An Ogawa

STRANGERS (2024)

A disillusioned office worker finds freedom and a new sense of self after assuming her missing colleague's identity on a dating app, only to find it comes at the cost of much more. ...

There Is a Stone (2024)

A young woman spends a day in some non-place between town and countryside, has random encounters and watches stones skip over the surface of the river. Tatsunari Ota's film explores a world without productivity and finds joy in idle time and playfulness. ...

Stand Up and Roll (2024)

For Half Time, ZHANG applies a realist aesthetic to focus on the hardship of a Chinese technical intern named Qingyang. His fortunes had already been trending downwards before he reached Japan. Now, at 39 and with a kid to support in China, debts to pay of ...

Following the Sound (2024)

Haru, a bookstore clerk, talks to Yukiko pretending to ask for directions. Haru has detected deep sorrow on Yukiko's face. Meanwhile, Haru has been spending days following Tsuyoshi discretely and checking his expressions. ...

Talking About The Ghost (2023)

PLASTIC (2023)

After his shot at a record deal falls through, Jun transfers to sleepy Nagoya and begins busking songs by his favourite 1970s glam rock band, Exne Kedy. The music catches the eye of fellow fan Ibuki and the pair soon fall in love over their shared musical ...

Odawara City, Where Poetries are Made (2023)

As the cherry blossoms bloom in splendor during springtime, Ibuki, an art student living in Tokyo, visits Odawara city with her father. This is their first trip together since Ibuki left home. Odawara was once a memorable place she had visited with her lat ...

Sweet Bitter Candy (2022)

Sanae (An Ogawa) is a high school girl preparing to take university entrance exams. She isn't very good at socializing. She wants to hurry up and become an adult, but it isn't going very well. Over summer vacation, Sanae's sister comes home from college i ...

A New Wind Blows (2021)

This is the question posited by director Nakamura Yutaro at the start of his latest film, a series of vignettes that bleed into each other. Memories? dreams? Whatever they are, they belong to highschooler Hikari who, along with a friend named Yujiro, get i ...

SHIBUYA, TOKYO 16:30 (2020)

Aoi, an aspiring filmmaker/assistant director who visits the office of Toriumi, an independent film producer, seeking an opportunity to collaborate with him. Toriumi likes her screenplay and shows his interest in producing her directorial debut film. Howev ...

For Rei (2019)

Rei is unable to express her opinions well due to her introverted nature. Her time with her boyfriend, NAKAMURA, is calm but nothing passionate. One night, Rei strongly wishes that she could meet her real father, who was separated from her at an early age ...

Mio on the Shore (2019)

Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father's best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work ...

Something (2019)

In the summer of 2001, Ryo Hagio, a high school student living in a country town by the sea, is spending his last summer vacation in high school with his classmates Manabu, Kosugi, and Hotta. One day, he meets Wang Jia-ling, a foreign exchange student from ...

21st Century Girl (2019)

21st Century Girl is an omnibus feature that is of the girls, by the girls and for the girls. The work of 15 women directors under the age of 30, each of whom contributed an 8-minute film, the package highlights a range of genres, visions and thematic conc ...

Go to see Pinkerton (2018)

Yuko, a former leader of the five-member idol group Pinkerton, with the help of man named Matsumoto, tries to reunite the now-disbanded group. ...

Heaven Is Still Far Away (2016)

Yuzo and Mitsuki live together in Yuzo's small apartment, their constant companionship tender and indifferent in turn. Then Yuzo receives a call from Satsuki, a documentarian resolved to make a film about a now-distant family tragedy, and the three meet, t ...

Kamen Rider Drive Saga: Kamen Rider Mach / Kamen Rider Heart (2016)

This twin V-Cinema movies contains the second and third installments after the initial Kamen Rider Drive Saga: Kamen Rider Chaser, they both follow the characters of both Heart and Go Shijima beyond the conclusion of the series. Heart/Mach both take place ...

The Sleeping Family (2016)

Toru, a high schooler, decides to leave his grandmother's home in the mountains and moves in with his aunt. There he meets three sisters at his welcome party. On his way to his new home, he is struck by one of the sisters' beauty. A boy who spent his life ...