Eri Watanabe

Inspector Totsugawa's Requiem (2022)

My Lover BEYOND (2022)

Tezuka's Barbara (2020)

Barbara is an adult-orientated fantasy tale filled with love and the occult from Osamu Tezuka's reimagining of "The Tales of Hoffmann". Its story deals with the erotic and bizarre experiences of a famous novelist called Yosuke Mikura whose life is tossed u ...

Labyrinth of Cinema (2020)

When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen. ...

Romance Doll (2020)

It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then. Well, perhaps not. Each holds a secret that even the binds of matrimony cannot untie. ...

Talking the Pictures (2019)

Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a performer that provides live narration to silent films. ...

Mary and The Witch's Flower (2017)

Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest where she finds a strange flower and an old broom, none of which is as ordinary as it seems. ...

Survival Family (2017)

A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escape from Tokyo with his family. ...

My Dad and Mr. Ito (2016)

He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house to her apartment. The father has other ideas however and shows up unannounced at her doorstep with his belongings. She has little space, a boyfriend she liv ...

A House on a Hill (2014)

Rieko Sugita, a young and beautiful hairdresser who happens to visit a bedding shop owned by Yoshitaro (Emoto) and the latter becomes so besotted with her that they begin an affair without his wife's knowledge. On the other hand, Rieko hates her late mothe ...

Lady Maiko (2014)

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent intrigues a linguistics professor, who undertakes to coach her. ...

Tales of the Bizarre: 2014 Spring Special (2014)

Amachan (2013)

Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after ...

ICHI (2008)

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She's in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortu ...

Echo of Silence (2008)

In a small town of Hokkaido, Yunni, Fusako Kurokawa (Saki Takaoka), lives a quiet life with her father. Life here is very simple, but it is good enough and she is happy enough. Days go on as usual. with some coincidence, she meets this man one day, Wataru ...

Myu will Give Daddy Her Legs (2008)

The drama is based on a true story of Yamaguchi Hayato (25), a young man who learns he has a rare illness known as CIDP, which affects the nervous system. He begins to lose the functioning of his limbs, but he is determined to fight the illness with the su ...

Rough (2006)

A diver on the university team must decide which of her two childhood friends she loves, and they're both on the swim team. High school diver Ami and swimmer Keisuke don't exactly get along. Their parents run rival sweets shops and Ami is long-time friends ...

Memories of Tomorrow (2006)

After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family. ...

All About My Dog (2005)

A series of short stories all about dogs. ...

The Motive (2004)

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family. ...

Swing Girls (2004)

A group of delinquent high school girls form a band when they accidentally poison their school's brass band and have to replace them. ...

Milk White (2004)

Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He resigns from his job and leaves his girlfriend, Yoko (Yuriko Ishida) to return to his hometown, Nagasaki, where his ...

Seventeen (2003)

Maiko is a 17 year old aspiring picture book writer who was abandoned by her widowed father at the age of 3 and has lived in a foster home ever since. She meets Lisa, also 17, and the two quickly form a bond of understanding as they help each other work ou ...

Happy Family Plan (2000)

The Perfect Education (1999)

Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep and everlasting scar in his mind. He kidnaps her in search of a perfect marriage and intends to lock her in ...

Bayside Shakedown Extra Edition Bayside Policewoman Story Early Summer Traffic Safety Special (1998)

Love Has Fallen (1997)

A man's soul (he is in a coma) must make a lonely woman happy or he will die on Christmas day. ...

Love and Duty (1997)

Two married couples struggle to cope with their sex lives. Kenji and Misaki, a seemingly happy married couple, lead a sexless life. Misaki, whose numerous seductions have been turned down by her husband Kenji, longs for a way to solve their sexless marriag ...

The Seven Chefs (1997)

Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher's restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must complete the training of Wataru — the apprentice chosen by his late teacher to become the next master chef — in ...

Shall We Dance? (1996)

A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to fin ...

Crest of Betrayal (1994)

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil. ...

The Tomb & the Divorce (1993)

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male friend at her leather-working class, Yoshinori has a fit. This is on top of the myriad of odd clients that h ...

Goodbye Mama (1991)

A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in her life. She is not connected to the boy, but his father has been in an accident. ...

! [ai-ou] (1991)

Three outsiders meet by chance and try to chase their dreams despite all odds. However, things take a dramatic turn when they run into trouble with the Yakuza. ...

Stay or go? (1988)

Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One day, he plans to use the cash borrowed from the gangsters and snatch to repay his debt . However, Sayoko Mukai, who said that she used the money of the comp ...

Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when ...

A Tale of Young Elopement (1987)

A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man. ...

No More Comics! (1986)

Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story. ...

"BLOW THE NIGHT!" Let's Spend the Night Together (1983)

"BLOW THE NIGHT!" Let's Spend the Night Together is a 1983 Japanese docu-drama shot on 16mm film starring actual Yanki gang members as many of the main characters. ...

Weekend Shuffle (1982)

First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title. ...

My Lover BEYOND (2022)

Zenmai (1998)

Boy with time bomb standing on golden meadow ...

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad (1988)

Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that Shizuka tries her best to restrict her diet and please Kazuki. "It's So Far Away!" Karuma Sae is an office l ...