Eri Tokunaga

Dear Family (2024)

Nobumasa Tsuboi (Yo Oizumi) runs a small factory in a small town. He has a daughter Yoshimi Tsuboi (Riko Fukumoto) who suffers from a congenital heart disease. A doctor tells Nobumasa Tsuboi that his daughter will only live for about 10 more years. Nobumas ...

(Ab)normal Desire (2023)

Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard for diversity, the story unites ...

Kumo to Saru no Kazoku (2023)

Early Edo period. A family lived in the woods within the neutral zone between the Tsubaki and Hino domains. The head of the household, Saru, was a former ninja. With the era now peaceful and his skills no longer needed, he stayed home as a househusband, pr ...

Everything Will Be Owlright! (2022)

Tamura Yujiro and Hiyori have been married for four years. They look like a happily married couple, but, Hiyori secretly badmouths her husband on social media page "Husband Death Note. ...

Popran (2022)

Tagami, a once successful manager of a manga distribution has run out of luck and now he must catch a mysterious high-speed fly within 6 days to regain it back. ...

Will I Be Single Forever? (2021)

36-year-old bachelorette Mami achieved success with an essay she wrote 10 years ago. Mami has since lost her way, and hasn't been able to write a hit piece. Meanwhile Yukino, who leads an independent life, Ayaka who is a housewife, and Miho, who makes her ...

My Favorite Girl (2020)

Kato, a scriptwriter, is in love with Miho—but he can never manage to muster up enough courage to make the relationship anything more than a platonic friendship. Seemingly oblivious to Kato's feelings for her, Miho is always calling him up and spilling h ...

Rock and Roll Strip (2020)

Yuta Kimura is the leader of an unsuccessful theater troupe. Yuta, who dreams of becoming a film director, runs a small bar in Osaka while running an unsuccessful theater troupe. ...

All About "Chiaki Mayumura" (Provisional) (2020)

Besides being an excellent showcase of Chiaki Mayumura's talents, this film is a brilliant melding of documentary and fiction. ...

Rolling Marbles (2020)

Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of Shibuya, Ai dreaming of a model, Mizuho working for the editorial department of a magazine, and musician Erika live together. This story is about the modest ...

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 ...

Doubting & Dancing (2019)

Members of Kanna's university dance circle got together for the first time in a few years to celebrate the engagement of Kanna and Masao. Suspicion arises that Kanna and another member had sex, leading to fights and arguments between friends. ...

Rent a Friend (2018)

Web magazine editor Mochizuki Nasa meets Yanase Sota who claims to be endowed with a "non-sexual relationship switch". Working as a "rent-a-friend", Sota is hired by Nasa who wants to test out a theory. ...

Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Spring Special (2017)

A Duel Tale (2015)

Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan's greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuke, and elderly samurai forced to pick up his sword to protect those he loves in this adaptation of a Fujisawa Shuhei novel. As a "Heya-zumi" (essentially a ...

Kyoto Elegy (2014)

Kyoto in April. A timid and shy student, Watabe, is struggling to make friends and spending lonely days in a university. Concurrently, student life for Satomi Kumahori has also been hard, due to her overweight appearance. For Satomi, it is only Watabe who ...

Shimotsukare Girl (2014)

Aiko, born and raised in Tochigi, meets Rie, a visitor from Tokyo, at Shin-Tochigi Station. Rie fell asleep on the train and is unable to return home, so Aiko takes pity on her and the two of them head to a pub. The next day, Aiko and her childhood friend ...

Three Sisters (2014)

As a family-run confectionery shop in Kagoshima struggles to stay in business with increasing competition from local supermarkets, the family's three daughters experience various troubles in their private lives. ...

The Stork Nest (2013)

A small clinic in Kumamoto Prefecture begins accepting anonymous drop-offs of unwanted newborn babies at a residential building. The name of the controversial new program is "Stork Nest. ...

Song of the Beginning (2013)

Wataru, a freelance cameraman who works for a travel magazine in Tokyo. He had aimed to be a teacher but failed to achieve his goal and left home to go to Tokyo. However, he does not do well in Tokyo and has to return to his hometown. Wataru reunites with ...

Arakawa Under the Bridge (2012)

Riku, the heir to a corporate conglomerate, is determined to go through life never owing anything to anyone on principle. However, one day he nearly drowns in a river and is saved by a homeless girl named Nino. To repay his debt, he begins living together ...

Hasami (2012)

Mr. Inukai Keeps a Dog (2011)

Tamotsu Inukai is a married middle-aged man with a wife, daughter and son. Mr. Inukai has a strong dislike for dogs, but while he is working on the island his family takes in a Samoyed dog to fill in the father's absence, the family decides to raise the do ...

Murder in the Kairotei (2011)

A woman (Takako Tokiwa) risks her life to exact revenge for her murdered lover. ...

Kaidan Horror Classics (2010)

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers. ...

Dogwood Tree (2010)

A young girl tries to maintain a long-distance relationship with an aspiring fisherman. ...

Haru's Journey (2010)

Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make. ...

Saibanchou! Koko wa choueki 4-nen de dousuka (2010)

The Boat (2009)

Lives are changed and friendships tested when two bottom-feeding smugglers are ordered to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy Korean businessman and bring her to Japan. The duo has sacrificed so much for their respective families - now is their big chance to ...

Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks. ...

Sing Salmon Sing (2008)

High school student Kasumi Ogino is a member of the school choir and after years of praise for her singing voice thinks she is the absolute bee's knees. When the object of her desires, classmate and photographer Junichi Makimura, asks Kasumi is he can phot ...

The Gift from Heaven (2007)

Mai, a normal high-schooler, dreams of exciting adventures. When she meets handsome Kagu, her first impression couldn't be worse. He's rough and rude, and they seem to quarrel every time they see each other. And yet, as they see each other more and more, M ...

Sairen (2007)

This seishun eiga (youth film) follows three teens as they face and share problems in their lives: Natsu (Megumi Seki) breaks up with her boyfriend and later finds out that she is pregnant; Koko (Shihori Kanjiya) has trouble accepting her mother's romance; ...

Hula Girls (2006)

Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction. ...

Throws Out My Hometown (2006)

Aiko and Meri are best friends. But they are to be apart in the next spring, because Aiko is going to Tokyo to attend the university there. In their home town, they meet various people. A bus driver looking for his runway daughter. A young man who can not ...