Ataru Oikawa

Shojyo Senso (2011)

A survival action thriller written and directed by Oikawa Ataru, who has been a leading figure on the Japanese low-budget horror scene since his breakthrough work Tomie. Its blood-drenched visuals tell a story of high school girls engaging in a battle to t ...

Shrill Cries: Reshuffle (2009)

Maebara Keiichi, a young teenager, has recently moved from the city to the rural village of Hinamizawa with his family. He is adjusting quite well to his new life, making friends at the small school, playing games, passing time in relative happiness, when ...

9 + 1 (2008)

Ten actresses live in a folk hotel to prepare musical performances. One of the famous actresses suddenly disappeared without a cause, although less one, but the musical or as usual, but until the end of the show, the missing was still not found, it became ...

Shrill Cries of Summer (2008)

Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that his friends may be deeply involved in successive ...

Kissho Tennyo (2007)

A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale, who uses her supernatural power to control people, especially men. ...

Apartment 1303 (2007)

While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her older sister, Mariko, decides to investigat ...

Menotto (2005)

Tomie: Revenge (2005)

A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods. ...

Tomie: Beginning (2005)

Within days after the mysterious new student Kawakami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting between boys and girls over Tomie's oppressive shadow soon gives way to mind-breaking violence, culminating in a ...

Tokyo Psycho (2004)

Sachiko Kokubu, the beautiful owner of a Tokyo design agency, finds her life disrupted when she receives paper scraps stitched together with piano wire with the message "I know you were meant to marry me." As further messages come she embarks on a nightmar ...

The Groaning Drain (2004)

Set in a house in the suburbs, the film uses black humor to depict the horrors caused by a strange drainage pipe that drags people in. ...

Neo Document Series ZONE (2004)

It explores the mysteries of supernatural spots and urban legends across Japan. "Discover the Legendary Vampire Beastman Chupacabra of H Island!" What is the truth behind the vampire beastman born from human-animal fusion experiments? "I Am an Alien! Exclu ...

Fight Girls (2003)

Youth Sports film directed by Ataru Oikawa ...

Cutie Girl (2003)

In the near future Japan's economy is in shambles and bet bowling is huge. Team Kingpin hopes the government will ban bet bowling so they can open a casino. The team full of beautiful girls, team allways, engages in a fierce battle to stop them. ...

Lovers' Kiss (2003)

In Kamakura, 12th grade Rikako falls in love with Tomoaki Fujii, rumoured to be the school Don Juan and having impregnated a girl. This doesn't bother Rikako one bit, as she too sleeps around. ...

Tamagawa Girl War (2002)

An action film depicting the friendship and betrayal of a group of bad girls. A yakuza movie with popular idols. ...

Samurai Girl 21 (2001)

Hagakure Makoto, young and cute, is trying to find a regular job to help support her family. She has no training in the real world, and she will meet with several corporate evils. But she was trained as a samurai by her grandfather, which will be useful to ...

Dead Beat (1999)

Japanese action film directed by Hiroshi Ando. ...

Tomie (1998)

Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Me ...

The New Metropolitan Police Branch 82 (1998)

Two mismatched policewomen are assigned to guard and observe a released prisoner who has connections with a women-only gang who are suspected of counterfeiting. ...

Shibuya Night Wars (1998)

A Shibuya-kei violence movie in which ferocious love runs fast. The director is Ataru Oikawa. Beasts that cut through the darkness. Prostitution, yak buying and selling, tear gas bullets and pistols are readily available, and team conflicts are unchecked. ...

Romantic Mania (1997)

A love story in the style of a psycho-thriller, depicting the relationship between a female police officer who continues to have an affair and the men who surround her, along with the progress of a bizarre incident. Due to various circumstances, the theatr ...

The Boy Made in Japan (1995)

Yamato Tanaka, who attempted to murder his father in the past, used to work as a janitor in a theme park. Now unemployed, Yamato lives in a very humble apartment room. He lost his family by the crime he committed with the urge he himself couldn't and even ...

Gappie, Wear a Tie this Summer (1990)

It is a youth group of third-class university students struggling to get a job at a first-class company. ...

Octopus Army I Want to Meet You in Shibuya (1990)

Filmed entirely in the Shibuya area, the city and youth culture of Shibuya in the 1990s are fully visualized.Theatrical release was also particular about Shibuya, and a special dome was set up at the entrance of Spain Saka and it was independently screened ...

Dangerous Stories (1989)

Three stories with horror and science fiction elements. 1st episode: "The Curse of Tutankhamen" (Tsutankâmen no noroï) by Kazuyuki Izutsu. With Naoto Takenaka. Two clans of Yakuza clash in a bar. 2nd episode: "They came back, tonight too" (Yatsura wa kon ...

Door (1988)

Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman's hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's cha ...

The Boy Made in Japan (1995)

Yamato Tanaka, who attempted to murder his father in the past, used to work as a janitor in a theme park. Now unemployed, Yamato lives in a very humble apartment room. He lost his family by the crime he committed with the urge he himself couldn't and even ...