Asuka Kurosawa

Teki Cometh (2025)

Retired university professor Gisuke Watanabe lives a comfortable but secluded life of affluence in the traditional Japanese house built by his grandfather. One day, an anonymous email threatens his peaceful lifestyle. ...

Walking Woman (2024)

After an accident clouds her memory, Yuri works at a real-estate office, until a client's arrival triggers visions and a slithering "shoe creature." Following the eerie signs, she uncovers the buried truth of her past. ...

Performing Kaoru's Funeral (2024)

When a screenwriter named KAORU dies suddenly, she leaves behind a tangle of relations who are all pulled together for the final act in her life: performing her funeral. The chief mourner is her ex-husband, Jun. A failed actor, he drifts around Tokyo as a ...

Father, Father (2023)

Father, Father ...

Yoko (2023)

A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death. ...

Saga Saga (2023)

28-year-old Kyoko return to her hometown of Ureshino in Saga Prefecture from Tokyo after a stint as an actress. It is here that she "runs" into Nahoko, her half-sister. Nahoko is secretly stalking Kyoko. Things get a lot more complicated when another half- ...

Sing in Love (2022)

A respected teacher's life unravels after a brutal assault and a public humiliation. Now, he must choose between silence and revenge. ...

Over and Over Again (2022)

Shuhei passes the telephone booth installed on the side of the railway and goes home. It was a family reunion once a week, but an odd couple who moved in close to me visited me and started saying and acting as if to stir up the family. ...

Intimate Stranger (2022)

A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her, claiming to know her son. ...

Restart (2021)

Mio came to Tokyo with her sights on becoming a singer/songwriter, but that dream was dashed by a scandal without her ever becoming successful. She returns heartbroken to her hometown of Shimokawa where connecting with her parents, her former classmates, a ...

Suicide Forest Village (2021)

One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out. ...

Beautiful Escape (2020)

Akihiko Kobe, a first-year high school student with a stutter, is a target of bullying in his class and spent his days depressed. Akihiko lives at home with a face that can not endure anything and kills God in his brain every day. One day, I accidentally s ...

Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020)

Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing Yakuza, as their tumultuous affair takes her on a journey through the city's dive bars and three-hour love hotels. ...

The Japanese Doll (2019)

University students Yuri and Masato accept a peculiar invitation to a campground party, but things turn deadly when a cursed doll starts to attack. ...

The Promised Land (2019)

A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding. ...

Kakame - Vampire Clay Derivation (2019)

Kakame, the evil mud through which a frustrated artist filled his revenge spirit, returns to the charge in this direct continuation of Vampire Clay. ...

The Flowers of Evil (2019)

A high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes but is witnessed, which sets off a chain of events that send his life and the lives of others around him out of control. ...

Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku (2018)

Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by Tsubaki's daughter, Mineko, and believes in her father's innocence, witnesses a bizarre fortune-telling ses ...

Vampire Clay (2018)

Absurdity and gore ensue as a possessed pile of clay begins terrorizing students at an art school. ...

Saori, Piling Up (2018)

A middle-aged housewife's frustrations with her boorish husband "pile up" until she can take it no more. ...

Last Judgement (2018)

A young man who's failed the Tokyo University of the Arts exam five times is jealous of a talented high school artist who eventually helps him unlock his hidden potential. ...

Hirugao (2017)

Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet again and their love story continue. ...

Silence (2016)

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism. ...

Lost Serenade (2016)

Kaori (Nori Sato) runs a small piano studio. One of her students is Yuu (Uwa Ishibashi). On the way from a recital, Kaori is sexually assaulted by Yuu's father (Kentaro Furuyama). Kaori later learns Yuu has also been sexually abused by her father. Kaori an ...

The Rite of Loss (2016)

Thorn (2015)

A high-school boy with telekinesis kills himself after being bullied and beaten by his classmates. The boy had been secretly storing his special power in his pet cactus. After the boy's death, the cactus is passed onto his mother who inherits his power and ...

The World of Kanako (2014)

When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father ca ...

I Hate Tokyo (2013)

Natsumi (Kie Kitano) moves to Tokyo to enter a fine arts university. In Tokyo, Natsumi meets Ryosuke and they soon become a couple. Ryosuke is a good person, but he doesn't have a job. Every day he just loafs around. To pay for her living expenses, Natsum ...

Jellyfish Eyes (2013)

In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There, he will discover that every child has the ability to communicate with a fantastic creature, but they are being used in an evil plan to collect the children's ne ...

Making of Himizu (2012)

A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's Himizu ...

Miss Boys! Yûjô no yukue-hen (2012)

A year after the cross-dressing tournament, the fan club is weakened, it only has two members left. But a new kid who seems to be a fan of "Masamin" makes his appearance. Kaneko, for his part, feels a certain weariness in the attractiveness of his friend a ...

Himizu (2012)

Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to survive while relying on one another for emotional and physical support. ...

Cold Fish (2011)

When fish shop owner Shamoto's teenage daughter Mitsuko is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man named Murata helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Mitsuko work at their opposing fish store. Shamoto soon discovers that somet ...

Sanctuary (2006)

A child suddenly disappears in a small village and his mother desperately searches for clues. ...

Memories of Matsuko (2006)

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy. ...

Water Flower (2005)

Minako is at the age where her father is more like an alien to her than a person. The situation is exacerbated when he comes home drunk one night and tries to climb on top of her. Minako's mother deserted them for another man when Minako was a child. Now w ...

Hibi (2005)

Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to figh ...

Dead Waves (2005)

When a television producer visits the home of a brother and sister to interview them for his series on paranormal phenomena, what first appears to be a simple case of psychopathology turns into a full-blown epidemic of demonic manifestation. ...

Déracine (2004)

A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless pals, he makes his living by selling his paintings on the street. His paintings, dynamically exploding on pieces of cardboard, catch the eyes of Kyoko, an art deale ...

Kirei? The Terror of Beauty (2004)

A mentally unstable young woman named Yoshie implores a gifted plastic surgeon (Yukiko Okamoto) to make her beautiful in this disturbing Japanese psychodrama directed by Katsuya Matsumura. Although the operation is successful, Yoshie becomes even more preo ...

A Snake of June (2003)

Rinko, a woman in a sexless marriage, is blackmailed by a stalker with intimate photos, forcing her into a series of erotic acts that disrupt her mundane life. ...

Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman (1998)

The Cold-Blooded Trap (1998)

Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya. ...

Blue Fake (1998)

Ayaka and Echika are asked to locate a woman who makes harassing phone calls to a popular DJ, but... ...

A Story of Modern Chivalry (1997)

A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of revenge for his great friend. ...

The Trap (1996)

When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified. ...

The Files of Young Kindaichi: Snow Yaksha Legend Murder Case (1995)

Hajime Kindaichi is working a part time job as an assistant to a TV station for the filming of a shock show. They have invited celebrities in Segori Village and are planning to scare them by playing pranks on them such as fake deaths. However, a threatenin ...