, lived with her father, Nao, after her mother, Sachiyo, left the family when she was very young. However, their life together came to an end and they started a new life as a family of four with her father's second marriage partner, ...

Second Summer, Never See You Again (2017)

Satoshi, who is a high school junior, is doing something against the rules. He is forming a band. Joining him is Rin. They nonetheless perform at the school's cultural festival live in front of their fellow students. There is a mishap and Satoshi travels b ...

Japanese Girls Never Die (2016)

While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a template which is painted on each wall of a small suburban town. ...

There Is No Lid on the Sea (2015)

Mari is exhausted by life in the city and opens up a shop selling snow cones in the small town of Nishiizu where she grew up. The simple flavors of her cold desserts soothe the emotional wounds of her customers and Mari comes to terms with herself by spend ...

Good Stripes (2015)

Midori Mantani and Masao Minamisawa are both 28-years-old. They have dated for 4 years, but their relationship seems to be just going through the motions. They think about breaking up. At that time, Midori becomes pregnant. Midori and Masao decide to marry ...

Midnight Diner (2014)

A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo. ...

Mame Daifuku Monogatari (2013)

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Route 42 (2012)

Tatsuya and Yoko promised to marry, but Yoko then died in a car accident. Tatsuya quit his job and spends his days thinking about suicide. One day, Tatsuya meets Yuri Takahashi, who looks exactly like Yoko. They then go on a road trip. ...

Yodaka's Star (2012)

28-year-old Towa Hongo works as a research worker at a painting company. 10 years ago, she came to Tokyo from Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture. At an early age, her father Yukio died and her mother remarried, but her relationship with her mother worsened. They h ...

Chronicle of My Mother (2012)

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior ...

Fa no tofu (2011)

This drama depicts the turbulent daily life of the heroine, who works in the family's tofu shop, and her father and daughter. ...

The Days of Morisaki Bookstore (2010)

After learning her boyfriend and colleague was already in a relationship and about to marry another colleague, Takako quits her job and falls into a slump. Her uncle, Satoru, offers her a job and room in his used bookstore in Jinbocho. Despite her initial ...

Tamagotchi: The Movie (2007)

On Tamagotchi Planet, Mametchi has just finished his new creation. But on its first trial run, Kuchipatchi manages to throw the machine's aim off course, which results in a child from Earth, Tampopo, being transported to the Tamagotchi Planet. ...

Detective Story (2007)

A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs. ...

Torihada: yofukashi no anata ni zotto suru hanashi wo (2007)

Tokyo-Uso (2007)

A psychology professor at a Tokyo university finds himself drawn to the younger sister of one of his students. ...

A Tiny Place That Is Hard to Touch (2019)

Science fiction and desire collide when an American researcher meets a Japanese translator. Clouds drift beyond the towering high rise blocks; down below, nature suffocates in a Tokyo river. ...