Ayaka Maeda

When I Become Silent (2007)

Kyoko is an aspiring writer whose artistic vision is yet to be formed. When her girlfriend Rie asks her to move in with her, Kyoko begins to wonder about their uncertain future as a lesbian couple in Tokyo. ...

Boy Meets Pusan (2007)

A youth drama in which a young man visiting Busan, South Korea falls in love with a Japanese woman. Debut film directed by Masaharu Take. ...

Solaris (2007)

Shot while the director was still in college, the film is a remake of the Russian film of the same name. The man's dead ex who had committed suicide appears in front of him. The ghost has a cross-like scar on her wrist. ...

Akiba (2006)

A Japanese film about a bunch of otaku (or the cool cinema versions) in Akihabara who form a company and find themselves pitted against an evil corporation. ...

Arigatou (2006)

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstr ...

Strawberry Shortcakes (2006)

Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives. ...

Like a Dragon: Prologue (2006)

In 1970s-era Japan, three children, Kazuma Kiryu, Akira Nishikiyama, and his younger sister, Yuko Nishikiyama, are raised together in Shintaro Kazama's Sunflower Orphanage. In the summer of 1980, Yumi Sawamura, a young girl whose parents were accidentally ...

Reawaken (2006)

A lonely accountant adjusting to big city life, a struggling manga artist forced to conclude her series and a millennial convenience store clerk without direction; three women decades apart all bound by one inescapable fate. ...

Shibuya Kaidan: THE Riaru Toshi Densetsu (2006)

8 episodic series from the Shibuya Kaidan series. ...

Custom Made 10.30 (2005)

Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima with her mother, she is a high school student, but moonlights at a Japanese cabaret-club. After her mother ...

Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment (2005)

Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem. ...

White Panic (2005)

One day, when three guys and one girl wake up in the morning, they're all in a small room filled with the white powder, naked. Why were they gathered? What does this room mean? Who brought them here? How to escape from it? ...

Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims (2005)

Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs. ...

The Last Supper (2005)

A plastic surgeon who excels at his job hides a dark secret. After finally succumbing to his desire to taste human flesh, the surgeon soon finds himself addicted to the taste of his patients' skin, which leads him to discover further culinary delights at a ...

Nibanme no kanojo (2004)

Dead Girl Walking (2004)

Yuri is an ordinary teenage girl. But one day, everything changes when she learns that she's apparently dead. Even though she's technically not alive, she tries to keep her humanity and life. Her family, however, wants her out of the picture. ...

L'amant (2004)

When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom she calls A. B and C) keep shifting in ways that redefine ...

Seventh Anniversary (2003)

Each time Lulu is heartbroken small stones come out of her body. The doctor tells Lulu they are kidney stones. She collects them in memoriam of love. ...

The Suicide Manual (2003)

After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual. ...

Border Line (2003)

Three storylines interweave in Border Line. Kurosawa (Murakami Jun) finds himself driving a taciturn young man named Matsuda (Sawaki Tetsu) halfway to Hokkaido, after accidentally knocking him off his bike; their fragile bond can last only so long. The hou ...

Revolver — Blue Spring (2003)

Osamu (Tamaki Hiroshi), a member of the "Ero Supremacy Club," Kōji (Sato Ryuta), the quiet Biology Club member, and Tatsutoshi (Moriyama Mirai), the solitary Soccer Club member, come across a map one day. Following its markings, they discover a real handg ...

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (2002)

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (パーfectブルー 夢なら醒めて, Pāfekuto Burū: Yume Nara Samete) is a 2002 Japanese psychological thriller film directed by Toshiki Satō and adapted from the novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takeuchi. The stor ...

Enclosed Pain (2000)

Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act of brutality keeps them extremely close together until an older couple occupy the house where their secret was buried. ...

SIMPLE LIFE SYNDROME (2000)

This film is based on a novel by Araki Sumishi, who has gained a following mainly in Kobe. It depicts the true feelings of a young man who is troubled by the value of its existence. ...